Is this a distribution? On one hand, the user doesn't get to keep anything. On the other hand, who do we think they're fooling? The whole system is just ephemeral clouds of bits flying around. To think that anyone "owns" something as abstract as software is like saying that someone "owns" a cat. My cat owns me. She flies around like an ephemeral cloud of fuzz, clinging to my head on occasion.
So can we bring this to the software world? For a period of two weeks, Unreal Tournament owned my soul and car keys. What does one do when software owns one? I don't fly around like a cloud... but yet I am owned by various games for various periods of time.
Linux also owns me. Otherwise, I wouldn't always be hitting Down-Enter at my bootloader to get in there. Linux makes me update it and it makes me recompile the latest 2.4.0.test offering and if it crashed, Linux politely informs me that it's my own damn fault.
Therefore, Linux owns me, and I may be considered by some a derivative work!
So I shall now distribute myself freely over the Internet as 100% GPL'd Talon. If sourceforge gives me a few terabytes I will upload my DNA. Until then, enjoy this comment as a free sample.
Actually, I've heard that the eye can't notice a change above 40FPS. I don't know if it's true...
but remember, the accellerator is responsible for the FPS, not the chip. Sure, laptops and such aren't likely to have hardware T+L for a while, but still the chip is not rendering the image. I mean, hell, my K6-2/450 renders Quake 3 crappily, but throw in the TNT2 and 800x600x45 - 60 FPS easily, depnding on what's onscreen.
I remember when Cyrix was THE competition for Intel. AMD were the little suckers with slow chips, and Cyrix were the runners up that got swamped every time.
Now AMD is big, Intel is big too... and Cyrix is still lagging. But they can be good, too.
With a sufficient amoutn of funding, and a good market niche such as Internet appliances that will require low power, Cyrix might find a good fight. And they might be good competition for Transmeta in this market.
Well, honestly, listen to it... click clack click clack...
it sounds much like a dasiy wheel i used to have.
Either that or they made the carriage move back and forth with nothing to print, and it hit the edges hard? Or it could be individual pins hitting the page.
The first movement is slow and kind of ominous, with a deep continous sound, and various clicking ones layered overtop. The tempo increases as this movement continues.
The second starts with a more familliar sound of a carriage moving abck and forth, and what might be a daisy-wheel printer tapping the rhythm. This is a continuous theme throughout this movement.
The third starts with a simple squeking sound with rhythm imposed by the carriages moving in unison. It then has a few slashes, possibly black lines on the page, scraping aginst the ear. The tempo rapidly increases after this, almost sounding like a klaxon before a final slash and ending.
I like it. Get a crossfading plugin for whatever soundplayer you use, it sounds better that way with all 3 mp3's fading nicely to each other.
I can't think of any reason to go to 64 bit. I don't need more than 4GB ram. And I should never need that much.
Hmm, why else? I don't care about instruction sets. The Intel IA32 is good enough for me, becuase I program in QuickBASIC 4.5 for DOS. It is nice and fast. I don't care about asm anymore, I tried it once and it was too hard.
And 32 bit apps won't go faster on a 64 bit chip, will they? 16 bit apps don't go much faster on a 16mHz 386 than on a 16mHz 286 (I have both, so don't say that's BS).
And why do apps need more than 32 bits? What do the extra 32 bits allow an app to do that it can't do right now?
So, it seems to me that the only people who really need this are DBMS ops or ASM programmers.
I don't care for it. If it becomes standard, I'll eventualy buy one. But right now I don't give a damn.
my god, those are sweet... have you played Need for Speed 5 Porsche Unleashed? i love that game... you can go through a history, buying cars and racing to get cash.
That's not Signal 11... somebody went to a great extent to make that though. the karma is under the user bio section... normally you don't get to see other's karma. it's easy to put that in: Karma:739 or whatever :)
4004 - long ago, in bethlehem... 8080 - we're getting somewhere.... 8086 - used in a few PC clones, not many though (pure 16 bit) 8088 - used in PC and XT, 8/16 bit (1) 80186 - not used much at all (2) 80286 - the PC/AT and millions of clones, my first box (16 bit, protected mode but not working right) (3) 80386 - 32 bit, protected and enhanced modes, introduced in Compaq Deskpro 386 (upstaging IBM) (4) 80486 - 32 bit, FPU on-die, etc (5) Pentium - with FDIV and F0 0F bugs, but nice and fast (6) Pentium Pro - should be called "Hexium" but wasn't... not sold very much due to slow 16 bit performance. Intel thought Windows 95 would be mostly 32 bit... heh heh (7) Pentium II - Should be called Septium but wasn't... (8) Pentium III - should be Octium (9) Pentium 4 - therefore, the Nonium.
Nonium sounds corny. DECium sounds like Vaxen:) Therefore enjoy the current naming scheme of Intel... it's a better marketing choice.
Of course, Athlon and Thunderbird sound better to my ears...
But even while they are private, censorship would be in the form of packets not getting through... and another route would be used. There are always ways through censorship like that...
