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There are numerous examples of conflicts being settled over computer games & simulations in sci-fi literature.
For example in Blakes Seven there was an episode where a war between two planets was decided by two men in an armed duel in a location decided by a neutral computer
(In this case one side cheated and used a robot that had faster reactions than was humanly possible)
Anyone remember the +5 back scratcher from the DM's guide ?
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Code Book code setters reveal crypto cock-up
By: Lucy Sherriff
Posted: 13/10/2000 at 10:32 GMT
Following the news that the final cipher of Simon Singh's Code Book challenge had been broken, The Register caught up with him and Paul Leyland, who between them set the ten ciphers in the challenge.
"I really didn't have the foggiest idea how long it would take to be solved, but I think a year is a good time. If it had gone on for longer, say five years or so, it would have become frustrating and lost its pace. It is very hard to set a cipher that isn't either trivial or impossible," said Singh, thoughts echoed by his college, Paul Leyland.
"Designing a good cipher isn't easy," he said. "Designing a bad one, however, is easy. In general terms, first off you have to decide what you are protecting. Is it information of low value, or high? Is it short-lived or must it be protected for many years?"
Equally important are the resources of the enemy you are trying to evade, and your own resources to encrypt the data in the first place.
Leyland continues: "In more familiar terms, do you want a simple bolt on a bathroom door to advise others that the room is occupied, or do you need a vault with three-foot thick steel walls to keep out professional thieves armed with explosives and cutting torches, or something in between? All these factors are important and must be properly considered before designing or choosing a cipher."
As for the timing, the cracking of the cipher coincided with the start of Singh's TV serialisation of "The Code Book." Pure coincidence? Well, it seems so. Rather wistfully Singh says: "Last week would have been nice, it would have saved me a thousand pounds."*
Because the ciphers in the challenge had been following a historical theme, the final stage had to be a realistic application of public key cryptography.
Again, we defer to Leyland for an explanation: "The archetypal public key algorithm is RSA, and one of its major uses in real life is to encrypt a cipher key. The key would then be used to encrypt a message with a cipher far too hard to break by key search as for the DES stage. We chose triple-DES for the cipher, and encrypted its 112-bit key with a RSA public key, which was 512-bits in size."
And in the way of all things code related, the final cipher turned out to have another final trick up its sleeve.
"The last text was supposed to be triple DES encrypted," said Singh. "This is impossible to crack, but we had encrypted the key to the passage with a 512-bit asymmetric cipher, and this was the way to solve the final stage."
However, by accident, the passage ended up being only single DES encrypted. Since the previous text, once deciphered, hinted strongly that the next passage was encrypted using triple DES, the Swedes used the key to un-triple DES the passage. Obviously after this it made no sense at all.
"It took them a couple of hours to work out what was going on," Singh remarks. "I'm not embarrassed by it, its just part of cryptography that things are not always perfect. I'm sure there were spelling mistakes running through all the other texts as well."
As for the implications of such a strong cipher being broken without the use of a super computer, this is the part that really impressed Leyland and Singh. However, according to David Shapland, enterprise product manager at BT Trustwise, the UK face of Verisign, said that we should be neither concerned nor surprised.
"Most things are secured using a 1024-bit key these days," he said. "And if you bear in mind that starting from a 512 bit key, each additional bit doubles the number of available keys that is pretty secure." ®
*When the challenge was set, Singh promised £1000 to the person who was leading the race at the one year mark. The final cipher was cracked just a week after this milestone had been passed
Who better to explain how management demotivates you and burns you out ?
Seriously though if companies tried to get rid of the Macho culture where it is deemed necessary to work long hours maybe their would be less stressed employees.
Companies thought that by downsizing in the last decade they could have it both ways.
Cut your staff,remove a layer of management, make the survivors work longer hours and you will have a lean efficient company.
Especially in IT, overworking is counter productive, people can really only manage about 5 hours of productive work a day and if you consistently work longer than about 40 hours a week your productivity falls.
The major reason for all this is unsympathetic management and poor project management.
