So, I wanted to install Quake. I use Linux a lot. I'm no expert, but I'm pretty comfortable with it. I've heard Windows was great for people who want to play games with no hassles. I knew microsoft made it, so I pointed konqeror at microsoft.org, and away I went. Ooops. MS is a company, not an organisation. Microsoft.com! Okay, so I tried to search the website for an.iso, so I could install Windows. Nothing! I realised that it was Commercial Software. I should have known this upfront, but I'm no windows expert. So, for the privelige of *playing games,* I went down to a local computer shop and invested over a hundred dollars in a copy of Windows. (I guess there are a lot of hard core gamers who wouldn't have a problem with putting down hundreds of dollars just to play games, but it isn't something I normally do.)
Installation was pretty smooth. I had to download nvidia binary drivers to get fully accelerated OpenGL, just like Linux. Windows is a supported platform for the drivers. I had to reboot the whole OS after installing them, because Windows won't let you easily drop back to a command line mode and just restart the GUI. No worries - I didn't have a server running on the machine, and it only takes a bit longer to reboot than to just restart a GUI.
Caution - Windows only comes with a special limited feature browser that doesn't support tabs, or anything. It is apparently only provided so you can download the latest version of a real browser after you install Windows. Windows doesn't come with a lot of useful stuff that you expect from a Linux distro...
So, I start reading docs to find out how you install apps on this new OS. I was having a pretty good time. Then, I learned that there is no equivalent of apt-get. If there is free software you want to download and install, you have to do it manually. So, I used the funny miniature "IE" browser to get the Quake source online.
Ooops, bad idea. Windows doesn't come with a compiler. You can download a free version, but the full featured "Visual Studio," costs a lot of money. I didn't feel like investing the effort to understand the differences. I decided to just get binaries. Again, there is no tool to automatically download and install an app, so I had to manually google for windows binaries. Thankfully, Quake is a very popular game, so it was very fast and easy to find, but still, it is an extra layer of inconvenience.
After a flurry of clicking "next" and eventually "finish," I finally had the game installed. Hooray. I tried to run it and I got a "BSOD." (Crash error screen) Of course, I already pointed out that Windows comes with no development tools, so it wasn't like I could try again with the debugger to see what happened. I had no way to see exactly what the issue was. What's worse, I couldn't get back to the system. This *game* had caused the equivalent of a kernel panic. It wasn't just the app that had crashed, but the whole system! this, from a system that is supposedly really great for games! It lets a game kill it!
Okay, so I rebooted into Linux. I already knew of a website with binaries for Quake, so I went there in Konq (Which came installed by default! I didn't have to go and download it!), downloaded a package...
dpkg -i Q
That was all there was to it. This "Windows is great for games" garbage is just horrible propaganda.
Now, if only I could get sound to work in Linux...
Well, it is certainly capable of being reused. It's just that nobody actually has a use for a thee man suborbital spaceplane. There was never any question about whether of not it was built for the X-Prize. It was. No sane person ever said otherwise. Now, they are starting to build other space ships for the Virgin Galactic partnership.
Strictly speaking, you only watched the first episode. Fox hated the actual pilot, and was not at all interested in airing it. AFAIK, it was first broadcast recently when sci-fi picked it up.
As for the clean look, after so many years of star trek, I find it boring. The Alliance in the show look very clean and proper. It makes an interesting contrast.
On the subject of debugging tools, does 2005 come with a profiler? I'm told 6 did. I know 2003 did not. It greatly disappointed me, because I have grown otherwise quite fond of the IDE. It has some strangeness, but is pretty decent for the most part. (One example of the strangeness is that I have to build my app as a multithreaded DLL or else I have problems. I'm sure a VC guru would spot the issue in a heartbeat, but I am thoroughly confused about it, and gave up researching the issue. It's an executable, not a DLL...)
