web browsing hasnt evolved much since the pentium 100 was a new born baby. css2 is the most recent milestone, aside from the oodles of streaming porn, neither of which should be insufferable under a pentium 133 or better (assuming your normal postage stamp grade 320 x 240 video).
there's no reason for a browser to require twice the processor it used to, if you disable cpu intensive options. just because computers are fast as all getout does not mean we should start accepting shitty code that takes three times the machine to run, just because its "better" (mouse gestures and tabbing... thats about it really for me).
96 mb of ram is a metric f-ton if your doing anything reasonable (ie: not kde or xp). pentium 266 should be nothing to sneeze at, not by a long shot, especially for web browsing. i rememeber advising people they didnt need a 350mhz for just web browsing, its overkill, hell, i remember telling that to my parents last month. they hardily agree and are pleased as punch with my old dp 366. many embedded system style applications are running even less ram; you want to tell them to upgrade?
apps obsoleting hardware that used to do the same task fine is bullshit, no matter how you dice it. people shouldnt have to move over to make way for progress. on the flip side, i understand "dont upgrade if it aint broke", but i simply dont see new browsers having any excuse to use worlds of resources to do the same mundane web browsing. its reasonable to expect we get the latest compliant browsers for our old machines and have them still run fine, so long as we dont start breaking out the auto-smooth scroll while anti-aliase zooming all tabs context menu option.
sometimes taxes and tariffs are not just a way to encourage or discourage buying habits/behaviors, but just pure and simple a way to raise money.
this inks of both. with telecommunication infrastructure rapidly being taken over by packet networks, why let packet data be even cheaper? and why not make another couple bucks to help fuxor the next florida election?
sure, as penny arcade so beautifully illustrates, the parachute button may be a bit excessive, but complexity is what makes reality so groovy: countless factors to weigh against each other. present too little complexity and the game becomes routine, provide a sea of options and encourage exploration, the game becomes much more interesting. armored core is my favorite game on this front - presenting both the adaption of mech design and the gameplay itself (although it does have one of the worst learning curves ever). the trick is to keep the challenger trying new things too.
the problem is making these choices seamless enough not to scare the living bejesus out of the player. exploration of options should be encouraged, adaption fostered.
(frankly, this is what sucks about most modern RTS's: there is no adaptation, simply reaction - the mechanics of what to do are fixed for experienced players.)
they're triangulating their target then sync'ing the antenna's to that. it's a dynamically retargetable directional. i'm sure they'll find a way to get it classified as directional, because, well, it is.
we have that standard, its got badass support under two dozen operating systems, and everyone and their mother has begun using it.
if someone wants to try and create something better, jump start and entirely new system, so be it for us to try and talk them out of it. as long as its not being shoved down our throats - as long as every companies not going to STOP 802.11 products - who be it for us to not let someone try something.
think of all the network externalities they have to overcome to succeed. if they do start gaining serious inertia, it'll probably be for a damned good reason.
Presumably this technology "triangulates" (or quadradulates, pentagonates, what have you) upon its target. An intelligent antenna array.
Presumably the range advantage would be much less when using directional antennas? The antenna's are already directional, right, so there's less to make up for with fancy sync'ing software tricks.
TotalA is to date my favorite RPG. Good terrain influence. Huge # of units support. 500 is settable through configs, get the patch for 5000.
I love the sheer # of units. With starcraft and waht not, its rock paper scissors. X counters Y counters Z counters X. Blah. With TA, theres always a myraid of options to choose from. I feel like combat is much more spontaneous when you have to play against the other player, not the game engines predefined unit-trump cycles.
I really really would like to see more emphasis on supply lines.
its true, 97% of nuclear waste has reasonable half lifes. we can deal with it. but theres a 3% of very very dangerous radio active substances which have thousands of year half lifes. this high level rad waste is the real danger, the rest is just mini bosses on the way there.
still, the average reactor goes through 25,000 - 30,000 tons a year. %3 thereof.... sounds like hell to me.
make a stab at being polite in showing the advantage of whatever you're talking about.
slashdot is a free ad space. most of the cool things i find are not from topics, but from comments. of course 90% of the comments insist that theirs is better than the competition, sliced bread and complimentary presedential blow jobs all rolled together, and that everyone else is a fop, while neglecting to mention the prealpha status and lack of docs.
like so much in the world, balance is key. humility helps too. by all means, be heard, but you're just a jerk if you have to shout.
When are we going to see a scalable implementation of something like this for VPN's?