I can't see why for a normal working week any IT staff should be required to work more than 40 hours. If they regularly exceed this its due to poor management.
Your idea for a moderation option of "Writer should get more hobbies" is pretty cool.
Perhaps/. would settle for "Must get out more" but I guess that would require moderators wearing flame retardant underwear.
Out of interest Traveller was pretty big in the UK here (almost as big as D&D at one stage)
I guess it never caught on stateside though ?
(Bit weird considering you invented it ???)
Oh well back to writing a requirements spec...
Slashdot's great, the best excuse to avoid working I ever found....
For those who surf the newgroups, this may be of interest...it may just save your mailbox!
The Internet, just like the real world, has its share of rude people. While there isn't much one can do about it, it would be silly to avoid using the Internet simply for fear that someone might insult you in public one day. Sooner or later, it will happen, and the best you can do is to be prepared for this. When it does happen, the only thing you absolutely must not do is whack the "reply" button and send off a stream of insults at your offender - or if you absolutely must, at least make sure that you do so in private. All you would achieve with a stream of insults is what is called a "flame war" in network jargon - dozens of people casting insults at each other, and a very swollen mailbox. Insulting someone on a public list is very much like punching someone in the face in a crowded bar near closing time; don't do it unless you want to get into a fight that could be painful for everyone.
Now, of course, you have been insulted and some factually incorrect statements may have been made about you, or your words may have been twisted around to make them sound like you meant exactly the opposite of what you said. A public reply may be appropriate, in much the same way that one would write to the editor of a newspaper and request the publication of a formal reply to "straighten out the facts". The important thing is to avoid content-free messages where no misinformation is corrected, no point is made and all that is ever exchanged is insults.
But before you do that, you will want to consider why these people have been rude to you. First of all, make sure the poster did intend to be rude. The Internet connects people from over 50 countries, and many of them are not native English speakers. They may have translated an idiomatic expression literally, and insulted you without meaning to. Similarly, native English speakers may have used a correct idiomatic expression which, when translated literally, sounds very mean in your language.
The next thing to consider is where the poster comes from. No matter what your personal opinion on the question may be, there are cultures with a very different definition of what is or is not socially acceptable, and in particular there are cultures where personal attacks are no big deal. While you may think that they should not do anything that hurts your feelings, you probably don't want to get into a cultural flame war, because you are probably hurting other people's feelings as well on a regular basis. For instance, do you always address people by their full name and title, or do you just say "As Peter said yesterday..."? In some countries, it is a grave insult to call people by their first name if you don't know them personally, while in others using the full title can sound sarcastic. There are dozens of similar examples, and the only way to successful cross-cultural communication is to tolerate other people's cultural habits in return for their tolerance of yours.
Another point to consider is that, sometimes, people are having meaningful discussions in a tone that appears inappropriate to you, but that may seem perfectly normal to them. As long as their messages contain useful information, there is no point in trying to police the list, both because it is the list owner's job, not yours, and because adults are unlikely to change their behavior in any significant way, especially if the people complaining are new to the list. If you want the list owners to take action, it is better to write to them directly, so that you do not end up being labelled as "one of the people running the flame war". If you just want to publicly express your indignation, it is best to type the message and pause, just before sending it, to consider whether you are doing this in the general interest or for your personal, selfish satisfaction. Most mail programs let you cancel a message.
Lastly, if you are new to the Internet please take the time to look through existing resources on netiquette (the rules of etiquette governing on-line communication).
Note that among Internet users, a kind of "shorthand" exists which may be confusing at first. One example of this is the term "IMHO", which means "in my humble/honest opinion".
You may also encounter symbols called "emoticons", which are used to help define the emotions of the poster while he is writing.
I stand corrected
Its just I presumed the Traveller Beowulf would be known by more geeks than Beowulf the poem.
Does that mean you get taught the poem at school in the US as well ?
Sinclair had probably the most absurd advertising campaign running in the UK.
One advert ran that claimed that the ZX81 could run a nuclear powerstation.
Hmm wonder if the Russian ever run a modified ZX81 for their nuclear stations... rampack wobble could have a lot to answer for.
