The original doom used software rendering which makes this a fair comparison actually, things like OpenGL and hardware accelerated 3D graphics certainly didn't exist (in the consumer realm) in 1993. Doom ran at full frames on 66 mhz Pentium processor. Loosely extrapolating, this means the Javascript version is about 200 to 300 times slower than the original.
Indeed, it is a lot slower than the original. But the reasons for the slowness are quite clear: it's a byte-compiled language that must run in a VM, so that incurs already a lot of overhead; it cannot use any assembler tricks to speed the game up, it cannot align things in memory on double-word boundaries and so on. But then in addition to that it's running inside a web browser and renders every single frame as a PNG which involves first compressing the PNG and then decompressing it, just to display it.
The original one of course was running on bare metal, having the CPU fully to itself, and VGA was actually very fast as a graphics card back in the day; you'd render an image, change a register or two on the VGA card to flip the buffer and voila, you got a picture on the screen. No need for compressions or decompressions or anything. Not to mention that it was all indexed 256-bit colour graphics which means that the entire screen only weighed in at 62.5Kb and you could modify the colour index table for fast special effects, no need to modify individual pixels as the hardware took care of displaying the appropriate colour!
Comparing it straight-up to the JavaScript version simply isn't fair to either of them.
You're not alone there tbh. I have around 30 facebook friends, including family members and such, and I interact with about 4 of them on a frequent basis. I simply see no value in trying to "befriend" people whom I have nothing in common, nor do I value pointless chatter that much either. There's no way I could keep up with 150 people.
I actually fully await for the US to start doing something similar some day. The PROTECT IP Act. et. al. are already a good way in the same direction, the next logical step would be "PROTECT CHILDREN Act" or "PROTECT INNOCENCE Act" which would allow the government to start censoring material for "ethical reasons."
muon [mjun] n (Physics / General Physics) a positive or negative elementary particle with a mass 207 times that of an electron and spin ½. It was originally called the mu meson but is now classified as a lepton.
And so the era of mandatory "trusted computing" begins, kicked off, ironically, by Google.
If you wish to consume licensed IP content on a device in your possession, then the content owners will determine what computing functions are allowed on such device. And the device remote kill-switch will make you think-twice about content misuse.
This is nothing new; it's been done for AGES, on various different platforms and most notably on consoles. Google certainly isn't the first on the playground, and neither are they the worst contender there.
Mac users less computer savvy? Not really I've seen a lot of IT- and multimedia-pros using them.
Yes, and I've seen plenty of IT- and multimedia-pros using Windows PCs, yet majority of Windows users are still not too computer savvy. Similarly, from what I've seen the majority of Mac users are equally non-computer-savvy.
And that's the whole issue. These scams and such aren't targeting the pros, they are targeting the people who don't really understand what they're doing. Macs are also more costly than the average Windows PCs and thus it's likely that a person owning a Mac is wealthy enough to make an excellent target for these things.
Microsoft doesn't support removal of the hordes of malware on it's platform either.
Not true. Microsoft-certified stores in fact do offer cleaning of virus and malware, and offer general help and tips against such infections. Not to mention that MSE is at the moment one of the best antivirus tools available for Windows, if not even the best.
He must have lived in a parallel universe. In the 90s it was IRC.
It just seems to me he lived/lives in the US. You know, the land of the delightfully ignorant. Anyways, I agree with you: it was almost ubiquitously IRC everywhere, atleast here in Finland. And those few who used any IM applications used ICQ. I have never heard anyone here use AIM, ever.
There's only one feature that I'd like to request: that it doesn't screw up the installation anymore, requiring me to whip out LiveCD just to fix the system and get it bootable again.
If Deus Ex: Human Revolution is done right, they'll be well into the black again.
August 11th, folks. Diaries should be marked.
Atleast the game looks damn good and fascinating so far. Of course it's possible they totally ruin the game, but.. it also has absolutely tremendous potential. If they don't goof up with buggy release and so on it could well become a serious hit.
I atleast have added it to my "Wait for review and buy if it's good" - list.
I use Windows 7 daily and I don't feel "tortured" in any way or form. It starts up and shuts down just as fast as Linux does, it's fast, really damn stable, and so far I haven't really found anything to complain about. I might like having more themeing possibilities, but.. that's a really small thing to complain about.
Then again, it's a fresh install without any vendor-supplied crapware on it. Maybe that explains it.
Unless the rootkit records the decryption keys, or changed the algorithm, yes it will.
