RIFT is a bad example. It's very poorly optimized. There are plenty of games that look a whole lot better yet don't slow down even with lots of stuff on screen happening, but RIFT actually can start to stutter even with only 5 people on the screen. RIFT with everything at max settings can bring even the toughest beast to a grinding halt without looking any bit better than games from 2-3 years back.
Other than that I agree; the rig in question is absolutely not capable of running 2010's games satisfactorily at anything higher than perhaps medium settings. Definitely not at max.
As for the speakers, don't even get me started. I cannot believe the junk most people use. They'll spend $1500 on monitors (3 Dell U2410s are popular for triple gaming setups) and another $600 on video cards all in the name of a "more immersive" gaming experience and then buy $30 crap speakers to play on. I don't know what it is. Same thing as people who drop $3000 on a premium high end bigscreen LED/LCD-TV, $400 on a high class Blu-ray player, $100 on useless Monster HDMI cables, then listen on the cheap included speakers.
Some people simply cannot hear the difference or they can only hear some of it and as such it doesn't sound to them different enough to warrant better speakers. Then there are also those who simply are more visual and don't care that much about audio clues.
I personally would seriously hate such little crapboxes, but it's not my place to start complaining about other people's preferences in such things. I'll keep on enjoying my eight 4-way 200W RMS speakers+sub-woofer setup with surround system in the meantime;) My neighbours don't really love me, but oh well.
And how would you obtain any reliable numbers for counting installed base? Most people do not register themselves as a user of any distro or such and since most Linux distros don't call home you really have no reliable way of counting them. Atleast number of descendent distributions is known, with installed base all you have is guesses.
Windows users have nothing like this. Too bad for them.
Windows users have hundreds of different benchmarking tools to choose from, so they are in kind of a better position. 3DMark Vantage + Aida64 is already plenty enough to benchmark more-or-less all components of your system and if you're still not satisfied then throw PCMark in the bunch. Phoronix Test Suite apparently allows you to craft custom tests too, but aside from that it doesn't offer that much functionality that isn't available for Windows users already. Linux users on the other hand have lack of good benchmarking tools and suites and for them Phoronix Test Suite is one of the few and arguably the most full-featured one.
I personally would have claimed to have thrown it away before I thought of posting the pictures online. Then later on I would have dug it up from the hiding place and taken the batteries for my own uses. I mean, why throw or give away completely functional electronics?
I ran full desktop components ( overclocked Athlon XP, Geforce 4 Ti 4200 etc) a few years back for several years, all mounted in a cardboard box. It worked just fine. The thing is, if your setup is so hot as to light cardboard up then you already have issues, a normal setup doesn't get that hot. And if you're smart you'll just attach a few small 'legs' to the cardboard box and mobo on those so that there's a centimeter or two of space between the mobo and the box.
As for needing ground... well, as others have said, it's only needed if your box is conductive material and even then it's not stricly necessary.
I too have done similar things plenty of times, only I did it with full desktop components instead of mini-ITX or such: a few years ago I had my PC case ruined when I moved to a new apartment and something heavy fell on it, I threw it out and replaced the motherboard as that too got screwed. When the mobo arrived I hadn't yet had time to go shopping for a case so I temporarily modified the cardboard box my mobo came in and it kind of just stuck; it took me a whole 1.5 years to get an actual case:P
All in all and nevertheless, I do kind of like the idea behind here. It's neat and it indeed allows you to have a completely recyclable case, even if it is not too pretty to look at. Then again, cardboard is much easier to modify than metal so you can just go crazy with and make it pretty:P Asus should just lose the whole environment-angle in their advertisement material: this 'case' obviously uses more material than a normal packaging box would and if the buyer will be buying a regular case then it's just all the more trash, not less. Though, there will likely be quite a few buyers who will just go with this cardboard 'case' and be happy:)
Not to mention that it would require more staff than the current system does. In an ordinary prison it is controlled quite easily where the inmates are allowed to go, what they are allowed to do, and since they are all in the same general area you need less people to watch all of them. But if you sent them out to work for their crimes the job would either have to be something where they are also always in the same general area with controllable exits so that watching all of them wouldn't prove overwhelming, or you could only send very few select ones to 'work.' If they were sent to many different places you simply wouldn't be able to keep such a leash on them without hiring more people and that would defeat the whole purpose of 'working' in the first place.
Indeed! I just logged into my gmail account and got slightly disappointed to see all the mails there!:D
It's just spam mails mostly anyways, and my phone downloads all my new e-mails from my 3 accounts every 15 minutes so it wouldn't have hurt anyways even if it was something more important.
Have any quotes or links to back that up, Mr. Submitter?
