Without that as a reason to deploy it then it becomes a red light district that exists for no other reason then to make it easier to find porn.
That is the dumbest thing I've heard in awhile. How if the hell could having a seperate TLD make it "easier to find porn" than typing "midget donkey goatcx threeway" in [insert favorite search engine]? While that wasn't its original intention, the internet IS one big pr0n delivery system. Pr0n turned out to be the internet's killer app.
Could you not have a DC/DC power supply that just replaces the AC/DC supply in the case? Feed it DC and it up/downconverts to the voltages supplied by a traditional PC power supply.
A guy comes into work looking awful, dark circles under half opened bloodshot eyes.
Coworker: "Wow you look awful!"
Guy: "Yeah, holy hell. I was up till 4:00AM partying. God, I think I'm still drunk. I don't even remember driving home."
Coworker: laughs Yeah, I'll bet. Hey, are you going out again tonight?"
Guy: "You know it!" both laugh
OR
Coworker: "Wow you look awful!"
Guy: "Yeah, damn, I was up till 4:00AM playing an MMORPG. I am so tired."
Coworker: thinking to himself "Loser."
It's much more socially acceptable to be a binge drinking alcoholic than to be quietly playing a computer game. Is that really a good thing?
Exactly. Trying to compare Warden to Sony's rootkit is nonsense.
If your tinfoil hat is that big, just don't play WoW. I for one am glad Blizzard is being vigilant about catching cheaters. In fact, if they put up a screen saying "WARNING, WE WILL SCAN YOUR MACHINE FOR CHEAT PROGRAMS, AND IF WE FIND ONE YOUR ACCOUNT IS _GONE_", that'd be awesome.
There is a HUGE difference between scanning memory for known cheat/exploit programs and installing a friggin ROOT KIT on a machine.
Can you say mass exodus? I guess you'd still have to HAVE a large player base to have it qualify as "mass" though. When I left 18 months ago my server was a ghost town.
If I was told "Oh all that time you spent gathering materials and grinding out your crafting skills? Forget about it.", my head would have exploded./glad I left when I did
I'm not sure what your definition of "good" is. SW:G had a very complex and intricate crafting system. It was also an a**whip for crafters. Let's pick on weaponsmiths (since that's what I mastered).
Let's say you want to make a T21 rifle. You need:
150 units of ditanium steel
127 units of metal (any type)
100 units of reactive gas (any type)
85 units of polonium iron
50 units of inert petrochemical (any type)
30 units of low grade ore (any type)
30 units of alantium carbonate ore
17 units of wood (any type)
15 units of gallinorian rainbow gem (crystalline gemstone)
5 units of crystalline gemstone
Now, not just any gallinorian rainbow gem or polonium iron or ditanium steel either. Oh no. You see, each material type has properties related to it: cold resistance, conductivity, decay resistance, flavor, heat resistance, malleability, potential energy, overall quality, shock resistance and unit toughness that are rated 1-1000. And some material types are capped (you'll never see iron with more than 700 conductivity, etc)
In the case of a T21, conductivity counts for 50% of the item and overall quality counts for the other 50%. Then you need a power handler, which is 66% conductivity and 33% overall quality. Oh, and you probably want an ADVANCED power handler, which requires irolunn reactive gas, phrik aluminum and diatium copper. And a blaster rifle barrel, which is 66% conductivity and 33% shock resistance. And again if you want an advanced rifle barrel add rhodium steel, duralloy steel and duranium steel as well as ryll amorphous gemstone to that list.
And these stats change. You see, the polonium iron on Tatooine isn't necessarially the same polonium iron you can get on Corellia. And the great conductivity polonium on Tatooine only lasts about 10 days before it disappears. And there is no guarantee that it will respawn anytime soon, and if it does it may have really bad conductivity, or overall quality, or whatnot.
So unless you've been playing the game and feverishly monitoring all resources available daily, for a year you may miss the alantium carbonate ore you need to make a -good- T21 rifle.
So is this a GOOD crafting system? I don't know. It's complicated as hell, which is (to me) kind of neat, but it really forces crafters to be slaves to their profession since it takes up skill slots just like fighting classes and you can only have 10 harvestors running per account. I finally gave up on it and quit, YMMV.
It's easy. 7.4Mbit/s per MHz per Watt -> 23.1LOC/hh/kg (Libraries of Congress per hogshead per kilogram) -> 1,225Gbit/HP-ft-lb/AU. Once you get past the fact that you are comparing meaningless numbers, you can pretty much make up whatever you want.