P.S. I discovered that AMD has a free profiler for download. It works great with VS.NET !:)
It'd be interesting to see an approach like SETI@Home, where small dishes scattered across the world would be used collectively to send/recieve information. I don't know how specialised of a dish you need to do it, but surely there must be some way to do it with lots of commodity hardware? People would all need to point their dishes at a specific angle, and hook them to a PC, but there must be thousands od dishes in the US that could be put to such ends?
Just because NASA stops operations doesn't mean the probe will just disappear.
My iPod Photo also gets scratched up very easily from just being in a pocket. I noticed this after a day or so, and got a 25 cent PDA screen protector to cover it, and the screen is still fine. It pissed me off a bit that it isn't made of sturdier stuff, but the only people who wind up with horribly scratched screens have either abused their iPods, or were too stupid to notice the issue and deal with it. I think Apple should make future iPods much tougher, but all the whiners don't deserve to have their iPods replaced every week ehen they scratch it up. If you use something, it stops being new, and it stops looking new. Deal.
Clearly, you are right. Bandwidth will always be the limiting factor. Clearly, it is impossible to get HDTV level graphics through the same sort of connection that I use for my cable internet. A true revolution would be required in Internet connectivity.
Now, that sarcastic comment aside, I agree that latency will always be annoying for the vision of the network computer. The speed of light will always kick you in the ass. (And it will kick you in the ass as fast as possible.)
Life is naturally hard to define, and we will probably fiddle with our definition a lot as we find odd things on other planets, but my favorite definition is this: A complicated way of making heat from some sort of food.
Like many definitions, fire qualifies despite not usually being considered alive, but it always helped me put life into an interesting perspective.
If you're charging your iPod you aren't having a fucking emergency.
I actually can imagine a few circumstances where having an iPod could be important. If you have language lessons on the iPod, and are travelling to a variety of foreign countries, you may be able to quickly consult the language tapes for the local country as a refresher to figure out how to say, "my hair has become a fiery thing. I shall need water to respectfully make it less so."
Past that, if you have Linux on the iPod, you may use it for all sorts of useful things which could come in handy, but I agree that those circumstances would be extraordinarily rare.
Mostly, an iPod is useful in an emergency because you can listen to music. You can pump yourself up if you need to get to work, or mellow out with some classical if you need to wait for rescue. I would dig that.
In other words, don't post out of ignorance and don't make up "facts" on the fly. Thank you for playing.
Okay, I appreciate that I wasn't precise in my wording, and I always welcome corrections to my posts, but don't call me ignorant or a liar just because I didn't bother to go into details that aren't relevant to the point. Anybody can legally redistribute Mozilla. You need to specifically register with MS to legally redistribute IE.
MS still has controls on IE redistribution, even if it is technically possible to do it. My point was that Mozilla has no such control on redistribution.
Just change what you quoted from my post to "since IE can't be legally redistributed by just anybody" and it is still making the same point, but you won't feel the need to call me a liar.
Well, okay, just to play devil's advocate, since IE can't be legally redistributed, you theoretically have a legal protection from malicious redistributors.
I don't think it is a genuine advantage, but it does sound like something MS could spin.
Huh? They said on the day of the announcement that Intel's roadmap had the best MIPS/watt. We've known for a while that they realised the P4 was embarassing them, and that they needed a better direction.
They also have a working Doom port. Neither is quite perfect yet. I have a feeling that there is considerable room for improvement, but I've only just started to look through the source, and the iPod's LCD interface is surprisingly baroque for somebody used to having either easy access to a frame buffer, or mature accelerated video drivers...:(
I don't think anybody has done anything with the TV encoder chip on the Photo. Personally, what I'd like to see is a video player app that doesn't use the LCD, but just goes straight to the TV encoder, and can play decently compressed video. This would allow me to carry quite a lot of TV on my iPod Photo, and easily plug it ito a TV wherever I happen to be to watch it.
I only skimmed the docs, but the interface to the TV encoder actually looks a bit less baroque, so in theory it might work better than trying to play to the LCD. OTOH, the TV encoder apparently expects higher resolution, so it may be a loss overall for performance.:(
The only problem is having a hetereogeneous environment increases your support costs whether you have a security incursion or not. How many people are security experts in Mac, Windows, Linux, BSD, Solaris, FreeBSD and CPM? Not many. Which means that for every environment your IT staff supports, you need additional admins.
