Sim City has claimed way to much of my time. From an old B&W version I used to play in my schools' Mac lab to Sim City 3000 during down time at work.
I have to give major kudos to Maxis for their ability to put out games that can totally addict me. I tend to grow tired of games rather quickly, but Maxis usually keeps me coming back for me time after time.
Thanks for thinking of us, the players, before the bottome line, Maxis. I wish there were more companies like this out there!
You're almost right. They're based on what their high order bits are set to. But not on the subnet mask, only on the IP address.
You break it (the IP address) down in binary, four groups of 8 bits. When converted to decimal we get the familiar four octal groups of 000 - 255 (00000000 - 11111111 binary)
Class A is 0
so you get 01111111 binary or 0 - 127
Class B is 10
so you get 10111111 binary or 128 - 191
Class C is 110
so you get 11011111 binary or 192 - 223
The subnet mask is completely seperate from the IP address. It is only there to let your computers/routers/net gear figure out what your network and host pieces are from your IP address.
A Class A is N.H.H.H
A Class B is N.N.H.H
A Class C is N.N.N.H
Where N = Network Addres(s) and H = Host Address(s).
Ahh - isn't IP addressing and subnetting fun? Actually, it is.:-)
I've managed to get appointed "news hound" for the office. I guess I'm good at absorbing and summarizing large amounts of information from various sources.
Anyway, since I work in a fairly small office, I seem to be the person who keeps up on news and keeps everyone else updated. That way at least some work is getting down around here.
Letsee. I have a TV, radio & a seperate computer to keep news stories open all on my desk now.
I must say, it's really pushing the geek factor up when people see the array of devices on my desk, plus I get to keep the office actually working and not sitting around the TV.
I remember how I had to scrap and fight to get any time on a real computer when the Apple ][ was king of the classroom and the C64 ruled the gaming world.
All my friends who have kids now have (really compared to what I grew up with) AMAZING computing power just for their kids (would you relly want a 3y/o using your computer?).
These kids will be spoiled by technology at their finger tips. They will never learn how to socially engineer their way to computer time the way I'm sure more than one of us here did.
"...but science also was sure that the Earth was the center of the universe and that the world was flat and if you got to the edge, you would fall off."
Science never thought this. The church thought this. The Greeks knew the Earth was round, and Eratosthenes even calculated one of the first (and very accurate) circumferences of the Earth.
Even good 'ol Chris Columbus knew the Earth was round - he was just looking for a better way to get to India.
end users WANT high-speed access, but the majority do NOT WANT to pay extra for it.
My parents love my high-speed access at home and the office, but they will be on 56K until the day they die because they can't justify spending more then $20/mo for dial-access.
It's got to get a lot cheaper before the bandwagon really gets rolling.
I have run BeOS (off and on) since some of the early developer releases. I stopped having it on any system full time around BeOS 4.5.
The idea and implementation behind Be makes me feel all warm and fuzzy. The UI is dead on and the stability (despite what others may say) isn't all that bad at all.
Where I ran into problems was with supported hardware (and to a lesser extent, software). The problem is that I have to be pretty specific and careful about what hardware I run with Be (maybe 5 is better, I haven't used it much).
This is nothing new, but instead of supporting the majority of the hardware I had, it made me purchase new hardware just for my Be machine.
I would love to see the power and ease of use of Traker implemented behind a more robust kernel like FreeBSD or Linux. Hell - just get some more developers to work on exisiting hardware support and I will once again love BeOS.
Someone was kind enough to scan one in, I got hold of it and put it on my website at http://fantasticstories.8m.com - you'll have to read down through the text on the page to find the links, I didn't take the trouble to make it very obvious. Actually I got a copy myself, addressed to my "virtual" consulting company (me and a few sheets of letterhead paper), but I don't have a scanner.
Why is this marked as a Troll? I spend about 15 seconds on his web site and I found the link he mentioned.
I would post it here for those of you to lazy to find it on your own - but maybe he doesn't want to get slashdotted.
I think that it's funny that #26 is "Girls Gone Wild"
So I guess we now know that sex-craved, late-night TV watchers are using the Internet. Wow - I sure wouldn't be able to come to this conclusion without the government's help.
I wonder how many tax dollars were spend to find this out? Hmmmmm...
