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Ummm...The original poster said *Quake* not Quake III.
IIRC the minimum requirement for software-rendered Quake was a P60.
Just for perspective, a web browser requires more than that now days.
What's up with that 'more portable' comment anyways?
It's totally out of context...'More efficient' or 'lighter weight' would have been appropriate,
but 'more portable' makes no sense in a statement about resource usage.
Is this a troll? or just ignorance? those are the questions.
I don't see it as either. Perl is a scripting language, but that doesn't make it any less powerful.
Just because it's not compiled, doesn't necessarily mean it sucks.
Speed, as you said, is the critical difference.
--K
ObMyCoolestVBHack: High school senior project - A data acquisition program. (Which drove the homebuilt A/D converter hardware!) ---
It's just too bad that they're subpeona-able, rather than being based in a country that's not extremely cooperative with the US.
I don't think it matters. They've designed the system so that they *can't* trace anything.
The most they can do is deactivate a nym, but the nym can't be traced back to the person using it.
Right. What if this software becomes standard among kiddy-porn traders? Would the guys at ZK find that funny?
I am so sick of 'what-ifs'.
So what if sickos use the software? The same sickos use the US Postal Service. Would you ban that?
I suppose digital cameras make it easier for the sickos to make kiddie porn - after all, you don't have to get film developed. Would you ban digital cameras? Hell, ban Polaroid for that matter.
Cryptography makes it easier for criminals to communicate with each other. Would you ban cryptography?
Most new technology has a up side and a down side.
I think in most cases the good far outweighs the bad.
--K
And really, do you honestly think the ZKS people never imagined that their software could be used for illegal/immoral purposes? ---
ZKS Freedom goes far beyond blocking cookies and encrypting e-mail.
They provide an encrypted, anonymous link from the website you're accessing, through your ISP to your machine.
All your ISP sees is you accessing a Freedom server, and all the website you're accessing sees is a Freedom server.
The whole point of Freedom is that, in theory, it should be impossible to trace back a name to an IP address.
You can't do this by using 'paranoid settings' in your browser.
It's time for Geeks to grow up. It's time to stop trying to get your own back at users.
We like to watch pathetic lusers squirm when they can't figure out something!
We design overly complex user interfaces that require YEARS and YEARS to learn!
You know why? JOB SECURITY! As long as you pathetic fools can't RTFM, you need US for support!
And you lowly users can't do a thing about it beacause...
YOU CAN'T CODE! BWAHAHAHAHA!
--K
Troll? Funny? Insightful? YOU MAKE THE CALL! ---
There is a Linux package here:
http://www.ibutton.com/software/1wire/wirekit.ht ml
I haven't had much time to play with it tho, so I don't know it's capabilities,
but I seem to remember reading a plain (memory-only) iButton under linux.
Those cards look pretty spiffy, too. I might have to pick some up sometime...
Just out of curiosity, how durable are those cards? Can they survive being in a wallet?
Sony may decide to implement things like access controls on Memory Sticks (to do SDMI, for example)
Ever heard of 'Magic Gate'?
It's just that. Memory sticks that have been 'enhanced' to provide access control.
Costs more than a regular stick, too.
Sony is very supportive of consumer-unfriendly access controls, including SDMI and friends.
MS tech looks kinda cool (nothing really new tho, just a different form factor) but seems pretty evil, especially if it became dominant.
Of course - one needs a way to get the key to it - I would imagine that it could be kept on a floppy and inserted at boot time, or whenever the partition needs to be mounted.
Seems like an iButton would be perfect for something like that...
make it look like the OS it's actually running under (on, in?).
So what you're saying is make one dialog use Motif-look widgets, another use Windows-look, another use MacOS-look, another use Xt-look, and another use GTK flavor-of-the-day, no?
Sounds like it'd look right at home on any Linux desktop!
Sony's AIBO may succeed in Japan where anything will sell, including soiled schoolgirl uniforms in vending machins (no, I'm not kidding)
But you can also get beer, liquor, ramen noodles, Pocky, and pr0n from Japanese vending machines.
IMHO, Amerika really needs to import some of this amazing vending machine technology.
