Ok, so do it this way. 1. Set up an NTP-server, make sure it had the correct time and create a script/application/whatever to make it handle daylightsaving correctly. 2. Turn of automatic daylight saving on all computers and servers. 3. Make all computers and servers sync their time against the NTP-server.
Problem solved.
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One could argue that we actually do not need DX10. Just keep developing for DX9 instead. Logically, it will probably be quite a while before any studios, besides those owned, bullied or bribed by Microsoft, start developing games that requires DX10 anyway. The userbase should be to small to be profitable. A mean, who the hell would buy a operating-system that cost as much, or more, than a current generation game-console, just o be able to play a game? (XB360, PS3 and Wii are now current generation, since they've been released)
It's too bad that Mac and Linux are such small players in the gamer-world. Otherwise most studios would probably use OpenGL, since it's cross platform.
Wonder if some creative hacker will be able to backport DX10 to XP. That would be a nice solution too... Best of two worlds. DX10 *and* hardware-accelerated sound. =)
While you could contort this into meaning they've given you permission to decrypt it, they've not given you the right to obtain the keys you would need to do so.
By selling me a HD-DVD/Bluray-disc, they give me permission to decrypt said content, but they do not give me the tools or keys to do so. When, for instance, Toshiba sell me an HD-DVD player, they sell me a tool to do the decryption with and a key, although a bit hidden.
I now own an encrypted media-file and a key to decrypt it. What tool I use to decrypt this legally acquired file with my legally acquired key with should be no ones business but my own.
If you, for an example, get a computer-science degree, you probably won't have learned enough network-engineering to be suited for that kind of work. University studies tend to be quite general, to give you a basic orientation on lots of stuff. Not the kind of expert knowledge that is needed for a specific line of work. You'd have to have learned it all by yourself before or during your studies. If you haven't, you'd probably need to get those CCNA, etc, regardless in order to gain the required skill. Even if you *are* self thought in the area, you probably still lack lot's leading-edge knowledge.
Either way, getting an A+ isn't such a bad idea. I've seen companies that *requires* you to have that. I don't have that certificate but I do have more than the comparable knowledge, plus several years of experience, and I've been sorted out from at least one job I applied for due to that. (Corporate rule that all technical employees must have A+)
He probably meant that it takes 1.6GB to load up the dev-tools. I mean, he can't see how much RAM he's using at the login-prompt anyway, can he? =) He might be getting his numbers from some source that doesn't subtract the system cache, though.;-) It's not uncommon for people to rant about how much RAM they're using when 70% of it are just cache that are still available for applications.
As long as they do not make it suck as a music-player. I bought a SonyEricsson "Walkman-phone" and those *do* suck when used for listening to music. Reasons: 1. I hate those damn interfaces where you only can navigate your music-collection via the ID-tags. Give me a directory-tree, dammit! 2. No built in 3.5 plug. Have to use an adapter to connect headphones. 3. The computer-connection sucks. Takes 5-10 seconds for it to switch between "connected as phone" and "connected as flash-memory" modes, slow transfer and there are media-files on the phone that you can not delete!!! 4. The player sometimes fails while playing mp3's! And it's random, not the cause of faulty files! 5. Audio-quality sucks. 6. Not that important, but when switching themes on the phone, it's impossible to change the looks of the media-player. =(
If Apple has managed to stay away from such screwups, maybe I'll switch to one when they get here.
On the other hand, they did make a few good calls in the walkman-phone design. 1. It connects as a regular flash-drive 2. It's a *really* great phone.
Instant movement between places isn't what I meant either. That wouldn't fix the problem of the characters moving dead-slow while moving short distances. Towards the end of my ~6 months long WoW period, I didn't even train my characters anymore. To slow running around the cities... I would log in, start running, for an example, from the inn to the flight-tower in orgrimmar and halfway there I would stop and log out. Stopped doing quests, instances, leveling, etc, etc. Simply gave up on the boring parts and then there was nothing left to do, so I deleted my characters...
But, of course, I'm one of those who continuously got more and more bored with WoW instead for becoming more and more fixated, like most WoW-playing people I know.
