It's really playable on the hardware they use in the University of Saarbrücken. One of the people involved with this went to school with my sister. I could ask him if there still is work being done on it. However, what I know is: They made a prototype of a graphics card (SaarCOR) with raytracing hardware instead of a rasterizer (http://graphics.cs.uni-sb.de/SaarCOR/).
The RT-Quake 3 ran on a cluster of several (20 I think) computers, that's why a virtual Intel CPU of 36 GHz is shown.
So, when you have over 20 computers left for a playable Q3 Raytracing you might contact them and you too will be able to play.
According to the 2nd paragraph (in German) the sender pays, although GPRS traffic is on both ends. The companys didn't say specifically what happens when the reciever is roaming in a foreign net.
"It's about raising the turnover and to prevent others from taking over the service of offering IM, Chat and Videoconferencing", said Wang Jianzhou, president of the world largest cellular service China Mobile.
So, another conglomerate of money grabbing companies that throw themself vigorously behind the train that already left the station.
They should have learnt from the movie/music industry. After a free service is already established, there is very little incentive for a customer to pay for the product.
Draw a square on a board. Now draw a quarter Circle into the square with a radius equal to the sides of the square. Make it waterproof.
Wait until its raining a bit. Run out with your drawing and collect the drops on your drawing. The relation between the drops inside the circle and outside the ircle (but still in the square) is roughly pi.
It's a long time since I visited IRC, but sometimes if a guy started screaming and demanding warez or something like that I told him to/join #10,000Warez or/join #10,000Something. Important thing was, that there was a comma in the Channel name. Not as obvious for those who know a *little* bit about Networks in general. I mean 127.0.0.1 *should* be known...
continue to use my medium (music, movie etc.) even after the DRM authenticating facility ceased to exist.
continue using my medium on a new pc, after my old one ceased to exist.
lend the medium to a friend. Maybe even timebombed (eg after a week, the friend cannot use it anymore, I mean, he has to give back my CD's/DVD's too, after some time).
transfer my medium to another type of storage in case CDs or DVDs are as common as 8-tracks or something.
Furthermore not having the feeling, that the DRM mechanism can be used to remotely cut me off from using my medium is a big plus, too (like for example that Napster monthly-fee thingie, where your music stops playing, as soon as you stop paying).
Basically: If the DRMed medium has the same usability as a CD I bought about 6 years ago, then it's a DRM I'd accept.
Apples iTunes DRM is almost fine by me, since my friends in the LAN can listen to my music. I can burn them a CD, and so on.
However I don't know what happens, if iTMS closes its doors, and my PC crashes. When I'm still able to authenticate my protected music, all is well.
And if not, well there is always (J)Hymn...
Reminds me of that Johnny Bravo cartoon, where Johnny wakes Chronos the Bear, Master of All Time, has a few seconds to plead for his life, and after the timer runs out, points behind the bear: "But this says I have 12 Minutes left!". And while Chronos looks around and sees his blinking VCR clock, explaining "Thats the VCR you idiot! Not even Chronos, Master of All Time [thunderclap], knows how to set these!", Johnny took the opportunity to run.
Boy was this funny. It was like... so funny, because I had this glass of milk, you know, and like... umm... no, actually it was gross... Nevermind...
I remeber that The Register once had a story about a sweepstake for the Windows ME launch. It gave the winner the opportunity to visit the Microsoft Campus, get Windows ME and some goodies and participate in the traditional elbow-rubbing with the ME development team or something like that.
However in the contest rules, somewhere in that legal mumbojumbo, was a paragraph stating, that if the winner was from Canada, he or she had to solve a mathematical quiz to prove his/her intelligence prior to awarding the prize.
Step 3: Somehow profit. (When nobody saw the movie / game because nobody saw the trailer / demo).
Somehow = Profit by blaming internet piracy and suing everybody for compensation or something...
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Even the setup program in Warcraft I had "teh funnay". When you selected your soundcard, you could test Midi/FM music and digital sound/speech effects. For the speech a sample was played that said "Your soundcard is correctly configured for playing wave sound". If you played it often enough you got an angry "It doesn't get any better!" (Or something like that. I have the German Warcraft where it says "Besser wird's nicht!")
The "as well as" doesn't give the "passport-forging facility" an additional verb like "running" or "operating". Therefore the sentence still has the meaning that they stole credit card numbers as well as the passport firm.
