-PGP has been out for years, -its too late -they're either already using encryption or will not be -maybe might as well help normal people secure they're information
And every copy of Windows has one backdoor for CIA, NSA, FBI, Homeland and the three other agencies your not classified to know about.
Quake brought the revolution. Holy crap, we aint just building doom wads anymore. This is the real deal.
Half life was the revelation. UT was the scripting.
After half life, its been the burn out. We have all this power. Whatcha wanna go do with it? I dunno, we'll put people in jail. Once you get past the "kill everyone" stage and into the "attack something" stage (CTF), there really aint much place to go from there; assuming your sticking to the same basic game (ie: not AirQuake or QuakeRally). Innovation ran out, and with it inspiration.
How many mods do you see for UT2003? Epic's notorious for they're mod support, but we're not seeing the onslaught of mods that happened with quake. No "how to mod" sites, no community.
There are about 20 mods listed on planetunreal for ut2003. I'm willing to bet my first house no more than half will ever release anything playable.
Part of the problem is that efforts are now so divided. Every game under the sun has some modification support. Its hard to get taht critical mass that a mod community for a game requires.
Go get yourself a computer, not a childs toy. Did you really buy a mac thinking you could play video games on it? Kids dont play video games, they're violent, and mommy says no violence.;-p
Theres nothing in existance itself that couldnt stand to be rebuild, and wouldnt be better in the end for it. The question is never if, only at what cost. -Engineers Credo
But if you build a datacom network, you kind of own it. Big brother cant tell you how to design protocols. Most of em wouldnt know a protocol unless it caused the soon to be infamous Y2.038 or Y3k bug.
men in black suits: build in these backdoors for us, and these requests from hollywood lobbyists garage full of jolt sipping geeks: well, i guess living and working in antoher country might not be that bad.
big brother can always require data carriers to provide whatever taps they are capable of providing, but as soon as you say the magic words "end to end security" a whole lot of such maliciousness starts flying out the window. and good luck outlawing encryption.
whomever has enough power to develop and build a new system will be free to rule it. good luck making it, and then good luck squared getting it used by anyone.
there are great powers that be which control the internet. its no longer an evolved system, its a manipulated system, albiet one thats proven itself fairly maleable in the past. watching this pathetic attempt at IPv6 is just further proof that the internet is no longer under control of the techies.
just because we're never going to break this stranglehold on stasis we've locked ourselves into doesnt mean we shouldnt die trying to fight our way out.
Protocols aside, getting down to pure necessity here:
Something needs to happen. I'm sure the internet's backbone has been continually improved to some extent, but I question how sufficient these upgrades really have been. As everyone and their uncle gets broadband to the home, it feels more and more like everyones fighting for a piece of the pie.
In many ways, Internet usage is degrading into "he with the better tools" wins. Since everyones fighting for a piece of the pie, just send twenty differente requests with something like Getright, and get twenty peoples helpings. While us technical elite dont seem to mind so badly, the fact that the situation is this grusome is a bad sign of the times.
I know this is the case for broadband, where ISP's never ever ever so much as dream of buying enough bandwidth to allow you to max your pipe, I'd really like to hear how the backbone of the net itself is holding up.
I'd put my buck with mesh systems, but the latencies inherent in current technologies do not permit it without a real backbone. All the extra maintence communication to keep the mesh optimized and running will only further burden the backbones.
Broadband prices seem fairly fixed for their given areas. No real change seems to be in the air. Once you start looking at more serious connectivity options, things seem even more locked into stasis. Highspeeld syncronous DSL is the one new comer thats sometimes available, although I know nothing of its reliability. T1, T3 and Oc3 12 then 48. I suppose innovation isnt welcome or wanted for equipment that works and whose primary responsibility is reliability, but what are the pricing trends for these upper level connectivity solutions? I'd wager to guess prices remain fairly static. Compared to the rest of the computer industry, they're probably moving backwards.
Something needs to happen to keep the internet growing. Stasis is setting in already.
I really think the government needs to start pushing aerospace someplace new. This is a big step, but i think its going to take a government backed vision to really cause any significant change to aerospace.
I think we need to make an all out dash for scramjet technology. Apollo style blitz rush.
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Like that stopped Superhero's Quake from being shut down. Or Aliens mod. Or half a dozen other mods.
Industry: Dont fsck with our IP Us: They're fscking us.
