No sources say how the video was encrypted. Maybe it used weak crypto.
So you're saying we shouldn't follow the military's example and use ROT26 just because nobody else is using else, thus cunningly combining cryptography and obscurity ?
Thats why I buy everything through Steam, and hell, have given Steam games to other people for presents..
Same here, for me Steam has been the best thing since home sanitation. I can play on several machines (not at the same time, granted), I don't have to fish for disks, I no longer have boxes from 15 year old games taking space (I *could* sell them for a couple euros, but it's hardly worth the hassle) and they're for the most (except for ArmA 2 which is a bit special) kept up to date automagically whenever I start Windows. I now actually hesitate to buy stuff that isn't on Steam.
And If I don't want to play with/against other humans?
Then you'll have latency issues playing with beings from other solar systems and you'll probably get kicked from the games. Not to mention radio-telescope rental bills.
Because you are still trying to get your $60 from the consumer when today's fps' only have some 6-8 hours of gameplay.
The way I see it, a game I'll enjoy will keep me busy for something like 6 to 20 hours (possibly more if there's an online component) given that I'll likely replay some bits. Let's say there's a conservative 10 hours of entertainment in it for 50 € (typical retail price over here). Going to see a film costs 10 €. Which is the same hourly price (assuming a two hour film). Except that the better the game, the cheaper it gets (by the hour).
>>>tell that to my first edition 12" powerbook, still running strong after all these years.
Running what? Internet Explorer 4? How well does that work with modern web?
You could always install links which works on pretty much anything or remove MacOS and install Linux which does have modern browsers.
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A twinkie is a vanilla ladyfinger (soft oblong cake) with whipped cream filling.
Only in the US could this... thing... be called whipped cream. Twinkies are a particularly vile type of industrial junk food which is probably why they're so popular. People who have never seen them should count their blessings.
Umm, no they're not. Only the dash (huge green X) is lit up, or rather flashes on certain occasions.
So, if I set up my Alienware laptop to flash its bits and pieces on certain occasions (which it can apparently do through its lighting driver in Windows), will Microsoft feel compelled to sue Dell since the whole laptop cold be seen as a game controller of sorts ?
Or do I have to wait for a Linux driver to come out so they can sue the Linux foundation (or Linus, or SCO, or whoever) ?
How did they explain the out-of-body visions experienced by people who were born blind (and then actually saw things when their heart stopped beating)?
I'm not sure the heart was required to stop. However the reality of the visions was disproved in a series of experiments in which a number of highly visible and unusual items were placed out of sight of the patient but clearly visible to a "floating" out of body entity. None was ever mentionned in the subsequent interviews in which the patients recounted their experiences. OTOH they recalled pretty much all that was said around them.
So while the nature of the phenomenon still isn't very clear, it's been narrowed down a bit.
Conversely if you take the money that goes to fat upper management. massive marketing departments, and stockholder profits and plow it back into research you probably end up with more cures. The free market isn't always the most efficient way of accomplishing things despite what some of its adherents like to think.
In pharmacy, it seems pretty clear cut that nowadays it's among the worst. Pretty much no pharmacy lab does real research any more because there's too little ROI. They mostly repackage molecules and research marketing instead.
Creating a new market segment is much more profitable than creating a new cure.
Except both Windows PCs and the Xbox 360 both use DirectX, which represents the vast majority of the market.
Windows PC and the XBox *come with* DirectX but are in no way required to use it. Both platforms will happily run OpenGL based engines as long as the hardware is capable (on the PC side).
You have absolutely no idea how many linux and apple gamers use windows simply because it's the only thing that will run their games.
I'm not really sure what you mean by "Linux gamers use windows", but if it's saving a couple hundred gigs aside as a Windows partition that I boot off every now and then when I want to play, you can count me in. However I certainly wouldn't use Windows for actual work given how clumsy the interface or the i18n support is compared to pretty much any X11 desktop. Even all my photography is processed in Linux and I don't have any problems with that (thanks to Bibble Pro and digiKam).
Basically I run Windows every now and then instead of turning on a Playstation or XBox or whatever the next console will be, because the games I find fun (FPS, simulations, etc.) aren't available on consoles, or only as degraded versions. Plus my 24" monitor is probably larger than my TV anyway...
