You are completely misguided in your claims about wikipedia. Wikipedia's downtimes have little/nothing to do with their choice of programming languages. Wikipedia is run soley on donations. They don't have nearly the money of the bbc. At the same time, they've experienced incredible growth in a short period of time. Their bandwidth and hardware has not been able to keep up.
If you need some prospective; about 3/4th's of my google searches for a specific topic (i.e. "stegosaurus" and not "Error no. 43245") have wikipedia in the top 10. That's pretty significant traffic wise...
There's something about 2D artwork that gave it a leg up on longetivity. Early 2D games don't hurt my eyes. Early 3D games sure as hell do. I really don't play that many original ps1 games anymore. However, I still play a crapload of NES and SNES games. I won't touch Virtua Fighter with a 9 foot pole. But the early street fighters are still a blast to play. Maybe it had to do with developers getting used to 3D controls in environments. Many of those early 3D games had REALLY shitty control. If you pit 3D games of the late 90's against 2D games, most 2D games come on top. Maybe we were just too engulfed by graphics to realize it then? I remember being in middle school and enjoying 3D games. But today I'll try and play some of them and they were complete garbage.
Yeah it sucks badly to lose your job, but it doesn't really mean Sun is going down the hole. It means they are cutting the fat. I don't know how profitable of a company they are, but this is typical of companies that are trying to be all things to all people. It generally means they are going to re-focus on their core market (what actually made them money in the first place).
I remember when Amazon refocused. They were selling so many ridiculuos (to ship) items, there were many products you could get at a local store that cost more to ship than the product itself!
Everyone, I've got bad news. America has been cancelled. Yes, I know. But we had a good run. No government should really run past 200 years anyway. The episodes get old and stale. *golf claps*. Ok let's pack our things we're off to ruin Sweeden.
It's a pity that we are in a terrorism dark age. I remember I cut my teeth in science doing somewhat explosive experiments. I don't think I would have had such an inquisitive mind had my only science been dropping a basketball and a baseball at the same time to see which falls first.
How is this offtopic? Please explain. Just because you disagree doesn't give you the right to mod offtopic. I stated a fact. Just because you do something illegal doesn't mean you will suffer any sort of reprocutions. And I gave an example. By almost all legal accounts the NSA wiretapping was illegal, but it is doubtful anyone will ever go to jail over them.
That's the great thing about the world. You can do illegal things. And just because they are illegal and someone calls you out on them doesn't mean you'll be prosecuted (I'm looking in your direction NSA wiretaps)
It has nothing to do with the IP address being in the source code. For licensing reasons, many companies tie a product to an ip address and if you change the ip address on the machine you lose the license (and have to call them up and spend a good few hours trying to straighten it out)
I work in municipal gov't in Florida. We use a lot of open source software in our organization. Why? Because it works. It has little to do with money. I've never been denied money for software if I can justify it.
"Enterprise" software has never really impressed me. A great deal of the time, the guy on the other end of support is no more knowledgable than me of the product. That is when you are lucky enough to get someone who speaks english natively. So what's the point for lackluster support? (Hardware is the exception. Many service plans can guarantee you a new server in less than 4 hours).
Highly specialized software generally has an unreasonable amount of bugs. We have one dept that has "enterprise level software", that I'm in the process of rewriting its so buggy. It's almost as if this company has no regression testing procedures in place.
And it's always a lot of fun paying 2,000k a pop for marginal glue code between applications. God-forbid that gluecode break one side. You'll get thorwn into a fun blame game of each company blaming the other. You need complex glue code? That'll be $10,000 and 6 months. You'll also recieve a windows front end in tk with extremely complex install directions. Minor versions are incompatible. You can never patch that box because xp sp2 will break the very customized non-standard registry settings.
People can spread all the FUD they want about open source, but I use it on a daily basis whenever I can. I have control over it and things just work. It's comical to see some of the rediculous things that go on in the closed source community. I like being able to change the ip address of a server if I have to. I don't need a license holding me back from doing that.
You do have an extremely valid point. Many will probably poo-poo your thoughts, however (which is sad).