French cars *are* among the most innovative cars. Especcially Citroen seems to be at it. They used Headlights that shine into curves depending on how far you turn the steering wheel already in the 60s or 70s. They were the first to use a very soft suspension (advertised with a car bumping over a freshly plowed field with raw eggs on the backseat. The eggs remained intact). They built a hygropneumatic suspension that automatically stiffens the suspension. For example you drive a car speedily over a long hump, and the inertia lifts the car upwards, while the road begins to go down again. Now imagine a curve right after that. With a soft suspension the car will swing around with a lot of load-cycle changes, while the hygropneumatic suspension stiffens and keeps the car steady. This in turn is an evolution of their suspension that adjusts the height of the car's rear so that you can easily load the trunk in a lowered car, and when startinging, it lifts the back up again compensating the load in the trunk. Furthermore a lot of automobile companies (Opel, Volkswagen among them) used Peugeots Diesel-motor technology, since it is among the best engineered Dieselmotors. And a few years back Peugeot made the HDI Diesel engine, that produced very high exhaust heat, so the carbon particles get burned, eliminating the black smoke from Diesel engines.
So, when do you think did the French cars stop being innovative?
Don't laugh. Where I work, we have some unskilled people at an electronic scale. They are supposed to open their application from a main menu and enter the weight into this mask. I did an "idiot proof" manual with screenshots and red arrows ("type here", "push this button", etc.) However as the saying goes: Make something idiot proof, and an even greater idiot will find a way to break it. I did the mistake in the manual to start with "in the Main Menu start this application".
So they do. Everytime they have to weigh something. Without closing the already running application.
I thought they got confused by Windows XP collecting several Windows into a single Task-Bar button. So I turned it off. But they kept on launching their application over and over again.
So, there went a little bit of insight into this idea of only letting a user launch 3 apps at once before he gets confused... I think...
Back in the times, when the C64 was the dream of all schoolkids, there was a German magazine called "Happy Computer", that had among other things regular tests of joysticks (where the Competition Pro always won).
Their test routine was as follows: First several rounds of Decathlon (fast wiggling of joystick back and forth) Then it was held by its cord and swung around for a few minutes. Then it got dropped on concrete several times. Then they poured lemonade over it. If it was still funcitoning, it was good. OK, I think the ergonomic factor and Extras like AutoFire and such got tested too.
In an April(fools) issue they supposedly did that with a printer.
Now I'd like to see them swing a 200$ Thrustmaster HOTAS Stick on its cord...
I think the greatest abuse to a computer is writing an important school paper (like Diploma, or a homework that goes beep beep beep beep beep, or something...)
A friend of mine was working on his diploma when the PSU made a popping noise and emitted smoke. When he switched to his second PC, about 2 days later the RAM failed, causing the PC to reset every 10 Minutes or so. When he lent an old Laptop from a friend, he accidentally spilled coffee over the keyboard. He then wrote his diploma on several PCs of the school's PC pool, without any further desasters.
My personal experience with computers and diploma? Well, I read about a hacked driver for the Audigy 1 that would allow me to use the Audigy2's driver with my card. After installing the driver, Windows XP bluescreened after every reboot. Not even Safe Mode worked. After a "quick" reinstall all was good again. No hardwareabuse per se, but stupid anyways...
Better yet: "As expected, they are much faster than previous generation products from ATI. We will let the benchmarks speak for themselves."
I'd translate it like this: Our new card can beat any of those old (previous) ATI cards. (But the new ATI Cards have the potential to open up a can of whoopass on this one, so we'll rely on benchmark-optimized results)
Think about this: A German supermarket-chain sells PDAs for about 400 complete with GPS Antenna and a Navigation Software for Europe. A shareware lets you add custom Points of Interest to the maps.
So, you get a device, that can direct you via voice and moving map to a WiFi Hotspot, while you can listen to MP3s (and even OGG Vorbis *gasp*) from the Memory Card of the PDA *and* you can access the Hotspot with the same device if it's WiFi enabled. Or you can mark a new WiFi Point of Interest yourself while you drive around and happen to come near a Hotspot.
So why would I use a textfile on a music device except because "it can be done"? Agreed, since this PDA only supports SD Cards up to 512MB its not compareable to the 40GB Musical goodness of the iPod *sigh*...
Sorry to disagree. After a friend of mine recommended Zone Alarm as an easy to use firewall for beginners, I tried it. I think: People who don't know how to configure a "real" firewall, shouldn't use any. When using Windows XP the built in Firewall is good enough for the average User.