Sadder still there were companies advertising strip poker games for the ZX80 & 81, could you image that in block graphics
Is it true the rumour that the Spectrum/Timex 1000 used failed chips from McDonnel Douglas Fighter Aircraft ?.
ps.
Anyone remember playing 3D Monster Maze ?
Arguably it was one of the first 3D games, hardly wolfenstein or doom but surely it had to be a defing moment in gaming history.
Beware the Spanish Inquisition
Monty Pythons 'Comfy Chair' will be able to become reality
Turn on your reality distortion field now and get ready to say 'Oh no not the comfy chair'
The SDK runs on a PC for development purposes. It is NOT the new OS, merely a development environment to ineffect create a virtual Amiga for developing software for when the new OS is released.
After all the original Amiga designs were not created on an Amiga (I think they were DEC's - someone correct me if I'm wrong here ?)
The new OS will either run on an Amiga Boxen or be capable of being run hosted on another OS.
(Rather like with some O/S installs that let you run of a CD or floppy)
For list of Amiga dealers click here In the Uk here Power Computing are your best bet if you want a new miggie
The Amiga they mention is nothing special these days.
It probably has a PowerPc G3/G4 processor (the article mentions G2 which must be a misprint) that work in conjunction with a Motorola 68xxx processor (usually a 68040 or 68040)
The PowerPC is only used by programs that are specifically coded to use it, for 'classic amiga' programs it still relies on the ol 68x chip.
To run the current OS 3.5 it still requires the Motorola to as the OS still requires it (OS 3.5 will not yet run natively on PowerPC)
The new Amiga & OS will be a real 'souped' up machine, the machine mentioned is basically the fastest available using the old chipsets and AGA technology.
But I'll have to admit they'll find it damned hard to find an Amiga program that requires 128M memory (unless they use Lightwave), so under current Amiga technology they have one mother of a machine.
"Revolutionary" products are announced daily in the IT business, but Psion's latest, the Wavefinder, could genuinely merit the tag on a couple of fronts. The price is only a temporary breakthrough, because receivers from the consumer electronics outfits will ultimately match and then beat it, but the association with PCs is a smart notion, as is the bundling approach. The Wavefinder, a sort of 'soap on a rope' affair you stick to the wall behind your PC, is bigger than you expected from the pictures, but there are obvious advantages for Psion in presenting it with a simple USB connection that allows it to get display, control and power from the PC 'for free.' And when it ships in the UK in two weeks time it will be free, for people buying the right PCs from retail giant Dixons/PC World. That's a tempting bundle that should help Psion punch above its weight, and steal a march on Japan's electronics giants.
The broader revolutions, however, are more easily grasped when you consider what digital radio is, and the implications of it becoming a ubiquitous PC peripheral. Digital radio currently exists as high quality, multi-channel audio broadcasting (in Europe - the US seems to be two years behind, with an inferior system, again), but although that's cool, start thinking of digital radio as the ability to throw miscellaneous free broadband stuff at computer users everywhere and you see rather wider potential.
It can do pictures, hook into Web sites, it can broadcast Web sites. You can be listening to a song, decide you like it, find out the name of the band then just click through to a Web site to buy the CD. Or - the fatal, Napster-style flaw in the thinking of people who think they'll make money out of this - you can just record it directly into MP3 format. Or look at it from the point of view of the wireless network operators who've just coughed up tens of billions for their 3G licences.
Their thinking, as far as broadband wireless is concerned, has been that they'll be able to use their vast future bandwidth for music, video, multimedia, and that they'll be able to recoup their investment by charging for this. So imagine their surprise in recent months when they've 'discovered' a bunch of broadband wireless franchises that were sold for a song, and that are now in the hands of broadcast operations who're familiar with the concept of dishing out content for free.
Sounds kinda similar to what you want, if you live in Europe you're in luck;)
There must be a lot of unused BSB satellite dishes kicking around the UK worth practically zip by now
Also with people dumping their old sky dishes for 'digi dishes' for sky digital pretty soon their will be a lot of old sky dishes going cheap
Sod the weather, surely it would be worth setting up a network live this just for gaming and mirroring stuff like DVD decryption software maybe ?...
