The Sony Ericsson k530i I have now is quite nice, and I got it for no additional cost on the cheapest contract "3" (three.co.uk) do. It's a bit thinner than the old T610, drops the IR support and adds a nicer screen, 3G, an M2 card slot and MP3 and MP4 support. (OT: Did I just use three "and" in one sentence?)
Mine had MSN messenger and Skype preloaded on it (Skype via 3G, no wifi unfortunately, but Skype and MSN are free to use even without taking the internet option because "3"'s generous), and it has its own pretty decent browser (pretty similar to opera mini, which also runs on it). It also has an RSS reader?
It can be used as a high-speed 3G modem via bluetooth and usb (may be useful if you use a laptop?)
I don't think the T610 could multi-task either, on this I can run MSN messenger, Skype, the music player and browse the web all at once.
Though if you are happy with your T610, I'm sure you could find a replacement battery for it that lasted a bit longer.
I'd find it difficult to find a contract that even lasted that long (18 months seems to be the "normal" length nowadays).
There does seem to be a trend back towards normal shaped phones nowadays, >50% seem to not be swivel/twist/slide/clamshell. (I switched networks and got a new phone two weeks ago).
I had a Sony Ericsson T610 mobile (on contract, though mobile contracts let you keep the phone after, so kind of owned kind of not) which was damn near invulnerable.
I made the mistake of mentioning this to a mate at work (which was McDonalds at the time, thankfully I'm in a slightly higher paying job now), who promptly threw it hard at the wall. The "in" side of an "outside" wall, i.e. thinly disguised brick. The battery cover came off, but the clips weren't broken and the battery hadn't come loose (the phone was still on and working), so I just clipped the cover back on and put it in my pocket. Phone still worked perfectly well over a year later: I got a bluetooth headset (back when they were actually quite expensive) instead of a new phone on renewal of my contract because I didn't want a new phone.
My point is that modern phones (i.e mobiles) are "darn near indestructible" too, or at least the mobile phones which aren't swivel/twist/slide/clamshell jobs.
In fact most portable devices are designed to survive a drop from 2 meters onto concrete, so (back on topic) this story about the GameBoy being the "toughest product ever made" seems somewhat unlikely. *clicks link* wow it's not even really an article.
To be fair though, I only know of one dead GameBoy original, and that was fished out of a lake by my dad (slightly more modern version of "catching an old boot"?)
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The biggest problem in FPS game physics at the moment is a ridiculously trivial one: When the player moves forward he pushes whatever is under him forward.
I'm not kidding, try standing on something and moving. In reality there's no real problem, as long as the centre of gravity of you+object is under the object's base. If it's light enough, you might kick it out behind you. In a game, 99% of the time you will kick the object under you forwards and out from under you.
Try standing on a barrel in Half-Life 2 for example. The game even gives you a puzzle at the start where you have to stack crates to get through a window, where you can notice this problem.
Tables that break into chunks and splinters. Almost every game nowadays has breakable objects. The chunks are generally pre-determined, not generated based on where you hit, but it works.
Or in a racing game, when cars crash, they could really crash. Imagine bodywork deforming and "real" parts going flying, instead of only a flash of sparks. If you want something like that that's out now, check out FlatOut and FlatOut 2 on Steam. The cars are fully physics simulated, and a lot of the track is destructible. But still, the reason cars can't be damages is normally a licensing issue. "You can use our cars, but they can't be damaged". FlatOut (2) has no licensed vehicles.
Destructible buildings though, that WOULD be cool.
So does hotmail, mostly because people think they need to sign up for hotmail to use msn messenger, when actually they can use any email address they like.
We also have a fair number of AOL users, so we have quite a lot of different email/messenger providers competing here, with no real clear winner.
Not just China, a lot of people in England have yahoo accounts (though they might not know) because BT partnered with yahoo. All @btinternet.com and @btopenworld.com email accounts from before the partnership are managed by yahoo, and they can be used on yahoo messenger (using the full email address as the username to prevent conflicts with existing yahoo users with the same username). I don't know about more recent BT accounts because mine is from before the partnership.
The messenger thing has caused me problems, because I'd registered my @btinternet email address as my msn/live account, which means I have exactly the same username (my email address) on both msn and yahoo messengers. As msn and yahoo users can now message each other, this seems caused a little confusion in the system. I think it's been resolved now.
but not as easy as developing a console game, now is it? You've obviously never developed a console game.
Or a system for automatically choosing camera angles of a football game, for that matter.
Essentially, while the game knows everything that's happening, and has complete freedom over where to move the camera, it still has to be programmed to pick shots that are "interesting" using the human definition of the word.