No, no, no. The idea behind heterogeneous networks is that you can have incompetant administration and still have at least one working system while you repair the compromised machines. You don't need to know how to secure Irix, VMS, Linux, BSD, Solaris, Windows, Novell, and Mac OS X because no hacker knows how to compromise them all. As long as I have one working machine to surf the porno while I reinstall Windows, everything is just fine. Just fine, indeed.
At least, that's my take on network heterogeneosity... (Actually, I am using a Mac OS X box as a gateway router to keep my Windows, Irix, and Solaris machines safe. (The BSD/Alpha box is broken right now...) The Mac OS X box has never been compromised.) Yes, I keep that many platforms running continuously on my home network. I'm not even counting the more exotic machines I don't have on the network, like my VAX.
I was thinking exactly the same thing, but you beat me to it. Maybe a screen that bathes the viewers in IR (either from rear projection pass through, or just projected along with the movie). Or, four of these, one mounted at each corner of the screen.
A remote control will blind a camera in night shot mode, but it won't blind anybody. It can actually make a pretty cool looking lens flare, depending on the remote and the camera... I wouldn't be too worried.
Yes, my dad gets by with a few simple rules of thumb, and an ability to scale a 3:4:5 triangle, but when he works on some really odd pieces, he sometimes comes to me and asks me to crank a few numbers for him.
Things with wierd angles, stepwise approximations of curves. Once he even sat down with me for two hours while I modeled a project of his in 3D, so he could see if it was going to work like he thought. Once we had the shape, a little trig was able tyo calculate how much lumber he would need. As far as I know, he even included the 3D model in the bid, impressing the client.:)
According to that, the minimum is about 42 people to make any change. A lot of this is because of things like localisation issues. (One translator for each language...)
Forensic tests showed files on the laptop had been erased and written over with a new operating system installation
And they couldn't have just figured this out by turning the laptop on? Do you need forensic tests to work out that a new OS is on there?
Turning it on probably is a forensic test. Maybe they ran a scan disk. Have you ever talked to one of the guys who handles forensic data stuff? My uncle is technically trained in it, being a high up in the prosecutors office, but he still has his wife send all his emails when he is at home, that's how much of a computer person he is.
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No, it's all still free.
So, I wanted to install Quake. I use Linux a lot. I'm no expert, but I'm pretty comfortable with it. I've heard Windows was great for people who want to play games with no hassles. I knew microsoft made it, so I pointed konqeror at microsoft.org, and away I went. Ooops. MS is a company, not an organisation. Microsoft.com! Okay, so I tried to search the website for an .iso, so I could install Windows. Nothing! I realised that it was Commercial Software. I should have known this upfront, but I'm no windows expert. So, for the privelige of *playing games,* I went down to a local computer shop and invested over a hundred dollars in a copy of Windows. (I guess there are a lot of hard core gamers who wouldn't have a problem with putting down hundreds of dollars just to play games, but it isn't something I normally do.)
Installation was pretty smooth. I had to download nvidia binary drivers to get fully accelerated OpenGL, just like Linux. Windows is a supported platform for the drivers. I had to reboot the whole OS after installing them, because Windows won't let you easily drop back to a command line mode and just restart the GUI. No worries - I didn't have a server running on the machine, and it only takes a bit longer to reboot than to just restart a GUI.
Caution - Windows only comes with a special limited feature browser that doesn't support tabs, or anything. It is apparently only provided so you can download the latest version of a real browser after you install Windows. Windows doesn't come with a lot of useful stuff that you expect from a Linux distro...
So, I start reading docs to find out how you install apps on this new OS. I was having a pretty good time. Then, I learned that there is no equivalent of apt-get. If there is free software you want to download and install, you have to do it manually. So, I used the funny miniature "IE" browser to get the Quake source online.
