Obviously how exorbant a $1,500 bonus is depends on the regional economy. $1,500 would be a dream come true for me, here in Wisconsin. If you're in California, I'd say $1,000 would be a good bonus.
Of course, this assumes they don't have some form of profit sharing. If they do, cut it in half.
I could definitely see games that are written for Linux offering this as a "spawn" copy (ala Diablo). Select the basic hardware configuration (e.g. IDE/SCSI, CPU type, video card) and it would create an ISO image to be burned to a CD/DVD. These would be awesome for LAN parties.
It seems to me that the answer is in the question. A good portion of HL servers run on Linux. Those servers collectively hold a decent amount of power over the ongoing success of HL. If they shut down, demanding a Linux client, Valve sure would wake up.
The biggest reason I miss these is the development process itself. Before you ever write the code, you define the behevior of each subsystem, the inputs, outputs, and so forth. You become so locked into this specific set of conditions that you pay far less attention to other possible uses.
This issue can be seen in this exploit. The programmers knew the structure of the mysql database tables. Because of this they assumed the input to the function would always come from the mysql tables and wrote the code accordingly. [note: this is obviously speculation]
While they might not be able to use these patents to protect themselves, they definitely have some way to protect their investment in.NET. They have some way to prevent open source implementations of.NET from becoming the de facto standard. They have some way of preventing threatening uses of.NET in open source software. They stand to loose too much of their investment in.NET.
These "gurus" you know aren't really gurus. It seems "security-by-obscurity" is the new network security buzzword. If something obscures some piece of information, then that is suddenly its goal.
Think about this. If you did use ipchains, what would your first and most important rule be? My answer to that question is "deny all" (for a home network anyway). A side effect of NAT's inability to automatically map incoming connections is essentially a "deny all" rule. Because you probably need more than one IP address, you'll probably use NAT anyway. Therefore, you get this "deny all" rule for free. It, of course, doesn't hurt to use a linux-based firewall in addition to the NAT machine.
To sum it up, I wouldn't worry too much about it. It's not like anyone really wants your porn anyway:]
"With the physics 'patch' looking pretty recent, you have to wonder what Id plans to do with it. Integrating it into the gameplay now would be a mammoth task, surely?"
"But as a leading edge company, it most likely wanted to take the long term view and maintain its reputation as always being a front runner, so that three or four years down the line, publishers and developers still regarded it as the top middleware provider in the FPS genre (and potentially all manner of other genres for that matter)."
The first passage seems to disregard what the second passage hints at. Carmack (and I imagine the rest of iD) expects this new graphics engine to be applicable to any type of game. Without an equally superb physics engine, most companies won't be convinced to license the engine for games of many other genres.
Furthermore, most physics engines are extrememly tunable. For all any of us know, this "patch" could be as simple as changing about 30 constants (we all know what a fan Carmack is of global variables).
I've had a wonderful experience with the Energizer Rechargables, using the wall charger by the same name. I was given the charger and a set of batteries. I'm still on the same set of batteries (which I mostly use for my Olympus D-390 digital camera). I've recharged them about 8 times and they haven't lost any lifespan between charges (my old Rayovac Renewable system suffered from this).
I've submitted it to Slashdot. They rejected it. Tell me what you think. I'd like reactive approaches to get discussed a bit more. If you do too, submit this to Slashdot:]
I was recently to a bed and breakfast with a DVD library. If the PVR idea turns into a big can of worms then you could just install a high-end DVD player with a disc changer.
Well, if you are taking in too much caffine, you are definitely NOT eating right. This came up in a discussion with my doctor a few weeks ago. I had a mild prostate infection. He told me that caffine will irritate the tissue in your prostate and urinary tract. If you, in my case, don't drink enough water to make you urinate enough, the natural bacteria in your urine will infect the irritated tissue.
I am curious whether these parents who restrict their children's video game diet do the same for thier children's comic books. Some comic books are almost as bad as most violent video games. Beyond that, though, comic books usually promote some character to hero status, then show him kicking the living daylights out of other characters. At least in Doom you are just some lowly Marine.
Skip the KVM switch. If you have 8 machines at home (assuming you aren't running a business from your home), just start consolodating machines. In the end, you'll probably save on your energy bill.
Debian is an excellent system for these circumstances. It is probably not as streamlined as Slackware, but what feels like a 5-10% decrease in speed is well worth trading for the ease of software installation and, more importantly, the massive amounts of compatibility work put into the apt system.
For a window manager, I would use WindowMaker. It is responsive and configurable. Up until 1999 I used it on my primary system, which was a 486 66mhz.
If the people recieving the computers already have a considerable amount of exposure to Windows, then fvwm2 might be a good choice.
I know games are less than abundant on the Mac, but I wonder what game publishers think of this. I see this getting popular. Publisher's release-to-sale time is cut dramatically. Stores maximize floor-space utilitzation and only "ship" the number of units truely needed. I can only assume this will move into the PC arena if it is executed successfully.
If this happens, will these burn-on-demand systems offer CD copy protection? If so, which technologies? Who will pay the licensing for the copy protection technology? If not, will game publishers participate? I can't remember the last time I bought a PC game without copy protection.
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Obviously how exorbant a $1,500 bonus is depends on the regional economy. $1,500 would be a dream come true for me, here in Wisconsin. If you're in California, I'd say $1,000 would be a good bonus.
Of course, this assumes they don't have some form of profit sharing. If they do, cut it in half.
They should have read Don't be a Sharecropper.
