I found out last weekend that some media companies are actualy blocking domains outside the US. A friend in Japan tried to view sho.com (showtime) and they blocked him, saying they dont allow showtime outside the US, so there is no reason for people outside the US to view it.
The stupidity of companies doesnt even phase me anymore...
Why rent when you can buy, payphones are dirt cheap. Check out Payphone.com They have models for starting at 299. You can get payphones at local auctions too, for half the price. (How much is your rent at a $150 a month loss per phone?!)
Thou I like the idea of VoIP, try to keep things simple when dealing with the public. Heck, if you really just want to play with technology, get a premade kiosk for 6K that supports VoIP and see if you turn a profit. (Thou at a stadium, who wants to surf the net when the game is on...)
1. Use of a Patriot Act compliant database vetting process to gain initial assurance of an applicant's identity before sending the applicant to the Postal Office for IPP.
ATI should just hire 2 (Or at least 1) full time driver programmers for linux. Come up with a core, and let Xfree have hooks into it. Like vmware does. Just hire 2 programmers for linux, the return for linux support would pay more than the programmers salaries. (Wonder how many they have at Nvidia...)
They prob have more Mac driver programmers at the moment, and the new Xbox2 if it ships with ATI gfx chips.
SMS was never fully exploited till the Internet boom. Now telcos are migrating from 2G to 2.5/3G networks. The hot thing in 3G+ is MMS, multimedia messaging, full color, video/audio messages.
You know all those video phones, that you send a picture to buddies with? Tell me a spammer wouldnt love to send you MMS spam. The cost is SMS 10 cents vs MMS 40 cents.
But those multi billion dollar networks cost allot to upgrade. Prices will drop later, but for now, early adopters pay the price. You see phones that cost up to 800 bux, pocket pc, java based, video color screens, cameras, mp3 players. Phone manufactures need to recoup from the telephone companies, network manufactures, deployment costs, etc.
I work for a wireless telco, and we have some techniques in place to guard against spammers. Nothing is 100% perfect, but we make it easier to catch.
1. Using subscriber ID's that are 16 digit long, phone+random number. (To protect against that type of subscriber ID spamming, numerical increasing.) 2. Intelligent email servers, that flag large requests and put them in queues that our NOC can monitor. Thou they have to trip the threshold. 3. Corporate customers who use SMS for dispatch, use dedicated connections. (No public connection for spammers to exploit.) 4. You can opt-out from telco originated spam, which is very few a day. (And opt-out works, not like spammers.)
Nothing is perfect, SMS is just like any other messaging system that can be abused, IM and Email. You dont want to filter to hard and block valid requests, yet you dont want spammers to eat your bandwidth.
I myself use SMS for trouble tickets, email alerts on systems, and escalation notifications. I finally directed most of my SMS to a pager instead of my phone. Dont want to mix IM's with work. And I can turn my pager off when I'm not on-call.
Its wierd, the tiger direct magazine has the same system with the OS's, but the online version doesnt. But speaking of tiger direct, their 4x dvd-r media sux. But sometimes they do have good deals.
though come to think of it, $3000 is pretty sweet. i can't imagine where you'd find a dual Xeon for $3000.
TigerDirect has dual 2.4ghz Xeons with HT for $1999, 1 gig ram and dual 80 HD's Very nice workstation, comes with both 2K and XP licenses, so you can pick the one you need.
Next year, when the 3ghz PPC's come out, we should see the 2ghz drop around 2K, and thats when I'll upgrade my mac.
(Couldnt read the story, the site was already slashdoted.)_
I played anarchy online when it first came out, figured it would be a nice change from magic based mmpogs. Even a few buddies bought it, so we tried to play a couple hours together after work online.
When it first came out, it had major problems. GFX, Sound, crashs. Tried for 3 months, but the headaches, i finally gave it up. So did everyone I knew.
Now awhile later, and a free week from AO, figured I would retry it. 2ghz cpu's and ati's 9700 and the the game runs smoothly, but Its dated. The main thrill of playing with friends and family is gone, nobody will touch the game again. Starting over killing leets is not a thrill.
I also tried the Beta of Planetside, another failure (imho). Maybe starwars galaxy will be the one.
Of course with halo, counterstrike2, halflife2, doom3 coming out on PC, wont be any time for any a mmpog.
While I do believe using someones else artwork, and changing it should be illegal, just as taking someones song and editing out parts you don't like and re-selling it.
But I also believe the consumer should have the choice to skip over any part. If they want to pay someone to do that for them, then its ok. Just as you buy black lists for email or websites.
Tough call, but I think I side with the Artists on this one if its a simple edit. If its a normal option to view both uncut/cut, then I would agree with the CleanFlicks.
