Yeah well, doing this sort of thing will just be classified as terrorism at some point anyways. And chances the gov't will just bring up random nodes (or participants) in this p2p network thing to trial in order to scare people off from future usage. It won't work. Anyways, you couldn't trust a tool like this too anyone. I don't know why its even being discussed.
Give me a break. A digital demonstration will never get noticed as much as a physical one. Geeks, if you want something done get off your ass and get up there. Anyways, this sounds dangerously similar to eMail bombing someone, which I'm sure won't get you noticed in a positive way. Oooh, just annoy them to death. Sure, exact letter repetition gets you noticed. I know I open up every copy of the Nigerian money scam I get (*sarcasm folks*). Anyways, this story is boring. I'm moving on.
Oh yeah, and do I know you? I'll just assume that the odds of somebody else from Norman actually posting a reply to one of my 40 or so posts on slashdot would be extremely low.
I didn't realize there were any clubs down here in Norman, OK. I know city hall was trying to establish the abandoned food lion on 12th as kind of a club/gym/restaurant kind of deal (don't ask me, it was the brain-child of the people who own Sooner Fitness), but other than that I was aware of no others. But then again, maybe its because I've been out of the social pipeline too long because of all the video games I play;-):-P. My uniqueness I think is purely dictated by my DNA. In other words I'm 99.9999% the same as every other person, damn. Anyways, nice to see a fellow Normanite (I feel your pain:-P), assuming you really do live in Norman, on/. .
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You are dumb. Your eyeball does not shoot light out of it, and thusly you cannot measure within any kind of reason the amount of time it takes for light to get there and back, divide by two, and then find the distance by taking the speed of light and dividing it by that time. It just doesn't work that way bucko. Also we cannot detect if the light coming from one object is in the same phase as another object. Our eyeballs only detect frequency. See my above post. I hate ignorance. And I especially hate ignorance when it poses as intelligence. Even if they are trolling.
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OK, I closed my eye. My conclusion: The only reason you can perceive depth when one eye is closed is because your brain recognizes the visual cues inherent in the motions of the objects around you as a result of your relative movement to them, i.e. parallax. This along with the eyes natural ranging ability achieved through focusing incoming light on the retina. Also, your brain has other mechanisms for checking relative distance to an object and attaching depth from things such as: intersections with flat surfaces and shadows on the object and objects around them, but these things are not usually developed in the brain to an automatic degree because parallax and focus do such a nice job. Unless of course you are one of these "mono"s that I see posting everywhere on here, then I'm sure the brain adapts and acquires a bit of depth information from those other catagories. Now, if we really wanted some kind of awesome 3d monitor that looked great from every angle and allowed the eye the ability to focus on far off objects (which IMHO would be far more natural) we would probably need about 100 times the density of pixels. For every point you see on the screen you would have to define a ray partitioning mechanism (lets call it per element spherical resolution for fun) to determine how many individual light cones each point would shoot out of it. For a basic reconstruction of a scene to look good from most any angle on a standard sized monitor I would think it would probably have to consist of about 100 rays per point (this is not a constant though it should be directly proportional to the distance from the screen in order to keep the perceived ray density higher), where each ray points in a unique direction which is uniformly distanced from the others, but is always out of the screen (this is all per pixel). Micro$oft's (ooh dare I say that name in a positive manner on slashdot) R&D department has been developing this sort of technology (albeit not for monitors but more like for dynamic focus elements and complex 3d image reconstruction using simple ray maps on invisible cubes) for a while now. I would suggest checking out their site if you really want to know how vision or optics in general work. They have some nice white papers on it.