From the intelligent if it werent wrong department:
I wasnt aware intels fabs were continuously making better and better microprocessors. For every microsecond that passes, they produce a microchip capable of another 1/1000 hz's?
Its all a matter of scale. Product cycles are never truly continuous, only something resembling such if you take a bunch of steps back. In the broader scope of computing, I'm fairly certain that even the relatively immediate jump in moors law will just make up for the lull before the "big jump," which i'm sure will be about as continuous as microprocessors currently are.
What really irks me with all these fancy schmancy geforce fx based latops coming around the bend is that NO ONE has plans for dual headed 3d accelerated lap tops.
I'm not talking about your stupid "LCD + VGA" or "LCD + S Video" junk here, I want good ole dual VGA out. Not only is dual monitor the way god himself intended, but how in the world are we supposed to use the badass stereoscopic vision gear that slowly trickles down the pipeline?
I really want to order a nice stereoscopic headset, but theres nothing I can plug it into these days! Unless I go Evangelion style and invest in half a mile of power cable.
Wouldnt it be damned smart to start standardizing some sort of FPGA addon card? There's plenty of obvious applications: crypto, 3d acceleration.
Hardware would just be a PCI-X card with a bunch of FPGA's thrown on, and a microcontroller to handle programming of them and PCI arbitration.
The real trick isnt the hardware, its standardizing the software to make it readily accessible to anyone and everyone. When Quake can start using your FPGA, it'll be a happy day in the neighborhood (RIP).
To he who gets rich off this, I demand freebies. Myren
That Star Bridge Systems is still about to unleash a whole new ball game.
*twiddle* any day now gents. honestly, it looks like OpenCores might get there first.;)
One of they're earlier claims was it was so dynamically reconfigurable you should shoot it with a.358 magnum and it'd still function.
I still dont see how even 100% utilization of FPGA's could so much as touch 10% utilization of a good ole cray. They're both massively parallel, sure, but one of em's got like upteen bajillion processors. A system full of as many top of the line FPGA's as you can cram in there still aint going to be that fast.
Either way, it sounds like some really cool vaporware. Myren
More data, obviously, but whats the effect on transmition?
Followup question: what does it take to make vegitation not absorb radio signals? Do only lower frequencies have this property? Or is it some harmonic? What?
Seriously, why would Sun ever release such a brute as this? Sure, its fast as hell, but I think Java's all the evidence we need to prove that Sun doesnt give two rats on a stick about performance. They're one of those "100% uptime" "we'd never expect programmers to garbage collect" and damn the torpedos folks. What do they give about the hopefully soon to be fastest processor this side of Itanium (Although Itanium's only absolute claim to fame is its price, shazam).
Why would they care about another 10% performance margin anyways?
Has CNet forgotten that Sun happens to be making their own processors? UltraSparc IIIi is what, here, almost here, something of the sort. And what better way to say our processors rule than by using someone elses, no? Then again, they did just confess that Java is wholy inadequate for many of they're projects, so ah, sun will be sun.
But they'd better rethink they're processors if they're profit marigns are better for a 3rd party chip than they're own, network externalities aside.
VPN: absolutely fantastic idea. Honestly, i think all wireless communications should use VPN's. Pitty freeswan doesnt move, and I'm not ready to put production servers on 2.5, much less a componenet i'm fairly sure has a long long ways to go (what do you expect from a component as complex as the kernel itself).
I'd really like a DHCP server that points to a web proxy where you login to the VPN, and that helps to configure the client VPN. Unfortunately, VPN is such a nightmare right now in linux that I cannot provide the free secure hotspot I would like to.
Ultimately, some sort of dynamic mesh routing based off of VPN's is the ultimate goal. But its going to be a while.
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-PGP has been out for years,
-its too late
-they're either already using encryption or will not be
-maybe might as well help normal people secure they're information
And every copy of Windows has one backdoor for CIA, NSA, FBI, Homeland and the three other agencies your not classified to know about.
Like it even matters. The mod community is dying.
Quake brought the revolution. Holy crap, we aint just building doom wads anymore. This is the real deal.
Half life was the revelation. UT was the scripting.
After half life, its been the burn out. We have all this power. Whatcha wanna go do with it? I dunno, we'll put people in jail. Once you get past the "kill everyone" stage and into the "attack something" stage (CTF), there really aint much place to go from there; assuming your sticking to the same basic game (ie: not AirQuake or QuakeRally). Innovation ran out, and with it inspiration.
