1. Yes I know Q3 and UT aren't available for BeOS...
2. The point I'm making, is that the age of Quake II might actually have an impact. Since it's probably been recently ported, they've had the opportunity to use newer/cleaner/faster API calls, wheras the un-ported code on other platforms would be using whatever API calls were cut/bleed-ing edge then. I don't think it's a valid comparison unless both versions have the same genetics/optimization. In other words, it might not be a valid comparison between OSes, it might be faster because it's using more optimized GL calls. Yeah, I'm probably griping a bit, it's technically impossible to come up with a valid comparison, but I bet that somebody could port Wolfenstein to BeOS, and in doing so put Dos to shame.:)
GLQuake and Quake 2? Jeez. How about something more recent, like Quake III or UT? I'm assuming that this has been ported, etc...and I'm wondering how modd'ed it has been to work on Be. If somebody wanted to, I'm sure they could go back and tweak Quake II's code using new algorithms/driver routines that would speed it up...which pretty much invalidates the comparison. IMHO.
Yep, I have my FUD with the company too...but I'm willing to wait and hope (got nothing better to do!). Myst and Riven were so much more than pretty pictures...I found myself really immersed in the virtual world they created, both the intriguing dark mystery of each game, plus the background plot (which led me to the books).
Close. Myst was never released for Dos (it required Quicktime), but there was a version for Mac, and a version of Windows. Then they rereleased it a year or two ago as the MasterPiece edition, with 32-bit graphics and better sound. (they had to dither everything to a custom 256 palette originally because of 2x CD-ROM load times).
Riven has been release on CD and DVD, and I won't be surprised if they come up with some way to rerelease it in a few years...
Personally, I think they should work on a new game...continuing the Myst/Riven storyline (prequel, sequel, whatever). Having read all three Myst books, I think it's a really neat universe full of possibilities, and full of really neat fantasies and dreams. At times I wish it were true... I'd kinda like to see what Dni really looked like, but I guess that might spoil the imaginative image they've worked so hard to build (well, they described so that we could build in our minds, however we liked), but they could create a world linked from Dni anywhere/anytime to start a story....the possibilities are endless.
I don't know exactly what concept of Real-Time they're using, but there was a game like Myst which allow you to turn and pitch in real-time, Amerzone. Sorta like a bunch of linked Quicktime-VRs. Quality was a little poorer than it could have been, and the distortion from the panning-software was a little irritating. Kinda neat to see, but I perferred Myst's immersive sound-track, haunting visuals, and quality. The look of the RT 3D stuff just isn't the same (getting better than it used to be though!)
On a side-note, Amerzone *is* pretty cool, espc if you can pick it up for cheap (Walmart Canada was sellin em off a few months ago). Quality is not as good, plot was a little on the cheesy side, I found a non-recoverable bug, and it was way too short. (3 cds, but only took me 3 days....Myst was 1 cd and took me 2 weeks, course I was 14 or so at the time...) Still neat.
And is it just me, or is the intro to Myst one of the coolest (and simplest!!!) ever. I am forever haunted by that perfect voice starting "I realized the moment I fell into the fissure, that the book would not be destroyed as I had planned..."
A Bolo. Course, the armor plating and Hellbore might be a little hard to fashion, but that's all part of the challenge. Now I have to figure out how to distribute 10+ Ktons over lego baseplates.
I've heard that a big problem with talking on a cell phone while driving is that it takes more concentration to follow the conversation due to the lack of visual cues (facial expressions, hand gestures, etc).
Conversations with passengers generally don't have this problem, usually you can see them in the passenger seat or mirror. Also, the low quality/frequency range of cell phones probably requires more concentration too. I know that sometimes when I'm tired and driving, I don't like to talk too much because it is distracting, and I try to minimize talking on my cell while driving for the same reason. Unfortunatly, too many drivers have no common sense and don't realize how dangerous they are when on their phones.
RE: Win2k Telnet. Of course, the telnet server only lets you telnet in from another Win2k box, but at least it does authentication at the NT level
Not true, you can change the settings for the telnet server to allow plain text authentication (tlntadmn.exe). In a homogenous network tho, it makes sense to *not* allow plain-text, but of course you already know that are are using ssh instead of telnet, right?;)
Tried one at the local Sony store, not bad quality...sorta grainy (standard three-color lcd grain) but definatly watchable. Wouldn't want to try and play something detailed like Command n Conquer on it...but anything else should be fine.
