They really do *everything* right. - Release the source of old games. - Port to Linux/Mac/BeOS/Irix. - Piss of Microsoft by using OpenGL.;) - Make decent games. - And now, do SMP.
Me like ID Software. Great people do great things.
Some people dismiss news like this as being made up by loony conspiracy-theorists. Sure, a lot of the stuff you hear about the NSA is not true, but you'd be fool to claim that it's all BS.
The NSA budget is estimated to be around 5 billion USD - that buys a shitload hardware and bandwith, i bet the not all of that bandwith is used for reading/. and viewing porn. NSA employs ten's of thousands of people (35000-50000), i bet they aren't all gardeners.
Here a couple of excerpts from the NSA's about-page - "It is said that NSA is one of the largest employers of mathematicians in the United States and perhaps the world. Mathematicians at NSA contribute directly to the two missions of the Agency: they help design cipher systems that will protect the integrity of U.S. information systems while others search for weaknesses in adversaries' codes." - "The NSA/CSS is responsible for the centralized coordination, direction, and performance of highly specialized technical functions in support of U.S. Government activities to protect U.S. information systems and produce foreign intelligence information."
btw check what they say about passphrases: Note that the passphrase in our example is not a common phrase, such as a quote, a song lyric, or a general exclamation that could be compromised via hacker "brute-force" attacks.
Just lost my faith in these guys, real security experts should know the difference between brute-force and dictionary attacks.
The problem isn't the amount of IP addresses, what it really comes down to is efficient routing. Lets say for example that IP 2.2.2.2 belongs to some dude in Norway. So route all packets that have 2.2.2.2 as destination to Norway. How about IP 2.2.2.3 then? Let's give it a university in Malaysia. Now routers have to know exatly where the holder of each IP lives. They have to scan every packet and compare its IP to a BIG database of locations. Needles to say, this would be very slow.
So how do 128bit-addresses help? Well, we can make a deal that the first 8 bits mark the country. Now the router needs to scan only the first 8 bits and compare it to small database to determine where to send the packet. When the packet reaches the right country, next 8 bits are checked. These 8 bits could mean the state/province/whatever. Then scan 16 bits to determine the correct city. This way you can narrow down the search step by step until the packet has been delivered. Simple and fast.
Well doh. They try to make money - that's what _ALL_ commercial companies do. Do you really think companies like RedHat and VA Reaserch are in it just beacause they want to "contiribute to the Linux community"? Glide wrappers - of course 3dfx wants to stop wrappes that hurt theit business, it is their responsibility towards shareholders. Nothing 3Dfx has done is illegal or immoral, so stop whining.
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..but were you like born yesterday? It happens all the time, nothing special about it.
Microsoft has a huge research department and they really do a shitload of research when they are making hardware or designing user interfaces. Too bad they never do research about the correlation between customer happiness and software stability.
No hurry, let the project take its time. If the developers start to consentrate on release dates instead of good, clean code, we will end up with a slow, unstable browser. You know - like all other browsers to date.
If you are in a hurry, you can allways buy Winblows and install MSIE5...
A 14 year old kid shoots seven people, people ask why. Sure it is a very important question, but howcome no one is asking how. How did this kid get a hold of a loaded gun?
Skinka needs to get a clue, before he sides with Intels offering he should look at whats out there.
Ok. Lets look at what is out there. See any K7's? - I bet not. I know all about the K7 and am a big fan of it. I also know the that there aren't any in stores, in fact, AMD said just yesterday that the K7 will ship late. Whatever AMD will do in the future don't mean squat if you need a fast system now.
in 4-way configurations, that is. AMD's offering suck even more. The cache is too small and slow. For 4-way SMP you really need a Xeon, but noboby can afford even one of those babies. Tell you the truth, I don't even know if 4-way SMP is possible with the P2, but even if is, you shouldn't get one. Sorry.
"The most significant change involves moderators posting comments and moderating within the same discussion. This is no longer possible. If you post a comment in a forum, you can no longer moderate. More so, if you moderate, and then post a comment, all of your moderation will be undone."
Give people some credit. This would hurt the most active members of the slashdot cummunity. Emphasis on the word cummunity, because that's what/. is really all about for many of us. There are people who want to make this site better, and I for one think we should reward them, not punish.
Call me pervert, but I actually enjoyed reading all those reports about Melissa spreading and knoking out mail systems;)
Seriously, I think this is kinda Microsofts fault. It is a fact of life, that if something can be missused, it will. And what measures does Microsoft take to prevent the missuse of Word and Excel macros? None. Of course, technically it isn't their fault, but I think it's clear that MS should fix the HUGE security holes in Office and Windows.
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They really do *everything* right. ;)
- Release the source of old games.
- Port to Linux/Mac/BeOS/Irix.
- Piss of Microsoft by using OpenGL.
- Make decent games.
- And now, do SMP.
Me like ID Software. Great people do great things.
Some people dismiss news like this as being made up by loony conspiracy-theorists. Sure, a lot of the stuff you hear about the NSA is not true, but you'd be fool to claim that it's all BS.