It looks like a cool game but falls into the two types of current sucessfull star trek license the Quake clone or the Star trek stragety game.
If they are just going to release endless Quake meets Star Trek clones it a bit of a shame.
What I'd love to see is a true role playing game using all this 3d technology based on the original Star Trek or NG. Surely all the stories and plotlines in those series are enough for a decent roleplayinggame.
Someone out there must be able to produce an intelligent Star Trek license ?
I've got a replacement gigabyteboard with a BX chipset in December of '99, it not a '96/97 original BX so I hoped it would support faster PIII's.
The bus speed is configurable up to 133 mhz, so I was hoping that I could get away with getting a 1Ghz PIII in my existing motherboard.
Strangely the manual only shows processor settings up to PIII 700 as examples so maybe your right about the 700 mhz limit.
Damn those mobo manuals, no where does that mention a 700 mhz limit, but then again maybe I'm just stupid.
P.s. wheres a good place to find more info on individual chipsets as I never trust the mobo manufacturers to provide unbiased info
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There are numerous examples of conflicts being settled over computer games & simulations in sci-fi literature. For example in Blakes Seven there was an episode where a war between two planets was decided by two men in an armed duel in a location decided by a neutral computer (In this case one side cheated and used a robot that had faster reactions than was humanly possible)
PIV's will hit 2Ghz next year...
AMD will probably get their sooner.
So it looks like that PIII 500 will be upgraded fairly soon if you still go by that 4x equation.
Unless Microsoft can bloat their software in accordance with Moore's law, you won't need a 2Ghz machine though.
Up your FSB a bit and you should hit 650 mhz easily, which should be enough for most games for a while.
Not forgetting the cool magic items.
Anyone remember the +5 back scratcher from the DM's guide ?
Code Book code setters reveal crypto cock-up
By: Lucy Sherriff
Posted: 13/10/2000 at 10:32 GMT
Following the news that the final cipher of Simon Singh's Code Book challenge had been broken, The Register caught up with him and Paul Leyland, who between them set the ten ciphers in the challenge.
"I really didn't have the foggiest idea how long it would take to be solved, but I think a year is a good time. If it had gone on for longer, say five years or so, it would have become frustrating and lost its pace. It is very hard to set a cipher that isn't either trivial or impossible," said Singh, thoughts echoed by his college, Paul Leyland.
"Designing a good cipher isn't easy," he said. "Designing a bad one, however, is easy. In general terms, first off you have to decide what you are protecting. Is it information of low value, or high? Is it short-lived or must it be protected for many years?"
Equally important are the resources of the enemy you are trying to evade, and your own resources to encrypt the data in the first place.
Leyland continues: "In more familiar terms, do you want a simple bolt on a bathroom door to advise others that the room is occupied, or do you need a vault with three-foot thick steel walls to keep out professional thieves armed with explosives and cutting torches, or something in between? All these factors are important and must be properly considered before designing or choosing a cipher."
As for the timing, the cracking of the cipher coincided with the start of Singh's TV serialisation of "The Code Book." Pure coincidence? Well, it seems so. Rather wistfully Singh says: "Last week would have been nice, it would have saved me a thousand pounds."*
Because the ciphers in the challenge had been following a historical theme, the final stage had to be a realistic application of public key cryptography.
Again, we defer to Leyland for an explanation: "The archetypal public key algorithm is RSA, and one of its major uses in real life is to encrypt a cipher key. The key would then be used to encrypt a message with a cipher far too hard to break by key search as for the DES stage. We chose triple-DES for the cipher, and encrypted its 112-bit key with a RSA public key, which was 512-bits in size."
And in the way of all things code related, the final cipher turned out to have another final trick up its sleeve.
"The last text was supposed to be triple DES encrypted," said Singh. "This is impossible to crack, but we had encrypted the key to the passage with a 512-bit asymmetric cipher, and this was the way to solve the final stage."
