Or you could just do it the easy way and like someone else said, define it as a set number of carbon molecules. Easier than converting between energy and mass.
Is just what you said. It's going to take someone gathering up a bunch of people and going to a spammer's house and just beating the living shit out of them. The more radical alternative is for some crazed loner to capture a spammer, drive them deep into the woods, and hunt them for sport.;-)
Remember the DOS trojan that was floating around about 8 or 9 years ago that claimed to be fractal compression program with amazing results? It could compress a 2 megabyte file down to a few hundred bytes. How did it achieve these amazing results? Deleting the file and filling the rest with junk.:-)
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A $50 hole in your wallet, a cardboard box, and the sad realization that even though you're buying every Loki game as they come out the company will still go out of business. Come on guys, for every game Loki can port there are 100 games coming out for Windows. Buying old games from a porting house like Loki isn't the way to get games on the Linux platform. You need to start convincing the vendors to code their games to be easily portable when they're starting out and then release a Windows and Linux version on the same CD. How many Loki games are there now? A dozen? Two dozen? There are thousands of Windows games to choose from. Vendors just don't see a market for wasting their time on a Linux version. Selling even 10,000 copies of a game for a Linux platform is paltry compared to the millions they sell on Windows. Face it, dual booting is still the best option if you want to play games. Buy the game when it comes out for Windows (in some cases years before Loki will ever port it) and have fun. Leave the politics and advocacy for the server platform.
Also Mars has that giant alien machine underground that heats up the frozen ice core and releases oxygen into the environment within a matter of minutes to create an instant earth-like atmosphere. Does the moon? No way. So we got that going for us.
Then along came someone else with a devious scheme of giving you the convenience and speed of making stupid purchases like a credit card bundled with the wallet-emptying feeling of a check or cash. All hail the debit/check card!!!:-)
Hell, people around here now are suprised to find that I can show them detailed information about their houses, purchase price, appraised values, floor layout, etc. This isn't some secret page, it's the county auditor's web site. Is it right to publish such previously obscure information? Who knows.. but everyone I talk to is definitely not comfortable with that being online so easily available. Before I believe you'd at least have to show your face to a public records office and pay a fee to request the information. That'd deter almost 99% of the people who are otherwise going around browsing this stuff.
Hey... we can't have pro football players playing in some rundown old stadium for 8 games a year! That $500 million stadium brings in millions of dollars a year in tourism. Watt did readin and rightin ever due for us becides turn everywon into a gramaryian like on Slashdot?
Yea, but the problem with Cleveland Freenet was that you needed a computer to access it. 99% of the time these days, anyone who has a computer should be able to afford at least dialup Internet access. If you can't afford $10/month for Internet access then you can't afford the electricity you're wasting with a computer either. Anyone who wants to be on the Internet is already on it. The rest are just cheapskates and technophobes. Do we WANT them on the Internet?
And I want a brand new BMW for $3000 too but it's time to wake up to reality. A T-1 is about 10 times what you say you're willing to pay for your 4MB connection. The ONLY companies that will take you up on your offer are those that will end up out of business in the next year. High speed transit is not cheap... why are you expecting something for nothing?
That's odd, I played Quake and QuakeWorld for a long time under Linux and it worked just fine. Though, that was back before everyone had to have fancy 3D accelerator cards to play their games. Quake ran nice and smooth on my Linux box with a Matrox Millenium.
Well then don't run KDE2. That doesn't have anything at all to do with Mandrake. I run Mandrake just fine on a PII-266 with 128 megs of ram. I wouldn't advise using the ram and cpu sucking KDE or Enlightenment but I wouldn't advise using them on any distribution. Look into Window Maker or icewm or sawfish.
These damn kids today and their fascination with 100fps first person shooters. I still like the old AD&D RPG's like you mentioned like Bard's Tale or Eye of the Beholder where creatures would jump 5 feet every couple of seconds. Anyway, don't forget other classic games like Rise of the Triad! I think that was the first game I played that was *really* 3D in that you could go up and down by jumping as well as forward, reverse, left, and right. Doom sucked compared to the fun of jumping around killing Nazis.:-)
Re:Linux Userbase Counter Projects 60M Users
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Ummm, I think we'd all have to be smoking crack to believe Linux has 60 million users. I'd estimate it more at like 650,000 maybe. The only people I know who even know what Linux is are other technical people... and half of them don't use it in lieu of Windows.
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I think you're missing one of the major ones impacts. Just five years ago e-mail viruses were virtually unheard of. Without Visual Basic, tech support people would still be telling people "No, that's not an e-mail virus, it's just a hoax." Now, with the recent innovations by Microsoft and embedded visual basic scripts, 9 chances out of 10 it IS an actual e-mail virus. Without Microsoft's passion to innovate new and exciting technologies like these many people would be out of a job... instead the security and anti-virus industry is absolutely booming! Thanks Microsoft. Happy 10th Birthday Visual Basic! May you keep infecting emerging technologies with new and innovative viruses as you have for the past 10 years well into the next decade!
