Since cash is (relatively) anonymous, and bitcoins are anonymous, I don't see the difference.
At the end of the day, DEA and other agencies can and will infiltrate this new marketplace, so when you place an order for 1lb of pot, you're gonna get busted.
This concept of anonymity can work for digital information and media, but anything that shows up in a parcel is a huge risk.
These shady sites are nothing new. I may or may not have used them myself, and they may or may not have had ways to obfuscate your purchase. I get confused a lot, so it probably never happened.
I should really quit replying to this article, my karma is going to hell. People are misunderstanding me. I'm not talking about if they're all just PPC ripoffs, or if Microsoft "stole" their design (clearly they did not). My point in my original post was simply that Microsoft benefited by waiting to see what Sony did by using a chip provided by IBM that was largely funded by Sony, and that going second is a lot cheaper to 1up when it comes to hardware wars.
"The Xenon processor was not a ripoff of the Cell, IBM just used some of the technology that they developed with the other processor."
That's exactly the point, the technology was developed by IBM at the behest of Sony for the PS3. It was a joint effort but largely funded by Sony, which is why they're so leery on doing so again, exactly for the reasons you made.
"The article says that all the companies involved had the right to use the technology developed for the Cell for other projects and other customers. This is standard practice."
No matter if it was malicious - Microsoft benefited in their consoles from technology funded by Sony. Sony has realized their mistake.
A little frustrating that I got marked as a troll, and I appreciate your response. This is all to do with business, little to do with the actual technology.
. This was because the system's PowerPC 970 processor running the same PowerPC architecture that the Xbox 360 would eventually run under IBM's Xenon processor. The cores of the Xenon processor were developed using a slightly modified version of the PlayStation 3's Cell Processor PPE architecture. According to David Shippy and Mickie Phipps, the IBM employees were "hiding" their work from Sony and Toshiba.".[21] Jeff Minter created the music visualization program Neon which is included with the Xbox 360.
But keep modding me down because of your own ignorance, I don't mind.:)
Xbox got a huge boost out of letting Sony do the initial R&D on the Cell architecture, in collaboration with Toshiba and IBM. So when it came time for the 360 to use the Cell, most of the hard (expensive) work had already been funded largely by Sony.
I think they're probably willing to play a waiting game to see what Microsoft does, then 1up them - much cheaper to go second.
> Forgoing Google and Amazon is just > inconvenient; forgoing Facebook or Twitter > means giving up whole categories of activity.
I don't use facebook or twitter, but use google on a daily basis & amazon on a weekly basis.
Anyone that claims to not be able to live without twitter/facebook is not someone I wanna hang out with regularly. Or read what they have to say about tech:P
- Really beautiful scenery - Hilarious dialog. "I never heard so much shit come out of one mouth". - You can be as good or evil as you like which somewhat changes the game - It's the old west. C'mon. - Bullet Time.. oh I mean 'Dead Eye' is kinda entertaining, though I almost never use it. - You can shoot and skin your own horse. lulz?
Cons:
- Completely unrealistic physics. You can run full force into another horse or wagon and everyone's just fine. - As mentioned in the review, the sheer number of random NPC density and badguys is unrealistic and gets really repetitive. Lots of issues like that.. like literally hundreds of horses randomly running around with no riders you can just hop on. Horse theft was a hanging crime 'back in the day'. - I don't like the horse control. Spamming X (ps3) forever is tiresome and wears out the thumb. Some of the races are lame. Repetitive challenges with no skill involved, just button mashing, and AI that cheats^Wadjusts if you get too far ahead - Mob AI is lulz. I have yet to be in a challenging gun battle:( - The travel time is effing ridiculous. Sure, it's pretty terrain, but who wants to spend 5min travelling for a 15m mission.. every..single..time. Ugh.
That's all I got for now. If I had to describe the game, I'd call it a "hot mess". Compelling, but I'm holding final judgement until I get through the (trite and banal) storyline. It's a shame that the world designers have been let down by gameplay elements.
The other part of the equation is figuring out the number of incandescent bulbs in use in the US, their power requirements, then the savings that would be produced by switching those to CFL.
No individual contribution seems very interesting or worthwhile.. it's when everyone makes these small changes that you see dramatic results.
