About seven years ago I entered the world of BBSses and was confronted with the digital world of flamewars and mailbombing...
Even back then when the Internet was young in Europe the BBS-era already showed what problems could be encountered when you put a couple of people anonymously on a computer system.
People started flame wars about Gravis Ultrasound versus Soundblaster, Assembler programming versus C++, DOS programming versus Windows (Linux wasn't wide spread back then!), protected mode versus real mode, Future Crew versus Triton, and so on...
Back then I was still in democoding and I encountered many flamewars since my demogroup couldn't fit in the ideology of demos (can't you guys take a joke??) and our BBS was struck a few times with a couple of virusses (newly written) and mailbombs (remember, attatchment of a few hundred megs of one character textfiles zipped and attatched, kaboom when the mail programs scans for virusses!)
Since you can't really fight fysically online people start to search for an alternative which might hurt the victim (overloads, spams, etc), I think that's soooo lame...
If only the people who do these things think up something original or program their own tools or invent their own ways to strike somebody... But no, 98% of the time those people just download tools to hack/crack/whack people... Boring.
I've learned a couple of things from all this, most of the times I'm prepared against attacks and strike back! Most of those people just don't know what they are doing and even don't protect themselves against counterstrikes. (H3y, 100k, 1 d0wn10ad3d 7h15 c00l pr09913! Huh? Th15 wa5n'7 5upp053d 70 happ3n!)
What the hell, since everybody is doing it: My predictions for the year 2000:
1. Linux will beat Windows CE by being deployable throughout the whole household like in embedded systems like phones, VCRs (if they aren't already obsolete by a digital form), microwaves and that sort of stuff.
2. Newer forms of digital storage based on wavelets are deployed for audio and video.
3. Slashdot finds a bulletproof system to prevent spamming. The system will exclude IP numbers from stubborn spammers...
He mentions that his search for latency was subjective, but he withdrew his earlier [statements?][predictions?]. Are you sure you read the latest version of the Toms review? I probably read the review since I already read it about one to two weeks ago...
(My employer's URL blocker won't let me look at the sharky's site.) You don't miss that much since Tom is considered more reliable than Sharky... ^_=
As far as I can remember both articles mentioned that for online-gamers the card would have a slight delay because of the dual-cpu design.
It said something about rendering twice as slow as a nVidia GeForce but made up speed by rendering each frame on the idle cpu. So frame one would be rendered by CPU1, frame two by CPU2, frame 3 by CPU1 and so on...
Anyway, what they said was that if you would have a framerate of 50 frames/sec that would give you on a normal nVidia a time difference between an action (movement, shooting and stuff) and rendering of the actual frame about 0.02 seconds. Giving the ATI has dual-CPU it takes about 0.04 seconds to render.
According to Sharkeyextreme you would certainly "feel" the difference.
Anyway, another reason why I personally would prefer nVidia is because of their good native openGL support.
Since the new cryptolaw is delayed *AGAIN* it might be possible that this box wouldn't contain strong encryption. Which is quite a shame...
Most webusers feel unsafe about e-commerce and don't use the online services because they think their payments are intercepted. Since everywhere outside the US and Canada strong encryption algorithms made in the US are forbidden no one can use the online service safely from outside the US.
I think this is bad and the US government shoud reconsider entering the new Cryptolaw very soon or the online service should consider using different crypto algorithms from outside the US like IDEA.
Yeah, lawyers really shoud do some courses in laws applying to computers, Internet and other new technologies...
One of my teachers is giving a course for lawyers who do legal stuff that has to do with the Internet. He told me that there was a lawyer in his class who already had done several cases of cybersqatting and he didn't even knew how to use a computer nor the Internet.
Morale? Most lawyers don't know a thing about what's going on in the world. How should they do a case about newer technologies as wavelet encoding which is different from MP3 and surely will come up within a year... Using a different coding scheme to compress and rip music would not apply to the MP3 restrictions!
I don't read mags anymore. The information found on the Internet is much faster and reliable (I you read the right news sites!) and it doesn't cost me anything at all in stead of buying 4 mags a month for $5 - $10 each...
About the cover CDs: I have a huge collection of cover CDs containing outdated programs and patches... What use are they anyway? At the moment you receive a cover CD most of the things on the CD are already outdated.
And another one missed the point of Napster... First of all, Napster ISN'T a FTP server!
I don't know what protocol it uses, but as default it tried to use port 21 (telnet) which I thought was very bizarre. Because I couldn't use telnet anymore, I changed the port to port 0...
