Are you mixing normal game type ai to the real thing. Afaik computing AI on a normal computer would require some serious neural simlation and would need one hell of a computer. From what I know most of the research is put to hardware design, not software. Even through hardware design does take computing power and memory it doesn't need insane computers.
And a week or so ago I had forgotten to put reiserfs in my kernel and having a reiserfs system I had a little problem. I found to my relief that Slackware-current had 2.4.5 boot disks and even with reiserfs support. The boot message had "7.3.0":)
Dynamic IPs aren't the only problem with holding a internet services. The problem is the ISP and if they want to give the user ability to do so. I have a dynamic ip (changes after 12h of no connection) and it most certainly doesn't make me unable to create a web server and a ftp. And as a I keep the connection alive actively, it only drops on network breakdown, it isn't really a problem.
I suppose the problem here is that ISPs want to preserve upstream as it's harder for them to control it's cacheing than downstream. So they put up firewalls to cut it down.
You can get static IPs here and actually from some ISPs you get it if you ask for it. For the ISPs that I can get for my DSL, there is only one possibility and that would cost some 150FIM/month ($23). Additional to the $75/month (It's a 512/256 ADSL).
It's not unbearable, but I consider it a waste of money.
So for many people IPv6 won't bring atleast more of that freedom, it's all about bandwidth. But for me it would likely allow me to get a static ip for no additional charge.
If you look at the specs of the device (they're somewhere in the side) you'll notice that the whole game concept is actually more of a side thought, it's a media terminal, not a console. You could probably set it up as a cool looking dsl router.
The www.ostdev.net site seems to indicate that it does have opengl support also, but it isn't the main thing, you can do anything with this thing, it's bringing linux to the masses.
>> Capitalism encourages unsustainable population growth
I don't see how this is true, at least norhern European countries have started to get to the point where birth rate and death rate is nearly same, or even that there are less births than deaths per year (But even so the population levels tend to go up due to immigrants).
In a capitalist system the costs of raising a child and the strain it causes in addition to the job you have to goto to get that money I don't see how this could be true even in an ideal capitalist country. Not as long as there is Democracy involved anyway.
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Yes, we are the lowlife of the world, we teach how to "hack" school machines, or maybe it's just that there are newsbits of Linux, the schoolkid brainwashing os.
People find different things fun so it's kinda hard to say if games are were more fun 10 years ago, I for one find complex games interesting and as long as the ui isn't too hard to figure out I would define the game as 'fun'. (NOTE: I love rogue-likes, so this isn't exactly true, but with the commercial stuff it is, strange eh?)
Now I do like to play fairly simple games like q3a or ut (simple as in gameplay) from time to time, when I have nothing else to do, so I could define them fun as well.
But I suppose this has also something to do with that 10 years ago fewer people had access to computers, now they are quite common place. Many people have already played multiple types of game, 10 years ago quite a lot of that stuff was new, now it's just a part life...
The last I checked finnish soda machines didn't eat dollars. This is the case for other European countries also, at least I have yet to see one in Europe.
Better to make such a law sooner than later, I know many will reject it because it raises the prices. But in the long run it will make the manufacturers (hopefully) make products that are easier to recycle.
How long can we keep up the living standards if we waste perfectly good material? Asia is growing fast, we'll drown in carbage unless ofcourse NATO decides that it's a good day to send a few nukes to Asia.
Now firewalling a program out like this is basically impossible. Think about it, if there are enough people at this and a small group organizing it... change the way they communicate, the port... What can they do? Make a firewall that filters everything out except http? And what if napster-like-programs start to use a protocol that looks like http?
In the end they simply can't not stop it, unless people give up. And when will ISPs start to advertise: "Napster Compatible".
A Firewall for ISPs? To Sony to enforce this I think it would need a new Law, or I suppose it would be easier just to bribe them, how many ISPs are there in the world? Probably would cost more than they lose by Napster.
You need weapons grade plutonium to get a bang out of the thing, and inorder to get that you would have to have a special reactor, now how many terroris have special reactor for making weapons grade plutonium?
I suppose after a few months we'll learn that US Military has lost a reactor..
Now why are they licensing it under the GNU Public License Version 2.
I suppose if it was under QT license, you would have to buy licenses to both QT Designer and QT for commercial programs? I haven't actually read that license so I'm not really sure about this.
Will the 64bit Sledgehammer-Linux be able to run binarys compiled on a 32bit x86?