I have a 4Mbps connection, unlimited night and day, something like 30GB/month only counted in the evenings. The download speed is fast enough for me, the transfer limit is sensible. I play online and download quite a lot, and haven't been bitten yet.
It wouldn't be a clone of the mother, as genes that existed in the mother may not be in the offspring, and genes that there was only one of in the mother could have 2 in the offspring.
A unix system will roll over from +68.5 years to -68.5 years (roughly) relative to 1970 so will go to 1901.
A Windows system considers negative timestamps invalid, so would more likely crash instead.
The easiest solution is to switch to time_t_64 (or time64_t, I can't remember) which is compatible with the older 32-bit timestamps for any dates in their (32-bit) range, but supports dates well outside that range as well.
Any recent (last 10 years?) release of an operating system should be using 64-bit stamps, but no doubt there's a lot of proprietary software released that doesn't.
No-one uses hubs any more, they all use switches, which are essentially transparent routers anyhow.
No, a better definition is that a LAN has a firewall on the outside. With IPv4 it was a good definition to say that a LAN has a NAT on the outside (what most people call a router), but with IPv6 NAT is redundant, so instead of a "router/NAT/firewall/DHCP server" box, you just need a "router/firewall/DHCP server" box instead. There's a slight difference that the DHCP server in the former is giving out local addresses (10.*, 192.168.*, etc), and the DHCP server in the second is giving out WAN addresses (the ISP it's connected to will give it a pool of millions instead of a single one as with IPv4), but it makes no real difference (except to simplify routing) as the firewall will block all incoming traffic except replies to outgoing traffic and traffic to explicitly unblocked addresses/ports (equivalent to port forwarding on a NAT router) anyway.
So yes, there will still be LANs, just all the machines in them will have public IPs (though the machines will probably not be accessible publicly because of firewalls).
IPv6 is allocated in blocks of/64 (64 bit) or/48 (48-bit) depending on how stingy your ISP is. You don't get one IP, you get BILLIONS.
Which is better, having a single external IP which responds to maybe 30 ports out of 16k, or having 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 (64-bit) or 281,474,976,710,656 (48-bit) external IPs, each of which may or may not be a machine, and even if it is it may not respond on any port.
If you want security by obscurity, IPv6 is most definitely the way to go. If you only searched a single port (eg looking for a insecure internal website on port 80), and the company only had a/48 address block, and you tried to connect to one address every thousandth of a second, it would still take NINETY CENTURIES to find. If the port is also unknown, you're looking at 16,000 times longer.
As opposed to port-scanning a single IPv4 IP, which even at 1 per second (1000 times slower than the above example) is done in 5 hours.
A single strong hardware firewall, in the place a NAT firewall would normally be, would do a perfectly good job of hiding all your pcs from the outside world. Especially if your ISP allocates you a typical 64-bit block of addresses, and your router/firewall box allocates the individual addresses to the machines. That way even your ISP wouldn't know how many pcs you had. Even trying only a single port, brute-forcing 64-bits worth of addresses to find one host, or even any one of 1000 hosts is a monumental task. 64-bits is 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 possible addresses, and a decent firewall should block a particular IP once it becomes obvious that they're trying your IPs in order to find exploitable hosts (much like a current firewall does when faced with a port-scan).
Yeah, you can use an IPv6 firewall that blocks all incoming traffic except for replies to outgoing traffic and exceptions made for specific servers, and you have the same "firewall" protection as an IPv4 NAT with none of the protocol breakage caused by NAT. Two machines could use the same port without one or both getting changed by NAPT for example, and having the server's own IP be the same one that clients have to connect to helps as well.
I had a programmable calculator that you had to program in RPN. eg: 3 2 - 'A' STORE is A = 3 - 2 Anything vaguely complex became a horrific mess, especially as it compacted the program by removing all new lines and replacing them with spaces when you saved...
On the other hand that same calculator could integrate and differentiate algebraic expressions ('y=x*x' becoming 'dy/dx=2x'), and solve simultaneous equations, among other things.
All my phones in recent years use a USB port to charge. My new iMate Ultimate 6150 does, my previous HTC Trinity did, my wife's Motorola phones do. I won't buy a phone without a USB port to charge with. Do you mean that the phones have a standard usb/mini-usb socket on them so you can use a standard usb cable, or that the cable has a usb plug on one end and a proprietary phone plug on the other?
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Actually they're all monkeys and toddlers, there isn't enough legroom for anyone larger.