Why would the submitter need to provide those? It's not his claim, it's a direct quote from the article itself.
And yes, among security researchers the general consensus indeed does seem that OSX is quite poor from security standpoint and I applaud Apple on their efforts in trying to beefen it up. It's hard to point one to some direct quotes on this as it's mostly just a comment here or there, but here's atleast two links:
its not one of the oldest, at best its middle age, and its not the only one, its just a quick cash in just like the first game
The first King of Fighters was released 1994, the first Capcom VS Marvel was release 1998, the first Mortal Kombat was released in 1992. By your argument then those are also "me too" games. Only Street Fighter is an older surviving franchise than Mortal Kombat of all those examples you mentioned. As for your argument.. well, there were PLENTY of fighting games even before Street Fighter came around, so again, even Street Fighter is a "me too" game by your logic.
Besides, you clearly have trouble understanding the "one of" - structure in a sentence: no one is saying Mortal Kombat is the oldest surviving one, only that it is one among several ones. The fact remains that the first Mortal Kombat game is now 19 years old and the franchise is still going strong and thus quite renders your whole argument pointless. Even if we take completely different genres along and in the discussion there still ain't many that are older ones. Even Civilization was released only a year before Mortal Kombat, rendering it 20 years old as of today.
I was on my 3rd gaming console half way though its lifespan when mortal kombat came out
And your point was? Sure, there are indeed fighting games even older than that, but the franchises are all gone already years ago. Mortal Kombat however is still going and there are new releases even after 19 years. So yes, it is indeed one of the oldest video game franchises still around.
If you want to claim "You shouldn't reboot," then you need to present technical reasons why not.
1) You should first find out what is broken and why. Rebooting without doing that only means that it may happen again and perhaps with catastrophic results. 2) If you have found out the reason then you can fix it even without rebooting in almost all cases. 3) Depending on the issue you might render your system unable to boot if you restart without checking first and then the system will be offline even longer than necessary.
Tbh, all these sound very reasonable reasons to my ear. As I said in another comment they are all things that any admin worth his/her salt should know about already, but it still doesn't make them unreasonable.
I do actually recommend to RTFA. He quite clearly says you shouldn't need to reboot the whole system unless you're patching kernel itself, more-or-less everything else can be just restarted or reloaded, including kernel modules, and he even backs up his argument against rash reboots with some valid logic. (Though it's something any system administrator worth anything should already know without a random person on teh internets telling him! Really, shame on you if you just reboot every time you see a problem.) He doesn't say to never reboot, either, even though the submission does make it sound like it.
That was neat indeed, but otherwise the laptop doesn't convince. The single biggest problem I see with it is that is it the complete opposite of sturdy; usually laptops go through all kinds of rough spots, drop down from tables, have cats/dogs/etc jumping on them and so on, and this thing would come apart. And if it comes apart while running it could seriously damage the parts, especially the screen itself would be in danger.
I don't mean to bash their efforts though, I would love a laptop that is easily disassembled, and I definitely wish to support "green" developments in the area. I just hope they pay more effort in making the thing sturdier and less likely to come apart unintentionally.
[quote]If y'all are interested in this kind of fiction, Jacqueline Carey did a really good duology on it in her Banewreaker series.
She's mostly known for steamy fantasy/romance novels (the Kushiel series), but she does a very good take on a LOTR-analogue world in which the Sauron equivalent is shown as the good guys. Or not good guys, precisely, but as more or less a guy wanting to be left alone, with the Gandalf-equivalent instigating the "good" races to destroy him in his Mordorish fortress. You really end up hating the good guys by the end of the series. =)[/quote]
Sounds great, thanks for the tip!:) All too often everything is depicted really black-and-white, with the "good" guys being stainless, righteous, wonderful and adorable beings and the "bad" guys as loathsome bastards with no morals or regard for anyone but themselves. That is actually part of the reason I liked the Watchmen movie too: the "good" guys themselves are quite loathsome and easy to dislike and thus sets quite a different tone for the whole movie. I actually really hope for more movies and books like that.
Defuse them by sucking all the power out of them with geothermal energy extraction?
To do that they would have to somehow actively make the magma release more heat than it naturally does and that really isn't feasible, if even possible. You'd just be spending more energy than you would be able to "extract." Besides, if it was possible to start really sucking so much heat from the Earth's crust as to completely suck a supervolcano out we'd be cooling the whole Earth eventually and that would rather obviously not be a good idea.
Indeed. Some people, most notably samzenpus, apparently think it's white hat hacking when it's a company or government doing the hacking. But that obviously isn't the case. White hat hacking is really about people who do the hacking in order to improve security and to help people whereas in this case it is perfectly clear neither the government or HBGary has any intention of helping anyone except themselves.