Obviously programs compiled for 64bit would work faster in a 64bit platform, but how far will companies go? Support all Intel IA-64, AMD x86-64 and normal 32bit x86 prosessors? Now there are major differences between IA64 and x86, so you might have less problems porting to Sledgehammer since it's closer to the old and most likely less of a change to run into compability problems.
Might well be a deciding factor witch wins, but then isn't the IA-64 supposed to be for Webservers?
I've also followed the instructions from Linux from Scratch, the system actually worked quite normally.. Just had some problems with devel kernels and something else I can't remember. But sendmail and X worked fine:)
Installed Slackware 7.0 after that, didn't really feel like spending endless hours searching for that one problem, that always eludes you.
I just happen to like MDI in a irc client. There are two of them out there(possibly more?), both use QT, I haven't yet checked the other, but at least the other has a weird way of managing irc, happyfaces and such and no general background selection.
I suppose I'm just that much into MDI irc clients and can't find a suitable one (and don't want to program QT) I like being able to keep the irc windows in one place and even with many desktops I tend to open different programs in my irc desktop, so it gets all messy (or they open there by accident, like starting to load a program in a different desktop only to change to another just before it starts).
I've also been looking for a suitable portable GUI toolkit, but the main problem lies with that I want to have MDI support also and haven't found a one with it (as I don't really want to use QPL, I find GPL more suitable for my ideals). Also I've been looking for a mdi extension for gtk, I know gnome-libs had mdi support, but most users won't be willing to install gnome-libs to run a program(as it uses a ton of other libs) I know I probably should do it myself, but hell, I don't have any experience in lowlevel gui programming:-)
I read the ga-source article on this, a open-source and a binary. Doesn't this mean that they are going to make a opensource driver that uses the binary file yo the actualy program Live prosessor? It feels more open than it actually is, no actual programming specs for the prosessor...
Or then the other possibility will be that there will be a full and limited opensource driver and a different binary driver with more features.
But don't get me wrong, it's a good thing they make drivers for linux and even make a 3d sound api, but I really would like to see how you program that live prosessor (and do something weird with it)..
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Are you mixing normal game type ai to the real thing. Afaik computing AI on a normal computer would require some serious neural simlation and would need one hell of a computer. From what I know most of the research is put to hardware design, not software. Even through hardware design does take computing power and memory it doesn't need insane computers.
And a week or so ago I had forgotten to put reiserfs in my kernel and having a reiserfs system I had a little problem. I found to my relief that Slackware-current had 2.4.5 boot disks and even with reiserfs support. The boot message had "7.3.0" :)
This must be a part of the new military strategy Bush is pushing forward in USA.
Dynamic IPs aren't the only problem with holding a internet services. The problem is the ISP and if they want to give the user ability to do so. I have a dynamic ip (changes after 12h of no connection) and it most certainly doesn't make me unable to create a web server and a ftp. And as a I keep the connection alive actively, it only drops on network breakdown, it isn't really a problem.
I suppose the problem here is that ISPs want to preserve upstream as it's harder for them to control it's cacheing than downstream. So they put up firewalls to cut it down.
You can get static IPs here and actually from some ISPs you get it if you ask for it. For the ISPs that I can get for my DSL, there is only one possibility and that would cost some 150FIM/month ($23). Additional to the $75/month (It's a 512/256 ADSL). It's not unbearable, but I consider it a waste of money.
So for many people IPv6 won't bring atleast more of that freedom, it's all about bandwidth. But for me it would likely allow me to get a static ip for no additional charge.
If you look at the specs of the device (they're somewhere in the side) you'll notice that the whole game concept is actually more of a side thought, it's a media terminal, not a console. You could probably set it up as a cool looking dsl router. The www.ostdev.net site seems to indicate that it does have opengl support also, but it isn't the main thing, you can do anything with this thing, it's bringing linux to the masses.
>> Capitalism encourages unsustainable population growth
I don't see how this is true, at least norhern European countries have started to get to the point where birth rate and death rate is nearly same, or even that there are less births than deaths per year (But even so the population levels tend to go up due to immigrants).
In a capitalist system the costs of raising a child and the strain it causes in addition to the job you have to goto to get that money I don't see how this could be true even in an ideal capitalist country. Not as long as there is Democracy involved anyway.
Yes, we are the lowlife of the world, we teach how to "hack" school machines, or maybe it's just that there are newsbits of Linux, the schoolkid brainwashing os.
People find different things fun so it's kinda hard to say if games are were more fun 10 years ago, I for one find complex games interesting and as long as the ui isn't too hard to figure out I would define the game as 'fun'. (NOTE: I love rogue-likes, so this isn't exactly true, but with the commercial stuff it is, strange eh?)