All I said was that the more complex the lifeform, the less likely it is to exist. This means that even though we exist, a "god" is not very likely to exist. If we are, as some claim, "to complex to exist", a "god" is even more unlikely to exist.
Therefore, I think the entire concept of a god and intelligent design is stupid.
I drew Koch kurves, Sierpinski triangles and Cantor set's when I was ~10 - 12 years old. Of course not to infinity (doh), but I drew them as far as I could with a pen and eraser. I didn't have a clue what I was drawing, about fraktals, about the math or the therories behind it. They where just nice and interesting patterns to me.
I don't understand. He was saying that Apple work better than MS or Linux because they only support their own hardware and that if MS only needed to support MS-made hardware (like apple) they'd too be more stable. He also said that it is amazing how MS and Linux can be so stable with all the millions of different hardware-combinations they run... What has that to do with how Linux compares to MS? And even though Linux do run on lots of architectures, the sheer amount of x86-hardware out there and the incredible "Nr of installed MS-OS vs Nr of installed Linux"-ration might actually make the number of unique combinations of hardware with an MS-OS installed larger than the unique combinations that has Linux installed.
And I'd say that the standard x86-architecture is pretty open. No weird "Microsoft-bus" anywhere that only lets you install Microsoft-hardware or graphics-cards that only will work with a certain motherboard-vendor, etc. That certain hardware-designers choose not to release specifications on their chips doesn't make the entire architecture proprietary, like Apple, Sun, Silicon-Graphics, Atari, Amiga, etc, etc... The only really proprietary, non-open piece in a standard x86 PC is the processor-socket. You can either go Intel or AMD and have to decide this when you buy your mainboard.
Cryogenics has to do with how stuff behaves at low temperatures. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryogenic I would venture a guess that he uses the term to describe that the coils used to create the magnetic containment-field are cooled until they become super conductive.
Blizzard should make their own autopilot-software for WoW. One of the reasons I stopped playing WoW was all the horribly slow and boring traveling.
When I started playing, my first though was "Argh! He moves too slow! I must reach level 40 and get a mount!" After ~20 levels I was bored with leveling and the simplistic, repetitive quests. After reaching level 40 with my main I found that he was *still* horribly slow, and also had to dismount his war-stead to fight! (wtf?) What? A better mount at level 60? No way! Deleted my 6 characters, uninstalled the game, canceled my subscription.
An autopilot and faster movement at lower levels might have made the game bearable.
No. If it turns out that the chance of intelligent life evolving is that low, the likelihood of some kind of überpowerful being capable of creating intelligent life on an arbitrary planet in the universe (A "god") evolving would be even lower. Claiming that something must have created us would only move the problem one step farther away. Even if we where created by a "god", that isn't an answer to the question how we came to exist. It only transforms the question into how that being came to exist.
>The 400mhz G4 actually handled all the graphics on its own. it was a pre-Quartz system due to its inferior graphics card (I think it only had 16MB of video RAM). The newer versions of MacOS made the system reasonably fast even without the hardware acceleration.
>Of course the newer machines with hardware acceleration were loads faster, but after Tiger performance actually wasn't half bad on the old systems.
Oh.. I didn't know this. So they didn't even use 2D accelerating stuff, like blitting and stuff? That's so early 80's! =D
I was under the impression that the first version of OSX had no hardware acceleration and that that was the reason for the horrible speed-problems, then they introduced 2D acceleration and made the GUI usable, then started using the 3D engine and made the GUI zip along...
The reason for opened cd-cases not being refunded is that they're wrapped in plastic and can not be sold as new if they've been opened. Same thing goes for a lot of stuff where the packaging is shrink wrapped. Lots of stores claim that they won't accept a return of the plastic's off, or at least that they won't do a full refund.
Not sure if they actually *can* refuse, but many do.
>>This means that a 400mhz PowerBook had about 5x (actually almost 6x) the pixels of an iPhone. >> >>So if you think of it that way, it seems to me like there should be very little problem with running MacOS X on a 200mhz processor with a phone >>sized screen.
