For real. Also this guy did not unconditionally threaten them. He said he would do these things, if the company continued to send him unsolicited emails. Compliance is easily accomplished and negligible. If he doesn't win this, I will be seriously pissed off (anyone got anthrax, just kidding). But honestly, who in their right mind doesn't think this anyway when they get a barrage of unsolicited emails. The real sad part of this story is that the guy didn't actually go up there, and do these things. Kill em all, I say.
Thats nothing, on my flight on a 777 from DFW to Manchester. I was watching the nice three dimensional flight map on their huge display in the front of the craft. When all of a sudden, it pops up a nice stack trace, over the image. Thats right, the flight map crashed. That was very reassuring to say the least.
What more does a game need from that layer (SDL/DirectDraw layer), besides Framebuffer access? Also, I always thought OpenGL is a bit higher level than Direct3D since Direct3D quit promoting Retained mode operation for Immediate mode (unless they have done a reversal on this, I haven't checked the API docs since 7). And as far as the expense goes, you can just download a copy of Dev-C++ (MinGW C++ IDE) and SDL. And develop nice cross-platform capable apps.
They would barely need to care about porting with SDL, MinGW, and OpenGL either. Also, iD really drives the quality of OpenGL. OpenGL 2.0 support is in Doom3. Expect widespread OpenGL 2.0 support very soon in windows (although OpenGL 1.4 with Shading Language, is about as powerful).
Also, doesn't anybody else wonder why these game companies aren't just using SDL, OpenGL, and MinGW environment. There would be almost nothing to port.
All I have to say is: I'm glad I switched away from Microsoft to avoid the Microsoft tax of $100 every 2 years, so I can now pay the Transgaming tax of $5 per month * 12 months/year * 2 years = $120.... doh!
Legal insurance, eh? Well, why not. They're customers. Not that the customers should get sued in the first place, but our (Americas) system is flawed. Also, the jBoss Geronimo issue is blown out of proportion. But only by people not involved with either side. Geronimo is working with jBoss to remove all offending code. Look for one second at the apache incubator mailing list and you will see that is blatantly obvious.
Man this pisses me off. I proposed this idea on slashdot, about 5 months ago, as an alternative to patents. I wish I could find that link. But anyways, I just wish they'd give me some credit.
So if the sun is shooting out "billions of tonnes" of gas into space, how does this effect how long the sun is going to remain alive? I'm guessing since it just lost one-billionth-billionth of its mass. That 1 billionth-billionth of its life span is now gone.
I was almost impressed by this, until I read up on the technology on their website. It will have a pretty limited use as it only has 8-bit precision vector/matrix MAC which is where the 8 teraflops come from. This will be fine and all for just video but it isn't much of a quantum leap for anything else (besides having an optical core). I mean it has power, but there are other chips out there that do more with greater precision numbers.
The only thing I find disturbing here is Microsoft's claims of being the first to an Object OS which is capable of natural language search. I do believe Gnome beat them to that by quite a bit, and Gnome is free. Now is the time to kick linux into gear. Longhorn looks like the ultimate lock in machine if you ask me, and if Linux doesn't start de-eliting their tools (read not starting all the program names with a K and not giving every program a retarded almost unrelated acronym name) then microsoft will clobber linux, yet again, right when linux popularity has just started to really rise. Man we could use a linux TV promo right about now.
It doesn't matter what you do to code as far as watermarking goes. If the watermarking method is publicly known than it can be easily changed anyways too look like it was watermarked by someone else. For instance you could watermark your code by having variable length whitespace before your comments or something. But that could easily be changed.
If you still measure the caliber of a video card in how many quadrillions of frames per second you can get, then you are messed up. You should be looking at the feature set, and seeing if it still maintains the minimum 60fps.
That would require the remote authentication service to have the same synchronized times (to the precision of the time declaration), and it would also require the knowledge of the salt by the end user as a third credential. Furthermore, the enumeration through possible human memorable salts along with the dictionary makes it still susceptible to dictionary attacks. Because even though it is salted with the time and a number the time can be recorded and the number can be brute forced along with the password. I would suggest looking at srp.stanford.edu for a secure password passing mechanism.
First of all, depending upon the constraints placed upon the system it may not. Secondly, a cow can learn, I don't see people offering legal representation for the herds of cows being slaughtered. Also, if it gets to the point of being "sentient" enough to not want to be put down, I'm sure that it would also be at a point where there would be no reason to want to shut it down, but to evolve it instead.
This is also susceptible to dictionary attack. Scenario:
Man in the middle intercepts your authentication message. Stores it in memory then runs the same salt on a dictionary. No problem.
It seems the issue here is not as much of performance, but of manufacturers essentially given the blessing of only releasing drivers for win32, and leave the responsibility of writing a wrapper lib up to the linux hackers. I personally would much rather see an adapter for linux drivers for windows. Or at least something like what Qt does for portable GUI, *new framework* does for portable drivers.
An AI is what you design it to be. I don't even see how this can be an issue. An AI won't plea for it not to be shutdown if you don't design the urge to stay on.
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For real. Also this guy did not unconditionally threaten them. He said he would do these things, if the company continued to send him unsolicited emails. Compliance is easily accomplished and negligible. If he doesn't win this, I will be seriously pissed off (anyone got anthrax, just kidding). But honestly, who in their right mind doesn't think this anyway when they get a barrage of unsolicited emails. The real sad part of this story is that the guy didn't actually go up there, and do these things. Kill em all, I say.
