The Quake (1) community uses a closed source client-side module along with server-side cheat detection heuristics, as a means of mitigating the cheat factor. It seems to work quite well, but there are most likely ways to get around those safegaurds. However, when you combine it with server-side and client-side demo recording... its pretty easy to catch cheaters.
The Swedes also dominate in Quake (i.e. Quakeworld). I think their entire country is wired with high quality inexpensive broadband. Hence they all get round-the-clock LAN practice, which is great for training for competitions that are usually held on LANs.
WTF are you talking about? I used to own a Virtual Boy, retard. The stereoscopic effect was cool, but the red and black LED-like color of the graphics was lame.
I am using Mozilla 1.6 on Linux, and none of the links work, nor do they show anything in the status bar. I think the test is broken for Mozilla. Since when did Slashdot become a hangout for Windows users that pretend to be Linux zealots?
This one looks like it is going to be another Virtual Boy. The split screen thing is bad for so many reasons. A better design would have been a Gameboy Advance SP with a larger screen, faster CPU, more memory, better battery life, built-in wifi, and games stored in flash memory (10 games take up the same amount of physical space as 1 game).
My point is that the Gameboy line has proven itself, and evolutionary improvements to the Gameboy line have also proven themselves. However, revolutionary changes have proven themselves to be bad ideas (e.g. Virtual Boy).
Paper trails are not needed to secure voting. They are expensive and slow things down. What is needed is a system where anybody can easily count the votes, and anybody can easily verify their own vote.
This system must, however, insure voter anonymity.
So here is the solution. Everybody has a private cryptographic key. When they vote they encrypt their vote with their key, possibly using something like a Java Ring or iButton or maybe a smart card, and the system records the pair ( encrypted vote, unencrypted vote ). The important thing is that the private key must be kept secure and secret even when interfacing with a malicious sever, terminal, etc. Finally, everybody has access to the entire voter database via the internet.
Independently, anybody could download the entire database and count the vote... verifying the government's count.
Similarly, anybody could verify that their vote was recorded correctly by checking that their pair ( encrypted vote, unencrypted vote ) is in the database.
Giving up a little anonymity, but still keeping a person's choice secret would allow further system integrity. The database could store the identity of all registered voters along with the elections they voted in. This data could be used to verify that the total vote database does not contain more votes than the number submitted by valid registered voters.
Of course it would be up to the people to verify that the system accurately recorded: 1. their registration status 2. whether or not they voted in the election 3. their actual vote (as described above)
The system could never lie because it would never know who is requesting the data. Individual counties, companies, organizations, and individuals would be able to download all or part of the database. These independent organizations could verify the integrity of the data. An individual person could verify the data directly or indirectly through one of these organizations.
Hence the importance of the entire database being freely accessible. The system could even be distributed in the sense of distributed databases or distributed operating systems... so as to further insure reliability, scalability, integrity, etc.
www.tototek.com has a really nice backup unit for the SNES. It is a 64Mb flash cart for the SNES, similar to the quality Gameboy flash carts. Now you can have something damn close to the real thing, without the hassel of those noisey floppy based backup units.
Like I said, emulation is the future, but at least for me and specifically the SNES, it isn't there yet. Some of the DSP games are my favorite SNES games, and they are definitely not emulated close enough.
If you think that the dual shock is the best gamepad ever made, then you must have never used the official SNES gamepad... which has the best directional pad ever. Sure the dual shock has analog and vibrating feedback, but when it comes to digital controlled games (NES, Gameboy, SNES, Genesis, etc)... the SNES gamepad wins.
Also, on the topic of emulation accuracy. The NES is probably the most accurately emulated console to date (check out FCE Ultra). However, the SNES emulators still have a ways to go... yes even ZSNES and SNES9x have trouble correctly emulating popular SNES games such as Super Mario Kart.
So basically, don't throw away the real thing just yet. Emulation will be the future for classic console gaming, but until emulation accuracy improves and quality retro-like USB gamepads are produced... you are better off playing on a real SNES or NES.
Not to mention the fact that my SNES is completely solid state and consumes very little power compared to a PC capable of emulating the SNES at full speed.
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The Simpsons poked fun at this by showing Bart and Lisa avoiding doing lawn chores, only to end up at a convention where a new virtual reality lawn chores video game was being demonstrated. Bart and Lisa were more than happy to do virtual yard work.