A port of OS X doesn't necessarily imply a port of the GUI-system. The PB G4 has a separate graphics-processor to handle all those pixels, with the CPU mostly running the OS and the applications. If the Iphone hasn't got a really hunky graphics-coprocessor, running a heavy GUI like Quartz will make applications grind to a halt, even with the lower resolution. Just look at how slow the first release of OS X where, before they got the GUI hardware-accelerated. More probable is that, if they've ported OS X to their phone, it has a much simpler GUI-system that only looks like Quarts on the surface.
Jupp... Some female babes in tight catsuits or something, to attract the males or homosexual females. Some hunky male "babes" in thongs or something, to attract the females or homosexual males....and a few sexy, modded computers set up, to attract the technophiles. ^_^
I have actually seen this while working as it-support for a company. An angry customer had hit the front of a crt-monitor with a hammer. There where not a shredd of glass outside the tube. Just an "inverted crater" visible through the glass, a hole the size of the hammer-head and a strong smell of what probably was phosphor.
And this re-initialization isn't needed when you've only turned of the power of all your hardware and then powered it on again, like when you do a regular hibernation? Only when you've hibernated, removed or added non-hotswap hardware and then resumed again? So the idéa of a boot-image that you resume from everytime you boot and only change when you've changed your hardware or want to change how your system looks after a fresh boot (like the original poster wanted) would only work if you change the boot-image every time you change your hardware?
I'm still confused as to why a static hibarnation-file wouldn't work most of the time for most people, as long as they create a new file when they reconfigure their system.
That is what people told me when I talked about wanting just such a "boot-image" feature ten years ago. "Can't be done. You'd have your machine's hardware in an unknown state if you used the same hibernationfile every boot..."
But shouldn't this also apply to the resuming from a hibernation file that is done today? I can hibernate windows, load up linux, reboot, remove my laptop from it's dock and then resume windows in a working state where it promptly tells me that I've remeoved my usb-drive/usb-soundcard and usb-midi-interface and then continue to work...
I regularly do this with my laptop (not changing the files, but removeing/adding hardware) since it's sits in a dock with lots connected and sometimes when I've hibernated, I don't want to start it up just to remove it from the dock... If windows refuses to boot while out of the dock, I delete the hibernation-file at next boot and do a standard boot...
Most people do not remove or add hardware, other than usb-stuff, often enough that it would be a problem that you have to make a new "boot-image" to acommodate the new hardware. And even fewer go around tinkering with their files with another OS. If you are one of those, of course, you could choose to always do the standard boot-process.
I always hibernate even if I've closed all apps since a standard boot takes abotu 4 times longer than a hibernation-load on my system. Since windows isn't exactly well suited for never being rebooted, I have to reboot once in a while to get it back to a clean state again though. Would be nice to have this clean, freashly booted state every time *and* still have the benifit of the 1/4 boot time. =)
What he suggests is creating a hibernation-file that never change, unless you specifically want it to. Every hibernation-implementation I've seen so far requires you to create a new hibernation-file every time you want to turn off your computer, otherwise it'll delete the old hibernation-file and do a standard boot. You can't simply boot your computer, do a snapshot of it in a fresh booted state and then use that snapshot everytime you boot... I have wanted this capability ever since I bought my first laptop, which did hibernation to a specific partition without any need for OS-support.
Maybe it's possible to create a hack for windows, allowing this? =)
Well... We can always do an experiment. Let's release massive amounts of greenhouse-gasses and see what happens. Oh, wait. We started that experiment at the beginning of the industrial revolution, didn't we? If nothing happens, we saved lots of money and effort on not developing low-emission technologies. If the outcome is screwing up the earth, it's lucky we've got nice biospheres like venus and mars right around the corner.
But we have no reference so we wouldn't know what would have happened in the other scenario anyway... Maybe we should just restrain our emissions anyway... Just in case.
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Ok, so do it this way.
1. Set up an NTP-server, make sure it had the correct time and create a script/application/whatever to make it handle daylightsaving correctly.
2. Turn of automatic daylight saving on all computers and servers.
3. Make all computers and servers sync their time against the NTP-server.
Problem solved.
