Given than the gamecube can probably be made for $50 in quantity, it seems to make sense to sell them for as little as possible and make money off the games. I'm not suggesting losing money off the console, but breaking even (which is probably what the $99 retail price is getting them). Game consoles seem to be largely about two things: number of consoles sold (I want to be able to trade games with my friends, and I don't want to be stuck with a console no one develops games for), and secondarily the tech. The thing is, the tech doesn't make the games. I've played with my friend's PS/2 and while the graphics were nice, the game play seemed to suffer greatly: lots of boring transition 'movies', fights that consisted of pushing a bunch of buttons in any order as fast as posssible, and illdefined objectives. I know it's just because I'm _really_ old now, but I'll take the games of my youth over the current crop. Wizardry, Wings of Fury, Crystal Quest, Ripoff, Joust, Star Castle, Gauntlet all had something that the latest FPS lacks.
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while driving back to college (UC Irvine) on a sunday night. It seemed to be streaking straight down to my south, and I kept hoping that the university had been destroyed to get me out of my compiler construction course!
Well, it's nice to see that there is some respect for privacy/freedom still in the US.
Certainly I could have an arrangement with the garbage company which would come onto my property to obtain the trash, and that would have it remain my property until mixed with the other trash, but what's to keep the police from examining the trash and finding my dna in the saliva on a reefer?
But I have all my mail from the dawn of time saved, and a 256MB card wouldn't begin to store it. Well, it'd get about 20% there, but add the OS, applications, etc. on top and I'd need at least 5 GB, without my digital photos, nor the scans of my slides.
My solution is to pack a low power server (cobalt qube2) with a large disk away into a closet and let distance and doors keep it quiet.
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Right now I get junk mail at home and I get spam. The junk mail at home is somewhat more useful, since I'm occasionally interested in coupons from the local pizza place or a $20-off coupon to Linens & Things. SPAM on the other hand, since it costs nearly nothing to send can be almost entirely useless to almost entirely everyone. If costs of sending spam were raised (via hashcash or signatures or whatever) and forgeries were difficult (through SPF/DMP/whatever), then spammers would either go out of business, or would figure out that I might be interested in the latest O'Reilly book (I'm on their mailing lists), or that if the local theater is showing all three Matrix episodes the night Revolutions comes out I would want to know about it. Yes, there are privacy issues to targeted advertising, but I'd prefer _some_ targeted advertising over the "refinance your enlarged penis now!" spam I get today.
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They should just change their name back to NeXT Computer, Inc.:-)
And then the next time you get 880000 bounces, and then the next time you get 770000, and so on until everyone is running an MTA that supports SPF. Your argument is one of those "we can't solve all the problems right now so we should just sit here and contemplate our navel" arguments. I suppose you have better solutions in mind and you're just polishing up the RFC?
No, if only the domains which a spammer is joe-jobbing support SPF, then you can block those emails. But SPF isn't going to keep you from _getting_ spam, after all a spammer can just register a domain, setup DNS records with SPF and all and spam away. But if you publish SPF records yourself, you can be protected from spammer pretending to be you and spamming a million people and you getting all the bounces!
Well, if the next version of sendmail, qmail, postfix, and courier support SPF lookups, then as people upgrade releases (Redhat, SuSe, whatever), they'll pick it up automagically. I'm working on getting SPF supported in Openwave Email Mx (used by Verizon, AT&T, Bell South, etc...)
Right, SPF stands for 'Sender Permitted From', and basically what it does is it allows an MTA to check that the sending IP address is a 'designated sender' for the domain in the 'mail from:' part of the SMTP transaction. So, if I publish SPF records for my domain, in the short term it's not going to mean much because almost no MTAs when receiving mail claiming to be from my domain will check them. However, over time MTAs will be upgraded to support SPF and when the spammer trys to send mail to 'foo@aol.com' as from 'web-slashdot@nospam.rangat.org', AOL's MTA will do a dns lookup on the spammer's ip address in the nospam.rangat.org domain (as.in-addr._smtp_client.nospam.rangat.org.). My DNS server for rangat.org will return a 'deny' response, and the AOL MTA will not accept the mail.
Well, sort of. I assume that most developers for Windows aren't going to use GCC, so unless you are developing your own software then you should test using the compiler most likely to be used by the developers of the software you want to run. Or, if the software you want to run is already available on both platforms, you should do a head to head test of that software. Knowing that the Mac is faster/slower than the PC when using the same compiler on both platforms won't tell you anything because the code a single compiler (GCC) isn't necessarily optimal (or equally suboptimal) on both platforms.
