In a real war that requires strategy, the generals and admirals are implementing very large scale objectives for tens of thousands of soldiers and hundreds of thousands of support personnel at once. Then these large strategies are filtered down and re-evalutated and implemented many times over.
In most of these RTS games, what is being done should be RTT (Real-Time Tactical) game. Since you rarely are using more than 200 "units" at any given time. That's what the field officers were expected to do.
Any "Strategy" game would have to have many autonomous units. Maybe the closest thing you could do is to have 50 people online, assign one person a "BattleSpace" map, and have him direct the other 49 people with there 50-200 units each. AI won't be there fore some time however, and it would take some dedicated gaming to pull off this kind of game.
I would think our best bet is to keep reminding people of how it used to be.
"Do you remember when we could copy our own songs?"
"Do you remember writing your own software? I do, it was great."
I think it's one of those "He who controls the past, controls the present" kind of things. As long as we keep telling everyone who listens that it hasn't always been like this, we'll be doing our best to slow and stop the tide of erosion of rights.
Just one depressing note toslightly edit your statement. Remember people lived with serfdom for centuries . It was only the plague that caused a reduction in the workforce that made it possible for the survivors to work out better terms with their "employers".
If you have a patch you want to put out, simply have some cheap game and put the patch code with it on the disk. Then give it away for free/ send it to people as a "bonus CD". When they play it, patch installed.
Ok, I know everyone is extremely paranoid about Big Brother watching you do things, but think of the upside.
I will make the assumption that our lives will have advertisement. Period.
Now, I would at least like advertisement that I wouldn't mind watching. Beer commercials? Funny. Movie Trailers-- good. "Feminine Hygine"-- I'd rather not see.
I can only assume that with poeple knowing who I am and what kind of stuff I buy, people will make more of it and want to sell it to me. And since it's the kind of stuff I want to buy anyway, how is this bad?
Islam is a peaceful religion that doesn't condone violence. Osama bin Laden & the Taliban don't understand that.
I'm probably just doing one of those "I'd like to buy an argument things, but the Koran most certainly does support violent action.
[2.191] And kill them wherever you find them, and drive them out from whence they drove you out, and persecution is severer than slaughter, and do not fight with them at the Sacred Mosque until they fight with you in it, but if they do fight you, then slay them; such is the recompense of the unbelievers.
Also, I have one other problem: where are all the clerics in the US standing up against the Terrorists? Where are they in the other countries? Why aren't there large protests against OBL in the streets? Why aren't the governments denouncing everything he does?
I think I found the answer:
[3.28] Let not the believers take the unbelievers for friends rather than believers; and whoever does this, he shall have nothing of (the guardianship of) Allah, but you should guard yourselves against them, guarding carefully; and Allah makes you cautious of (retribution from) Himself; and to Allah is the eventual coming.
And there is another quote (that I can't find right now) about siding with the unbelievers over the believers. Now, before you get all "Christianity is evil too" on me, I'm not arguing that point. However, remember that "Good Samaritan" is a demonstration that an "Unbeliever" can do good as well.
I had heard, and now I've confirmed, that the benchmark song for the MP3 standard was Tom's Diner. (according to this ).
In the article I heard, Branderburg decided he found a good match when he couldn't tell the difference between the encoding and the original song. Doesn't that imply that MP3 works best for that type, or sound, of music?
And yes, you can still find older versions of Windows
OK, this I wasn't aware of. Since (once again, I'm assuming) most people would either buy an OS that they see in a store, or that comes with the box, in the case of Microsoft, I don't believe I'm far off when I say "unavailable".
On the MS website, they are currently sselling XP, 2000, ME, CE, NT Embedded. They are supporting NT Server, NT Workstation, 98 and 95. They have stopped any mention of 3.11, 3.10, or any of the DOS's. Their search comes up with how to convert from DOS 5.0 up, but no mention of downloading the OS. (Interesting that they haven't open sourced it yet...)
So, I apologize for the FUD. However, it is correct to fear not being able to find an older version of your OS, it is Uncertain if you would ever get help in this cause from MS, and I Doubt it will change in the near future.
(And whoever corrected my spelling of Banana-- thanks.)
If you're running a production environment, use a stable kernel
But unless an upgraded kernel has something that you need or desire, why would you upgrade at all? Once a version is running, just stick with it.
I'm of the belief that one of the greatest assets to open source is the fact that all older versions are still available for the vast majority of projects. This means that if you think your system was better off with the 2.2.14 kernel, the 2.67 gcc and libc-5, you can still get those, and load them onto a system built fairly recently (OK, no USB... but that's kinda what I'm talking about here.)
