...if it impacts FPS. If there are so many gore effects that the game starts to chunk, then there is too much gore. Other than that, who cares? I'd like to see FPS's get to the point where there are blood splatters on walls. Why you ask? When you come across a dead body in a hallway for example, especially if it is on a new map, the blood splatters could give you a hint about where the person got shot from. I'd like to see bloody footprints and other visual cues about where wounded enemies went. Would that be too much gore?
I just put together a $200 TigerDirect (I know, may I burn in hell) special for her and slapped in a GeForce 6800. She and I play WoW together every once in a while. She doesn't have the patience to raid, but she likes questing and running the occassional instance.
The code is in the ROM, but the code is specific to the phone. The user auth might happen on the GSM network, and sure it's between the network and the SIM, but the phone has to run the authentication code. The hacker obviously knows how the code runs on the Nokia 1100. To go back to the Oki 900 example, the Oki 900 was the phone of choice because of the hardware architecture of the phone. The Oki 910 was almost the exact same phone, but it couldn't do what the 900 could do. Similarly, while there are dozens of Nokia models and hundreds of GSM phones, the code that is being used to intercept SMS information from the banks was obviously developed for the Nokia 1100 and probably only works on the Nokia 1100. What makes you think it's a scam? Have you ever written assembly code for cell phones? Do you have any idea what you are talking about?
Is it possible that other phones could do the same thing? Sure it is. Someone even said that the iPhone might be able to do it. Does the guy who wrote the code originally want to redevelop it on another platform? Probably not. Do the people who purchased the code from some underground website have the expertise to port the code to another phone? More than likely not. They just know that they have some code and the only works on a Nokia 1100. That has nothing to do with being a scam, and everything to do with the way market forces work.
It probably isn't so much just the ROM, but also the code on the phone itself, and the amount of available room in the memory to work with. The hackers probably developed their code specifically for that phone, and are counting on memory addresses being in a particular place, and all sorts of other variables that have to be considered when writing assembly code for a specific piece of hardware.
Back in the day, everyone wanted an Oki 900 because it could store between 5 and 99 ESN/MIN pairs AND swap them on the fly. In theory, you could just use G2 and reprogram a Motorola flip phone, but that required a laptop and a loader phone. So sure, you could do the same with with a Motorola, but it was a lot easier to use an Oki. In the end though, the result was the same. You were able to make calls and not pay for them.
In the case of the Nokia phone, whoever developed the hack developed it for the Nokia 1100. They probably spent a lot of time reverse engineering/disassembling the original EEPROM and a lot of time hacking the code together to make it work.
Take a look at all of the uproar over Microsoft's interpretation of the ODF standard and it's pretty easy to see how different developers can take something that is "the same" and make it "different".
It may be the "old" version, but it is the version most readily available. I setup an Ubuntu server (9.04) a couple of months ago. I used apt to get OpenSSH on it last month. The version it retrieved is
OpenSSH_4.7p1 Debian-8ubuntu1.2, OpenSSL 0.9.8g 19 Oct 2007
Just because a new version is out doesn't mean people are using it. People who rely on package maintainers or "the community" to help them out and keep things up to date could very well be let down. Moral of the story, if you want something done right, you have to do it yourself.
It would great if it includes data on legislation and if that data can then be tagged by industries (health care, telecom, etc) impacted by the legislation. The data can then be cross-referenced against campaign contributions, and we can extrapolate who voted on what based on how much money they received in contributions from the effected industries.
It would be great if the contents of political speeches were uploaded, and that data tagged by interest group. The speeches can then be cross-referenced against legislation votes to determine whether or not the politicans are really putting their votes where they say their interests lie.
This is off-topic, but if you're concerned about the strength of your immune system, one of the best things you can do to build it up is to take a full spectrum probiotic supplement. Jarrow Labs has a room temperature stable probiotic called EPS that has all of the major beneficial bacterial strains in it. Taking one of those every couple of days will maintain enough "good" bacteria in your system to make it very inhospitable to the "bad" bacteria that compromises the immune system.
Another thing to consider that both the state and Federal governments are attempting to define their ability to legislate issues in "cyberspace". This might be another step down that road. The state government is claiming that they have the jurisdiction over Craiglist is just a first step. If Craigslist caves, then they can leap frog from there to jurisdiction over any site that people in South Carolina can access. Of course, they also want to generate tax revenue online.