And for your opinion, that while running Zone Alarm the use of IE is OK, then I have to disagree. Since Zone Alarm can only grant full access to the net or nothing (at least the free Version), I consinder this to be dangerous.
Lets say a Virus infects the Internet Explorer. Zone Alarm permits IE access to the web. And thus the Virus kann still send and recieve data, because Zone Alarm "thinks" the traffic comes from IE.
I use Kerio Personal Firewall. I only open port 80 and 443 for IE. And manually permit pages that use a different port (e.g. http://some-page-at-school.edu:8080/importantStuff )
Everything else is blocked. And since Kerio keeps MD5 checksums of all applications for wich rules exist, there is no chance for a Virus/Trojan to infect these Programs and send Data through these.
Therefore, using IE with Zone Alarm is as safe (or unsafe) as using it without any firewall at all.
If you really want to secure the parent's PC, ask them what they want to do. They will probably answer: "Writing letters with word, surfing the web and email and/or IM."
Therefore, it is enough to install a good (and probably not-beginner-friendly) firewall. Permit Port 80 and 443 for surfing. Permit Port 110 and 25 for their email needs. Permit the ports for their favourite instant messenger.
Save these Rules and hide the Firewall icon. My experience with my parents PC is, they will never see any rule window pop up, since they don't use anything else.
If it does, they call me for help, and in most cases it's a Virus/Worm/Trojan, that tries to get a connection out. So I also see if they did something stupid again, by installing that "Microsoft" Patch that came via Mail or something.
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It's really playable on the hardware they use in the University of Saarbrücken. One of the people involved with this went to school with my sister. I could ask him if there still is work being done on it.
However, what I know is: They made a prototype of a graphics card (SaarCOR) with raytracing hardware instead of a rasterizer (http://graphics.cs.uni-sb.de/SaarCOR/).
The RT-Quake 3 ran on a cluster of several (20 I think) computers, that's why a virtual Intel CPU of 36 GHz is shown.
So, when you have over 20 computers left for a playable Q3 Raytracing you might contact them and you too will be able to play.
According to the 2nd paragraph (in German) the sender pays, although GPRS traffic is on both ends. The companys didn't say specifically what happens when the reciever is roaming in a foreign net.
"It's about raising the turnover and to prevent others from taking over the service of offering IM, Chat and Videoconferencing", said Wang Jianzhou, president of the world largest cellular service China Mobile.
So, another conglomerate of money grabbing companies that throw themself vigorously behind the train that already left the station.
They should have learnt from the movie/music industry. After a free service is already established, there is very little incentive for a customer to pay for the product.
No, send him to space to investigate black slabs. And to operate pod bay doors.
Draw a square on a board. Now draw a quarter Circle into the square with a radius equal to the sides of the square.
Make it waterproof.
Wait until its raining a bit. Run out with your drawing and collect the drops on your drawing.
The relation between the drops inside the circle and outside the ircle (but still in the square) is roughly pi.
It's a long time since I visited IRC, but sometimes if a guy started screaming and demanding warez or something like that I told him to /join #10,000Warez /join #10,000Something.
or
Important thing was, that there was a comma in the Channel name.
Not as obvious for those who know a *little* bit about Networks in general. I mean 127.0.0.1 *should* be known...
Some time ago, I read about a new Telescope that was supposedly able to "see" the car on the moon.
We already joked, that Lord British would be pissed, if it wasn't there, because he bought it in an auction.
However after that I didn't hear a thing about it. Would have been interesting.
If Google would have had this before, we would have been spared of two more or less sucky and obviously offtopic movies:
2 coff=1&q=what+is+the+matrix&btnG=Search
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&c
- continue to use my medium (music, movie etc.) even after the DRM authenticating facility ceased to exist.
- continue using my medium on a new pc, after my old one ceased to exist.
- lend the medium to a friend. Maybe even timebombed (eg after a week, the friend cannot use it anymore, I mean, he has to give back my CD's/DVD's too, after some time).
- transfer my medium to another type of storage in case CDs or DVDs are as common as 8-tracks or something.