Try doing this with any microsoft product. Go to a store and ask for Windows 95. It's getting hard to find 98. Try asking to buy office 97. Or any older version tha might work really well on a super fast system.
So, to get back on topic, if you have a kernel that works, why would you even think about upgrading unless you are testing/comparing/a hobbyest.
mean, I hope that nobody had the idea that he will be able to have it directly into his Athlon 1.4 Ghz
Hmmm....
A 400 MHz FSB at 64 bits... = 25Gb/sec.
At 1.4GHz, (if you could perhaps have some type of input that ran at the speed of the processor, instead of the FSB), you could handle 89.6 Gbits/sec... But you'd better not be doing anything else.
So it looks like a 800MHz, 128 bit FSB would do it. So, we're not quite there with of the shelf tech.
Look at Nortel stock... if you bought $1000 of Nortel stock last year, you'd have $43 today.
And If you'd had bought $1000 worth of beer last year, you'd have $75 due to the nickle from the deposit, and you'd have had 250 six packs... A much better ROI.
300km worth of cable = 10MBytes of storage with access times of 1 msec... So I guess we have to wait until we can pump bandwidth up 4 orders of magnitude to have a neat little system... (with 300km worth of cable in a drum...)
Add the second CPU, and break the program into two threads, one operates on the first half of the dataset, the other on the second half. Time it.
Take one woman. She has a baby in 9 months. Add 8 more women and get a baby in 1 month! No problem! All operations are, of course, parallizable, right?
Actually, if the scientists had been wrong, they would have calculated that the nitrogen would have ignoted and killed everyine, and therefore not have done the test.
What you probably meant was "If the Universe had been designed differently, and notrogen could ignote under these conditions while all other physical properties remained the same, and we had still had the exact same history, then life would have ended in the 1950s." That's a far more ludicrous statement.
This sia great game with no violence, but lots of problem solving. It includes a neat inverted Tower of Hanoi problem in it that takes a while to recognize. I haven't played any other games in the series, but this one's pretty good.
I'm going to suggest some things that I don't believe Microsoft has put into office. With any luck, either KOffice or StarOffice are listening and will look at these features:
1. Make a presentation software that's not completely limited to the slide show format. The metaphor should be a stage, and allow for notes on slides, multiple projectors, speakers, etc. Imagine a networked display system between three laptops (two for display, one to control/syncronize, an have your notes on it).
2. Combine word with CVS and give complete modification histories, and keep all undos in files. Sure, they grow large, but you could also show precise branches and replay changes done by one person on another file.
3. A Spreadsheet program that has HUGE libraries of functions, and allows other functions to be written in any language under the sun, compiled, and then used nicely. Also, allowing spreadsheets to use scripts from the command line would be nice.
4. Speaking about the command line, how about a nifty little piping interface that allows for a tool setup with all sorts of little switches on each icon (representing the different switches on the command line) and then drag pipes from one command to another, then let the data flow in.
OK, I'm getting tired of hearing, "Linux isn't ready for the Desktop." Neither was Dos 3.1 and it didn't stop people from trying to get schools to use it. Why not actually expect people to be able to use computers instead of expecting complete incompetence?
The reason that techs are overworked is because they have removed all chance of responsibility from the users. Why not say, "Well, read the man pages," or "Have you looked for your problem online" instead of "Don't touch it, you'll only break it."
Is with the public sector. Specifically in education. Now that there are several free office suites (or at least 2), you can do the same functionality (that matters) that can be done with Windows.
What is needed is convincing your local school that free software will save big bucks that can be used for other wasteful projects.
I would have though that too. However, they were more than willing to hire me as a substitute teacher. All I had to have is "more than 60 credits at a college" and they would let me be alone with a class of middle schoolers.
I'm thinking that the school districts say, "if only people would get more involved," to guilt taxpayers into giving money, but have no desire for actual community involvement. Much like a begger on the street with "Will work for food," as a sign, but really just wants a handout.
However, there is a reason for this: there is no money in selling security to the average buyer.
What looks better to Joe Consumer:
1. "New and Improved Security makes sure that port scanners are unlikely to determine services running on your system, thereby helping the internet work faster for most people"
or
2. "Fancy new Paperclip tells you funny jokes!"
The second will get them more sales a lot faster than the first.
whereas in a game, the purpose of fog effects is _actually to look like fog
But in a game, that is often not the case. The fog often represents "uncertainty about an area". Games generally try to substitute a complex action in the real world with a game device that makes the behavior easier to understand, easier to manipulate, or easier to program.