Rootkit isn't some magical hack everything solution. It is low level access to a machine, bad enough, but not unstoppable.
I don't think you understand what a rootkit actually is. I mean, if your hdd is encrypted then sure, you're pretty safe if someone steals the drive, but the data must still be unencrypted on-the-fly when it's accessed. And gee, that's where the rootkit comes into play. It has access to everything you're doing on your PC so obviously it has access to the unencrypted data, too.
I feel the same. I have Firefox installed on my N900 (Maemo as the OS) and, well, Firefox is just painful to use. It is incredibly slow and sluggish. No matter how many times I try it or whether or not I disable all the addons I have it's still just as slow as ever.
I'm sorry Firefox devs, but... Firefox is downright unusable on N900. Opera mobile works so, SO much better.
I have a slightly different approach. I have one password with 2 variations I use for most sites, but I have a third password that I only use for my e-mail account. Thus even if I lost access to one of the other sites I could still reset the password via e-mail and then I'd proceed to change the passwords on all the other sites I use, too.
This is really exemplary action; they're not entirely certain that there even is a threat to customers' data, but they take all the precautions they can and inform their users of the possiblity of a threat. We can only wish other companies were as careful!
According to Spafford, security experts monitoring open Internet forums learned months ago that Sony was using outdated versions of the Apache Web server software, which "was unpatched and had no firewall installed."
Which version? And what do they mean where not running a firewall? And this was reported on a forum?
The forum in question is in use by Sony employees themselves and the fact that the Apache version was out of date for noticed not only by outsiders but by Sony employees themselves. It's all there on the forums if you wish to read. And yes, of course they tried to report the issue to Sony.
What they mean with the fact that there was no firewall is that there was no firewall between the server in question and the Internet or the server and the internal PSN network, which means it had full access to the whole network. Any IT administrator would know to limit the access to any internal networks for machines that act as servers on the Internet.
This ain't just "unsubstantiated rumors", no matter how you feel about using forum posts as evidence.
OtherOS was removed _before_ GeoHot started hacking around the limitations. Sony was losing money in the beginning on every PS3 sold so they sought to lessen the losses and cut back on the OtherOS function so that they wouldn't need to spend money on that. Also, the OtherOS class action suit revealed that e.g. IBM pressured Sony to do this, too, because IBM was trying to sell Cell as the server CPU but Sony was selling it way cheaper than IBM did.
Besides, blaming Anonymous for the PSN outage is pointless. They're out to disrupt services and annoy companies they don't like, but they're not out there to steal random people's data. Besides, only a single text file claiming to be from Anonymous was left on the server whereas their style is much more direct; they like to deface the company completely by replacing their websites. Of course, this is all anecdotal and no "real" evidence exists either way, but I feel the hack was done by someone more skilled and are just trying to send FBI and Sony in the wrong direction by leaving a "note" from Anon.
No, it isn't. It's part of the stupidity to name everything for KDE with a "K" or KD or even KDE at the beginning. A cheap and failed attempt to copy the "i" meme from Apple
Apple fanboy, eh? KDE community has actually been using this naming convention for years and years and years, all the way from the beginnings of KDE. Way before Apple started using the 'i'-meme across the board of their products. So we could just as well claim Apple is the one copying the meme from KDE if we follow your logic.
Names for products need to be pronouncable, easy to remember and difficult to confuse. "Kdenlive" falls on all three counts. For starters, it helps if they're actually, you know, names, not random gobbled-together parts of words.
Random gobbled-together words or terms, eh? Like for example ColdFusion, RoboHelp, Alcohol 120% etc.? Those are all confusing names which really don't say much about the product itself and seem like completely random words. KDenlive ain't really different from those, it consists of two clear terms: KDE and enlive. I do agree that using 'KDE' or 'K' at the beginning of every damn application is silly, but...really, there's a lot of even worse names in the commercial space and yet many of those products are perfectly good and actually pretty successfull.
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indexed 256-bit colour graphics
Brainfart, just noticed it myself. I meant indexed 256-colour 8-bit graphics. Anywhoo.
The original doom used software rendering which makes this a fair comparison actually, things like OpenGL and hardware accelerated 3D graphics certainly didn't exist (in the consumer realm) in 1993. Doom ran at full frames on 66 mhz Pentium processor. Loosely extrapolating, this means the Javascript version is about 200 to 300 times slower than the original.
