A while back I got fed up, and got rid of my cellphone. That means alot less stress, even more then you'd expect. First, no more phone to keep track of, no more incoming calls, no more calling people when I don't really need to. I do my calls all at once. Oh and I save a forune by not having long distance on the landline (screened, never answeered) and using a nice 3c/min calling card. Anyone worth talking to can email me. And anyone I like can IM me (whitelist only of course).
I also tweaked all my OSX Mail filters to be very aggressive, and the mail to only check once every hour. Again, far less interuptions.
And more and more I'm seeing people I know also burn-out completely on the "time saving technology" and trash it all. And then they start to declutter the rest of their lives too, but that's for another subject...
Life has improved alot since the real-time email and cellphone days:)
American MMORPG have quite simply become MMOFPSG. No more roleplaying, way more FPS.
3-D graphics engines, complex and pointless interface controls, with camera positioning and such of course, blah blah blah. Where are the deep quests the more-then-trivial guild structures and behefits... etc.
Maybe that's why the largest MMORPGs in the world are still 2-D.
MMORPG's need WRITERS not more caffine tweaked coders. You know, those creative types geeks are raised to dispise... problem is, THEY make good games.
And that's why games are so damn lame after the first couple weeks... there really is nothing more to do.
No, almost all Linux software is now required to be -static because of the insane number of NON-compatible libc/kernel/distribution combinations out there.
There was a good 2 months there where all DNS operations didn't work with dynamically linked libc's, and several distributions didn't work at all, so they decided to switch it back and break stuff even more. And that's just one example.
libc is a huge pile of mess and bloat and bugs, and is by any measure the weak link in the Linux universe. But we seem to be stuck with it.
"Mr Lafferty predicted that within four years of the big record labels adopting the plan..."
Yea, but iTunes for PC launches next Thursday. Thus ends the MP3 "war". After that anyone who wants to pay can, and anyone who doesn't can go elsewhere. I don't see a crappy P2P service anywhere in the $ picture.
Yes, and Folding uses Cosm. But there are ENORMOUS reasons why the projects don't use the same frameworks. And none of those reasons have anything to do with technology.
Back when I was running d.net (which I made a generic framework too actually) we offered SETI and dozens of other projects that framework code, but they all turned it down and wrote their own from scratch complete with old bugs.
It's all about keeping users from leaving when the next project comes along. About NOT having a menu where people can switch to something else. People that run projects do not want that, users do. Project managers are smart because SETI can only lose users to any other project BOINC runs;)
However, on the OGSA/web-services side (read, in the corporate world) the users and the admins are one in the same, and CTO's don't put up with any crap. They want ONE system for all 468,352,688 business units. And that system damn well better be free as in beer, freedom, and $1/hour Indian outsourcing. Enter a standard.
And thus, BOINC has missed the boat, the corporate world is long past this stage, and the academic world builds their own. It's not good, or bad, it just is.
This is not a troll. SETI@Home is a very popular project, and the guys that run it do great alien hunting FFTs.
But didn't we all launch general purpose distributed computing frameworks about... 5-6 years ago? SETI's mastery of the press aside, I'm pretty sure we all stopped playing this game and started using the standards a year or so ago.
So that battle is long over. OGSA also known as "web services" or GRID or [10 other things] won in case you missed it. Every major company on Earth is using the standards already. Python, Perl,.NET/C#, Java, C++, and FORTRAN all have native bindings into the standards as well.
BOINC is late to the party, in fact they completely missed it.
Well that's not hard to figure out, people want to dream of better happier times.
To a greater degree, that is a fantasy past when times were simple and there was wonder in the universe.
Today the future is gloomy, assuming you will even have a job in the future, and space is empty and far away - no you can't go faster then light, so no space for you!. Noone has to wonder about anything at all, the answers to life the universe and everything are a google search away.
The easter bunny, santa clause, and the american dream are all R.I.P.
I thought they were finally dropping that Performance Rating garbage...
Anyway, beware the AMD64 line. They have announced physical packaging changes scheduled about every 4 months until 2005. Read: buy a new motherboard to upgrade because there is no upgrade for the chips you'll be buying soon.
AMD is really screwing over the customer by not intoducing the chips in the packaging they know they will be using 2 packages from now.
Yea, because paying the $900,000 Paypal(now Ebay) transaction fee is better then just getting paid free with a check.
I sold a bunch of my old junk last month and between the Ebay fees and the Paypal fees they are making 8-10% on everything sold there. Their margins blow even Microsoft away.
No... Normalization is what messes up Unicode. UTF-8 etc are just like binary, base-10, and base-16 - just numbers in different forms.
