(yes, IPs/MACs were modified, so if one/all don't add up, it's 'cause I changed them for privacy).
The inet6 line for en0 is the IPv6 IP.
You may need to make some changes to the default kernel and IP table settings using sysctl to do tunneling, I don't know (haven't done much with IPv6 myself - I mainly know about chunks of it from messing around with raccoon and IPSec)
OS X uses the KAME IPv6 distribution, so follow the faqs on that site for tunneling - it should be there somewhere.
Actually, the Satellite extra charges per receiver isn't much different than Cable in many places, because there is no standard for digital that can be built into TVs (yet). To make matters worse, Comcast (and probably others) have been chopping into analog channels to add more digital channels, so unless you're getting a fairly basic package, you will need to rent digital receivers (I say rent because I have not seen any for purchase).
Some areas are even going digital-only for cable (I have heard of one, at least).
Aside from that, you're pretty much dead-on for what I've learned from my 10+ years of Cable and 2+ months of Satellite. I actually was using Comcast cable, phone, and internet but, due to wanting a static IP, was forced to change the phone to the incumbent (required by Speakeasy, the only provider that offers static IPs to residential customers in my area) and internet to DSL to get it (Comcast doesn't offer them). Speaking of, I found that Qwest rates are now lower than Comcast phone rates for comparable service... I decided then to go Comcast-free and get Satellite. I never was much impressed by Comcast, especially after they decreased my download/upload speeds to match their "standard service speeds" and then jacked up their prices a couple of months later... I now hear they've increased download and upload back to where it was (or somewhere thereabouts) and touting it as much faster speeds - LOL.
Anyhow, I get less channels with Satellite, but pay a bunch less, as well (99% of 'em I never watch, anyway). As for reliability, I never really had many problems with either dish or cable aside from brief interruptions here and there. My power still goes out occasionally, too, so I'm not going to cry about 15 minutes of lost service once in a while.
Holy bejeezus - I wrote this before reading most of the article, and it's amazing how much I agree with this guy - many of my points are identical (some points I erased were practically plagiarious). I do have some points of my own to make, so it's not a complete dupe.
Not to mention, as the article does, that IPSec integrated into the protocol, so -everyone- gets security if they want to use it. It's not the mishmash security of IPv4, where there is no default protocol so you have two or three third party protocols that both ends need to install. IPv6 may actually boost routing speeds, though, due to aggregated routing and simpler packet headers.
Not to say IPv6 is perfect - it certainly doesn't have the exposure and testing of IPv4, and the general assuption that every user/machine needs a unique address is wrong - I will never, ever need to communicate with an IP-enabled-toaster from outside my home, because I will never, ever be making toast outside of my home. Then again, maybe toaster diagnostic services will want to reach my toaster and can't get to it, so I guess there may be some practical use for it. NAT (masquerading for you Linux folks) has been tacked on to IPv6 externally already, even though any sort of NAT was opposed by the developers of IPv6.
As for when it will be adopted, this is pretty obvious to me - soon in eastern Asia, where IP addresses are nearly exhausted, but much later in the US because the US has a surplus of addresses. To put this in perspective, why doesn't everyone own a digital TV yet? Because current analog TV works fine (it's good enough) and they don't have to invest in new equipment (no additional cost). The advantages of getting rid of it (more bandwidth for other devices, picture quality) are outweighed the disadvantages. The same goes for IPv4 to IPv6 but with slightly different numbers. Advantages: free security, more addresses. Disadvantages: decreased thoroughput (but honestly, not really all that much - 9 bytes on a 1024 or 4096 byte packet is pretty miniscule - and that is offset by simpler packet headers, and may be completely offset by increased speed hardware routing due to those simpler headers), and cost. For a country that couldn't even adapt to the metric system, do you really think it will ever happen without external forces? More likely, the US will adopt IPv6 to talk to Asia, mainly for business, and eventually IPv4 will disappear. Then again, the US may force Asia to use IPv4 connection points to rerout packets into our IPv4 system and we never change.
Re:why not say hello? - seems pretty obvious...
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Actually, I did do a lot of the talking, but yes, you're correct:)
It was preached in the church I went to (although not Catholic, I dated enough Catholics that dragged me to church). Basically, the idea was that only people have souls and only creatures with souls dream. This may have come from papal teachings in the mid-80s, since I heard it from several disparate sources around that time.