Indeed, it is a lot slower than the original. But the reasons for the slowness are quite clear: it's a byte-compiled language that must run in a VM, so that incurs already a lot of overhead; it cannot use any assembler tricks to speed the game up, it cannot align things in memory on double-word boundaries and so on. But then in addition to that it's running inside a web browser and renders every single frame as a PNG which involves first compressing the PNG and then decompressing it, just to display it.
The original one of course was running on bare metal, having the CPU fully to itself, and VGA was actually very fast as a graphics card back in the day; you'd render an image, change a register or two on the VGA card to flip the buffer and voila, you got a picture on the screen. No need for compressions or decompressions or anything. Not to mention that it was all indexed 256-bit colour graphics which means that the entire screen only weighed in at 62.5Kb and you could modify the colour index table for fast special effects, no need to modify individual pixels as the hardware took care of displaying the appropriate colour!
Comparing it straight-up to the JavaScript version simply isn't fair to either of them.
You're not alone there tbh. I have around 30 facebook friends, including family members and such, and I interact with about 4 of them on a frequent basis. I simply see no value in trying to "befriend" people whom I have nothing in common, nor do I value pointless chatter that much either. There's no way I could keep up with 150 people.
I actually fully await for the US to start doing something similar some day. The PROTECT IP Act. et. al. are already a good way in the same direction, the next logical step would be "PROTECT CHILDREN Act" or "PROTECT INNOCENCE Act" which would allow the government to start censoring material for "ethical reasons."
Yeah, there are billions of tablet users. Smoke crack much?
No, I download cracks, I don't smoke them.
At what age do men stop looking up girls dresses? Does it really matter?
I'm not even male yet even I do that, too!
Tablets are as useless as they ever were.
I'd like to point out that a few billion people worldwide disagree with you.
Maemo was just too old. It may have been 90% done, but it just wasn't a good competitor. The use of Flash being the number one mistake.
I don't understand. Why would having Flash support in the browser be the biggest reason for why the OS itself wasn't good?
Change the spelling of what? 'Muon' is in fact a perfectly valid English word as can be seen in e.g. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/muon :
muon [mjun]
n
(Physics / General Physics) a positive or negative elementary particle with a mass 207 times that of an electron and spin ½. It was originally called the mu meson but is now classified as a lepton.
And so the era of mandatory "trusted computing" begins, kicked off, ironically, by Google.
If you wish to consume licensed IP content on a device in your possession, then the content owners will determine what computing functions are allowed on such device. And the device remote kill-switch will make you think-twice about content misuse.
This is nothing new; it's been done for AGES, on various different platforms and most notably on consoles. Google certainly isn't the first on the playground, and neither are they the worst contender there.
Mac users less computer savvy? Not really I've seen a lot of IT- and multimedia-pros using them.
Yes, and I've seen plenty of IT- and multimedia-pros using Windows PCs, yet majority of Windows users are still not too computer savvy. Similarly, from what I've seen the majority of Mac users are equally non-computer-savvy.
And that's the whole issue. These scams and such aren't targeting the pros, they are targeting the people who don't really understand what they're doing. Macs are also more costly than the average Windows PCs and thus it's likely that a person owning a Mac is wealthy enough to make an excellent target for these things.
Eh linux runs fine on windows 7 computers:-)
Well, thank you Captain Obvious, as if he was claiming it doesn't....
Microsoft doesn't support removal of the hordes of malware on it's platform either.
Not true. Microsoft-certified stores in fact do offer cleaning of virus and malware, and offer general help and tips against such infections. Not to mention that MSE is at the moment one of the best antivirus tools available for Windows, if not even the best.
He must have lived in a parallel universe. In the 90s it was IRC.
It just seems to me he lived/lives in the US. You know, the land of the delightfully ignorant. Anyways, I agree with you: it was almost ubiquitously IRC everywhere, atleast here in Finland. And those few who used any IM applications used ICQ. I have never heard anyone here use AIM, ever.
There's only one feature that I'd like to request: that it doesn't screw up the installation anymore, requiring me to whip out LiveCD just to fix the system and get it bootable again.
If Deus Ex: Human Revolution is done right, they'll be well into the black again.
August 11th, folks. Diaries should be marked.
Atleast the game looks damn good and fascinating so far. Of course it's possible they totally ruin the game, but.. it also has absolutely tremendous potential. If they don't goof up with buggy release and so on it could well become a serious hit.
I atleast have added it to my "Wait for review and buy if it's good" - list.
