Some people so far have mentioned that even having anything loaded in RAM creates a danger.
Would it be possible to create a system that uses Static RAM (Smart cards, whatever) and have two sticks of it inserted?
One that you boot from and read the firewall rules and such out of, and another 8 meg or so stick that is used just for proccessing things.
Some types of flash cards now days have read write tabs on them, after your OS has loaded and all and you have got things how you want it, halt it, and then switch the tab on your main memory stick so that it is read only.
The 8 meg stick would have previously been assigned to be used for working with packets and such that the firewalls needs to do.
Even better of course would be if you could get a CPU with a nice sized Cache on it (hmmmm, K6-3s, hehe. External cache up to what, 8 megs?:):):) ) and just run almost everything directly out of that after booting. Though that would require some really nifty programming more then likely.:) It would DEFINTLY not be something that any random hacker would suspect, hehe.
Read some of the other comments in this thread for more info on that, but mostly rare earth minerals.
Platinum, titanium, and such. Hell just your basic ores alone, Iron is common as hell from what I have read (may be out of date).
How long do you think it would take for somebody to find some revolutionary new way of refining some ore or another up there in space?
And heck without government controls, not to mention being able to use that big old (near) vacuum to pull your wastes out, the amount of extra money that could be made just thanks to the removal of all environmental regulations would be enormous.
Jupiter MIGHT have some nice gases on it that we MAY be able to gather one day, but the fact is that using TODAYS technology we COULD go out there and grab tons of friggin asteroids, refine them on the spot (waste products would be plenty yah sure, a lot of valuable stuff would be destroyed, but for awhile quick and dirty would be the name of the game, you want to be able to reduce the asteroid to the most compact form of sellable ores that are worth as much money as possible.) and tow shoot or carry them back to earth.
The good thing is that if you are not going for speed, acceleration is not/too/ expensive up there as far as amount of fuel goes. Remember, minimal drag.:)
It is carrying the fuel up there that will cost ya.
It is not like it cannot be done, the main issue (and granted a huuuge one) would be to build the initial stations in space for handling of various extracted resources.
Hell there are 8 other planets in this solar system, why do we have to tear apart ours? There are some darn valuable resources up there, *taps lycos on the head* go get'em!
Seriously though, hhhuuuge startup costs, but scaled, not likely too much more then the initial startup costs of getting resources from the "New World" way back when.
Server orintated, lead way to pay for use software subscription programs.
Where will users run from Microsoft if even the free software is under MS's rule?
Do we REALLY want EVERYTHING to be server orintated? I mean sure it is a good geek dream, but shoot folks, WHO IN THE WORLD do YOU *trust* with your data?
If MS has its way (another generation or so past.NET) we will all be storing our data on MS servers, and you just/know/ how secure those are. Hell even Microsoft has to admit that they have 'security vulnerabilities'.
Do you really want your SS#, CC#s, address, telephone number, and all of your other personal information stored on one centeral server? Think about it folks, first damn exploit that comes along and some damn script kiddie ends up richer then Bill Gates.
Yah, great plan, those applications servers are. Now excuse me while my eyes roll out of the back of my head.
(Who the hell thought up of this? Centeralized servers for LANs, sure. Heck even WANS, but shit, one GIANT centeralized server? Ohh maaan, somebody was smoking the baaad dope that day!)
It may be possible now, but just wait until MS starts to want to charge people a monthly or yearly fee to use office.
Actualy they already have ALOT of users doing that, with that awful yearly upgrade cycle that MS has people go through.
People just do not seem to realize that you can write papers just fine with MS works 4.5 (which has a better spell checker) and that office is really not all that neccisary.
I am _TRYING_ to switch over to StarOffice but it is . . . . a task. It has SOME good aspects but. . . . ah, some serious interface issues as well.:(
I actualy liked the integrated desktop though, kinda sad to see that removed with OpenOffice, though I guess as far as features go that was catering to the Windows users, heh. (it did rock though, not too much more work and it could have been a downright replacement for the windows GUI.:) )
Hey, at least it would still be portable.:) Ok not the same immense portability that the current Nethack has, but hey, it would work on at least 3 OSs.:)
Make him keep the current game design, just have him write an underlying graphics engine, hehe.
