I've noticed that Half Life 2 has very fake looking reflections on its water. For anyone who does not believe me look at an object such as a sluice gate in the game that moves up and down, and then compare its current position to the position of the image in the reflection. Also look at objects such as crates, barrels, certain hills, etc that are missing from the reflections.
I'm not arguing that Doom 3 wouldn't do this too. I'm just pointing out a technical flaw of an ability by which a 3d game's graphics engine can be reviewed.
Does anyone know of any websites that review these kinds of technical aspects of these two engines?
Sure it does. You just have to take massive amounts of hallucinogenic drugs first and play the CD. Scratch that. With the right drugs, you won't NEED the CD.
I believe you are wrong. EVMS (which was built by IBM) and is distributed under the GPL license for free, provides software raid (0,1,5), filesystem snapshots, has both GUI and CLI tools for linux. It's a simple patch you can add to any 2.4 kernel.
It would seem like this itself would cause more wear on the tape. It's my understanding that the hardest thing on tapes is rewinding them. Everytime it runs into the beginning or the end of the tape it "pulls" at the tape. Which is why smart tape backup units slow down the speed of the drive as they near the beginning or the end, during a rewind. If your backup program causes a rewind every-single-day, that would seem (IMO) to cause more ware.
In addition, unless you own a autoloader/robot unit, using a backup program that makes you change tapes every day would cost you more money due to having a person there to change tapes 7 days out of the week. The only alternative is to allow your backup program to overwrite the previous day's backup, which sort of defeats the purpose of having a backup on the weekend.
Supports multiple clients streaming backups at the same time
Webmin module for easy configuration
Support for many tape drives and autoloaders
SSL and DES encryption support
Remote or local start of backups
Compatible with most *NIX systems (personally used it with Linux, Solaris & FreeBSD)
Non-root users can restore their own files
Unlike AMANDA:afbackup can actually append to tapes
For those who don't know: AMANDA cannot append to tapes. Every time you backup with AMANDA it must start from the beginning of the tape. So, if you want backups every day, you must have a tape for every day.
(http://amanda.sourceforge.net/fom-serve/cache/29. html
You're in luck then, because the latest version of Putty does port forwarding. In fact the new Macromedia Dreamweaver MX uses putty to port forward regular ftp traffic securely.
According to my Chinese co-worker, the direct translation is something like this:
The world's solely Chinese Linux operating system, more stable and more free.
After much discussion with him about what "the world's solely" meant, we came to the conclusion that in English the best translation is: "the world's unique" as in,
Unique in the whole world, the Chinese operating system is more stable and more free (as in freedom).
First, just because a country calls it a RIGHT, doesn't mean it is, or should be. In Arkansas, for example, it's legal to beat your wife, as long as you don't do it more than once a month. Just because this state as given me this right, doesn't mean the right is "right".
In addition, America does not follow the freedom of speech unless it feels like it. To quote the 1st admendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Now, if this were actually followed to the letter, why is it illegal for me to: Tell people how to crack DeCSS Write false things about people (libel) Transmit violent or sexual fiction over TV airwaves? Speak profanities over TV airwaves? Write erotica describing sex with children Draw (or render) child pornography Tell others how I want to kill the president
Nowhere in those five words "...abridging the freedom of speech" does it say ANYTHING about it being ok to abridge my freedom of speech if it hurts someone else, offends someone else, is not true, or just considered bad by those in power.
Yes, you should be allowed to walk into my home, watch my TV and use my internet connect/telephone, IF I built a house in a town where ANYONE was allowed to WALK INTO anyone's home.
On the internet ANYONE can email ANYONE.
If you don't like it, go form your own Internet where eveyone is registered and can only email you if they have permission, just like in my town someone can only walk into my house if they have permission, but on my Internet ANYONE can walk, I mean email, my email address.
While we're at it, why don't we just shoot website owners who use popup advertising, and P2P users who use up all the bandwidth on my neighborhood cable modem system, and banner companies that use cookies, and website owners, like slashdot, who don't follow the w3c HTML standards, and that person who accidently tried to ssh into my box as root.