And while "baud rate" is now tacitly accepted as a term, baud already includes the unit of time. Saying "baud rate" is like saying "symbols/time/time" as if the data rate is accelerating. 2400 baud is already equivalent to 2400 symbols/second./pedant
(re-reading your post, I think you understand this but I think the distinction is important)
Especially since you certainly don't want to just send bits as the baud rates remain quite low. Current POTS modems are still around 3.5 KBd I think. It's the use of multiple symbols (instead of just two for bits) that increases the data throughput. On the fly data compression can help further. Of course some administrative stuff will take some of the bandwidth (error correction mostly).
when the C64 came out with 64K No-ONE doubted it had 65536 Bytes of RAM. if it would came out now, there would be confusion, so the kibi-business introduced confusion. people who don't understand the difference between binary and decimal have no place in IT
If you actually were in IT, you would by now have noticed that we suffer from a plague of users who not only vastly outnumber us, but care nothing for IT's redefining of standard units. 1K is 1000. That's all there is to it. So 64 is 64000. You actually expect users to go mess with the way computing defines sizes when a lot of them still have trouble figuring out what the difference between memory and disk is ?
Ah, but what size byte ? It should be Mb (bits) and Mo (for Mega octet) if you really mean 8 bit bytes.
Also remember that for most of the computer using population (who use them daily and understand nothing about them and certainly won't bother to learn weird historical unit distortions), Mega is million. It's the way it's used everywhere else after all. Even in data transmissions. When you get 1Kb/s, you get 1000 bits every second as specified in the standards, certainly not 1024.
I for one welcome the new units that will finally end this sillyness (although I wish octet was used more wildly).
So I can choose between nice 20W idle with ATI, but shit windows and goddamn awful linux drivers with only outdated X.org / kernel support for the cards.
Or this power hungry overpriced heater (yay, summer is coming), which at least has decent drivers.
I think I read somewhere (I'd have to look it up) that both ATI and nVidia make other models. Maybe you could find one that's more to your liking among those ?
OTOH, with summer comes the season of open case barbecues, so nVidia has at least something going for it ! (is the GF100 dishwasher safe ?)
Not to mention the overwhelming lead Nvidia has with GPGPU currently.
We are using GPU's for a number crunching tasks - integer operations.
And the CPU is busy computing the OpenGL the screensaver graphics ?:)
I know the GPUs have now moved into a different realm altogether but I still find it strange at times. I still see my graphics card as a glorified Tseng ET 4000 despite it probably having more processing power than most of my previous machines combined...
Seriously, you link to World Net Daily? That's the same outfit that rails about UN Peacekeepers building gulags in Kansas, while saying that having the President unilaterally declare citizens "unlawful combatants" and indefinitely imprisoning them without trial and having them tortured is a-okay.
I thought that was The Onion ? For us Europeans, keeping track of the satirical press in the US isn't easy. Well another funny rag to read is always nice I suppose, although this one seems to be a bit too far out from the little browsing I've done of their site.
Everybody has internet in venezuela. It's not a jungle, you know.
Ok, there's a lot of savannah too... But seeing how sparse the cell phone coverage is, there isn't that much Internet access in the countryside. I suppose that a lot of urban people have Internet access (and a lot of people are in cities) but outside of that... I doubt a lot of them are connected to a landline. They are not even connected to the electric grid (although this is mostly because petrol is basically free over there so each village has its generators).
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No sources say how the video was encrypted. Maybe it used weak crypto.
So you're saying we shouldn't follow the military's example and use ROT26 just because nobody else is using else, thus cunningly combining cryptography and obscurity ?
No I'll back you up on that.
Thats why I buy everything through Steam, and hell, have given Steam games to other people for presents..
Same here, for me Steam has been the best thing since home sanitation. I can play on several machines (not at the same time, granted), I don't have to fish for disks, I no longer have boxes from 15 year old games taking space (I *could* sell them for a couple euros, but it's hardly worth the hassle) and they're for the most (except for ArmA 2 which is a bit special) kept up to date automagically whenever I start Windows.