One could argue that we actually do not need DX10. Just keep developing for DX9 instead.
Logically, it will probably be quite a while before any studios, besides those owned, bullied or bribed by Microsoft, start developing games that requires DX10 anyway.
The userbase should be to small to be profitable.
A mean, who the hell would buy a operating-system that cost as much, or more, than a current generation game-console, just o be able to play a game? (XB360, PS3 and Wii are now current generation, since they've been released)
It's too bad that Mac and Linux are such small players in the gamer-world.
Otherwise most studios would probably use OpenGL, since it's cross platform.
Wonder if some creative hacker will be able to backport DX10 to XP. That would be a nice solution too...
Best of two worlds. DX10 *and* hardware-accelerated sound. =)
That's only true if they only use tidal-waves.
Most regular surface-waves are created by the wind, which means that they are actually solar-powered.
While you could contort this into meaning they've given you permission to decrypt it, they've not given you the right to obtain the keys you would need to do so.
By selling me a HD-DVD/Bluray-disc, they give me permission to decrypt said content, but they do not give me the tools or keys to do so.
When, for instance, Toshiba sell me an HD-DVD player, they sell me a tool to do the decryption with and a key, although a bit hidden.
I now own an encrypted media-file and a key to decrypt it.
What tool I use to decrypt this legally acquired file with my legally acquired key with should be no ones business but my own.
If you, for an example, get a computer-science degree, you probably won't have learned enough network-engineering to be suited for that kind of work. University studies tend to be quite general, to give you a basic orientation on lots of stuff.
Not the kind of expert knowledge that is needed for a specific line of work.
You'd have to have learned it all by yourself before or during your studies.
If you haven't, you'd probably need to get those CCNA, etc, regardless in order to gain the required skill.
Even if you *are* self thought in the area, you probably still lack lot's leading-edge knowledge.
Either way, getting an A+ isn't such a bad idea.
I've seen companies that *requires* you to have that.
I don't have that certificate but I do have more than the comparable knowledge, plus several years of experience, and I've been sorted out from at least one job I applied for due to that. (Corporate rule that all technical employees must have A+)
He probably meant that it takes 1.6GB to load up the dev-tools. ;-)
I mean, he can't see how much RAM he's using at the login-prompt anyway, can he? =)
He might be getting his numbers from some source that doesn't subtract the system cache, though.
It's not uncommon for people to rant about how much RAM they're using when 70% of it are just cache that are still available for applications.
As long as they do not make it suck as a music-player.
I bought a SonyEricsson "Walkman-phone" and those *do* suck when used for listening to music.
Reasons:
1. I hate those damn interfaces where you only can navigate your music-collection via the ID-tags. Give me a directory-tree, dammit!
2. No built in 3.5 plug. Have to use an adapter to connect headphones.
3. The computer-connection sucks. Takes 5-10 seconds for it to switch between "connected as phone" and "connected as flash-memory" modes, slow transfer and there are media-files on the phone that you can not delete!!!
4. The player sometimes fails while playing mp3's! And it's random, not the cause of faulty files!
5. Audio-quality sucks.
6. Not that important, but when switching themes on the phone, it's impossible to change the looks of the media-player. =(
If Apple has managed to stay away from such screwups, maybe I'll switch to one when they get here.
On the other hand, they did make a few good calls in the walkman-phone design.
1. It connects as a regular flash-drive
2. It's a *really* great phone.
Instant movement between places isn't what I meant either. That wouldn't fix the problem of the characters moving dead-slow while moving short distances.
Towards the end of my ~6 months long WoW period, I didn't even train my characters anymore. To slow running around the cities...
I would log in, start running, for an example, from the inn to the flight-tower in orgrimmar and halfway there I would stop and log out.
Stopped doing quests, instances, leveling, etc, etc. Simply gave up on the boring parts and then there was nothing left to do, so I deleted my characters...
But, of course, I'm one of those who continuously got more and more bored with WoW instead for becoming more and more fixated, like most WoW-playing people I know.
All I said was that the more complex the lifeform, the less likely it is to exist.
