Comment Using Your Head (Score 1) 191
I have two teenagers both with cell phones and I haven't seen either one of them actually on a "phone call" in years. I rather suspect the practice is coming to and end for the next generation anyway.
I have two teenagers both with cell phones and I haven't seen either one of them actually on a "phone call" in years. I rather suspect the practice is coming to and end for the next generation anyway.
Sending host IP doesn't resolve? Not good. No sender address? Not good. Sending host and sender domains don't match? Not good. Each time I find something wrong with your connection to me I increment acl_m6. Can you still send me mail if you've got a really broken setup? Yep, but it's going to make you work for it.
And if you're a spammer who's flaunting the law (maybe depending on where they are set up) and have set up your own mail server so you can easily get through all the checks? Spamhause will get you and it stops being my problem.
Let me be clear. I don't care if you like it or not, or use it or not. It's just data if you want it or are interested.
I've thrown the rest of my posting into a journal entry as Slashdot nixed my posting here with "Filter error: Please use fewer 'junk' characters." Seems as though Slashdot is making comments about my coding abilities... This is already more effort than I was hoping for.
The following is a variant of greylisting. You can comment on it from your soapbox if you wish but I've been running it for about three years now and it works great. I put it together for my own use and I have no desire to document it, support it, or in any way promote it. I'm posting it here because I'm tiring of hearing people whine about spam. It uses Exim and mysql to get around some of the inherent limitations of greylisting as it was originally defined (specifically the mandatory "d
Parkinson's Law, theorized by C. Northcote Parkinson, a British Royal Navy historian and author, explains this phenomenon by stating that "work expands to fill the time available for its completion" and in bureaucratic organizations, the number of people required to do the work will continually rise whether the actual volume of work stays the same, increases, decreases or disappears.
The question is how much do Canadian artists get handed from the government in the existing "tax the media" scheme? I'd warrant they don't get anything and that the government keeps track of what they collect and injects "money into supporting artists, including more money for the Canada Council for the Arts and the Canada Music Fund." (from TFA). I mean, what else could they do? Say I was a terrible artist (not too much of a stretch) and I put out a terrible album with nothing on it that anybody would want. Do I have my hand out for the MP3 tax? How much would the government give me? How would they determine that?
They can't. And they don't. This is a stupid idea based on another stupid idea.
Want to see what they do with the money?
So they tax our media. Then they give it to bureaucratic organizations that consume themselves. And the indy rock band gets? You guessed it. The shaft. And we are proposing to extend this to new media. Excellent. Let me just get out my wallet...
The "sandbox" aspect of EvE where everyone is in everyone else's universe is not actually one giant "realm" as it were. It is actually thousands of individual servers which control and manage distinct areas of the game world. As you move through the universe you actually move from server to server. There are, of course, central servers which need to understand common aspects of the game such as market and pilot information.
This is an architecture that is not shared by WoW in general. I'm not sure how what Blizzard has released with 3.3 differs from a "battleground" except that a "battlegroup" is a pre-defined entity where in this new instance you have no idea where people are going to come from. To me all this sounds like is a BG without a battlegroup.
So in summary:
So to answer your question, no, EvE would not burn to the ground if even half the number of users tried to use it. But it would require a careful expansion of the known universe to ensure that there was an even distribution of world resources and thus pilots in its space.
Practically, that thing won't fit in a canoe (unless it is a voyageur canoe), you would probably need the camera mounted on some sort of steadycam, and your going to have to pay attention to battery life. But I think that would be a very cool project.
My experience has been quite the opposite of the story summary. I've been on a line-of-sight wireless connection for two and a half years now, with two different providers and two different frequencies (900 MHz and 2.4 GHz). I have found the service to be slow and unreliable, and I live on farmland (no trees, mountains, large buildings, etc. To get in the way). The most I can say about my current provider is the service sucks less than the first one. In that case it was so bad I was able to get out of a 3yr contract.
The speed (as mentioned in a previous post) is very slow - VPN access to the office is *just* do-able, but don't try to do anything else at the same time. You can play on-line games such as WoW and Eve without much trouble from a latency standpoint, but having your link go down is not fun.
I have an unlimited cellular data plan I keep as a backup and I am working with my local council to get better broadband penetration in my area.
Memory fault - where am I?