I'm no microsoftie by any stretch, but I'd just like to say, that as an engineer, having just completed a senior project and successfully demoed it, that anything that can possibly go wrong, will wait until the demo to do so.
We got away with our demo looking like everything was working perfectly with a bit of smoke and mirrors, and arm waving.
"See? Look at the little temperature chart go across the screen! No, don't notice that if it gets colder in here, the line will go up instead of down. Oh yes, and please ignore the fact that the text being transmitted isn't the same as what we input, and in fact is sometimes transmitted spontaneously"
Slackware was my first distro - the A set, the N set, and I can't remember what other letters there were. Stacks of floppies. Boy I was on cloud nine when I could download and burn the RedHat 4.2 CD at my community college (in under 2 hours!).
Never played Bard's Tale, but I still reminisce about those old Atari 800 games we had. The ORIGINAL Castle Wolfenstein and Return to Wolfenstein. The graphics were amazing, voice synthesis - just amazing for - hmmm... I'm thinking it was about 1986.
Oh, they are! And the DOJ has convicted them of it multiple times.
The problem is the little slap-on-the-wrist DOJ response.
After the 500 million euro fine the EU handed to microsoft, the DOJ responded with something to the effect of "but think of the effect on the world economy!"
Check the changelog - lots of C porting. Ask Nach. Check out the zsnes board, you might learn something.
From the website: "Snes9x is coded in C++, with three assembler CPU emulation cores on the i386 Linux and Windows ports."
The three assembler CPU emulation cores are alternatives to the C++ cores. You can have an ~100% C++ snes9x, no assembly, or you can have one with some hand-tuned assembly for better performance.
Oh yeah, and the assembly cores were borrowed from ZSNES. Look at the source code.
Actually, there was a situation in the Mojave desert where the navy wanted to build a base around a podunk town that already had an airport. When the residents found out about it, they started buying up the land in order to create a "shortage" that would raise the value of all the land in the area.
Consequently, the Navy went about 40 miles down the valley, bought up a few mountain ranges in the deal, and built their own darned airport.
Last I heard, Inyokern still has a few hundred residents, mostly living in trailers, an airport, and a whole lot of barren land surrounding it (~30 miles worth).
Just compensation usually amounts to fair market value - whether they mean developed or undeveloped, no clue.
He updates the site maybe once a day, and based upon a wide number of polls. He's not doing hourly updates as the results come back from different precincts.
You're buying permission, not product. Once you pay, you have a RIGHT (copyRIGHT) to that product.
Buy a DVD and it scratches? You've every right to a duplicate. *I* think that they should be legally bound to provide replacements. Probably at the cost of media and nothing more. Go into your local retailer, give them your damaged copy and about $0.50, they give you a new one. That simple. The store then gets reimbursed.
His idea of making remote connections a highly compressed pixel stream doesn't excite me - it seems less than ideal.
I would think that you would want to stream, when possible, rendering api calls, so that you can send pixel data as pixels, vector data as vectors, and 3d surface and texture data as such.
Maybe have a method for negotiating what rendering api's are supported, stream those, and then render the rest as pixels and push those.
My intuition tells me that doing so would make remote connection streaming a lot more efficient. Maybe someone with more knowledge than me can explain why this would/wouldn't be a good idea.
I grew up by a military base and there was a big sign at the entrance stating that certain types of radio emissions were prohibited, and I remember this from back in 1985 or so.
Not surprised in the least, and I think it's perfectly within their rights.
He's clueless in that the only side of the issue that he understands is the side that benefits monopoly and stockholders. He has a position, but he doesn't understand the technological consequences of that position.
I was referring to something a little less direct in terms of consequences. EDS brings in some new jobs for the local administration of their contract, but most of the jobs existed before, just under another contractor.
ALl the money that bases used to spend at local businesses for computers, office furniture, etc., that used to be supporting local businesses, now basically goes to EDS corporate.
And the good reason for spending the money in local businesses is that these bases are not taxed. Therefore their tax dollars don't go to pay for anything. I grew up in a town that existed ONLY because the Navy built a base there. Most of the employed population was employed by the base. Taxes on businesses are what fund the schools, and with so many people and so few taxable businesses, the schools were in really sad shape. By having the base buy locally, there's that much more money being taxed to support the local economy and schools.
Yep, and EDS has royally screwed up that contract, too. Late deployments, deployments costing much more than forecast (but I think EDS has to eat up the difference), reduced productivity.
It has also killed a lot of small businesses that used to supply technology and office materials to Navy bases. For office supply and technology purchases, there are strong incentives to buy locally, even if it costs more (which sounds bad, but has a VERY good reason). With EDS doing it all, (some) local economies around these bases have been tanking.
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Or fanless.
Building a little VIA Eden mini-itx box, fanless, will certainly help in keeping the system protected from the harsh environment.
I'm no microsoftie by any stretch, but I'd just like to say, that as an engineer, having just completed a senior project and successfully demoed it, that anything that can possibly go wrong, will wait until the demo to do so.
We got away with our demo looking like everything was working perfectly with a bit of smoke and mirrors, and arm waving.
"See? Look at the little temperature chart go across the screen! No, don't notice that if it gets colder in here, the line will go up instead of down. Oh yes, and please ignore the fact that the text being transmitted isn't the same as what we input, and in fact is sometimes transmitted spontaneously"
I'm still married. Interestingly enough, I bought my wife The Sims 2 for Christmas.
Coincidence? Or sinister plot?
Oh yeah - props to the 4 digiters (Slash Ids)
Slackware was my first distro - the A set, the N set, and I can't remember what other letters there were. Stacks of floppies. Boy I was on cloud nine when I could download and burn the RedHat 4.2 CD at my community college (in under 2 hours!).