Actualy the original Quake (and Quake 2?) have been shown to be able to run in text only modes, so hey, a Carmack version of Nethack may very well support terminals as well!:)
I want bells and whistels to go off on my computer whenever Mr Carmack posts a message to/.:)
Seriously, this would be cool. Shoot, granted already his postings make front page news on many gaming news sites (yes the front page news thing is a joke, of course it is on the front page. ^_^ ) but I want to know RIGHT AWAY!
*IDEA!!!*
Hey, how about we all get some funds together and pay Mr. Carmack to develop the next version of Nethack?:):):):):)
"And kids, if your hands hurt because you've been playing video games too long then it's time to go read a f&*^%ing book. Pain is the first sign of RSI, and if you heed it you won't have serious problems. If you ignore it, you're in for a lot worse than hand cramps."
The day when you have to pay a monthly fee to use your computer. . . .
Ahh, I do hope that bill gates will at least be kind enough to let me format my HD, eh? If needs be I'll use a giant f*cking magnet to get rid of all ms software at that point, bleh.
.NET, the best damn thing (soon)to ever happen to the Free Software movement.
I download a game, test out the demo version, if it is too limited I pirate it.
I then play the full version.
If I like it I pay the money for it.
Often times I will first submit bug reports and see how the author responds to them. If I get a positive response, they get my money. If said bug reports are just ignored, the program is deleted.
I have had a few authors actualy custom make EXE patchs for me, suffice to say they got their money the next day.
If I product is worth is, sure I'll pay. Hell I will also yell at the users who don't pay.
It also still exists, Telnet into some BBSs some day.
Current GIF spec is called 89a for a reason.:)
LZH as stated many times already in this thread almost has its patent time up.
Truely good ideas of course last forever.
MPEG1 was 1993, hmm, that date HAS to be off, I know its older then that!
Hmm, oh well. Anyways as demonstrated by MPEG2 which followed VERY shortly after MPEG1, MPEG1 was not all that well designed from the get go so a more flexable standard had to be set to replace it.
The set of MPEG standards currently in development do not seem to include any vastly new forms of video compression and instead mainly seem to be scene description types of standards. Useful granted but horribly boring, MPEG4 looks to be the last MPEG video standard released for quite some time.
"In order to properly pay the fees to the mpeg-4 patent holders, broadcasters will need feedback from the decoder chips in cable bozes. "
Yah
When they are on.
Thats all really. If only some of the channels are MPEG4 encoded, then it will just need to keep a timer going of how long an MPEG4 stream is being recieved.
Bah, I am running 2K and I have had three reboots today.
I actualy seemed to have found an odd bug in WMP6.x when using a Matrox G400 MAX in some, err, odd ways.
Suffice to say though, OS hard locks. Nasty.
Oh yah and that automaticaly rebooting on a BSOD (or delaying and then rebooting if you set a flag, oh joy. . ..) is also a pain. Nice to see that NT can still be easily killed by just ONE lone program. . . . .
(ok ok ok granted I hit the power button now days alot more then the reset key, but MS still has quite a ways to go before things are compleatly worked out. No single application should have so many hooks into the OS as to be able to cause the complete system to crash. Ever. Period. Worst case scenario, Windows notices video drives died, resorts to VESA modes to allow me to at least save all of my work and such. I know that would be almost impossible to implement, but it would it could not be much harder to do then selling users off on that idiotic XP GUI. . ..)
Can it be setup to hit the reboot key on the Lego Webserver?
That'd be mighty spiffy.:)
Anybody else remember those old computerized Lego sets for the AppleIIs? I wonder if those could be interfaced to the mind storms, I know of a school that has quite a few of those lying around, it is just that all of their AppleII interface boards died.
If I recall correctly, aren't the Hubble images all artificaly colored in as well?
They sure look damn fine. Of course I have never seen nebulas and such up close so the Hubble Image post proccessoring dudes can pretty much do whatever they want to the images and have them look realistic.:)
"LINUX is the choice that should be made - no matter what. "
I have been moderated up for advocating Windows over Linux.
You just have to provide good/POSITIVE/ feedback.
Granted three days later those very comments got moderated back down. . . .:)
You just have to throw buttloads of evidence at people, that and keep an open mind. Linux isn't the best for everything, hell, very FEW people here think that.