I could definitely see games that are written for Linux offering this as a "spawn" copy (ala Diablo). Select the basic hardware configuration (e.g. IDE/SCSI, CPU type, video card) and it would create an ISO image to be burned to a CD/DVD. These would be awesome for LAN parties.
They do. Look into Gentoo Games
The time it takes to fix software is inversely proportional to the popularity of that software. I know 0 people that use CIPE and vtun.
It seems to me that the answer is in the question. A good portion of HL servers run on Linux. Those servers collectively hold a decent amount of power over the ongoing success of HL. If they shut down, demanding a Linux client, Valve sure would wake up.
LKML, Duh.
The biggest reason I miss these is the development process itself. Before you ever write the code, you define the behevior of each subsystem, the inputs, outputs, and so forth. You become so locked into this specific set of conditions that you pay far less attention to other possible uses.
This issue can be seen in this exploit. The programmers knew the structure of the mysql database tables. Because of this they assumed the input to the function would always come from the mysql tables and wrote the code accordingly. [note: this is obviously speculation]
While they might not be able to use these patents to protect themselves, they definitely have some way to protect their investment in .NET. They have some way to prevent open source implementations of .NET from becoming the de facto standard. They have some way of preventing threatening uses of .NET in open source software. They stand to loose too much of their investment in .NET.
These "gurus" you know aren't really gurus. It seems "security-by-obscurity" is the new network security buzzword. If something obscures some piece of information, then that is suddenly its goal.
:]
Think about this. If you did use ipchains, what would your first and most important rule be? My answer to that question is "deny all" (for a home network anyway). A side effect of NAT's inability to automatically map incoming connections is essentially a "deny all" rule. Because you probably need more than one IP address, you'll probably use NAT anyway. Therefore, you get this "deny all" rule for free. It, of course, doesn't hurt to use a linux-based firewall in addition to the NAT machine.
To sum it up, I wouldn't worry too much about it. It's not like anyone really wants your porn anyway
"And because the attacker only needs to burst periodically, the attacker will not be distinguishable from normal hosts."
Except for the bursts of traffic from the same host at a certain frequency.
"With the physics 'patch' looking pretty recent, you have to wonder what Id plans to do with it. Integrating it into the gameplay now would be a mammoth task, surely?"
"But as a leading edge company, it most likely wanted to take the long term view and maintain its reputation as always being a front runner, so that three or four years down the line, publishers and developers still regarded it as the top middleware provider in the FPS genre (and potentially all manner of other genres for that matter)."
The first passage seems to disregard what the second passage hints at. Carmack (and I imagine the rest of iD) expects this new graphics engine to be applicable to any type of game. Without an equally superb physics engine, most companies won't be convinced to license the engine for games of many other genres.
Furthermore, most physics engines are extrememly tunable. For all any of us know, this "patch" could be as simple as changing about 30 constants (we all know what a fan Carmack is of global variables).
A while back I wrote a paper titled The Two-Edged Sword of Open Source Software, which might be of interest.
I've had a wonderful experience with the Energizer Rechargables, using the wall charger by the same name. I was given the charger and a set of batteries. I'm still on the same set of batteries (which I mostly use for my Olympus D-390 digital camera). I've recharged them about 8 times and they haven't lost any lifespan between charges (my old Rayovac Renewable system suffered from this).
I don't know where simoniker got this notion of "stealth marketing" from. This was all over the radio while I was driving around in GTA 3 :]
I wonder if they denied to press Microsoft's discs when Microsoft was litigating the case brought against them by Caldera or the case with the DOJ.
Intellectual Rights.
Here are my latest thoughts on winning the spam war.
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I've submitted it to Slashdot. They rejected it. Tell me what you think. I'd like reactive approaches to get discussed a bit more. If you do too, submit this to Slashdot
While they aren't free, GarageGames offers content packs. I'd prefer something ala carte, but the screenshots are enticing.
I was recently to a bed and breakfast with a DVD library. If the PVR idea turns into a big can of worms then you could just install a high-end DVD player with a disc changer.
Well, if you are taking in too much caffine, you are definitely NOT eating right. This came up in a discussion with my doctor a few weeks ago. I had a mild prostate infection. He told me that caffine will irritate the tissue in your prostate and urinary tract. If you, in my case, don't drink enough water to make you urinate enough, the natural bacteria in your urine will infect the irritated tissue.
I am curious whether these parents who restrict their children's video game diet do the same for thier children's comic books. Some comic books are almost as bad as most violent video games. Beyond that, though, comic books usually promote some character to hero status, then show him kicking the living daylights out of other characters. At least in Doom you are just some lowly Marine.
Skip the KVM switch. If you have 8 machines at home (assuming you aren't running a business from your home), just start consolodating machines. In the end, you'll probably save on your energy bill.
Debian is an excellent system for these circumstances. It is probably not as streamlined as Slackware, but what feels like a 5-10% decrease in speed is well worth trading for the ease of software installation and, more importantly, the massive amounts of compatibility work put into the apt system.
For a window manager, I would use WindowMaker. It is responsive and configurable. Up until 1999 I used it on my primary system, which was a 486 66mhz.
If the people recieving the computers already have a considerable amount of exposure to Windows, then fvwm2 might be a good choice.
I know games are less than abundant on the Mac, but I wonder what game publishers think of this. I see this getting popular. Publisher's release-to-sale time is cut dramatically. Stores maximize floor-space utilitzation and only "ship" the number of units truely needed. I can only assume this will move into the PC arena if it is executed successfully.
If this happens, will these burn-on-demand systems offer CD copy protection? If so, which technologies? Who will pay the licensing for the copy protection technology? If not, will game publishers participate? I can't remember the last time I bought a PC game without copy protection.