Second: Napster is a community, you log on to a server where max. 1500 users are present and search all users for the MP3s you're looking for.
Third: Napster doesn't do ratios... So you can download immediately. Of course, you must put up a few MP3s of your own (believe me... I stopped some dude who was downloading and didn't have any MP3s online)... So the who point is Napster means sharing! No eLiTe and no ratios!
Besides that you're missing the point... Napster users don't really care about the used protocol. Napster is just a frontend and search-engine. It allows the user to join a community and search that community for music.
Since it's an open community everybody is allowed to download without clicking on banners (HTTP sites), ratios (FTP) or be an eLiTe friend (IRC)
To make sure everything is fair and square they won't allow the user to set his/her max. uploads (just per user) so you can't shut off your uploads.
Here in Holland we had a major problem in the late 50s with smartass farmers who lived near Lopik.
In Lopik we have our Dutch broadcast tower which had the range of 60% of Holland. So it had a major output of radio waves. The smartass farmers used antennas adjusted to the frequency of the radiowaves and got a few kWatts for free!
OKay, I already knew about error correction of cds and stuff... Never had any major probs with that...
But as you state that you could drill a hole of 1 mm in a cd, then on this new format that would be at least 0.001 mm hole to lose about the same amount of data. IMHO that would resemble a VERY small scratch or a VERY small piece of dust.
So the CD option is definetly out of the question since I don't think we all could live in a sterile world without dust...
I'm willing to bet that IMacs and the PSX2 are much better hardware then any Intel 800Mhz system because they're built from the ground up, using current technology
Ehm... Sorry, but the iMacs use IDE and PCI devices... That's an IBM based technology...
Wow! Looks like you don't know the console history very well! The SNES came out 3 years after the Sega Genesis! So Nintendo was the one who was behind. After that the Saturn came, which HAD a CD drive and could play CD's and had 3d, comparable to the Playstation. Unfortunately the playstation was a bit faster and cheaper. While Nintendo was still behind and didn't release a new console for the next two years (Ultra). Now the Dreamcast is here and it sure kicks ass! Okay, the specs of the Playstation are better if you look at pure CPU power... But the Dreamcast has a great set of features, including webbrowsing, storing on zipdisks and so on... It even can set up a modem or network connection and make a cable connection to the NeoGeo pocket so you can play two DIFFERENT games against eachother (King of fighters99 vs King of Fighters RD2) cross platform! One minor point is the presence of Windows CE which still isn't used for anything yet (thank god!) but Sega thought they could port Direct X games to the Dreamcast with that. Nobody is interested yet... Just do your research well before you blabber something! Sega: we'll miss you for sure!
(esp. for 3d gaming, witch is really the only need consumers have for all that FP) Ehm... For 3d gaming you need.... Ehm, oh yeah, a 3d card... Mymy... So that's an extra processor where the current technology has as much processing power as a PIII... That's parallel processing... You give the 3d chip the task for calculating 3d and NOT the CPU... (Okay, for calculating normals you will need the CPU, but with the latest technolgy you don't even bother the CPU with that anymore!) What if we unplug the 3d card... Then there wouldn't be much left of your PIII huh?
I don't know where I read this article, but it was about parallel processing vs vector processing and about US vs Japan.
The main idea behind the article was that the US still dominated the Top500 list, but that the Japanese achieved more than the US since they had the same power with less processors.
But it also depends on what the purpose is of the computer... If you need a lot of parallel processes you would definetely go for the US version and if you need very fast (but little) parallel processing you would go for the Japanese.
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About seven years ago I entered the world of BBSses and was confronted with the digital world of flamewars and mailbombing...
Even back then when the Internet was young in Europe the BBS-era already showed what problems could be encountered when you put a couple of people anonymously on a computer system.
People started flame wars about Gravis Ultrasound versus Soundblaster, Assembler programming versus C++, DOS programming versus Windows (Linux wasn't wide spread back then!), protected mode versus real mode, Future Crew versus Triton, and so on...
Back then I was still in democoding and I encountered many flamewars since my demogroup couldn't fit in the ideology of demos (can't you guys take a joke??) and our BBS was struck a few times with a couple of virusses (newly written) and mailbombs (remember, attatchment of a few hundred megs of one character textfiles zipped and attatched, kaboom when the mail programs scans for virusses!)
Since you can't really fight fysically online people start to search for an alternative which might hurt the victim (overloads, spams, etc), I think that's soooo lame...