Ooops, bad idea. Windows doesn't come with a compiler. You can download a free version, but the full featured "Visual Studio," costs a lot of money. I didn't feel like investing the effort to understand the differences. I decided to just get binaries. Again, there is no tool to automatically download and install an app, so I had to manually google for windows binaries. Thankfully, Quake is a very popular game, so it was very fast and easy to find, but still, it is an extra layer of inconvenience.
After a flurry of clicking "next" and eventually "finish," I finally had the game installed. Hooray. I tried to run it and I got a "BSOD." (Crash error screen) Of course, I already pointed out that Windows comes with no development tools, so it wasn't like I could try again with the debugger to see what happened. I had no way to see exactly what the issue was. What's worse, I couldn't get back to the system. This *game* had caused the equivalent of a kernel panic. It wasn't just the app that had crashed, but the whole system! this, from a system that is supposedly really great for games! It lets a game kill it!
Okay, so I rebooted into Linux. I already knew of a website with binaries for Quake, so I went there in Konq (Which came installed by default! I didn't have to go and download it!), downloaded a package...
dpkg -i Q
That was all there was to it. This "Windows is great for games" garbage is just horrible propaganda.
Now, if only I could get sound to work in Linux...
I was just about to comment on the same show. It was a little goofy, but I very much enjoyed watching it. Better than most anything on american TV.
Well, it is certainly capable of being reused. It's just that nobody actually has a use for a thee man suborbital spaceplane. There was never any question about whether of not it was built for the X-Prize. It was. No sane person ever said otherwise. Now, they are starting to build other space ships for the Virgin Galactic partnership.
Strictly speaking, you only watched the first episode. Fox hated the actual pilot, and was not at all interested in airing it. AFAIK, it was first broadcast recently when sci-fi picked it up.
As for the clean look, after so many years of star trek, I find it boring. The Alliance in the show look very clean and proper. It makes an interesting contrast.
On the subject of debugging tools, does 2005 come with a profiler? I'm told 6 did. I know 2003 did not. It greatly disappointed me, because I have grown otherwise quite fond of the IDE. It has some strangeness, but is pretty decent for the most part. (One example of the strangeness is that I have to build my app as a multithreaded DLL or else I have problems. I'm sure a VC guru would spot the issue in a heartbeat, but I am thoroughly confused about it, and gave up researching the issue. It's an executable, not a DLL...)
:)
P.S. I discovered that AMD has a free profiler for download. It works great with VS.NET !
It'd be interesting to see an approach like SETI@Home, where small dishes scattered across the world would be used collectively to send/recieve information. I don't know how specialised of a dish you need to do it, but surely there must be some way to do it with lots of commodity hardware? People would all need to point their dishes at a specific angle, and hook them to a PC, but there must be thousands od dishes in the US that could be put to such ends?
Just because NASA stops operations doesn't mean the probe will just disappear.
My iPod Photo also gets scratched up very easily from just being in a pocket. I noticed this after a day or so, and got a 25 cent PDA screen protector to cover it, and the screen is still fine. It pissed me off a bit that it isn't made of sturdier stuff, but the only people who wind up with horribly scratched screens have either abused their iPods, or were too stupid to notice the issue and deal with it. I think Apple should make future iPods much tougher, but all the whiners don't deserve to have their iPods replaced every week ehen they scratch it up. If you use something, it stops being new, and it stops looking new. Deal.
Clearly, you are right. Bandwidth will always be the limiting factor. Clearly, it is impossible to get HDTV level graphics through the same sort of connection that I use for my cable internet. A true revolution would be required in Internet connectivity.
Now, that sarcastic comment aside, I agree that latency will always be annoying for the vision of the network computer. The speed of light will always kick you in the ass. (And it will kick you in the ass as fast as possible.)
Life is naturally hard to define, and we will probably fiddle with our definition a lot as we find odd things on other planets, but my favorite definition is this:
A complicated way of making heat from some sort of food.
Like many definitions, fire qualifies despite not usually being considered alive, but it always helped me put life into an interesting perspective.
