glDoom was closed source. Naturally, the guy developing glDoom had no backups. And as history has show many times, if you don't do backups, your hard drive will fail. Pretty dumb mistake if you ask me (or anyone else).. The development died.
If glDoom would have been GPL, the odds are that atleast a few people would have had relatively up to date sources, and development could have been continued.
Not a big loss though, DooM Legacy is much better anyway.
This kind of campaing probably won't stop the people who just download hacking tools and blindly apply them on every site until one falls. There are just too many a-holes like that round.
Here's an alternative idea: how about teaching hacker ethics? IMHO we need more "good hackers" who after finding a hole, publish it without first fucking up some website with dumb slogans and pr0n. Of course, the targer group should be a littele more mature (13, even 14-year olds;-).
First of all, Tiberian Sun is out now, while Warcraft 3 "is expected to release by the end of 2000". That's a whole year (plus possible delays). If consider the (way too short, IMHO) lifespan of games, most people propably won't even remember C&C2 a year from know.
Second, the game seems to be very different from C&C2. Tiberian Sun brings nothing new to the genre, while WC3 looks (allmost) revolutionary. It's offcourse impossible to tell from a press release and screenshot, if Warcraft 3 will be any better than lets say Battlezone (2), but it sure seems better than C&C2. This is kinda like asking if Midtown Madness will hurt the sales of Q3A.
My experience with X's Voodoo3 support has been little discouraging. I really love the VESA framebuffer -console, but that allways produces some weird shit on the screen (mouse cursor to be more specific. Some times the cursor totally disapears, sometimes it's just a black square, sometimes (I could go on and on)... Also, if I've used windows before I start linux (with loadlin), I get similar problems. I don't know if 3.9.x has these problems, but 3.4.x sure does.
- "So Mr. xxxx of management, how much damage did Melissa inflict?" - "We estimate that Melissa cost us about 100 000 000 USD" - "A hundred million? How?" - "Um..well, we recieved a lot of bogus e-mail." - "$100 000 000 for that?" - "erm..uh.. Oh yeah, our mail server crashed twice so we had to reboot it a couple of times. That's pretty expensive, you know."
Descent is still a very cool game. Sure the graphics are a bit outdated but it's not in any way an ugly game. Put a modern 3D-engine on Descent 1/2 and you have a winner. Descent 3 has a modern 3D-engine - but the game itself sucks really bad. The cool atmosphere of D1/2 is gone, Descent 3 is seriously boring. I played the demo for 15 mins and then deleted it. It's a decent looking game with outrageous hardware requirements (K6-2@400 + Voodoo3 = slow) and absolutety no future.
If you saw this weeks ago, why the hell didn't you submit it? It's so easy to say "Boring, I saw this last week", but apparently the task of submitting a story is overwhelming to c00l folks like you.
Salesperson: "You can get W2K only by renting it." Customer: "But I'd much rather just buy it." Salesperson: "You can get W2K only by renting it." Customer: "You stupid moron, I DON'T WANT TO RENT IT!". Salesperson: "You can get W2K only by renting it." Customer:"Jesus.. One please."
Keyword bad gives 5,282,140 matches when entered at simple search. Use advanced search and you get only 3,003,929 matches. What the hell.. Am I missing something obvious?
Every one seems to think that unions are not neccecary, I disagree. Unions could fight the 100 hour work weeks that are just killing some workers (go read that hitech sweatshop story). You might get paid a lot even without the help of unions, but there really is more to it than just the amount of money you make.
1. Remove the polarised panel that is on top of the actual lcd screen. (may not easy or even possible) 2. Buy polarised sunglasses. 3. Surf to playboy.com
This can also be done with calculators and digital watches etc. (I've done it)
..this is the/. - here everybody wins several cookies! Just look at your cookies.txt: sexual orientation, visa number, religion, etc. it's all there! God bless you Rob.
You need 4k by 4k resolution only if you are a professional photographer. One or two megapixels is enough for most people.
What i really dislike about digital cameras is storage (or lack of it), you can only store a few hiqh quality pictures in the flash memory of the camera. With a tradional camera you get 24 or so pictures without compromising quality. 24 may not be that much but atleast you can change the film. Sure, you can allways buy flash cards for a digital camera, but that costs a damn lot more than a roll of film.
Wouldn't it be better to build a multi register CPU similar to MMX but on a scale in the thousands?
Intresting idea, but it does have it's flaws. For one, designing a new CPU is _really_ expensive. And as you add more parallelism, it gets even more complicated and expensive (look at Merced). The market for such CPUs would be very small, maybe a few hudred per year. As you may have noticed, even supercomputers are made as cheap as possible these days (eg. beowolf).
