"Game cartridge
While the SNES can address 128 Mbit[cn 6], only 117.75 Mbit are actually available for cartridge use. A fairly normal mapping could easily address up to 95 Mbit of ROM data (48 Mbit at FastROM speed) with 8 Mbit of battery-backed RAM.[55] However, most available memory access controllers only support mappings of up to 32 Mbit. The largest games released (Star Ocean and Tales of Phantasia) contain 48 Mbit of ROM data, while the smallest games contain only 2 Mbit.
Cartridges may also contain battery-backed SRAM to save the game state, extra working RAM, custom coprocessors, or any other hardware that will not exceed the maximum current rating of the console."
One of the things that gets my attention in that video is the sea of cellphones. You can see the screens as people are taking cellphone videos and pictures.
I personally paid my $5 and then downloaded from TPB because the NIN servers were hammered. So there are probably a lot of legitimate people downloading the files from TPB.
Also with the screenshot on that page you've linked only about 330 are downloading. 8,000 are uploading, sure you can assume that some of those uploaders also downloaded the file. And finally, in the screen shot the top item on the list. That is the free nine track version that Trent himself uploaded to the site. So that cuts out over 4,000 uploaders and 8 downloaders.
Also depends on what is displayed with the CC numbers. If someone posts a list of random CC numbers that would be comparable to the key. However, if they post the CC number, exp date, pin number, verification number, full name of owner, and the address of owner then there is a problem. It goes from largely unusable information to very usable information. Anyone can generate a list of valid CC numbers. The formulas for CC number validation are all over the internet. But, having the other information that goes with that CC number is trafficking of information to be used in fraud.
That report came out after several jobs were reclassified as manufacturing. The primary one being cook, which includes the burger flippers at McD's. Apparently they are no longer performing the service of cooking dinner, but manufacturing food.
So of course out of curiosity I check out http://www.p2plawsuits.com/ and I'm graced with advertisements for e-Donkey and "The top 6 P2P Network Sites"
Seems like the RIAA needs to sue themselves for promoting illegal P2P music downloads.
This is true... Also the reason we have so many crappy candidates is because we've let them be elected in the past. Vote for the lesser evil and continue to vote for the lesser evil. If enough people do that then the lesser evil will live. Eventually the other side will realize that to win they must be the lesser evil. Thus creating a political Darwinism.
I wouldn't say it is completely a controller issue. It is also a location issue. MMORPGs work best at a desk where you can read the text and easily type. Party games work best at the TV where you can sit around with friends and all comfortably see the TV.
I'm surprised they didn't have an interview with David Prowse. He was close friends w/ Douglas Adams and worked with him on the BBC HHGTG show. I met him at DragonCon several years ago, shortly after Adams' death, and he had many interesting stories to tell.
One of our clients has a web app hosted on an IIS box and their main website hosted on apache. The web app ranks higher than the main website when doing a search for them.
Probably cause 2 servers who have spent alot of effort in organizing their raids to benifit everyone will work well together in making allocations for each other.
As apposed to merging them w/ a FCFS server that would probably not give a rats arse about the rotation.
It also depends on the applications. If the applications haven't been updated for 2k/XP then the system is not going to be very stable.
One of our clients does roadway/bridge engineering. They have a windows 98 and windows NT box that they MUST have to pull up old files. The software to handle the files doesn't run on 2000 or XP and there is currently no method of converting the files to the new software used.
I'm sure at some point the hardware will fail and the cost of purchasing replacements will outweigh the cost of having someone convert the files, but it hasn't happened yet.
I work for a minor dialup in BFE, KY. We used to have large problems with our users getting hacked and zombiefied. But we decided since they weren't going to have a local firewall then we'd run one for them. Generally speaking Joe User doesn't need an internal SMTP server, http server, and so on. So we've got it set up now where they can connect to http, ftp, send their emails, send their IMs, play their games, and even use BT. But, alot of things that they'll never noticed are disabled for their own good. We'll occasionally have someone call about something not working and we'll then add in a rule to punch a hole for them. But I think that has been one person in the past year so far.