If I'm pathetic, why did you feel you needed to hide behind AC status to make fun? I sense we have a closet garage-era-gamer here...
Seriously - I marvel at modern games - they are just a heartbeat from reality in a lot of cases. HOWEVER, this doesn't make them BETTER in many cases.
And no, I will not be forced to adapt to EVERY change that technology flings at me. I CAN adapt, but I also have the freedom to choose what I WANT to adapt to, and ultimatly that makes me a better person.
I am amazed by the graphics and game play on today's "modern" games, but when I wax nostalgic it's not for "Final Fantasy 72" or "Metal Gear Solid: 49" it's for the games that were done by a couple of guys in their garage.
Yeah, I like the more simple, more FUN to play games. Who needs 15 buttons on a joy stick or a WHOLE keyboard (mech warrior 4) to play a damn game!
I have no problem watching a couple of commercials during E.R. or Family Guy or any other "brain candy" type show that is out there. I'm not paying for the 30 or 60 minutes of entertainment.
This is a trade-off I'm willing to make. Likewise, if I tape Family Guy because I'm working late - I usually am lazy and forget that I'm watching a tape and end up watching the commercials (or at least some of them) anyway.
As far as how many times a "high value" program can be copied is pretty much moot to me. I don't typically make copies of copies. I don't know to many people who do.
Now I will be pissed if the scheme is implemented where I can't pass a copy of my recording to a friend to watch. Or if I can't go back and watch the same episode of a show more than xx number of times.
Doesn't making media uncopyable violate my right to make a backup incase my original media melts down?
I don't go making copies of CD's for friends, but if I want to make copies so I don't scratch the heck out of my originals isn't that something I should be allowed to do?
I can't think of the copyright provisions that grant me this right off the top of my head, someone help me out here.
Impressed in comparison to.... what? Have you tried some third party video equip? Did you try Quicktime or DV equipment? Have you had any oportunity to look at an avid system?
Compared to using MP3 for audio, real and quicktime for video. Giving my choice I would use QuickTime Streaming Server on FreeBSD, but this isn't my choice. I have to work within the confines of the project.
I do shoot on DV and I have worked on projects where I capture/edit and dump back to tape and others where I dump to a.wmv to stream.
I don't quite understand how your comments about third party video equipment or an avid system come into play in this comment. Of course, when I shoot and capture video I am using third part video equipment. Last time I checked Microsoft didn't make a DV camera. As far as an Avid system goes, I don't see how other than maybe making my life as an editor easier it would have ANY effect on the picture quality of the final output.
On a side note - I find it interesting that the software I capture/edit and then compress video with captures to QuickTime to create an end result of.wmv
I have tons of MP3's that I've made from my own CD's so I will probably not convert to.wma anytime soon, but I've been working on streaming video and audio projects and I am really impressed by both Microsoft's audio and video compression schemes.
Before you discount this as pro Microsoft retoric let me assure you that I am not a huge fan of their in the server/serving services arena, but they do make some good multimedia stuff. -----
I've been saying it for several years now. The FREE Internet models we've seen are doomed. Looks like a just a little more time to proove me right.
I guess there is a fundamental problem when people are really just cheap at heart. I know only a few really deep-down cheap people and guess what, they all use a "free" service because according to them, "why pay for something I can get free?"
I long since stopped trying to help them with tech problems - I know they don't respect or value my time and knowledge.
Really; phone lines cost money. Modems cost money. Staff costs money. BANDWIDTH costs money. Ad's don't cut it and won't cut it to pay the bills.
Comon' people - crack open the pocketbook and PAY for something for once in your life. Get this garbage, 'er business model, off the 'net!
There is no point in buying music if I can get it for free.
I think this one sentence pretty much sums up the problem.
If *I* create something, and *you* enjoy my creation then *you* should follow my rules. If I "give it away" (free beer/speech) great, if I ask to be paid so I can keep doing whatever it is that *you* like then you should pay.
It's very easy to sit and say "if it's free I'm gonna' take it" without ever having been in the position to depend on making a living. You're depriving someone of making money and giving you something you enjoy in return.
I bet you would change your tune in about.0001 nanoseconds if the roles were reversed.
As it is, you just sound like an immature whiny little brat... which you are by the way.