I hate having my VPN sessions drop in the middle of work. Screen/Vnc to keep my work sessions alive. Abort 1 hot backup and you tend to get pissed at the IT folks.
It gets so bad with IT and uber security, having urls with *trans* aka translate blocked by the web proxy software, blocking ftp (sorry mr vendor, you cant get this 100meg core file on your ftp site), etc.
If it gets any worse, i'll use my wireless modem in my laptop and route around IT.
But thats the point, how can you post a job and not get 100 applications with at least half of them being over the age of 30? The job market sucks, and if you are only hiring kids in this resession, you are breaking the law.
I live in washington state, we still have quotas on minorities, you can bet that the state checks on those stats, why not check on age descrimination numbers also?
But with all these "Age'ism" news stories on slashdot lately, you would think someone, somewhere is going take charge and do something. The unemployment office keeps a list of all the places you applied (for unemployment verification). With that large database, they could pointpoint the worst offending companies in a second.
With all the people out of work, if you are willing to take the pay cut and have more experience there should be no reason not to hire you.
Hey, maybe instead of unemployed, you can be retired off the lawsuit payoff.
Maybe someone should form a "Age Discrimination" Watch group. Why dont you guys/gals stop bitching and do something about it. Stop the whinefest and get off your ass and do something about it.
I know at our work, HR started is only hiring entry level pay positions (they call it a choice market, and can get talent at that price...) but they still hire the most experienced people that apply.
but people should be only downloading the patch anyway.
And if someone is using a binaryed based Distro, should they download all the patches? Much easier to grab the single bziped tarball. Bit torrent would still save the ftp servers bandwidth on the first couple of days, no reason not to use one.
Gaim looks awesome, but Miranda has more functionality/features/plug-ins. Gaim uses the GTK+ toolkit, and even has transparentency. Eye candy, gotta love it. Just cant find that 1 perfect client...
Also, sometimes its nice to have a text based IM, CenterICQ
We do the same at work, We sell cell phones for 50 billion dollars! We throw in a network that spans the US, cell sites covering most highways and major cities. And act now we throw in connection to POTS so you can call your land locked buddies, including overseas! And if you order in the next 10 minutes, we will give you voice mail, location based services, Data/Internet access, voice dialing, short message services, and hundreds of thousands of people who support your hardware, software and network! In fact you will actually be employing a percentage of the USA workforce! Including but not limited too companies like Nortel, Lucent, Ericsson, Nokia, Motorola, Cisco and many more.
Really, this is the true love of opensource and computers. All those hackers who keep using Amigas, for the love of the machine. And all the programmers releasing GPL'ed code for the love of programming.
There are so much freeware/giftware that nobody makes a dime. How much you pay to install a free os like BSD or Linux? The ISO's are free, and there are thousands of programs. Lucky people do pay for Linux/Bsd distros.
I like these idea, First people paid for blender, people paying for porting, and also people tiping money to answers that help them. Nice to way to show support.
I'd like to see 3 buttons on the side for an advanced mode, so you can type quicker. Also maybe have an option to reprogram the keys for different modes.
And if it was cheap enough, I could see this as an addon for a pocket pc.
Actually, with the main licensed game engines being Halflife, Unreal or Quake series engines, Epic games needs to push thier engine. The new Doom3 and HL2 engines will be the main gameing engine for the next 3+ years (1-2 years for mainstream games, then a 3rd on will be cheaper budget titles.) Look at how many Quake3 engine games are on the market, there is money in those licenses.
BTW, I didnt care much for Tribes2 when it came out, too much hardware needed to get decent FPS, and bugs. Loaded it the other day on the ATI 9700/2400amd and the thing looked awesome. Garage games fixed and is licensing the Torque engine which seems pretty good. (Now)
Really, I wonder if you could build game which engine do you want to use? Myself, After seeing the work that went into HalfLife2, it wins hands down. Imho...
Also, it was quiet interesting Americas Army came out before UT2K3 using the UT2K3 engine. So the engine does look good on other non-bouncy fps games. (Any other U2K3 engine based games out?) - Do you play Black hawk Down?
Slashdot Mirror
I found out last weekend that some media companies are actualy blocking domains outside the US. A friend in Japan tried to view sho.com (showtime) and they blocked him, saying they dont allow showtime outside the US, so there is no reason for people outside the US to view it.
The stupidity of companies doesnt even phase me anymore...
Why rent when you can buy, payphones are dirt cheap. Check out Payphone.com They have models for starting at 299. You can get payphones at local auctions too, for half the price. (How much is your rent at a $150 a month loss per phone?!)
Thou I like the idea of VoIP, try to keep things simple when dealing with the public. Heck, if you really just want to play with technology, get a premade kiosk for 6K that supports VoIP and see if you turn a profit. (Thou at a stadium, who wants to surf the net when the game is on...)