Also, reducing everything to base level current cost isn't being a very good steward for the future. Until there is strong demand there is no efficiency in production - once enough people start consuming an item, manufacturers start to get very efficient at producing the item in question in order to fulfill demand and compete with other manufacturers
A place I worked for got sued by a company that "invented" a system of publishing "real time" statistic updates. The system was basically a mailing list that sent mail with from a shell script. The place I work settled for an ungodly amount of money.
I don't think it's a great solution. You're storing relatively fragile hard drives in a raid5 configuration in a lock box? It's not like you can tell if one of the drives goes bad and needs to be replaced when it's sitting in a box. You'd have to regularly pull the data sets out, fire them up and make sure everything is still functional.
I'd at least want to do 2 complete sets of mirrored drives.
Tape storage does store better.
Depending on how important the data is, I might do something like a local mirrored drive set in storage and an online copy at something like rsync.net - stay away from s3, it's not designed to protect data, despite what AWS fans may say.
People who obsessively perform any activity are generally less than happy and healthy. Depression is often involved!
"When I get sad I clean my entire house top to bottom then I feel better. I do it 4 times a day"
"When I get angry I go for a run. Sometimes I run until my body collapses and I fall down twitching covered in vomit and tears"
"When I don't want to face my life or make choices, I play WoW all day!" --me
I'm really tired of all the lame ass qualifying and CYA people do. Taking a piss may cause herpies! Drinking mochas may cause intestinal distress! You can't sue us for anything because we said "may"! It leads to such sensationalist, ridiculous articles than seep into your consciousness and waste brain space. Also it leads to poorly typed, all caps emails from my Republican Christian mom about how its "proof the world is ending" and what have you. Exhausting!
Locking your front door and window is merely a deterrent to your fairly normal, average civilized person. It's illusionary security, a social construct that says "hey, this is private, keep out". Same thing with passwords on accounts and firewalls.
Software is held to lofty standards because people don't understand it and blindly have faith in OS vendors, AV vendors etc to magically keep them safe. So when those software companies fail to protect them from threats they don't even really understand they get angry as only ignorant people who got duped can get;)
Someone doesn't understand the concept of modular design. Lately stock it's reasonably snappy. If you choose to put in a bunch of addons and it gets slow, whose fault is that?
Normally I would let it slide but I've had my quota of stupid this afternoon. Cursed MySQL!
Anyway, Chrome actually performs scads better on my girlfriends netbook. Firefox is kind of a dog on it. So good news for her!
There are lots of smart people who aren't interested in what Google is currently doing. The pay, benefits etc might be great, but for most people it's not necessarily how they want to spend their days. It can be a lot more fun being on the ground floor of a dynamic startup doing stuff you believe in with a small group of smart people than being a cog in a giant wheel. Even if it is a pretty special wheel with a much larger degree of autonomy.
I do believe overall google to date has been a driving force for useful, usually practical innovation - especially in the datacenter sphere. So while I'm not a fan boy, I think it's the best search engine to date, and google maps is quite useful. Their real struggle is to stay ahead of said startup (or hope they can buy them, which has its own difficulties).
there are features on my S60 phone that I dont see anywhere else. If I press end on a ringing call it will SMS that person with a "I'm really busy right now, I'll call you back as soon as I can" That is a ROCKING feature that I dont see on any of these phones.
Do not want. Therein lies the issue with 'features'; you love it, I think it's godawful. I'm assuming you can disable that function but most of the time I don't want to pick up and instead press end it's because;
- it's someone I really don't want to talk to or know I am available
- it's a telemarketer or a number I don't recognize
- I'm pissed off and don't want to talk to anyone
In none of those cases would I want to send an auto-text.
As a former hardcore MMOGer (from UO -> EQ then casually checking out newer games) I can say this is completely wrong. It's the opposite in fact. I used to justify my playtime, because almost every other activity you'd do is _much_ more expensive.
Think about it. If you go to the bar and have 2, maybe 3 drinks, that's the cost of an entire _month_ of mmog subscription. For that price you get a form of entertainment that, while not healthy, is arguably better for you than TV, and no cap on the hours. No hangover either.
Making a financial argument against MMOGs fails. The real argument is just the time sink, how it affects your relationships with friends and family. Not to mention - when you're on your deathbed, do you really want to have nothing to show for your life but purple lewtz that are constantly replaced by the next expansion? That you don't even own?