Ummm, rootkits are OLD news. Scary, yes. New, no. Hell, Leo Laporte brought a guest on the Screen Savers (waaay back when it was TSS and he was on it) to demo a rootkit live. And he basically said the same thing you did. "What the heck are we going to do now?".
What you can do is have a tool that records what the OS tells you about your file system, then boot using something other than your OS and see if your OS is 'lying' to you, in layman's terms.
Like everything else in computing, It Depends On What You're Doing. Do you start off every day installing Gentoo?
For gaming (which is what inspires most insane PC builds) this article proves you'd be better off putting that $100 extra you'd spend on RAM into an even more eye wateringly expensive video card.
Have I ever played against cheaters in CS? Probably. But I've also been accused of cheating in CS when I don't. Some people are way too quick to play the "hack" card. "Oh, you're 11 and 1 because you're a stupid h4x0r".
As far as what Blizzard is doing, I say bravo, keep it up! And if the tinfoil hat crowd and exploiters don't like it, well they can uninstall WoW. They won't be missed.
Ok, this is the company that through shady back room deals tried to force an (at BEST) no-gain technology that they patented based on JDEC information that everyone involved with was legally bound to NOT patent.
Rambus can go to hell. They can go to hell and they can die.
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Without that as a reason to deploy it then it becomes a red light district that exists for no other reason then to make it easier to find porn.
That is the dumbest thing I've heard in awhile. How if the hell could having a seperate TLD make it "easier to find porn" than typing "midget donkey goatcx threeway" in [insert favorite search engine]? While that wasn't its original intention, the internet IS one big pr0n delivery system. Pr0n turned out to be the internet's killer app.
In twenty or so years we may look back at Microsoft Research with the same admiration we have for Bell Labs.
I just shot soda out of my nose. You owe me a keyboard.
Could you not have a DC/DC power supply that just replaces the AC/DC supply in the case? Feed it DC and it up/downconverts to the voltages supplied by a traditional PC power supply.
Something something [b]dielectric[/b] something.
In related news: rootkits aren't ALWAYS bad.
It could use some HTML formatting, but you make very good points.
Think on this:
A guy comes into work looking awful, dark circles under half opened bloodshot eyes.
Coworker: "Wow you look awful!"
Guy: "Yeah, holy hell. I was up till 4:00AM partying. God, I think I'm still drunk. I don't even remember driving home."
Coworker: laughs Yeah, I'll bet. Hey, are you going out again tonight?"
Guy: "You know it!" both laugh
OR
Coworker: "Wow you look awful!"
Guy: "Yeah, damn, I was up till 4:00AM playing an MMORPG. I am so tired."
Coworker: thinking to himself "Loser."
It's much more socially acceptable to be a binge drinking alcoholic than to be quietly playing a computer game. Is that really a good thing?
Exactly. Trying to compare Warden to Sony's rootkit is nonsense.
If your tinfoil hat is that big, just don't play WoW. I for one am glad Blizzard is being vigilant about catching cheaters. In fact, if they put up a screen saying "WARNING, WE WILL SCAN YOUR MACHINE FOR CHEAT PROGRAMS, AND IF WE FIND ONE YOUR ACCOUNT IS _GONE_", that'd be awesome.
There is a HUGE difference between scanning memory for known cheat/exploit programs and installing a friggin ROOT KIT on a machine.
Can you say mass exodus? I guess you'd still have to HAVE a large player base to have it qualify as "mass" though. When I left 18 months ago my server was a ghost town. If I was told "Oh all that time you spent gathering materials and grinding out your crafting skills? Forget about it.", my head would have exploded. /glad I left when I did
Oh god, I started getting a cold sweat. "Use the good stuff"... -twitch- -twitch-
No no! Nothing against you! I was just illustrating the SW:G crafting system, and I think some cathardic venting got mixed in there somewhere. :)
I'm not sure what your definition of "good" is. SW:G had a very complex and intricate crafting system. It was also an a**whip for crafters. Let's pick on weaponsmiths (since that's what I mastered).
