Just locally cache the registration dates for all domain names, so you won't need to lookup the same name twice. That should cut down on that overhead dramatically, especially for big mail servers.
EasyLinux? Or is that too dangerous legally, with all the Easy.+ names being tm of that Greek businessman?
EasyLinux sounds good to me. It doesn't sound like it's less capable than regular Linux, as SimpleLinux would sound, and it doesn't sound hard to use either (duh).
The solar system travels through space relative to what, exactly? Which location would you use as a frame of reference to measure its travel through the cosmos?
The center of our galaxy?
The center of all the visible galaxies? Oh wait, that's our galaxy itself.
The center of the universe? Which center of the universe?
First, you write like I did when I was six. That would be a compliment, if you were six. I'm pretty sure you're not.
To get back on topic: how about all those rocks that are floating around our solar system? Many of them aren't that far away, and some of them are really big and full of elements that are rare on earth!
Also, take Mars. It's less than a year's space flight away (at current accelerations) and it's just plain interesting. Fascinating. Has there ever been life on Mars? How come it has the surface features it has? IMHO, those questions are reason enough to go there.
Of course, stars other than our own sun are currently too far away to travel to. But that might change in the future. You never know.
What would you have posted a hundred years ago, on the subject of flight? That it would be impossible to fly great distances because the flying people would tire of flapping their wings? Because it wasn't possible to fly for more than eleven seconds, so the entire continent would have to be paved with airfields? That instead, we should concentrate on moving cargo and passengers with the proven wheel technology instead?
Tell you what, both wheels and wings are very valid modes of transportation nowadays. No continent is too far away anymore. The amount of fuel that big airplanes need is actually small enough for them to carry. Bet the Wright brothers didn't know that, huh?
Don't flame new technology research. People want to research other means of getting into space, and the chance, however small, that some of them succeed, is IMHO more than enough justification for those people to continue their work. Also, they find their research interesting. If you don't find it interesting, it doesn't mean they should stop it.
Yeah, you've got a good point there. EA seems to basically run this online world as a totalitarian regime, and dissenters basically are put to "death". The resemblance with a real authoritarian regime is uncanny.
I think that people voluntarily enter the game-world, because they don't realize that it's not a free game-world at all.
Your comparison with the internet itself as a free world is pretty interesting too. It does indeed have a lot of negative things, like you mentioned, but I do think that the positive things outweigh it. You wouldn't get nearly as many positive things (original ideas, creativity) in a totalitarian internet or game-world.
Because it's not profitable? I imagine the costs for producing those things is not that much lower than the costs for producing newer computers, and those newer computers sell for a whole lot more, so it only makes sense not to make the old machines anymore.
Do you really think the investigators would be so incompetent as to boot off the harddisk in question, thus allowing such a dead man's lock to activate?
Guess what? That's exactly what software is for! It'd be impossible for people to know all those 7500 tax rates, but it is exactly the kind of job computers were designed for!
Over here, the 19% sales tax is included in all retail prices, so if something costs 19.95, you pay 19.95, and not 23.74.
Fuel cells for cars perhaps? I read that there's not enough platinum on Earth to equip all the cars with fuel cells, so extraterrestrial platinum might help, if it was affordable.
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$FIRSTNAME: "Hello, I am $FIRSTNAME and I have an emulating problem."
I think it's sleazy to sabotage a competitor's software, just like it's sleazy to e.g. block the road and cut the cables to a competitor's headquarters, in order to deprive them of business.
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It's because many of the 419 scams don't originate from Nigeria at all.
"There's enough space for another two thirds of a person in here!" :-)
Just locally cache the registration dates for all domain names, so you won't need to lookup the same name twice. That should cut down on that overhead dramatically, especially for big mail servers.
EasyLinux? Or is that too dangerous legally, with all the Easy.+ names being tm of that Greek businessman?
EasyLinux sounds good to me. It doesn't sound like it's less capable than regular Linux, as SimpleLinux would sound, and it doesn't sound hard to use either (duh).