Never played Bard's Tale, but I still reminisce about those old Atari 800 games we had. The ORIGINAL Castle Wolfenstein and Return to Wolfenstein. The graphics were amazing, voice synthesis - just amazing for - hmmm... I'm thinking it was about 1986.
Oh, they are! And the DOJ has convicted them of it multiple times.
The problem is the little slap-on-the-wrist DOJ response.
After the 500 million euro fine the EU handed to microsoft, the DOJ responded with something to the effect of "but think of the effect on the world economy!"
You lose.
Check the changelog - lots of C porting. Ask Nach. Check out the zsnes board, you might learn something.
From the website:
"Snes9x is coded in C++, with three assembler CPU emulation cores on the i386 Linux and Windows ports."
The three assembler CPU emulation cores are alternatives to the C++ cores. You can have an ~100% C++ snes9x, no assembly, or you can have one with some hand-tuned assembly for better performance.
Oh yeah, and the assembly cores were borrowed from ZSNES. Look at the source code.
Actually, there was a situation in the Mojave desert where the navy wanted to build a base around a podunk town that already had an airport. When the residents found out about it, they started buying up the land in order to create a "shortage" that would raise the value of all the land in the area.
Consequently, the Navy went about 40 miles down the valley, bought up a few mountain ranges in the deal, and built their own darned airport.
Last I heard, Inyokern still has a few hundred residents, mostly living in trailers, an airport, and a whole lot of barren land surrounding it (~30 miles worth).
Just compensation usually amounts to fair market value - whether they mean developed or undeveloped, no clue.
ZSNES isn't all in assembly, and there are (slow, painful) efforts to port all the GUI code to C.
slowly, portions of the ZSNES code are making their way into C.
In the end, the difference between ZSNES and Snes9x will be whether you want an x86 asm core, or a C core.
Just this:
Microsoft has incentive to write insecure software in the first place, if they can sell people on their security package.
He updates the site maybe once a day, and based upon a wide number of polls. He's not doing hourly updates as the results come back from different precincts.
Actually, it comes down to this:
You're buying permission, not product. Once you pay, you have a RIGHT (copyRIGHT) to that product.
Buy a DVD and it scratches? You've every right to a duplicate. *I* think that they should be legally bound to provide replacements. Probably at the cost of media and nothing more. Go into your local retailer, give them your damaged copy and about $0.50, they give you a new one. That simple. The store then gets reimbursed.
His idea of making remote connections a highly compressed pixel stream doesn't excite me - it seems less than ideal.
I would think that you would want to stream, when possible, rendering api calls, so that you can send pixel data as pixels, vector data as vectors, and 3d surface and texture data as such.
Maybe have a method for negotiating what rendering api's are supported, stream those, and then render the rest as pixels and push those.
My intuition tells me that doing so would make remote connection streaming a lot more efficient. Maybe someone with more knowledge than me can explain why this would/wouldn't be a good idea.
Knowing the power of duct tape, I would not want it in the hands of technology-subverting demons.
Who can imagine what Hell itself would do with the awesome power of duct tape?
I grew up by a military base and there was a big sign at the entrance stating that certain types of radio emissions were prohibited, and I remember this from back in 1985 or so.
Not surprised in the least, and I think it's perfectly within their rights.
It's kinda like Drew Barrymore always talking out the side of her mouth.
You don't notice it until it's pointed out to you, and once you notice, you can't tear your eyes away from it.
Us? No, God help his children.
Could you imagine being him and trying to teach your kids how to share and play nicely with each other?
Daddy! Jimmy took my toy! He gave it to me, and then he took it back!
Jimmy - did you assign all rights to that toy to your brother, or did just permit him to reap enjoyment from it while you're not using it?
Noah constructed a supercomputer called "The Ark" that was composed of 300 qubits by 50 qubits by 30 qubits, or 450,000 cubic qubits.
Hmmm... sounds like the basis for some cheesy sci-fi - kind of like a matrix, but to protect minds from some psycho-viral plague.
How can this one be legit? I've been doing this for years! /* TODO: add extra format checking */
hostname$ grep TODO *
He's clueless in that the only side of the issue that he understands is the side that benefits monopoly and stockholders. He has a position, but he doesn't understand the technological consequences of that position.
Cuh IE yotie
Phoinix: a GB emulator for Palm. Been around for years.
I was referring to something a little less direct in terms of consequences. EDS brings in some new jobs for the local administration of their contract, but most of the jobs existed before, just under another contractor.
ALl the money that bases used to spend at local businesses for computers, office furniture, etc., that used to be supporting local businesses, now basically goes to EDS corporate.
And the good reason for spending the money in local businesses is that these bases are not taxed. Therefore their tax dollars don't go to pay for anything. I grew up in a town that existed ONLY because the Navy built a base there. Most of the employed population was employed by the base. Taxes on businesses are what fund the schools, and with so many people and so few taxable businesses, the schools were in really sad shape. By having the base buy locally, there's that much more money being taxed to support the local economy and schools.
Yep, and EDS has royally screwed up that contract, too. Late deployments, deployments costing much more than forecast (but I think EDS has to eat up the difference), reduced productivity.
It has also killed a lot of small businesses that used to supply technology and office materials to Navy bases. For office supply and technology purchases, there are strong incentives to buy locally, even if it costs more (which sounds bad, but has a VERY good reason). With EDS doing it all, (some) local economies around these bases have been tanking.
That's ok. The prince's response is quite the mouthful anyway. I had to hunt the 'net o'er to find that specific part of the quote.