Past that, if you have Linux on the iPod, you may use it for all sorts of useful things which could come in handy, but I agree that those circumstances would be extraordinarily rare.
Mostly, an iPod is useful in an emergency because you can listen to music. You can pump yourself up if you need to get to work, or mellow out with some classical if you need to wait for rescue. I would dig that.
Okay, I appreciate that I wasn't precise in my wording, and I always welcome corrections to my posts, but don't call me ignorant or a liar just because I didn't bother to go into details that aren't relevant to the point. Anybody can legally redistribute Mozilla. You need to specifically register with MS to legally redistribute IE.
MS still has controls on IE redistribution, even if it is technically possible to do it. My point was that Mozilla has no such control on redistribution.
Just change what you quoted from my post to "since IE can't be legally redistributed by just anybody" and it is still making the same point, but you won't feel the need to call me a liar.
Jackass.
Well, okay, just to play devil's advocate, since IE can't be legally redistributed, you theoretically have a legal protection from malicious redistributors.
I don't think it is a genuine advantage, but it does sound like something MS could spin.
Huh? They said on the day of the announcement that Intel's roadmap had the best MIPS/watt. We've known for a while that they realised the P4 was embarassing them, and that they needed a better direction.
I'm holingout for the iPod Femto.
:(
:(
That said, ipodlinux.org has been working on a video player...
http://ipodlinux.org/Video_player
They also have a working Doom port. Neither is quite perfect yet. I have a feeling that there is considerable room for improvement, but I've only just started to look through the source, and the iPod's LCD interface is surprisingly baroque for somebody used to having either easy access to a frame buffer, or mature accelerated video drivers...
I don't think anybody has done anything with the TV encoder chip on the Photo. Personally, what I'd like to see is a video player app that doesn't use the LCD, but just goes straight to the TV encoder, and can play decently compressed video. This would allow me to carry quite a lot of TV on my iPod Photo, and easily plug it ito a TV wherever I happen to be to watch it.
I only skimmed the docs, but the interface to the TV encoder actually looks a bit less baroque, so in theory it might work better than trying to play to the LCD. OTOH, the TV encoder apparently expects higher resolution, so it may be a loss overall for performance.
At least, that's my take on network heterogeneosity... (Actually, I am using a Mac OS X box as a gateway router to keep my Windows, Irix, and Solaris machines safe. (The BSD/Alpha box is broken right now...) The Mac OS X box has never been compromised.) Yes, I keep that many platforms running continuously on my home network. I'm not even counting the more exotic machines I don't have on the network, like my VAX.
I was thinking exactly the same thing, but you beat me to it. Maybe a screen that bathes the viewers in IR (either from rear projection pass through, or just projected along with the movie). Or, four of these, one mounted at each corner of the screen.
A remote control will blind a camera in night shot mode, but it won't blind anybody. It can actually make a pretty cool looking lens flare, depending on the remote and the camera... I wouldn't be too worried.
switch (button) {
case 1:
independent++;
case 2:
democrat++;
case 3:
republican++;
break;
default:
republican++;
}
Or, more subtly, only have independents and republicans vote for republicans, rather than everybody. It'll make the outomes more plausible.
Or, make democrat a short. (Or, char...)
Uhhhh... Find a group of persons collectively fluent in english, and twenty seven additional languages. Ask them.
Yes, my dad gets by with a few simple rules of thumb, and an ability to scale a 3:4:5 triangle, but when he works on some really odd pieces, he sometimes comes to me and asks me to crank a few numbers for him.
:)
Things with wierd angles, stepwise approximations of curves. Once he even sat down with me for two hours while I modeled a project of his in 3D, so he could see if it was going to work like he thought. Once we had the shape, a little trig was able tyo calculate how much lumber he would need. As far as I know, he even included the 3D model in the bid, impressing the client.
Sadly, the joke isn't as extreme as the actual answer:
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http://blogs.msdn.com/ericlippert/archive/2003/10
According to that, the minimum is about 42 people to make any change. A lot of this is because of things like localisation issues. (One translator for each language...)