I now actually hesitate to buy stuff that isn't on Steam.
And If I don't want to play with/against other humans?
Then you'll have latency issues playing with beings from other solar systems and you'll probably get kicked from the games. Not to mention radio-telescope rental bills.
Probably not worth the hassle.
Because you are still trying to get your $60 from the consumer when today's fps' only have some 6-8 hours of gameplay.
The way I see it, a game I'll enjoy will keep me busy for something like 6 to 20 hours (possibly more if there's an online component) given that I'll likely replay some bits. Let's say there's a conservative 10 hours of entertainment in it for 50 € (typical retail price over here). Going to see a film costs 10 €. Which is the same hourly price (assuming a two hour film). Except that the better the game, the cheaper it gets (by the hour).
So bad games are expensive, good ones are cheap.
They made some awesome games back in the N64 days, that really pushed the console to its limits (like Banjo Kazooie 2).
They certainly pushed game naming to its limits at least.
Because MS allows the user decide, while Apple treats the user like a serf and blocks you.
But you get to be Jobs's serf, which apparently changes everything.
>>>tell that to my first edition 12" powerbook, still running strong after all these years.
Running what? Internet Explorer 4? How well does that work with modern web?
You could always install links which works on pretty much anything or remove MacOS and install Linux which does have modern browsers.
A twinkie is a vanilla ladyfinger (soft oblong cake) with whipped cream filling.
Only in the US could this... thing... be called whipped cream. Twinkies are a particularly vile type of industrial junk food which is probably why they're so popular.
People who have never seen them should count their blessings.
Umm, no they're not. Only the dash (huge green X) is lit up, or rather flashes on certain occasions.
So, if I set up my Alienware laptop to flash its bits and pieces on certain occasions (which it can apparently do through its lighting driver in Windows), will Microsoft feel compelled to sue Dell since the whole laptop cold be seen as a game controller of sorts ?
Or do I have to wait for a Linux driver to come out so they can sue the Linux foundation (or Linus, or SCO, or whoever) ?
How did they explain the out-of-body visions experienced by people who were born blind (and then actually saw things when their heart stopped beating)?
I'm not sure the heart was required to stop. However the reality of the visions was disproved in a series of experiments in which a number of highly visible and unusual items were placed out of sight of the patient but clearly visible to a "floating" out of body entity. None was ever mentionned in the subsequent interviews in which the patients recounted their experiences. OTOH they recalled pretty much all that was said around them.
So while the nature of the phenomenon still isn't very clear, it's been narrowed down a bit.
As the religionists will correctly point out any minute now, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
And rightfully so. Without the prospect of a beer volcano, how many would lose the will to live ?
LOL at the moderation from somebody who obviously knows absolutely nothing about the industry. :)
+5 insightful for listing the better model.
Anybody? ...
I guess we're stuck with capitalism for a while longer.
I can't believe nobody can find a better system than capitalism even when offered a +5 insightful as incentive. People are so apathetic nowadays...
Conversely if you take the money that goes to fat upper management. massive marketing departments, and stockholder profits and plow it back into research you probably end up with more cures. The free market isn't always the most efficient way of accomplishing things despite what some of its adherents like to think.
In pharmacy, it seems pretty clear cut that nowadays it's among the worst. Pretty much no pharmacy lab does real research any more because there's too little ROI. They mostly repackage molecules and research marketing instead.
Creating a new market segment is much more profitable than creating a new cure.
Except both Windows PCs and the Xbox 360 both use DirectX, which represents the vast majority of the market.
Windows PC and the XBox *come with* DirectX but are in no way required to use it. Both platforms will happily run OpenGL based engines as long as the hardware is capable (on the PC side).
You have absolutely no idea how many linux and apple gamers use windows simply because it's the only thing that will run their games.
I'm not really sure what you mean by "Linux gamers use windows", but if it's saving a couple hundred gigs aside as a Windows partition that I boot off every now and then when I want to play, you can count me in.
However I certainly wouldn't use Windows for actual work given how clumsy the interface or the i18n support is compared to pretty much any X11 desktop. Even all my photography is processed in Linux and I don't have any problems with that (thanks to Bibble Pro and digiKam).