I'm not entirely sure what you're implying here. Are you saying that the G4 might be faster than the G5? I find that hard to believe.
I'm not the original poster, but what I think the original poster was saying is that current Mac owners will want to know if it's worth it to upgrade. I've got a Beige G3-233 that's doing server duties (lots of disk, and Retrospect for backups), and a Powerbook G3 (Firewire). I'm considering the Powermac G5 (Dual), but I'm not sure if the extra speed is worth the extra $$s. Especially since I don't have as much time to play with editing movies (the only application I use that needs the extra CPU) as I'd like.
My main problem with the G5 is the size vs. expandability. It's about as expandable as a Shuttle SN41G2 (aside from RAM and 2nd CPU) but many many times larger. I for one would like to see a Mac with the design like the Shuttle: non-integrated monitor eMac if you will, with space for 2 hard drives, a couple of cards, etc...
Perhaps you could consider a Tivo like a Gym Membership, or a golf club membership. You pay a fee to join (purchase the tivo box), and then you pay a monthly fee for continued use. Only unlike a gym membership, you can resell the tivo box.
As I said, I'd happily pay the price for the hardware+service contract just for the hardware if it were a standalone device.
And how would Tivo supply the guide data for the next 20 years if the box were a standalone device? You are welcome to buy a box (at least my series 1 worked this way), lifetime service, and not hook it to a phone line. It'll bitch at you about not having guide data, and be mostly useless (little more useful than a VCR), but it will work.
The fact that it requires service destroys any value.
Yeah, that's what I hate about the local restaurants. I'd frequent them if they'd just let me buy the ingredients and use their stoves, utensils, tables, etc. I hate having to pay them to cook the food for me. What a rip-off!
Buy guns. No, I'm really serious. You should own at least a pistol and rifle per person in your family. And a fair bit of ammo. I certainly don't recommend an armed insurrection yet, but one day it may come, and an armed population ready to rise up and defend their rights against an oppressive group in control, be it the govt. or corporations. And while you wait for the revolution to start, try to stave it off by writing letters/email/fax to govt. officials, friends and the corporations you believe are acting inappropriately. Try to avoid products produced by such corps. and encourage others to do the same. (carping about the MPAA while waiting for the latest Matrix to start is counter productive:-)
And that means PAPER, plastic, whatever, but the part that is machine readable (think scantron), must be the same part that is human readable. I don't care how the marks get on the ballot, but the voter should be able to easily verify the ballot is correct before turning it in to be counted. Perhaps ideally I'd spec a touch screen computer/printer combo which would show pictures of the candidates in random order, you pick one, and only that candidate is printed on the ballot in MICR font or something.
No, you're wrong. I could easily take a picture of the ballot which is voted how you demanded, then return to the poll worker, tell them I made a mistake on my ballot, and vote (my way) again. Only the 'my way' votes are counted, but I still have the picture of the 'your way' ballot to give you.
However, if my boss can lookup how I, or anyone else who works for him, voted and make decisions based on that our society would be much worse off.
The funniest thing about this is before a friend of mine from work was heading out to see 'reloaded', I said, "Trinity dies." totally deadpan. I didn't know anything (hadn't read anything or seen it yet), but it just seemed like the right thing to say to mess with him. That it turned out to be true was even better!:-)
When you say 'From' and 'To' Fields, most people would believe you mean the 'From:' and 'To:' headers in the message. In the dialog with your server, the 'mail from: ' addr is usually refered to as the 'envelope sender', and in the 'rcpt to: ' addr is the 'envelope recipient'.
I've got 693 SoBig spams to my obfuscated address: 'web-slashdot@NOSPAM.rangat.org' (I've since updated my DNS to serve an MX for nospam.rangat.org to 127.0.0.1, but it hasn't propagated yet. ) Almost all were from one IP: "Received: from cs24174102-171.houston.rr.com (HELO MARK-TRQBH52QXQ) (24.174.102.171) by bluesky.thille.org with SMTP; 21 Aug 2003 19:59:41 -0000" Not sure if he's a spammer that got infected, but the 'from' addresses are coming from a huge number of unique and seemingly 'real' addresses. I finally just setup my mail server to drop connections from that IP.
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Given than the gamecube can probably be made for $50 in quantity, it seems to make sense to sell them for as little as possible and make money off the games. I'm not suggesting losing money off the console, but breaking even (which is probably what the $99 retail price is getting them). Game consoles seem to be largely about two things: number of consoles sold (I want to be able to trade games with my friends, and I don't want to be stuck with a console no one develops games for), and secondarily the tech.