Now I do like to play fairly simple games like q3a or ut (simple as in gameplay) from time to time, when I have nothing else to do, so I could define them fun as well.
But I suppose this has also something to do with that 10 years ago fewer people had access to computers, now they are quite common place. Many people have already played multiple types of game, 10 years ago quite a lot of that stuff was new, now it's just a part life...
The last I checked finnish soda machines didn't eat dollars. This is the case for other European countries also, at least I have yet to see one in Europe.
Better to make such a law sooner than later, I know many will reject it because it raises the prices. But in the long run it will make the manufacturers (hopefully) make products that are easier to recycle.
How long can we keep up the living standards if we waste perfectly good material? Asia is growing fast, we'll drown in carbage unless ofcourse NATO decides that it's a good day to send a few nukes to Asia.
Aww, who cares about storing only mp3s in a electron, why not the whole internet.
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Would be quite time cosuming through
>Of course it is. It's only 1000 million light years closer!
Sure, but the ISS is not a huge glowing ball that has fusion reaction going inside.
Now firewalling a program out like this is basically impossible. Think about it, if there are enough people at this and a small group organizing it... change the way they communicate, the port... What can they do? Make a firewall that filters everything out except http? And what if napster-like-programs start to use a protocol that looks like http?
In the end they simply can't not stop it, unless people give up. And when will ISPs start to advertise: "Napster Compatible".
A Firewall for ISPs? To Sony to enforce this I think it would need a new Law, or I suppose it would be easier just to bribe them, how many ISPs are there in the world? Probably would cost more than they lose by Napster.
Disappointing, no Slackware for Dummies.
Slackware has everyting... No configure-everything-here you say? vi!
You need weapons grade plutonium to get a bang out of the thing, and inorder to get that you would have to have a special reactor, now how many terroris have special reactor for making weapons grade plutonium? I suppose after a few months we'll learn that US Military has lost a reactor..
Now why are they licensing it under the GNU Public License Version 2. I suppose if it was under QT license, you would have to buy licenses to both QT Designer and QT for commercial programs? I haven't actually read that license so I'm not really sure about this.
Yes, I can already imagine it, MP3 Players running Distributed.net clients.
Will the 64bit Sledgehammer-Linux be able to run binarys compiled on a 32bit x86?
Obviously programs compiled for 64bit would work faster in a 64bit platform, but how far will companies go? Support all Intel IA-64, AMD x86-64 and normal 32bit x86 prosessors? Now there are major differences between IA64 and x86, so you might have less problems porting to Sledgehammer since it's closer to the old and most likely less of a change to run into compability problems.
Might well be a deciding factor witch wins, but then isn't the IA-64 supposed to be for Webservers?
I've also followed the instructions from Linux from Scratch, the system actually worked quite normally.. Just had some problems with devel kernels and something else I can't remember. But sendmail and X worked fine :)
Installed Slackware 7.0 after that, didn't really feel like spending endless hours searching for that one problem, that always eludes you.
I just happen to like MDI in a irc client. There are two of them out there(possibly more?), both use QT, I haven't yet checked the other, but at least the other has a weird way of managing irc, happyfaces and such and no general background selection.
I suppose I'm just that much into MDI irc clients and can't find a suitable one (and don't want to program QT) I like being able to keep the irc windows in one place and even with many desktops I tend to open different programs in my irc desktop, so it gets all messy (or they open there by accident, like starting to load a program in a different desktop only to change to another just before it starts).
I've also been looking for a suitable portable GUI toolkit, but the main problem lies with that I want to have MDI support also and haven't found a one with it (as I don't really want to use QPL, I find GPL more suitable for my ideals). Also I've been looking for a mdi extension for gtk, I know gnome-libs had mdi support, but most users won't be willing to install gnome-libs to run a program(as it uses a ton of other libs) I know I probably should do it myself, but hell, I don't have any experience in lowlevel gui programming :-)
I read the ga-source article on this, a open-source and a binary. Doesn't this mean that they are going to make a opensource driver that uses the binary file yo the actualy program Live prosessor? It feels more open than it actually is, no actual programming specs for the prosessor...
Or then the other possibility will be that there will be a full and limited opensource driver and a different binary driver with more features.
But don't get me wrong, it's a good thing they make drivers for linux and even make a 3d sound api, but I really would like to see how you program that live prosessor (and do something weird with it)..