Let's say you want to make a T21 rifle. You need:
150 units of ditanium steel
127 units of metal (any type)
100 units of reactive gas (any type)
85 units of polonium iron
50 units of inert petrochemical (any type)
30 units of low grade ore (any type)
30 units of alantium carbonate ore
17 units of wood (any type)
15 units of gallinorian rainbow gem (crystalline gemstone)
5 units of crystalline gemstone
Now, not just any gallinorian rainbow gem or polonium iron or ditanium steel either. Oh no. You see, each material type has properties related to it: cold resistance, conductivity, decay resistance, flavor, heat resistance, malleability, potential energy, overall quality, shock resistance and unit toughness that are rated 1-1000. And some material types are capped (you'll never see iron with more than 700 conductivity, etc)
In the case of a T21, conductivity counts for 50% of the item and overall quality counts for the other 50%. Then you need a power handler, which is 66% conductivity and 33% overall quality. Oh, and you probably want an ADVANCED power handler, which requires irolunn reactive gas, phrik aluminum and diatium copper. And a blaster rifle barrel, which is 66% conductivity and 33% shock resistance. And again if you want an advanced rifle barrel add rhodium steel, duralloy steel and duranium steel as well as ryll amorphous gemstone to that list.
And these stats change. You see, the polonium iron on Tatooine isn't necessarially the same polonium iron you can get on Corellia. And the great conductivity polonium on Tatooine only lasts about 10 days before it disappears. And there is no guarantee that it will respawn anytime soon, and if it does it may have really bad conductivity, or overall quality, or whatnot.
So unless you've been playing the game and feverishly monitoring all resources available daily, for a year you may miss the alantium carbonate ore you need to make a -good- T21 rifle.
So is this a GOOD crafting system? I don't know. It's complicated as hell, which is (to me) kind of neat, but it really forces crafters to be slaves to their profession since it takes up skill slots just like fighting classes and you can only have 10 harvestors running per account. I finally gave up on it and quit, YMMV.
You're right. I skipped from DOS 3.3 to 5.0.
I love acronyms that are stretched to fit a word. "Stimulation response"? It sounds like they're tickling a target's balls or something.
Yeah, I'm fairly certain that Windows ME (or Windows: MoneyGrab) was one of the largest software bugs ever written.
It's easy. 7.4Mbit/s per MHz per Watt -> 23.1LOC/hh/kg (Libraries of Congress per hogshead per kilogram) -> 1,225Gbit/HP-ft-lb/AU. Once you get past the fact that you are comparing meaningless numbers, you can pretty much make up whatever you want.
You realize this is the same company that installed a rootkit on its customer's computers to "protect their IP rights" correct?
I'd expect the DRM would just go ahead and cripple any DVD burners it finds on a host machine. You know, to manage our digital rights.
Ummm, rootkits are OLD news. Scary, yes. New, no. Hell, Leo Laporte brought a guest on the Screen Savers (waaay back when it was TSS and he was on it) to demo a rootkit live. And he basically said the same thing you did. "What the heck are we going to do now?".
What you can do is have a tool that records what the OS tells you about your file system, then boot using something other than your OS and see if your OS is 'lying' to you, in layman's terms.
Ok, or maybe a few. But hey, they were FREE! There was no harm done right?
What a bunch of clowns. I wonder if their mission statement with MXS was "Wait for this to blow over, then rename it and try to cash in."?
Like everything else in computing, It Depends On What You're Doing. Do you start off every day installing Gentoo?
For gaming (which is what inspires most insane PC builds) this article proves you'd be better off putting that $100 extra you'd spend on RAM into an even more eye wateringly expensive video card.
Or in other other words: Most of slashdot would have to be strung up.
Brave sacrifices, noble losses and all that... All's well that ends well, that's my motto.
Make lobbying illegal, punishable by hanging in front of the Capitol Building. Problem solved.
It's about greed. Manical, frothing at the mouth greed. Or, as I like to call it: "Corporate America".
:)
A lot of authors think this is a brilliant idea. Wil Wheaton loves the idea. Search for "holy shit" and you'll see why.
Have I ever played against cheaters in CS? Probably. But I've also been accused of cheating in CS when I don't. Some people are way too quick to play the "hack" card. "Oh, you're 11 and 1 because you're a stupid h4x0r".
As far as what Blizzard is doing, I say bravo, keep it up! And if the tinfoil hat crowd and exploiters don't like it, well they can uninstall WoW. They won't be missed.
Ok, this is the company that through shady back room deals tried to force an (at BEST) no-gain technology that they patented based on JDEC information that everyone involved with was legally bound to NOT patent.
Rambus can go to hell. They can go to hell and they can die.