All we need is some fancy open source high falutinocity software to come along and provide distributed mesh networking on top of the secure VPN infrastructure.
Im sick of seeing security having to be reinvented again and again for every single application. End to end encryption would be one of the most humanitarian efforts ever run by computer science.
Wow, moderation shows its true colors. I've seen about thirty comments saying "its safe, its more environmentally friendly," and generally everything but the one thing that matters.
Yes, this is a perfect solution. Except it creates the perfect enemy. Nuclear waste. US has spent iirc $6 billion looking for a place to stash waste. Waste that it knows will last another couple tens of thousands of years, many lifetimes that of man. Waste that will require extra-ordinary amounts of work to contain, to isolate, to cut off from our reality. We're talking Final Fantasy seal in crystals work here ladies and gentlemen.
Nuclear power is a great ally, but it creates an enemy which will outlive us, our children, our childrens children, and a hundred children thereafter.
In the end, it is not a real solution, but an interem solution. The world can only deal with so much nuclear waste.
Unless we get that stupid space elevator running AND are stupid enough to trust it running barrels of nuclear fuel to the sun. I dont see why NASA wants to build another shuttle when a space elevator would cost less and work so much better. And once we get it running, its not but another fourty to fifty years till we start trusting it well enough to run nuclear waste -> space -> sun. Then i start having less problems with this plan.
Now all we need is superconducting carbon nanotubes as conductors. Just run the nuclear power stations in space, and pipe the power back down to earth. Anything nasty happens up there and you just cut the teather earthside and the power station goes hurtling off into space, no cleanup necessary! Course, getting that power a couple thousand miles down to earth surface wouldnt make much sense unless they get that magic juju superconducting carbon nanotubes thing working, good luck on that one boys! somehow the thought of meltdown'ing power stations being let go to fly off tangentially into space just make it all worth it though.
Either way, I'm still a reknewable man myself. It'd only be like five or ten times the cost (guess came from out of mi arse again). And I'm a big fan of the distributed system. Just put solar on everyone's house. Couple huge honkin wind farms. Less of these gargantuan power lines everywhere.
Even the most anally written of open documents, one for which any code written for is instantly assimilated into its iron grasp, matters not when the other side is the one with all the money and an army of lawyers.
How can we ever hope to win? Like so much else in the world, ultimately its just he with the most money wins. Even after we try playing a different game, we're still to be a causality of theirs it seems.
does anyone else get the idea that all these new better more innovative codecs are seriously damaging the overall encoding scene? sure, all the computer users can just go download the latest nemo codec pack, but stand alone players trying to support all these new different formats are being over run by a army of different codecs. ultimately we doom ourselves.
Maybe now thats true, but as computing power continues its exponential growth, big brother will hae the computing power necessary to analyze more and more data.
- "Everything i need to know about hacking i learned from a video game."
Although perhaps not the most ethical suggestion. Probably not that useful either. At least still global underground blacknet 1.0 launches. Key cracker for us pentagon? We got three of those in stock.
Also, how does this work for non fixed point to point? Can we start on that last run of de-wiring, removing that last sinful vestage of the computing world, the power source? Kiss your four hour battery lives goodbye?
To me, open source epitomizes why i use computers. Whenever faced with two paths in a computer; make it run now or spend a couple days making it run right for the rest of my life, the choice seems pretty clear. Invest a day, two days, a week now, and let the seconds i spend configuring pay me back over the years.
Open source iconifies this philosophy into a development technique. Invest invest invest, and tomorrow ye shalt see. Although linux and the swarm of libraries and source code that already surrounds it poses an enormous benefit to anyone willing to learn it, the balls just gotten rolling. As technology progresses onwards the only way to allow for competitive innocation is by open source. We are supplying the world the building blocks of creativity.
Who cares baout pc/104? It seems more like an excuse to put pins instead of pci slots, and then throw on a $400 price tag and charge at least $100 for every perphipherial you could want.
PC/104 sounded like an embedded dream when i heard about it. Its still one i'm not rich enough to afford.
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web browsing hasnt evolved much since the pentium 100 was a new born baby. css2 is the most recent milestone, aside from the oodles of streaming porn, neither of which should be insufferable under a pentium 133 or better (assuming your normal postage stamp grade 320 x 240 video).
there's no reason for a browser to require twice the processor it used to, if you disable cpu intensive options. just because computers are fast as all getout does not mean we should start accepting shitty code that takes three times the machine to run, just because its "better" (mouse gestures and tabbing... thats about it really for me).