Well, two off the top of my head are PCI (adopted by Apple in their Macs and Sun in their Ultrasparcs) and ATA hard drives (ditto). As for beige boxes with floppy drives... I really don't see why Mac people have such a hang up on what their computer looks like. I just stick my computer in the corner and never even look at it unless I'm loading a CD-ROM in it. My computer could be orange and green for all I care. I actually happen to like beige for what it's worth though. What would you prefer we had?? Cheap translucent plastic garbage like the iMacs and G4 towers?
Not to mention that's basically the extent of the game as well. Run, jump, shoot, kill, die, respawn, repeat process. I played Quake 3 for about 15 minutes before I was regretting wasting the money on it and wishing I could return it to the store. On the other hand, Half-Life was the best money I have ever spent on any game and I've played it and the modifications of it for almost 2 years now. Quake 3 is eye candy and the models look like cheap cartoon character tough guys. Screw that. Give me Counter-Strike ANY day over the lame ass deathmatch Quake 3.
Most likely you'd probably transition to an SBC line with a dynamic IP. I doubt they'd go with Covad which should be going out of business any day now.
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Yes, but for the other 95% of the US the only alternative is the former Baby Bells. Thank GOD for the Telecommunications Act of 1996! If it weren't for that we wouldn't have these nice huge solvent companies like Verizon and SBC to provide us with services.
It does seem kind of silly though to call it "Attack of the Clones". Why not simply Star Wars Two: The Clone Wars. That's what the period has been known as for years.. it'd make more sense. Ah well. Doesn't matter to me. I'll probably go see it but I'm not one of these crazy people that goes out and buys the DVD of the movie (well, if there was one) and all the boxed variations of the directors cut, etc. and the toys. That's just silly.
Knowing Microsoft I think Network Associates is going to become a wholly owned subsidiary of Microsoft in a short amount of time. No, I'm not joking either. They're in pretty bad financial shape and they'd add some pretty good security and anti-virus products to Microsoft's portfolio.
Anyone with a Cisco Smartnet contract should be able to download the 2.4.2 image for the 67x series. It's up there on the CCO. If your ISP doesn't have a contract you should suggest that they get one if they are going to continue to support Cisco products. If they use Cisco routers and/or switches they may already have one. Try asking.
Well, it isn't that unlikely that the people that were responsible for these servers were simply fired during the dot-bomb fallout and the people left didn't know or care anything about them and leave them running unattended. I think this is just another reason why you cannot churn out moronic MCSEs into the industry to replace experienced system administrators. Anybody caught dead using IIS after the last 20 root exploits really needs to have their head examined.
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Or you could just do it the easy way and like someone else said, define it as a set number of carbon molecules. Easier than converting between energy and mass.
Is just what you said. It's going to take someone gathering up a bunch of people and going to a spammer's house and just beating the living shit out of them. The more radical alternative is for some crazed loner to capture a spammer, drive them deep into the woods, and hunt them for sport. ;-)
Remember the DOS trojan that was floating around about 8 or 9 years ago that claimed to be fractal compression program with amazing results? It could compress a 2 megabyte file down to a few hundred bytes. How did it achieve these amazing results? Deleting the file and filling the rest with junk. :-)
A $50 hole in your wallet, a cardboard box, and the sad realization that even though you're buying every Loki game as they come out the company will still go out of business. Come on guys, for every game Loki can port there are 100 games coming out for Windows. Buying old games from a porting house like Loki isn't the way to get games on the Linux platform. You need to start convincing the vendors to code their games to be easily portable when they're starting out and then release a Windows and Linux version on the same CD. How many Loki games are there now? A dozen? Two dozen? There are thousands of Windows games to choose from. Vendors just don't see a market for wasting their time on a Linux version. Selling even 10,000 copies of a game for a Linux platform is paltry compared to the millions they sell on Windows. Face it, dual booting is still the best option if you want to play games. Buy the game when it comes out for Windows (in some cases years before Loki will ever port it) and have fun. Leave the politics and advocacy for the server platform.
Also Mars has that giant alien machine underground that heats up the frozen ice core and releases oxygen into the environment within a matter of minutes to create an instant earth-like atmosphere. Does the moon? No way. So we got that going for us.
Then along came someone else with a devious scheme of giving you the convenience and speed of making stupid purchases like a credit card bundled with the wallet-emptying feeling of a check or cash. All hail the debit/check card!!! :-)
Hell, people around here now are suprised to find that I can show them detailed information about their houses, purchase price, appraised values, floor layout, etc. This isn't some secret page, it's the county auditor's web site. Is it right to publish such previously obscure information? Who knows.. but everyone I talk to is definitely not comfortable with that being online so easily available. Before I believe you'd at least have to show your face to a public records office and pay a fee to request the information. That'd deter almost 99% of the people who are otherwise going around browsing this stuff.
Hey... we can't have pro football players playing in some rundown old stadium for 8 games a year! That $500 million stadium brings in millions of dollars a year in tourism. Watt did readin and rightin ever due for us becides turn everywon into a gramaryian like on Slashdot?
Your city sounds like a macro virus breeding ground. :-) Do they have Outlook so you can check your mail?