You don't need realistic lighting and fog effects when you're writing a letter...
I'm going out on a limb here...
Let's say I'm writing a technical document with a lot of parts, using something like a CVS system to work with others. Now, maybe my system could keep up with changes that other people have committed, and begin showing the file through a fog, to let me know that something has been obscured.
The more changes committed, the thicker the fog. No real intelligence needed in the system, and if the user still wanted to work on it, he could. But a nice, nonintrusive way to alert people to changes that have occurred.
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In a real war that requires strategy, the generals and admirals are implementing very large scale objectives for tens of thousands of soldiers and hundreds of thousands of support personnel at once. Then these large strategies are filtered down and re-evalutated and implemented many times over.
In most of these RTS games, what is being done should be RTT (Real-Time Tactical) game. Since you rarely are using more than 200 "units" at any given time. That's what the field officers were expected to do.
Any "Strategy" game would have to have many autonomous units. Maybe the closest thing you could do is to have 50 people online, assign one person a "BattleSpace" map, and have him direct the other 49 people with there 50-200 units each. AI won't be there fore some time however, and it would take some dedicated gaming to pull off this kind of game.
I would think our best bet is to keep reminding people of how it used to be.
"Do you remember when we could copy our own songs?"
"Do you remember writing your own software? I do, it was great."
I think it's one of those "He who controls the past, controls the present" kind of things. As long as we keep telling everyone who listens that it hasn't always been like this, we'll be doing our best to slow and stop the tide of erosion of rights.
Just one depressing note toslightly edit your statement. Remember people lived with serfdom for centuries . It was only the plague that caused a reduction in the workforce that made it possible for the survivors to work out better terms with their "employers".
Actually, you could.
If you have a patch you want to put out, simply have some cheap game and put the patch code with it on the disk. Then give it away for free/ send it to people as a "bonus CD". When they play it, patch installed.
Ok, I know everyone is extremely paranoid about Big Brother watching you do things, but think of the upside.
I will make the assumption that our lives will have advertisement. Period.
Now, I would at least like advertisement that I wouldn't mind watching. Beer commercials? Funny. Movie Trailers-- good. "Feminine Hygine"-- I'd rather not see.
I can only assume that with poeple knowing who I am and what kind of stuff I buy, people will make more of it and want to sell it to me. And since it's the kind of stuff I want to buy anyway, how is this bad?
Islam is a peaceful religion that doesn't condone violence. Osama bin Laden & the Taliban don't understand that.
I'm probably just doing one of those "I'd like to buy an argument things, but the Koran most certainly does support violent action.
Also, I have one other problem: where are all the clerics in the US standing up against the Terrorists? Where are they in the other countries? Why aren't there large protests against OBL in the streets? Why aren't the governments denouncing everything he does?
I think I found the answer:
And there is another quote (that I can't find right now) about siding with the unbelievers over the believers. Now, before you get all "Christianity is evil too" on me, I'm not arguing that point. However, remember that "Good Samaritan" is a demonstration that an "Unbeliever" can do good as well.
So what exactly were they smoking when somebody at Polaroid said, "Sticker! That's what people want!"
They were having a hard time even coming up with purposes for them in their ads.
I had heard, and now I've confirmed, that the benchmark song for the MP3 standard was Tom's Diner. (according to this ).
In the article I heard, Branderburg decided he found a good match when he couldn't tell the difference between the encoding and the original song. Doesn't that imply that MP3 works best for that type, or sound, of music?
OK, this I wasn't aware of. Since (once again, I'm assuming) most people would either buy an OS that they see in a store, or that comes with the box, in the case of Microsoft, I don't believe I'm far off when I say "unavailable".
On the MS website, they are currently sselling XP, 2000, ME, CE, NT Embedded. They are supporting NT Server, NT Workstation, 98 and 95. They have stopped any mention of 3.11, 3.10, or any of the DOS's. Their search comes up with how to convert from DOS 5.0 up, but no mention of downloading the OS. (Interesting that they haven't open sourced it yet...)
So, I apologize for the FUD. However, it is correct to fear not being able to find an older version of your OS, it is Uncertain if you would ever get help in this cause from MS, and I Doubt it will change in the near future.
(And whoever corrected my spelling of Banana-- thanks.)
But unless an upgraded kernel has something that you need or desire, why would you upgrade at all? Once a version is running, just stick with it.