You know you make quite a few good points there. Except for the fact that books are supposed to be in a sequence, games are supposed to be interactive (i.e. non-linear). Unfortunately this is almost never the case. A game should challenge you, not occupy all of your time to meet one ultimate goal. Because you know you feel very little satisfaction until you beat the game. Well, just think of all that time you wasted just playing the stupid thing, just for the bragging rights to say, "I beat it." Of course, I agree on the fact that pieces of media like this are just used in society as conversational pieces to establish commonality of interests, but when its such a small cliche that actually plays it, maybe you should start reevaluating what a good use of your time is. There is a reason why people watch football, and its not because its interesting (oooh look at the ball go, give me a break). Its because it is a communal event. People come together and everyone reinforces each other, which illicits positive responses in the brain. While at the same time, it gives people the ability to dominate over the people cheering for the other team (assuming their team is winning) so its like a double dose of dopamine for them:-P. Anyways, people act like they like things that make them seem unique, when they don't realize that the only things they actually like are what their culture has implanted in their brain as being good. People don't realize how big a drone they really are.
Well, kudos to Square. But all I can say is that they lost my money after FF7. That whole genre has just been hit too much for me to ever waste any more of my time on it. Once novel, actually fun, games start coming out again for the PC which require the stupid GF4, then I will be pissed. Talk to me then. Square Soft, is just a drop in the bucket.
Square got some people hooked on the graphics in FF7, and some stayed with it, talking about how great the game was just because it had some nice videos and was kind of dark. I think the whole Final Fantasy series (at least these newer ones) are just big marketing ploys to begin with, riding on the success of its past, and just drawing people in with its sparkly graphics and stereotypical epic movie soundtrack in the commercials, giving the viewer a sense of grandeur and a purpose for the people with no lives. Its all just a big marketing gimmick. But I suppose just about everything these days is. Entertainment has been abstracted to its most raw, cheaply mass produced, generically marketed, and easily unoriginal pieces of multimedia feedback tripe influenced from what the majority of our society registers in their mind as a good use of time, but only because it throws up certain characteristics and not because it is entirely a good game. People just play it because they know people play it, and because it has been established that certain characteristics present in the game are repeatedly established as positive characteristics in games by our culture. Also, you say it has some kind of artistic merit and people jump all over it thinking that somehow they are "cooler" than everyone else because they play a video game thats kind of artistic, sort of. You are no better than a spectator. You have no place in the game beyond the set of impulses traveling between the logic gates in the CPU. You are not actually living it, you are replaying it at your own pace. I can't believe people still play this game or games like them. Our society is either sick or stupid. Judging by the majority of articles on slashdot, I would say both.
1/ you would have to get adobe to port photoshop all over again
(photoshop is a carbon app and has lots of PowerPC asm still in the mac version)
I'm sure photoshop is written in 99.9% c++ with only a very small minority of the code written in assembler. Seeing as how they use LEAD tools as their library for doing just about everything I would think the switch would just be dependant on how quickly this toolset is ported and would have very little to do with adobe itself.
2/you would have to have an emulator not only for PowerPC but all the OS interfaces much like running VMware with the whole OS
(although VMware approach is of emulating the whole machine you could shortcut it as you only have limited amount to emulate)
Assuming they keep the same libraries for backwards compatability, this could require as little as a recompile for a different target machine (might need to adjust how it packs the datatypes in the parameters, but other than that I couldn't really think of much that would need to be changed). Assuming no asm.
3/ the back catalog of hardware that you have like the apple system controller + gigabit NIC ASIC would have to have serious work not just a tweak
True but how is any of this different from when they moved to the power pc arch. Sacrifices must be made to stay competetive. If these other chip manufacturers can't stay competetive then they are gonna die. Of course this might just be a scare started by apple to kind of give Motorolla a kick in the ass to start pumping out better chips. But who knows:-P. And don't comment on my.sig people.
I wish somebody would one by one start killing all these frickin' idiots that are filing for these software patents. Eventually I think they would learn their lesson whenever they are the only ones available on the noc-list. Too bad its against my religion to do as such, but they deserve it.
I second this post. What are half the people that post stories on slashdot complete morons? Why would a business have to be 100% one type of system anyways. Give me a break. There is no reason for making it company policy to only use macs. Jeez, get real guy.