How many mice/mouses/pointing devices have been ruined thanks to Blizzard. I seem to recall my trackball dying a horrible death, the dreaded "whuff" of death in fact (similar to click of death for Zip Drives, just softer).
Have to find a mouse with super-heavy duty microswitches...:)
Hrm, I agree that *nices are more secure because they make the user/admin distinction, but it's a mistake to think that this is not exploitable. How hard is it to run a create a executable that does the following if received by a user who runs it thinking its the coolest game from their buddy? (assuming the user is your average brain-dead user who clicks "YES" without reading a message box...isn't that most of them?).
modifies.login/.bashrc/etc to change the path to ~/bin:/usr/bin:usr/local/bin:...
creates a program in ~/bin named su which acts like a su program, but captures the password and uses this to infect the system
emails it on...
Similarly, it could instead modify.login/.bashrc/.cshrc/etc to merely run a keystroke logger (in both terminals and X) to capture the password when average user types in su. Sounds perfectly plausible to me...once Linux hits average users' desktops and the start following instructions telling them how to do stuff. Have to remember that these people have no clue what they're doing, and they are running on personal machines where they need admin rights to change things.
On a side note, Win2K finally has ability to easily run a program as another user. You can create a shortcut to an application and specify that you want to run it as another user...and it will ask for username/password when you run it. Creating a shortcut to cmd and naming it "su" can come in handy...
My guess would be lower signal degradation from having less poor/un-shielded runs to the speakers themselves...plus you can match a good DAC with a good pair of speakers, or a poor DAC with poor speakers...as opposed to most soundcards where you get a poor DAC no matter what speakers you get.
And would people stop griping about: I got X to work under AAA OS, but couldn't get X to work under BBB OS....it's very rare for someone to have an equal amount of competance in both OSes in the first place, so it very rarely makes a valid point. On top of that, a number or people seem to have basic problems from not RTFM (e.g. hit F6 to install ATA/66 as a SCSI device under NT/2K during install) and make erroneous conclusions (e.g. "NT/2K doesn't support ATA/66 during install").
And yeah, what the hell is with moving everything into the PC? I understand the need to make things cheaper, but I really hate the idea of lose-modems and lose-dsl-modems.
The public can't wake up, cause they don't know they're asleep.
Still need a good compromise between
properly written, secure software
secure, but unrestrictive (if possible) default settings
(l)user education
vigalence
the occasional ok/cancel box that smacks the user upside the head if they click ok/cancel without reading it
It'll be interesting how the acceleration in the rate at which information spreads affects crime and mischief in general...
Oh, and I still think people shouldn't praise open-source to the ends of the earth...it may be better than some/most of the alternatives, but I think it ain't no holy grail.
Depends if you're standing on the earth or not... If you are, the Earth seems to wobble (or your surroundings...depends what century you decide to live in), but if your looking from outside, yes, the Earth doesn't wobble. Shrug, no biggie either way.
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I've heard of it happening. People have gotten these numbers (Social Insurance Number here in Canada) and gotten appropriate documentation to support their fake identifications. Then the orignal owner spent years fighting off CC companys, governments, collection agencies before being able to set everything straight. That's the scary part, the burden of proof goes upon the person's shoulders...if they can't prove it, they lose!
With a crappy faxed photocopy of a CC (which they already have all the information off of) and a driver's license? I doubt it. It's just a way to try and prevent somebody from snooping a number & name off of a transaction and using it anonymously...similar to stores which only ship to the billing address of the card.
Not wobble on its axis (degree of tilt), but wobble on the location of its axis (displacment in regards to the gravitational centre). At any given time, the earth actually rotates around a point which is slightly towards the location of the moon. This has no (significant) effects upon gravity.
IIRC, buying a DVD isn't the same as buying the property on the DVD. You're buying a license to view the property...if you read the terms, it blah-blah-blahs about private viewing only, no public performances, etc.
Therefore, what's difference between licensing Napster and licensing a DVD? (besides the obvious-$$$)
Based on this, the original owner has every right to stipulate (in the license you bought) how/how-not you can use the property. That's the whole point of selling licenses.
(not trying to start an argument, just food-for-thought...I think the MPAA and DCMA suxors)
Hmmm...that almost kinda makes sense to me. With the continents arranged in one large Pangea continent, would this be enough to orbit off-centered, with the center of rotation closer to Pangea than to the other side of the earth???