Dear god man, if we acted against everything on the Internet that annoys us, there would be no Internet. The Internet became what it is today because there were no rules, there was no law. The good survived and became standards only because the majority agreed on it, not because laws forced it.
I've posted this before, but I couldn't agree more. I've never seen such hypocrites as I've seen slashdot posts about spammers. On one hand they're like, The goverment's taking away my rights! I can't play violent video games in public anymore! Oh the humanity! Then, the next moment it's, Oh help me Mr. Goverment Man, this spammer is bothering me, Waaahhhh....
The one thing people DONT GET, is this: The goverment could care less about taking away our rights, it's people like you trying to take away other people's rights, and it's people like christian conservatives trying to take away our rights (violent video games). It's NOT the goverment doing this. They're just following what the masses want. Ever time I see something I don't like that I would want a law against, I think, is there ANYTHING that other people don't like that I do, that I wouldn't want them to put a law against me?
And yes, there is a technical solution to every technical problem. For example, did you ever think about treating your email box like a mailling list treats its email box? Most mailling lists don't allow you to just blindly sign up and trust that the return address is correct. Likewise, if I'm interested in filtering and keeping only known people in my inbox, my inbox should automatically send a message to first time "posters"/emaillers to me and confirm that their email is correct, then allow all further email through to me. In the case of mailling lists where the return part is not a human, you could manually add an exception for that domain. All other mail is kept for 7 days, with a digest of the spam subjects per 24hours being sent to me so I can make exceptions if I need to before the mail is deleted.
I wonder why he didn't just use a digital camera and onboard computer. Seems like it would have been easier to mount a digital camera to a computer which stores all the pictures and tells the camera when to take a picture. That way you wouldn't have to stop. Not to mention if you had nationwide wireless access people could view it as you drive...
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Actually, -O3 does both function inlining AND invokes -frename-register which makes use of left over registers after regular allocation -- in short adding more performance for machines with lots of registers.
Also, in cases where -O3 is too progressive for a package, like glibc, the Gentoo package overides the -O3 and uses -O2 (in that specific instance)
I for one completely understand and agree with Slashdot for doing this. After all, we all sneer at those other bandwidth/machine-deficient websites who can't handle the slashdot effect, but we rarely think about the fact that Slashdot has to handle the slashdot effect 24x7. That sort of bandwidth and machine-power cost money, a lot of money. The only way a popular website can recoup its costs are through advertising OR subscriptions. We, the users of slashdot are fortunate enough to at least have the OPTION of which we want. Personally, I'll take advertisements, because quite frankly I actually like and sometimes click on them. Unlike other websites, slashdot advertisements are geared toward me and present me with things I'd like to buy or wish I could buy. I probably won't even filter them, unless they start using popups that are really annoying (never seen a good popup ad).
Finally something I agree with. I do not believe the solution to spam is in our or anyone else's justice system. Let's imagine for one moment, if the US passed a federal law saying that spam was illegal. Which do you think would take up more of your time, A) Deleting said SPAM or B) Filling a court case against Spammer using above law, going to trial, showing evidence, ect. Your bandwidth has already been wasted, and your time has been wasted even more. Ok, so what if we move up the "Internet Ladder" and we give our ISP or backbone provider the power to remove spam, well, what about perfectly legitamite email that doesn't go through? What about the fact that they are storing and parsing private email, what about encrypted email, email though VPN tunnells. The only solution I see relies on either the email client or the email server. The email client can use filters or a email authentication system like mailling lists use. If it's on the email server, it can do the same and also be set up to only store 1 copy of any email that's produced more than once for two or more mail boxes, this way it used the bandwidth but doesn't waste all the disk space. Personally I want the goverment, and corporation to leave MY internet alone. My and Your Internet is only the business of the ISPs and backbones between YOU and ME. No one else.
If you want to help this guy out buy something from his store. In my case I own a gamecube and plan on getting a GBA; I was planning on getting a GBA-to-GameCube cable later, but I mine as well get one now. Also, those VGA-to-GameCube adapters look nice too...
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Life? Don't talk to me about life!
I've noticed that Half Life 2 has very fake looking reflections on its water. For anyone who does not believe me look at an object such as a sluice gate in the game that moves up and down, and then compare its current position to the position of the image in the reflection. Also look at objects such as crates, barrels, certain hills, etc that are missing from the reflections.