If by "public sector" you mean government, it has been my experience that Microsoft has a very small portion of the market. Here in California, most state and county governments use Novell. A lot of them are still on Groupwise 5.5.
You're confusing the issue with facts. So long as the media reports that guns are going to drug smugglers who are killing women and children, the government gets their justification to clamp down on gun rights.
It's pretty out of control down in Mexico. The cartels outgun the law enforcement agencies and they have paramilitary training. It isn't unheard of for drug gang enforcers to use bodyarmor, automatic weapons and hand grenades.
I'm not as worried about the spy satellites as I am about the government using Mexico's problems as justification to limit our 2nd amendment rights. The handwriting is on the wall with this one. There are numerous stories in the news about how the guns in Mexico are coming from the United States. I can see what is going on in Mexico being used as yet another justification for a NAU style homogeonization of laws (read: a further erosion of the Constitution by entering into treaties with foreign countries).
What is the first 3D accelerated game you remember playing? Mine was Grand Theft Auto on my 3dfx Voodoo card. I had a Trident as my primary card. My first impression was that everything didn't seem so pixelated. I'm sure that if I were to see the same setup today, each of the pixels would seem to be as big as my pinky, but at the time, the textures just seemed so smooth and well blended.
I'm willing to bet that you spent hours on the games because they were new at the time, and they were more interesting than anything else you had to occupy your time with. I spent hours playing Microprose games (Gunship, F15 Strike Eagle, etc) and those graphics absolutely suck. Your tastes have evolved and you need more depth to keep your mind occupied. The mind you have now is not the same mind you had when you were playing Zelda. It doesn't have anything to do with game designers back then having had something special that game designers now have forgotten about.
The one real application that comes to my mind is the military one. An augmented reality display would be useful for the infantry, probably at the squad leader level. Instead of having to rely on verbal communications to convey information, the pertinent information can be piped into the display. For example, when calling in artillery, the information about where the rounds are going to land can be conveyed to the forward observer. When on patrol, information from satellites can be relayed to the patrol leader. That could be helpful when identifying which building to enter in chaotic, cramped places like Baghdad.
We're probably a long way away from Virtual Light style glasses, but the military will probably get something not too far from that within the next decade or so.
If they want to make a "realistic" war game, they should set it up so that as soon as you die the first time, it deletes itself and then you can never play the game ever again. I play Americas Army every once in a while. As far as FPS games go, it is pretty good and the fact that it is free to me makes it that much more appealing. One of the things that struck me about the game is how quickly you die as a new player. The first couple of times playing on any given map, the odds are you won't even know where the enemy who killed you is shooting from. The game is supposed to be a recruitment tool. If the kids they are trying to recruit spent a few seconds to think, "I sure do get killed quickly in this game." They might think twice about actually joining the Army and doing it for real.
YouTube is full of videos that show how the American government is owned by central bankers, how our elected leaders are just puppets of monied interests, and how our votes really don't matter... yet there isn't a revolution taking place in this country. I guess YouTube isn't the political pancea that it's hyped to be.
Snow Crash would make a great movie. The Diamond Age? Nope. Cryptonomicon? Hell no. Even Snow Crash would need some narration. Otherwise you'd miss on the greatest parts of the book, like the rant about how, "Every guy thinks that they can be a bad ass, if their family was killed, and they went to live in a monastary..."
I agree with you about the dialog. The first version of the movie that I saw was the director's cut when it was in the theaters sometime in the mid-90s. A few years after that I saw the original with the voice-overs and it made a lot more sense. After that I saw the director's cut again and appreciated it more.
I've been completely sober and not turned my headlights on, and because of the light pollution in the area I was in, driven for miles before realizing they weren't on. I agree that he should have been sober and not driving "over the legal limit". I seriously question whether or not having your headlights off is really probable cause for a breathalyzer. If I were a lawyer, I'd fight the charge on those grounds.
..vulnerable as most other OSes. (How I got "topics" out of OSes, and why I didn't preview before posting are left up to the imagination of the reader)
Slashdot Mirror
...if it impacts FPS. If there are so many gore effects that the game starts to chunk, then there is too much gore. Other than that, who cares? I'd like to see FPS's get to the point where there are blood splatters on walls. Why you ask? When you come across a dead body in a hallway for example, especially if it is on a new map, the blood splatters could give you a hint about where the person got shot from. I'd like to see bloody footprints and other visual cues about where wounded enemies went. Would that be too much gore?