We live in a society in which we really don't respect what fragile gifts our bodies are. The mantra seems to be "you could be hit by a bus tomorrow so live it up!!". While it is true that at any time your body can cease to function for a myriad of reasons, chances are you are going to live to see 60. What then? Living an entire life smoking, eating like a slob, and sitting on the couch will have taken a toll. You are going to put all your eggs in the medical science basket? Assume they can cut you open and make you all better? I've seen those who live their whole life abusing their bodies. It isn't pretty. You may be still biologically functioning, but that sure isn't living.
The attitude in society should regard medical advances as a gift. A suppliment to a life of good eating and good living. As a way to give your body another 10 years which it might otherwise not have had. Sadly, it is viewed as an expectation.
Looking at raw numbers, its not a lot of people. It's sad they died, but freak accidents happen all the time.
However, they were very easily preventable. Online gaming communities should make time more aparent to players. If an account has been active for 4 of the past 5 hours, the account should be locked for an hour. It would take maybe 2 hours to write, test, and rollout. This doesn't need to be a law, or regulated, or any of that. Game companies should see this killed some people and as a courtasey to the public, implement some sort of feature. If it saves one life, it would be worth the tiny amount of time to implement.
The bigger story is that almost 3% of 9-39 year olds there are addicted to video games. And that 10% are borderline addicted. That is a huge amount of the population. Sure, they aren't dying, but it is bad for the country and economy if a huge chunk of your population are basically useless because that's all they live for. The death's are sad, but the addiction rate is the real story.
I don't play Halo very much, but wouldn't a true hardware bridge modifying the packets going across the wire be the best way not to get caught? The techniques described in the article seem rather amatuer. I would imagine you could do things like modify bullet trajectory to always kill your opponent. Maybe that'll be a project for me this weekend;)
It's quite sad that people get to hide under the laws that protect individuals in that corporation. They basically do horrible illegal things, and the answer to everything is a small fine. A non-human entity doesn't make these illegal decisions. _People_ do. I understand why the government seperates a corporation from individuals, but when people make knowingly illegal decisions, they shouldn't be able to hide under that umbrella.
It doesn't work like that. They didn't just do a straight conversion of exchange rate. They took other factors into account too. Also, it makes no sense to convert from yen (+ other factors) to Euros (+ other factors), to US dollars (+ other factors). If you are going to compare a direct conversion of Yen to US Dollars it comes out to about 220 dollars. However, there are other factors. Things that may seem as silly as how the price rolls off the tongue. History of their other console launch prices. What other systems are actually selling for. Whether the console will be produced in that country or imported. Supply. Demand. Many other factors.
I don't see the problem. This is how most columnists review Linux. Obviously this just isn't the year of Desktop vista.
And this post will get modded troll, sadly. However it's 100% true. I see a lot of apologists here that are the same ones knocking Linux based on the same style reviews every chance they get.
This company will probably fail, but maybe this will open the door to the FCC making lower frequencies available easier. 2.4ghz and 20mhz are quite a bit different in their carrying power. It'd be nice if an organization could pay under 5,000 bucks and get licensed spectrum that low. They could become a citywide ISP, or large organizations could equip their mobile units with citywide internet access. Not for your average consumer, but GPRS is too expensive and I could fathom small ISP's charging 30 bucks a month for this wireless (rather than the mega-hyper-insane-huge cell phone companies being the only ones in the mobile wireless game)
Didn't they announce something like this a few months ago also? That they would start to allow graphical ads (I don't remember if they could be animated or not). They said that quite awhile ago and most of the google adsense ads I see are still text. I wouldn't worry too much about it. If they become prevalant I'm sure there will be mucho backlash. Google survives on its customer loyality (unlike file format lockin. cough, cough). If they piss off their customers there's nothing really keeping them there. The only thing keeping their current customers is good service.
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You are completely misguided in your claims about wikipedia. Wikipedia's downtimes have little/nothing to do with their choice of programming languages. Wikipedia is run soley on donations. They don't have nearly the money of the bbc. At the same time, they've experienced incredible growth in a short period of time. Their bandwidth and hardware has not been able to keep up.
If you need some prospective; about 3/4th's of my google searches for a specific topic (i.e. "stegosaurus" and not "Error no. 43245") have wikipedia in the top 10. That's pretty significant traffic wise...