I'm just waiting for the day when airlines force you to stand because they realise they can fit twice as many people in that way.
The Sony Ericsson k530i I have now is quite nice, and I got it for no additional cost on the cheapest contract "3" (three.co.uk) do. It's a bit thinner than the old T610, drops the IR support and adds a nicer screen, 3G, an M2 card slot and MP3 and MP4 support.
(OT: Did I just use three "and" in one sentence?)
Mine had MSN messenger and Skype preloaded on it (Skype via 3G, no wifi unfortunately, but Skype and MSN are free to use even without taking the internet option because "3"'s generous), and it has its own pretty decent browser (pretty similar to opera mini, which also runs on it). It also has an RSS reader?
It can be used as a high-speed 3G modem via bluetooth and usb (may be useful if you use a laptop?)
I don't think the T610 could multi-task either, on this I can run MSN messenger, Skype, the music player and browse the web all at once.
Though if you are happy with your T610, I'm sure you could find a replacement battery for it that lasted a bit longer.
The camera on the T610 sucked too :P
I'd find it difficult to find a contract that even lasted that long (18 months seems to be the "normal" length nowadays).
There does seem to be a trend back towards normal shaped phones nowadays, >50% seem to not be swivel/twist/slide/clamshell. (I switched networks and got a new phone two weeks ago).
I had a Sony Ericsson T610 mobile (on contract, though mobile contracts let you keep the phone after, so kind of owned kind of not) which was damn near invulnerable.
I made the mistake of mentioning this to a mate at work (which was McDonalds at the time, thankfully I'm in a slightly higher paying job now), who promptly threw it hard at the wall. The "in" side of an "outside" wall, i.e. thinly disguised brick.
The battery cover came off, but the clips weren't broken and the battery hadn't come loose (the phone was still on and working), so I just clipped the cover back on and put it in my pocket. Phone still worked perfectly well over a year later: I got a bluetooth headset (back when they were actually quite expensive) instead of a new phone on renewal of my contract because I didn't want a new phone.
My point is that modern phones (i.e mobiles) are "darn near indestructible" too, or at least the mobile phones which aren't swivel/twist/slide/clamshell jobs.
In fact most portable devices are designed to survive a drop from 2 meters onto concrete, so (back on topic) this story about the GameBoy being the "toughest product ever made" seems somewhat unlikely. *clicks link* wow it's not even really an article.
To be fair though, I only know of one dead GameBoy original, and that was fished out of a lake by my dad (slightly more modern version of "catching an old boot"?)
The biggest problem in FPS game physics at the moment is a ridiculously trivial one:
When the player moves forward he pushes whatever is under him forward.
I'm not kidding, try standing on something and moving. In reality there's no real problem, as long as the centre of gravity of you+object is under the object's base. If it's light enough, you might kick it out behind you. In a game, 99% of the time you will kick the object under you forwards and out from under you.
Try standing on a barrel in Half-Life 2 for example. The game even gives you a puzzle at the start where you have to stack crates to get through a window, where you can notice this problem.
But still, the reason cars can't be damages is normally a licensing issue. "You can use our cars, but they can't be damaged". FlatOut (2) has no licensed vehicles.
Destructible buildings though, that WOULD be cool.
...but that might be because I'm not American and not in America.
I'm not sure that I'd vote anyway, both parties seem as bad as each other.
...but that might be because I'm not American and not in America.
I'm not sure that I'd vote anyway, both parties seem as bad as each other.
So does hotmail, mostly because people think they need to sign up for hotmail to use msn messenger, when actually they can use any email address they like.
We also have a fair number of AOL users, so we have quite a lot of different email/messenger providers competing here, with no real clear winner.
Not just China, a lot of people in England have yahoo accounts (though they might not know) because BT partnered with yahoo. All @btinternet.com and @btopenworld.com email accounts from before the partnership are managed by yahoo, and they can be used on yahoo messenger (using the full email address as the username to prevent conflicts with existing yahoo users with the same username). I don't know about more recent BT accounts because mine is from before the partnership.
The messenger thing has caused me problems, because I'd registered my @btinternet email address as my msn/live account, which means I have exactly the same username (my email address) on both msn and yahoo messengers. As msn and yahoo users can now message each other, this seems caused a little confusion in the system. I think it's been resolved now.
Or a system for automatically choosing camera angles of a football game, for that matter.
Essentially, while the game knows everything that's happening, and has complete freedom over where to move the camera, it still has to be programmed to pick shots that are "interesting" using the human definition of the word.
THAT is the difficult bit.
