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Ubisoft probably doesn't have redundancy or backups for these servers as they are pure cost centers (like ftp servers for providing patches to old software). And they sure as hell won't buy duplicate machines just for customer convenience. They are probably going to shut down the machines, and physically transport them (still in the rack, with HDDs still plugged in), and "sorry about your luck" if the server for your one year old game doesn't work any more because the drives got jostled. They'll rebuild a new server if there's a hint of a lawsuit, but you'll have to wait and your game will not sync with it properly anyway unless it's newly [re]purchased.
DRM has cost them hundreds of dollars they would have gotten from me had they not treated me like the thieves they are.
They've lost thousands of dollars from me. My decision came when Mechwarrior4 decided it didn't like any of the optical drives I owned. I was unable to use the game, so I vowed never to buy DRMed crap ever again (for PC). I am buying something similar to DRM with console games, but at least with consoles, it's completely up front that my DVD of Okami for Wii won't work in my Xbox. But most of my gaming is from my extensive collection of old games; after I cycle one pass through it, the next pass seems newish.
Wow... Someone read too many comic books and not enough of other reading material to develop proper spelling....
Actually, comic books are chock full of big words, and they're nearly always used properly (when used improperly, it's for comedic effect). Super villain soliloquies and/or banter are especially verbose, and I remember having to reach for a dictionary as a child.
and whatever Marvel has come up with when they are not busy republishing old material as e-comics or making half-assed movies
Actually, Marvel's been pretty good lately what with their New Avengers / House of M / Civil War / Secret Invasion / Dark Reign / Siege stories. Notable exceptions being the "death" of Captain America and Spiderman betraying his morals to make a deal with Mephisto (Spiderman is the moral compass of the Marvel Universe).
I am think that if RFID-enable credit card is present at known point in spacetime, attacker need only to go to that point in space and then move card reader along fourth dimension axis until card information can be read. The banks should really giving solution to this problem soon I hope so they will.
You just described a dude sitting on the sidewalk (moving through time) until cards come to him.
I'm partial to using
shred -v -n0 -z/dev/sda
or
ddrescue --fill=+/dev/zero/dev/sda logfile.ddrescue
since these work even when the disk hits a write-error (dd just stops dead).
I have an RFID access key I keep in my wallet. I think if I get it within 2 or three millimeters of the reader it will work.
Mine works from 3 inches away. At a regional office, there's a reader that is twice as large on the wall, and just walking near it with my wallet in my pocket opens the door. It's not the card that determines distance; it's the reader. So maybe the crooks don't buy the $50 reader, maybe they go for the $2000 reader that works from two feet away, and set up shop in a van parked next to a busy sidewalk.
you pay workers more and they will be willing to live in dormitories and to be on-call to come back should an emergency. You can even phrase having a place close to work, free of rent to be a perk for those people who have been driven to look for out-of-state work.
Only if the "dorm" is like a firefighter's on-duty sleeping space; a place to stay on on-duty days, but not "home". To live at the place where you work... Let me offer an example of why it wouldn't work here: "Hey baby, what say you and me get out of here? I've got this great two thousand square foot room that I share with twenty other guys that we could go to. It has a ping pong table!"
Apple wouldn't be able to undercut the competition on price if they didn't cut costs in manufacturing. Who would buy something from Apple if it was expensive?
You can live in near-boiling water? Have you told anyone about your superpower?
Lots of people live close to their coffee.
Living near boiling water is not the same as living in near-boiling water. One is totally normal. The other is abnormal unless you're a deep-sea fumarole microbe.
Same here for 32F (although not for six months[!]). But you're making a point about the nature of water, not about the nature of human comfort with regard to temperature.
0C is freezing for water, but when it's 32F outside, I don't wear my gloves or zip up my jacket. It's right balmy. -4C is close to where I start buttoning up. -9.4C is when the scarf comes out. -12ish is when I need to put up my hood, and anything lower than that I have to wear a lot of extra clothes if I'm going to stay outside for a while.
10 is cool, 20 is nice, 30 is hot, 40 is unbearable
I bet people who use Celsius actually remember other temperatures since 0,10,20,30,40 are not quite usable. 30C is warm, but not hot. 40C is deathly hot, 34C is where hot really starts. 20C is okay, but I'm sure people would think 22C is nicer, especially for indoors.
100 is the boiling point of water.
I rarely hear about boiling water in weather forecasts or HVAC discussions. It's almost like it's not enough of a factor in human comfort levels to warrant a special place at 100. Sure, that works for scientific scales where water is king, but as I mentioned to someone else: if you're doing scientific work why not use Kelvin instead?
no, it is Fahrenheit that is weird.. 32 for freezing is totally arbitrary, and what was the boiling point..? try 0 for ice freezes, and 100 for water boils.. now that is simple.