I have asked three other Catholics at my work about this and I got one it's true and two it's not (about animal dreams), but all three agree that animals have no soul. It'd be nice if my main source of information (a former Southern Baptist minister turned Catholic turned, um, something else were still around - he knew sources for all that stuff:)
why not say hello? - seems pretty obvious...
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It seems pretty obvious why ETs wouldn't say hello, at least to me.
First off, you have distance. If they said "hello" today, how many thousand or million of years would it take for the signal to reach here? The signal would need to travel the speed of light or less - we don't have tachyon communications yet (if such things exist), so we can't listen to signals that are faster than the speed of light.
Second, in the billions of years the earth has existed, we've been listening for what, thirty, maybe forty years? We don't even know what we're listening for. Who knows - maybe radio became passe for aliens 100 years ago (actually probably more like several thousand because of relativity and distance) and we just missed our chance. Maybe our own radio signals are swamping their faint ones.
Third, maybe they don't care or have a religion that tells them nothing else exists in the universe (like we have several of), so they don't even try. For instance, I know a devout Catholic who believes, as conservative Catholic doctrine preaches, that dogs (technically animals) don't dream, yet his dog is barking and moving while it sleeps - just like a dreaming human would do in REM sleep (well, probably more like talking and moving than barking:P ). The evidence points to the contrary, yet faith tells him the devil is making the movements in his dog to sway his faith. Jehovah's Witnesses use the same reasoning for the earth only being 6000 years old - the devil created the fossils to sway the faithful (trust me, I had a long discussion about this... mainly because the discussee was very attractive and I had several hours to blow trying to sway her to convert to a life of hedonism).
Lastly, every planet close to us in the Universe is probably not significantly more technological than we are, so they're probably starting to listen and broadcast themselves and the signals haven't reached us yet. Then again, one good asteroid hit could put alien evolution back millions of years, or one extended prosperous era may have a million years more of a low evolution dinosaur age (ETosaur?). On the average, our tech levels would be about the same (unless we're above or below average, but I have only one society to base observations on, so I my error margin is +-100:)
Yeah, but still vulernable to tracking cookies, which I seem to be collecting like dust, and they aren't as easy to remove on the mac due to lack of spyware removal software (that I know of, at least).
If I weren't so lazy, I'd turn off permanent cookies or just delete them all every couple of weeks.
The spam filter still blocks too many non-spam mails for me to not look at all of them... thankfully, I don't get much junk e-mail. I recently had an order confirmation that was marked as spam and I needed the tracking number because it never showed up, so thankfully I didn't send it all to/dev/null like I used to do to a clingy ex-girlfriend's e-mail (my UNIX.forward obsession is long over... I'm not even sure if mac supports it... and, man, I was desperate for dates back then). I'm trying to train it - maybe next time it won't flag their mail...
I doubt either will disappear - more likely, everyone will support both (as Sony and some others do) or both standards will exist in parallel. Why? Because both can be read in DVD players, both have industry heavyweights backing them, and both have decent market penetration. DVD-RAM is probably the most at-risk, because it's incompatible with nearly all DVD players. I would think at least 4-5 years for the death of either DVD+R or DVD-R, at least media-wise, due to the proliferation of devices.
DVD burners have dipped below the $100 mark ($93 for a Ricoh at Newegg, for instance), so it's probably only costing Dell $50-60 to add them, and swapping that with a $15-20 CD burner means a net $35-45 difference.
I think the controlling factor would be the bandwidth of the business connection to the internet itself - which is also probably the biggest recurring cost - probably $100/month or more - but the big question is why bother with a gigabit ethernet? Typical fast ethernet is 100Mbit/second (~$20/card) - much faster than most pipes (but a practical cap in a multi-user system is probably closer to 80-90Mbits/second due to high collision and packet loss). The only reason you would need this is if you're having lots of local sharing between people in the coffee shop (say, games). Even then, standard ethernet is usually fast enough.
Without a monitor, you could even build a cheap micro-ATX with video/sound/ethernet built in (adding a cheap case at $50-$60, 512MB memory ($50-$70), a 40GB drive ($55), floppy drive ($12), CD-ROM ($20-$30) and a 1.5-2GHz CPU ($30-40)) for about $250 - I did it for $189 last year for my wife's computer (she already had Windows and all drives). You then add your $25-100 for the local ethernet routing, depending on type.
Also remember that all of this would be a deductable business expense for the shop (if they paid for it).