Basically I run Windows every now and then instead of turning on a Playstation or XBox or whatever the next console will be, because the games I find fun (FPS, simulations, etc.) aren't available on consoles, or only as degraded versions. Plus my 24" monitor is probably larger than my TV anyway...
And while "baud rate" is now tacitly accepted as a term, baud already includes the unit of time. Saying "baud rate" is like saying "symbols/time/time" as if the data rate is accelerating. 2400 baud is already equivalent to 2400 symbols/second. /pedant
(re-reading your post, I think you understand this but I think the distinction is important)
Especially since you certainly don't want to just send bits as the baud rates remain quite low. Current POTS modems are still around 3.5 KBd I think. It's the use of multiple symbols (instead of just two for bits) that increases the data throughput. On the fly data compression can help further. Of course some administrative stuff will take some of the bandwidth (error correction mostly).
when the C64 came out with 64K No-ONE doubted it had 65536 Bytes of RAM. if it would came out now, there would be confusion, so the kibi-business introduced confusion. people who don't understand the difference between binary and decimal have no place in IT
If you actually were in IT, you would by now have noticed that we suffer from a plague of users who not only vastly outnumber us, but care nothing for IT's redefining of standard units. 1K is 1000. That's all there is to it. So 64 is 64000.
You actually expect users to go mess with the way computing defines sizes when a lot of them still have trouble figuring out what the difference between memory and disk is ?
You missed the Mb = megabit MB = megabyte
Ah, but what size byte ?
It should be Mb (bits) and Mo (for Mega octet) if you really mean 8 bit bytes.
Also remember that for most of the computer using population (who use them daily and understand nothing about them and certainly won't bother to learn weird historical unit distortions), Mega is million. It's the way it's used everywhere else after all. Even in data transmissions. When you get 1Kb/s, you get 1000 bits every second as specified in the standards, certainly not 1024.
I for one welcome the new units that will finally end this sillyness (although I wish octet was used more wildly).
So I can choose between nice 20W idle with ATI, but shit windows and goddamn awful linux drivers with only outdated X.org / kernel support for the cards.
Or this power hungry overpriced heater (yay, summer is coming), which at least has decent drivers.
I think I read somewhere (I'd have to look it up) that both ATI and nVidia make other models.
Maybe you could find one that's more to your liking among those ?
OTOH, with summer comes the season of open case barbecues, so nVidia has at least something going for it !
(is the GF100 dishwasher safe ?)
Not to mention the overwhelming lead Nvidia has with GPGPU currently.
We are using GPU's for a number crunching tasks - integer operations.
And the CPU is busy computing the OpenGL the screensaver graphics ? :)
I know the GPUs have now moved into a different realm altogether but I still find it strange at times.
I still see my graphics card as a glorified Tseng ET 4000 despite it probably having more processing power than most of my previous machines combined...
Just stop studying! Less brain power means you need to eat less, saving more food, requiring fewer farms, and an overall win for the environment!
I think you're on to something. A lot of recent trends just made sense to me.
Yeah, let's make the handful of people who run the government have all the wealth and power. Somehow that's better, right?
At least *some* people get rich.
Wait, that works in China too. Ah, it's just screwed everywhere.
You look quite fetching in that tin foil hat.
Seriously, you link to World Net Daily? That's the same outfit that rails about UN Peacekeepers building gulags in Kansas, while saying that having the President unilaterally declare citizens "unlawful combatants" and indefinitely imprisoning them without trial and having them tortured is a-okay.
I thought that was The Onion ?
For us Europeans, keeping track of the satirical press in the US isn't easy.
Well another funny rag to read is always nice I suppose, although this one seems to be a bit too far out from the little browsing I've done of their site.
Everybody has internet in venezuela. It's not a jungle, you know.
Ok, there's a lot of savannah too...
But seeing how sparse the cell phone coverage is, there isn't that much Internet access in the countryside. I suppose that a lot of urban people have Internet access (and a lot of people are in cities) but outside of that... I doubt a lot of them are connected to a landline. They are not even connected to the electric grid (although this is mostly because petrol is basically free over there so each village has its generators).