This means that even though we exist, a "god" is not very likely to exist.
If we are, as some claim, "to complex to exist", a "god" is even more unlikely to exist.
Therefore, I think the entire concept of a god and intelligent design is stupid.
I'm sorry that my post was so missunderstood.
I drew Koch kurves, Sierpinski triangles and Cantor set's when I was ~10 - 12 years old.
Of course not to infinity (doh), but I drew them as far as I could with a pen and eraser.
I didn't have a clue what I was drawing, about fraktals, about the math or the therories behind it.
They where just nice and interesting patterns to me.
I don't understand.
He was saying that Apple work better than MS or Linux because they only support their own hardware and that if MS only needed to support MS-made hardware (like apple) they'd too be more stable.
He also said that it is amazing how MS and Linux can be so stable with all the millions of different hardware-combinations they run...
What has that to do with how Linux compares to MS?
And even though Linux do run on lots of architectures, the sheer amount of x86-hardware out there and the incredible "Nr of installed MS-OS vs Nr of installed Linux"-ration might actually make the number of unique combinations of hardware with an MS-OS installed larger than the unique combinations that has Linux installed.
And I'd say that the standard x86-architecture is pretty open. No weird "Microsoft-bus" anywhere that only lets you install Microsoft-hardware or graphics-cards that only will work with a certain motherboard-vendor, etc.
That certain hardware-designers choose not to release specifications on their chips doesn't make the entire architecture proprietary, like Apple, Sun, Silicon-Graphics, Atari, Amiga, etc, etc...
The only really proprietary, non-open piece in a standard x86 PC is the processor-socket. You can either go Intel or AMD and have to decide this when you buy your mainboard.
Cryogenics has to do with how stuff behaves at low temperatures. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryogenic
I would venture a guess that he uses the term to describe that the coils used to create the magnetic containment-field are cooled until they become super conductive.
Blizzard should make their own autopilot-software for WoW.
One of the reasons I stopped playing WoW was all the horribly slow and boring traveling.
When I started playing, my first though was "Argh! He moves too slow! I must reach level 40 and get a mount!"
After ~20 levels I was bored with leveling and the simplistic, repetitive quests.
After reaching level 40 with my main I found that he was *still* horribly slow, and also had to dismount his war-stead to fight! (wtf?)
What? A better mount at level 60? No way!
Deleted my 6 characters, uninstalled the game, canceled my subscription.
An autopilot and faster movement at lower levels might have made the game bearable.
No. If it turns out that the chance of intelligent life evolving is that low, the likelihood of some kind of überpowerful being capable of creating intelligent life on an arbitrary planet in the universe (A "god") evolving would be even lower.
Claiming that something must have created us would only move the problem one step farther away.
Even if we where created by a "god", that isn't an answer to the question how we came to exist. It only transforms the question into how that being came to exist.
>The 400mhz G4 actually handled all the graphics on its own. it was a pre-Quartz system due to its inferior graphics card (I think it only had 16MB of video RAM). The newer versions of MacOS made the system reasonably fast even without the hardware acceleration.
>Of course the newer machines with hardware acceleration were loads faster, but after Tiger performance actually wasn't half bad on the old systems.
Oh.. I didn't know this.
So they didn't even use 2D accelerating stuff, like blitting and stuff?
That's so early 80's! =D
I was under the impression that the first version of OSX had no hardware acceleration and that that was the reason for the horrible speed-problems, then they introduced 2D acceleration and made the GUI usable, then started using the 3D engine and made the GUI zip along...
Depends on how you see it.
The reason for opened cd-cases not being refunded is that they're wrapped in plastic and can not be sold as new if they've been opened.
Same thing goes for a lot of stuff where the packaging is shrink wrapped. Lots of stores claim that they won't accept a return of the plastic's off, or at least that they won't do a full refund.
Not sure if they actually *can* refuse, but many do.
>>This means that a 400mhz PowerBook had about 5x (actually almost 6x) the pixels of an iPhone.
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>>So if you think of it that way, it seems to me like there should be very little problem with running MacOS X on a 200mhz processor with a phone >>sized screen.