Just like we don't all think that the x86 is the best for all computing tasks for the the GeForce(number goes here) is the best video card ever made for any and all tasks.
That is just plain stupid. It is like saying DVDs are perfect for all your video needs. Sure they are nice, but VHS is still mighty useful for making quick recordings of something, especially when such recordings only need to be around temporarily.
Most people here do not object to Windows itself, they just object to how it is marketed.
After the marketing objections came about then people started to pick at other parts of Windows. Hell Linux could be picked apart in the same matter, NO OS is perfect.
"'News for nerds' - well being that nerd is a rather broad topic these days, slashdot's editors have
opened the content engine up from interesting and cutting edge articles to crap such as 'AOL vs. Trillian' a topic
that has been beaten to death by many other crappy articles about AOL blocking access to their network resources"
Considering that I do not read those 'other sites' I rely on/. for news of what AOL's latest stunt is.
It matters to me, it is news to me. News, matters, works for me.
"Now...more onto the user base which constantly feels the need to post inane comments that have more to do
about inner crying because the world is not working the way they want it to. "But this is crap...why is AOL doing
this - is this legal?" Good input jack off. "
Called commiserating.
"Read the rest of this comment... [goatse.cx] "
Congrats on yet another goatse link. Like anybody gives a flying fuck. Next time post a link to something original.
Oh yah and post a troll that ain't just a rehash of other ones, m'kay? Really now, we have all seen this troll in various parts quite a few times now. I can damn nearly shit the responses to it out of my ass.
Next time don't just post a shuffeling of an old Troll. If your going to do something, do it right damnit. . . .::rolls eyes::
The majority of which are music TV channels, PPV channels (over 20 now, or more. . . . ) porn channels (also PPV), or W/NBA channels. (choose, 10 of each. . ..)
Don't forget the 10 channels reserved for NHL games (WTF?) and numerous other channels.
They are literally running out of things to air.
I guesstimate that at least 1/8th of the channels I get have no programming scheduled for them at any one point in time. Yikes.
I wonder how long it is before every person in the US just gets their own TV channel?
Hell if IPv6 isn't brought into full effect faster, we just may end up using out own personal cable TV station for routing instead! LOL!
Woh, imagine the connection your TI calculator could soon have to it!
The TI-92r++, with Cisco Enchanced Technology!(tm).
Heh. With TI's constant . . . desire. . . to keep on adding more and more features to their calculators, their next batch might very well do routing.:)
(I'd be happy with just a switch myself though. Either way you just know that the TI ASM geeks are going to write a firewall for it.:) )
Notice is given on the commercial, it is also bordered and outlined and a text overlay showing the copyright owner on the commercial is displayed throughout its entirety.
"Television commercials and commercial sporting events have never really been the focus of PBS programming."
Nor are they now. The psychology BEHIND those commericals on the other hand, and even more so educating the public as to exactly what they are being constantly exposed to fits very well within the goals and ideals of public television.
Also makes for one darn fine program too. If I may say so.:)
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Some people so far have mentioned that even having anything loaded in RAM creates a danger.
:) :) :) ) and just run almost everything directly out of that after booting. Though that would require some really nifty programming more then likely. :) It would DEFINTLY not be something that any random hacker would suspect, hehe.
Would it be possible to create a system that uses Static RAM (Smart cards, whatever) and have two sticks of it inserted?
One that you boot from and read the firewall rules and such out of, and another 8 meg or so stick that is used just for proccessing things.
Some types of flash cards now days have read write tabs on them, after your OS has loaded and all and you have got things how you want it, halt it, and then switch the tab on your main memory stick so that it is read only.
The 8 meg stick would have previously been assigned to be used for working with packets and such that the firewalls needs to do.
Even better of course would be if you could get a CPU with a nice sized Cache on it (hmmmm, K6-3s, hehe. External cache up to what, 8 megs?
Question? What do most groups of kids do with computer mice?
Answer: Beat each other over the head with them.
DUH.
That or take out the mice's balls and roll it around.
(hmm, opt for optical mice mabye?)
Technology does NOT do anything for childern who are not inclined towards it.