How many mods do you see for UT2003? Epic's notorious for they're mod support, but we're not seeing the onslaught of mods that happened with quake. No "how to mod" sites, no community.
There are about 20 mods listed on planetunreal for ut2003. I'm willing to bet my first house no more than half will ever release anything playable.
Part of the problem is that efforts are now so divided. Every game under the sun has some modification support. Its hard to get taht critical mass that a mod community for a game requires.
Myren
Like anyone cares about you heathen mac users!
;-p
Go get yourself a computer, not a childs toy. Did you really buy a mac thinking you could play video games on it? Kids dont play video games, they're violent, and mommy says no violence.
Myren
AKA: because there was nothing better at the time
Theres nothing in existance itself that couldnt stand to be rebuild, and wouldnt be better in the end for it. The question is never if, only at what cost.
-Engineers Credo
Myren
That might be a little overkill on the paranoia.
Yes, big brother is everywhere.
But if you build a datacom network, you kind of own it. Big brother cant tell you how to design protocols. Most of em wouldnt know a protocol unless it caused the soon to be infamous Y2.038 or Y3k bug.
men in black suits: build in these backdoors for us, and these requests from hollywood lobbyists
garage full of jolt sipping geeks: well, i guess living and working in antoher country might not be that bad.
big brother can always require data carriers to provide whatever taps they are capable of providing, but as soon as you say the magic words "end to end security" a whole lot of such maliciousness starts flying out the window. and good luck outlawing encryption.
whomever has enough power to develop and build a new system will be free to rule it. good luck making it, and then good luck squared getting it used by anyone.
Myren
anyone can start a bus company.
there are great powers that be which control the internet. its no longer an evolved system, its a manipulated system, albiet one thats proven itself fairly maleable in the past. watching this pathetic attempt at IPv6 is just further proof that the internet is no longer under control of the techies.
just because we're never going to break this stranglehold on stasis we've locked ourselves into doesnt mean we shouldnt die trying to fight our way out.
dhcp configures anything smart enough to allow itself to be configured by dhcp. you can do anything with dhcp, given enough free time.
Protocols aside, getting down to pure necessity here:
Something needs to happen. I'm sure the internet's backbone has been continually improved to some extent, but I question how sufficient these upgrades really have been. As everyone and their uncle gets broadband to the home, it feels more and more like everyones fighting for a piece of the pie.
In many ways, Internet usage is degrading into "he with the better tools" wins. Since everyones fighting for a piece of the pie, just send twenty differente requests with something like Getright, and get twenty peoples helpings. While us technical elite dont seem to mind so badly, the fact that the situation is this grusome is a bad sign of the times.
I know this is the case for broadband, where ISP's never ever ever so much as dream of buying enough bandwidth to allow you to max your pipe, I'd really like to hear how the backbone of the net itself is holding up.
I'd put my buck with mesh systems, but the latencies inherent in current technologies do not permit it without a real backbone. All the extra maintence communication to keep the mesh optimized and running will only further burden the backbones.
Broadband prices seem fairly fixed for their given areas. No real change seems to be in the air. Once you start looking at more serious connectivity options, things seem even more locked into stasis. Highspeeld syncronous DSL is the one new comer thats sometimes available, although I know nothing of its reliability. T1, T3 and Oc3 12 then 48. I suppose innovation isnt welcome or wanted for equipment that works and whose primary responsibility is reliability, but what are the pricing trends for these upper level connectivity solutions? I'd wager to guess prices remain fairly static. Compared to the rest of the computer industry, they're probably moving backwards.
Something needs to happen to keep the internet growing. Stasis is setting in already.
Myren
I really think the government needs to start pushing aerospace someplace new. This is a big step, but i think its going to take a government backed vision to really cause any significant change to aerospace.
I think we need to make an all out dash for scramjet technology. Apollo style blitz rush.
Like that stopped Superhero's Quake from being shut down. Or Aliens mod. Or half a dozen other mods.
Industry: Dont fsck with our IP
Us: They're fscking us.
If its mandatory, whats all this about the kernel nfs v4 modules in 2.4? Why are they there?
Hard to imagine there'd be no userspace tools if theres kernel options like this...
Myren
Yeah, but can i diskless netboot it?
ttththththththtaaaattttsss alll folks!
From the intelligent if it werent wrong department:
I wasnt aware intels fabs were continuously making better and better microprocessors. For every microsecond that passes, they produce a microchip capable of another 1/1000 hz's?