If only the people who do these things think up something original or program their own tools or invent their own ways to strike somebody... But no, 98% of the time those people just download tools to hack/crack/whack people... Boring.
I've learned a couple of things from all this, most of the times I'm prepared against attacks and strike back! Most of those people just don't know what they are doing and even don't protect themselves against counterstrikes. (H3y, 100k, 1 d0wn10ad3d 7h15 c00l pr09913! Huh? Th15 wa5n'7 5upp053d 70 happ3n!)
F#ck off, don't be a lamer!
What the hell, since everybody is doing it:
My predictions for the year 2000:
1. Linux will beat Windows CE by being deployable throughout the whole household like in embedded systems like phones, VCRs (if they aren't already obsolete by a digital form), microwaves and that sort of stuff.
2. Newer forms of digital storage based on wavelets are deployed for audio and video.
3. Slashdot finds a bulletproof system to prevent spamming. The system will exclude IP numbers from stubborn spammers...
He mentions that his search for latency was subjective, but he withdrew his earlier [statements?][predictions?]. Are you sure you read the latest version of the Toms review?
I probably read the review since I already read it about one to two weeks ago...
(My employer's URL blocker won't let me look at the sharky's site.)
You don't miss that much since Tom is considered more reliable than Sharky... ^_=
I already read both reviews a week ago...
As far as I can remember both articles mentioned that for online-gamers the card would have a slight delay because of the dual-cpu design.
It said something about rendering twice as slow as a nVidia GeForce but made up speed by rendering each frame on the idle cpu. So frame one would be rendered by CPU1, frame two by CPU2, frame 3 by CPU1 and so on...
Anyway, what they said was that if you would have a framerate of 50 frames/sec that would give you on a normal nVidia a time difference between an action (movement, shooting and stuff) and rendering of the actual frame about 0.02 seconds. Giving the ATI has dual-CPU it takes about 0.04 seconds to render.
According to Sharkeyextreme you would certainly "feel" the difference.
Anyway, another reason why I personally would prefer nVidia is because of their good native openGL support.
Policemen shout "freeze" and that sort of stuff before shooting. This makes no sense.
Ofcourse, those FM Mics are illegal according to the law, but what about a friendly nice notice first before raiding a store!
I don't know about the Dutch equvalent, but I guess this is just the way how the Feds operate...
Sorry for being off-topic...
Since the new cryptolaw is delayed *AGAIN* it might be possible that this box wouldn't contain strong encryption. Which is quite a shame...
Most webusers feel unsafe about e-commerce and don't use the online services because they think their payments are intercepted. Since everywhere outside the US and Canada strong encryption algorithms made in the US are forbidden no one can use the online service safely from outside the US.
I think this is bad and the US government shoud reconsider entering the new Cryptolaw very soon or the online service should consider using different crypto algorithms from outside the US like IDEA.
Yeah, lawyers really shoud do some courses in laws applying to computers, Internet and other new technologies...
One of my teachers is giving a course for lawyers who do legal stuff that has to do with the Internet. He told me that there was a lawyer in his class who already had done several cases of cybersqatting and he didn't even knew how to use a computer nor the Internet.
Morale? Most lawyers don't know a thing about what's going on in the world. How should they do a case about newer technologies as wavelet encoding which is different from MP3 and surely will come up within a year... Using a different coding scheme to compress and rip music would not apply to the MP3 restrictions!
I don't read mags anymore. The information found on the Internet is much faster and reliable (I you read the right news sites!) and it doesn't cost me anything at all in stead of buying 4 mags a month for $5 - $10 each...
About the cover CDs: I have a huge collection of cover CDs containing outdated programs and patches... What use are they anyway? At the moment you receive a cover CD most of the things on the CD are already outdated.
Whoops... My wrong...
I blocked both ftp and telnet from my router... So I confused them... Err, anyway... It didn't work on port 21... So I changed the port...
Windows 98 comes with a ftp server.
And another one missed the point of Napster...
First of all, Napster ISN'T a FTP server!
I don't know what protocol it uses, but as default it tried to use port 21 (telnet) which I thought was very bizarre. Because I couldn't use telnet anymore, I changed the port to port 0...
Second: Napster is a community, you log on to a server where max. 1500 users are present and search all users for the MP3s you're looking for.
Third: Napster doesn't do ratios... So you can download immediately. Of course, you must put up a few MP3s of your own (believe me... I stopped some dude who was downloading and didn't have any MP3s online)... So the who point is Napster means sharing! No eLiTe and no ratios!