That and smartcards. We really need smartcards.
And just to stay slightly on topic, the Poo-Chi doesn't seem nearly as advanced as any Aibo,
not to mention you can't stick a PCMCIA card up it's arse.
KDE2 and GNOME 1.4 will be providing as good as, if not better, GUI environment for PCs and Macs
I'll believe that when I see it.
Not bloody likely it'll matter anyway, because app support will still be bad enough to give people a reason to use Windows or Mac...
A method for vaporizing Cocaine Hydroxide, utilizing a blown-glass utensil ("pipe").
A mixture of Cocaine Hydroxide and an extending agent ("base") is placed in the indentation of the device ("bowl") and intense heat is applied to the cocaine mixture ("rock"), thereby vaporizing the the narcotic component, and freeing it from the base. The vapors are then inhaled ("hit") and intoxication ("high") is obtained.
A marketing strategy for use with the device will also be patented, as follows:
The salesman ("dealer") will provide the pipe and a sample of substance ("crack") to the consumer ("crackhead") who will thereby become addicted to the substance and will require more devices ("crack pipes"). Fierce protection of IP rights will be necessary, including the bribing of law enforcement, and turf control.
These devices ("crack pipes") may be particularly useful to weblog ("Slashdot") moderators.
I'm surprised people aren't slinging ethernet out their windows and setting up Microwave links.
Me too. Community networks seem like a really cool idea for a situation where lower bandwith links are expensive.
Maybe it's just that there's not usually a 'critical mass' of users that have the time, expertise, and money to start a community net.
I wonder if it will start becoming more popular to build small local nets now that RadioLAN cards are becoming cheaper and more available...
...What a boneheaded idea.
I use the 'net a lot and I don't want to have to count minutes (or megs) like I have to on my cellphone or long distance line.
I don't want to pay my ISP for the latest Slackware ISO that I d/l'ed, nor do I want to pay for playing Q3 all night...
I've not met anyone that's happy under metered access in the US, and from what I hear, in places where it is only metered (Like the UK), people hate it.
If my ISP started metering, I'd switch ISPs. Simple as that.
So what if it goes against history? That's called progress, fool.
I find MacOS (8.0 and 8.5, the systems on our network) to be clunky, uninformative (Windows does a SLIGHTLY better job on this end, but not much.), irritating, and in some cases, condescending. "Oops! A system error occured!" (Cute little bomb icon and all.)
Ok, so in NT we have big manly BSODs or GPFs instead of cute little bombs.
Gimme a break. How about an informative system error message, or an error dialog that will let me save my work, and close my applications BEFORE hitting that [RESTART] button.
Are you saying Windows can do this? News to me. When an app GPFs, generally that's it for your data.
I have never seen any warning like 'Your machine is about to BSOD! Would you like to save your work?'...
The whole 'Drag to the trash to unmount' idea needs to go too.
Yeah, just like 'click Start to shut down the machine' needs to go, right?
The only interface I consider to be superior to Windows would be The Console(tm).
It's not as pretty as a GUI, but it's FAR more powerful.
I love the console as much as any UNIX nerd, but console vs. GUI was not my point at all.
My point was that, IMO, MacOS has the best *GUI* out there.
Yes, it has some annoying quirks (like no command line by default), but I think it comes off as being better designed than the Windows GUI.
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Ummm...The original poster said *Quake* not Quake III.
IIRC the minimum requirement for software-rendered Quake was a P60.
Just for perspective, a web browser requires more than that now days.
What's up with that 'more portable' comment anyways?
It's totally out of context...'More efficient' or 'lighter weight' would have been appropriate,
but 'more portable' makes no sense in a statement about resource usage.
--K
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Is this a troll? or just ignorance? those are the questions.
I don't see it as either. Perl is a scripting language, but that doesn't make it any less powerful.
Just because it's not compiled, doesn't necessarily mean it sucks.
Speed, as you said, is the critical difference.
--K
ObMyCoolestVBHack: High school senior project - A data acquisition program. (Which drove the homebuilt A/D converter hardware!)
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There's another problem with electrics - range.