Its all a matter of scale. Product cycles are never truly continuous, only something resembling such if you take a bunch of steps back. In the broader scope of computing, I'm fairly certain that even the relatively immediate jump in moors law will just make up for the lull before the "big jump," which i'm sure will be about as continuous as microprocessors currently are.
Its all a matter of scale.
Just what i needed! Microchips 1000 times as strong as steel!
Thats got to be at least an extra 400 mhz for us overclockers.
Myren
Looks like the diseases themselves will handle the problem quite well. No human intervention necessary. Quit worrying, and learn to love the bomb.
Viruses adapt faster than we do. Oh well, so long, and thanks for all the fish.
mcdonalds is your default plan. programming is what the smart ones do in high school, if they can.
*jaw drop*
i had no idea such things existed. will wonders never cease.
I presume they've no more bandwidth than a 32/33 pci?
What really irks me with all these fancy schmancy geforce fx based latops coming around the bend is that NO ONE has plans for dual headed 3d accelerated lap tops.
I'm not talking about your stupid "LCD + VGA" or "LCD + S Video" junk here, I want good ole dual VGA out. Not only is dual monitor the way god himself intended, but how in the world are we supposed to use the badass stereoscopic vision gear that slowly trickles down the pipeline?
I really want to order a nice stereoscopic headset, but theres nothing I can plug it into these days! Unless I go Evangelion style and invest in half a mile of power cable.
Maybe the world just spites me.
Myren
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-2 Moderator likes java.
-1 no sense of humor
-1 failed to understand the seriousness of corporate suicide remarks because of earlier humor
Wouldnt it be damned smart to start standardizing some sort of FPGA addon card? There's plenty of obvious applications: crypto, 3d acceleration.
Hardware would just be a PCI-X card with a bunch of FPGA's thrown on, and a microcontroller to handle programming of them and PCI arbitration.
The real trick isnt the hardware, its standardizing the software to make it readily accessible to anyone and everyone. When Quake can start using your FPGA, it'll be a happy day in the neighborhood (RIP).
To he who gets rich off this, I demand freebies.
Myren
That Star Bridge Systems is still about to unleash a whole new ball game.
;)
.358 magnum and it'd still function.
*twiddle* any day now gents. honestly, it looks like OpenCores might get there first.
One of they're earlier claims was it was so dynamically reconfigurable you should shoot it with a
I still dont see how even 100% utilization of FPGA's could so much as touch 10% utilization of a good ole cray. They're both massively parallel, sure, but one of em's got like upteen bajillion processors. A system full of as many top of the line FPGA's as you can cram in there still aint going to be that fast.
Either way, it sounds like some really cool vaporware.
Myren
What does higher and higher frequency do?
More data, obviously, but whats the effect on transmition?
Followup question: what does it take to make vegitation not absorb radio signals? Do only lower frequencies have this property? Or is it some harmonic? What?
Myren
Seriously, why would Sun ever release such a brute as this? Sure, its fast as hell, but I think Java's all the evidence we need to prove that Sun doesnt give two rats on a stick about performance. They're one of those "100% uptime" "we'd never expect programmers to garbage collect" and damn the torpedos folks. What do they give about the hopefully soon to be fastest processor this side of Itanium (Although Itanium's only absolute claim to fame is its price, shazam).
Why would they care about another 10% performance margin anyways?
Has CNet forgotten that Sun happens to be making their own processors? UltraSparc IIIi is what, here, almost here, something of the sort. And what better way to say our processors rule than by using someone elses, no? Then again, they did just confess that Java is wholy inadequate for many of they're projects, so ah, sun will be sun.
But they'd better rethink they're processors if they're profit marigns are better for a 3rd party chip than they're own, network externalities aside.
Myren
VPN: absolutely fantastic idea. Honestly, i think all wireless communications should use VPN's. Pitty freeswan doesnt move, and I'm not ready to put production servers on 2.5, much less a componenet i'm fairly sure has a long long ways to go (what do you expect from a component as complex as the kernel itself).
I'd really like a DHCP server that points to a web proxy where you login to the VPN, and that helps to configure the client VPN. Unfortunately, VPN is such a nightmare right now in linux that I cannot provide the free secure hotspot I would like to.
Ultimately, some sort of dynamic mesh routing based off of VPN's is the ultimate goal. But its going to be a while.
Myren