The thing is, the tech doesn't make the games. I've played with my friend's PS/2 and while the graphics were nice, the game play seemed to suffer greatly: lots of boring transition 'movies', fights that consisted of pushing a bunch of buttons in any order as fast as posssible, and illdefined objectives.
I know it's just because I'm _really_ old now, but I'll take the games of my youth over the current crop. Wizardry, Wings of Fury, Crystal Quest, Ripoff, Joust, Star Castle, Gauntlet all had something that the latest FPS lacks.
while driving back to college (UC Irvine) on a sunday night. It seemed to be streaking straight down to my south, and I kept hoping that the university had been destroyed to get me out of my compiler construction course!
Well, it's nice to see that there is some respect for privacy/freedom still in the US.
Certainly I could have an arrangement with the garbage company which would come onto my property to obtain the trash, and that would have it remain my property until mixed with the other trash, but what's to keep the police from examining the trash and finding my dna in the saliva on a reefer?
But I have all my mail from the dawn of time saved, and a 256MB card wouldn't begin to store it. Well, it'd get about 20% there, but add the OS, applications, etc. on top and I'd need at least 5 GB, without my digital photos, nor the scans of my slides.
My solution is to pack a low power server (cobalt qube2) with a large disk away into a closet and let distance and doors keep it quiet.
Right now I get junk mail at home and I get spam. The junk mail at home is somewhat more useful, since I'm occasionally interested in coupons from the local pizza place or a $20-off coupon to Linens & Things. SPAM on the other hand, since it costs nearly nothing to send can be almost entirely useless to almost entirely everyone. If costs of sending spam were raised (via hashcash or signatures or whatever) and forgeries were difficult (through SPF/DMP/whatever), then spammers would either go out of business, or would figure out that I might be interested in the latest O'Reilly book (I'm on their mailing lists), or that if the local theater is showing all three Matrix episodes the night Revolutions comes out I would want to know about it.
Yes, there are privacy issues to targeted advertising, but I'd prefer _some_ targeted advertising over the "refinance your enlarged penis now!" spam I get today.
They should just change their name back to NeXT Computer, Inc. :-)
ala 'Fifth element'. minus the anoyying automated ticket giver.
Yeah, but with the half naked Milla Jojovich in the back seat!
I learned from reading 'Dilbert'.
Seriously, unless the the job/team is really cool, polish your resume, or find out if you can work from home a lot.
And then the next time you get 880000 bounces, and then the next time you get 770000, and so on until everyone is running an MTA that supports SPF. Your argument is one of those "we can't solve all the problems right now so we should just sit here and contemplate our navel" arguments. I suppose you have better solutions in mind and you're just polishing up the RFC?
No, if only the domains which a spammer is joe-jobbing support SPF, then you can block those emails. But SPF isn't going to keep you from _getting_ spam, after all a spammer can just register a domain, setup DNS records with SPF and all and spam away. But if you publish SPF records yourself, you can be protected from spammer pretending to be you and spamming a million people and you getting all the bounces!
Oh, sorry I wasn't clear. The G5 would replace the Powerbook (my primary user-interaction machine), not the G3 server.
Well, if the next version of sendmail, qmail, postfix, and courier support SPF lookups, then as people upgrade releases (Redhat, SuSe, whatever), they'll pick it up automagically. I'm working on getting SPF supported in Openwave Email Mx (used by Verizon, AT&T, Bell South, etc...)
Right, SPF stands for 'Sender Permitted From', and basically what it does is it allows an MTA to check that the sending IP address is a 'designated sender' for the domain in the 'mail from:' part of the SMTP transaction. So, if I publish SPF records for my domain, in the short term it's not going to mean much because almost no MTAs when receiving mail claiming to be from my domain will check them. However, over time MTAs will be upgraded to support SPF and when the spammer trys to send mail to 'foo@aol.com' as from 'web-slashdot@nospam.rangat.org', AOL's MTA will do a dns lookup on the spammer's ip address in the nospam.rangat.org domain (as .in-addr._smtp_client.nospam.rangat.org.). My DNS server for rangat.org will return a 'deny' response, and the AOL MTA will not accept the mail.
Well, sort of. I assume that most developers for Windows aren't going to use GCC, so unless you are developing your own software then you should test using the compiler most likely to be used by the developers of the software you want to run. Or, if the software you want to run is already available on both platforms, you should do a head to head test of that software. Knowing that the Mac is faster/slower than the PC when using the same compiler on both platforms won't tell you anything because the code a single compiler (GCC) isn't necessarily optimal (or equally suboptimal) on both platforms.