Hell run a battery of tests, get all the worlds NERD childern together and in one room, and THEN you will have something going.
But you get a large group of jocks and Nerd childern together, all you end up with is a large school house with lots of fancy hi tech equipment.
Read some of the other comments in this thread for more info on that, but mostly rare earth minerals.
/too/ expensive up there as far as amount of fuel goes. Remember, minimal drag. :)
Platinum, titanium, and such. Hell just your basic ores alone, Iron is common as hell from what I have read (may be out of date).
How long do you think it would take for somebody to find some revolutionary new way of refining some ore or another up there in space?
And heck without government controls, not to mention being able to use that big old (near) vacuum to pull your wastes out, the amount of extra money that could be made just thanks to the removal of all environmental regulations would be enormous.
Jupiter MIGHT have some nice gases on it that we MAY be able to gather one day, but the fact is that using TODAYS technology we COULD go out there and grab tons of friggin asteroids, refine them on the spot (waste products would be plenty yah sure, a lot of valuable stuff would be destroyed, but for awhile quick and dirty would be the name of the game, you want to be able to reduce the asteroid to the most compact form of sellable ores that are worth as much money as possible.) and tow shoot or carry them back to earth.
The good thing is that if you are not going for speed, acceleration is not
It is carrying the fuel up there that will cost ya.
We gotta start making some MONEY up there damnit.
It is not like it cannot be done, the main issue (and granted a huuuge one) would be to build the initial stations in space for handling of various extracted resources.
Hell there are 8 other planets in this solar system, why do we have to tear apart ours? There are some darn valuable resources up there, *taps lycos on the head* go get'em!
Seriously though, hhhuuuge startup costs, but scaled, not likely too much more then the initial startup costs of getting resources from the "New World" way back when.
Great, great, great, bleh.
.NET) we will all be storing our data on MS servers, and you just /know/ how secure those are. Hell even Microsoft has to admit that they have 'security vulnerabilities'.
Server orintated, lead way to pay for use software subscription programs.
Where will users run from Microsoft if even the free software is under MS's rule?
Do we REALLY want EVERYTHING to be server orintated? I mean sure it is a good geek dream, but shoot folks, WHO IN THE WORLD do YOU *trust* with your data?
If MS has its way (another generation or so past
Do you really want your SS#, CC#s, address, telephone number, and all of your other personal information stored on one centeral server? Think about it folks, first damn exploit that comes along and some damn script kiddie ends up richer then Bill Gates.
Yah, great plan, those applications servers are. Now excuse me while my eyes roll out of the back of my head.
(Who the hell thought up of this? Centeralized servers for LANs, sure. Heck even WANS, but shit, one GIANT centeralized server? Ohh maaan, somebody was smoking the baaad dope that day!)
It may be possible now, but just wait until MS starts to want to charge people a monthly or yearly fee to use office.
:(
:) )
Actualy they already have ALOT of users doing that, with that awful yearly upgrade cycle that MS has people go through.
People just do not seem to realize that you can write papers just fine with MS works 4.5 (which has a better spell checker) and that office is really not all that neccisary.
I am _TRYING_ to switch over to StarOffice but it is . . . . a task. It has SOME good aspects but. . . . ah, some serious interface issues as well.
I actualy liked the integrated desktop though, kinda sad to see that removed with OpenOffice, though I guess as far as features go that was catering to the Windows users, heh. (it did rock though, not too much more work and it could have been a downright replacement for the windows GUI.
Hey, at least it would still be portable. :) Ok not the same immense portability that the current Nethack has, but hey, it would work on at least 3 OSs. :)
:)
Make him keep the current game design, just have him write an underlying graphics engine, hehe.
Actualy the original Quake (and Quake 2?) have been shown to be able to run in text only modes, so hey, a Carmack version of Nethack may very well support terminals as well!
I have that one too.
:)
.)
:)
B0w d0w|\| 2 m3 for 1 @m the FP$ GOD!
Or something to that extent.
I even have an advertisment for a Porno Doom mod. (the advertisment says it has drivable vechicals! Somehow I doubt that but. . .
The article says he does not like the whole entire hero worship thing. . . .
He may need us to come to his defense though when Bill Gates kidnaps him and demands that Mr. Carmack uses DirectX in his next game.