Jeez, guy. First of all the tooth fairy, Santa Claus et al are all real. I saw them kissing mommy under the mistletoe (that dirty whore, I literally had to pull daddy away from the shotgun mom gave him for Christmas:-P). Secondly those other characters you mentioned supposedly exist in our realm (if you go by the assumption that they exist at all). Even though a god might show its presence with actions in our realm, that does not necessarily mean it exists alongside us. Thirdly, you have never heard of disproving theories. OK, well I propose the theory: "God exists in a different adjunct existential domain to ours, whose only relation with our known physical universe are the discrete interactions which manifest themselves in our realm as a result of the god's actions." Now a proof is REQUIRED to show that I am wrong. So until that happens, shut your nerdy mouth and go get some friggin caffeine soap. You smell. Also, your double negative is hard to reverse, are you saying everything can be experienced, or that there are only some things which can be experienced?
And if your a programmer and you can't quite follow what I'm proposing above, then let me put it to you in this way: Take the movie The Matrix, subtract out the preposterous notion that they would be using our bodies as heat sources and make all the humans in the simulation just another entity in the simulation. The realm containing this massive super-computing project is your adjunct existential realm, the system operator is god, and you my friend must be about 3 bits. Goodbye
You are ignorant dumb sir. How can the existance of an entity that exists in a completely different domain from that of our universe be proven or even disproven. Not only did I not mention any one specific god, but I also did not even mention god as being a physical entity in our universe. You believe that aliens could be out there, why is it so far fetched that other (I hate to use this phrase) "planes of existence" could be "out there". For all we know the entire human thought process might be the result of another existential domain's interactions. Our universe has a set of constraints and relations (or phsyics) which all entities within have to behave according to. These rules end when you are no longer talking about the domain in which we exist.
Now I'm not saying ETs don't exist. I'm just saying the methods we are using to discover them are flawed, unreliable, and not expansive enough to even begin to find them. In other words, we are going about this task all wrong. End of Story
So keep your precious x86 instruction set (or RISC or whatever the hell architecture you use), but make this one like a math coprocessor (i.e. optional extra code to use) that standard x86 instructions can map to when needing to access data, (hell this could just be implemented entirely within the box without an outside interface), or they can pass an opcode to enable it and use it. All they'd have to do is add a few instructions, registers, and buses to make it all possible if you want it. Because no matter what, it will be useful. It would seem like it would beat MMX SSE or whatever all those new extensions are.
But this/home equivalent would also need to store all registry entries needed to execute their programs (registry entries which should be restrained to only being under the users personal registry area.).
Also, I'm just saying that what I said is what the game developers would need to do. I know they will never do it. Financially they have little to gain. After all why make a game thats so damn good that everyone upgrades just to play it, when you can crank out just a random POS DirectX6 compatible app that looks pretty enough on the box to pull in the suckers at Hastings.
Its sad but now I get no joy out of any game coming out. Games are no longer novel. There is nothing Getting Better in them anymore. I mean first it was just the fun of the game, (back when everything didn't have to be first person 3d). The better graphics might have been a reason to upgrade to a better atari or whatever, but the games were pretty much just fun games. Now the games are the graphics and everything is just a plain shoot-em up POS or unoriginal drivel puzzle game just trying to imitate tetris in some new dumbass way. I don't know, maybe we are reaching the limits of entertainment. Enter the rise of camping again, I guess.
And also I forgot to mention that computer manufacturers really need to jump on the bandwagon and actually produce some kind of fast hardware with seemingly limitless amounts of RAM. The next computer I get will look like the computer that is started up in the intro sequence in Mega Man X. RAM measured in the TeraBytes baby, yeah! And processor speeds in the TeraHz. And how bout some friggin' FSB speeds that match internal clock speed for a change. Jeez I'm getting tired of all these stupid latencies inherit in having to have 75% of the data cached already or have the speed effectively dropped exactly to the FSB speed. Also, why aren't there three sub processors one that does the actual operations, one that controls all data input making sure no cycles go without processing data, and one with data output making all results immediately available for display or what not next clock cycle (all three should be programmable with their own instruction sets and use the same registers). Just my 5000 cents.