Comeon' they're not saying that WinNT isn't that much less secure or stable. READ PEOPLE:
Wurzler found that system administrators working on open source systems tend to be better trained and stay with their employers longer than those at firms using Windows software, where turnover can exceed 33 percent per year. That turnover contributes to another problem: System administrators are not implementing all the patches that have been issued for Windows NT, Wurzler said.
The biggest reason is that unix nuts tend to be better trained (well duh) and that staying on top of patches is critical.
I know I could probably find some of my WinNT and Win2000 boxes that need patches - how about the rest of you? I don't run any critical systems on my NT stuff, I only use it for applications where MS has the edge.
Obviously not. Microsoft has no claim over the "win" in WinZip because they are not CONFUSINGLY SIMILAR products.
One is an operating system, the other is a file utility.
The whole "big-bad-companies-taking-domains" occurs where there is intent to dilute the company's trademark by offering a confusingly similar product or service.
If I wrote an operating system and called it WinBest or WinAwesome then Microsoft *might* have a case to come after me. -----
What Linux (and the unix world in general) needs is *not* another file manager or window manager.
What Linux (and the other unix flavors) needs is a BETTER windowing environment.
I have played with X windows off and on for a long time and I have played with tons of window managers (from vanilla to gee-whiz). There is just to much out there; to many choices.
Because of this my FreeBSD and Linux boxes are regulated to standard CLI duty. "Comon' boys, let's run some services, but no GUI for you!" is my unix motto.
It's sad, but the standardized "no choice" operating systems do more and allow *me* to do more.
I use some flavor of Windows for games and MacOS for *real* work. Is it because of "marketing hype?"
Nope. It's because those simply work better for me. I imagine they do for quite a few slashdotters as well.
When I have a single, well implemented and standard GUI that I can *USE* to be as productive under unix I will. That pancea isn't here yet, and I would wager that's what keeping Linux/FreeBSD/your-flavor-OpenOS-here from really taking off and being a major player in the office and home desktop market.
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Sim City has claimed way to much of my time. From an old B&W version I used to play in my schools' Mac lab to Sim City 3000 during down time at work.
I have to give major kudos to Maxis for their ability to put out games that can totally addict me. I tend to grow tired of games rather quickly, but Maxis usually keeps me coming back for me time after time.
Thanks for thinking of us, the players, before the bottome line, Maxis. I wish there were more companies like this out there!
You're almost right. They're based on what their high order bits are set to. But not on the subnet mask, only on the IP address.
:-)
You break it (the IP address) down in binary, four groups of 8 bits. When converted to decimal we get the familiar four octal groups of 000 - 255 (00000000 - 11111111 binary)
Class A is 0
so you get 01111111 binary or 0 - 127
Class B is 10
so you get 10111111 binary or 128 - 191
Class C is 110
so you get 11011111 binary or 192 - 223
The subnet mask is completely seperate from the IP address. It is only there to let your computers/routers/net gear figure out what your network and host pieces are from your IP address.
A Class A is N.H.H.H
A Class B is N.N.H.H
A Class C is N.N.N.H
Where N = Network Addres(s) and H = Host Address(s).
Ahh - isn't IP addressing and subnetting fun? Actually, it is.
Just to nit pick..
:-)
216.xx.xx.xx isn't a class A block. It's a class C block.
They are (and here's your trivia for the day)
000 - 126 Class A (s/m 255.0.0.0)
128 - 191 Class B (s/m 255.255.0.0)
192 - 223 Class C (s/m 255.255.255.0)
(127.x.x.x is a special case)
The "private address" range is:
10.0.0.0 - 10.255.255.255 Class A
172.16.0.0 - 172.16.255.255 Class B
192.168.0.0 - 192.168.255.255 Class C
Mask these accordingly.
For the record, on my lone IIS machine the log file for today is already 2.3MB - it averages about 50KB for a "normal" day.
I've managed to get appointed "news hound" for the office. I guess I'm good at absorbing and summarizing large amounts of information from various sources.
Anyway, since I work in a fairly small office, I seem to be the person who keeps up on news and keeps everyone else updated. That way at least some work is getting down around here.
Letsee. I have a TV, radio & a seperate computer to keep news stories open all on my desk now.