I want bells and whistels to go off on my computer whenever Mr Carmack posts a message to /. :)
:) :) :) :) :)
Seriously, this would be cool. Shoot, granted already his postings make front page news on many gaming news sites (yes the front page news thing is a joke, of course it is on the front page. ^_^ ) but I want to know RIGHT AWAY!
*IDEA!!!*
Hey, how about we all get some funds together and pay Mr. Carmack to develop the next version of Nethack?
"And kids, if your hands hurt because you've been playing video games too long then it's time to go read a f&*^%ing book. Pain is the first sign of RSI, and if you heed it you won't have serious problems. If you ignore it, you're in for a lot worse than hand cramps."
I ended up straining my eyes. . .
8hr reading sessions == one BIIIIIG ass headache!
It is coming. . . .
The day when you have to pay a monthly fee to use your computer. . . .
Ahh, I do hope that bill gates will at least be kind enough to let me format my HD, eh? If needs be I'll use a giant f*cking magnet to get rid of all ms software at that point, bleh.
.NET, the best damn thing (soon)to ever happen to the Free Software movement.
Big whoop, with Direct Connect any user can not only download, but can also RUN any file on any users hard drive.
It is a huge security hole. (Direct Connect has next to no authentication of, uh, anything)
Only think is that only one user has the utility that is able to do this and he is not giving it out to anybody else.
Suffice to say though everybody is scared shitless of him. When he walks into a HUB everybody else zips up and doesn't say a word.
It was also assloads faster then anything else out there at the time.
:)
(Such as the *32* bit PSX which was dog ass slow and ugly compared to the N64.)
I want a GBA just for the sake that I am a huge Nintendo Fan. (GB, GBC, I want my GBA!
I download a game, test out the demo version, if it is too limited I pirate it.
I then play the full version.
If I like it I pay the money for it.
Often times I will first submit bug reports and see how the author responds to them. If I get a positive response, they get my money. If said bug reports are just ignored, the program is deleted.
I have had a few authors actualy custom make EXE patchs for me, suffice to say they got their money the next day.
If I product is worth is, sure I'll pay. Hell I will also yell at the users who don't pay.
ASCII was first standarized in 1968
:)
:) Yah.
ANSI art is Kick Ass.
It also still exists, Telnet into some BBSs some day.
Current GIF spec is called 89a for a reason.
LZH as stated many times already in this thread almost has its patent time up.
Truely good ideas of course last forever.
MPEG1 was 1993, hmm, that date HAS to be off, I know its older then that!
Hmm, oh well. Anyways as demonstrated by MPEG2 which followed VERY shortly after MPEG1, MPEG1 was not all that well designed from the get go so a more flexable standard had to be set to replace it.
The set of MPEG standards currently in development do not seem to include any vastly new forms of video compression and instead mainly seem to be scene description types of standards. Useful granted but horribly boring, MPEG4 looks to be the last MPEG video standard released for quite some time.
It is also highly scalable to boot.
"In order to properly pay the fees to the mpeg-4 patent holders, broadcasters will need feedback from the decoder chips in cable bozes. "
Yah
When they are on.
Thats all really. If only some of the channels are MPEG4 encoded, then it will just need to keep a timer going of how long an MPEG4 stream is being recieved.
::groans::
Bleh.
They are based upon the already existing MPEG4 base code, which is open source.
The code is, how nice. That does not mean that the TECHNOLOGY or IDEAS that the code uses is free for all to use.
Big difference.
DiVX is based upon the MPEG4 *specification*, and I do believe that they are aiming for full MPEG4 compatibility.
Bah, I am running 2K and I have had three reboots today.
.) is also a pain. Nice to see that NT can still be easily killed by just ONE lone program. . . . .
.)
I actualy seemed to have found an odd bug in WMP6.x when using a Matrox G400 MAX in some, err, odd ways.
Suffice to say though, OS hard locks. Nasty.
Oh yah and that automaticaly rebooting on a BSOD (or delaying and then rebooting if you set a flag, oh joy. . .