A port of OS X doesn't necessarily imply a port of the GUI-system.
The PB G4 has a separate graphics-processor to handle all those pixels, with the CPU mostly running the OS and the applications.
If the Iphone hasn't got a really hunky graphics-coprocessor, running a heavy GUI like Quartz will make applications grind to a halt, even with the lower resolution. Just look at how slow the first release of OS X where, before they got the GUI hardware-accelerated.
More probable is that, if they've ported OS X to their phone, it has a much simpler GUI-system that only looks like Quarts on the surface.
Jupp... ...and a few sexy, modded computers set up, to attract the technophiles. ^_^
Some female babes in tight catsuits or something, to attract the males or homosexual females.
Some hunky male "babes" in thongs or something, to attract the females or homosexual males.
I think he meant "There is no need to shell out $??? for a vista-license or $????(?) for a new computer with vista bundled when stuff works(tm)"
I have actually seen this while working as it-support for a company.
An angry customer had hit the front of a crt-monitor with a hammer.
There where not a shredd of glass outside the tube. Just an "inverted crater" visible through the glass, a hole the size of the hammer-head and a strong smell of what probably was phosphor.
No explotion... =)
And this re-initialization isn't needed when you've only turned of the power of all your hardware and then powered it on again, like when you do a regular hibernation? Only when you've hibernated, removed or added non-hotswap hardware and then resumed again?
So the idéa of a boot-image that you resume from everytime you boot and only change when you've changed your hardware or want to change how your system looks after a fresh boot (like the original poster wanted) would only work if you change the boot-image every time you change your hardware?
I'm still confused as to why a static hibarnation-file wouldn't work most of the time for most people, as long as they create a new file when they reconfigure their system.
That is what people told me when I talked about wanting just such a "boot-image" feature ten years ago.
"Can't be done. You'd have your machine's hardware in an unknown state if you used the same hibernationfile every boot..."
But shouldn't this also apply to the resuming from a hibernation file that is done today?
I can hibernate windows, load up linux, reboot, remove my laptop from it's dock and then resume windows in a working state where it promptly tells me that I've remeoved my usb-drive/usb-soundcard and usb-midi-interface and then continue to work...
I regularly do this with my laptop (not changing the files, but removeing/adding hardware) since it's sits in a dock with lots connected and sometimes when I've hibernated, I don't want to start it up just to remove it from the dock...
If windows refuses to boot while out of the dock, I delete the hibernation-file at next boot and do a standard boot...
Most people do not remove or add hardware, other than usb-stuff, often enough that it would be a problem that you have to make a new "boot-image" to acommodate the new hardware.
And even fewer go around tinkering with their files with another OS.
If you are one of those, of course, you could choose to always do the standard boot-process.
I always hibernate even if I've closed all apps since a standard boot takes abotu 4 times longer than a hibernation-load on my system. Since windows isn't exactly well suited for never being rebooted, I have to reboot once in a while to get it back to a clean state again though.
Would be nice to have this clean, freashly booted state every time *and* still have the benifit of the 1/4 boot time. =)
What he suggests is creating a hibernation-file that never change, unless you specifically want it to.
Every hibernation-implementation I've seen so far requires you to create a new hibernation-file every time you want to turn off your computer, otherwise it'll delete the old hibernation-file and do a standard boot.
You can't simply boot your computer, do a snapshot of it in a fresh booted state and then use that snapshot everytime you boot...
I have wanted this capability ever since I bought my first laptop, which did hibernation to a specific partition without any need for OS-support.
Maybe it's possible to create a hack for windows, allowing this? =)
Well... We can always do an experiment. Let's release massive amounts of greenhouse-gasses and see what happens.
Oh, wait. We started that experiment at the beginning of the industrial revolution, didn't we?
If nothing happens, we saved lots of money and effort on not developing low-emission technologies.
If the outcome is screwing up the earth, it's lucky we've got nice biospheres like venus and mars right around the corner.
But we have no reference so we wouldn't know what would have happened in the other scenario anyway...
Maybe we should just restrain our emissions anyway... Just in case.