I'm surprised more ISPs don't do this as we used to be overloading our pipe due to the bots but now we're using half of our pipe durring peak times.
I could see this as a potential issue for some broadband ISPs but the saved money in bandwidth is much higher than the cost of manpower
It is more analogous to a mafia or cartel. The gold farmers will generally also farm some rare but highly needed item to the point that the only way to aquire it is thru them. They then charge outrageous prices where your only option to get the cash is to buy it from them.
In WoW, as previously mentioned, it works by them buying out all of the good items and reselling them at much higher prices. They haven't built up the capital to completely put a stranglehold on the economy but they're working their way up. The end result is that the entire economy will be run by them, IE not free trade. This would basically be equivalent to a bank buying every bit of quality habitable land in a city and then reselling it at largely marked up price as well as providing you the loan. You could argue that then the citizens could move, but that wouldnt' be good for the nation or local government. Just like it wouldn't be good for the game developer.
With the way my current company works that means my monthly insurance rate would go up. The company pays X amount of my insurance per month. When the rates go up I have to shell out more cash.
However, I do buy ergonomic devices on the company's tab and other such things for those problems. Currently the office has bought my wrist braces for to prevent carpal, a new chair (not an extreme one), ergo keyboard and trackball, and a few other things.
Overtime laws are one big hole for this. Especially in California where you can have someone work OT and give them no compensation at all. I REFUSE to take any job that doesn't either pay time and a half or gives comp time with overtime that will be paid out (at least at full rate) if not used. Also, I don't mean OT in the place of standard pay rates. If my coworkers of similar experience and ability are making 60k/year then I expect the same hourly equivilant.
So far this hasn't limited me very much at all. I've flat turned down some jobs that refused to compensate me for overtime but I know if I had taken those jobs I would have sacrificed my own happiness and job stability in the long run.
Companies that pay you for every hour that you're there care more about you're productivity and utilization. It is ALOT easier to get your work streamlined since the management is going to care more that they pay you 3 hours of the work week to fill in timesheets than spending a grand to buy some software that will let you track your time in 30 minutes of the week.
The software leaks, cracks, and such have to come from somewhere. While I'm sure there are some very intelegent individuals out there. It makes sense that there are several internal problems.
If this is basically the same loophole in a sense that makes it more or less legal to borrow a CD and burn a copy, but illegal to recieve a burned copy from the same source.
* + I don't see spyware finding a way to put floaters in your browser.
* + If a site has floaters I can hit back and they all go away.
* - Floaters cover the information that you're trying to read and you have to close it out manually if you do want to read it.
* - A web application I manage uses floaters as modals instead of actuall windows for ease of programming and to avoid issues w/ blockers. Now I'm probably going to have to deal w/ floater blockers.
If they added anything annoying to any of my MMORPGs I'd probably leave. I imagine this is the same for most other players. A LOT of MMORPGs have many fans who are borderline ready to leave and just need the proper push out the door.
However billboards, posters, and suttle refferences wouldn't be bad. Lets say a WoW quest called Bigger King if done in an appropriate method it would be ok. Basically the same as what they have but Paramount paying for the references to their movies and Nintendo paying for the references to their games.
For DAoC, EQ, and Planetside, I see no way to do it effectively without ruining the atmosphere. WoW could do it by references only. SWG could probably do billboards.
In Lexington, KY, the city is trying to take over the water company. Problem is that the existing water company is doing quite a good job, and the local government is known for screwing things up.
Sometimes government run items are good, sometimes bad. It is really just a case by case basis and should be left as such as apposed to a blanket generalization.
True.. I'm self admittedly not a wizard on either OS.
Windows server is easier to lock down in a point and click gui sense. I can make guesses at the simple taskes that need to be performed. Compex settings are difficult to implement and hard to find documentation
Linux is easier to configure more advanced settings. The documentation is much better and easier to find answers.
The learning curves are different Linux starts off slowly and once you know the basics the advanced is easy. Windows the initial steps are quick and the advanced stuff is difficult.