I must say, it's really pushing the geek factor up when people see the array of devices on my desk, plus I get to keep the office actually working and not sitting around the TV.
"Those who would trade their essential liberty for a perceived temporary security deserve neither liberty nor security"
-- Ben Franklin
- You're that old and you're still trying to appear 31337 by depicting the roman numeral "II" using inverted square brackets?
You're so stupid you don't know that it was actually Apple "]["?Hmmm - who's 1337 now?
Fuckin' anonymous coward...
All my friends who have kids now have (really compared to what I grew up with) AMAZING computing power just for their kids (would you relly want a 3y/o using your computer?).
These kids will be spoiled by technology at their finger tips. They will never learn how to socially engineer their way to computer time the way I'm sure more than one of us here did.
Dang - I'm jelaous!
- "...but science also was sure that the Earth was the center of the universe and that the world was flat and if you got to the edge, you would fall off."
Science never thought this. The church thought this. The Greeks knew the Earth was round, and Eratosthenes even calculated one of the first (and very accurate) circumferences of the Earth.Even good 'ol Chris Columbus knew the Earth was round - he was just looking for a better way to get to India.
Shouldn't they like, you know, take that off their page? Hmmmm....
My parents love my high-speed access at home and the office, but they will be on 56K until the day they die because they can't justify spending more then $20/mo for dial-access.
It's got to get a lot cheaper before the bandwagon really gets rolling.
I have run BeOS (off and on) since some of the early developer releases. I stopped having it on any system full time around BeOS 4.5.
The idea and implementation behind Be makes me feel all warm and fuzzy. The UI is dead on and the stability (despite what others may say) isn't all that bad at all.
Where I ran into problems was with supported hardware (and to a lesser extent, software). The problem is that I have to be pretty specific and careful about what hardware I run with Be (maybe 5 is better, I haven't used it much).
This is nothing new, but instead of supporting the majority of the hardware I had, it made me purchase new hardware just for my Be machine.
I would love to see the power and ease of use of Traker implemented behind a more robust kernel like FreeBSD or Linux. Hell - just get some more developers to work on exisiting hardware support and I will once again love BeOS.
"BeOS, it's the OS...."
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Someone was kind enough to scan one in, I got hold of it and put it on my website at http://fantasticstories.8m.com - you'll have to read down through the text on the page to find the links, I didn't take the trouble to make it very obvious. Actually I got a copy myself, addressed to my "virtual" consulting company (me and a few sheets of letterhead paper), but I don't have a scanner.
Why is this marked as a Troll? I spend about 15 seconds on his web site and I found the link he mentioned.I would post it here for those of you to lazy to find it on your own - but maybe he doesn't want to get slashdotted.
Next time look before you moderate people.
Jeeze...
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So I guess we now know that sex-craved, late-night TV watchers are using the Internet. Wow - I sure wouldn't be able to come to this conclusion without the government's help.
I wonder how many tax dollars were spend to find this out? Hmmmmm...
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Seriously - I marvel at modern games - they are just a heartbeat from reality in a lot of cases. HOWEVER, this doesn't make them BETTER in many cases.
And no, I will not be forced to adapt to EVERY change that technology flings at me. I CAN adapt, but I also have the freedom to choose what I WANT to adapt to, and ultimatly that makes me a better person.
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Yeah, I like the more simple, more FUN to play games. Who needs 15 buttons on a joy stick or a WHOLE keyboard (mech warrior 4) to play a damn game!
Oh well. I'll just pull out my Apple ][ I guess.
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This is a trade-off I'm willing to make. Likewise, if I tape Family Guy because I'm working late - I usually am lazy and forget that I'm watching a tape and end up watching the commercials (or at least some of them) anyway.
As far as how many times a "high value" program can be copied is pretty much moot to me. I don't typically make copies of copies. I don't know to many people who do.
Now I will be pissed if the scheme is implemented where I can't pass a copy of my recording to a friend to watch. Or if I can't go back and watch the same episode of a show more than xx number of times.
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I don't go making copies of CD's for friends, but if I want to make copies so I don't scratch the heck out of my originals isn't that something I should be allowed to do?
I can't think of the copyright provisions that grant me this right off the top of my head, someone help me out here.