96 mb of ram is a metric f-ton if your doing anything reasonable (ie: not kde or xp). pentium 266 should be nothing to sneeze at, not by a long shot, especially for web browsing. i rememeber advising people they didnt need a 350mhz for just web browsing, its overkill, hell, i remember telling that to my parents last month. they hardily agree and are pleased as punch with my old dp 366. many embedded system style applications are running even less ram; you want to tell them to upgrade?
apps obsoleting hardware that used to do the same task fine is bullshit, no matter how you dice it. people shouldnt have to move over to make way for progress. on the flip side, i understand "dont upgrade if it aint broke", but i simply dont see new browsers having any excuse to use worlds of resources to do the same mundane web browsing. its reasonable to expect we get the latest compliant browsers for our old machines and have them still run fine, so long as we dont start breaking out the auto-smooth scroll while anti-aliase zooming all tabs context menu option.
sometimes taxes and tariffs are not just a way to encourage or discourage buying habits/behaviors, but just pure and simple a way to raise money.
this inks of both. with telecommunication infrastructure rapidly being taken over by packet networks, why let packet data be even cheaper? and why not make another couple bucks to help fuxor the next florida election?
:-]
sure, as penny arcade so beautifully illustrates, the parachute button may be a bit excessive, but complexity is what makes reality so groovy: countless factors to weigh against each other. present too little complexity and the game becomes routine, provide a sea of options and encourage exploration, the game becomes much more interesting. armored core is my favorite game on this front - presenting both the adaption of mech design and the gameplay itself (although it does have one of the worst learning curves ever). the trick is to keep the challenger trying new things too.
the problem is making these choices seamless enough not to scare the living bejesus out of the player. exploration of options should be encouraged, adaption fostered.
(frankly, this is what sucks about most modern RTS's: there is no adaptation, simply reaction - the mechanics of what to do are fixed for experienced players.)
Myren
now you're a man?
if you want anything done fast or easily, your at the wrong web page.
they're triangulating their target then sync'ing the antenna's to that. it's a dynamically retargetable directional. i'm sure they'll find a way to get it classified as directional, because, well, it is.
we have that standard, its got badass support under two dozen operating systems, and everyone and their mother has begun using it.
if someone wants to try and create something better, jump start and entirely new system, so be it for us to try and talk them out of it. as long as its not being shoved down our throats - as long as every companies not going to STOP 802.11 products - who be it for us to not let someone try something.
think of all the network externalities they have to overcome to succeed. if they do start gaining serious inertia, it'll probably be for a damned good reason.
no no no. "from closely spaced antennas" to distant transcievers.
two, three, five or so antennas really close together, perhaps placed all over a laptop. then use all of them to talk to distant systems.
Presumably this technology "triangulates" (or quadradulates, pentagonates, what have you) upon its target. An intelligent antenna array.
Presumably the range advantage would be much less when using directional antennas? The antenna's are already directional, right, so there's less to make up for with fancy sync'ing software tricks.
Myren
TotalA is to date my favorite RPG. Good terrain influence. Huge # of units support. 500 is settable through configs, get the patch for 5000.
I love the sheer # of units. With starcraft and waht not, its rock paper scissors. X counters Y counters Z counters X. Blah. With TA, theres always a myraid of options to choose from. I feel like combat is much more spontaneous when you have to play against the other player, not the game engines predefined unit-trump cycles.
I really really would like to see more emphasis on supply lines.
Myren
did some research.
its true, 97% of nuclear waste has reasonable half lifes. we can deal with it. but theres a 3% of very very dangerous radio active substances which have thousands of year half lifes. this high level rad waste is the real danger, the rest is just mini bosses on the way there.
still, the average reactor goes through 25,000 - 30,000 tons a year. %3 thereof.... sounds like hell to me.
Myren
make a stab at being polite in showing the advantage of whatever you're talking about.
slashdot is a free ad space. most of the cool things i find are not from topics, but from comments. of course 90% of the comments insist that theirs is better than the competition, sliced bread and complimentary presedential blow jobs all rolled together, and that everyone else is a fop, while neglecting to mention the prealpha status and lack of docs.
like so much in the world, balance is key. humility helps too. by all means, be heard, but you're just a jerk if you have to shout.
When are we going to see a scalable implementation of something like this for VPN's?
All we need is some fancy open source high falutinocity software to come along and provide distributed mesh networking on top of the secure VPN infrastructure.
