It was excellent if you were worried that they wouldn't understand the franchise AT ALL The trailer was basically a homage to the series.
p Now, it remains to be seen that they can actually implement it. I'm afraid they know very well that the game won't live up to the ideals, and they just wanted something out there to placate the masses (how ironic!). That it's being targeted at consoles isn't encouraging at all. Remember, this is a game where you expect to be able to -- if you so please -- murder children and fuck {wo}men. If it ain't gritty, it ain't fallout. It remains to be seen how you can get the grit in there for platforms which are basically aimed at children.
Where the hell have you people been, DRAM prices are at the bottom now. If anything, DDR2 is going to go up as manufacturers switch to DDR3, just as happened with plain old DDR once upon a time.
And no, DRAM isn't "always at their lowest". Here's a clue; go to dramexchange and check their handy graph at the upper left-hand corner.
If you're out to get some DDR2, today is the day to shop.
Don't panic! That was my worst-case scenario. They only thing I've read about it was, and this is from memory, a post I believe from Linus where he mentioned in passing that the inclusion of this patch was "difficult" which I took to mean "touched a lot of stuff and took a while to get right" which I then interpreted as "maybe I should wait and see".
The whole "it's in the stable kernel, therefore don't worry"-thinking doesn't carry a lot of weight with me, especially not since the whole concept of "stable kernel" (as opposed to one based on a development branch) seems to have been abandoned quite a while ago.
The real testing being when this hits distros. I'll probably try it later, maybe even wait for.22
If you just read the site (it's very small) you'll see that there are many no-obvious things you can detect with it. I personally do however consider it primarily a developer tool, but that might change. But even non-coding users can find out that the CDROM automounting polling is waking the CPU a lot, and disable that in battery mode, etc.
"With PowerTOP, I managed to increase the battery life of my Panasonic R4 laptop from 4 to almost 7 hours" -- Keith Packard, Principal Engineer at Intel
Sure, but I was thinking more like "I went with NO_HZ and then apparently the initialization code for my controller freaked out and ate my RAID-set" type problems, not "The SSH daemon didn't start."
But this isn't a boolean value, you can be almost certain that your typical user do not understand the huge difference between full load and idle in power consumption and therefore money.
Read up a bit, it's about applications behaving in energy inefficient ways (waking the CPU) when they could get the same work done without waking the CPU as often. This concerns polling loops and such, as well as things you normally don't think about, like animated cursors. powertop helps you track down which applications are behaving badly, so that they can be fixed.
I have a server at home that I'm about to upgrade the kernel on, and I would very much like to have it as energy efficient as possible... but I worry about stability. Is NO_HZ safe?
The mechanical ciphering machine invented by Alexander von Kryha in 1924
received the Prize of the Prussian Ministry of the Interior at the 1926 Police Fair
and a Diploma from the famous postwar Chancellor of Germany, Konrad
Adenauer, at the International Press Exhibition in Cologne two year later. Von
Kryha was not only an inventor, but also an astute entrepreneur. To promote his
commercial venture Internationale Kryha Machinen Gesellschaft of Hamburg,
Kryha turned to the famous mathematician Georg Hamel for an endorsement.
Hamel calculated the size of the key space to be 4.57*10^50 and concluded that
only immortals could cryptanalyze Kryha ciphertext. Not withstanding Hamels
estimate, a cryptanalysis of the Kryha machine by Friedman did not require as
much time and is described in the ''2 Hours, 41 Minutes,'' a chapter in Machine
Cryptography and Modern Cryptanalysis [Devoirs and Ruth, 1985].
from ''Computer Security and Cryptography'', Alan G. Konheim.
I had a similar idea, but I was going to encrypt something of mine with todays date in "Monthname daynum, YYYY" format, and then go around the web posting threats everywhere the date is used.
What, some set of numbers are more magical than anothers?:-)
From memory, I believe the original meaning behind the word 'decimation' come from the old military practice of, if your troops don't behave (not brave enough, not following orders, not getting the job done), you line them up and kill one tenth yourself, as a message to the rest to work harder. So the idea that it means something "more brutal today" is insane.
Back in the 80s and 90s I read and cherished every new issue of a certain home computing magazine (for a while I was getting two). But after the internet exploded, it seems quite pointless. There was a while there where I'd consider buying Dr.Dobbs, but then they became... boring (not to mention silly expensive in this part of the world).
I'm currently paying for GDM but delivered online. Not very convinient to read (in fact it's almost painful, with the whole issue being multiple layers of images (for "protection" purposes) all wrapped up in javascript), but a year/w all back-issues was very cheap.
But this is the new baseline according to nVidia, partners will then sell overclocked versions of the Ultra. XFX are quoted as saying they'll introduce three different speed grades of it, which sounds crazy to me considering what a gigantic novelty item this is.
Just between you and me, Real pirates roam the seas, not the tubes. Since these pirates are known to actually, you know, steal and kill, it cheapens things when you refer to copyright infringers as "real pirates"
Sure it's broken. He's a vexatious litigant and a disgrace to the profession; he should be disallowed from filing lawsuits without explicit permission of the courts. That's it. Problem solved.