The 4 (and growing) normalizations are NOT compatable with each other, and in 2/4 cases permanently loose information.
Unfortunately, it's now too late to fix the problems, everyone uses different normalizations, and we're right back where we started where you need multi-megabyte libraries to read anything.
Yes there are hacks, but those hacks eat memory, and you only have so much texture memory on a card.
And Apple has a loooong list of OpenGL extensions. They implemented this all some time ago now. You should see some of the realtime video editing that they can do.
Nothing gets into OpenGL that wasn't an extension first - that way it's all developed and debugged before we have to deal with it.
That's _thee_ key feature Apple needed to do the fully OpenGL desktop, along with a pile of more eligant error handling of course. Glad to see it's now standard.
It also makes the modeling and artist guys much happier. Do you have any idea how hard it is to make everything out of squares?
2.0 should put the last of what we need for the next 5 years into OpenGL, then maybe people can start writing more portable games again.
They moved to Linux becasue their graphics apps were ported to Linux and since they are companies in business to make (and save) money, they dumped the OS they had to pay for in favor of the one they don't.
Well almost all evolutionary pressures have been removed, so people with small problems have kids with bigger problems, and eventually they can't breed.
An amazing number of women can now not give birth except with direct medical intervention, since we stopped them from dying of childbirth generations ago.
Just like 10% of AIDS cases are completely drug resistant because we saved some victims, women are becoming reproductive resistant because we saved some.
Fear not, GATACA is only 20-30 years off, and then we can fix the next generation.
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If 2.4.x is any indication, you're not safe until 2.6.13 at least.
;)
Or aren't we supposed to talk about that
Glad to see this is moving along...
:)
A while back I got fed up, and got rid of my cellphone. That means alot less stress, even more then you'd expect. First, no more phone to keep track of, no more incoming calls, no more calling people when I don't really need to. I do my calls all at once. Oh and I save a forune by not having long distance on the landline (screened, never answeered) and using a nice 3c/min calling card. Anyone worth talking to can email me. And anyone I like can IM me (whitelist only of course).
I also tweaked all my OSX Mail filters to be very aggressive, and the mail to only check once every hour. Again, far less interuptions.
And more and more I'm seeing people I know also burn-out completely on the "time saving technology" and trash it all. And then they start to declutter the rest of their lives too, but that's for another subject...
Life has improved alot since the real-time email and cellphone days
American MMORPG have quite simply become MMOFPSG. No more roleplaying, way more FPS.
3-D graphics engines, complex and pointless interface controls, with camera positioning and such of course, blah blah blah. Where are the deep quests the more-then-trivial guild structures and behefits... etc.
Maybe that's why the largest MMORPGs in the world are still 2-D.
MMORPG's need WRITERS not more caffine tweaked coders. You know, those creative types geeks are raised to dispise... problem is, THEY make good games.
And that's why games are so damn lame after the first couple weeks... there really is nothing more to do.
No, almost all Linux software is now required to be -static because of the insane number of NON-compatible libc/kernel/distribution combinations out there.
There was a good 2 months there where all DNS operations didn't work with dynamically linked libc's, and several distributions didn't work at all, so they decided to switch it back and break stuff even more. And that's just one example.
libc is a huge pile of mess and bloat and bugs, and is by any measure the weak link in the Linux universe. But we seem to be stuck with it.
You mean a .. city?
Between PPC/OSX and AMD64/Linux - what the heck does anyone need Sun for exactly?
I mean besides comic relief of course.
FINAL REPORT:
Size
[x] Big and REALLY empty
[ ] Full of stars
Green alien women:
[ ] Yes
[x] No
Complete waste of time
[x] Yes
[ ] No
"Mr Lafferty predicted that within four years of the big record labels adopting the plan..."
Yea, but iTunes for PC launches next Thursday. Thus ends the MP3 "war". After that anyone who wants to pay can, and anyone who doesn't can go elsewhere. I don't see a crappy P2P service anywhere in the $ picture.
Yes, and Folding uses Cosm. But there are ENORMOUS reasons why the projects don't use the same frameworks. And none of those reasons have anything to do with technology.
;)
Back when I was running d.net (which I made a generic framework too actually) we offered SETI and dozens of other projects that framework code, but they all turned it down and wrote their own from scratch complete with old bugs.
It's all about keeping users from leaving when the next project comes along. About NOT having a menu where people can switch to something else. People that run projects do not want that, users do. Project managers are smart because SETI can only lose users to any other project BOINC runs
However, on the OGSA/web-services side (read, in the corporate world) the users and the admins are one in the same, and CTO's don't put up with any crap. They want ONE system for all 468,352,688 business units. And that system damn well better be free as in beer, freedom, and $1/hour Indian outsourcing. Enter a standard.