And the database is Patriot Act complaint too!
1. Use of a Patriot Act compliant
database vetting process to gain initial
assurance of an applicant's identity
before sending the applicant to the
Postal Office for IPP.
ATI should just hire 2 (Or at least 1) full time driver programmers for linux. Come up with a core, and let Xfree have hooks into it. Like vmware does. Just hire 2 programmers for linux, the return for linux support would pay more than the programmers salaries. (Wonder how many they have at Nvidia...)
They prob have more Mac driver programmers at the moment, and the new Xbox2 if it ships with ATI gfx chips.
ATI show some love.
Basically he finds the power of being in control of the OS and Applications he runs.
;)
Something we have known for awhile.
SMS was never fully exploited till the Internet boom. Now telcos are migrating from 2G to 2.5/3G networks. The hot thing in 3G+ is MMS, multimedia messaging, full color, video/audio messages.
You know all those video phones, that you send a picture to buddies with? Tell me a spammer wouldnt love to send you MMS spam. The cost is SMS 10 cents vs MMS 40 cents.
But those multi billion dollar networks cost allot to upgrade. Prices will drop later, but for now, early adopters pay the price. You see phones that cost up to 800 bux, pocket pc, java based, video color screens, cameras, mp3 players. Phone manufactures need to recoup from the telephone companies, network manufactures, deployment costs, etc.
Cool toys always cost.
the big question is: why the hell do SMSs cost 5-10 cents? for god sakes[snip]
Right, multi-billion dollar networks should be FREE! Lunch too!
Check out the rate charges for Businesses over at ATTWS
I work for a wireless telco, and we have some techniques in place to guard against spammers. Nothing is 100% perfect, but we make it easier to catch.
1. Using subscriber ID's that are 16 digit long, phone+random number. (To protect against that type of subscriber ID spamming, numerical increasing.)
2. Intelligent email servers, that flag large requests and put them in queues that our NOC can monitor. Thou they have to trip the threshold.
3. Corporate customers who use SMS for dispatch, use dedicated connections. (No public connection for spammers to exploit.)
4. You can opt-out from telco originated spam, which is very few a day. (And opt-out works, not like spammers.)
Nothing is perfect, SMS is just like any other messaging system that can be abused, IM and Email. You dont want to filter to hard and block valid requests, yet you dont want spammers to eat your bandwidth.
I myself use SMS for trouble tickets, email alerts on systems, and escalation notifications. I finally directed most of my SMS to a pager instead of my phone. Dont want to mix IM's with work. And I can turn my pager off when I'm not on-call.
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WC3+AVP+CS=Natural Selection A free half-life mod.
Its wierd, the tiger direct magazine has the same system with the OS's, but the online version doesnt. But speaking of tiger direct, their 4x dvd-r media sux. But sometimes they do have good deals.
though come to think of it, $3000 is pretty sweet. i can't imagine where you'd find a dual Xeon for $3000.
TigerDirect has dual 2.4ghz Xeons with HT for $1999, 1 gig ram and dual 80 HD's Very nice workstation, comes with both 2K and XP licenses, so you can pick the one you need.
Next year, when the 3ghz PPC's come out, we should see the 2ghz drop around 2K, and thats when I'll upgrade my mac.
(Couldnt read the story, the site was already slashdoted.)_
I played anarchy online when it first came out, figured it would be a nice change from magic based mmpogs. Even a few buddies bought it, so we tried to play a couple hours together after work online.
When it first came out, it had major problems. GFX, Sound, crashs. Tried for 3 months, but the headaches, i finally gave it up. So did everyone I knew.
Now awhile later, and a free week from AO, figured I would retry it. 2ghz cpu's and ati's 9700 and the the game runs smoothly, but Its dated. The main thrill of playing with friends and family is gone, nobody will touch the game again. Starting over killing leets is not a thrill.
I also tried the Beta of Planetside, another failure (imho). Maybe starwars galaxy will be the one.
Of course with halo, counterstrike2, halflife2, doom3 coming out on PC, wont be any time for any a mmpog.
While I do believe using someones else artwork, and changing it should be illegal, just as taking someones song and editing out parts you don't like and re-selling it.
But I also believe the consumer should have the choice to skip over any part. If they want to pay someone to do that for them, then its ok. Just as you buy black lists for email or websites.
Tough call, but I think I side with the Artists on this one if its a simple edit. If its a normal option to view both uncut/cut, then I would agree with the CleanFlicks.
The senator, a composer who earned $18,000 last year in song writing royalties
;)
Want some mp3s of his work?
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Joke, dont nuke my computer! Senator Hatch!