I gave a lump of coal (it even came in a can saying "You've been very bad this year") as a gift to my brother-in-law's dad. He always plays practical jokes on my wife, so it was our turn to get him back:)
Interesting - that's probably why I liked The Longest Journey (sequel coming!) and disliked Syberia (also sequel coming). The Longest Journey wasn't perfect, but the game itself was by far the best adventure game I've played. My second favorite is probably Full Throttle (sequel shelved and probably cancelled, last I heard). All have lots of character interaction. I have yet to try Beyond Good and Evil, which is supposedly pretty good, so I don't have an opinion on that.
I solved Myst so fast (like 11 hours including bathroom and food breaks) that I really didn't have enough time to form an opinion. Obsidian was my #2 quickest solve at about 12 hours (3 sittings of ~4 hours each), and everybody said the game was too hard - also myst-like without much interaction. Most other games like that I get too bored of to finish.
Enjoy your job as a professor or accountant, then.
Of the 4 people (well, 5 technically, but one was a double major) I know who graduated with math degrees: 2 are more-or-less accountants (1 with a masters, the other with a bachelors). One was one of my College roommates and the other my best friend from High School.
1 is (was?) an assistant professor (PhD - bachelors in Physics and rest in Mathematics) - haven't seen or heard from him since he graduated and took a job in Philly. No idea what school he went to, but his sendoff party was a blast.
1 is flipping burgers at Wendys and looking for a job in his field (at least so I've heard). On the plus side, this guy wasn't exactly a rocket scientist material to begin with and I doubt he has more than a bachelors - I know him mostly through RPG gaming in college. He did graduate with me, so I know he got a degree.
I also know a guy who double majored in math and CSCI and is a programmer - another College RPG gamer.
Yeah - I had basically the same - and Comcast was jacking up the price of my package again, so I decided it was time to try Satellite.
Before: Phone - Comcast $45/mo (was $29 when first obtained) Internet - Comcast $50/mo ($60 w/o basic cable) Cable - Digital Silver package - $50/mo net total: $145/mo
Switch (all numbers rounded): Phone - Qwest $40/mo (incumbent required by ISP) Internet - SpeakEasy - $70/mo (1500/768 w/2 static IPs - for 1500/256 it's $60 - promotional rates go through Dec 31) Dish network $40/mo (with DVR) - basically same
package as cable w/o a few channels like G4. 4 free months of HBO/Sho ($60/mo if I keep - promotional rates through Jan 31). Yes, I added local channels. total: $150/mo
BUT promotions give 3 months of Speakeasy for $20 and 4 months of dish for free. That makes up the difference for the first year AND I was just informed that cable would be going up $5 in January to add a bunch more channels I will never watch. I get 2 STATIC IPs with speakeasy, something Comcast told me "no, we will never, ever offer that for residential service". I can finally register a domain and call it my own (if there are any left).
Switching my phone back gave me more features at less price. Incidentally, this same package was $45 through Qwest before I left them.
Dish seemed to be the best for me (I went with the top 100, but get a free downgrade after my 4 months, if I want it), but there are others like DirecTV, and all seem cheaper than cable and offer decent packages (unless you want the Comcast-only channels like G4). Disadvantage: no built in receiver, so the more TVs you've got, the more converter boxes you need to add. I have one TV I watch, and another I sometimes record shows on while the main TV is in use. Since I will have a DVR, I don't think this will be a problem anymore (depending on if there's synch issues with programs like football that usually overrun their slot).
That's pretty much exactly the issue I had with adding FreeBSD and SuSE - I could get YaBoot to boot to the mac side or Linux, but couldn't figure out how to get it to boot to FreeBSD through that boot loader. It was using the first mac version of SuSE available (7 beta that shipped with MacTech), and I never really had the commercial version (downloaded chunks of it, mainly) -- it's entirely possible that YaBoot was unfinished at that time and I never had a complete up-to-date version.
Anyhow, the only way I could figure out how to chain-load was typing in open firmware commands. I'm sure it's entirely possible to write a loader for this, I just don't have enough Forth background to do it!
The "common cold" is actually a collection of over 200 different viruses with similar symptoms. Modifying one of these to attack cancer cells _is_ probably easier than curing all of the strains of cold viruses:)
Having had both BSD and Linux variants on mac right at OS X.0 release, I didn't find an easy way to boot load all without typing in openfirmware commands (in Forth).
I never learned Forth well enough to write my own boot loader, tho.
I had at least 5 (and I recall 7, but I have a feeling that included YellowDog Linux and Debian PPC) mac native OSes installed at once before the machine failed (power supply, I later learned - this was on a PowerMac 7500). BeOS MacOS9 MacOSX FreeBSD SuSE Linux
I also ran emulators for everything under the sun and probably had more OSes than he had that way - I tried a good chunk of the downloadable OSes I found off of emulation.net and had VirtualPC (1.0, mind you) with DOS and Windows 95 (tho the OS is technically DOS).