(ok ok ok granted I hit the power button now days alot more then the reset key, but MS still has quite a ways to go before things are compleatly worked out. No single application should have so many hooks into the OS as to be able to cause the complete system to crash. Ever. Period. Worst case scenario, Windows notices video drives died, resorts to VESA modes to allow me to at least save all of my work and such. I know that would be almost impossible to implement, but it would it could not be much harder to do then selling users off on that idiotic XP GUI. . .
Can it be setup to hit the reboot key on the Lego Webserver?
:)
That'd be mighty spiffy.
Anybody else remember those old computerized Lego sets for the AppleIIs? I wonder if those could be interfaced to the mind storms, I know of a school that has quite a few of those lying around, it is just that all of their AppleII interface boards died.
If I recall correctly, aren't the Hubble images all artificaly colored in as well?
:)
They sure look damn fine. Of course I have never seen nebulas and such up close so the Hubble Image post proccessoring dudes can pretty much do whatever they want to the images and have them look realistic.
"LINUX is the choice that should be made - no matter what. "
/POSITIVE/ feedback.
:)
/. for news of what AOL's latest stunt is.
::rolls eyes::
I have been moderated up for advocating Windows over Linux.
You just have to provide good
Granted three days later those very comments got moderated back down. . . .
You just have to throw buttloads of evidence at people, that and keep an open mind. Linux isn't the best for everything, hell, very FEW people here think that.
Just like we don't all think that the x86 is the best for all computing tasks for the the GeForce(number goes here) is the best video card ever made for any and all tasks.
That is just plain stupid. It is like saying DVDs are perfect for all your video needs. Sure they are nice, but VHS is still mighty useful for making quick recordings of something, especially when such recordings only need to be around temporarily.
Most people here do not object to Windows itself, they just object to how it is marketed.
After the marketing objections came about then people started to pick at other parts of Windows. Hell Linux could be picked apart in the same matter, NO OS is perfect.
"'News for nerds' - well being that nerd is a rather broad topic these days, slashdot's editors have
opened the content engine up from interesting and cutting edge articles to crap such as 'AOL vs. Trillian' a topic
that has been beaten to death by many other crappy articles about AOL blocking access to their network resources"
Considering that I do not read those 'other sites' I rely on
It matters to me, it is news to me. News, matters, works for me.
"Now...more onto the user base which constantly feels the need to post inane comments that have more to do
about inner crying because the world is not working the way they want it to. "But this is crap...why is AOL doing
this - is this legal?" Good input jack off. "
Called commiserating.
"Read the rest of this comment... [goatse.cx] "
Congrats on yet another goatse link. Like anybody gives a flying fuck. Next time post a link to something original.
Oh yah and post a troll that ain't just a rehash of other ones, m'kay? Really now, we have all seen this troll in various parts quite a few times now. I can damn nearly shit the responses to it out of my ass.
Next time don't just post a shuffeling of an old Troll. If your going to do something, do it right damnit. . . .
I have
.)
The majority of which are music TV channels, PPV channels (over 20 now, or more. . . . ) porn channels (also PPV), or W/NBA channels. (choose, 10 of each. . .
Don't forget the 10 channels reserved for NHL games (WTF?) and numerous other channels.
They are literally running out of things to air.
I guesstimate that at least 1/8th of the channels I get have no programming scheduled for them at any one point in time. Yikes.
I wonder how long it is before every person in the US just gets their own TV channel?
Hell if IPv6 isn't brought into full effect faster, we just may end up using out own personal cable TV station for routing instead! LOL!
Bah;
:)
:) )
Your graphlink port will soon be obsolete.
Woh, imagine the connection your TI calculator could soon have to it!
The TI-92r++, with Cisco Enchanced Technology!(tm).
Heh. With TI's constant . . . desire. . . to keep on adding more and more features to their calculators, their next batch might very well do routing.
(I'd be happy with just a switch myself though. Either way you just know that the TI ASM geeks are going to write a firewall for it.
Notice is given on the commercial, it is also bordered and outlined and a text overlay showing the copyright owner on the commercial is displayed throughout its entirety.
"Television commercials and commercial sporting events have never really been the focus of PBS programming."
:)
Nor are they now. The psychology BEHIND those commericals on the other hand, and even more so educating the public as to exactly what they are being constantly exposed to fits very well within the goals and ideals of public television.
Also makes for one darn fine program too. If I may say so.