I want to be able to drive more than a few hundred miles before I have a multi-hour recharge.
Gas/electric hybrids seem like a pretty good alternative to straight electric until we develop some amazing new battery technology.
--K
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Something Awful
I belive the actual link was to a QuakeII map called 'This Map is Good Fun', which really has to be seen to be believed.
--K
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IIRC, they're a Canadian company, which, I should hope, puts them outside of Big Brother's jurisdiction...
--K
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It's just too bad that they're subpeona-able, rather than being based in a country that's not extremely cooperative with the US.
I don't think it matters. They've designed the system so that they *can't* trace anything.
The most they can do is deactivate a nym, but the nym can't be traced back to the person using it.
--K
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Right. What if this software becomes standard among kiddy-porn traders? Would the guys at ZK find that funny?
I am so sick of 'what-ifs'.
So what if sickos use the software? The same sickos use the US Postal Service. Would you ban that?
I suppose digital cameras make it easier for the sickos to make kiddie porn - after all, you don't have to get film developed. Would you ban digital cameras? Hell, ban Polaroid for that matter.
Cryptography makes it easier for criminals to communicate with each other. Would you ban cryptography?
Most new technology has a up side and a down side.
I think in most cases the good far outweighs the bad.
--K
And really, do you honestly think the ZKS people never imagined that their software could be used for illegal/immoral purposes?
---
ZKS Freedom goes far beyond blocking cookies and encrypting e-mail.
They provide an encrypted, anonymous link from the website you're accessing, through your ISP to your machine.
All your ISP sees is you accessing a Freedom server, and all the website you're accessing sees is a Freedom server.
The whole point of Freedom is that, in theory, it should be impossible to trace back a name to an IP address.
You can't do this by using 'paranoid settings' in your browser.
--K
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Ummm...Closed source *IS* no source.
--K
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It's time for Geeks to grow up. It's time to stop trying to get your own back at users.
We like to watch pathetic lusers squirm when they can't figure out something!
We design overly complex user interfaces that require YEARS and YEARS to learn!
You know why? JOB SECURITY! As long as you pathetic fools can't RTFM, you need US for support!
And you lowly users can't do a thing about it beacause...
YOU CAN'T CODE! BWAHAHAHAHA!
--K
Troll? Funny? Insightful? YOU MAKE THE CALL!
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There is a Linux package here:t ml
http://www.ibutton.com/software/1wire/wirekit.h
I haven't had much time to play with it tho, so I don't know it's capabilities,
but I seem to remember reading a plain (memory-only) iButton under linux.
Those cards look pretty spiffy, too. I might have to pick some up sometime...
Just out of curiosity, how durable are those cards? Can they survive being in a wallet?
--K
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Sony may decide to implement things like access controls on Memory Sticks (to do SDMI, for example)
Ever heard of 'Magic Gate'?
It's just that. Memory sticks that have been 'enhanced' to provide access control.
Costs more than a regular stick, too.
Sony is very supportive of consumer-unfriendly access controls, including SDMI and friends.
MS tech looks kinda cool (nothing really new tho, just a different form factor) but seems pretty evil, especially if it became dominant.
--K
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Of course - one needs a way to get the key to it - I would imagine that it could be kept on a floppy and inserted at boot time, or whenever the partition needs to be mounted.
Seems like an iButton would be perfect for something like that...
--K
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Some day in elementary school kids will have to memorize the GPL. And they'll have huge picture of RMS on the walls.
And everyone will crowd around the 14' tall bronze statue of RMS and sing the 'Free Software Song'.
Brings a tear to my eye and a rumbling to my bowel.
--K
Come with me and share the software...
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make it look like the OS it's actually running under (on, in?).
So what you're saying is make one dialog use Motif-look widgets, another use Windows-look, another use MacOS-look, another use Xt-look, and another use GTK flavor-of-the-day, no?
Sounds like it'd look right at home on any Linux desktop!
--K
It's funny. Laugh.
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Sony's AIBO may succeed in Japan where anything will sell, including soiled schoolgirl uniforms in vending machins (no, I'm not kidding)
But you can also get beer, liquor, ramen noodles, Pocky, and pr0n from Japanese vending machines.