You heard me right. The people who are responsible for our current economic slump, are the game developers. You might say, "Game developers, I would think game players because their not buying this newfangled technology, but not game developers." Well, its the game developers' fault you chump. Always developing crap that runs on all last-gen vid cards and never embracing powerful new technologies. Their slow integration of more modern technologies has made people so disillusioned with newer technologies that they frankly don't give a rats ass anymore. I agree with them. Most games out now can play on most old hardware. Because everybody is so damn afraid that their software won't sell because it won't run on existing hardware that they just limit its capabilities to hardware that has already penetrated the market. So why upgrade. If I have a computer that can play any game out there (and had it for the last 5 years), why should I upgrade.
Developers should stand up to their patriotic duty and develop games which thrive only on new hardware, only on the fastest, biggest, brightest boxes under the sun. Only on machines which took mommy and daddy twenty years to save up enough money for and will be outdated in the inverse of that time. Only on the biggest capitalistic ventures of all computer fabrication history. Only when the developers step up, will our economy recover. But there is still the problem with the throw away society vs. the persistent friendly environment struggle raging in our computing worlds right now.
This is where Microsoft needs to step up to the plate. Require an entire internal hard-drive ONLY for the OS. And require all programs and documents to be stored in an external storage mechanism which when plugged into any existing windows workstation will automatically load in the registry, shortcuts, desktop, and what not (applicable to the users security context of course). This way when somebody decides: "Hey I can't play new games any more I better upgrade." They won't have the laziness factor breaking in with, "Yeah but then you'd have to get that geek from next door to help install all your programs and stuff like that and its just not worth the hassle." Because people in America are lazy and are all about how much effort they have to exert to get a task done. Using the approach I have stated all they gotta do is unplug their drive toss out the computer. And say hello to brand spanking shining new computer, and good bye $2600 cash. With which they can finally play all those newfangled games, unlike everybody stuck with the last gen computer.
You don't push songs with P2P, you pull them. Just putting the songs in your instance of Limewire or Kazaa isn't going to assure that someone is going to be looking for it.
It must be sad to have such a small mind and no hope for the future.
It must be sad to not realize that SETI is just searching a small fraction of bandwidth with limited resolution, in a small section of a very vast area (the sky), in small chunks of time. You know statistically it would seem more likely to not find anything, when taking into account all these factors. Especially considering that a world's relative speed to us would make any radio signal coming from it shift, possibly out of the bandwidth we are looking at. We're hoping to stumble upon a magical pulse coming from some far off civilization. Get a life people. Some pulse which could be a super nova or any other cosmic event. We're hoping to find civilizations which might very well be dead by the time we detect them. The sky we look at is not even the current sky. Its the universe 50 billion years ago or whatever. How can we justify wasting our resources on such an endeavour. Our utilities are too feable to be of any use to this search. Finding a needle in a haystick is trivial compared to this. God or allah or however you address him will be the only form of extraterrestrial communication we will ever be able to establish. Unless they find us.
Well, all I know is I will never pay for my songs that I encoded into mp3s. Post sale price changes shouldn't really be legal. But only in this retarded country do we ever see something like that. First GIF and now MP3, the capitalism works for the parties with the most capital, aka big business. Not the people.
Sure it sucks that they couldn't play music associated with the RIAA and junk. But they could probably play music from the local bands. This would be better for the community anyways. And why couldn't they just take the retarded mainstream music offline, and only have these useful college broadcasts like games and stuff that are so needed by everyone.
Listeners need to quit crying, and producers need to quit scurrying away like scared animals at the thought of having to change their content because of those DREADED COPYRIGHTS. Give me a break people. Alternative content exists.