That's because Fahrenheit didn't care too much about the freezing and boiling points of water, or at least he didn't think they were all-important. He based 0F as the freezing point of brine (unbearably cold to the human body), and wanted human body temperature to be a reference point, like Romer. Romer's scale was really short though (0[brine freeze] to 60[water boil]), so Fahrenheit multiplied everything for more resolution.
but I first of all I haven't seen anyone use decimals with Celsius
Why not? If you're going to use a scale without a fine resolution, you have to use decimals
and I haven't ever seen -12C or below either, let alone -17C
Bully for you. I tend to see temperatures below 10F regularly in the winter, and occasionally below 0F, and I bet I live in the same latitude as you. Weather is different over here in North America.
so I really wonder what nonsense those 'marks' are supposed to represent.
By "marks", do you means the ellipses? You try representing a repeating decimal in/. without resorting to ellipses.
And trying to argue FOR Fahrenheit as a 'ease of use' is just plain ridiculous.
"Ease of use" for a particular application - human comfort range. Just like Celsius is ease of use for a particular application: boiling and freezing points of water (more useful in science and cooking than in what most people in the world use temperature scales for most of the time; checking air temperature to see if it will be comfortable). Heck, there's a reason why you use Celsius instead of Kelvin. Celsius is closer to usable for every-day things. Fahrenheit is just closer still with its wider range of numbers within human tolerances.
Fahrenheit makes excellent sense for what most people use air temperature to refer to: human comfort. When it's 100F or above, it's so hot that sweat isn't enough. When it's 0F or below, it would be a good idea to limit time outside, and at 10F or below, keep your insulated water lines flowing because insulation is insufficient. The Celcius equivs are harder to remember: 37.777...., -17.77..., -12.22...
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But they need to practice their alliteration somewhere. Ph has an "f" sound...
one has to wonder why the rest of the world's population of eye-glowers has disappeared?
Because no one wants to mate with what looks like an aggressive coyote when the lights go off?
What you're missing:
Ubisoft probably doesn't have redundancy or backups for these servers as they are pure cost centers (like ftp servers for providing patches to old software). And they sure as hell won't buy duplicate machines just for customer convenience. They are probably going to shut down the machines, and physically transport them (still in the rack, with HDDs still plugged in), and "sorry about your luck" if the server for your one year old game doesn't work any more because the drives got jostled. They'll rebuild a new server if there's a hint of a lawsuit, but you'll have to wait and your game will not sync with it properly anyway unless it's newly [re]purchased.
DRM has cost them hundreds of dollars they would have gotten from me had they not treated me like the thieves they are.
They've lost thousands of dollars from me. My decision came when Mechwarrior4 decided it didn't like any of the optical drives I owned. I was unable to use the game, so I vowed never to buy DRMed crap ever again (for PC). I am buying something similar to DRM with console games, but at least with consoles, it's completely up front that my DVD of Okami for Wii won't work in my Xbox. But most of my gaming is from my extensive collection of old games; after I cycle one pass through it, the next pass seems newish.
Is this the same group that was throwing these quad rotors in a video on /. a year or two ago?
Wow... Someone read too many comic books and not enough of other reading material to develop proper spelling....
Actually, comic books are chock full of big words, and they're nearly always used properly (when used improperly, it's for comedic effect). Super villain soliloquies and/or banter are especially verbose, and I remember having to reach for a dictionary as a child.
and whatever Marvel has come up with when they are not busy republishing old material as e-comics or making half-assed movies
Actually, Marvel's been pretty good lately what with their New Avengers / House of M / Civil War / Secret Invasion / Dark Reign / Siege stories. Notable exceptions being the "death" of Captain America and Spiderman betraying his morals to make a deal with Mephisto (Spiderman is the moral compass of the Marvel Universe).
More than half of Watchmen is flashbacks. How are they going to add more material for a prequel without diluting the original?
Hopefully it has these interspersed throughout the pages:
http://theoryofeverythingcomics.com/2009/03/collection-of-watchmenhostess-parodies.html
despots usually get assinated
That sounds unpleasant.
An anon coward a few posts up gave the youtube link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X034R3yzDhw
I am think that if RFID-enable credit card is present at known point in spacetime, attacker need only to go to that point in space and then move card reader along fourth dimension axis until card information can be read. The banks should really giving solution to this problem soon I hope so they will.
You just described a dude sitting on the sidewalk (moving through time) until cards come to him.
I'm partial to using /dev/sda /dev/zero /dev/sda logfile.ddrescue
shred -v -n0 -z
or
ddrescue --fill=+
since these work even when the disk hits a write-error (dd just stops dead).