Needless to say, there would also be many technical difficulties. Feeding thousands of registers would require a very wide memory arcitecture, a few thousand bits might be a good start. I sure wouldn't want be the engineer responsible for designing a mobo for those CPUs..
Few architectural problems also. SIMD can be used effectively only when there is one operation that is done to a big array of data. eg you have an array of 1024 bytes, and you want to increase the value of each byte by one. However, not all code is like this. You might want to inrease the value of the first elemnt by one, the second element by two and so on. MMX just became useless, there is no paralelism here. Now we have a CPU that is working at a fraction of its full potential: of the 2000 or so registers, only two are used. There is other stuff too, but I lazy so..
Unrestricted use, but not unrestricted distribution. Germany is bound by the wassenaar thingy, so export restrictions will remain. Well, atleast it's a (small) step in the right direction.
Distilled water does not conduct electricity, so theoretically the exact same thing could be done with water. There would be problems with corrosion, but surely the system would last a couple of days?
To me this is not news. I really have had no doughts about the existanse of echelon, but reading this makes me sad. No - it makes me mad. I'm _really_ pissed off at these people. Personally I don't feel very theatened - I have nothing to hide. But somehow I really can't tolerate the idea of economic espionage. Economic espionage == breakint the law for money. Money - The worst reason of all. It literally makes me sick.
I know this redundant and will propably get moderated down, but I just had to get it out of my system. Thank you for your patience.
Why should one waste time by explaining why he/she moderated a comment? I think it's pretty obvious: if a moderator likes a comment, he/she will moderate it up, really crappy comments go down. I just don't see any need for further explaining. Adding too many "bells and whistles" will ultimately make things too complicated
I especially dislike the offtopic-option. There is a great risk that some very good comments get moderated down just because they are just a tad offtopic.
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glDoom was closed source. Naturally, the guy developing glDoom had no backups. And as history has show many times, if you don't do backups, your hard drive will fail. Pretty dumb mistake if you ask me (or anyone else).. The development died.
If glDoom would have been GPL, the odds are that atleast a few people would have had relatively up to date sources, and development could have been continued.
Not a big loss though, DooM Legacy is much better anyway.
This kind of campaing probably won't stop the people who just download hacking tools and blindly apply them on every site until one falls. There are just too many a-holes like that round.
Here's an alternative idea: how about teaching hacker ethics? IMHO we need more "good hackers" who after finding a hole, publish it without first fucking up some website with dumb slogans and pr0n. Of course, the targer group should be a littele more mature (13, even 14-year olds ;-).
I bet the very first "first post" post was both cool and funny. Glory for him who inveted it (and a kick in the ass for those who copied it).
Why doesn't transmeta have a decent webpage?
Why don't they have any products?
Howcome only a couple of patents?
Why no press releases?
Trust me on this, they're just too darn busy playing q3a..
Athlon (K7) uses the EV6 bus, while 21364 CPUs and motherboards use EV7.
First of all, Tiberian Sun is out now, while Warcraft 3 "is expected to release by the end of 2000". That's a whole year (plus possible delays). If consider the (way too short, IMHO) lifespan of games, most people propably won't even remember C&C2 a year from know.
Second, the game seems to be very different from C&C2. Tiberian Sun brings nothing new to the genre, while WC3 looks (allmost) revolutionary. It's offcourse impossible to tell from a press release and screenshot, if Warcraft 3 will be any better than lets say Battlezone (2), but it sure seems better than C&C2. This is kinda like asking if Midtown Madness will hurt the sales of Q3A.
My experience with X's Voodoo3 support has been little discouraging. I really love the VESA framebuffer -console, but that allways produces some weird shit on the screen (mouse cursor to be more specific. Some times the cursor totally disapears, sometimes it's just a black square, sometimes (I could go on and on)... Also, if I've used windows before I start linux (with loadlin), I get similar problems. I don't know if 3.9.x has these problems, but 3.4.x sure does.
- "So Mr. xxxx of management, how much damage did Melissa inflict?"
- "We estimate that Melissa cost us about 100 000 000 USD"
- "A hundred million? How?"
- "Um..well, we recieved a lot of bogus e-mail."
- "$100 000 000 for that?"
- "erm..uh.. Oh yeah, our mail server crashed twice so we had to reboot it a couple of times. That's pretty expensive, you know."
..Security trough stupidity. Way to go Microsoft.