Napster isn't ftp!
Besides that you're missing the point... Napster users don't really care about the used protocol. Napster is just a frontend and search-engine. It allows the user to join a community and search that community for music.
Since it's an open community everybody is allowed to download without clicking on banners (HTTP sites), ratios (FTP) or be an eLiTe friend (IRC)
To make sure everything is fair and square they won't allow the user to set his/her max. uploads (just per user) so you can't shut off your uploads.
Hope this is clear enough...
Most MP3 songs I download are live recordings of radio sessions and live performances.
Are they illegal as well?
I still buy CDs...
Then again, I don't like mainstream music and just go for the obscure bands. Try to find them on Napster or CuteFTP!
One of the few things I can find on Napster are some live recordings... How about them? Are they illegal as well???
Why not? I like it!
Okay, you're right... Windoze and Micro$oft are old and besides that is Windos much cooler!
Here in Holland we had a major problem in the late 50s with smartass farmers who lived near Lopik.
In Lopik we have our Dutch broadcast tower which had the range of 60% of Holland. So it had a major output of radio waves. The smartass farmers used antennas adjusted to the frequency of the radiowaves and got a few kWatts for free!
I read this in a magazine somewhere... But this thing was way cooler than putting mass storage on a way overpriced medium...
The article showed a backup device burning data 10 layers deep in a tesa-taperoll storing about 100 GB.
Now, that's nifty! Storing 100 GB on a piece of plastic that costs about $0.25!
OKay, I already knew about error correction of cds and stuff... Never had any major probs with that...
But as you state that you could drill a hole of 1 mm in a cd, then on this new format that would be at least 0.001 mm hole to lose about the same amount of data. IMHO that would resemble a VERY small scratch or a VERY small piece of dust.
So the CD option is definetly out of the question since I don't think we all could live in a sterile world without dust...
Yeah, this technique sounds neat... Mass storage, unlimited possibilities!
But what about dust and scratches from which we all suffer with the current CDs?
Sounds like this technique is only suitable for harddisks...
I'm willing to bet that IMacs and the PSX2 are much better hardware then any Intel 800Mhz system because they're built from the ground up, using current technology
Ehm... Sorry, but the iMacs use IDE and PCI devices... That's an IBM based technology...
The PSX2 is going to be backwards compatible and Sega announced that the Dreamcast will be as well by a interface card...
Then again, use MAME! You'll play cross platform all the time!
Oh, and I already spotted a Dreamcast emulator called Nightmare!
Whoa!
Wow! Looks like you don't know the console history very well! The SNES came out 3 years after the Sega Genesis! So Nintendo was the one who was behind. After that the Saturn came, which HAD a CD drive and could play CD's and had 3d, comparable to the Playstation. Unfortunately the playstation was a bit faster and cheaper. While Nintendo was still behind and didn't release a new console for the next two years (Ultra). Now the Dreamcast is here and it sure kicks ass! Okay, the specs of the Playstation are better if you look at pure CPU power... But the Dreamcast has a great set of features, including webbrowsing, storing on zipdisks and so on... It even can set up a modem or network connection and make a cable connection to the NeoGeo pocket so you can play two DIFFERENT games against eachother (King of fighters99 vs King of Fighters RD2) cross platform! One minor point is the presence of Windows CE which still isn't used for anything yet (thank god!) but Sega thought they could port Direct X games to the Dreamcast with that. Nobody is interested yet... Just do your research well before you blabber something! Sega: we'll miss you for sure!
(esp. for 3d gaming, witch is really the only need consumers have for all that FP) Ehm... For 3d gaming you need.... Ehm, oh yeah, a 3d card... Mymy... So that's an extra processor where the current technology has as much processing power as a PIII... That's parallel processing... You give the 3d chip the task for calculating 3d and NOT the CPU... (Okay, for calculating normals you will need the CPU, but with the latest technolgy you don't even bother the CPU with that anymore!) What if we unplug the 3d card... Then there wouldn't be much left of your PIII huh?
I don't know where I read this article, but it was about parallel processing vs vector processing and about US vs Japan.
The main idea behind the article was that the US still dominated the Top500 list, but that the Japanese achieved more than the US since they had the same power with less processors.
But it also depends on what the purpose is of the computer... If you need a lot of parallel processes you would definetely go for the US version and if you need very fast (but little) parallel processing you would go for the Japanese.