Im sick of seeing security having to be reinvented again and again for every single application. End to end encryption would be one of the most humanitarian efforts ever run by computer science.
they backported the crashes like mad feature, and added in an extra helping of the steal as much memory as we can bonuns too.
winamp 2.8 or bust.
Wow, moderation shows its true colors. I've seen about thirty comments saying "its safe, its more environmentally friendly," and generally everything but the one thing that matters.
Yes, this is a perfect solution. Except it creates the perfect enemy. Nuclear waste. US has spent iirc $6 billion looking for a place to stash waste. Waste that it knows will last another couple tens of thousands of years, many lifetimes that of man. Waste that will require extra-ordinary amounts of work to contain, to isolate, to cut off from our reality. We're talking Final Fantasy seal in crystals work here ladies and gentlemen.
Nuclear power is a great ally, but it creates an enemy which will outlive us, our children, our childrens children, and a hundred children thereafter.
In the end, it is not a real solution, but an interem solution. The world can only deal with so much nuclear waste.
Unless we get that stupid space elevator running AND are stupid enough to trust it running barrels of nuclear fuel to the sun. I dont see why NASA wants to build another shuttle when a space elevator would cost less and work so much better. And once we get it running, its not but another fourty to fifty years till we start trusting it well enough to run nuclear waste -> space -> sun. Then i start having less problems with this plan.
Now all we need is superconducting carbon nanotubes as conductors. Just run the nuclear power stations in space, and pipe the power back down to earth. Anything nasty happens up there and you just cut the teather earthside and the power station goes hurtling off into space, no cleanup necessary! Course, getting that power a couple thousand miles down to earth surface wouldnt make much sense unless they get that magic juju superconducting carbon nanotubes thing working, good luck on that one boys! somehow the thought of meltdown'ing power stations being let go to fly off tangentially into space just make it all worth it though.
Either way, I'm still a reknewable man myself. It'd only be like five or ten times the cost (guess came from out of mi arse again). And I'm a big fan of the distributed system. Just put solar on everyone's house. Couple huge honkin wind farms. Less of these gargantuan power lines everywhere.
Myren
Even the most anally written of open documents, one for which any code written for is instantly assimilated into its iron grasp, matters not when the other side is the one with all the money and an army of lawyers.
How can we ever hope to win? Like so much else in the world, ultimately its just he with the most money wins. Even after we try playing a different game, we're still to be a causality of theirs it seems.
I hate this place.
Myren
does anyone else get the idea that all these new better more innovative codecs are seriously damaging the overall encoding scene? sure, all the computer users can just go download the latest nemo codec pack, but stand alone players trying to support all these new different formats are being over run by a army of different codecs. ultimately we doom ourselves.
Maybe now thats true, but as computing power continues its exponential growth, big brother will hae the computing power necessary to analyze more and more data.
Twenty years and why not hear everything?
christians had a sense of humor.
- "Everything i need to know about hacking i learned from a video game."
Although perhaps not the most ethical suggestion. Probably not that useful either. At least still global underground blacknet 1.0 launches. Key cracker for us pentagon? We got three of those in stock.
Reminds me of the Netrunner card game.
Myren
ie for unix?
*hahahaha*
(thats all our unix labs have)
This cant be healthy...
Also, how does this work for non fixed point to point? Can we start on that last run of de-wiring, removing that last sinful vestage of the computing world, the power source? Kiss your four hour battery lives goodbye?
Myren
Ah, thanks for the smile. Right on target.
To me, open source epitomizes why i use computers. Whenever faced with two paths in a computer; make it run now or spend a couple days making it run right for the rest of my life, the choice seems pretty clear. Invest a day, two days, a week now, and let the seconds i spend configuring pay me back over the years.
Open source iconifies this philosophy into a development technique. Invest invest invest, and tomorrow ye shalt see. Although linux and the swarm of libraries and source code that already surrounds it poses an enormous benefit to anyone willing to learn it, the balls just gotten rolling. As technology progresses onwards the only way to allow for competitive innocation is by open source. We are supplying the world the building blocks of creativity.
Legos for everyone
Myren
Who cares baout pc/104? It seems more like an excuse to put pins instead of pci slots, and then throw on a $400 price tag and charge at least $100 for every perphipherial you could want.
PC/104 sounded like an embedded dream when i heard about it. Its still one i'm not rich enough to afford.
They dont want to spy on us,
Its only their job.