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Pod racing? Yeah, but that was a GOOD game in the arcades, really felt fast. Not quite the same with a poxy controller and a 14" telly I dare say.
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Graphics attract gamers, but good AI keeps them playing. Unfortunately, since there is no extra money to be made once someone has bought the game, I don't think that the gaming industry cares very much.
They should - lots of people didn't buy GT4 because the AI in GT3 was so poor. (Not that it's -much- better in GT4, but at least they make the odd mistake under pressure now which means it's more of a race than a hot-lap contest.)
successful human armies don't let their soldiers wait until actual combat and rely on them to figure out what to do in any given circumstance. Instead, they attempt to enumerate the sorts of situations their soldiers are likely to find themselves in and attempt to train those soldiers to handle each of them. Emphasis is placed on recognizing the sort of situation they're in and reacting as they were taught in training.
So basically, iD Software should hire Shen Tzu?:-)
"Televisions are getting smaller and smaller, and bigger and bigger. Soon the market for the medium sized tv will disappear."
LOL
Already happening - my new house had some built-in shelves with a TV shelf which allowed for a 18-20 inch set depending on width of bezel. It took us a WHOLE DAY of wandering around retail parks to find any 20" TVs at all, let alone one that was cheaper than a 32" widescreen. (For UK readers: This is one of the few times in my life I have something good to say about Dixons.:-) )
"I just want a simple phone without net access" people, doing on slashdot?
I seem to remember reading a slashdot around five years ago which needed only minimal moderation and had plenty of interesting anti-bloat anti-stupidity stories. Sadly, that too has gone the way of the Nokia 6210!
I regularly use my laptop (Windows 2000 with not enough memory), a work laptop (Windows 2000 with half a gig), my gf's desktop (Windows ME with REALLY not enough memory chug chug chug), and work desktop (Windows 2000 quite quick.) None of them have cutting edge video cards (though all are reasonable.)
[I know none of these are Linux; I have my reasons. No flames please.]
Firefox is far quicker than Opera on ALL of these - those of you who tried Firefox and found it too slow, there was a major memory leak in early 1.0.x version which is now fixed. Until it was, I agree, Opera was quicker. It's not any more...
OTOH Opera has a killer feature which Firefox doesn't, as far as I can tell - the zoom, so you can make a page of full-size images look pretty much like thumbnails and pick those you want to save. For that reason I still have both on most machines. Someone tell me there's a plug-in for Firefox please...
Opera's text ads are quite well thought out and I find I'm actually quite often interested in the links that come up there.
Finally, on a complex page Opera's redraw is noticably slower than Firefox's. With HTTP pipelining enabled on Firefox it's way quicker loading.
Also, Opera pissed me off. The new, exciting, lightweight browser is now as bad as IE for feeping creaturism. I use Web browsers for browsing the Web, not looking at mail and using chat rooms.
Is it really necessary we gotta have photorealistic 3d characters jumping around in our games?
It's not a case of "necessary" - it's simply a good old fashioned evolutionary arms race. It's not necessary of itself that the PS3 can do it - but if the next gen XBox can do it, then Sony will suddenly consider it pretty damn necessary.
I've restricted mine to 20MB now, which seems to be enough to keep most of my usual pages happily in memory and keeps the pressure off everything else.
This always shows you how to move the disk cache, which is something else that should be made available through the UI, IMHO.
Firstly, it's pSeries, not RS6000. None of the POWER4 based servers are branded RS6000. Secondly, the high-end systems do NOT have slower I/O than Sun, dammit. Please back that statement up with some evidence.
Bugger Rama. Larry Niven does it much better in "Ringworld."
In fact, a lot of Niven books could work well as movies. "World Out of Time" springs immediately to mind, or some of the Belter and/or Shaeffer stories. The Mote books might be hard to keep moving on film.
NOT Protector, far too much deep cosmology in that for the average moviegoer...
Maybe the American press are skirting the issue - but the British press certainly aren't: try The Guardian ("fraud" appears 5 times) and The Times which even uses the word "scam".
Pocari Sweat is the most amazing isotonic drink. Mind you, you need 'em in the Japanese climate.
Beer in vending machines is dying out because Japanese kids this millenium are now the same little shits as kids in the rest of the world, and therefore willing to break licensing laws.
Ah, but you use a hell of a lot of that water digesting the fructose, lactose, and caffeine respectively.
Having said that I drink a lot of fruit juice, because it's a good fiddle: it is still hydrating (just) and it counts as one of your five portions of fruit and veg.
This isn't intended to sound facetious (although it will): I know dozens of people who live their entire lives by responding to a series of patterns and combinations.
The gist of this Slashdot discussion appears to define intelligent machines to be those that are capable of thinking outside of the box and playing chess intuitively. Most *people* don't do that.
What is IBM doing? Well, they're not competing with Intel in the desktop processor market, that's for sure. They're building a 0.1u fab so that they can:
a) provide fab services to other players (Sony et al) b) Manufacture their own kick-ass POWER series processors.
It will be a long time before Intel systems can compete with the 690, with the SuperDome, and with the 15k.
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Pod racing? Yeah, but that was a GOOD game in the arcades, really felt fast. Not quite the same with a poxy controller and a 14" telly I dare say.
They should - lots of people didn't buy GT4 because the AI in GT3 was so poor. (Not that it's -much- better in GT4, but at least they make the odd mistake under pressure now which means it's more of a race than a hot-lap contest.)