From what I've heard, the earth still wobbles, because of the moon, but the effect is very minimal. But, the point is that they behave more like a very large teeter-totter, with a 10000 pound bully on one end, and a 5 pound baby on the other...the balance point is still under the bully, but not exactly under his butt.:P
So, if a combined Pangea/geo-synch-ish moon/something-else was in effect, could this have caused the earth to orbit around a point significantly closer to the surface of Pangea than the current rotational center? Would this have been enough to lessen the impact of gravity? My physics sucks now, so I can't even begin to think through the implications enough....just thought it was a neat (if somewhat fantastic) solution to the difference between the size of prehistoric Earth and today's world.
Dinosaurs rock...but if anybody teaches them to roll, I'm outta here.
Why not just make moderation based on absolute levels. ie. If Moderator B sees post #42 at (2), then have the choices to moderate it to (1) and (3). They choose (3), but in the meantime Moderator A has changed it to (3) already. They submit, and because the change has already been affected, nothing happens. They retain moderation points, and possibly a notice appears at the top of the next page informing them that/. didn't need to use their points.
Laff Punch tiny holes in the sides, cover them with semi-transparent plastic or paper, and network them with IRDA (4 Mbit wouldn't be *that* bad). Power them with induction coils in the shelves (need serious shielding to protect the actual circuitry tho) and you're off to the races.
Personally, I want a cheap and easy way to do wireless networking. I don't care about small PCs, having a truly portable laptop or a small box that's connected to various equipment (stereo, etc) would be the most interesting project right now. Of course, having the mini-pc would be part of this scheme, but first we need someone to hack together a cheap way to network them.
Hrm... I agree that a lot of people seem to comment too quickly about NT crashing/BSOD'ing. I've worked in environments where they had big-ass NT server boxen, and they stayed up 24/7. I've also found 2K damn stable running SMP on a BP6 (which ain't exactly renown for it's SMP stability, oc'ed or not), with video card drivers being the biggest stability flaw. I've had hard uptimes of 3 weeks easy, with virtual uptimes (where I manually rebooted to upgrade something) of around 5 weeks+. My Linux NAT/server box (vanilla RH install) used to spontaneously reboot more often than my 2K box did too...and my room-mate's X server used to crash fairly often on him... Not trying to pick a fight, but I think a lot of people need to consider their opinions more carefully. I've only ever used Solaris for a coupla hours tops on workstations, so I don't feel qualified to comment on it's abilities/stability, I think a fair number of/.'ers should consider applying a similar policy to the much-despised M$oft.
Damn few. Doing some tech support, numerous times I've been watching over someones shoulder when a dialog box has popped up (e.g. Are you sure you want to overwrite, blah, blah, blah). Usually the mouse randomly floats around while the user rolls a dice mentally, and they click whichever button they usually do...
Personally, I think that it's a case of functionality. Everyone seems to want software to have functionality, and this increases the chance of that functionality biting you in the arse.
Rumor has it that some early versions of Outlook automatically ran scripts. Dat's stupid, blame Msoft.
Otherwise, it's a case of functionality. Perhaps things should be shipped with functionality, but how many users would ever bother to discover it existed and use it in whatever limited form they felt was permissible?
I think we will see this spread to other "secure" OSes. As Linux makes it's way into home markets, either on embedded systems or not, the security will *have* to be relaxed. How many users are going to want to have to su to install a plug-in, or upgrade their web browser, or download a new utility. Either people will make the classic mistake and run as root, or the manufacture(e.g Redhat) or provider (e.g. Dell) will lower the security to the point where a virus can find and exploit the trust relationship. That's the problem...and it will happen.
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2. The point I'm making, is that the age of Quake II might actually have an impact. Since it's probably been recently ported, they've had the opportunity to use newer/cleaner/faster API calls, wheras the un-ported code on other platforms would be using whatever API calls were cut/bleed-ing edge then. I don't think it's a valid comparison unless both versions have the same genetics/optimization. In other words, it might not be a valid comparison between OSes, it might be faster because it's using more optimized GL calls. :)
Yeah, I'm probably griping a bit, it's technically impossible to come up with a valid comparison, but I bet that somebody could port Wolfenstein to BeOS, and in doing so put Dos to shame.