However, by accident, the passage ended up being only single DES encrypted. Since the previous text, once deciphered, hinted strongly that the next passage was encrypted using triple DES, the Swedes used the key to un-triple DES the passage. Obviously after this it made no sense at all.
"It took them a couple of hours to work out what was going on," Singh remarks. "I'm not embarrassed by it, its just part of cryptography that things are not always perfect. I'm sure there were spelling mistakes running through all the other texts as well."
As for the implications of such a strong cipher being broken without the use of a super computer, this is the part that really impressed Leyland and Singh. However, according to David Shapland, enterprise product manager at BT Trustwise, the UK face of Verisign, said that we should be neither concerned nor surprised.
"Most things are secured using a 1024-bit key these days," he said. "And if you bear in mind that starting from a 512 bit key, each additional bit doubles the number of available keys that is pretty secure." ®
*When the challenge was set, Singh promised £1000 to the person who was leading the race at the one year mark. The final cipher was cracked just a week after this milestone had been passed
There is a practice of Companies placing wicker effigies of the mangement in their rest rooms.
:)
The idea is that when the staff are having a bad day they pick up a baseball bat, beat their boss up and go back to work feeling happier.
I guess some effigies are replaced quicker than others, but its not a bad idea
Where was Dilbert in the related Links.
Who better to explain how management demotivates you and burns you out ?
Seriously though if companies tried to get rid of the Macho culture where it is deemed necessary to work long hours maybe their would be less stressed employees.
Companies thought that by downsizing in the last decade they could have it both ways.
Cut your staff,remove a layer of management, make the survivors work longer hours and you will have a lean efficient company.
Especially in IT, overworking is counter productive, people can really only manage about 5 hours of productive work a day and if you consistently work longer than about 40 hours a week your productivity falls.
The major reason for all this is unsympathetic management and poor project management.
I can't see why for a normal working week any IT staff should be required to work more than 40 hours. If they regularly exceed this its due to poor management.
At least in the UK you can vote idiot.
Well Monster Raving Loony anyway...
Vote Monster Raving Loony Party you know it makes sense
One warship running Windows 2000 only used once...
Cheers it makes more sense now
Its my fault I kinda got scared off maths after they made us do Formal Methods
Even now the mere mention of the words Z or VDM have me cowering
Nah I spent a week screaming when told to go away and write my own web server
Oh Damn, While I was writing the post below made it redundant.... Sorry everybody
I studied CS and I swear we never covered the minimal clique partition problem ?
Sorry I don't understand this one, can someone summarise this in a more user friendly manner ?
Your idea for a moderation option of "Writer should get more hobbies" is pretty cool. Perhaps /. would settle for "Must get out more" but I guess that would require moderators wearing flame retardant underwear.
Out of interest Traveller was pretty big in the UK here (almost as big as D&D at one stage)
I guess it never caught on stateside though ?
(Bit weird considering you invented it ???)
Oh well back to writing a requirements spec...
Slashdot's great, the best excuse to avoid working I ever found....
For those who surf the newgroups, this may be of interest...it may just save your mailbox!
The Internet, just like the real world, has its share of rude people. While there isn't much one can do about it, it would be silly to avoid using the Internet simply for fear that someone might insult you in public one day. Sooner or later, it will happen, and the best you can do is to be prepared for this. When it does happen, the only thing you absolutely must not do is whack the "reply" button and send off a stream of insults at your offender - or if you absolutely must, at least make sure that you do so in private. All you would achieve with a stream of insults is what is called a "flame war" in network jargon - dozens of people casting insults at each other, and a very swollen mailbox. Insulting someone on a public list is very much like punching someone in the face in a crowded bar near closing time; don't do it unless you want to get into a fight that could be painful for everyone.
Now, of course, you have been insulted and some factually incorrect statements may have been made about you, or your words may have been twisted around to make them sound like you meant exactly the opposite of what you said. A public reply may be appropriate, in much the same way that one would write to the editor of a newspaper and request the publication of a formal reply to "straighten out the facts". The important thing is to avoid content-free messages where no misinformation is corrected, no point is made and all that is ever exchanged is insults.