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Yeah well, doing this sort of thing will just be classified as terrorism at some point anyways. And chances the gov't will just bring up random nodes (or participants) in this p2p network thing to trial in order to scare people off from future usage. It won't work. Anyways, you couldn't trust a tool like this too anyone. I don't know why its even being discussed.
Give me a break. A digital demonstration will never get noticed as much as a physical one. Geeks, if you want something done get off your ass and get up there. Anyways, this sounds dangerously similar to eMail bombing someone, which I'm sure won't get you noticed in a positive way. Oooh, just annoy them to death. Sure, exact letter repetition gets you noticed. I know I open up every copy of the Nigerian money scam I get (*sarcasm folks*). Anyways, this story is boring. I'm moving on.
Oh yeah, and do I know you? I'll just assume that the odds of somebody else from Norman actually posting a reply to one of my 40 or so posts on slashdot would be extremely low.
I didn't realize there were any clubs down here in Norman, OK. I know city hall was trying to establish the abandoned food lion on 12th as kind of a club/gym/restaurant kind of deal (don't ask me, it was the brain-child of the people who own Sooner Fitness), but other than that I was aware of no others. But then again, maybe its because I've been out of the social pipeline too long because of all the video games I play ;-) :-P. My uniqueness I think is purely dictated by my DNA. In other words I'm 99.9999% the same as every other person, damn. Anyways, nice to see a fellow Normanite (I feel your pain :-P), assuming you really do live in Norman, on /. .
You are dumb. Your eyeball does not shoot light out of it, and thusly you cannot measure within any kind of reason the amount of time it takes for light to get there and back, divide by two, and then find the distance by taking the speed of light and dividing it by that time. It just doesn't work that way bucko. Also we cannot detect if the light coming from one object is in the same phase as another object. Our eyeballs only detect frequency. See my above post. I hate ignorance. And I especially hate ignorance when it poses as intelligence. Even if they are trolling.
OK, I closed my eye. My conclusion: The only reason you can perceive depth when one eye is closed is because your brain recognizes the visual cues inherent in the motions of the objects around you as a result of your relative movement to them, i.e. parallax. This along with the eyes natural ranging ability achieved through focusing incoming light on the retina. Also, your brain has other mechanisms for checking relative distance to an object and attaching depth from things such as: intersections with flat surfaces and shadows on the object and objects around them, but these things are not usually developed in the brain to an automatic degree because parallax and focus do such a nice job. Unless of course you are one of these "mono"s that I see posting everywhere on here, then I'm sure the brain adapts and acquires a bit of depth information from those other catagories.
Now, if we really wanted some kind of awesome 3d monitor that looked great from every angle and allowed the eye the ability to focus on far off objects (which IMHO would be far more natural) we would probably need about 100 times the density of pixels. For every point you see on the screen you would have to define a ray partitioning mechanism (lets call it per element spherical resolution for fun) to determine how many individual light cones each point would shoot out of it. For a basic reconstruction of a scene to look good from most any angle on a standard sized monitor I would think it would probably have to consist of about 100 rays per point (this is not a constant though it should be directly proportional to the distance from the screen in order to keep the perceived ray density higher), where each ray points in a unique direction which is uniformly distanced from the others, but is always out of the screen (this is all per pixel). Micro$oft's (ooh dare I say that name in a positive manner on slashdot) R&D department has been developing this sort of technology (albeit not for monitors but more like for dynamic focus elements and complex 3d image reconstruction using simple ray maps on invisible cubes) for a while now. I would suggest checking out their site if you really want to know how vision or optics in general work. They have some nice white papers on it.