GLQuake and Quake 2? Jeez. How about something more recent, like Quake III or UT? I'm assuming that this has been ported, etc...and I'm wondering how modd'ed it has been to work on Be. If somebody wanted to, I'm sure they could go back and tweak Quake II's code using new algorithms/driver routines that would speed it up...which pretty much invalidates the comparison. IMHO.
Myst III Now this, I'm really looking forward too...hope they can keep up with Cyan's vision.
Riven has been release on CD and DVD, and I won't be surprised if they come up with some way to rerelease it in a few years...
Personally, I think they should work on a new game...continuing the Myst/Riven storyline (prequel, sequel, whatever). Having read all three Myst books, I think it's a really neat universe full of possibilities, and full of really neat fantasies and dreams. At times I wish it were true... I'd kinda like to see what Dni really looked like, but I guess that might spoil the imaginative image they've worked so hard to build (well, they described so that we could build in our minds, however we liked), but they could create a world linked from Dni anywhere/anytime to start a story....the possibilities are endless.
I don't know exactly what concept of Real-Time they're using, but there was a game like Myst which allow you to turn and pitch in real-time, Amerzone. Sorta like a bunch of linked Quicktime-VRs. Quality was a little poorer than it could have been, and the distortion from the panning-software was a little irritating. Kinda neat to see, but I perferred Myst's immersive sound-track, haunting visuals, and quality. The look of the RT 3D stuff just isn't the same (getting better than it used to be though!)
On a side-note, Amerzone *is* pretty cool, espc if you can pick it up for cheap (Walmart Canada was sellin em off a few months ago). Quality is not as good, plot was a little on the cheesy side, I found a non-recoverable bug, and it was way too short. (3 cds, but only took me 3 days....Myst was 1 cd and took me 2 weeks, course I was 14 or so at the time...) Still neat.
And is it just me, or is the intro to Myst one of the coolest (and simplest!!!) ever. I am forever haunted by that perfect voice starting "I realized the moment I fell into the fissure, that the book would not be destroyed as I had planned..."
A Bolo. Course, the armor plating and Hellbore might be a little hard to fashion, but that's all part of the challenge. Now I have to figure out how to distribute 10+ Ktons over lego baseplates.
Conversations with passengers generally don't have this problem, usually you can see them in the passenger seat or mirror. Also, the low quality/frequency range of cell phones probably requires more concentration too.
I know that sometimes when I'm tired and driving, I don't like to talk too much because it is distracting, and I try to minimize talking on my cell while driving for the same reason. Unfortunatly, too many drivers have no common sense and don't realize how dangerous they are when on their phones.
Not true, you can change the settings for the telnet server to allow plain text authentication (tlntadmn.exe). In a homogenous network tho, it makes sense to *not* allow plain-text, but of course you already know that are are using ssh instead of telnet, right? ;)
Tried one at the local Sony store, not bad quality...sorta grainy (standard three-color lcd grain) but definatly watchable. Wouldn't want to try and play something detailed like Command n Conquer on it...but anything else should be fine.
Just need a decent power source...
Have to find a mouse with super-heavy duty microswitches... :)
How hard is it to run a create a executable that does the following if received by a user who runs it thinking its the coolest game from their buddy? (assuming the user is your average brain-dead user who clicks "YES" without reading a message box...isn't that most of them?).
Similarly, it could instead modify
On a side note, Win2K finally has ability to easily run a program as another user. You can create a shortcut to an application and specify that you want to run it as another user...and it will ask for username/password when you run it. Creating a shortcut to cmd and naming it "su" can come in handy...
Multiple devices combined with bursts. Some of the ATA66 RAID cards are very nice apparently.
And would people stop griping about: I got X to work under AAA OS, but couldn't get X to work under BBB OS....it's very rare for someone to have an equal amount of competance in both OSes in the first place, so it very rarely makes a valid point.
On top of that, a number or people seem to have basic problems from not RTFM (e.g. hit F6 to install ATA/66 as a SCSI device under NT/2K during install) and make erroneous conclusions (e.g. "NT/2K doesn't support ATA/66 during install").
And yeah, what the hell is with moving everything into the PC? I understand the need to make things cheaper, but I really hate the idea of lose-modems and lose-dsl-modems.
Still need a good compromise between
- properly written, secure software
- secure, but unrestrictive (if possible) default settings
- (l)user education
- vigalence
- the occasional ok/cancel box that smacks the user upside the head if they click ok/cancel without reading it
It'll be interesting how the acceleration in the rate at which information spreads affects crime and mischief in general...Oh, and I still think people shouldn't praise open-source to the ends of the earth...it may be better than some/most of the alternatives, but I think it ain't no holy grail.