I slipped away from the emulator scene after the death of that machine, though. The only thing I've grabbed recently is an Apple ][ emulator for old times sake (running on Windows... that's probably heresy, but my working mac is old:P )
Not correct +r/-r are about 85% and +rw/-rw are more like 70%.
Most new DVD players, even really cheap ones, will read either, though (I have a $50 player that reads both).
I bought a DVD burner that does both +r/-r +rw/-rw for $140 in August though the internet, and have seen the same thing for as little as $100... I think I even saw a $100 Sony DVD burner at Best Buy yesterday (after rebate)... it's $150 online, though, so it may have been a store promotion.
I don't think you stress the password thing enough - a mac administrative user can't wipe the system clean without knowing the password, while a windows admin can.
You may not think that's a big deal, but I've seen some good hacking done via console usurption - root is installing software and gets phone call (or goes to the can - I've seen both happen). As soon as root user walks away, the guy at the terminal next to him suspends the install, adds his name to a.rhosts file or chmod's a uid/euid change program as 4755, clears the screen and resumes the install. A good uid (user ID) exploit program usually masquerades as something else and if placed in the right location, will probably never be found unless being watched for.
On the other hand, a hacked mac admin account where the password is known gives full access on macs and probably won't on UNIX unless the user was root (hacking a sudoer probably won't give you full access). Essentially, OSX relies more on passwords for security and Unix relies more on a specific user (root) for security and both have their advantages and disadvantages.
On Windows, though, an admin user is an admin user and has full permissions to do anything they want, including create more admin users or wipe the entire OS. The only good thing about Windows in this respect is that it is more difficult to remotely control the machine because of its single user origins.
I love using my XP Pro box for games - it dual boots linux, and has been amazingly stable for a MS OS, but I keep it safely behind a UNIX firewall for a reason - I don't like patching daily, I don't like the endless stream of worms I see trying to get in, and I don't want to give easy access to the script kiddie hackers that hit my firewall 100s of times every day (yes, they're logged and their IP automatically blocked after 50 failed attempts [hey, I'm generous - and I've screwed up login at least 5 times in a session myself]... now if only I could ban DHCP so they'd permanently go away...)
You miss the fact that several of the developers (and producer) of Wasteland are the same as those for Fallout and Fallout 2.
For instance, Faran Brygo was a character I remember from Wasteland - I think the link should be obvious (swap the first 3 letters of the first and last name). I think Tim Cain was also involved in Wasteland (Fallout designer), but I don't remember for sure.
Tim said something like "They make games very differently than the way I would." about Interplay for the reason he left after Fallout 2 to found Troika, guess this news proves it:(
Lionheart was rushed into completion to make an absolute deadline. Incidentally, it was contracted out to Reflexive, not made in-house by Black Isle.
I wonder if Black Isle refused to do the same thing with Fallout 3 and Interplay dropped them because of it - their lead designer left about a month ago, and the project may have been looking at delays...
I was looking forward to a non-D&D title from Black Isle - D&D makes an awful computer game system (IMO) and I loved the Fallout games. I bet 60% of the spells in D&D games never get used by anybody...
Gamespy and IGN are just businesses, so they have to do what it takes to make a profit.
At least Gamespy lets you close the annoying popup ad windows (I don't visit IGN enough to know) - unlike, ahem, Gamespot. Gamespot forces you to sit on the ad screen for a near eternity just to visit the site and no longer offers free downloads. Speaking of Gamespot, 1/2 the content there can't even be accessed without paying for it, and both Gamespy and IGN have done their best to keep most of the material freely accessible. If you really don't want the ads, you can just pay a small fee for them to not show them to you (it's an option on many commercial sites these days).
The evening editors mustof softened up - my submission of this news about an hour after it happened got rejected:)
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IPv6 is configured by default on macos X. Type ifconfig from a command prompt and you should get something like this:
::1 prefixlen 128
lo0: flags=8049 mtu 16384
inet6
inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
gif0: flags=8010 mtu 1280
stf0: flags=0 mtu 1280
en0: flags=8863 mtu 1500
inet6 fe80::250:94af:feb1:aaad%en0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x5
inet 192.168.1.10 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
ether 00:5a:cd:bc:44:ac
media: autoselect (100baseTX ) status: active
supported media: none autoselect 10baseT/UTP 10baseT/UTP 100baseTX 100baseTX
(yes, IPs/MACs were modified, so if one/all don't add up, it's 'cause I changed them for privacy).