And thus, BOINC has missed the boat, the corporate world is long past this stage, and the academic world builds their own. It's not good, or bad, it just is.
This is not a troll. SETI@Home is a very popular project, and the guys that run it do great alien hunting FFTs.
.NET/C#, Java, C++, and FORTRAN all have native bindings into the standards as well.
But didn't we all launch general purpose distributed computing frameworks about... 5-6 years ago? SETI's mastery of the press aside, I'm pretty sure we all stopped playing this game and started using the standards a year or so ago.
So that battle is long over. OGSA also known as "web services" or GRID or [10 other things] won in case you missed it. Every major company on Earth is using the standards already. Python, Perl,
BOINC is late to the party, in fact they completely missed it.
No.
They are open sourcing the framework, NOT the projects. No SETI@Home source for you!
Considering it's an unelected "government" setup by corporartions to make them all more money... anyone with a net worth of under $1B will be ignored.
If you want to change things, bribe them like everyone else.
Lets see, at ~$150 saved per PC without Windows, times about 2 Billion PC's... Buys one hell of alot of "lets go participate in world markets".
And if you skip the "Intel inside" you can double that savings easily.
Yet again more asian long-term thinking at work.
Well that's not hard to figure out, people want to dream of better happier times.
To a greater degree, that is a fantasy past when times were simple and there was wonder in the universe.
Today the future is gloomy, assuming you will even have a job in the future, and space is empty and far away - no you can't go faster then light, so no space for you!. Noone has to wonder about anything at all, the answers to life the universe and everything are a google search away.
The easter bunny, santa clause, and the american dream are all R.I.P.
I thought they were finally dropping that Performance Rating garbage...
Anyway, beware the AMD64 line. They have announced physical packaging changes scheduled about every 4 months until 2005. Read: buy a new motherboard to upgrade because there is no upgrade for the chips you'll be buying soon.
AMD is really screwing over the customer by not intoducing the chips in the packaging they know they will be using 2 packages from now.
Yea, because paying the $900,000 Paypal(now Ebay) transaction fee is better then just getting paid free with a check.
I sold a bunch of my old junk last month and between the Ebay fees and the Paypal fees they are making 8-10% on everything sold there. Their margins blow even Microsoft away.
Gonna be a hard fall, and the sooner the better.
No... Normalization is what messes up Unicode. UTF-8 etc are just like binary, base-10, and base-16 - just numbers in different forms.
The 4 (and growing) normalizations are NOT compatable with each other, and in 2/4 cases permanently loose information.
Unfortunately, it's now too late to fix the problems, everyone uses different normalizations, and we're right back where we started where you need multi-megabyte libraries to read anything.
I was having a ton of trouble teaching people how to use and . It's good to see that they went and solved the complexity problem.
Maybe they think if they make forms complex enough, and break enough browsers, the cheap labor in India won't take their jobs?
No doubt. Seem to be lots of these lately. They are obviously desperate for cash.
Yes there are hacks, but those hacks eat memory, and you only have so much texture memory on a card.
And Apple has a loooong list of OpenGL extensions. They implemented this all some time ago now. You should see some of the realtime video editing that they can do.
Nothing gets into OpenGL that wasn't an extension first - that way it's all developed and debugged before we have to deal with it.
"Non power-of-two Textures"
That's _thee_ key feature Apple needed to do the fully OpenGL desktop, along with a pile of more eligant error handling of course. Glad to see it's now standard.
It also makes the modeling and artist guys much happier. Do you have any idea how hard it is to make everything out of squares?
2.0 should put the last of what we need for the next 5 years into OpenGL, then maybe people can start writing more portable games again.
1. Embrace the machines.
:)
2. Force a recount.
3. Realize there IS nothing to recount.
4. Make popcorn and watch the crisis.
No more machines
For the millionth time...
They moved to Linux becasue their graphics apps were ported to Linux and since they are companies in business to make (and save) money, they dumped the OS they had to pay for in favor of the one they don't.
Simple enough?
Well almost all evolutionary pressures have been removed, so people with small problems have kids with bigger problems, and eventually they can't breed.
An amazing number of women can now not give birth except with direct medical intervention, since we stopped them from dying of childbirth generations ago.
Just like 10% of AIDS cases are completely drug resistant because we saved some victims, women are becoming reproductive resistant because we saved some.
Fear not, GATACA is only 20-30 years off, and then we can fix the next generation.
Looks like machines have replaced all poets by 2003. They can spew meaningless junk that noone wants to read with the best of them.