The question really then becomes are you looking for a high initial learning time with decressing requirments or a low initial learning time with increasing requirements.
I manage servers of both type I've yet to have a successful hack on a single one, except one where a client specifically wanted their FTP site open to the world for upload/download purposes. He had a drive full of porn with in a week.
Most server security is basic logic up to the point that you are relying on the software provider. Setup a firewall, define what ports can be accessed by who. Disable all unneeded services just incase someone gets thru the firewall and actively keep your software up to date.
However, linux servers have been much more reliable than windows servers. Maybe not straight out of the box with no partitions and making "stupid" mistakes. The only stability problems I've had on the linux servers is generally drive space and always caused by some problem caused by a 3rd party that needs attention (such as a client using a mass mailer to mail each of her 1,000 clients a 10 meg file, or a client attempting to put a 30 gig backup file on his website so he'd have an offsite backup). Windows servers I tend to have more random problems where the only known solution is to reboot and the problem is gone never to be seen again. I would rather not have to reboot my servers more than once a year on the one weekend that I choose to clean the server room with a fine tooth comb.
I think the analogy fits in some senses although not particularly point to point.
Protocols and formats are more like the road. If Chevy released a vehicle that could only travel on a specific type of road, that road wouldn't allow cars w/ out modifications to drive on them, Chevy wouldn't release the specs to those modifications, and then Chevy provided the DoT's w/ incentives to begin using those roads instead of the old roads.
Then we'd have the same problem. Protocols and formats really need to not be propriatary for interopabilty. What would have happened to the internet if HTML was a closed propriatary format that could only be used by Mozilla?
Open formats and protocols are best for the customer because then the question of what software to use is no longer based on what is compatable but what offers the features they need. Even to the extent that they can now import a PSD file into powerpoint to display an image and interact with the layers durring the presentation.
However, with MS being the big monkey in the market they're the ones that are going to have to make the first step.
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NES, SNES, and Genesis carts could have built in RAM expansions, as well as chipsets (FX chip for Star Fox).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_nintendo
"Game cartridge
While the SNES can address 128 Mbit[cn 6], only 117.75 Mbit are actually available for cartridge use. A fairly normal mapping could easily address up to 95 Mbit of ROM data (48 Mbit at FastROM speed) with 8 Mbit of battery-backed RAM.[55] However, most available memory access controllers only support mappings of up to 32 Mbit. The largest games released (Star Ocean and Tales of Phantasia) contain 48 Mbit of ROM data, while the smallest games contain only 2 Mbit. Cartridges may also contain battery-backed SRAM to save the game state, extra working RAM, custom coprocessors, or any other hardware that will not exceed the maximum current rating of the console."
One of the things that gets my attention in that video is the sea of cellphones. You can see the screens as people are taking cellphone videos and pictures.
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+------ WoW on Linux
It actually performs better in Linux than XP
I personally paid my $5 and then downloaded from TPB because the NIN servers were hammered. So there are probably a lot of legitimate people downloading the files from TPB.
Also with the screenshot on that page you've linked only about 330 are downloading. 8,000 are uploading, sure you can assume that some of those uploaders also downloaded the file. And finally, in the screen shot the top item on the list. That is the free nine track version that Trent himself uploaded to the site. So that cuts out over 4,000 uploaders and 8 downloaders.
Also depends on what is displayed with the CC numbers. If someone posts a list of random CC numbers that would be comparable to the key. However, if they post the CC number, exp date, pin number, verification number, full name of owner, and the address of owner then there is a problem. It goes from largely unusable information to very usable information. Anyone can generate a list of valid CC numbers. The formulas for CC number validation are all over the internet. But, having the other information that goes with that CC number is trafficking of information to be used in fraud.
That report came out after several jobs were reclassified as manufacturing. The primary one being cook, which includes the burger flippers at McD's. Apparently they are no longer performing the service of cooking dinner, but manufacturing food.