Furthermore not having the feeling, that the DRM mechanism can be used to remotely cut me off from using my medium is a big plus, too (like for example that Napster monthly-fee thingie, where your music stops playing, as soon as you stop paying). Basically: If the DRMed medium has the same usability as a CD I bought about 6 years ago, then it's a DRM I'd accept. Apples iTunes DRM is almost fine by me, since my friends in the LAN can listen to my music. I can burn them a CD, and so on. However I don't know what happens, if iTMS closes its doors, and my PC crashes. When I'm still able to authenticate my protected music, all is well. And if not, well there is always (J)Hymn...Reminds me of that Johnny Bravo cartoon, where Johnny wakes Chronos the Bear, Master of All Time, has a few seconds to plead for his life, and after the timer runs out, points behind the bear: "But this says I have 12 Minutes left!".
And while Chronos looks around and sees his blinking VCR clock, explaining "Thats the VCR you idiot! Not even Chronos, Master of All Time [thunderclap], knows how to set these!", Johnny took the opportunity to run.
Boy was this funny. It was like... so funny, because I had this glass of milk, you know, and like... umm... no, actually it was gross...
Nevermind...
I remeber that The Register once had a story about a sweepstake for the Windows ME launch. It gave the winner the opportunity to visit the Microsoft Campus, get Windows ME and some goodies and participate in the traditional elbow-rubbing with the ME development team or something like that.
However in the contest rules, somewhere in that legal mumbojumbo, was a paragraph stating, that if the winner was from Canada, he or she had to solve a mathematical quiz to prove his/her intelligence prior to awarding the prize.
I sure hope you posted this at home on your free day. Otherwise see me in my office ASAP.
Sincerely,
Your Boss.
Somehow = Profit by blaming internet piracy and suing everybody for compensation or something...
Even the setup program in Warcraft I had "teh funnay".
When you selected your soundcard, you could test Midi/FM music and digital sound/speech effects.
For the speech a sample was played that said "Your soundcard is correctly configured for playing wave sound". If you played it often enough you got an angry "It doesn't get any better!" (Or something like that. I have the German Warcraft where it says "Besser wird's nicht!")
The "as well as" doesn't give the "passport-forging facility" an additional verb like "running" or "operating".
Therefore the sentence still has the meaning that they stole credit card numbers as well as the passport firm.
Mod parent as Troll...
French cars *are* among the most innovative cars.
Especcially Citroen seems to be at it. They used Headlights that shine into curves depending on how far you turn the steering wheel already in the 60s or 70s.
They were the first to use a very soft suspension (advertised with a car bumping over a freshly plowed field with raw eggs on the backseat. The eggs remained intact).
They built a hygropneumatic suspension that automatically stiffens the suspension. For example you drive a car speedily over a long hump, and the inertia lifts the car upwards, while the road begins to go down again. Now imagine a curve right after that. With a soft suspension the car will swing around with a lot of load-cycle changes, while the hygropneumatic suspension stiffens and keeps the car steady.
This in turn is an evolution of their suspension that adjusts the height of the car's rear so that you can easily load the trunk in a lowered car, and when startinging, it lifts the back up again compensating the load in the trunk.
Furthermore a lot of automobile companies (Opel, Volkswagen among them) used Peugeots Diesel-motor technology, since it is among the best engineered Dieselmotors.
And a few years back Peugeot made the HDI Diesel engine, that produced very high exhaust heat, so the carbon particles get burned, eliminating the black smoke from Diesel engines.
So, when do you think did the French cars stop being innovative?
P.S. I'm *not* French or something like that...
Don't laugh. Where I work, we have some unskilled people at an electronic scale. They are supposed to open their application from a main menu and enter the weight into this mask.
I did an "idiot proof" manual with screenshots and red arrows ("type here", "push this button", etc.)
However as the saying goes: Make something idiot proof, and an even greater idiot will find a way to break it. I did the mistake in the manual to start with "in the Main Menu start this application".
So they do. Everytime they have to weigh something. Without closing the already running application.
I thought they got confused by Windows XP collecting several Windows into a single Task-Bar button. So I turned it off. But they kept on launching their application over and over again.
So, there went a little bit of insight into this idea of only letting a user launch 3 apps at once before he gets confused... I think...
Hmmm.. is that the digital 8-way stick with one clicking (well.. they removed the click in a later version) red button ?
:)
It was a digital 8 way stick but it had 2 red buttons (for right and left hand use), and a red stick with a ball on top.