I'm not arguing that Doom 3 wouldn't do this too. I'm just pointing out a technical flaw of an ability by which a 3d game's graphics engine can be reviewed.
Does anyone know of any websites that review these kinds of technical aspects of these two engines?
Sure it does. You just have to take massive amounts of hallucinogenic drugs first and play the CD. Scratch that. With the right drugs, you won't NEED the CD.
Agreed. Incredible Story. One of my all time favorites.
I believe you are wrong. EVMS (which was built by IBM) and is distributed under the GPL license for free, provides software raid (0,1,5), filesystem snapshots, has both GUI and CLI tools for linux.
It's a simple patch you can add to any 2.4 kernel.
It would seem like this itself would cause more wear on the tape. It's my understanding that the hardest thing on tapes is rewinding them. Everytime it runs into the beginning or the end of the tape it "pulls" at the tape. Which is why smart tape backup units slow down the speed of the drive as they near the beginning or the end, during a rewind. If your backup program causes a rewind every-single-day, that would seem (IMO) to cause more ware.
In addition, unless you own a autoloader/robot unit, using a backup program that makes you change tapes every day would cost you more money due to having a person there to change tapes 7 days out of the week. The only alternative is to allow your backup program to overwrite the previous day's backup, which sort of defeats the purpose of having a backup on the weekend.
Features:
For those who don't know: AMANDA cannot append to tapes.
Every time you backup with AMANDA it must start from the beginning of the tape.
So, if you want backups every day, you must have a tape for every day.
(http://amanda.sourceforge.net/fom-serve/cache/29
Yes. They are definately out too. :p
No. Someone does not HAVE to say it every-single-time an article is posted.
You're in luck then, because the latest version of Putty does port forwarding. In fact the new Macromedia Dreamweaver MX uses putty to port forward regular ftp traffic securely.
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http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty
According to my Chinese co-worker, the direct translation is something like this:
The world's solely Chinese Linux operating system, more stable and more free.
After much discussion with him about what "the world's solely" meant, we came to the conclusion that in English the best translation is: "the world's unique" as in,
Unique in the whole world, the Chinese operating system is more stable and more free (as in freedom).
First, just because a country calls it a RIGHT, doesn't mean it is, or should be. In Arkansas, for example, it's legal to beat your wife, as long as you don't do it more than once a month. Just because this state as given me this right, doesn't mean the right is "right".
In addition, America does not follow the freedom of speech unless it feels like it. To quote the 1st admendment:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Now, if this were actually followed to the letter, why is it illegal for me to:
Tell people how to crack DeCSS
Write false things about people (libel)
Transmit violent or sexual fiction over TV airwaves?
Speak profanities over TV airwaves?
Write erotica describing sex with children
Draw (or render) child pornography
Tell others how I want to kill the president
Nowhere in those five words "...abridging the freedom of speech" does it say ANYTHING about it being ok to abridge my freedom of speech if it hurts someone else, offends someone else, is not true, or just considered bad by those in power.
Can anyone from European countries comment on how DSL/T1s/Cable Modems are sold over there?
In paticular I'm interested in Holland, but I'd be curious to hear about other countries as well.
How does it make you rely on another person?
Anyone can add stuff to their own copy of the portage tree.
Yes, you should be allowed to walk into my home, watch my TV and use my internet connect/telephone,
IF I built a house in a town where ANYONE was allowed to WALK INTO anyone's home.
On the internet ANYONE can email ANYONE.
If you don't like it, go form your own Internet where eveyone is registered and can only email you if they have permission, just like in my town someone can only walk into my house if they have permission, but on my Internet ANYONE can walk, I mean email, my email address.
Thats volumehost NOT valuehost
While we're at it, why don't we just shoot website owners who use popup advertising, and P2P users who use up all the bandwidth on my neighborhood cable modem system, and banner companies that use cookies, and website owners, like slashdot, who don't follow the w3c HTML standards, and that person who accidently tried to ssh into my box as root.
Dear god man, if we acted against everything on the Internet that annoys us, there would be no Internet. The Internet became what it is today because there were no rules, there was no law. The good survived and became standards only because the majority agreed on it, not because laws forced it.