But before you do that, you will want to consider why these people have been rude to you. First of all, make sure the poster did intend to be rude. The Internet connects people from over 50 countries, and many of them are not native English speakers. They may have translated an idiomatic expression literally, and insulted you without meaning to. Similarly, native English speakers may have used a correct idiomatic expression which, when translated literally, sounds very mean in your language.
The next thing to consider is where the poster comes from. No matter what your personal opinion on the question may be, there are cultures with a very different definition of what is or is not socially acceptable, and in particular there are cultures where personal attacks are no big deal. While you may think that they should not do anything that hurts your feelings, you probably don't want to get into a cultural flame war, because you are probably hurting other people's feelings as well on a regular basis. For instance, do you always address people by their full name and title, or do you just say "As Peter said yesterday..."? In some countries, it is a grave insult to call people by their first name if you don't know them personally, while in others using the full title can sound sarcastic. There are dozens of similar examples, and the only way to successful cross-cultural communication is to tolerate other people's cultural habits in return for their tolerance of yours.
Another point to consider is that, sometimes, people are having meaningful discussions in a tone that appears inappropriate to you, but that may seem perfectly normal to them. As long as their messages contain useful information, there is no point in trying to police the list, both because it is the list owner's job, not yours, and because adults are unlikely to change their behavior in any significant way, especially if the people complaining are new to the list. If you want the list owners to take action, it is better to write to them directly, so that you do not end up being labelled as "one of the people running the flame war". If you just want to publicly express your indignation, it is best to type the message and pause, just before sending it, to consider whether you are doing this in the general interest or for your personal, selfish satisfaction. Most mail programs let you cancel a message.
Lastly, if you are new to the Internet please take the time to look through existing resources on netiquette (the rules of etiquette governing on-line communication).
Note that among Internet users, a kind of "shorthand" exists which may be confusing at first. One example of this is the term "IMHO", which means "in my humble/honest opinion".
You may also encounter symbols called "emoticons", which are used to help define the emotions of the poster while he is writing.
I stand corrected Its just I presumed the Traveller Beowulf would be known by more geeks than Beowulf the poem. Does that mean you get taught the poem at school in the US as well ?
Duuuuh, doesn't anyone remember the *story* Beowulf, from which the *computing engine* Beowulf gets its name?
Isn't it more likely to be named after Free Trader Beowulf from the roleplaying game Traveller, rather than from the poem based on nordic legends ?
Sinclair had probably the most absurd advertising campaign running in the UK. One advert ran that claimed that the ZX81 could run a nuclear powerstation. Hmm wonder if the Russian ever run a modified ZX81 for their nuclear stations... rampack wobble could have a lot to answer for. Sadder still there were companies advertising strip poker games for the ZX80 & 81, could you image that in block graphics Is it true the rumour that the Spectrum/Timex 1000 used failed chips from McDonnel Douglas Fighter Aircraft ?. ps. Anyone remember playing 3D Monster Maze ? Arguably it was one of the first 3D games, hardly wolfenstein or doom but surely it had to be a defing moment in gaming history.
Beware the Spanish Inquisition Monty Pythons 'Comfy Chair' will be able to become reality Turn on your reality distortion field now and get ready to say 'Oh no not the comfy chair'
The SDK runs on a PC for development purposes. It is NOT the new OS, merely a development environment to ineffect create a virtual Amiga for developing software for when the new OS is released. After all the original Amiga designs were not created on an Amiga (I think they were DEC's - someone correct me if I'm wrong here ?) The new OS will either run on an Amiga Boxen or be capable of being run hosted on another OS. (Rather like with some O/S installs that let you run of a CD or floppy)
For list of Amiga dealers click here In the Uk here Power Computing are your best bet if you want a new miggie
:)
The Amiga they mention is nothing special these days.
It probably has a PowerPc G3/G4 processor (the article mentions G2 which must be a misprint) that work in conjunction with a Motorola 68xxx processor (usually a 68040 or 68040)
The PowerPC is only used by programs that are specifically coded to use it, for 'classic amiga' programs it still relies on the ol 68x chip.