I use Windows 7 daily and I don't feel "tortured" in any way or form. It starts up and shuts down just as fast as Linux does, it's fast, really damn stable, and so far I haven't really found anything to complain about. I might like having more themeing possibilities, but.. that's a really small thing to complain about.
Then again, it's a fresh install without any vendor-supplied crapware on it. Maybe that explains it.
Unless the rootkit records the decryption keys, or changed the algorithm, yes it will.
Rootkit isn't some magical hack everything solution. It is low level access to a machine, bad enough, but not unstoppable.
I don't think you understand what a rootkit actually is. I mean, if your hdd is encrypted then sure, you're pretty safe if someone steals the drive, but the data must still be unencrypted on-the-fly when it's accessed. And gee, that's where the rootkit comes into play. It has access to everything you're doing on your PC so obviously it has access to the unencrypted data, too.
I feel the same. I have Firefox installed on my N900 (Maemo as the OS) and, well, Firefox is just painful to use. It is incredibly slow and sluggish. No matter how many times I try it or whether or not I disable all the addons I have it's still just as slow as ever.
I'm sorry Firefox devs, but... Firefox is downright unusable on N900. Opera mobile works so, SO much better.
I have a slightly different approach. I have one password with 2 variations I use for most sites, but I have a third password that I only use for my e-mail account. Thus even if I lost access to one of the other sites I could still reset the password via e-mail and then I'd proceed to change the passwords on all the other sites I use, too.
This is really exemplary action; they're not entirely certain that there even is a threat to customers' data, but they take all the precautions they can and inform their users of the possiblity of a threat. We can only wish other companies were as careful!
According to Spafford, security experts monitoring open Internet forums learned months ago that Sony was using outdated versions of the Apache Web server software, which "was unpatched and had no firewall installed."
Which version?
And what do they mean where not running a firewall? And this was reported on a forum?
The forum in question is in use by Sony employees themselves and the fact that the Apache version was out of date for noticed not only by outsiders but by Sony employees themselves. It's all there on the forums if you wish to read. And yes, of course they tried to report the issue to Sony.
What they mean with the fact that there was no firewall is that there was no firewall between the server in question and the Internet or the server and the internal PSN network, which means it had full access to the whole network. Any IT administrator would know to limit the access to any internal networks for machines that act as servers on the Internet.
This ain't just "unsubstantiated rumors", no matter how you feel about using forum posts as evidence.
OtherOS was removed _before_ GeoHot started hacking around the limitations. Sony was losing money in the beginning on every PS3 sold so they sought to lessen the losses and cut back on the OtherOS function so that they wouldn't need to spend money on that. Also, the OtherOS class action suit revealed that e.g. IBM pressured Sony to do this, too, because IBM was trying to sell Cell as the server CPU but Sony was selling it way cheaper than IBM did.
Besides, blaming Anonymous for the PSN outage is pointless. They're out to disrupt services and annoy companies they don't like, but they're not out there to steal random people's data. Besides, only a single text file claiming to be from Anonymous was left on the server whereas their style is much more direct; they like to deface the company completely by replacing their websites. Of course, this is all anecdotal and no "real" evidence exists either way, but I feel the hack was done by someone more skilled and are just trying to send FBI and Sony in the wrong direction by leaving a "note" from Anon.
It's a good start. When the next leader of Alqueda steps up, we just kill him too, lather rinse repeat.
Personally I think that's downright horrible thinking. If you go around killing people what makes you any better than them?
No, it isn't. It's part of the stupidity to name everything for KDE with a "K" or KD or even KDE at the beginning. A cheap and failed attempt to copy the "i" meme from Apple
Apple fanboy, eh? KDE community has actually been using this naming convention for years and years and years, all the way from the beginnings of KDE. Way before Apple started using the 'i'-meme across the board of their products. So we could just as well claim Apple is the one copying the meme from KDE if we follow your logic.
Names for products need to be pronouncable, easy to remember and difficult to confuse. "Kdenlive" falls on all three counts. For starters, it helps if they're actually, you know, names, not random gobbled-together parts of words.
Random gobbled-together words or terms, eh? Like for example ColdFusion, RoboHelp, Alcohol 120% etc.? Those are all confusing names which really don't say much about the product itself and seem like completely random words. KDenlive ain't really different from those, it consists of two clear terms: KDE and enlive. I do agree that using 'KDE' or 'K' at the beginning of every damn application is silly, but...really, there's a lot of even worse names in the commercial space and yet many of those products are perfectly good and actually pretty successfull.