A $150 XBOX with XBox Media Center can do everything that this $2000 computer can do, minus the PVR stuff. However, you can get a tried and true TIVO for another $150... which means you have the option between $300 and $2000... but all the same features.
If NASA starts finding life on other planets, many Christian fundamentalists will most likely try to put an end to our space program, just as they have tried and conintue to try to put an end to the teaching of theories of evolution, stem cell research, cloning research, etc.
I love my Xbox, but I don't use it to play games. I did a software hack on it that lets me run XBox Media Center, which turns my Xbox into the ultimate set-top box: DVDs, CDs, Divx, Xvid, mp3s, etc...
If you are only doing one install, then just download the network install ISO. It is only 4MB, but it requires you to have your computer connected to a network during install. You select a site from which to fetch the packages that you want. That way you only download what you need.
Its called a network install. Fedora, as well as most of the other major Linux distros have a 10MB to 50MB ISO that you can burn to CD and boot your computer with. Once booted, you can select from a list of sites that have the software packages for the distro. So you only download what you need.
Better yet, Debian has a ISO that is under 100MB, and you can use it to install a bare bones system without being connected to a network.
Wow, do you mean that Linux is better at keeping installed software up to date? Who would have thought that Linux would be the first to develop comprehensive software management systems such as apt? Microsoft has left its user's out the in cold. They must rely on each individual application developer to implement their own update system. So what you have is 1000s of software developers reinventing the wheel.
I like my file manager as a file manger, my browser as a browser.
Then you will be disappointed to find out that you can use the pipe operator at a UNIX terminal to make various little programs work together... because that is all konqueror does. Just as grep, ls, ps, etc are seprate programs that can be tied together via pipe, KDE's file manager, ftp client, web browser, word processors, etc... can all be tied together via konqueror.
You left out Bittorrent, which is the best P2P app for throughput. I have seen it move a 1GB file to tens of thousands of peers, just this past week. No other P2P app works that well.
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The Quake (1) community uses a closed source client-side module along with server-side cheat detection heuristics, as a means of mitigating the cheat factor. It seems to work quite well, but there are most likely ways to get around those safegaurds. However, when you combine it with server-side and client-side demo recording... its pretty easy to catch cheaters.
I sure hope that they decided to can "spatial" aka "lots of desktop clutter" Nautilus.
The Swedes also dominate in Quake (i.e. Quakeworld). I think their entire country is wired with high quality inexpensive broadband. Hence they all get round-the-clock LAN practice, which is great for training for competitions that are usually held on LANs.
Or Quake 1, which is free and open source for Linux... Quake 1 is also more fun than the newer slower FPS games.
WTF are you talking about? I used to own a Virtual Boy, retard. The stereoscopic effect was cool, but the red and black LED-like color of the graphics was lame.
I am using Mozilla 1.6 on Linux, and none of the links work, nor do they show anything in the status bar. I think the test is broken for Mozilla. Since when did Slashdot become a hangout for Windows users that pretend to be Linux zealots?
This one looks like it is going to be another Virtual Boy. The split screen thing is bad for so many reasons. A better design would have been a Gameboy Advance SP with a larger screen, faster CPU, more memory, better battery life, built-in wifi, and games stored in flash memory (10 games take up the same amount of physical space as 1 game).
My point is that the Gameboy line has proven itself, and evolutionary improvements to the Gameboy line have also proven themselves. However, revolutionary changes have proven themselves to be bad ideas (e.g. Virtual Boy).
Paper trails are not needed to secure voting. They are expensive and slow things down. What is needed is a system where anybody can easily count the votes, and anybody can easily verify their own vote.
This system must, however, insure voter anonymity.
So here is the solution. Everybody has a private cryptographic key. When they vote they encrypt their vote with their key, possibly using something like a Java Ring or iButton or maybe a smart card, and the system records the pair ( encrypted vote, unencrypted vote ). The important thing is that the private key must be kept secure and secret even when interfacing with a malicious sever, terminal, etc. Finally, everybody has access to the entire voter database via the internet.
Independently, anybody could download the entire database and count the vote... verifying the government's count.
Similarly, anybody could verify that their vote was recorded correctly by checking that their pair ( encrypted vote, unencrypted vote ) is in the database.
Giving up a little anonymity, but still keeping a person's choice secret would allow further system integrity. The database could store the identity of all registered voters along with the elections they voted in. This data could be used to verify that the total vote database does not contain more votes than the number submitted by valid registered voters.