I just put together a $200 TigerDirect (I know, may I burn in hell) special for her and slapped in a GeForce 6800. She and I play WoW together every once in a while. She doesn't have the patience to raid, but she likes questing and running the occassional instance.
You're right. I misspoke. I'm running 8.04 LTS. It's just a Subversion box sitting in the corner.
The code is in the ROM, but the code is specific to the phone. The user auth might happen on the GSM network, and sure it's between the network and the SIM, but the phone has to run the authentication code. The hacker obviously knows how the code runs on the Nokia 1100. To go back to the Oki 900 example, the Oki 900 was the phone of choice because of the hardware architecture of the phone. The Oki 910 was almost the exact same phone, but it couldn't do what the 900 could do. Similarly, while there are dozens of Nokia models and hundreds of GSM phones, the code that is being used to intercept SMS information from the banks was obviously developed for the Nokia 1100 and probably only works on the Nokia 1100. What makes you think it's a scam? Have you ever written assembly code for cell phones? Do you have any idea what you are talking about?
Is it possible that other phones could do the same thing? Sure it is. Someone even said that the iPhone might be able to do it. Does the guy who wrote the code originally want to redevelop it on another platform? Probably not. Do the people who purchased the code from some underground website have the expertise to port the code to another phone? More than likely not. They just know that they have some code and the only works on a Nokia 1100. That has nothing to do with being a scam, and everything to do with the way market forces work.
It probably isn't so much just the ROM, but also the code on the phone itself, and the amount of available room in the memory to work with. The hackers probably developed their code specifically for that phone, and are counting on memory addresses being in a particular place, and all sorts of other variables that have to be considered when writing assembly code for a specific piece of hardware.
Back in the day, everyone wanted an Oki 900 because it could store between 5 and 99 ESN/MIN pairs AND swap them on the fly. In theory, you could just use G2 and reprogram a Motorola flip phone, but that required a laptop and a loader phone. So sure, you could do the same with with a Motorola, but it was a lot easier to use an Oki. In the end though, the result was the same. You were able to make calls and not pay for them.
In the case of the Nokia phone, whoever developed the hack developed it for the Nokia 1100. They probably spent a lot of time reverse engineering/disassembling the original EEPROM and a lot of time hacking the code together to make it work.
Take a look at all of the uproar over Microsoft's interpretation of the ODF standard and it's pretty easy to see how different developers can take something that is "the same" and make it "different".
It may be the "old" version, but it is the version most readily available. I setup an Ubuntu server (9.04) a couple of months ago. I used apt to get OpenSSH on it last month. The version it retrieved is
OpenSSH_4.7p1 Debian-8ubuntu1.2, OpenSSL 0.9.8g 19 Oct 2007
Just because a new version is out doesn't mean people are using it. People who rely on package maintainers or "the community" to help them out and keep things up to date could very well be let down. Moral of the story, if you want something done right, you have to do it yourself.
It would great if it includes data on legislation and if that data can then be tagged by industries (health care, telecom, etc) impacted by the legislation. The data can then be cross-referenced against campaign contributions, and we can extrapolate who voted on what based on how much money they received in contributions from the effected industries.
It would be great if the contents of political speeches were uploaded, and that data tagged by interest group. The speeches can then be cross-referenced against legislation votes to determine whether or not the politicans are really putting their votes where they say their interests lie.
This is off-topic, but if you're concerned about the strength of your immune system, one of the best things you can do to build it up is to take a full spectrum probiotic supplement. Jarrow Labs has a room temperature stable probiotic called EPS that has all of the major beneficial bacterial strains in it. Taking one of those every couple of days will maintain enough "good" bacteria in your system to make it very inhospitable to the "bad" bacteria that compromises the immune system.
Another thing to consider that both the state and Federal governments are attempting to define their ability to legislate issues in "cyberspace". This might be another step down that road. The state government is claiming that they have the jurisdiction over Craiglist is just a first step. If Craigslist caves, then they can leap frog from there to jurisdiction over any site that people in South Carolina can access. Of course, they also want to generate tax revenue online.