You know you make quite a few good points there. Except for the fact that books are supposed to be in a sequence, games are supposed to be interactive (i.e. non-linear). Unfortunately this is almost never the case. A game should challenge you, not occupy all of your time to meet one ultimate goal. Because you know you feel very little satisfaction until you beat the game. Well, just think of all that time you wasted just playing the stupid thing, just for the bragging rights to say, "I beat it." Of course, I agree on the fact that pieces of media like this are just used in society as conversational pieces to establish commonality of interests, but when its such a small cliche that actually plays it, maybe you should start reevaluating what a good use of your time is. There is a reason why people watch football, and its not because its interesting (oooh look at the ball go, give me a break). Its because it is a communal event. People come together and everyone reinforces each other, which illicits positive responses in the brain. While at the same time, it gives people the ability to dominate over the people cheering for the other team (assuming their team is winning) so its like a double dose of dopamine for them :-P. Anyways, people act like they like things that make them seem unique, when they don't realize that the only things they actually like are what their culture has implanted in their brain as being good. People don't realize how big a drone they really are.
Well, kudos to Square. But all I can say is that they lost my money after FF7. That whole genre has just been hit too much for me to ever waste any more of my time on it. Once novel, actually fun, games start coming out again for the PC which require the stupid GF4, then I will be pissed. Talk to me then. Square Soft, is just a drop in the bucket.
Square got some people hooked on the graphics in FF7, and some stayed with it, talking about how great the game was just because it had some nice videos and was kind of dark. I think the whole Final Fantasy series (at least these newer ones) are just big marketing ploys to begin with, riding on the success of its past, and just drawing people in with its sparkly graphics and stereotypical epic movie soundtrack in the commercials, giving the viewer a sense of grandeur and a purpose for the people with no lives. Its all just a big marketing gimmick. But I suppose just about everything these days is. Entertainment has been abstracted to its most raw, cheaply mass produced, generically marketed, and easily unoriginal pieces of multimedia feedback tripe influenced from what the majority of our society registers in their mind as a good use of time, but only because it throws up certain characteristics and not because it is entirely a good game. People just play it because they know people play it, and because it has been established that certain characteristics present in the game are repeatedly established as positive characteristics in games by our culture. Also, you say it has some kind of artistic merit and people jump all over it thinking that somehow they are "cooler" than everyone else because they play a video game thats kind of artistic, sort of. You are no better than a spectator. You have no place in the game beyond the set of impulses traveling between the logic gates in the CPU. You are not actually living it, you are replaying it at your own pace. I can't believe people still play this game or games like them. Our society is either sick or stupid. Judging by the majority of articles on slashdot, I would say both.
1/ you would have to get adobe to port photoshop all over again (photoshop is a carbon app and has lots of PowerPC asm still in the mac version)
:-P. And don't comment on my .sig people.
I'm sure photoshop is written in 99.9% c++ with only a very small minority of the code written in assembler. Seeing as how they use LEAD tools as their library for doing just about everything I would think the switch would just be dependant on how quickly this toolset is ported and would have very little to do with adobe itself.
2/you would have to have an emulator not only for PowerPC but all the OS interfaces much like running VMware with the whole OS (although VMware approach is of emulating the whole machine you could shortcut it as you only have limited amount to emulate)
Assuming they keep the same libraries for backwards compatability, this could require as little as a recompile for a different target machine (might need to adjust how it packs the datatypes in the parameters, but other than that I couldn't really think of much that would need to be changed). Assuming no asm.
3/ the back catalog of hardware that you have like the apple system controller + gigabit NIC ASIC would have to have serious work not just a tweak
True but how is any of this different from when they moved to the power pc arch. Sacrifices must be made to stay competetive. If these other chip manufacturers can't stay competetive then they are gonna die. Of course this might just be a scare started by apple to kind of give Motorolla a kick in the ass to start pumping out better chips. But who knows
I wish somebody would one by one start killing all these frickin' idiots that are filing for these software patents. Eventually I think they would learn their lesson whenever they are the only ones available on the noc-list. Too bad its against my religion to do as such, but they deserve it.
I second this post. What are half the people that post stories on slashdot complete morons? Why would a business have to be 100% one type of system anyways. Give me a break. There is no reason for making it company policy to only use macs. Jeez, get real guy.