Throwing a rootkit on someone's laptop without that person knowing about it and with the intention of allowing them unrestricted access to the laptop ever after is definitely black hat, especially since they have absolutely no intention of ever revealing the security holes or how the rootkit works or what it does.
It'd be difficult to back up. And indeed, from what I've heard in my life it rather seems small boys are _slightly_ more popular. But it doesn't really matter what gender they are, it still is a downright horrific thing to do and leaves scars that simply do not heal. At all. I have been in relationship with two people who have gone through such tens of years ago and still it haunted them daily. It really makes you feel helpless to know what has happened and to know that you can't make it go away.
What's even bad taste about it? TF summary links to six examples of the same thing. It's a common joke. Having a character do or say something inappropriate in front of children has been done forever.
That's exactly what I thought of. It happens freaking ALL THE TIME. Something happening all the time doesn't necessarily make it right, but in this case there is absolutely nothing wrong with what Emory did. Besides, it feels like he was singled out because he's an easy target. Had he been a popular and rich comedian he would only have gotten a few angry mails and nothing more. The prosecutor is just collecting brownie-points here at the expense of a young, talented man whose whole future is now in jeopardy.
If anything the prosecutor himself should feel ashamed and drop the whole thing.
Wha ??? Did you think anyone is going to spend millions to billions doing the research for a pat on the head and a thanks well done ?
Even if they couldn't patent it they could still produce the biofuel and continue profiting from it. Hell, if they were doing the research they'd be the experts in the area and thus could sell services to other companies. And if they were the experts in the area that'd also mean they'd most likely still be the first one to start actually monetizing their research.
You know, they didn't patent regular gasoline either and well, it DOES indeed look like they've been profiting from it for years even without patents so even that angle is well covered.
So yeah.. sorry for tearing your argument to shreds.
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I wonder what my 5 monitor 3 graphic card 8 core water cooled 4GHz system would be called...
It's clearly called "You have too much money and need to donate GayGirlie some of it!"
Some would also argue that it's the "Porsche-syndrome"; trying to make up for lack of... err.."hardware" with another kind of hardware..
Fire up, say, RIFT.
RIFT is a bad example. It's very poorly optimized. There are plenty of games that look a whole lot better yet don't slow down even with lots of stuff on screen happening, but RIFT actually can start to stutter even with only 5 people on the screen. RIFT with everything at max settings can bring even the toughest beast to a grinding halt without looking any bit better than games from 2-3 years back.
Other than that I agree; the rig in question is absolutely not capable of running 2010's games satisfactorily at anything higher than perhaps medium settings. Definitely not at max.
As for the speakers, don't even get me started. I cannot believe the junk most people use. They'll spend $1500 on monitors (3 Dell U2410s are popular for triple gaming setups) and another $600 on video cards all in the name of a "more immersive" gaming experience and then buy $30 crap speakers to play on. I don't know what it is. Same thing as people who drop $3000 on a premium high end bigscreen LED/LCD-TV, $400 on a high class Blu-ray player, $100 on useless Monster HDMI cables, then listen on the cheap included speakers.
Some people simply cannot hear the difference or they can only hear some of it and as such it doesn't sound to them different enough to warrant better speakers. Then there are also those who simply are more visual and don't care that much about audio clues.
I personally would seriously hate such little crapboxes, but it's not my place to start complaining about other people's preferences in such things. I'll keep on enjoying my eight 4-way 200W RMS speakers+sub-woofer setup with surround system in the meantime ;) My neighbours don't really love me, but oh well.
And how would you obtain any reliable numbers for counting installed base? Most people do not register themselves as a user of any distro or such and since most Linux distros don't call home you really have no reliable way of counting them. Atleast number of descendent distributions is known, with installed base all you have is guesses.
Windows users have nothing like this. Too bad for them.
Windows users have hundreds of different benchmarking tools to choose from, so they are in kind of a better position. 3DMark Vantage + Aida64 is already plenty enough to benchmark more-or-less all components of your system and if you're still not satisfied then throw PCMark in the bunch. Phoronix Test Suite apparently allows you to craft custom tests too, but aside from that it doesn't offer that much functionality that isn't available for Windows users already. Linux users on the other hand have lack of good benchmarking tools and suites and for them Phoronix Test Suite is one of the few and arguably the most full-featured one.
I personally would have claimed to have thrown it away before I thought of posting the pictures online. Then later on I would have dug it up from the hiding place and taken the batteries for my own uses. I mean, why throw or give away completely functional electronics?