The solar system travels through space relative to what, exactly? Which location would you use as a frame of reference to measure its travel through the cosmos?
The center of our galaxy?
The center of all the visible galaxies? Oh wait, that's our galaxy itself.
The center of the universe? Which center of the universe?
First, you write like I did when I was six. That would be a compliment, if you were six. I'm pretty sure you're not.
To get back on topic: how about all those rocks that are floating around our solar system? Many of them aren't that far away, and some of them are really big and full of elements that are rare on earth!
Also, take Mars. It's less than a year's space flight away (at current accelerations) and it's just plain interesting. Fascinating. Has there ever been life on Mars? How come it has the surface features it has? IMHO, those questions are reason enough to go there.
Of course, stars other than our own sun are currently too far away to travel to. But that might change in the future. You never know.
What would you have posted a hundred years ago, on the subject of flight? That it would be impossible to fly great distances because the flying people would tire of flapping their wings? Because it wasn't possible to fly for more than eleven seconds, so the entire continent would have to be paved with airfields? That instead, we should concentrate on moving cargo and passengers with the proven wheel technology instead?
Tell you what, both wheels and wings are very valid modes of transportation nowadays. No continent is too far away anymore. The amount of fuel that big airplanes need is actually small enough for them to carry. Bet the Wright brothers didn't know that, huh?
Don't flame new technology research. People want to research other means of getting into space, and the chance, however small, that some of them succeed, is IMHO more than enough justification for those people to continue their work. Also, they find their research interesting. If you don't find it interesting, it doesn't mean they should stop it.
I've read other interviews with spammers. They all say that. But then again, as djmurdoch says in the sibling comment, spammers lie. So do the math.
Yeah, you've got a good point there. EA seems to basically run this online world as a totalitarian regime, and dissenters basically are put to "death". The resemblance with a real authoritarian regime is uncanny.
I think that people voluntarily enter the game-world, because they don't realize that it's not a free game-world at all.
Your comparison with the internet itself as a free world is pretty interesting too. It does indeed have a lot of negative things, like you mentioned, but I do think that the positive things outweigh it. You wouldn't get nearly as many positive things (original ideas, creativity) in a totalitarian internet or game-world.
The SMP edition is available for $699 ;-)
Because it's not profitable? I imagine the costs for producing those things is not that much lower than the costs for producing newer computers, and those newer computers sell for a whole lot more, so it only makes sense not to make the old machines anymore.
I saw billboards like that too, only IIRC they did mention the company that paid for them.
Don't you mean somewhere in the mid nineties?
Didn't the RIAA-sponsored classes teach you that sharing is bad?
Do you really think the investigators would be so incompetent as to boot off the harddisk in question, thus allowing such a dead man's lock to activate?
On second thought...
Yeah, it wasn't as good as The World's Blankiest Blank...
It most certainly does not. I just checked it.
Nah, they'll probably use some super glue and Camel Books ;-)
So that'll be one Nobel Prize for Physics for inventing a Doomsday Device, and one Nobel Prize for Peace for not using it ;-)
Guess what? That's exactly what software is for! It'd be impossible for people to know all those 7500 tax rates, but it is exactly the kind of job computers were designed for!
Over here, the 19% sales tax is included in all retail prices, so if something costs 19.95, you pay 19.95, and not 23.74.
I like the irony of your sig under this post ;-)
Fuel cells for cars perhaps? I read that there's not enough platinum on Earth to equip all the cars with fuel cells, so extraterrestrial platinum might help, if it was affordable.
$FIRSTNAME: "Hello, I am $FIRSTNAME and I have an emulating problem."
Group: "Hello $FIRSTNAME!"
If a web browser makes itself the default, it does not prevent another browser from accessing the www.
Yes, there is.
I think it's sleazy to sabotage a competitor's software, just like it's sleazy to e.g. block the road and cut the cables to a competitor's headquarters, in order to deprive them of business.