So of course out of curiosity I check out http://www.p2plawsuits.com/ and I'm graced with advertisements for e-Donkey and "The top 6 P2P Network Sites"
Seems like the RIAA needs to sue themselves for promoting illegal P2P music downloads.
This is true... Also the reason we have so many crappy candidates is because we've let them be elected in the past. Vote for the lesser evil and continue to vote for the lesser evil. If enough people do that then the lesser evil will live. Eventually the other side will realize that to win they must be the lesser evil. Thus creating a political Darwinism.
I wouldn't say it is completely a controller issue. It is also a location issue. MMORPGs work best at a desk where you can read the text and easily type. Party games work best at the TV where you can sit around with friends and all comfortably see the TV.
Interplay is/was Blizzard ;)
I'm surprised they didn't have an interview with David Prowse. He was close friends w/ Douglas Adams and worked with him on the BBC HHGTG show. I met him at DragonCon several years ago, shortly after Adams' death, and he had many interesting stories to tell.
One of our clients has a web app hosted on an IIS box and their main website hosted on apache. The web app ranks higher than the main website when doing a search for them.
Probably cause 2 servers who have spent alot of effort in organizing their raids to benifit everyone will work well together in making allocations for each other.
As apposed to merging them w/ a FCFS server that would probably not give a rats arse about the rotation.
It also depends on the applications. If the applications haven't been updated for 2k/XP then the system is not going to be very stable. One of our clients does roadway/bridge engineering. They have a windows 98 and windows NT box that they MUST have to pull up old files. The software to handle the files doesn't run on 2000 or XP and there is currently no method of converting the files to the new software used. I'm sure at some point the hardware will fail and the cost of purchasing replacements will outweigh the cost of having someone convert the files, but it hasn't happened yet.
I work for a minor dialup in BFE, KY. We used to have large problems with our users getting hacked and zombiefied. But we decided since they weren't going to have a local firewall then we'd run one for them. Generally speaking Joe User doesn't need an internal SMTP server, http server, and so on. So we've got it set up now where they can connect to http, ftp, send their emails, send their IMs, play their games, and even use BT. But, alot of things that they'll never noticed are disabled for their own good. We'll occasionally have someone call about something not working and we'll then add in a rule to punch a hole for them. But I think that has been one person in the past year so far.
I'm surprised more ISPs don't do this as we used to be overloading our pipe due to the bots but now we're using half of our pipe durring peak times.
I could see this as a potential issue for some broadband ISPs but the saved money in bandwidth is much higher than the cost of manpower
It is more analogous to a mafia or cartel. The gold farmers will generally also farm some rare but highly needed item to the point that the only way to aquire it is thru them. They then charge outrageous prices where your only option to get the cash is to buy it from them.
In WoW, as previously mentioned, it works by them buying out all of the good items and reselling them at much higher prices. They haven't built up the capital to completely put a stranglehold on the economy but they're working their way up. The end result is that the entire economy will be run by them, IE not free trade. This would basically be equivalent to a bank buying every bit of quality habitable land in a city and then reselling it at largely marked up price as well as providing you the loan. You could argue that then the citizens could move, but that wouldnt' be good for the nation or local government. Just like it wouldn't be good for the game developer.
With the way my current company works that means my monthly insurance rate would go up. The company pays X amount of my insurance per month. When the rates go up I have to shell out more cash.
However, I do buy ergonomic devices on the company's tab and other such things for those problems. Currently the office has bought my wrist braces for to prevent carpal, a new chair (not an extreme one), ergo keyboard and trackball, and a few other things.
Overtime laws are one big hole for this. Especially in California where you can have someone work OT and give them no compensation at all. I REFUSE to take any job that doesn't either pay time and a half or gives comp time with overtime that will be paid out (at least at full rate) if not used. Also, I don't mean OT in the place of standard pay rates. If my coworkers of similar experience and ability are making 60k/year then I expect the same hourly equivilant.
So far this hasn't limited me very much at all. I've flat turned down some jobs that refused to compensate me for overtime but I know if I had taken those jobs I would have sacrificed my own happiness and job stability in the long run.
