Imho, if I play using 800x600 or 1600x1200 doesnt really make a difference. Sure, its a bit more goodlooking, but what i really want is good fast FSAA. I cant really see why benchmark a chip in 1600x1200 without FSAA enabled (1.5 or 2.0).
That's what makes the real difference, the ability to play games in full color, with reasonable screensize (800 or 1024) and heavy FSAA.
Hm.. i just wonder... If we let machines fight for us.. and make them intelligent (uhm..?)... what if the are smart enought o realize there's no good in fighting ?;)
Or.. what if someone hack's them... compare the amount of hacking done to.gov sites compared to the amount of breakins in.gov buildings:)
Well, even if its a security problem with it, it can sure be useful. I mean.. is every data in need of being secure ?
Say you live far out from the city, and you can pick between a lowspeed modem or a lot faster radio lan. What would you pick ?
With some encryption, say encrypted webproxy at the ISP, encrypted mail etc, i'd definitly go for it if the alternative was modems. And many things you do online doesnt even require security... i dont really care if someone eavesdrops my slashdot browsing:)
Well, not exactly. Kweelt is a development from Quilt, and so is XQuery. That means they probably have a lot in common. But i still wait for a "standard" to evolve, thats what W3C is for:)
Even if it supports all requirements, as long as it's not a standard.. its not really useful in the long run.
Well there's always one thing... there is no way to make good use of it yet;)
XML (at current) doesnt have a query language, which means you dont have that much to use XML for. Sure you can repressent documents, and with stylesheets rewrap them into a design of your choise, but large-scale use are yet to come.
What we are waiting for is XQuery, that will hopefully make a big difference:-)
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> The first OS with builtin firewall ?? >>This line is a bit much
Yep, its been around, and its pretty useful. Many users can benefit from having a rather restrictive firewall on their PC.
Now even Windows XP has it, so even Microsoft has figured it could be useful to protect their Win*-boxes:-).. Wonder why;)
For some time now, OpenGL has worked fine. I've been using XF4 with Mesa support, and besides no FSAA, i've had good framerates.
There are two reasons I dont game in Linux...
1: There are almost no games available (This is what might be fixed in the long run...)
2: There are weak support for gametools, such as Wheels, Joysticks etc.
Unless i cant use my lovely joypin and my lovely wheel, i wont game in linux..:-/
>> Why did they bother with the P4? It's a disaster
Well, any new release from Intel has been the "worst ever". When the Pentium Pro came, it was a "disaster" since it ran 16 bit code slower then the old Pentium. Noone cared about that it was twice as fast on 32bit code.. who writes 32bit code anyway ?;)
The P4 might look bad now, but Intel think they can clock it a lot higher. At least 2 Ghz, perhaps 10 in the future. The P3 wont go any futher then 1 Ghz.
But right now you're right, and the rambus memory is way to expensive.
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>> And I'm not talking about piddly 2/4/8 way or even 64 way SMP machines. I'm talking thousands to millions of independent CPUs all fitting inside a desktop sized PC.
Well... if you dont really care about the size of the chip... tell me how you plan to put a million chips of the size of today inside a desktop åc.. it sure gonna fill your desk:)
Parallell processing is gaining ground, of course. SMP (Symmetric MultiProcessing) motherboards are not that expensive, and modern OS'es supports more then one CPU. But dont forget todays CPU's are parallell already. They contain of lots of different parts, all working together.
I say we need smaller chips. I say we need more chips:-)
I just wonder.. if someone uses google to search newsgroups for email-addresses to spam... that wouldnt be nice. Here on/. one can use fake e-mail, but newsgroups posts has to contain a sender (thus a valid e-mail), right ?
Well, that isn't correct. XML is a markup language (eXtensible Markup Language) which very well can be used to repressent both structured and unstructured data.
It all depends on what query language you use for XML, there are serveral different right now.
For unstructured data (parsing and transforming documents) XSL, XQL etc are useful.
Structured data is data which is related to other data. Databases are typical examples of structured data being stored. Relations and couplings between different data.
The opposite, unstructured data, is simply when the data is not related to other parts. As someone mentioned, a plain document is a good example of unstructured data.
I'd say you're wrong. Games like counterstrike (halflife) work like this. The server knows the coordinates of each player, in what direction he/she is looking, and what equipment and skins he/she has. It also knows last bullethole marks and such things.
Then, all this info (not much though) is sent to you (from the proxy server) and your own game renders frames for you, according to what is relevant to your current view. (where you are looking as a spectator)
Say you're looking straight into a wall. That means your game knows no players are in the view, and the basic map is shown to you.
That is not really true. It would be worth more then 2.5 times the money to have that much battery power. Allowing the use of a laptop for whole a workday without rechargin is worth quite a lot.
A mobile phone is a good example, its worth alot not to have to carry the charger with you, thats why you pay quite a lot for 200hrs of standby, instead of buying a _cheap_ 10hr battery and a portable charger.
Yes. Bandwidth is the problem. Since GUI's are becomming more "graphical", with lots of colors and other features, more bandwidth is required
Furthermore, if you would make a 'clean' GUI just for the sake of transporting it to remote boxes, you'd miss all the new multimedia features required nowdays. How funny would that GUI be without a proper browser (banners, images etc...), mediastreamers etc ?
What is really the big issue ?
--zap-- ... private line operators such as KT, Dreamline, Dacom and Hanaro Telecom ban such line sharing...
--zap--
If it sais so in the contract you sign with the ISP, then change ISP if you dont like the policy.
Remote administration works the other way around as well. Say that a company has some development groups, each working on a dev server. As soon as the work group needs to access the machine to register a component (dll) they have to run all the way down to the basement and ask admin staff
Instead, by letting the dev servers be remotely controlled by the project leader from his own workstation, both users and admins save time.