What private networks does my information go over? By definition, if my information as a public citizen is going over a connection, unless I set it up through a VPN or such, it is a public connection. Through a public network. Big companies with routers and such do not let the net traffic go in to their company networks. That is what VPNs and firewalls are for: to seperate a private intranet from the internet. My traffic is on completely public lines, and it doesn't matter who owns them. The owner can choose what to put on the network, but if my packets don't go through, TCP/IP will pick another path to get there.
So my ISP can easily censor my traffic, but then I would switch ISPs. And how can I "take my business elsewhere" when I don't decide where my packets go?
Learn how the network works before flaming off, corporate tool.
"The Internet finds censorship and routes around it."
But can it? Groups like L0PHT say that they can take down the entire internet... and now companies are trying to stop certain kinds of traffic.
I think that this would be accomplished by scanning a selected number of ports for nap protocol traffic at a router.
Solution?
Make the routers free. Who owns them right now? Telcos, in much of the world. Possibly government.
There needs to be ruling passed from government that traffic can not be censored at a non-authoritarian point: in other words, a company i am not affiliated with can not stop my traffic.
Becuase why should anyone but the government, and I don't want them doing it either, but if they already don't censor traffic... no company has the right to.
Play Rise of the Triad on certain days (i.e. christmas, halloween, july 4 for some reason - yes i am canadian) and the characters in the loading screen wear different hats suitable to the occasion.
great fun and plus it scared the bejeezus out'n me while playing last christmas:)
Well, I'm a Canadian, and just about everyone I know with Internet has at least a cable modem... I have fullrate DSL... I think there will be plenty of market with this. Now if they switch to Windows Media Player I will be happy... I'd sooner support Microsoft than RealNetworks and plus WMP is preinstalled on Windows Me:) (Don't worry! I have Debian on dual boot!)
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Just like when I read playboy!
You are the author of Phorum, are you not!
Either that or you are Wayners who wrote the article.
...Or maybe... It's old man Withers from the Amusement Park!
>And I'd have gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for you meddling kids.
Is this a distribution? On one hand, the user doesn't get to keep anything. On the other hand, who do we think they're fooling? The whole system is just ephemeral clouds of bits flying around. To think that anyone "owns" something as abstract as software is like saying that someone "owns" a cat.
My cat owns me.
She flies around like an ephemeral cloud of fuzz, clinging to my head on occasion.
So can we bring this to the software world? For a period of two weeks, Unreal Tournament owned my soul and car keys. What does one do when software owns one? I don't fly around like a cloud... but yet I am owned by various games for various periods of time.
Linux also owns me. Otherwise, I wouldn't always be hitting Down-Enter at my bootloader to get in there. Linux makes me update it and it makes me recompile the latest 2.4.0.test offering and if it crashed, Linux politely informs me that it's my own damn fault.
Therefore, Linux owns me, and I may be considered by some a derivative work!
So I shall now distribute myself freely over the Internet as 100% GPL'd Talon. If sourceforge gives me a few terabytes I will upload my DNA.
Until then, enjoy this comment as a free sample.
Sorry, I wrote it too fast :)
Actually, I've heard that the eye can't notice a change above 40FPS. I don't know if it's true...
but remember, the accellerator is responsible for the FPS, not the chip. Sure, laptops and such aren't likely to have hardware T+L for a while, but still the chip is not rendering the image.
I mean, hell, my K6-2/450 renders Quake 3 crappily, but throw in the TNT2 and 800x600x45 - 60 FPS easily, depnding on what's onscreen.
I remember when Cyrix was THE competition for Intel. AMD were the little suckers with slow chips, and Cyrix were the runners up that got swamped every time.
Now AMD is big, Intel is big too... and Cyrix is still lagging. But they can be good, too.
With a sufficient amoutn of funding, and a good market niche such as Internet appliances that will require low power, Cyrix might find a good fight. And they might be good competition for Transmeta in this market.
Well, honestly, listen to it... click clack click clack...
it sounds much like a dasiy wheel i used to have.
Either that or they made the carriage move back and forth with nothing to print, and it hit the edges hard? Or it could be individual pins hitting the page.
You, the Reader, Decide!
that is tight :)
that was Gigawatts, mispronounced by chris lloyd as "jigawatts" :) :)
But you're right about the number, 1.21 Jigawatts
The first movement is slow and kind of ominous, with a deep continous sound, and various clicking ones layered overtop.
The tempo increases as this movement continues.
The second starts with a more familliar sound of a carriage moving abck and forth, and what might be a daisy-wheel printer tapping the rhythm. This is a continuous theme throughout this movement.
The third starts with a simple squeking sound with rhythm imposed by the carriages moving in unison.
It then has a few slashes, possibly black lines on the page, scraping aginst the ear.
The tempo rapidly increases after this, almost sounding like a klaxon before a final slash and ending.
I like it. Get a crossfading plugin for whatever soundplayer you use, it sounds better that way with all 3 mp3's fading nicely to each other.
I can't think of any reason to go to 64 bit.
I don't need more than 4GB ram. And I should never need that much.