I recently moved, and my 1984 C64 with a 1 year younger Competition Pro moved with me. Both still work like new
Back in the times, when the C64 was the dream of all schoolkids, there was a German magazine called "Happy Computer", that had among other things regular tests of joysticks (where the Competition Pro always won).
Their test routine was as follows:
First several rounds of Decathlon (fast wiggling of joystick back and forth)
Then it was held by its cord and swung around for a few minutes.
Then it got dropped on concrete several times. Then they poured lemonade over it.
If it was still funcitoning, it was good. OK, I think the ergonomic factor and Extras like AutoFire and such got tested too.
In an April(fools) issue they supposedly did that with a printer.
Now I'd like to see them swing a 200$ Thrustmaster HOTAS Stick on its cord...
I think the greatest abuse to a computer is writing an important school paper (like Diploma, or a homework that goes beep beep beep beep beep, or something...)
A friend of mine was working on his diploma when the PSU made a popping noise and emitted smoke. When he switched to his second PC, about 2 days later the RAM failed, causing the PC to reset every 10 Minutes or so.
When he lent an old Laptop from a friend, he accidentally spilled coffee over the keyboard. He then wrote his diploma on several PCs of the school's PC pool, without any further desasters.
My personal experience with computers and diploma? Well, I read about a hacked driver for the Audigy 1 that would allow me to use the Audigy2's driver with my card. After installing the driver, Windows XP bluescreened after every reboot. Not even Safe Mode worked. After a "quick" reinstall all was good again.
No hardwareabuse per se, but stupid anyways...
Better yet:
"As expected, they are much faster than previous generation products from ATI. We will let the benchmarks speak for themselves."
I'd translate it like this:
Our new card can beat any of those old (previous) ATI cards. (But the new ATI Cards have the potential to open up a can of whoopass on this one, so we'll rely on benchmark-optimized results)
Think about this:
A German supermarket-chain sells PDAs for about 400 complete with GPS Antenna and a Navigation Software for Europe.
A shareware lets you add custom Points of Interest to the maps.
So, you get a device, that can direct you via voice and moving map to a WiFi Hotspot, while you can listen to MP3s (and even OGG Vorbis *gasp*) from the Memory Card of the PDA *and* you can access the Hotspot with the same device if it's WiFi enabled.
Or you can mark a new WiFi Point of Interest yourself while you drive around and happen to come near a Hotspot.
So why would I use a textfile on a music device except because "it can be done"?
Agreed, since this PDA only supports SD Cards up to 512MB its not compareable to the 40GB Musical goodness of the iPod *sigh*...
See, this happens when you use 200 year old speech recognition software...
Why limit to software?
"AHA!! He used this circumvention device called 'screwdriver' to circumvent the protective casing of our device. Where are my lawyers?"
Sorry to disagree. After a friend of mine recommended Zone Alarm as an easy to use firewall for beginners, I tried it.
f )
I think: People who don't know how to configure a "real" firewall, shouldn't use any. When using Windows XP the built in Firewall is good enough for the average User.
And for your opinion, that while running Zone Alarm the use of IE is OK, then I have to disagree.
Since Zone Alarm can only grant full access to the net or nothing (at least the free Version), I consinder this to be dangerous.
Lets say a Virus infects the Internet Explorer. Zone Alarm permits IE access to the web. And thus the Virus kann still send and recieve data, because Zone Alarm "thinks" the traffic comes from IE.
I use Kerio Personal Firewall.
I only open port 80 and 443 for IE. And manually permit pages that use a different port (e.g. http://some-page-at-school.edu:8080/importantStuf
Everything else is blocked. And since Kerio keeps MD5 checksums of all applications for wich rules exist, there is no chance for a Virus/Trojan to infect these Programs and send Data through these.
Therefore, using IE with Zone Alarm is as safe (or unsafe) as using it without any firewall at all.
If you really want to secure the parent's PC, ask them what they want to do. They will probably answer: "Writing letters with word, surfing the web and email and/or IM."
Therefore, it is enough to install a good (and probably not-beginner-friendly) firewall.
Permit Port 80 and 443 for surfing. Permit Port 110 and 25 for their email needs. Permit the ports for their favourite instant messenger.
Save these Rules and hide the Firewall icon. My experience with my parents PC is, they will never see any rule window pop up, since they don't use anything else.
If it does, they call me for help, and in most cases it's a Virus/Worm/Trojan, that tries to get a connection out. So I also see if they did something stupid again, by installing that "Microsoft" Patch that came via Mail or something.