Because it would die on freenet within a couple of hours. Freenet only works for stuff that is actually requested often.
That and they don't expose shit besides a file name. Unless somebody is looking for you exact song, they aren't going to know you exist.
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You can go around pointing them at entire gangs from a rooftop, and watch them jump to the ground.
Thats nothing, on my flight on a 777 from DFW to Manchester. I was watching the nice three dimensional flight map on their huge display in the front of the craft. When all of a sudden, it pops up a nice stack trace, over the image. Thats right, the flight map crashed. That was very reassuring to say the least.
What more does a game need from that layer (SDL/DirectDraw layer), besides Framebuffer access? Also, I always thought OpenGL is a bit higher level than Direct3D since Direct3D quit promoting Retained mode operation for Immediate mode (unless they have done a reversal on this, I haven't checked the API docs since 7). And as far as the expense goes, you can just download a copy of Dev-C++ (MinGW C++ IDE) and SDL. And develop nice cross-platform capable apps.
They would barely need to care about porting with SDL, MinGW, and OpenGL either. Also, iD really drives the quality of OpenGL. OpenGL 2.0 support is in Doom3. Expect widespread OpenGL 2.0 support very soon in windows (although OpenGL 1.4 with Shading Language, is about as powerful).
Also, doesn't anybody else wonder why these game companies aren't just using SDL, OpenGL, and MinGW environment. There would be almost nothing to port.
All I have to say is: I'm glad I switched away from Microsoft to avoid the Microsoft tax of $100 every 2 years, so I can now pay the Transgaming tax of $5 per month * 12 months/year * 2 years = $120.... doh!
Legal insurance, eh? Well, why not. They're customers. Not that the customers should get sued in the first place, but our (Americas) system is flawed. Also, the jBoss Geronimo issue is blown out of proportion. But only by people not involved with either side. Geronimo is working with jBoss to remove all offending code. Look for one second at the apache incubator mailing list and you will see that is blatantly obvious.
Man this pisses me off. I proposed this idea on slashdot, about 5 months ago, as an alternative to patents. I wish I could find that link. But anyways, I just wish they'd give me some credit.
So if the sun is shooting out "billions of tonnes" of gas into space, how does this effect how long the sun is going to remain alive? I'm guessing since it just lost one-billionth-billionth of its mass. That 1 billionth-billionth of its life span is now gone.
I hope it goes the way of Netscape. Opensource.
I was almost impressed by this, until I read up on the technology on their website. It will have a pretty limited use as it only has 8-bit precision vector/matrix MAC which is where the 8 teraflops come from. This will be fine and all for just video but it isn't much of a quantum leap for anything else (besides having an optical core). I mean it has power, but there are other chips out there that do more with greater precision numbers.
No, Microsoft develops some Mac software correct?
The only thing I find disturbing here is Microsoft's claims of being the first to an Object OS which is capable of natural language search. I do believe Gnome beat them to that by quite a bit, and Gnome is free. Now is the time to kick linux into gear. Longhorn looks like the ultimate lock in machine if you ask me, and if Linux doesn't start de-eliting their tools (read not starting all the program names with a K and not giving every program a retarded almost unrelated acronym name) then microsoft will clobber linux, yet again, right when linux popularity has just started to really rise. Man we could use a linux TV promo right about now.
It doesn't matter what you do to code as far as watermarking goes. If the watermarking method is publicly known than it can be easily changed anyways too look like it was watermarked by someone else. For instance you could watermark your code by having variable length whitespace before your comments or something. But that could easily be changed.
If you still measure the caliber of a video card in how many quadrillions of frames per second you can get, then you are messed up. You should be looking at the feature set, and seeing if it still maintains the minimum 60fps.
That would require the remote authentication service to have the same synchronized times (to the precision of the time declaration), and it would also require the knowledge of the salt by the end user as a third credential. Furthermore, the enumeration through possible human memorable salts along with the dictionary makes it still susceptible to dictionary attacks. Because even though it is salted with the time and a number the time can be recorded and the number can be brute forced along with the password. I would suggest looking at srp.stanford.edu for a secure password passing mechanism.
First of all, depending upon the constraints placed upon the system it may not. Secondly, a cow can learn, I don't see people offering legal representation for the herds of cows being slaughtered. Also, if it gets to the point of being "sentient" enough to not want to be put down, I'm sure that it would also be at a point where there would be no reason to want to shut it down, but to evolve it instead.
This is also susceptible to dictionary attack. Scenario:
Man in the middle intercepts your authentication message. Stores it in memory then runs the same salt on a dictionary. No problem.
It seems the issue here is not as much of performance, but of manufacturers essentially given the blessing of only releasing drivers for win32, and leave the responsibility of writing a wrapper lib up to the linux hackers. I personally would much rather see an adapter for linux drivers for windows. Or at least something like what Qt does for portable GUI, *new framework* does for portable drivers.
An AI is what you design it to be. I don't even see how this can be an issue. An AI won't plea for it not to be shutdown if you don't design the urge to stay on.
If you are actually referring to email and not snail mail, then the file encoding process takes up 133% of the original, without the MIME Headers.