And neither one actually erases anything. foremost or some other data recovery tool could find a lot of files.
I have an RFID access key I keep in my wallet. I think if I get it within 2 or three millimeters of the reader it will work.
Mine works from 3 inches away. At a regional office, there's a reader that is twice as large on the wall, and just walking near it with my wallet in my pocket opens the door. It's not the card that determines distance; it's the reader. So maybe the crooks don't buy the $50 reader, maybe they go for the $2000 reader that works from two feet away, and set up shop in a van parked next to a busy sidewalk.
you pay workers more and they will be willing to live in dormitories and to be on-call to come back should an emergency. You can even phrase having a place close to work, free of rent to be a perk for those people who have been driven to look for out-of-state work.
Only if the "dorm" is like a firefighter's on-duty sleeping space; a place to stay on on-duty days, but not "home". To live at the place where you work... Let me offer an example of why it wouldn't work here: "Hey baby, what say you and me get out of here? I've got this great two thousand square foot room that I share with twenty other guys that we could go to. It has a ping pong table!"
Apple wouldn't be able to undercut the competition on price if they didn't cut costs in manufacturing. Who would buy something from Apple if it was expensive?
You can live in near-boiling water? Have you told anyone about your superpower?
Lots of people live close to their coffee.
Living near boiling water is not the same as living in near-boiling water. One is totally normal. The other is abnormal unless you're a deep-sea fumarole microbe.
You can live in near-boiling water? Have you told anyone about your superpower?
EVERYONE knows that body temperature is around 36C
i think you mean exactly 37C. Unless you're starting to suffer from hypothermia.
Same here for 32F (although not for six months[!]). But you're making a point about the nature of water, not about the nature of human comfort with regard to temperature.
0 is freezing
0C is freezing for water, but when it's 32F outside, I don't wear my gloves or zip up my jacket. It's right balmy. -4C is close to where I start buttoning up. -9.4C is when the scarf comes out. -12ish is when I need to put up my hood, and anything lower than that I have to wear a lot of extra clothes if I'm going to stay outside for a while.
10 is cool, 20 is nice, 30 is hot, 40 is unbearable
I bet people who use Celsius actually remember other temperatures since 0,10,20,30,40 are not quite usable. 30C is warm, but not hot. 40C is deathly hot, 34C is where hot really starts. 20C is okay, but I'm sure people would think 22C is nicer, especially for indoors.
100 is the boiling point of water.
I rarely hear about boiling water in weather forecasts or HVAC discussions. It's almost like it's not enough of a factor in human comfort levels to warrant a special place at 100. Sure, that works for scientific scales where water is king, but as I mentioned to someone else: if you're doing scientific work why not use Kelvin instead?
no, it is Fahrenheit that is weird.. 32 for freezing is totally arbitrary, and what was the boiling point..? try 0 for ice freezes, and 100 for water boils.. now that is simple.
That's because Fahrenheit didn't care too much about the freezing and boiling points of water, or at least he didn't think they were all-important. He based 0F as the freezing point of brine (unbearably cold to the human body), and wanted human body temperature to be a reference point, like Romer. Romer's scale was really short though (0[brine freeze] to 60[water boil]), so Fahrenheit multiplied everything for more resolution.
I don't know where you fetched those numbers
I used math.
but I first of all I haven't seen anyone use decimals with Celsius
Why not? If you're going to use a scale without a fine resolution, you have to use decimals
and I haven't ever seen -12C or below either, let alone -17C
Bully for you. I tend to see temperatures below 10F regularly in the winter, and occasionally below 0F, and I bet I live in the same latitude as you. Weather is different over here in North America.
so I really wonder what nonsense those 'marks' are supposed to represent.
By "marks", do you means the ellipses? You try representing a repeating decimal in /. without resorting to ellipses.
And trying to argue FOR Fahrenheit as a 'ease of use' is just plain ridiculous.
"Ease of use" for a particular application - human comfort range. Just like Celsius is ease of use for a particular application: boiling and freezing points of water (more useful in science and cooking than in what most people in the world use temperature scales for most of the time; checking air temperature to see if it will be comfortable). Heck, there's a reason why you use Celsius instead of Kelvin. Celsius is closer to usable for every-day things. Fahrenheit is just closer still with its wider range of numbers within human tolerances.
Fahrenheit makes excellent sense for what most people use air temperature to refer to: human comfort. When it's 100F or above, it's so hot that sweat isn't enough. When it's 0F or below, it would be a good idea to limit time outside, and at 10F or below, keep your insulated water lines flowing because insulation is insufficient. The Celcius equivs are harder to remember: 37.777...., -17.77..., -12.22...