The inet6 line for en0 is the IPv6 IP.
You may need to make some changes to the default kernel and IP table settings using sysctl to do tunneling, I don't know (haven't done much with IPv6 myself - I mainly know about chunks of it from messing around with raccoon and IPSec)
OS X uses the KAME IPv6 distribution, so follow the faqs on that site for tunneling - it should be there somewhere.
Actually, the Satellite extra charges per receiver isn't much different than Cable in many places, because there is no standard for digital that can be built into TVs (yet). To make matters worse, Comcast (and probably others) have been chopping into analog channels to add more digital channels, so unless you're getting a fairly basic package, you will need to rent digital receivers (I say rent because I have not seen any for purchase).
Some areas are even going digital-only for cable (I have heard of one, at least).
Aside from that, you're pretty much dead-on for what I've learned from my 10+ years of Cable and 2+ months of Satellite. I actually was using Comcast cable, phone, and internet but, due to wanting a static IP, was forced to change the phone to the incumbent (required by Speakeasy, the only provider that offers static IPs to residential customers in my area) and internet to DSL to get it (Comcast doesn't offer them). Speaking of, I found that Qwest rates are now lower than Comcast phone rates for comparable service... I decided then to go Comcast-free and get Satellite. I never was much impressed by Comcast, especially after they decreased my download/upload speeds to match their "standard service speeds" and then jacked up their prices a couple of months later... I now hear they've increased download and upload back to where it was (or somewhere thereabouts) and touting it as much faster speeds - LOL.
Anyhow, I get less channels with Satellite, but pay a bunch less, as well (99% of 'em I never watch, anyway). As for reliability, I never really had many problems with either dish or cable aside from brief interruptions here and there. My power still goes out occasionally, too, so I'm not going to cry about 15 minutes of lost service once in a while.
Never met an Evercrack, er quest, addict, have you?
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My connection is always on... I'm online 168 hours a week!
Seriously, it's probably closer to 30, much of it doing 'research' at work (like on Slashdot
Holy bejeezus - I wrote this before reading most of the article, and it's amazing how much I agree with this guy - many of my points are identical (some points I erased were practically plagiarious). I do have some points of my own to make, so it's not a complete dupe.
Not to mention, as the article does, that IPSec integrated into the protocol, so -everyone- gets security if they want to use it. It's not the mishmash security of IPv4, where there is no default protocol so you have two or three third party protocols that both ends need to install. IPv6 may actually boost routing speeds, though, due to aggregated routing and simpler packet headers.
Not to say IPv6 is perfect - it certainly doesn't have the exposure and testing of IPv4, and the general assuption that every user/machine needs a unique address is wrong - I will never, ever need to communicate with an IP-enabled-toaster from outside my home, because I will never, ever be making toast outside of my home. Then again, maybe toaster diagnostic services will want to reach my toaster and can't get to it, so I guess there may be some practical use for it. NAT (masquerading for you Linux folks) has been tacked on to IPv6 externally already, even though any sort of NAT was opposed by the developers of IPv6.
As for when it will be adopted, this is pretty obvious to me - soon in eastern Asia, where IP addresses are nearly exhausted, but much later in the US because the US has a surplus of addresses. To put this in perspective, why doesn't everyone own a digital TV yet? Because current analog TV works fine (it's good enough) and they don't have to invest in new equipment (no additional cost). The advantages of getting rid of it (more bandwidth for other devices, picture quality) are outweighed the disadvantages. The same goes for IPv4 to IPv6 but with slightly different numbers. Advantages: free security, more addresses. Disadvantages: decreased thoroughput (but honestly, not really all that much - 9 bytes on a 1024 or 4096 byte packet is pretty miniscule - and that is offset by simpler packet headers, and may be completely offset by increased speed hardware routing due to those simpler headers), and cost. For a country that couldn't even adapt to the metric system, do you really think it will ever happen without external forces? More likely, the US will adopt IPv6 to talk to Asia, mainly for business, and eventually IPv4 will disappear. Then again, the US may force Asia to use IPv4 connection points to rerout packets into our IPv4 system and we never change.
Actually, I did do a lot of the talking, but yes, you're correct :)
It was preached in the church I went to (although not Catholic, I dated enough Catholics that dragged me to church). Basically, the idea was that only people have souls and only creatures with souls dream. This may have come from papal teachings in the mid-80s, since I heard it from several disparate sources around that time.
