For all those who own WC3 and don't know how to find games, log onto Battle.net then click on "Custom Games".
When you join a game, you will download the map which contains all the models/graphics/sounds/game logic for a given mod.
Tower Defense++
I would also recommend http://btanks.net/v2/
In downtown Cleveland, the city has put the traffic cameras in high-traffic areas, but where there is no cross traffic, nor any foot traffic.
They actually got in a pile of trouble with the state, and now, people from cleveland SLAM on their brakes as they near these stop lights (they have signs to warn motorists).
This is OBVIOUSLY to generate revenue, in fact, the city has bragged about it on a number of occasions!
People don't actually run these lights anymore, but the city monetizes speeding violations with the cameras. In the State of Ohio hearings on the matter, it turned out that 97% of the tickets issued were for speeding.
Agreed, except for the fact that the entire project has been focused on self replication - instead of focusing on making tons of models of other "stuff" available for these to make!!
There is a reason peer review is so popular. This doesn't appear to have made the cut (probably submitted to a conference and then denied). This has been posted on other sites, and generally laughed at -- since it isn't peer reviewed!!! Just because someone has some letters after their name, doesn't mean they know what they are talking about. It is VERY important to ignore stuff like this that hasn't been peer-review - especially when it is done by professors! The whole thing is conjecture anyways, so without peer-review it has NO value.
The whole premise of the paper is that all routers are as similar as all PCs. This is ABSOLUTELY not the case. Since all routers tend to use FLASH for storage - you need to write ALL or MOST of the flash at once (since fs images are used). This means to transfer between hosts, you need a complete image to send to the next host. So, since there are very little resources on each device, it can only store it's own infected image. Now if it needs to infect a different type of router, something in the adhoc mesh network needs to be sourcing this image.
It's really funny that crap research can be posted as if it has ANY factual value whatsoever... They made assumptions that it was exactly like a biological virus, and SURPRISE, it acted like a biological virus.
What might be good research is if someone made a proof-of-concept virus like this, with upgrade images for say the most popular 100 or so models of routers (remember, there are different hardware revisions). That might cover half of the market. So in a really dense network, it might spread a little!
I agree, senior developers are very hard to replace. I actually left my job for a few months. They wouldn't trust/couldn't find a replacement, and bought me back. I now work 20 hours a week for more than twice the pay -- along with a good piece of the action...
You are technically correct... AVC sounds fantastic... unless you are trying to use it in a commercial product - then you have to deal with "Real Life" things like patents!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.264#Patent_licensing
Professionally, we use Ogg Theora + Vorbis since we don't want to waste money licensing several patents.
Some of these wouldn't survive in the US market. For instance, the Flybook is like a more expensive/crappier version of a fujistu's newer models. It has less battery life, less features and it still costs more than most fujitsus...
That's just an example of a pile of products, many of which may never get to market... There are only a few products in the list which will be successful and not make it to the US!
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For all those who own WC3 and don't know how to find games, log onto Battle.net then click on "Custom Games". When you join a game, you will download the map which contains all the models/graphics/sounds/game logic for a given mod. Tower Defense++ I would also recommend http://btanks.net/v2/
In downtown Cleveland, the city has put the traffic cameras in high-traffic areas, but where there is no cross traffic, nor any foot traffic. They actually got in a pile of trouble with the state, and now, people from cleveland SLAM on their brakes as they near these stop lights (they have signs to warn motorists). This is OBVIOUSLY to generate revenue, in fact, the city has bragged about it on a number of occasions! People don't actually run these lights anymore, but the city monetizes speeding violations with the cameras. In the State of Ohio hearings on the matter, it turned out that 97% of the tickets issued were for speeding.
Agreed, except for the fact that the entire project has been focused on self replication - instead of focusing on making tons of models of other "stuff" available for these to make!!
There is a reason peer review is so popular. This doesn't appear to have made the cut (probably submitted to a conference and then denied). This has been posted on other sites, and generally laughed at -- since it isn't peer reviewed!!! Just because someone has some letters after their name, doesn't mean they know what they are talking about. It is VERY important to ignore stuff like this that hasn't been peer-review - especially when it is done by professors! The whole thing is conjecture anyways, so without peer-review it has NO value. The whole premise of the paper is that all routers are as similar as all PCs. This is ABSOLUTELY not the case. Since all routers tend to use FLASH for storage - you need to write ALL or MOST of the flash at once (since fs images are used). This means to transfer between hosts, you need a complete image to send to the next host. So, since there are very little resources on each device, it can only store it's own infected image. Now if it needs to infect a different type of router, something in the adhoc mesh network needs to be sourcing this image. It's really funny that crap research can be posted as if it has ANY factual value whatsoever... They made assumptions that it was exactly like a biological virus, and SURPRISE, it acted like a biological virus. What might be good research is if someone made a proof-of-concept virus like this, with upgrade images for say the most popular 100 or so models of routers (remember, there are different hardware revisions). That might cover half of the market. So in a really dense network, it might spread a little!
I agree, senior developers are very hard to replace. I actually left my job for a few months. They wouldn't trust/couldn't find a replacement, and bought me back. I now work 20 hours a week for more than twice the pay -- along with a good piece of the action...
You are technically correct... AVC sounds fantastic... unless you are trying to use it in a commercial product - then you have to deal with "Real Life" things like patents! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.264#Patent_licensing Professionally, we use Ogg Theora + Vorbis since we don't want to waste money licensing several patents.
Sorry about the self reply, but you can find some of these products here http://www.geekstuff4u.com/
Some of these wouldn't survive in the US market. For instance, the Flybook is like a more expensive/crappier version of a fujistu's newer models. It has less battery life, less features and it still costs more than most fujitsus... That's just an example of a pile of products, many of which may never get to market... There are only a few products in the list which will be successful and not make it to the US!
Well... the answer is yes and no. It depends on which version of the BSD license... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_licenses Simply put, there are a few different BSD or BSD style licenses (all refered to as BSD licenses). There is a deeper explanation of what you must do to encorporate BSD code into a GPL project http://www.softwarefreedom.org/resources/2007/gpl-non-gpl-collaboration.html