Good old capitalism, no-one pays for anything in the name of prevention, and sometimes don't think twice about it when doing the repairs too...
I have a 4Mbps connection, unlimited night and day, something like 30GB/month only counted in the evenings. The download speed is fast enough for me, the transfer limit is sensible. I play online and download quite a lot, and haven't been bitten yet.
It wouldn't be a clone of the mother, as genes that existed in the mother may not be in the offspring, and genes that there was only one of in the mother could have 2 in the offspring.
A unix system will roll over from +68.5 years to -68.5 years (roughly) relative to 1970 so will go to 1901.
A Windows system considers negative timestamps invalid, so would more likely crash instead.
The easiest solution is to switch to time_t_64 (or time64_t, I can't remember) which is compatible with the older 32-bit timestamps for any dates in their (32-bit) range, but supports dates well outside that range as well.
Any recent (last 10 years?) release of an operating system should be using 64-bit stamps, but no doubt there's a lot of proprietary software released that doesn't.
IPv6 is hierarchical, the backbone routers only need to worry about the first few bits of the IP addresses, actually simplifying routing tables.
No-one uses hubs any more, they all use switches, which are essentially transparent routers anyhow.
No, a better definition is that a LAN has a firewall on the outside.
With IPv4 it was a good definition to say that a LAN has a NAT on the outside (what most people call a router), but with IPv6 NAT is redundant, so instead of a "router/NAT/firewall/DHCP server" box, you just need a "router/firewall/DHCP server" box instead. There's a slight difference that the DHCP server in the former is giving out local addresses (10.*, 192.168.*, etc), and the DHCP server in the second is giving out WAN addresses (the ISP it's connected to will give it a pool of millions instead of a single one as with IPv4), but it makes no real difference (except to simplify routing) as the firewall will block all incoming traffic except replies to outgoing traffic and traffic to explicitly unblocked addresses/ports (equivalent to port forwarding on a NAT router) anyway.
So yes, there will still be LANs, just all the machines in them will have public IPs (though the machines will probably not be accessible publicly because of firewalls).
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/64 (64 bit) or /48 (48-bit) depending on how stingy your ISP is. You don't get one IP, you get BILLIONS.
/48 address block, and you tried to connect to one address every thousandth of a second, it would still take NINETY CENTURIES to find. If the port is also unknown, you're looking at 16,000 times longer.
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IPv6 is allocated in blocks of
Which is better, having a single external IP which responds to maybe 30 ports out of 16k, or having 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 (64-bit) or 281,474,976,710,656 (48-bit) external IPs, each of which may or may not be a machine, and even if it is it may not respond on any port.
If you want security by obscurity, IPv6 is most definitely the way to go. If you only searched a single port (eg looking for a insecure internal website on port 80), and the company only had a
As opposed to port-scanning a single IPv4 IP, which even at 1 per second (1000 times slower than the above example) is done in 5 hours.
A single strong hardware firewall, in the place a NAT firewall would normally be, would do a perfectly good job of hiding all your pcs from the outside world. Especially if your ISP allocates you a typical 64-bit block of addresses, and your router/firewall box allocates the individual addresses to the machines. That way even your ISP wouldn't know how many pcs you had. Even trying only a single port, brute-forcing 64-bits worth of addresses to find one host, or even any one of 1000 hosts is a monumental task. 64-bits is 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 possible addresses, and a decent firewall should block a particular IP once it becomes obvious that they're trying your IPs in order to find exploitable hosts (much like a current firewall does when faced with a port-scan).
Yeah, you can use an IPv6 firewall that blocks all incoming traffic except for replies to outgoing traffic and exceptions made for specific servers, and you have the same "firewall" protection as an IPv4 NAT with none of the protocol breakage caused by NAT. Two machines could use the same port without one or both getting changed by NAPT for example, and having the server's own IP be the same one that clients have to connect to helps as well.
As in:
28 23.2 - 23.2 /
I had a programmable calculator that you had to program in RPN. eg:
3 2 - 'A' STORE
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A = 3 - 2
Anything vaguely complex became a horrific mess, especially as it compacted the program by removing all new lines and replacing them with spaces when you saved...
On the other hand that same calculator could integrate and differentiate algebraic expressions ('y=x*x' becoming 'dy/dx=2x'), and solve simultaneous equations, among other things.
You don't have to do it from the firehose, you can do it from the article page too.
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and tick 1,3 and A if you don't want us to sell all your private data to some dodgy firm, making sure to erase the pre-printed tick in 4. Note that if you opt to not have us contact you above, you agree to let us sell all your details regardless of what you tick here... Grr