Exactly, and with GPRS modems, no reason you cant make your office workstation a server. ;)
Of course, your prob breaking every company security policy.
I hate having my VPN sessions drop in the middle of work. Screen/Vnc to keep my work sessions alive. Abort 1 hot backup and you tend to get pissed at the IT folks.
It gets so bad with IT and uber security, having urls with *trans* aka translate blocked by the web proxy software, blocking ftp (sorry mr vendor, you cant get this 100meg core file on your ftp site), etc.
If it gets any worse, i'll use my wireless modem in my laptop and route around IT.
But thats the point, how can you post a job and not get 100 applications with at least half of them being over the age of 30? The job market sucks, and if you are only hiring kids in this resession, you are breaking the law.
I live in washington state, we still have quotas on minorities, you can bet that the state checks on those stats, why not check on age descrimination numbers also?
But with all these "Age'ism" news stories on slashdot lately, you would think someone, somewhere is going take charge and do something. The unemployment office keeps a list of all the places you applied (for unemployment verification). With that large database, they could pointpoint the worst offending companies in a second.
With all the people out of work, if you are willing to take the pay cut and have more experience there should be no reason not to hire you.
Hey, maybe instead of unemployed, you can be retired off the lawsuit payoff.
Maybe someone should form a "Age Discrimination" Watch group. Why dont you guys/gals stop bitching and do something about it. Stop the whinefest and get off your ass and do something about it.
I know at our work, HR started is only hiring entry level pay positions (they call it a choice market, and can get talent at that price...) but they still hire the most experienced people that apply.
but people should be only downloading the patch anyway.
And if someone is using a binaryed based Distro, should they download all the patches? Much easier to grab the single bziped tarball. Bit torrent would still save the ftp servers bandwidth on the first couple of days, no reason not to use one.
Gaim looks awesome, but Miranda has more functionality/features/plug-ins. Gaim uses the GTK+ toolkit, and even has transparentency. Eye candy, gotta love it. Just cant find that 1 perfect client...
Also, sometimes its nice to have a text based IM, CenterICQ
We do the same at work, We sell cell phones for 50 billion dollars! We throw in a network that spans the US, cell sites covering most highways and major cities. And act now we throw in connection to POTS so you can call your land locked buddies, including overseas! And if you order in the next 10 minutes, we will give you voice mail, location based services, Data/Internet access, voice dialing, short message services, and hundreds of thousands of people who support your hardware, software and network! In fact you will actually be employing a percentage of the USA workforce! Including but not limited too companies like Nortel, Lucent, Ericsson, Nokia, Motorola, Cisco and many more.
Money back guarantee!
Really, this is the true love of opensource and computers. All those hackers who keep using Amigas, for the love of the machine. And all the programmers releasing GPL'ed code for the love of programming.
There are so much freeware/giftware that nobody makes a dime. How much you pay to install a free os like BSD or Linux? The ISO's are free, and there are thousands of programs. Lucky people do pay for Linux/Bsd distros.
I like these idea, First people paid for blender, people paying for porting, and also people tiping money to answers that help them. Nice to way to show support.
I'd like to see 3 buttons on the side for an advanced mode, so you can type quicker. Also maybe have an option to reprogram the keys for different modes.
And if it was cheap enough, I could see this as an addon for a pocket pc.
Actually, with the main licensed game engines being Halflife, Unreal or Quake series engines, Epic games needs to push thier engine. The new Doom3 and HL2 engines will be the main gameing engine for the next 3+ years (1-2 years for mainstream games, then a 3rd on will be cheaper budget titles.) Look at how many Quake3 engine games are on the market, there is money in those licenses.
BTW, I didnt care much for Tribes2 when it came out, too much hardware needed to get decent FPS, and bugs. Loaded it the other day on the ATI 9700/2400amd and the thing looked awesome. Garage games fixed and is licensing the Torque engine which seems pretty good. (Now)
Really, I wonder if you could build game which engine do you want to use? Myself, After seeing the work that went into HalfLife2, it wins hands down. Imho...
Also, it was quiet interesting Americas Army came out before UT2K3 using the UT2K3 engine. So the engine does look good on other non-bouncy fps games. (Any other U2K3 engine based games out?)
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Do you play Black hawk Down?
If you look close, theres a hand sticking out for help in the bottom part of the chicken catcher. Kinda funny.
Guess you should read the entire article.
Future Mark build 320 vs. 330. (330 doesnt have the nvidia cheat...)
3,215 - ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 256MB w/ 3DMark03 Build 330
2,821 - Nvidia GeForce FX 5900 Ultra w/ 3DMark03 Build 330
Nvidia using the cheat had - 3,458.
The ATI 9800 Pro is faster.