I'd say the opposite.
Its quite hard to prevent for instance the Snailmail company to read your mails, postcards and so. But with electonic communications you have the possiblity of encrypting your messages, very easy.
So instead of saying that privacy is no longer an issue, id say its now becoming one. Its up to you to write your letters on a postcard, or to put it in a safe and send it. Just that encryption is a bit cheaper then sending a big safe:-)
It is very had to say noone else may use souch a short abbreviation like "SSH".
Compare OpenSSH to OpenWindows. Can Microsoft sue for the use of "Windows" there ?
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That's what makes the real difference, the ability to play games in full color, with reasonable screensize (800 or 1024) and heavy FSAA.
Guess i've to wait for those benchmarks though :-/
Although, those glasses gives one h**l of an headache after a short while, and I like to play games for more then 15 minutes =)
Or.. what if someone hack's them... compare the amount of hacking done to .gov sites compared to the amount of breakins in .gov buildings :)
Wanna root a b52 ? ;)
Say you live far out from the city, and you can pick between a lowspeed modem or a lot faster radio lan. What would you pick ?
With some encryption, say encrypted webproxy at the ISP, encrypted mail etc, i'd definitly go for it if the alternative was modems. And many things you do online doesnt even require security... i dont really care if someone eavesdrops my slashdot browsing :)
Well, not exactly. Kweelt is a development from Quilt, and so is XQuery. That means they probably have a lot in common. But i still wait for a "standard" to evolve, thats what W3C is for :)
Even if it supports all requirements, as long as it's not a standard.. its not really useful in the long run.
Well there's always one thing... there is no way to make good use of it yet ;)
XML (at current) doesnt have a query language, which means you dont have that much to use XML for. Sure you can repressent documents, and with stylesheets rewrap them into a design of your choise, but large-scale use are yet to come.
What we are waiting for is XQuery, that will hopefully make a big difference :-)
>>This line is a bit much
Yep, its been around, and its pretty useful. Many users can benefit from having a rather restrictive firewall on their PC.
Now even Windows XP has it, so even Microsoft has figured it could be useful to protect their Win*-boxes :-).. Wonder why ;)
There are two reasons I dont game in Linux...
1: There are almost no games available (This is what might be fixed in the long run...)
2: There are weak support for gametools, such as Wheels, Joysticks etc.
Unless i cant use my lovely joypin and my lovely wheel, i wont game in linux.. :-/
Well, any new release from Intel has been the "worst ever". When the Pentium Pro came, it was a "disaster" since it ran 16 bit code slower then the old Pentium. Noone cared about that it was twice as fast on 32bit code.. who writes 32bit code anyway ? ;)
The P4 might look bad now, but Intel think they can clock it a lot higher. At least 2 Ghz, perhaps 10 in the future. The P3 wont go any futher then 1 Ghz.
But right now you're right, and the rambus memory is way to expensive.
Well... if you dont really care about the size of the chip... tell me how you plan to put a million chips of the size of today inside a desktop åc.. it sure gonna fill your desk :)
Parallell processing is gaining ground, of course. SMP (Symmetric MultiProcessing) motherboards are not that expensive, and modern OS'es supports more then one CPU.
But dont forget todays CPU's are parallell already. They contain of lots of different parts, all working together.
I say we need smaller chips. I say we need more chips :-)
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Lets hope its used, not abused :-)
Well, that isn't correct. XML is a markup language (eXtensible Markup Language) which very well can be used to repressent both structured and unstructured data.
It all depends on what query language you use for XML, there are serveral different right now.
For unstructured data (parsing and transforming documents) XSL, XQL etc are useful.
For structured data, check out XML-QL.
The opposite, unstructured data, is simply when the data is not related to other parts. As someone mentioned, a plain document is a good example of unstructured data.
Then, all this info (not much though) is sent to you (from the proxy server) and your own game renders frames for you, according to what is relevant to your current view. (where you are looking as a spectator)
Say you're looking straight into a wall. That means your game knows no players are in the view, and the basic map is shown to you.
It all makes sense, and sounds really useful :)
A mobile phone is a good example, its worth alot not to have to carry the charger with you, thats why you pay quite a lot for 200hrs of standby, instead of buying a _cheap_ 10hr battery and a portable charger.
Since the software licence for OpenSource stuff is rather important i figured this would be interresting...
My 2 cents
Those are good things to spend your tax money on, i'd say....
But then.. im from the Old World, so its not my money.. i can just enjoy the show!
Thats about time!
Furthermore, if you would make a 'clean' GUI just for the sake of transporting it to remote boxes, you'd miss all the new multimedia features required nowdays. How funny would that GUI be without a proper browser (banners, images etc...), mediastreamers etc ?
What is really the big issue ?
... private line operators such as KT, Dreamline, Dacom and Hanaro Telecom ban such line sharing...
--zap--
--zap--
If it sais so in the contract you sign with the ISP, then change ISP if you dont like the policy.
Instead, by letting the dev servers be remotely controlled by the project leader from his own workstation, both users and admins save time.
It works good, and saves time.
I'd say the opposite. Its quite hard to prevent for instance the Snailmail company to read your mails, postcards and so. But with electonic communications you have the possiblity of encrypting your messages, very easy. So instead of saying that privacy is no longer an issue, id say its now becoming one. Its up to you to write your letters on a postcard, or to put it in a safe and send it. Just that encryption is a bit cheaper then sending a big safe :-)
It is very had to say noone else may use souch a short abbreviation like "SSH". Compare OpenSSH to OpenWindows. Can Microsoft sue for the use of "Windows" there ?