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I have asked three other Catholics at my work about this and I got one it's true and two it's not (about animal dreams), but all three agree that animals have no soul. It'd be nice if my main source of information (a former Southern Baptist minister turned Catholic turned, um, something else were still around - he knew sources for all that stuff
It seems pretty obvious why ETs wouldn't say hello, at least to me.
:P ). The evidence points to the contrary, yet faith tells him the devil is making the movements in his dog to sway his faith. Jehovah's Witnesses use the same reasoning for the earth only being 6000 years old - the devil created the fossils to sway the faithful (trust me, I had a long discussion about this... mainly because the discussee was very attractive and I had several hours to blow trying to sway her to convert to a life of hedonism).
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First off, you have distance. If they said "hello" today, how many thousand or million of years would it take for the signal to reach here? The signal would need to travel the speed of light or less - we don't have tachyon communications yet (if such things exist), so we can't listen to signals that are faster than the speed of light.
Second, in the billions of years the earth has existed, we've been listening for what, thirty, maybe forty years? We don't even know what we're listening for. Who knows - maybe radio became passe for aliens 100 years ago (actually probably more like several thousand because of relativity and distance) and we just missed our chance. Maybe our own radio signals are swamping their faint ones.
Third, maybe they don't care or have a religion that tells them nothing else exists in the universe (like we have several of), so they don't even try. For instance, I know a devout Catholic who believes, as conservative Catholic doctrine preaches, that dogs (technically animals) don't dream, yet his dog is barking and moving while it sleeps - just like a dreaming human would do in REM sleep (well, probably more like talking and moving than barking
Lastly, every planet close to us in the Universe is probably not significantly more technological than we are, so they're probably starting to listen and broadcast themselves and the signals haven't reached us yet. Then again, one good asteroid hit could put alien evolution back millions of years, or one extended prosperous era may have a million years more of a low evolution dinosaur age (ETosaur?). On the average, our tech levels would be about the same (unless we're above or below average, but I have only one society to base observations on, so I my error margin is +-100
Yeah, but still vulernable to tracking cookies, which I seem to be collecting like dust, and they aren't as easy to remove on the mac due to lack of spyware removal software (that I know of, at least).
/dev/null like I used to do to a clingy ex-girlfriend's e-mail (my UNIX .forward obsession is long over... I'm not even sure if mac supports it... and, man, I was desperate for dates back then). I'm trying to train it - maybe next time it won't flag their mail...
If I weren't so lazy, I'd turn off permanent cookies or just delete them all every couple of weeks.
The spam filter still blocks too many non-spam mails for me to not look at all of them... thankfully, I don't get much junk e-mail. I recently had an order confirmation that was marked as spam and I needed the tracking number because it never showed up, so thankfully I didn't send it all to
I doubt either will disappear - more likely, everyone will support both (as Sony and some others do) or both standards will exist in parallel. Why? Because both can be read in DVD players, both have industry heavyweights backing them, and both have decent market penetration. DVD-RAM is probably the most at-risk, because it's incompatible with nearly all DVD players. I would think at least 4-5 years for the death of either DVD+R or DVD-R, at least media-wise, due to the proliferation of devices.
DVD burners have dipped below the $100 mark ($93 for a Ricoh at Newegg, for instance), so it's probably only costing Dell $50-60 to add them, and swapping that with a $15-20 CD burner means a net $35-45 difference.
I think the controlling factor would be the bandwidth of the business connection to the internet itself - which is also probably the biggest recurring cost - probably $100/month or more - but the big question is why bother with a gigabit ethernet? Typical fast ethernet is 100Mbit/second (~$20/card) - much faster than most pipes (but a practical cap in a multi-user system is probably closer to 80-90Mbits/second due to high collision and packet loss). The only reason you would need this is if you're having lots of local sharing between people in the coffee shop (say, games). Even then, standard ethernet is usually fast enough.
Without a monitor, you could even build a cheap micro-ATX with video/sound/ethernet built in (adding a cheap case at $50-$60, 512MB memory ($50-$70), a 40GB drive ($55), floppy drive ($12), CD-ROM ($20-$30) and a 1.5-2GHz CPU ($30-40)) for about $250 - I did it for $189 last year for my wife's computer (she already had Windows and all drives). You then add your $25-100 for the local ethernet routing, depending on type.
Also remember that all of this would be a deductable business expense for the shop (if they paid for it).