Companies that pay you for every hour that you're there care more about you're productivity and utilization. It is ALOT easier to get your work streamlined since the management is going to care more that they pay you 3 hours of the work week to fill in timesheets than spending a grand to buy some software that will let you track your time in 30 minutes of the week.
The software leaks, cracks, and such have to come from somewhere. While I'm sure there are some very intelegent individuals out there. It makes sense that there are several internal problems.
If this is basically the same loophole in a sense that makes it more or less legal to borrow a CD and burn a copy, but illegal to recieve a burned copy from the same source.
* + I don't see spyware finding a way to put floaters in your browser.
* + If a site has floaters I can hit back and they all go away.
* - Floaters cover the information that you're trying to read and you have to close it out manually if you do want to read it.
* - A web application I manage uses floaters as modals instead of actuall windows for ease of programming and to avoid issues w/ blockers. Now I'm probably going to have to deal w/ floater blockers.
If they added anything annoying to any of my MMORPGs I'd probably leave. I imagine this is the same for most other players. A LOT of MMORPGs have many fans who are borderline ready to leave and just need the proper push out the door. However billboards, posters, and suttle refferences wouldn't be bad. Lets say a WoW quest called Bigger King if done in an appropriate method it would be ok. Basically the same as what they have but Paramount paying for the references to their movies and Nintendo paying for the references to their games. For DAoC, EQ, and Planetside, I see no way to do it effectively without ruining the atmosphere. WoW could do it by references only. SWG could probably do billboards.
In Lexington, KY, the city is trying to take over the water company. Problem is that the existing water company is doing quite a good job, and the local government is known for screwing things up.
Sometimes government run items are good, sometimes bad. It is really just a case by case basis and should be left as such as apposed to a blanket generalization.
True.. I'm self admittedly not a wizard on either OS.
Windows server is easier to lock down in a point and click gui sense. I can make guesses at the simple taskes that need to be performed. Compex settings are difficult to implement and hard to find documentation
Linux is easier to configure more advanced settings. The documentation is much better and easier to find answers.
The learning curves are different Linux starts off slowly and once you know the basics the advanced is easy. Windows the initial steps are quick and the advanced stuff is difficult.
The question really then becomes are you looking for a high initial learning time with decressing requirments or a low initial learning time with increasing requirements.
I manage servers of both type I've yet to have a successful hack on a single one, except one where a client specifically wanted their FTP site open to the world for upload/download purposes. He had a drive full of porn with in a week.
Most server security is basic logic up to the point that you are relying on the software provider. Setup a firewall, define what ports can be accessed by who. Disable all unneeded services just incase someone gets thru the firewall and actively keep your software up to date.
However, linux servers have been much more reliable than windows servers. Maybe not straight out of the box with no partitions and making "stupid" mistakes. The only stability problems I've had on the linux servers is generally drive space and always caused by some problem caused by a 3rd party that needs attention (such as a client using a mass mailer to mail each of her 1,000 clients a 10 meg file, or a client attempting to put a 30 gig backup file on his website so he'd have an offsite backup). Windows servers I tend to have more random problems where the only known solution is to reboot and the problem is gone never to be seen again. I would rather not have to reboot my servers more than once a year on the one weekend that I choose to clean the server room with a fine tooth comb.
I think the analogy fits in some senses although not particularly point to point.
Protocols and formats are more like the road. If Chevy released a vehicle that could only travel on a specific type of road, that road wouldn't allow cars w/ out modifications to drive on them, Chevy wouldn't release the specs to those modifications, and then Chevy provided the DoT's w/ incentives to begin using those roads instead of the old roads.
Then we'd have the same problem. Protocols and formats really need to not be propriatary for interopabilty. What would have happened to the internet if HTML was a closed propriatary format that could only be used by Mozilla?
Open formats and protocols are best for the customer because then the question of what software to use is no longer based on what is compatable but what offers the features they need. Even to the extent that they can now import a PSD file into powerpoint to display an image and interact with the layers durring the presentation.
However, with MS being the big monkey in the market they're the ones that are going to have to make the first step.