If by "public sector" you mean government, it has been my experience that Microsoft has a very small portion of the market. Here in California, most state and county governments use Novell. A lot of them are still on Groupwise 5.5.
You're confusing the issue with facts. So long as the media reports that guns are going to drug smugglers who are killing women and children, the government gets their justification to clamp down on gun rights.
The LA Times has been on it much longer than CNN and Fox have.
http://projects.latimes.com/mexico-drug-war/#/its-a-war
It's pretty out of control down in Mexico. The cartels outgun the law enforcement agencies and they have paramilitary training. It isn't unheard of for drug gang enforcers to use bodyarmor, automatic weapons and hand grenades.
I'm not as worried about the spy satellites as I am about the government using Mexico's problems as justification to limit our 2nd amendment rights. The handwriting is on the wall with this one. There are numerous stories in the news about how the guns in Mexico are coming from the United States. I can see what is going on in Mexico being used as yet another justification for a NAU style homogeonization of laws (read: a further erosion of the Constitution by entering into treaties with foreign countries).
What is the first 3D accelerated game you remember playing? Mine was Grand Theft Auto on my 3dfx Voodoo card. I had a Trident as my primary card. My first impression was that everything didn't seem so pixelated. I'm sure that if I were to see the same setup today, each of the pixels would seem to be as big as my pinky, but at the time, the textures just seemed so smooth and well blended.
I'm willing to bet that you spent hours on the games because they were new at the time, and they were more interesting than anything else you had to occupy your time with. I spent hours playing Microprose games (Gunship, F15 Strike Eagle, etc) and those graphics absolutely suck. Your tastes have evolved and you need more depth to keep your mind occupied. The mind you have now is not the same mind you had when you were playing Zelda. It doesn't have anything to do with game designers back then having had something special that game designers now have forgotten about.
The one real application that comes to my mind is the military one. An augmented reality display would be useful for the infantry, probably at the squad leader level. Instead of having to rely on verbal communications to convey information, the pertinent information can be piped into the display. For example, when calling in artillery, the information about where the rounds are going to land can be conveyed to the forward observer. When on patrol, information from satellites can be relayed to the patrol leader. That could be helpful when identifying which building to enter in chaotic, cramped places like Baghdad.
We're probably a long way away from Virtual Light style glasses, but the military will probably get something not too far from that within the next decade or so.
...and prosecutions against successful businesses are up. Go figure.
If they want to make a "realistic" war game, they should set it up so that as soon as you die the first time, it deletes itself and then you can never play the game ever again. I play Americas Army every once in a while. As far as FPS games go, it is pretty good and the fact that it is free to me makes it that much more appealing. One of the things that struck me about the game is how quickly you die as a new player. The first couple of times playing on any given map, the odds are you won't even know where the enemy who killed you is shooting from. The game is supposed to be a recruitment tool. If the kids they are trying to recruit spent a few seconds to think, "I sure do get killed quickly in this game." They might think twice about actually joining the Army and doing it for real.
YouTube is full of videos that show how the American government is owned by central bankers, how our elected leaders are just puppets of monied interests, and how our votes really don't matter... yet there isn't a revolution taking place in this country. I guess YouTube isn't the political pancea that it's hyped to be.
Snow Crash would make a great movie. The Diamond Age? Nope. Cryptonomicon? Hell no. Even Snow Crash would need some narration. Otherwise you'd miss on the greatest parts of the book, like the rant about how, "Every guy thinks that they can be a bad ass, if their family was killed, and they went to live in a monastary..."
I agree with you about the dialog. The first version of the movie that I saw was the director's cut when it was in the theaters sometime in the mid-90s. A few years after that I saw the original with the voice-overs and it made a lot more sense. After that I saw the director's cut again and appreciated it more.
You must be a Mac user if that's the first thing that comes to mind.
I've been completely sober and not turned my headlights on, and because of the light pollution in the area I was in, driven for miles before realizing they weren't on. I agree that he should have been sober and not driving "over the legal limit". I seriously question whether or not having your headlights off is really probable cause for a breathalyzer. If I were a lawyer, I'd fight the charge on those grounds.
..vulnerable as most other OSes. (How I got "topics" out of OSes, and why I didn't preview before posting are left up to the imagination of the reader)