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- Impressed in comparison to.... what? Have you tried some third party video equip? Did you try Quicktime or DV equipment? Have you had any oportunity to look at an avid system?
Compared to using MP3 for audio, real and quicktime for video. Giving my choice I would use QuickTime Streaming Server on FreeBSD, but this isn't my choice. I have to work within the confines of the project.I do shoot on DV and I have worked on projects where I capture/edit and dump back to tape and others where I dump to a .wmv to stream.
I don't quite understand how your comments about third party video equipment or an avid system come into play in this comment. Of course, when I shoot and capture video I am using third part video equipment. Last time I checked Microsoft didn't make a DV camera. As far as an Avid system goes, I don't see how other than maybe making my life as an editor easier it would have ANY effect on the picture quality of the final output.
On a side note - I find it interesting that the software I capture/edit and then compress video with captures to QuickTime to create an end result of .wmv
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Before you discount this as pro Microsoft retoric let me assure you that I am not a huge fan of their in the server/serving services arena, but they do make some good multimedia stuff.
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I guess there is a fundamental problem when people are really just cheap at heart. I know only a few really deep-down cheap people and guess what, they all use a "free" service because according to them, "why pay for something I can get free?"
I long since stopped trying to help them with tech problems - I know they don't respect or value my time and knowledge.
Really; phone lines cost money. Modems cost money. Staff costs money. BANDWIDTH costs money. Ad's don't cut it and won't cut it to pay the bills.
Comon' people - crack open the pocketbook and PAY for something for once in your life. Get this garbage, 'er business model, off the 'net!
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- There is no point in buying music if I can get it for free.
I think this one sentence pretty much sums up the problem.If *I* create something, and *you* enjoy my creation then *you* should follow my rules. If I "give it away" (free beer/speech) great, if I ask to be paid so I can keep doing whatever it is that *you* like then you should pay.
It's very easy to sit and say "if it's free I'm gonna' take it" without ever having been in the position to depend on making a living. You're depriving someone of making money and giving you something you enjoy in return.
I bet you would change your tune in about .0001 nanoseconds if the roles were reversed.
As it is, you just sound like an immature whiny little brat... which you are by the way.
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Since I am/was the little guy I got shafted and they got a domain name back.
Four years later they realize what I was telling them back then, "Deal with it, noone will confuse my site for any trademark of yours."
*sigh*
Why does the little guy always get shafted?
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Wurzler found that system administrators working on open source systems tend to be better trained and stay with their employers longer than those at firms using Windows software, where turnover can exceed 33 percent per year. That turnover contributes to another problem: System administrators are not implementing all the patches that have been issued for Windows NT, Wurzler said.
The biggest reason is that unix nuts tend to be better trained (well duh) and that staying on top of patches is critical.I know I could probably find some of my WinNT and Win2000 boxes that need patches - how about the rest of you? I don't run any critical systems on my NT stuff, I only use it for applications where MS has the edge.
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Obviously not. Microsoft has no claim over the "win" in WinZip because they are not CONFUSINGLY SIMILAR products.
One is an operating system, the other is a file utility.
The whole "big-bad-companies-taking-domains" occurs where there is intent to dilute the company's trademark by offering a confusingly similar product or service.
If I wrote an operating system and called it WinBest or WinAwesome then Microsoft *might* have a case to come after me.
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What Linux (and the unix world in general) needs is *not* another file manager or window manager.
What Linux (and the other unix flavors) needs is a BETTER windowing environment.
I have played with X windows off and on for a long time and I have played with tons of window managers (from vanilla to gee-whiz). There is just to much out there; to many choices.
Because of this my FreeBSD and Linux boxes are regulated to standard CLI duty. "Comon' boys, let's run some services, but no GUI for you!" is my unix motto.
It's sad, but the standardized "no choice" operating systems do more and allow *me* to do more.
I use some flavor of Windows for games and MacOS for *real* work. Is it because of "marketing hype?"
Nope. It's because those simply work better for me. I imagine they do for quite a few slashdotters as well.
When I have a single, well implemented and standard GUI that I can *USE* to be as productive under unix I will. That pancea isn't here yet, and I would wager that's what keeping Linux/FreeBSD/your-flavor-OpenOS-here from really taking off and being a major player in the office and home desktop market.
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