Depends if you're standing on the earth or not... If you are, the Earth seems to wobble (or your surroundings...depends what century you decide to live in), but if your looking from outside, yes, the Earth doesn't wobble. Shrug, no biggie either way.
I've heard of it happening. People have gotten these numbers (Social Insurance Number here in Canada) and gotten appropriate documentation to support their fake identifications. Then the orignal owner spent years fighting off CC companys, governments, collection agencies before being able to set everything straight. That's the scary part, the burden of proof goes upon the person's shoulders...if they can't prove it, they lose!
With a crappy faxed photocopy of a CC (which they already have all the information off of) and a driver's license? I doubt it. It's just a way to try and prevent somebody from snooping a number & name off of a transaction and using it anonymously...similar to stores which only ship to the billing address of the card.
Not wobble on its axis (degree of tilt), but wobble on the location of its axis (displacment in regards to the gravitational centre). At any given time, the earth actually rotates around a point which is slightly towards the location of the moon. This has no (significant) effects upon gravity.
Therefore, what's difference between licensing Napster and licensing a DVD? (besides the obvious-$$$)
Based on this, the original owner has every right to stipulate (in the license you bought) how/how-not you can use the property. That's the whole point of selling licenses.
(not trying to start an argument, just food-for-thought...I think the MPAA and DCMA suxors)
With the continents arranged in one large Pangea continent, would this be enough to orbit off-centered, with the center of rotation closer to Pangea than to the other side of the earth???
From what I've heard, the earth still wobbles, because of the moon, but the effect is very minimal. But, the point is that they behave more like a very large teeter-totter, with a 10000 pound bully on one end, and a 5 pound baby on the other...the balance point is still under the bully, but not exactly under his butt. :P
So, if a combined Pangea/geo-synch-ish moon/something-else was in effect, could this have caused the earth to orbit around a point significantly closer to the surface of Pangea than the current rotational center? Would this have been enough to lessen the impact of gravity? My physics sucks now, so I can't even begin to think through the implications enough....just thought it was a neat (if somewhat fantastic) solution to the difference between the size of prehistoric Earth and today's world.
Dinosaurs rock...but if anybody teaches them to roll, I'm outta here.
Shouldn't that be ~2^332.1928094887?
Why not just make moderation based on absolute levels. ie. If Moderator B sees post #42 at (2), then have the choices to moderate it to (1) and (3). They choose (3), but in the meantime Moderator A has changed it to (3) already. They submit, and because the change has already been affected, nothing happens. They retain moderation points, and possibly a notice appears at the top of the next page informing them that /. didn't need to use their points.
Punch tiny holes in the sides, cover them with semi-transparent plastic or paper, and network them with IRDA (4 Mbit wouldn't be *that* bad).
Power them with induction coils in the shelves (need serious shielding to protect the actual circuitry tho) and you're off to the races.
Personally, I want a cheap and easy way to do wireless networking. I don't care about small PCs, having a truly portable laptop or a small box that's connected to various equipment (stereo, etc) would be the most interesting project right now. Of course, having the mini-pc would be part of this scheme, but first we need someone to hack together a cheap way to network them.
D.
Hrm... I agree that a lot of people seem to comment too quickly about NT crashing/BSOD'ing. I've worked in environments where they had big-ass NT server boxen, and they stayed up 24/7. I've also found 2K damn stable running SMP on a BP6 (which ain't exactly renown for it's SMP stability, oc'ed or not), with video card drivers being the biggest stability flaw. I've had hard uptimes of 3 weeks easy, with virtual uptimes (where I manually rebooted to upgrade something) of around 5 weeks+. My Linux NAT/server box (vanilla RH install) used to spontaneously reboot more often than my 2K box did too...and my room-mate's X server used to crash fairly often on him... Not trying to pick a fight, but I think a lot of people need to consider their opinions more carefully. I've only ever used Solaris for a coupla hours tops on workstations, so I don't feel qualified to comment on it's abilities/stability, I think a fair number of /.'ers should consider applying a similar policy to the much-despised M$oft.
Personally, I think that it's a case of functionality. Everyone seems to want software to have functionality, and this increases the chance of that functionality biting you in the arse.