Jeez, guy. First of all the tooth fairy, Santa Claus et al are all real. I saw them kissing mommy under the mistletoe (that dirty whore, I literally had to pull daddy away from the shotgun mom gave him for Christmas :-P). Secondly those other characters you mentioned supposedly exist in our realm (if you go by the assumption that they exist at all). Even though a god might show its presence with actions in our realm, that does not necessarily mean it exists alongside us. Thirdly, you have never heard of disproving theories. OK, well I propose the theory: "God exists in a different adjunct existential domain to ours, whose only relation with our known physical universe are the discrete interactions which manifest themselves in our realm as a result of the god's actions." Now a proof is REQUIRED to show that I am wrong. So until that happens, shut your nerdy mouth and go get some friggin caffeine soap. You smell. Also, your double negative is hard to reverse, are you saying everything can be experienced, or that there are only some things which can be experienced?
And if your a programmer and you can't quite follow what I'm proposing above, then let me put it to you in this way: Take the movie The Matrix, subtract out the preposterous notion that they would be using our bodies as heat sources and make all the humans in the simulation just another entity in the simulation. The realm containing this massive super-computing project is your adjunct existential realm, the system operator is god, and you my friend must be about 3 bits. Goodbye
You are ignorant dumb sir. How can the existance of an entity that exists in a completely different domain from that of our universe be proven or even disproven. Not only did I not mention any one specific god, but I also did not even mention god as being a physical entity in our universe. You believe that aliens could be out there, why is it so far fetched that other (I hate to use this phrase) "planes of existence" could be "out there". For all we know the entire human thought process might be the result of another existential domain's interactions. Our universe has a set of constraints and relations (or phsyics) which all entities within have to behave according to. These rules end when you are no longer talking about the domain in which we exist.
Now I'm not saying ETs don't exist. I'm just saying the methods we are using to discover them are flawed, unreliable, and not expansive enough to even begin to find them. In other words, we are going about this task all wrong. End of Story
So keep your precious x86 instruction set (or RISC or whatever the hell architecture you use), but make this one like a math coprocessor (i.e. optional extra code to use) that standard x86 instructions can map to when needing to access data, (hell this could just be implemented entirely within the box without an outside interface), or they can pass an opcode to enable it and use it. All they'd have to do is add a few instructions, registers, and buses to make it all possible if you want it. Because no matter what, it will be useful. It would seem like it would beat MMX SSE or whatever all those new extensions are.
But this /home equivalent would also need to store all registry entries needed to execute their programs (registry entries which should be restrained to only being under the users personal registry area.).
Also, I'm just saying that what I said is what the game developers would need to do. I know they will never do it. Financially they have little to gain. After all why make a game thats so damn good that everyone upgrades just to play it, when you can crank out just a random POS DirectX6 compatible app that looks pretty enough on the box to pull in the suckers at Hastings.
Its sad but now I get no joy out of any game coming out. Games are no longer novel. There is nothing Getting Better in them anymore. I mean first it was just the fun of the game, (back when everything didn't have to be first person 3d). The better graphics might have been a reason to upgrade to a better atari or whatever, but the games were pretty much just fun games. Now the games are the graphics and everything is just a plain shoot-em up POS or unoriginal drivel puzzle game just trying to imitate tetris in some new dumbass way. I don't know, maybe we are reaching the limits of entertainment. Enter the rise of camping again, I guess.
And also I forgot to mention that computer manufacturers really need to jump on the bandwagon and actually produce some kind of fast hardware with seemingly limitless amounts of RAM. The next computer I get will look like the computer that is started up in the intro sequence in Mega Man X. RAM measured in the TeraBytes baby, yeah! And processor speeds in the TeraHz. And how bout some friggin' FSB speeds that match internal clock speed for a change. Jeez I'm getting tired of all these stupid latencies inherit in having to have 75% of the data cached already or have the speed effectively dropped exactly to the FSB speed. Also, why aren't there three sub processors one that does the actual operations, one that controls all data input making sure no cycles go without processing data, and one with data output making all results immediately available for display or what not next clock cycle (all three should be programmable with their own instruction sets and use the same registers). Just my 5000 cents.