I gave a lump of coal (it even came in a can saying "You've been very bad this year") as a gift to my brother-in-law's dad. He always plays practical jokes on my wife, so it was our turn to get him back :)
Interesting - that's probably why I liked The Longest Journey (sequel coming!) and disliked Syberia (also sequel coming). The Longest Journey wasn't perfect, but the game itself was by far the best adventure game I've played. My second favorite is probably Full Throttle (sequel shelved and probably cancelled, last I heard). All have lots of character interaction. I have yet to try Beyond Good and Evil, which is supposedly pretty good, so I don't have an opinion on that.
I solved Myst so fast (like 11 hours including bathroom and food breaks) that I really didn't have enough time to form an opinion. Obsidian was my #2 quickest solve at about 12 hours (3 sittings of ~4 hours each), and everybody said the game was too hard - also myst-like without much interaction. Most other games like that I get too bored of to finish.
I'm still hoping it's all a bad dream :(
I suck down a couple of rad-aways and head towards Interplay's tac-nuked headquarters, searching for remains...
Enjoy your job as a professor or accountant, then.
Of the 4 people (well, 5 technically, but one was a double major) I know who graduated with math degrees:
2 are more-or-less accountants (1 with a masters, the other with a bachelors). One was one of my College roommates and the other my best friend from High School.
1 is (was?) an assistant professor (PhD - bachelors in Physics and rest in Mathematics) - haven't seen or heard from him since he graduated and took a job in Philly. No idea what school he went to, but his sendoff party was a blast.
1 is flipping burgers at Wendys and looking for a job in his field (at least so I've heard). On the plus side, this guy wasn't exactly a rocket scientist material to begin with and I doubt he has more than a bachelors - I know him mostly through RPG gaming in college. He did graduate with me, so I know he got a degree.
I also know a guy who double majored in math and CSCI and is a programmer - another College RPG gamer.
Yeah - I had basically the same - and Comcast was jacking up the price of my package again, so I decided it was time to try Satellite.
Before:
Phone - Comcast $45/mo (was $29 when first obtained)
Internet - Comcast $50/mo ($60 w/o basic cable)
Cable - Digital Silver package - $50/mo
net total: $145/mo
Switch (all numbers rounded):
Phone - Qwest $40/mo (incumbent required by ISP)
Internet - SpeakEasy - $70/mo (1500/768 w/2 static IPs - for 1500/256 it's $60 - promotional rates go through Dec 31)
Dish network $40/mo (with DVR) - basically same
package as cable w/o a few channels like G4. 4 free months of HBO/Sho ($60/mo if I keep - promotional rates through Jan 31). Yes, I added local channels.
total: $150/mo
BUT promotions give 3 months of Speakeasy for $20 and 4 months of dish for free. That makes up the difference for the first year AND I was just informed that cable would be going up $5 in January to add a bunch more channels I will never watch. I get 2 STATIC IPs with speakeasy, something Comcast told me "no, we will never, ever offer that for residential service". I can finally register a domain and call it my own (if there are any left).
Switching my phone back gave me more features at less price. Incidentally, this same package was $45 through Qwest before I left them.
Dish seemed to be the best for me (I went with the top 100, but get a free downgrade after my 4 months, if I want it), but there are others like DirecTV, and all seem cheaper than cable and offer decent packages (unless you want the Comcast-only channels like G4). Disadvantage: no built in receiver, so the more TVs you've got, the more converter boxes you need to add. I have one TV I watch, and another I sometimes record shows on while the main TV is in use. Since I will have a DVR, I don't think this will be a problem anymore (depending on if there's synch issues with programs like football that usually overrun their slot).
That's pretty much exactly the issue I had with adding FreeBSD and SuSE - I could get YaBoot to boot to the mac side or Linux, but couldn't figure out how to get it to boot to FreeBSD through that boot loader. It was using the first mac version of SuSE available (7 beta that shipped with MacTech), and I never really had the commercial version (downloaded chunks of it, mainly) -- it's entirely possible that YaBoot was unfinished at that time and I never had a complete up-to-date version.
Anyhow, the only way I could figure out how to chain-load was typing in open firmware commands. I'm sure it's entirely possible to write a loader for this, I just don't have enough Forth background to do it!
The "common cold" is actually a collection of over 200 different viruses with similar symptoms. Modifying one of these to attack cancer cells _is_ probably easier than curing all of the strains of cold viruses :)
Having had both BSD and Linux variants on mac right at OS X.0 release, I didn't find an easy way to boot load all without typing in openfirmware commands (in Forth).