Hmm, why else? I don't care about instruction sets. The Intel IA32 is good enough for me, becuase I program in QuickBASIC 4.5 for DOS. It is nice and fast. I don't care about asm anymore, I tried it once and it was too hard.
And 32 bit apps won't go faster on a 64 bit chip, will they? 16 bit apps don't go much faster on a 16mHz 386 than on a 16mHz 286 (I have both, so don't say that's BS).
And why do apps need more than 32 bits? What do the extra 32 bits allow an app to do that it can't do right now?
So, it seems to me that the only people who really need this are DBMS ops or ASM programmers.
I don't care for it. If it becomes standard, I'll eventualy buy one. But right now I don't give a damn.
my god, those are sweet...
have you played Need for Speed 5 Porsche Unleashed?
i love that game... you can go through a history, buying cars and racing to get cash.
Yes, there was indeed an Intel 80186... i have the motherboard with the soldered chip next to me.
:)
Doesn't even have that new intel logo
just says:
"Intel 80186 55-4.77-6"
I think 4.77 is the clock speed
That's not Signal 11... somebody went to a great extent to make that though.
the karma is under the user bio section... normally you don't get to see other's karma.
it's easy to put that in:
Karma:739
or whatever
:)
Hmm, I didn't know that. Maybe I can overlcok one of those bad ass mofos and get through intersections quicker.
Didn't say 4004 wasn't good, did I? Sure it did a good job... just saying that it was a long time ago and tried to make a funny while I was at it.
... of course, I forgot MMX and Celeron and all thier little evil buddies, spawn, and bretheren.
:)
and don't mention that i didn't include amd/cyrix becuase this was an intel history
986!
186,286,386,486,pentium,ppro,p2,p3,P4
count em... 9
My evil X86 history:
...
:)
4004 - long ago, in bethlehem...
8080 - we're getting somewhere....
8086 - used in a few PC clones, not many though
(pure 16 bit)
8088 - used in PC and XT, 8/16 bit
(1) 80186 - not used much at all
(2) 80286 - the PC/AT and millions of clones, my first box (16 bit, protected mode but not working right)
(3) 80386 - 32 bit, protected and enhanced modes, introduced in Compaq Deskpro 386 (upstaging IBM)
(4) 80486 - 32 bit, FPU on-die, etc
(5) Pentium - with FDIV and F0 0F bugs, but nice and fast
(6) Pentium Pro - should be called "Hexium" but wasn't... not sold very much due to slow 16 bit performance. Intel thought Windows 95 would be mostly 32 bit... heh heh
(7) Pentium II - Should be called Septium but wasn't
(8) Pentium III - should be Octium
(9) Pentium 4 - therefore, the Nonium.
Nonium sounds corny.
DECium sounds like Vaxen
Therefore enjoy the current naming scheme of Intel... it's a better marketing choice.
Of course, Athlon and Thunderbird sound better to my ears...
Inktomi is the search engine that Yahoo uses to go through it's database.
Nuff said... and that isn't flamebait, so mod it back to 1.
But even while they are private, censorship would be in the form of packets not getting through... and another route would be used. There are always ways through censorship like that...
let's just hope it never come to that
sorry for calling you a tool
What private networks does my information go over?
By definition, if my information as a public citizen is going over a connection, unless I set it up through a VPN or such, it is a public connection. Through a public network. Big companies with routers and such do not let the net traffic go in to their company networks. That is what VPNs and firewalls are for: to seperate a private intranet from the internet. My traffic is on completely public lines, and it doesn't matter who owns them.
The owner can choose what to put on the network, but if my packets don't go through, TCP/IP will pick another path to get there.
So my ISP can easily censor my traffic, but then I would switch ISPs. And how can I "take my business elsewhere" when I don't decide where my packets go?
Learn how the network works before flaming off, corporate tool.
I don't neccesarily believe them... just saying what they said in that slashdot interview (i'd paste the link but i am too lazy)
"The Internet finds censorship and routes around it."
But can it? Groups like L0PHT say that they can take down the entire internet... and now companies are trying to stop certain kinds of traffic.
I think that this would be accomplished by scanning a selected number of ports for nap protocol traffic at a router.
Solution?
Make the routers free. Who owns them right now?
Telcos, in much of the world. Possibly government.
There needs to be ruling passed from government that traffic can not be censored at a non-authoritarian point: in other words, a company i am not affiliated with can not stop my traffic.
Becuase why should anyone but the government, and I don't want them doing it either, but if they already don't censor traffic... no company has the right to.
Play Rise of the Triad on certain days (i.e. christmas, halloween, july 4 for some reason - yes i am canadian) and the characters in the loading screen wear different hats suitable to the occasion.
:)
great fun and plus it scared the bejeezus out'n me while playing last christmas
Well, I'm a Canadian, and just about everyone I know with Internet has at least a cable modem... I have fullrate DSL... I think there will be plenty of market with this. Now if they switch to Windows Media Player I will be happy... I'd sooner support Microsoft than RealNetworks and plus WMP is preinstalled on Windows Me :) (Don't worry! I have Debian on dual boot!)
somewhere on net is program called IMP, it is hotmail like interface to standard mta mail. ...dont know if that helps you