You heard me right. The people who are responsible for our current economic slump, are the game developers. You might say, "Game developers, I would think game players because their not buying this newfangled technology, but not game developers." Well, its the game developers' fault you chump. Always developing crap that runs on all last-gen vid cards and never embracing powerful new technologies. Their slow integration of more modern technologies has made people so disillusioned with newer technologies that they frankly don't give a rats ass anymore. I agree with them. Most games out now can play on most old hardware. Because everybody is so damn afraid that their software won't sell because it won't run on existing hardware that they just limit its capabilities to hardware that has already penetrated the market. So why upgrade. If I have a computer that can play any game out there (and had it for the last 5 years), why should I upgrade.
Developers should stand up to their patriotic duty and develop games which thrive only on new hardware, only on the fastest, biggest, brightest boxes under the sun. Only on machines which took mommy and daddy twenty years to save up enough money for and will be outdated in the inverse of that time. Only on the biggest capitalistic ventures of all computer fabrication history. Only when the developers step up, will our economy recover. But there is still the problem with the throw away society vs. the persistent friendly environment struggle raging in our computing worlds right now.
This is where Microsoft needs to step up to the plate. Require an entire internal hard-drive ONLY for the OS. And require all programs and documents to be stored in an external storage mechanism which when plugged into any existing windows workstation will automatically load in the registry, shortcuts, desktop, and what not (applicable to the users security context of course). This way when somebody decides: "Hey I can't play new games any more I better upgrade." They won't have the laziness factor breaking in with, "Yeah but then you'd have to get that geek from next door to help install all your programs and stuff like that and its just not worth the hassle." Because people in America are lazy and are all about how much effort they have to exert to get a task done. Using the approach I have stated all they gotta do is unplug their drive toss out the computer. And say hello to brand spanking shining new computer, and good bye $2600 cash. With which they can finally play all those newfangled games, unlike everybody stuck with the last gen computer.
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I want to rip my LPs using a laser mouse :-P.
You don't push songs with P2P, you pull them. Just putting the songs in your instance of Limewire or Kazaa isn't going to assure that someone is going to be looking for it.
Well, this is harder than that :-P.
It must be sad to have such a small mind and no hope for the future.
It must be sad to not realize that SETI is just searching a small fraction of bandwidth with limited resolution, in a small section of a very vast area (the sky), in small chunks of time. You know statistically it would seem more likely to not find anything, when taking into account all these factors. Especially considering that a world's relative speed to us would make any radio signal coming from it shift, possibly out of the bandwidth we are looking at. We're hoping to stumble upon a magical pulse coming from some far off civilization. Get a life people. Some pulse which could be a super nova or any other cosmic event. We're hoping to find civilizations which might very well be dead by the time we detect them. The sky we look at is not even the current sky. Its the universe 50 billion years ago or whatever. How can we justify wasting our resources on such an endeavour. Our utilities are too feable to be of any use to this search. Finding a needle in a haystick is trivial compared to this. God or allah or however you address him will be the only form of extraterrestrial communication we will ever be able to establish. Unless they find us.
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Well, all I know is I will never pay for my songs that I encoded into mp3s. Post sale price changes shouldn't really be legal. But only in this retarded country do we ever see something like that. First GIF and now MP3, the capitalism works for the parties with the most capital, aka big business. Not the people.
Well, my question is can I burn my favorite music (dTx Productions) on to one of these puppies and not lose quality.
Sure it sucks that they couldn't play music associated with the RIAA and junk. But they could probably play music from the local bands. This would be better for the community anyways. And why couldn't they just take the retarded mainstream music offline, and only have these useful college broadcasts like games and stuff that are so needed by everyone.
Listeners need to quit crying, and producers need to quit scurrying away like scared animals at the thought of having to change their content because of those DREADED COPYRIGHTS. Give me a break people. Alternative content exists.