:P )
I never learned Forth well enough to write my own boot loader, tho.
I had at least 5 (and I recall 7, but I have a feeling that included YellowDog Linux and Debian PPC) mac native OSes installed at once before the machine failed (power supply, I later learned - this was on a PowerMac 7500).
BeOS
MacOS9
MacOSX
FreeBSD
SuSE Linux
I also ran emulators for everything under the sun and probably had more OSes than he had that way - I tried a good chunk of the downloadable OSes I found off of emulation.net and had VirtualPC (1.0, mind you) with DOS and Windows 95 (tho the OS is technically DOS).
I slipped away from the emulator scene after the death of that machine, though. The only thing I've grabbed recently is an Apple ][ emulator for old times sake (running on Windows... that's probably heresy, but my working mac is old
Not correct +r/-r are about 85% and +rw/-rw are more like 70%.
Most new DVD players, even really cheap ones, will read either, though (I have a $50 player that reads both).
I bought a DVD burner that does both +r/-r +rw/-rw for $140 in August though the internet, and have seen the same thing for as little as $100... I think I even saw a $100 Sony DVD burner at Best Buy yesterday (after rebate)... it's $150 online, though, so it may have been a store promotion.
Anyhow, read the FAQ
I don't think you stress the password thing enough - a mac administrative user can't wipe the system clean without knowing the password, while a windows admin can.
.rhosts file or chmod's a uid/euid change program as 4755, clears the screen and resumes the install. A good uid (user ID) exploit program usually masquerades as something else and if placed in the right location, will probably never be found unless being watched for.
You may not think that's a big deal, but I've seen some good hacking done via console usurption -
root is installing software and gets phone call (or goes to the can - I've seen both happen). As soon as root user walks away, the guy at the terminal next to him suspends the install, adds his name to a
On the other hand, a hacked mac admin account where the password is known gives full access on macs and probably won't on UNIX unless the user was root (hacking a sudoer probably won't give you full access). Essentially, OSX relies more on passwords for security and Unix relies more on a specific user (root) for security and both have their advantages and disadvantages.
On Windows, though, an admin user is an admin user and has full permissions to do anything they want, including create more admin users or wipe the entire OS. The only good thing about Windows in this respect is that it is more difficult to remotely control the machine because of its single user origins.
I love using my XP Pro box for games - it dual boots linux, and has been amazingly stable for a MS OS, but I keep it safely behind a UNIX firewall for a reason - I don't like patching daily, I don't like the endless stream of worms I see trying to get in, and I don't want to give easy access to the script kiddie hackers that hit my firewall 100s of times every day (yes, they're logged and their IP automatically blocked after 50 failed attempts [hey, I'm generous - and I've screwed up login at least 5 times in a session myself]... now if only I could ban DHCP so they'd permanently go away...)
You miss the fact that several of the developers (and producer) of Wasteland are the same as those for Fallout and Fallout 2.
:(
For instance, Faran Brygo was a character I remember from Wasteland - I think the link should be obvious (swap the first 3 letters of the first and last name). I think Tim Cain was also involved in Wasteland (Fallout designer), but I don't remember for sure.
Tim said something like "They make games very differently than the way I would." about Interplay for the reason he left after Fallout 2 to found Troika, guess this news proves it
Lionheart was rushed into completion to make an absolute deadline. Incidentally, it was contracted out to Reflexive, not made in-house by Black Isle.
I wonder if Black Isle refused to do the same thing with Fallout 3 and Interplay dropped them because of it - their lead designer left about a month ago, and the project may have been looking at delays...
I was looking forward to a non-D&D title from Black Isle - D&D makes an awful computer game system (IMO) and I loved the Fallout games. I bet 60% of the spells in D&D games never get used by anybody...
Gamespy and IGN are just businesses, so they have to do what it takes to make a profit.
:)
At least Gamespy lets you close the annoying popup ad windows (I don't visit IGN enough to know) - unlike, ahem, Gamespot. Gamespot forces you to sit on the ad screen for a near eternity just to visit the site and no longer offers free downloads. Speaking of Gamespot, 1/2 the content there can't even be accessed without paying for it, and both Gamespy and IGN have done their best to keep most of the material freely accessible. If you really don't want the ads, you can just pay a small fee for them to not show them to you (it's an option on many commercial sites these days).
The evening editors mustof softened up - my submission of this news about an hour after it happened got rejected
That was the first thing I thought of -
:)
followed by
Lagrange numbers... not sure if it has anything to do with that, either