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I wonder if Wine will run the
Descent is still a very cool game. Sure the graphics are a bit outdated but it's not in any way an ugly game. Put a modern 3D-engine on Descent 1/2 and you have a winner. Descent 3 has a modern 3D-engine - but the game itself sucks really bad. The cool atmosphere of D1/2 is gone, Descent 3 is seriously boring. I played the demo for 15 mins and then deleted it. It's a decent looking game with outrageous hardware requirements (K6-2@400 + Voodoo3 = slow) and absolutety no future.
If you saw this weeks ago, why the hell didn't you submit it? It's so easy to say "Boring, I saw this last week", but apparently the task of submitting a story is overwhelming to c00l folks like you.
Salesperson: "You can get W2K only by renting it."
Customer: "But I'd much rather just buy it."
Salesperson: "You can get W2K only by renting it."
Customer: "You stupid moron, I DON'T WANT TO RENT IT!".
Salesperson: "You can get W2K only by renting it."
Customer:"Jesus.. One please."
Keyword bad gives 5,282,140 matches when entered at simple search. Use advanced search and you get only 3,003,929 matches. What the hell.. Am I missing something obvious?
TIME's Person of the Century is that person who, for better or worse, most influenced the course of history over the past 100 years.
I bet Rabin has had a lot more votes than the poll suggests - I mean, who can write "Yitzhak" without tyops?-)
Every one seems to think that unions are not neccecary, I disagree. Unions could fight the 100 hour work weeks that are just killing some workers (go read that hitech sweatshop story). You might get paid a lot even without the help of unions, but there really is more to it than just the amount of money you make.
1. Remove the polarised panel that is on top of the actual lcd screen. (may not easy or even possible)
2. Buy polarised sunglasses.
3. Surf to playboy.com
This can also be done with calculators and digital watches etc. (I've done it)
Finally something to replace Y2K in the end-of-the-world-is-here arena!
ping slashdot.org
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"Oh shit, it's raining again!"
..this is the /. - here everybody wins several cookies! Just look at your cookies.txt: sexual orientation, visa number, religion, etc. it's all there! God bless you Rob.
You need 4k by 4k resolution only if you are a professional photographer. One or two megapixels is enough for most people.
What i really dislike about digital cameras is storage (or lack of it), you can only store a few hiqh quality pictures in the flash memory of the camera. With a tradional camera you get 24 or so pictures without compromising quality. 24 may not be that much but atleast you can change the film. Sure, you can allways buy flash cards for a digital camera, but that costs a damn lot more than a roll of film.
Wouldn't it be better to build a multi register CPU similar to MMX but on a scale in the thousands?
Intresting idea, but it does have it's flaws. For one, designing a new CPU is _really_ expensive. And as you add more parallelism, it gets even more complicated and expensive (look at Merced). The market for such CPUs would be very small, maybe a few hudred per year. As you may have noticed, even supercomputers are made as cheap as possible these days (eg. beowolf).
Needless to say, there would also be many technical difficulties. Feeding thousands of registers would require a very wide memory arcitecture, a few thousand bits might be a good start. I sure wouldn't want be the engineer responsible for designing a mobo for those CPUs..
Few architectural problems also. SIMD can be used effectively only when there is one operation that is done to a big array of data. eg you have an array of 1024 bytes, and you want to increase the value of each byte by one. However, not all code is like this. You might want to inrease the value of the first elemnt by one, the second element by two and so on. MMX just became useless, there is no paralelism here. Now we have a CPU that is working at a fraction of its full potential: of the 2000 or so registers, only two are used. There is other stuff too, but I lazy so..
Unrestricted use, but not unrestricted distribution. Germany is bound by the wassenaar thingy, so export restrictions will remain. Well, atleast it's a (small) step in the right direction.
Distilled water does not conduct electricity, so theoretically the exact same thing could be done with water. There would be problems with corrosion, but surely the system would last a couple of days?
So Dr. Freeze, how about it?-)To me this is not news. I really have had no doughts about the existanse of echelon, but reading this makes me sad. No - it makes me mad. I'm _really_ pissed off at these people. Personally I don't feel very theatened - I have nothing to hide. But somehow I really can't tolerate the idea of economic espionage. Economic espionage == breakint the law for money. Money - The worst reason of all. It literally makes me sick.
I know this redundant and will propably get moderated down, but I just had to get it out of my system. Thank you for your patience.
Why should one waste time by explaining why he/she moderated a comment? I think it's pretty obvious: if a moderator likes a comment, he/she will moderate it up, really crappy comments go down. I just don't see any need for further explaining. Adding too many "bells and whistles" will ultimately make things too complicated
I especially dislike the offtopic-option. There is a great risk that some very good comments get moderated down just because they are just a tad offtopic.