On top of their eye hurtingly css styles
There's something about 2D artwork that gave it a leg up on longetivity. Early 2D games don't hurt my eyes. Early 3D games sure as hell do. I really don't play that many original ps1 games anymore. However, I still play a crapload of NES and SNES games. I won't touch Virtua Fighter with a 9 foot pole. But the early street fighters are still a blast to play. Maybe it had to do with developers getting used to 3D controls in environments. Many of those early 3D games had REALLY shitty control. If you pit 3D games of the late 90's against 2D games, most 2D games come on top. Maybe we were just too engulfed by graphics to realize it then? I remember being in middle school and enjoying 3D games. But today I'll try and play some of them and they were complete garbage.
This is just great. I'm supposed to be politically correct about my posture now!?!
"I tried to install it myself but you guys have these things so password protected"
"That just means you have to enter your password. What is it?" *looks at sticky note on monitor* "Oh, 1234"
Yeah it sucks badly to lose your job, but it doesn't really mean Sun is going down the hole. It means they are cutting the fat. I don't know how profitable of a company they are, but this is typical of companies that are trying to be all things to all people. It generally means they are going to re-focus on their core market (what actually made them money in the first place).
I remember when Amazon refocused. They were selling so many ridiculuos (to ship) items, there were many products you could get at a local store that cost more to ship than the product itself!
Everyone, I've got bad news. America has been cancelled. Yes, I know. But we had a good run. No government should really run past 200 years anyway. The episodes get old and stale. *golf claps*. Ok let's pack our things we're off to ruin Sweeden.
It's a pity that we are in a terrorism dark age. I remember I cut my teeth in science doing somewhat explosive experiments. I don't think I would have had such an inquisitive mind had my only science been dropping a basketball and a baseball at the same time to see which falls first.
This will be a great new age. We will call it... the... ummm... Terrorism dark ages!
Shit...
How is this offtopic? Please explain. Just because you disagree doesn't give you the right to mod offtopic. I stated a fact. Just because you do something illegal doesn't mean you will suffer any sort of reprocutions. And I gave an example. By almost all legal accounts the NSA wiretapping was illegal, but it is doubtful anyone will ever go to jail over them.
Please tell me they encrypted the filesystems...
That's the great thing about the world. You can do illegal things. And just because they are illegal and someone calls you out on them doesn't mean you'll be prosecuted (I'm looking in your direction NSA wiretaps)
It has nothing to do with the IP address being in the source code. For licensing reasons, many companies tie a product to an ip address and if you change the ip address on the machine you lose the license (and have to call them up and spend a good few hours trying to straighten it out)
I work in municipal gov't in Florida. We use a lot of open source software in our organization. Why? Because it works. It has little to do with money. I've never been denied money for software if I can justify it.
"Enterprise" software has never really impressed me. A great deal of the time, the guy on the other end of support is no more knowledgable than me of the product. That is when you are lucky enough to get someone who speaks english natively. So what's the point for lackluster support? (Hardware is the exception. Many service plans can guarantee you a new server in less than 4 hours).
Highly specialized software generally has an unreasonable amount of bugs. We have one dept that has "enterprise level software", that I'm in the process of rewriting its so buggy. It's almost as if this company has no regression testing procedures in place.
And it's always a lot of fun paying 2,000k a pop for marginal glue code between applications. God-forbid that gluecode break one side. You'll get thorwn into a fun blame game of each company blaming the other. You need complex glue code? That'll be $10,000 and 6 months. You'll also recieve a windows front end in tk with extremely complex install directions. Minor versions are incompatible. You can never patch that box because xp sp2 will break the very customized non-standard registry settings.
People can spread all the FUD they want about open source, but I use it on a daily basis whenever I can. I have control over it and things just work. It's comical to see some of the rediculous things that go on in the closed source community. I like being able to change the ip address of a server if I have to. I don't need a license holding me back from doing that.
You do have an extremely valid point. Many will probably poo-poo your thoughts, however (which is sad).