/. and viewing porn. NSA employs ten's of thousands of people (35000-50000), i bet they aren't all gardeners.
The NSA budget is estimated to be around 5 billion USD - that buys a shitload hardware and bandwith, i bet the not all of that bandwith is used for reading
Here a couple of excerpts from the NSA's about-page
- "It is said that NSA is one of the largest employers of mathematicians in the United States and perhaps the world. Mathematicians at NSA contribute directly to the two missions of the Agency: they help design cipher systems that will protect the integrity of U.S. information systems while others search for weaknesses in adversaries' codes."
- "The NSA/CSS is responsible for the centralized coordination, direction, and performance of highly specialized technical functions in support of U.S. Government activities to protect U.S. information systems and produce foreign intelligence information."
Now, what do you think the NSA does?
My browser is unstable enough as it is.
btw check what they say about passphrases: Note that the passphrase in our example is not a common phrase, such as a quote, a song lyric, or a general exclamation that could be compromised via hacker "brute-force" attacks.
Just lost my faith in these guys, real security experts should know the difference between brute-force and dictionary attacks.
only 10% of all available ip addresses are used
The problem isn't the amount of IP addresses, what it really comes down to is efficient routing. Lets say for example that IP 2.2.2.2 belongs to some dude in Norway. So route all packets that have 2.2.2.2 as destination to Norway. How about IP 2.2.2.3 then? Let's give it a university in Malaysia. Now routers have to know exatly where the holder of each IP lives. They have to scan every packet and compare its IP to a BIG database of locations. Needles to say, this would be very slow.
So how do 128bit-addresses help? Well, we can make a deal that the first 8 bits mark the country. Now the router needs to scan only the first 8 bits and compare it to small database to determine where to send the packet. When the packet reaches the right country, next 8 bits are checked. These 8 bits could mean the state/province/whatever. Then scan 16 bits to determine the correct city. This way you can narrow down the search step by step until the packet has been delivered. Simple and fast.
They are merely attempting to exploit it.
Well doh. They try to make money - that's what _ALL_ commercial companies do. Do you really think companies like RedHat and VA Reaserch are in it just beacause they want to "contiribute to the Linux community"? Glide wrappers - of course 3dfx wants to stop wrappes that hurt theit business, it is their responsibility towards shareholders. Nothing 3Dfx has done is illegal or immoral, so stop whining.
..but were you like born yesterday? It happens all the time, nothing special about it.
Microsoft has a huge research department and they really do a shitload of research when they are making hardware or designing user interfaces. Too bad they never do research about the correlation between customer happiness and software stability.
Read the fu**ing press release. The mouse will come in two flavours - USB and PS/2.
No hurry, let the project take its time. If the developers start to consentrate on release dates instead of good, clean code, we will end up with a slow, unstable browser. You know - like all other browsers to date.
If you are in a hurry, you can allways buy Winblows and install MSIE5...
A 14 year old kid shoots seven people, people ask why. Sure it is a very important question, but howcome no one is asking how. How did this kid get a hold of a loaded gun?
I am 18 and I have never even seen a gun.
Skinka needs to get a clue, before he sides with Intels offering he should look at whats out there.
Ok. Lets look at what is out there. See any K7's? - I bet not. I know all about the K7 and am a big fan of it. I also know the that there aren't any in stores, in fact, AMD said just yesterday that the K7 will ship late. Whatever AMD will do in the future don't mean squat if you need a fast system now.
in 4-way configurations, that is. AMD's offering suck even more. The cache is too small and slow. For 4-way SMP you really need a Xeon, but noboby can afford even one of those babies. Tell you the truth, I don't even know if 4-way SMP is possible with the P2, but even if is, you shouldn't get one. Sorry.
"The most significant change involves moderators posting comments and moderating within the same discussion. This is no longer possible. If you post a comment in a forum, you can no longer moderate. More so, if you moderate, and then post a comment, all of your moderation will be undone."
/. is really all about for many of us. There are people who want to make this site better, and I for one think we should reward them, not punish.
Give people some credit. This would hurt the most active members of the slashdot cummunity. Emphasis on the word cummunity, because that's what
Call me pervert, but I actually enjoyed reading all those reports about Melissa spreading and knoking out mail systems ;)
Seriously, I think this is kinda Microsofts fault. It is a fact of life, that if something can be missused, it will. And what measures does Microsoft take to prevent the missuse of Word and Excel macros? None. Of course, technically it isn't their fault, but I think it's clear that MS should fix the HUGE security holes in Office and Windows.
This is good news for Bill. It helps MS to prove
that there is competion and that DOJ's monopoly
accusations are wrong. Damn.
All you need is the 3M gel-filled wrist rest
(model WR512). I so love this thing.
Works just fine. I haven't actually tried it
with 2.2.0 yet, but it worked with 2.0.36.
Don't see any reason why it wouldn't work
with the 2.2-series.
I have both Linux and Windows, so I prefer to
use Loadlin & DOS-bootmenu combo. Looks nicer.