Yea, but the problem with Cleveland Freenet was that you needed a computer to access it. 99% of the time these days, anyone who has a computer should be able to afford at least dialup Internet access. If you can't afford $10/month for Internet access then you can't afford the electricity you're wasting with a computer either. Anyone who wants to be on the Internet is already on it. The rest are just cheapskates and technophobes. Do we WANT them on the Internet?
And I want a brand new BMW for $3000 too but it's time to wake up to reality. A T-1 is about 10 times what you say you're willing to pay for your 4MB connection. The ONLY companies that will take you up on your offer are those that will end up out of business in the next year. High speed transit is not cheap... why are you expecting something for nothing?
That's odd, I played Quake and QuakeWorld for a long time under Linux and it worked just fine. Though, that was back before everyone had to have fancy 3D accelerator cards to play their games. Quake ran nice and smooth on my Linux box with a Matrox Millenium.
Well then don't run KDE2. That doesn't have anything at all to do with Mandrake. I run Mandrake just fine on a PII-266 with 128 megs of ram. I wouldn't advise using the ram and cpu sucking KDE or Enlightenment but I wouldn't advise using them on any distribution. Look into Window Maker or icewm or sawfish.
These damn kids today and their fascination with 100fps first person shooters. I still like the old AD&D RPG's like you mentioned like Bard's Tale or Eye of the Beholder where creatures would jump 5 feet every couple of seconds. Anyway, don't forget other classic games like Rise of the Triad! I think that was the first game I played that was *really* 3D in that you could go up and down by jumping as well as forward, reverse, left, and right. Doom sucked compared to the fun of jumping around killing Nazis. :-)
Ummm, I think we'd all have to be smoking crack to believe Linux has 60 million users. I'd estimate it more at like 650,000 maybe. The only people I know who even know what Linux is are other technical people... and half of them don't use it in lieu of Windows.
I think you're missing one of the major ones impacts. Just five years ago e-mail viruses were virtually unheard of. Without Visual Basic, tech support people would still be telling people "No, that's not an e-mail virus, it's just a hoax." Now, with the recent innovations by Microsoft and embedded visual basic scripts, 9 chances out of 10 it IS an actual e-mail virus. Without Microsoft's passion to innovate new and exciting technologies like these many people would be out of a job... instead the security and anti-virus industry is absolutely booming! Thanks Microsoft. Happy 10th Birthday Visual Basic! May you keep infecting emerging technologies with new and innovative viruses as you have for the past 10 years well into the next decade!
Well, two off the top of my head are PCI (adopted by Apple in their Macs and Sun in their Ultrasparcs) and ATA hard drives (ditto). As for beige boxes with floppy drives... I really don't see why Mac people have such a hang up on what their computer looks like. I just stick my computer in the corner and never even look at it unless I'm loading a CD-ROM in it. My computer could be orange and green for all I care. I actually happen to like beige for what it's worth though. What would you prefer we had?? Cheap translucent plastic garbage like the iMacs and G4 towers?
Not to mention that's basically the extent of the game as well. Run, jump, shoot, kill, die, respawn, repeat process. I played Quake 3 for about 15 minutes before I was regretting wasting the money on it and wishing I could return it to the store. On the other hand, Half-Life was the best money I have ever spent on any game and I've played it and the modifications of it for almost 2 years now. Quake 3 is eye candy and the models look like cheap cartoon character tough guys. Screw that. Give me Counter-Strike ANY day over the lame ass deathmatch Quake 3.
Most likely you'd probably transition to an SBC line with a dynamic IP. I doubt they'd go with Covad which should be going out of business any day now.
Yes, but for the other 95% of the US the only alternative is the former Baby Bells. Thank GOD for the Telecommunications Act of 1996! If it weren't for that we wouldn't have these nice huge solvent companies like Verizon and SBC to provide us with services.
It does seem kind of silly though to call it "Attack of the Clones". Why not simply Star Wars Two: The Clone Wars. That's what the period has been known as for years.. it'd make more sense. Ah well. Doesn't matter to me. I'll probably go see it but I'm not one of these crazy people that goes out and buys the DVD of the movie (well, if there was one) and all the boxed variations of the directors cut, etc. and the toys. That's just silly.
That is why $DEITY invented SSH and VPNs.
Knowing Microsoft I think Network Associates is going to become a wholly owned subsidiary of Microsoft in a short amount of time. No, I'm not joking either. They're in pretty bad financial shape and they'd add some pretty good security and anti-virus products to Microsoft's portfolio.
Anyone with a Cisco Smartnet contract should be able to download the 2.4.2 image for the 67x series. It's up there on the CCO. If your ISP doesn't have a contract you should suggest that they get one if they are going to continue to support Cisco products. If they use Cisco routers and/or switches they may already have one. Try asking.
Well, it isn't that unlikely that the people that were responsible for these servers were simply fired during the dot-bomb fallout and the people left didn't know or care anything about them and leave them running unattended. I think this is just another reason why you cannot churn out moronic MCSEs into the industry to replace experienced system administrators. Anybody caught dead using IIS after the last 20 root exploits really needs to have their head examined.