I've been using OSS for the past 15 years, and am primarily focused on it still. This is a large reason for companies being leery of using OSS for critical components.
It certainly is a situation that applies to all projects - many companies have single points of knowledge and put the business at a high degree of risk.
However when your entire OS structure is at risk it's a Big Deal. The points in the letter should have been long addressed before people could reasonably trust the software.
This should be taken as a learning experience for those that don't think in terms of single points of failure.
Hopefully everything works out and ownership is transferred cleanly..
I use Windows exclusively for gaming. Frankly console gaming for me is niche with only a few titles I enjoy on it. Some games are certainly better on console, most are comparable or better on PC. More control, mouse is a better rapid inputdev than a controller etc. Especially as a sporadic MMOG player, I'd hate that on a console.
Anyway, I've had 4g of ram but XP is 32bit so I lose some of that. My video card is 1024m as well, so a 64bit OS would unlock some resources. I didn't bother with Vista because the OS itself would consume all those additional resources and more;)
I just get worried about all the DRM kludge and backdoors they probably have jammed into w7.
You're going to need time (or a team) and some custom solutions. You're looking for something like pkgsrc methodology where you can push the same packages out on different machines regardless of their distro, and some really great management software for it all.. like puppet or something along those lines.
This all sounds like a kludge and the Wrong Thing to Do(tm).
If the Linux distros in question are the same, you could probably leverage the distros package management system. For instance it wouldn't be all that difficult in Debian realistically, depending on which packages they were worried about. Desktop, forget it, nightmare city.
I foresee a lot of testbed work!
Something seems wrong though, I'd be surprised if there wasn't either a secure internal repo or a more sane way that "always get the latest!! omgz".
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Since cash is (relatively) anonymous, and bitcoins are anonymous, I don't see the difference.
At the end of the day, DEA and other agencies can and will infiltrate this new marketplace, so when you place an order for 1lb of pot, you're gonna get busted.
This concept of anonymity can work for digital information and media, but anything that shows up in a parcel is a huge risk.
These shady sites are nothing new. I may or may not have used them myself, and they may or may not have had ways to obfuscate your purchase. I get confused a lot, so it probably never happened.
I should really quit replying to this article, my karma is going to hell. People are misunderstanding me. I'm not talking about if they're all just PPC ripoffs, or if Microsoft "stole" their design (clearly they did not). My point in my original post was simply that Microsoft benefited by waiting to see what Sony did by using a chip provided by IBM that was largely funded by Sony, and that going second is a lot cheaper to 1up when it comes to hardware wars.
"The Xenon processor was not a ripoff of the Cell, IBM just used some of the technology that they developed with the other processor."
That's exactly the point, the technology was developed by IBM at the behest of Sony for the PS3. It was a joint effort but largely funded by Sony, which is why they're so leery on doing so again, exactly for the reasons you made.
"The article says that all the companies involved had the right to use the technology developed for the Cell for other projects and other customers. This is standard practice."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_(microprocessor)#Xenon_in_Xbox_360
No matter if it was malicious - Microsoft benefited in their consoles from technology funded by Sony. Sony has realized their mistake.
A little frustrating that I got marked as a troll, and I appreciate your response. This is all to do with business, little to do with the actual technology.
Xbox 360 is using a direct ripoff of Cell, they're essentially the same architecture.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenon_(processor)
For some reason I keep getting modded down for mentioning this though. http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2192216&cid=36269976
*shrug*
They are using a direct ripoff of Cell - this was supposed to be a reply to this comment;
http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2192216&cid=36269976
They ripped it off, it's well known. Apparently not by everyone though.
They sure as shit are.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123069467545545011.html
Taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_360#Development
. This was because the system's PowerPC 970 processor running the same PowerPC architecture that the Xbox 360 would eventually run under IBM's Xenon processor. The cores of the Xenon processor were developed using a slightly modified version of the PlayStation 3's Cell Processor PPE architecture. According to David Shippy and Mickie Phipps, the IBM employees were "hiding" their work from Sony and Toshiba.".[21] Jeff Minter created the music visualization program Neon which is included with the Xbox 360.