We live in a society in which we really don't respect what fragile gifts our bodies are. The mantra seems to be "you could be hit by a bus tomorrow so live it up!!". While it is true that at any time your body can cease to function for a myriad of reasons, chances are you are going to live to see 60. What then? Living an entire life smoking, eating like a slob, and sitting on the couch will have taken a toll. You are going to put all your eggs in the medical science basket? Assume they can cut you open and make you all better? I've seen those who live their whole life abusing their bodies. It isn't pretty. You may be still biologically functioning, but that sure isn't living.
The attitude in society should regard medical advances as a gift. A suppliment to a life of good eating and good living. As a way to give your body another 10 years which it might otherwise not have had. Sadly, it is viewed as an expectation.
Looking at raw numbers, its not a lot of people. It's sad they died, but freak accidents happen all the time.
However, they were very easily preventable. Online gaming communities should make time more aparent to players. If an account has been active for 4 of the past 5 hours, the account should be locked for an hour. It would take maybe 2 hours to write, test, and rollout. This doesn't need to be a law, or regulated, or any of that. Game companies should see this killed some people and as a courtasey to the public, implement some sort of feature. If it saves one life, it would be worth the tiny amount of time to implement.
The bigger story is that almost 3% of 9-39 year olds there are addicted to video games. And that 10% are borderline addicted. That is a huge amount of the population. Sure, they aren't dying, but it is bad for the country and economy if a huge chunk of your population are basically useless because that's all they live for. The death's are sad, but the addiction rate is the real story.
When American gamers were asked to comment about their South Korean counterparts, 86% responded "gogo = boot"
The last 14% just said "no gooks ffa snipers r0xor teh n00bs kekeke k thx~~"
I don't play Halo very much, but wouldn't a true hardware bridge modifying the packets going across the wire be the best way not to get caught? The techniques described in the article seem rather amatuer. I would imagine you could do things like modify bullet trajectory to always kill your opponent. Maybe that'll be a project for me this weekend ;)
It's quite sad that people get to hide under the laws that protect individuals in that corporation. They basically do horrible illegal things, and the answer to everything is a small fine. A non-human entity doesn't make these illegal decisions. _People_ do. I understand why the government seperates a corporation from individuals, but when people make knowingly illegal decisions, they shouldn't be able to hide under that umbrella.
It doesn't work like that. They didn't just do a straight conversion of exchange rate. They took other factors into account too. Also, it makes no sense to convert from yen (+ other factors) to Euros (+ other factors), to US dollars (+ other factors). If you are going to compare a direct conversion of Yen to US Dollars it comes out to about 220 dollars. However, there are other factors. Things that may seem as silly as how the price rolls off the tongue. History of their other console launch prices. What other systems are actually selling for. Whether the console will be produced in that country or imported. Supply. Demand. Many other factors.
However, Lenovo laptops have very popular and generic hardware and there's nothing exotic about them.
I don't see the problem. This is how most columnists review Linux. Obviously this just isn't the year of Desktop vista.
And this post will get modded troll, sadly. However it's 100% true. I see a lot of apologists here that are the same ones knocking Linux based on the same style reviews every chance they get.
Pfft. I know a genuine Panaphonics when I see it. And look, there's Magnetbox and Sorny.
They recently made the announcement that they will have some sort of pedal rather than a hand crank.
This company will probably fail, but maybe this will open the door to the FCC making lower frequencies available easier. 2.4ghz and 20mhz are quite a bit different in their carrying power. It'd be nice if an organization could pay under 5,000 bucks and get licensed spectrum that low. They could become a citywide ISP, or large organizations could equip their mobile units with citywide internet access. Not for your average consumer, but GPRS is too expensive and I could fathom small ISP's charging 30 bucks a month for this wireless (rather than the mega-hyper-insane-huge cell phone companies being the only ones in the mobile wireless game)
Didn't they announce something like this a few months ago also? That they would start to allow graphical ads (I don't remember if they could be animated or not). They said that quite awhile ago and most of the google adsense ads I see are still text. I wouldn't worry too much about it. If they become prevalant I'm sure there will be mucho backlash. Google survives on its customer loyality (unlike file format lockin. cough, cough). If they piss off their customers there's nothing really keeping them there. The only thing keeping their current customers is good service.