I ran full desktop components ( overclocked Athlon XP, Geforce 4 Ti 4200 etc) a few years back for several years, all mounted in a cardboard box. It worked just fine. The thing is, if your setup is so hot as to light cardboard up then you already have issues, a normal setup doesn't get that hot. And if you're smart you'll just attach a few small 'legs' to the cardboard box and mobo on those so that there's a centimeter or two of space between the mobo and the box.
As for needing ground... well, as others have said, it's only needed if your box is conductive material and even then it's not stricly necessary.
I too have done similar things plenty of times, only I did it with full desktop components instead of mini-ITX or such: a few years ago I had my PC case ruined when I moved to a new apartment and something heavy fell on it, I threw it out and replaced the motherboard as that too got screwed. When the mobo arrived I hadn't yet had time to go shopping for a case so I temporarily modified the cardboard box my mobo came in and it kind of just stuck; it took me a whole 1.5 years to get an actual case :P
All in all and nevertheless, I do kind of like the idea behind here. It's neat and it indeed allows you to have a completely recyclable case, even if it is not too pretty to look at. Then again, cardboard is much easier to modify than metal so you can just go crazy with and make it pretty :P Asus should just lose the whole environment-angle in their advertisement material: this 'case' obviously uses more material than a normal packaging box would and if the buyer will be buying a regular case then it's just all the more trash, not less. Though, there will likely be quite a few buyers who will just go with this cardboard 'case' and be happy :)
Not to mention that it would require more staff than the current system does. In an ordinary prison it is controlled quite easily where the inmates are allowed to go, what they are allowed to do, and since they are all in the same general area you need less people to watch all of them. But if you sent them out to work for their crimes the job would either have to be something where they are also always in the same general area with controllable exits so that watching all of them wouldn't prove overwhelming, or you could only send very few select ones to 'work.' If they were sent to many different places you simply wouldn't be able to keep such a leash on them without hiring more people and that would defeat the whole purpose of 'working' in the first place.
Indeed! I just logged into my gmail account and got slightly disappointed to see all the mails there! :D
It's just spam mails mostly anyways, and my phone downloads all my new e-mails from my 3 accounts every 15 minutes so it wouldn't have hurt anyways even if it was something more important.
Have any quotes or links to back that up, Mr. Submitter?
Why would the submitter need to provide those? It's not his claim, it's a direct quote from the article itself.
And yes, among security researchers the general consensus indeed does seem that OSX is quite poor from security standpoint and I applaud Apple on their efforts in trying to beefen it up. It's hard to point one to some direct quotes on this as it's mostly just a comment here or there, but here's atleast two links:
http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/security/security-vs-popularity/4403
http://pcworld.about.com/od/securit1/The-Truth-About-Apple-Securit.htm
Freeware, F/OSS ones, and creative commons ones, mostly.
However, if you are asking what illegal/unauthorized torrents are safe to download then the answer really is none.
its not one of the oldest, at best its middle age, and its not the only one, its just a quick cash in just like the first game
The first King of Fighters was released 1994, the first Capcom VS Marvel was release 1998, the first Mortal Kombat was released in 1992. By your argument then those are also "me too" games. Only Street Fighter is an older surviving franchise than Mortal Kombat of all those examples you mentioned. As for your argument.. well, there were PLENTY of fighting games even before Street Fighter came around, so again, even Street Fighter is a "me too" game by your logic.
Besides, you clearly have trouble understanding the "one of" - structure in a sentence: no one is saying Mortal Kombat is the oldest surviving one, only that it is one among several ones. The fact remains that the first Mortal Kombat game is now 19 years old and the franchise is still going strong and thus quite renders your whole argument pointless. Even if we take completely different genres along and in the discussion there still ain't many that are older ones. Even Civilization was released only a year before Mortal Kombat, rendering it 20 years old as of today.
I was on my 3rd gaming console half way though its lifespan when mortal kombat came out
And your point was? Sure, there are indeed fighting games even older than that, but the franchises are all gone already years ago. Mortal Kombat however is still going and there are new releases even after 19 years. So yes, it is indeed one of the oldest video game franchises still around.
If you want to claim "You shouldn't reboot," then you need to present technical reasons why not.
1) You should first find out what is broken and why. Rebooting without doing that only means that it may happen again and perhaps with catastrophic results.
2) If you have found out the reason then you can fix it even without rebooting in almost all cases.
3) Depending on the issue you might render your system unable to boot if you restart without checking first and then the system will be offline even longer than necessary.
Tbh, all these sound very reasonable reasons to my ear. As I said in another comment they are all things that any admin worth his/her salt should know about already, but it still doesn't make them unreasonable.