I've posted this before, but I couldn't agree more. I've never seen such hypocrites as I've seen slashdot posts about spammers. On one hand they're like, The goverment's taking away my rights! I can't play violent video games in public anymore! Oh the humanity! Then, the next moment it's, Oh help me Mr. Goverment Man, this spammer is bothering me, Waaahhhh....
The one thing people DONT GET, is this: The goverment could care less about taking away our rights, it's people like you trying to take away other people's rights, and it's people like christian conservatives trying to take away our rights (violent video games). It's NOT the goverment doing this. They're just following what the masses want. Ever time I see something I don't like that I would want a law against, I think, is there ANYTHING that other people don't like that I do, that I wouldn't want them to put a law against me?
And yes, there is a technical solution to every technical problem. For example, did you ever think about treating your email box like a mailling list treats its email box? Most mailling lists don't allow you to just blindly sign up and trust that the return address is correct. Likewise, if I'm interested in filtering and keeping only known people in my inbox, my inbox should automatically send a message to first time "posters"/emaillers to me and confirm that their email is correct, then allow all further email through to me. In the case of mailling lists where the return part is not a human, you could manually add an exception for that domain. All other mail is kept for 7 days, with a digest of the spam subjects per 24hours being sent to me so I can make exceptions if I need to before the mail is deleted.
I wonder why he didn't just use a digital camera and onboard computer. Seems like it would have been easier to mount a digital camera to a computer which stores all the pictures and tells the camera when to take a picture. That way you wouldn't have to stop. Not to mention if you had nationwide wireless access people could view it as you drive...
Dorothy E. Denning and Peter F. MacDoran wrote a article on the subject which was published in Computer Fraud & Security in February of 1996.
To read the article click here.
In addition, her home page is at http://www.cs.georgetown.edu/~denning/.
Actually, -O3 does both function inlining AND invokes -frename-register which makes use of left over registers after regular allocation -- in short adding more performance for machines with lots of registers.
Also, in cases where -O3 is too progressive for a package, like glibc, the Gentoo package overides the -O3 and uses -O2 (in that specific instance)
Paypal is a VISA/MC/DISCOVER option.
I for one completely understand and agree with Slashdot for doing this. After all, we all sneer at those other bandwidth/machine-deficient websites who can't handle the slashdot effect, but we rarely think about the fact that Slashdot has to handle the slashdot effect 24x7. That sort of bandwidth and machine-power cost money, a lot of money. The only way a popular website can recoup its costs are through advertising OR subscriptions. We, the users of slashdot are fortunate enough to at least have the OPTION of which we want. Personally, I'll take advertisements, because quite frankly I actually like and sometimes click on them. Unlike other websites, slashdot advertisements are geared toward me and present me with things I'd like to buy or wish I could buy. I probably won't even filter them, unless they start using popups that are really annoying (never seen a good popup ad).
Finally something I agree with. I do not believe the solution to spam is in our or anyone else's justice system. Let's imagine for one moment, if the US passed a federal law saying that spam was illegal. Which do you think would take up more of your time, A) Deleting said SPAM or B) Filling a court case against Spammer using above law, going to trial, showing evidence, ect. Your bandwidth has already been wasted, and your time has been wasted even more. Ok, so what if we move up the "Internet Ladder" and we give our ISP or backbone provider the power to remove spam, well, what about perfectly legitamite email that doesn't go through? What about the fact that they are storing and parsing private email, what about encrypted email, email though VPN tunnells. The only solution I see relies on either the email client or the email server. The email client can use filters or a email authentication system like mailling lists use. If it's on the email server, it can do the same and also be set up to only store 1 copy of any email that's produced more than once for two or more mail boxes, this way it used the bandwidth but doesn't waste all the disk space. Personally I want the goverment, and corporation to leave MY internet alone. My and Your Internet is only the business of the ISPs and backbones between YOU and ME. No one else.
People:
If you want to help this guy out buy something from his store. In my case I own a gamecube and plan on getting a GBA; I was planning on getting a GBA-to-GameCube cable later, but I mine as well get one now. Also, those VGA-to-GameCube adapters look nice too...