Of course it would be up to the people to verify that the system accurately recorded:
1. their registration status
2. whether or not they voted in the election
3. their actual vote (as described above)
The system could never lie because it would never know who is requesting the data. Individual counties, companies, organizations, and individuals would be able to download all or part of the database. These independent organizations could verify the integrity of the data. An individual person could verify the data directly or indirectly through one of these organizations.
Hence the importance of the entire database being freely accessible. The system could even be distributed in the sense of distributed databases or distributed operating systems... so as to further insure reliability, scalability, integrity, etc.
www.tototek.com has a really nice backup unit for the SNES. It is a 64Mb flash cart for the SNES, similar to the quality Gameboy flash carts. Now you can have something damn close to the real thing, without the hassel of those noisey floppy based backup units.
Like I said, emulation is the future, but at least for me and specifically the SNES, it isn't there yet. Some of the DSP games are my favorite SNES games, and they are definitely not emulated close enough.
If you think that the dual shock is the best gamepad ever made, then you must have never used the official SNES gamepad... which has the best directional pad ever. Sure the dual shock has analog and vibrating feedback, but when it comes to digital controlled games (NES, Gameboy, SNES, Genesis, etc)... the SNES gamepad wins.
Also, on the topic of emulation accuracy. The NES is probably the most accurately emulated console to date (check out FCE Ultra). However, the SNES emulators still have a ways to go... yes even ZSNES and SNES9x have trouble correctly emulating popular SNES games such as Super Mario Kart.
So basically, don't throw away the real thing just yet. Emulation will be the future for classic console gaming, but until emulation accuracy improves and quality retro-like USB gamepads are produced... you are better off playing on a real SNES or NES.
Not to mention the fact that my SNES is completely solid state and consumes very little power compared to a PC capable of emulating the SNES at full speed.
The Simpsons poked fun at this by showing Bart and Lisa avoiding doing lawn chores, only to end up at a convention where a new virtual reality lawn chores video game was being demonstrated. Bart and Lisa were more than happy to do virtual yard work.
The $2000 computer does not come with a moniter.
A $150 XBOX with XBox Media Center can do everything that this $2000 computer can do, minus the PVR stuff. However, you can get a tried and true TIVO for another $150... which means you have the option between $300 and $2000... but all the same features.
If NASA starts finding life on other planets, many Christian fundamentalists will most likely try to put an end to our space program, just as they have tried and conintue to try to put an end to the teaching of theories of evolution, stem cell research, cloning research, etc.
Remember Galileo Galilei. It can happen again!
I love my Xbox, but I don't use it to play games. I did a software hack on it that lets me run XBox Media Center, which turns my Xbox into the ultimate set-top box: DVDs, CDs, Divx, Xvid, mp3s, etc...
...or Doom, or Quake, or Quake II, etc...
If you are only doing one install, then just download the network install ISO. It is only 4MB, but it requires you to have your computer connected to a network during install. You select a site from which to fetch the packages that you want. That way you only download what you need.
Its called a network install. Fedora, as well as most of the other major Linux distros have a 10MB to 50MB ISO that you can burn to CD and boot your computer with. Once booted, you can select from a list of sites that have the software packages for the distro. So you only download what you need.
Better yet, Debian has a ISO that is under 100MB, and you can use it to install a bare bones system without being connected to a network.
Maybe these users should consider an OS that comes with a comprehensive software management system, such as apt, yum, etc.
apt-get update && apt-get upgrade -y
Wow, do you mean that Linux is better at keeping installed software up to date? Who would have thought that Linux would be the first to develop comprehensive software management systems such as apt? Microsoft has left its user's out the in cold. They must rely on each individual application developer to implement their own update system. So what you have is 1000s of software developers reinventing the wheel.
Then you will be disappointed to find out that you can use the pipe operator at a UNIX terminal to make various little programs work together... because that is all konqueror does. Just as grep, ls, ps, etc are seprate programs that can be tied together via pipe, KDE's file manager, ftp client, web browser, word processors, etc... can all be tied together via konqueror.
Konqueror is a graphical pipe!
Uhh, use google.com to search for bittorrent sites. My favorites are:o va.org/
http://www.animesuki.com/
http://www.suprn
You left out Bittorrent, which is the best P2P app for throughput. I have seen it move a 1GB file to tens of thousands of peers, just this past week. No other P2P app works that well.