But keep modding me down because of your own ignorance, I don't mind. :)
Xbox got a huge boost out of letting Sony do the initial R&D on the Cell architecture, in collaboration with Toshiba and IBM. So when it came time for the 360 to use the Cell, most of the hard (expensive) work had already been funded largely by Sony.
I think they're probably willing to play a waiting game to see what Microsoft does, then 1up them - much cheaper to go second.
> Forgoing Google and Amazon is just
> inconvenient; forgoing Facebook or Twitter
> means giving up whole categories of activity.
I don't use facebook or twitter, but use google on a daily basis & amazon on a weekly basis.
Anyone that claims to not be able to live without twitter/facebook is not someone I wanna hang out with regularly. Or read what they have to say about tech :P
Be serious, the government would never lie to us.
It's GTA4 in Teh West.
Pros:
- Really beautiful scenery
- Hilarious dialog. "I never heard so much shit come out of one mouth".
- You can be as good or evil as you like which somewhat changes the game
- It's the old west. C'mon.
- Bullet Time.. oh I mean 'Dead Eye' is kinda entertaining, though I almost never use it.
- You can shoot and skin your own horse. lulz?
Cons:
- Completely unrealistic physics. You can run full force into another horse or wagon and everyone's just fine. :(
- As mentioned in the review, the sheer number of random NPC density and badguys is unrealistic and gets really repetitive. Lots of issues like that.. like literally hundreds of horses randomly running around with no riders you can just hop on. Horse theft was a hanging crime 'back in the day'.
- I don't like the horse control. Spamming X (ps3) forever is tiresome and wears out the thumb. Some of the races are lame. Repetitive challenges with no skill involved, just button mashing, and AI that cheats^Wadjusts if you get too far ahead
- Mob AI is lulz. I have yet to be in a challenging gun battle
- The travel time is effing ridiculous. Sure, it's pretty terrain, but who wants to spend 5min travelling for a 15m mission.. every..single..time. Ugh.
That's all I got for now. If I had to describe the game, I'd call it a "hot mess". Compelling, but I'm holding final judgement until I get through the (trite and banal) storyline. It's a shame that the world designers have been let down by gameplay elements.
Rating: 7/10
do you mean sourceforget?
His account got 'hacked' - he fails at password. "momisabitch" doesn't have enough alternating case or special characters.
The other part of the equation is figuring out the number of incandescent bulbs in use in the US, their power requirements, then the savings that would be produced by switching those to CFL.
No individual contribution seems very interesting or worthwhile.. it's when everyone makes these small changes that you see dramatic results.
Also, reducing everything to base level current cost isn't being a very good steward for the future. Until there is strong demand there is no efficiency in production - once enough people start consuming an item, manufacturers start to get very efficient at producing the item in question in order to fulfill demand and compete with other manufacturers
A place I worked for got sued by a company that "invented" a system of publishing "real time" statistic updates. The system was basically a mailing list that sent mail with from a shell script. The place I work settled for an ungodly amount of money.
We live in a sick, strange world.
The picture I see from the link reads:
Database Error: Unable to connect to the database:Could not connect to MySQL
That sure sounds dark and futuristic.. maiiseeqwell
I don't think it's a great solution. You're storing relatively fragile hard drives in a raid5 configuration in a lock box? It's not like you can tell if one of the drives goes bad and needs to be replaced when it's sitting in a box. You'd have to regularly pull the data sets out, fire them up and make sure everything is still functional.
I'd at least want to do 2 complete sets of mirrored drives.
Tape storage does store better.
Depending on how important the data is, I might do something like a local mirrored drive set in storage and an online copy at something like rsync.net - stay away from s3, it's not designed to protect data, despite what AWS fans may say.
People who obsessively perform any activity are generally less than happy and healthy. Depression is often involved!
"When I get sad I clean my entire house top to bottom then I feel better. I do it 4 times a day"
"When I get angry I go for a run. Sometimes I run until my body collapses and I fall down twitching covered in vomit and tears"
"When I don't want to face my life or make choices, I play WoW all day!" --me
I'm really tired of all the lame ass qualifying and CYA people do. Taking a piss may cause herpies! Drinking mochas may cause intestinal distress! You can't sue us for anything because we said "may"! It leads to such sensationalist, ridiculous articles than seep into your consciousness and waste brain space. Also it leads to poorly typed, all caps emails from my Republican Christian mom about how its "proof the world is ending" and what have you. Exhausting!