To run the current OS 3.5 it still requires the Motorola to as the OS still requires it (OS 3.5 will not yet run natively on PowerPC)
The new Amiga & OS will be a real 'souped' up machine, the machine mentioned is basically the fastest available using the old chipsets and AGA technology.
But I'll have to admit they'll find it damned hard to find an Amiga program that requires 128M memory (unless they use Lightwave), so under current Amiga technology they have one mother of a machine.
Hope thats useful
Check out This page at The Register
;)
To quote...
"Revolutionary" products are announced daily in the IT business, but Psion's latest, the Wavefinder, could genuinely merit the tag on a couple of fronts. The price is only a temporary breakthrough, because receivers from the consumer electronics outfits will ultimately match and then beat it, but the association with PCs is a smart notion, as is the bundling approach. The Wavefinder, a sort of 'soap on a rope' affair you stick to the wall behind your PC, is bigger than you expected from the pictures, but there are obvious advantages for Psion in presenting it with a simple USB connection that allows it to get display, control and power from the PC 'for free.' And when it ships in the UK in two weeks time it will be free, for people buying the right PCs from retail giant Dixons/PC World. That's a tempting bundle that should help Psion punch above its weight, and steal a march on Japan's electronics giants.
The broader revolutions, however, are more easily grasped when you consider what digital radio is, and the implications of it becoming a ubiquitous PC peripheral. Digital radio currently exists as high quality, multi-channel audio broadcasting (in Europe - the US seems to be two years behind, with an inferior system, again), but although that's cool, start thinking of digital radio as the ability to throw miscellaneous free broadband stuff at computer users everywhere and you see rather wider potential.
It can do pictures, hook into Web sites, it can broadcast Web sites. You can be listening to a song, decide you like it, find out the name of the band then just click through to a Web site to buy the CD. Or - the fatal, Napster-style flaw in the thinking of people who think they'll make money out of this - you can just record it directly into MP3 format. Or look at it from the point of view of the wireless network operators who've just coughed up tens of billions for their 3G licences.
Their thinking, as far as broadband wireless is concerned, has been that they'll be able to use their vast future bandwidth for music, video, multimedia, and that they'll be able to recoup their investment by charging for this. So imagine their surprise in recent months when they've 'discovered' a bunch of broadband wireless franchises that were sold for a song, and that are now in the hands of broadcast operations who're familiar with the concept of dishing out content for free.
Sounds kinda similar to what you want, if you live in Europe you're in luck
There must be a lot of unused BSB satellite dishes kicking around the UK worth practically zip by now Also with people dumping their old sky dishes for 'digi dishes' for sky digital pretty soon their will be a lot of old sky dishes going cheap Sod the weather, surely it would be worth setting up a network live this just for gaming and mirroring stuff like DVD decryption software maybe ?...
Nah I was more thinking Star Trek 25 th Aniversary with decent 3D graphics and proper character interaction.
sssh... Star Trek meets Diablo don't mention that idea, they might just 'make it so'
What a surprise another Star Trek meets Quake.
It looks like a cool game but falls into the two types of current sucessfull star trek license the Quake clone or the Star trek stragety game.
If they are just going to release endless Quake meets Star Trek clones it a bit of a shame.
What I'd love to see is a true role playing game using all this 3d technology based on the original Star Trek or NG. Surely all the stories and plotlines in those series are enough for a decent roleplayinggame.
Someone out there must be able to produce an intelligent Star Trek license ?
I've got a replacement gigabyteboard with a BX chipset in December of '99, it not a '96/97 original BX so I hoped it would support faster PIII's. The bus speed is configurable up to 133 mhz, so I was hoping that I could get away with getting a 1Ghz PIII in my existing motherboard. Strangely the manual only shows processor settings up to PIII 700 as examples so maybe your right about the 700 mhz limit. Damn those mobo manuals, no where does that mention a 700 mhz limit, but then again maybe I'm just stupid. P.s. wheres a good place to find more info on individual chipsets as I never trust the mobo manufacturers to provide unbiased info