IMHO, Amerika really needs to import some of this amazing vending machine technology.
That and smartcards. We really need smartcards.
And just to stay slightly on topic, the Poo-Chi doesn't seem nearly as advanced as any Aibo,
not to mention you can't stick a PCMCIA card up it's arse.
--K
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"Umm...I think your robot dog is humping your computer..."
"No, he's just uploading data."
"Don't tell me. He uses burst transfers, right?"
--K
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KDE2 and GNOME 1.4 will be providing as good as, if not better, GUI environment for PCs and Macs
I'll believe that when I see it.
Not bloody likely it'll matter anyway, because app support will still be bad enough to give people a reason to use Windows or Mac...
--K
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A method for vaporizing Cocaine Hydroxide, utilizing a blown-glass utensil ("pipe").
A mixture of Cocaine Hydroxide and an extending agent ("base") is placed in the indentation of the device ("bowl") and intense heat is applied to the cocaine mixture ("rock"), thereby vaporizing the the narcotic component, and freeing it from the base. The vapors are then inhaled ("hit") and intoxication ("high") is obtained.
A marketing strategy for use with the device will also be patented, as follows:
The salesman ("dealer") will provide the pipe and a sample of substance ("crack") to the consumer ("crackhead") who will thereby become addicted to the substance and will require more devices ("crack pipes"). Fierce protection of IP rights will be necessary, including the bribing of law enforcement, and turf control.
These devices ("crack pipes") may be particularly useful to weblog ("Slashdot") moderators.
--K
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I'm surprised people aren't slinging ethernet out their windows and setting up Microwave links.
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Me too. Community networks seem like a really cool idea for a situation where lower bandwith links are expensive.
Maybe it's just that there's not usually a 'critical mass' of users that have the time, expertise, and money to start a community net.
I wonder if it will start becoming more popular to build small local nets now that RadioLAN cards are becoming cheaper and more available...
--K
Just my (unmetered)
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...What a boneheaded idea.
I use the 'net a lot and I don't want to have to count minutes (or megs) like I have to on my cellphone or long distance line.
I don't want to pay my ISP for the latest Slackware ISO that I d/l'ed, nor do I want to pay for playing Q3 all night...
I've not met anyone that's happy under metered access in the US, and from what I hear, in places where it is only metered (Like the UK), people hate it.
If my ISP started metering, I'd switch ISPs. Simple as that.
So what if it goes against history? That's called progress, fool.
--K
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I find MacOS (8.0 and 8.5, the systems on our network) to be clunky, uninformative (Windows does a SLIGHTLY better job on this end, but not much.), irritating, and in some cases, condescending. "Oops! A system error occured!" (Cute little bomb icon and all.)
Ok, so in NT we have big manly BSODs or GPFs instead of cute little bombs.
Gimme a break. How about an informative system error message, or an error dialog that will let me save my work, and close my applications BEFORE hitting that [RESTART] button.
Are you saying Windows can do this? News to me. When an app GPFs, generally that's it for your data.
I have never seen any warning like 'Your machine is about to BSOD! Would you like to save your work?'...
The whole 'Drag to the trash to unmount' idea needs to go too.
Yeah, just like 'click Start to shut down the machine' needs to go, right?
The only interface I consider to be superior to Windows would be The Console(tm).
It's not as pretty as a GUI, but it's FAR more powerful.
I love the console as much as any UNIX nerd, but console vs. GUI was not my point at all.
My point was that, IMO, MacOS has the best *GUI* out there.
Yes, it has some annoying quirks (like no command line by default), but I think it comes off as being better designed than the Windows GUI.
--K
Mmmm...Holy war goodness.
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I'm anxious to see an interface that can rival the Windows interface.
You've never used a Mac, have you?
--K
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I think you're forgetting that Bill Gates used to be a programmer himself.
The operative phrase being 'used to be'.
Gates is not a hacker any more, he's a suit.
--K
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A deHavilland Beaver on floats.
;)
Yeah, we all need a little Beaver every now and then, don't we...
--K
(And yes, I do know what a deHaviland Beaver is...)
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