Locking your front door and window is merely a deterrent to your fairly normal, average civilized person. It's illusionary security, a social construct that says "hey, this is private, keep out". Same thing with passwords on accounts and firewalls.
Software is held to lofty standards because people don't understand it and blindly have faith in OS vendors, AV vendors etc to magically keep them safe. So when those software companies fail to protect them from threats they don't even really understand they get angry as only ignorant people who got duped can get ;)
Someone doesn't understand the concept of modular design. Lately stock it's reasonably snappy. If you choose to put in a bunch of addons and it gets slow, whose fault is that?
Normally I would let it slide but I've had my quota of stupid this afternoon. Cursed MySQL!
Anyway, Chrome actually performs scads better on my girlfriends netbook. Firefox is kind of a dog on it. So good news for her!
There are lots of smart people who aren't interested in what Google is currently doing. The pay, benefits etc might be great, but for most people it's not necessarily how they want to spend their days. It can be a lot more fun being on the ground floor of a dynamic startup doing stuff you believe in with a small group of smart people than being a cog in a giant wheel. Even if it is a pretty special wheel with a much larger degree of autonomy.
I do believe overall google to date has been a driving force for useful, usually practical innovation - especially in the datacenter sphere. So while I'm not a fan boy, I think it's the best search engine to date, and google maps is quite useful. Their real struggle is to stay ahead of said startup (or hope they can buy them, which has its own difficulties).
Do not want. Therein lies the issue with 'features'; you love it, I think it's godawful. I'm assuming you can disable that function but most of the time I don't want to pick up and instead press end it's because;
- it's someone I really don't want to talk to or know I am available
- it's a telemarketer or a number I don't recognize
- I'm pissed off and don't want to talk to anyone
In none of those cases would I want to send an auto-text.
As a former hardcore MMOGer (from UO -> EQ then casually checking out newer games) I can say this is completely wrong. It's the opposite in fact. I used to justify my playtime, because almost every other activity you'd do is _much_ more expensive.
Think about it. If you go to the bar and have 2, maybe 3 drinks, that's the cost of an entire _month_ of mmog subscription. For that price you get a form of entertainment that, while not healthy, is arguably better for you than TV, and no cap on the hours. No hangover either.
Making a financial argument against MMOGs fails. The real argument is just the time sink, how it affects your relationships with friends and family. Not to mention - when you're on your deathbed, do you really want to have nothing to show for your life but purple lewtz that are constantly replaced by the next expansion? That you don't even own?
For worst article ever not written by Jon Katz to be published on slashdot.
I've been using OSS for the past 15 years, and am primarily focused on it still. This is a large reason for companies being leery of using OSS for critical components.
It certainly is a situation that applies to all projects - many companies have single points of knowledge and put the business at a high degree of risk.
However when your entire OS structure is at risk it's a Big Deal. The points in the letter should have been long addressed before people could reasonably trust the software.
This should be taken as a learning experience for those that don't think in terms of single points of failure.
Hopefully everything works out and ownership is transferred cleanly..
I use Windows exclusively for gaming. Frankly console gaming for me is niche with only a few titles I enjoy on it. Some games are certainly better on console, most are comparable or better on PC. More control, mouse is a better rapid inputdev than a controller etc. Especially as a sporadic MMOG player, I'd hate that on a console.
Anyway, I've had 4g of ram but XP is 32bit so I lose some of that. My video card is 1024m as well, so a 64bit OS would unlock some resources. I didn't bother with Vista because the OS itself would consume all those additional resources and more ;)
I just get worried about all the DRM kludge and backdoors they probably have jammed into w7.
You're going to need time (or a team) and some custom solutions. You're looking for something like pkgsrc methodology where you can push the same packages out on different machines regardless of their distro, and some really great management software for it all.. like puppet or something along those lines.
This all sounds like a kludge and the Wrong Thing to Do(tm).
If the Linux distros in question are the same, you could probably leverage the distros package management system. For instance it wouldn't be all that difficult in Debian realistically, depending on which packages they were worried about. Desktop, forget it, nightmare city.
I foresee a lot of testbed work!
Something seems wrong though, I'd be surprised if there wasn't either a secure internal repo or a more sane way that "always get the latest!! omgz".