I'm of the belief that one of the greatest assets to open source is the fact that all older versions are still available for the vast majority of projects. This means that if you think your system was better off with the 2.2.14 kernel, the 2.67 gcc and libc-5, you can still get those, and load them onto a system built fairly recently (OK, no USB... but that's kinda what I'm talking about here.)
Try doing this with any microsoft product. Go to a store and ask for Windows 95. It's getting hard to find 98. Try asking to buy office 97. Or any older version tha might work really well on a super fast system.
So, to get back on topic, if you have a kernel that works, why would you even think about upgrading unless you are testing/comparing/a hobbyest.
mean, I hope that nobody had the idea that he will be able to have it directly into his Athlon 1.4 Ghz
Hmmm....
A 400 MHz FSB at 64 bits... = 25Gb/sec.
At 1.4GHz, (if you could perhaps have some type of input that ran at the speed of the processor, instead of the FSB), you could handle 89.6 Gbits/sec... But you'd better not be doing anything else.
So it looks like a 800MHz, 128 bit FSB would do it. So, we're not quite there with of the shelf tech.
Look at Nortel stock... if you bought $1000 of Nortel stock last year, you'd have $43 today.
And If you'd had bought $1000 worth of beer last year, you'd have $75 due to the nickle from the deposit, and you'd have had 250 six packs... A much better ROI.
300km worth of cable = 10MBytes of storage with access times of 1 msec... So I guess we have to wait until we can pump bandwidth up 4 orders of magnitude to have a neat little system... (with 300km worth of cable in a drum...)
Upgraded? Exactly what is left of your original system except the sound and video cards?
Add the second CPU, and break the program into two threads, one operates on the first half of the dataset, the other on the second half. Time it.
Take one woman. She has a baby in 9 months. Add 8 more women and get a baby in 1 month! No problem! All operations are, of course, parallizable, right?
What you probably meant was "If the Universe had been designed differently, and notrogen could ignote under these conditions while all other physical properties remained the same, and we had still had the exact same history, then life would have ended in the 1950s." That's a far more ludicrous statement.
This sia great game with no violence, but lots of problem solving. It includes a neat inverted Tower of Hanoi problem in it that takes a while to recognize. I haven't played any other games in the series, but this one's pretty good.
1. Make a presentation software that's not completely limited to the slide show format. The metaphor should be a stage, and allow for notes on slides, multiple projectors, speakers, etc. Imagine a networked display system between three laptops (two for display, one to control/syncronize, an have your notes on it).
2. Combine word with CVS and give complete modification histories, and keep all undos in files. Sure, they grow large, but you could also show precise branches and replay changes done by one person on another file.
3. A Spreadsheet program that has HUGE libraries of functions, and allows other functions to be written in any language under the sun, compiled, and then used nicely. Also, allowing spreadsheets to use scripts from the command line would be nice.
4. Speaking about the command line, how about a nifty little piping interface that allows for a tool setup with all sorts of little switches on each icon (representing the different switches on the command line) and then drag pipes from one command to another, then let the data flow in.
Just my 2 cents.
The reason that techs are overworked is because they have removed all chance of responsibility from the users. Why not say, "Well, read the man pages," or "Have you looked for your problem online" instead of "Don't touch it, you'll only break it."
What is needed is convincing your local school that free software will save big bucks that can be used for other wasteful projects.
I'm thinking that the school districts say, "if only people would get more involved," to guilt taxpayers into giving money, but have no desire for actual community involvement. Much like a begger on the street with "Will work for food," as a sign, but really just wants a handout.
Still really irks me. And with the surplus stuff, how about just use it to show very minor things:
"So that's how much pressure is required to stop a motherboard."
"So that's what not cooling a system will do."
"Is that what a bad ram module looks like"
Knowing what bad equipment does is just as important as putting together good stuff.
What looks better to Joe Consumer:
1. "New and Improved Security makes sure that port scanners are unlikely to determine services running on your system, thereby helping the internet work faster for most people"
or
2. "Fancy new Paperclip tells you funny jokes!"
The second will get them more sales a lot faster than the first.
But in a game, that is often not the case. The fog often represents "uncertainty about an area". Games generally try to substitute a complex action in the real world with a game device that makes the behavior easier to understand, easier to manipulate, or easier to program.
I'm going out on a limb here...
Let's say I'm writing a technical document with a lot of parts, using something like a CVS system to work with others. Now, maybe my system could keep up with changes that other people have committed, and begin showing the file through a fog, to let me know that something has been obscured.
The more changes committed, the thicker the fog. No real intelligence needed in the system, and if the user still wanted to work on it, he could. But a nice, nonintrusive way to alert people to changes that have occurred.