I do actually recommend to RTFA. He quite clearly says you shouldn't need to reboot the whole system unless you're patching kernel itself, more-or-less everything else can be just restarted or reloaded, including kernel modules, and he even backs up his argument against rash reboots with some valid logic. (Though it's something any system administrator worth anything should already know without a random person on teh internets telling him! Really, shame on you if you just reboot every time you see a problem.) He doesn't say to never reboot, either, even though the submission does make it sound like it.
That was neat indeed, but otherwise the laptop doesn't convince. The single biggest problem I see with it is that is it the complete opposite of sturdy; usually laptops go through all kinds of rough spots, drop down from tables, have cats/dogs/etc jumping on them and so on, and this thing would come apart. And if it comes apart while running it could seriously damage the parts, especially the screen itself would be in danger.
I don't mean to bash their efforts though, I would love a laptop that is easily disassembled, and I definitely wish to support "green" developments in the area. I just hope they pay more effort in making the thing sturdier and less likely to come apart unintentionally.
[quote]If y'all are interested in this kind of fiction, Jacqueline Carey did a really good duology on it in her Banewreaker series.
She's mostly known for steamy fantasy/romance novels (the Kushiel series), but she does a very good take on a LOTR-analogue world in which the Sauron equivalent is shown as the good guys. Or not good guys, precisely, but as more or less a guy wanting to be left alone, with the Gandalf-equivalent instigating the "good" races to destroy him in his Mordorish fortress. You really end up hating the good guys by the end of the series. =)[/quote]
Sounds great, thanks for the tip! :) All too often everything is depicted really black-and-white, with the "good" guys being stainless, righteous, wonderful and adorable beings and the "bad" guys as loathsome bastards with no morals or regard for anyone but themselves. That is actually part of the reason I liked the Watchmen movie too: the "good" guys themselves are quite loathsome and easy to dislike and thus sets quite a different tone for the whole movie. I actually really hope for more movies and books like that.
Besides, I thought everyone knew that Babylon 5 is the best show of all time.
Yeah, everyone, except those who are familiar with Farscape!
Defuse them by sucking all the power out of them with geothermal energy extraction?
To do that they would have to somehow actively make the magma release more heat than it naturally does and that really isn't feasible, if even possible. You'd just be spending more energy than you would be able to "extract." Besides, if it was possible to start really sucking so much heat from the Earth's crust as to completely suck a supervolcano out we'd be cooling the whole Earth eventually and that would rather obviously not be a good idea.
In a reply to myself: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Hacker_(computer_security)#Hacker_attitudes has pretty good definitions of these.
Indeed. Some people, most notably samzenpus, apparently think it's white hat hacking when it's a company or government doing the hacking. But that obviously isn't the case. White hat hacking is really about people who do the hacking in order to improve security and to help people whereas in this case it is perfectly clear neither the government or HBGary has any intention of helping anyone except themselves.
Throwing a rootkit on someone's laptop without that person knowing about it and with the intention of allowing them unrestricted access to the laptop ever after is definitely black hat, especially since they have absolutely no intention of ever revealing the security holes or how the rootkit works or what it does.
It'd be difficult to back up. And indeed, from what I've heard in my life it rather seems small boys are _slightly_ more popular. But it doesn't really matter what gender they are, it still is a downright horrific thing to do and leaves scars that simply do not heal. At all. I have been in relationship with two people who have gone through such tens of years ago and still it haunted them daily. It really makes you feel helpless to know what has happened and to know that you can't make it go away.
What's even bad taste about it? TF summary links to six examples of the same thing. It's a common joke. Having a character do or say something inappropriate in front of children has been done forever.
That's exactly what I thought of. It happens freaking ALL THE TIME. Something happening all the time doesn't necessarily make it right, but in this case there is absolutely nothing wrong with what Emory did. Besides, it feels like he was singled out because he's an easy target. Had he been a popular and rich comedian he would only have gotten a few angry mails and nothing more. The prosecutor is just collecting brownie-points here at the expense of a young, talented man whose whole future is now in jeopardy.
If anything the prosecutor himself should feel ashamed and drop the whole thing.
Wha ??? Did you think anyone is going to spend millions to billions doing the research for a pat on the head and a thanks well done ?
Even if they couldn't patent it they could still produce the biofuel and continue profiting from it. Hell, if they were doing the research they'd be the experts in the area and thus could sell services to other companies. And if they were the experts in the area that'd also mean they'd most likely still be the first one to start actually monetizing their research.
You know, they didn't patent regular gasoline either and well, it DOES indeed look like they've been profiting from it for years even without patents so even that angle is well covered.
So yeah.. sorry for tearing your argument to shreds.