I'm not entirely sure what you're implying here. Are you saying that the G4 might be faster than the G5? I find that hard to believe.
I'm not the original poster, but what I think the original poster was saying is that current Mac owners will want to know if it's worth it to upgrade. I've got a Beige G3-233 that's doing server duties (lots of disk, and Retrospect for backups), and a Powerbook G3 (Firewire). I'm considering the Powermac G5 (Dual), but I'm not sure if the extra speed is worth the extra $$s. Especially since I don't have as much time to play with editing movies (the only application I use that needs the extra CPU) as I'd like.
My main problem with the G5 is the size vs. expandability. It's about as expandable as a Shuttle SN41G2 (aside from RAM and 2nd CPU) but many many times larger. I for one would like to see a Mac with the design like the Shuttle: non-integrated monitor eMac if you will, with space for 2 hard drives, a couple of cards, etc...
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Sure, not many MTA/MUAs check SPF records yet, but the fact that you are working to keep people from 'joe-jobbing' you should make your isp happy.
Can I shout 0x46495245 in a crowded big-endian theater?
Certainly, you'll probably be less annoying than the crying baby in the NC-17 movie or the jerk on the cell phone...
Perhaps you could consider a Tivo like a Gym Membership, or a golf club membership. You pay a fee to join (purchase the tivo box), and then you pay a monthly fee for continued use. Only unlike a gym membership, you can resell the tivo box.
And how would Tivo supply the guide data for the next 20 years if the box were a standalone device? You are welcome to buy a box (at least my series 1 worked this way), lifetime service, and not hook it to a phone line. It'll bitch at you about not having guide data, and be mostly useless (little more useful than a VCR), but it will work.
The fact that it requires service destroys any value.
Yeah, that's what I hate about the local restaurants. I'd frequent them if they'd just let me buy the ingredients and use their stoves, utensils, tables, etc. I hate having to pay them to cook the food for me. What a rip-off!
Buy guns. No, I'm really serious. You should own at least a pistol and rifle per person in your family. And a fair bit of ammo. :-)
I certainly don't recommend an armed insurrection yet, but one day it may come, and an armed population ready to rise up and defend their rights against an oppressive group in control, be it the govt. or corporations.
And while you wait for the revolution to start, try to stave it off by writing letters/email/fax to govt. officials, friends and the corporations you believe are acting inappropriately. Try to avoid products produced by such corps. and encourage others to do the same. (carping about the MPAA while waiting for the latest Matrix to start is counter productive
And that means PAPER, plastic, whatever, but the part that is machine readable (think scantron), must be the same part that is human readable. I don't care how the marks get on the ballot, but the voter should be able to easily verify the ballot is correct before turning it in to be counted.
Perhaps ideally I'd spec a touch screen computer/printer combo which would show pictures of the candidates in random order, you pick one, and only that candidate is printed on the ballot in MICR font or something.
No, you're wrong. I could easily take a picture of the ballot which is voted how you demanded, then return to the poll worker, tell them I made a mistake on my ballot, and vote (my way) again. Only the 'my way' votes are counted, but I still have the picture of the 'your way' ballot to give you.
However, if my boss can lookup how I, or anyone else who works for him, voted and make decisions based on that our society would be much worse off.
The funniest thing about this is before a friend of mine from work was heading out to see 'reloaded', I said, "Trinity dies." totally deadpan. I didn't know anything (hadn't read anything or seen it yet), but it just seemed like the right thing to say to mess with him. That it turned out to be true was even better! :-)
When you say 'From' and 'To' Fields, most people would believe you mean the 'From:' and 'To:' headers in the message. In the dialog with your server, the 'mail from: ' addr is usually refered to as the 'envelope sender', and in the 'rcpt to: ' addr is the 'envelope recipient'.
I've got 693 SoBig spams to my obfuscated address: 'web-slashdot@NOSPAM.rangat.org' (I've since updated my DNS to serve an MX for nospam.rangat.org to 127.0.0.1, but it hasn't propagated yet. ) Almost all were from one IP: "Received: from cs24174102-171.houston.rr.com (HELO MARK-TRQBH52QXQ) (24.174.102.171) by bluesky.thille.org with SMTP; 21 Aug 2003 19:59:41 -0000"
Not sure if he's a spammer that got infected, but the 'from' addresses are coming from a huge number of unique and seemingly 'real' addresses.
I finally just setup my mail server to drop connections from that IP.