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Pictures and more info at TR and specs at VIA
Touchscreen?! I'd prefer a WS in there and do away with the "Dock", and then a PCCARD slot for expansion, but anyhow..
Huh? EE's create DRM and DRM-like systems all the time, you mean "true professionals" like that, or some other kind?
Also, you can always join the ACM if you want to buy into an ethics package.
I'll postulate that the game can't be a good Fallout and NOT draw his vexatious attention.
It was excellent if you were worried that they wouldn't understand the franchise AT ALL The trailer was basically a homage to the series.
p Now, it remains to be seen that they can actually implement it. I'm afraid they know very well that the game won't live up to the ideals, and they just wanted something out there to placate the masses (how ironic!). That it's being targeted at consoles isn't encouraging at all. Remember, this is a game where you expect to be able to -- if you so please -- murder children and fuck {wo}men. If it ain't gritty, it ain't fallout. It remains to be seen how you can get the grit in there for platforms which are basically aimed at children.Where the hell have you people been, DRAM prices are at the bottom now . If anything, DDR2 is going to go up as manufacturers switch to DDR3, just as happened with plain old DDR once upon a time.
And no, DRAM isn't "always at their lowest". Here's a clue; go to dramexchange and check their handy graph at the upper left-hand corner.
If you're out to get some DDR2, today is the day to shop.
Don't know where you've been hiding, but Sam & Max are back!
Don't panic! That was my worst-case scenario. They only thing I've read about it was, and this is from memory, a post I believe from Linus where he mentioned in passing that the inclusion of this patch was "difficult" which I took to mean "touched a lot of stuff and took a while to get right" which I then interpreted as "maybe I should wait and see".
The whole "it's in the stable kernel, therefore don't worry"-thinking doesn't carry a lot of weight with me, especially not since the whole concept of "stable kernel" (as opposed to one based on a development branch) seems to have been abandoned quite a while ago.
The real testing being when this hits distros. I'll probably try it later, maybe even wait for .22
It wasn't AUH though, so it'd make a lousy story submission as is.
If you just read the site (it's very small) you'll see that there are many no-obvious things you can detect with it. I personally do however consider it primarily a developer tool, but that might change. But even non-coding users can find out that the CDROM automounting polling is waking the CPU a lot, and disable that in battery mode, etc.
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Guess you could accuse him of bias...
Sure, but I was thinking more like "I went with NO_HZ and then apparently the initialization code for my controller freaked out and ate my RAID-set" type problems, not "The SSH daemon didn't start."
But this isn't a boolean value, you can be almost certain that your typical user do not understand the huge difference between full load and idle in power consumption and therefore money.
Read up a bit, it's about applications behaving in energy inefficient ways (waking the CPU) when they could get the same work done without waking the CPU as often. This concerns polling loops and such, as well as things you normally don't think about, like animated cursors. powertop helps you track down which applications are behaving badly, so that they can be fixed.
I have a server at home that I'm about to upgrade the kernel on, and I would very much like to have it as energy efficient as possible... but I worry about stability. Is NO_HZ safe?
On the dangers of assuming keyspace => security:
from ''Computer Security and Cryptography'', Alan G. Konheim.
No one else can be as innovative as Apple.. Oh, wait...
Shut up you stupid cunt.
I had a similar idea, but I was going to encrypt something of mine with todays date in "Monthname daynum, YYYY" format, and then go around the web posting threats everywhere the date is used.
What, some set of numbers are more magical than anothers? :-)
From memory, I believe the original meaning behind the word 'decimation' come from the old military practice of, if your troops don't behave (not brave enough, not following orders, not getting the job done), you line them up and kill one tenth yourself, as a message to the rest to work harder. So the idea that it means something "more brutal today" is insane.
If there is such a thing (and there is not), then I'm going to warn you Hollywood; each and every time I pay to watch a movie, I feel virtually raped.
Back in the 80s and 90s I read and cherished every new issue of a certain home computing magazine (for a while I was getting two). But after the internet exploded, it seems quite pointless. There was a while there where I'd consider buying Dr.Dobbs, but then they became... boring (not to mention silly expensive in this part of the world).
I'm currently paying for GDM but delivered online. Not very convinient to read (in fact it's almost painful, with the whole issue being multiple layers of images (for "protection" purposes) all wrapped up in javascript), but a year /w all back-issues was very cheap.
But this is the new baseline according to nVidia, partners will then sell overclocked versions of the Ultra. XFX are quoted as saying they'll introduce three different speed grades of it, which sounds crazy to me considering what a gigantic novelty item this is.
Just between you and me, Real pirates roam the seas, not the tubes. Since these pirates are known to actually, you know, steal and kill, it cheapens things when you refer to copyright infringers as "real pirates"
We can have really cool bootsector demos now!
Sure it's broken. He's a vexatious litigant and a disgrace to the profession; he should be disallowed from filing lawsuits without explicit permission of the courts. That's it. Problem solved.