So basically, iD Software should hire Shen Tzu? :-)
(Good point though...)
LOL
Already happening - my new house had some built-in shelves with a TV shelf which allowed for a 18-20 inch set depending on width of bezel. It took us a WHOLE DAY of wandering around retail parks to find any 20" TVs at all, let alone one that was cheaper than a 32" widescreen. (For UK readers: This is one of the few times in my life I have something good to say about Dixons. :-) )
I seem to remember reading a slashdot around five years ago which needed only minimal moderation and had plenty of interesting anti-bloat anti-stupidity stories. Sadly, that too has gone the way of the Nokia 6210!
Plenty of phones have built-in FM radio already. (Gf's Samsung, for a start.)
I regularly use my laptop (Windows 2000 with not enough memory), a work laptop (Windows 2000 with half a gig), my gf's desktop (Windows ME with REALLY not enough memory chug chug chug), and work desktop (Windows 2000 quite quick.) None of them have cutting edge video cards (though all are reasonable.)
[I know none of these are Linux; I have my reasons. No flames please.]
Firefox is far quicker than Opera on ALL of these - those of you who tried Firefox and found it too slow, there was a major memory leak in early 1.0.x version which is now fixed. Until it was, I agree, Opera was quicker. It's not any more...
OTOH Opera has a killer feature which Firefox doesn't, as far as I can tell - the zoom, so you can make a page of full-size images look pretty much like thumbnails and pick those you want to save. For that reason I still have both on most machines. Someone tell me there's a plug-in for Firefox please...
Opera's text ads are quite well thought out and I find I'm actually quite often interested in the links that come up there.
Finally, on a complex page Opera's redraw is noticably slower than Firefox's. With HTTP pipelining enabled on Firefox it's way quicker loading.
Also, Opera pissed me off. The new, exciting, lightweight browser is now as bad as IE for feeping creaturism. I use Web browsers for browsing the Web, not looking at mail and using chat rooms.
Is it really necessary we gotta have photorealistic 3d characters jumping around in our games?
It's not a case of "necessary" - it's simply a good old fashioned evolutionary arms race. It's not necessary of itself that the PS3 can do it - but if the next gen XBox can do it, then Sony will suddenly consider it pretty damn necessary.
There's a workaround for this, described at:
http://www.fiveanddime.net/firefox.html
I've restricted mine to 20MB now, which seems to be enough to keep most of my usual pages happily in memory and keeps the pressure off everything else.
This always shows you how to move the disk cache, which is something else that should be made available through the UI, IMHO.
And close the gap between Linux and AIX - which is interesting when you consider:
A) Where this patch has come from
B) What the guts of the p690 look like
C) What the guts of the x440 look like
Death of AIX predicted. Film at 11.
Plus as someone else points out, you have full remote management, so you're not fucked.
Plus, how can a Java application running on a Linux system possibly be "proprietary?"
As you say, you're determined to find reasons to dislike AIX. Solaris is full of holes too. Nothing in this world is perfect.
Firstly, it's pSeries, not RS6000. None of the POWER4 based servers are branded RS6000. Secondly, the high-end systems do NOT have slower I/O than Sun, dammit. Please back that statement up with some evidence.
2001 is a book of a film, or rather, a book of a screenplay; not vice versa. I actually think the film is BETTER than the book in that case.
Bugger Rama. Larry Niven does it much better in "Ringworld."
In fact, a lot of Niven books could work well as movies. "World Out of Time" springs immediately to mind, or some of the Belter and/or Shaeffer stories. The Mote books might be hard to keep moving on film.
NOT Protector, far too much deep cosmology in that for the average moviegoer...
What's this? Mozilla climbs walls now?
The speed of it causes me to start climbing the walls...
Regards,
Zack
Maybe the American press are skirting the issue - but the British press certainly aren't: try
The Guardian ("fraud" appears 5 times) and The Times which even uses the word "scam".
Zack
Pocari Sweat is the most amazing isotonic drink. Mind you, you need 'em in the Japanese climate.
Beer in vending machines is dying out because Japanese kids this millenium are now the same little shits as kids in the rest of the world, and therefore willing to break licensing laws.
Ah, but you use a hell of a lot of that water digesting the fructose, lactose, and caffeine respectively.
Having said that I drink a lot of fruit juice, because it's a good fiddle: it is still hydrating (just) and it counts as one of your five portions of fruit and veg.
You should drink two litres (about 6 of your pints, I think) of water a day. A cup of coffee is somewhere between neutral and DEhydrating.
I started making sure I followed that guideline around three years ago and the difference really is amazing. Try it, you might like it.
It's not the price that I object to. It's drinking shit-coloured sugar-laden chemical rubbish.
Thank you for listening.
This isn't intended to sound facetious (although it will): I know dozens of people who live their entire lives by responding to a series of patterns and combinations.
The gist of this Slashdot discussion appears to define intelligent machines to be those that are capable of thinking outside of the box and playing chess intuitively. Most *people* don't do that.
Regards,
Zack
That would be can't make -desktop- processors.
...unless you base your designs on the spin states of leptons, instead of their drift velocities...
What is IBM doing? Well, they're not competing with Intel in the desktop processor market, that's for sure. They're building a 0.1u fab so that they can :
a) provide fab services to other players (Sony et al)
b) Manufacture their own kick-ass POWER series processors.
It will be a long time before Intel systems can compete with the 690, with the SuperDome, and with the 15k.
Zack
First Tuesday folded ages ago. They'll have to think of something else.