The general principle is that each additional meter of height is like adding the kinetic energy of another.45 cal bullet. Hence, a mere six-meter (19.8-foot) fall, which would be routine for an action hero, compares to being simultaneously shot by six.45 cal bullets, from a kinetic energy standpoint. True, bullets are incredibly lethal because they can easily penetrate into vital organs. A fall on sidewalk would lack the penetration. However, it's pretty hard to completely avoid injury from being shot six times with a.45, even when wearing a bulletproof vest.
Now what kind of a dumbass analogy is that? You don't need to be shot by six bullets to get injured, one will do just fine. However I (and I'm sure most of you too) have survived 1-meter falls numerous times without injuries. Does that mean if I get shot by one bullet I wont get hurt? Hell no.
Yes a six meter fall will most likely hurt you, but pick a better analogy.
Funny you should mention space-age. After all space-age came upon as direct result of the the cold war. Nothing drives technology forward like war does. Even without there being an actual wat going on, the military can spend staggering amounts of money on R&D, with results eventully propagating to civilian sector. Jet engined figher -> jet engined commercial planes. Unmanned bomber -> unmanned commercial planes.
Not needing a pilot would greatly benefit civilian aviation too, lower cost (no cockpit, no pilots, no pilot training) and increased safety (most crashes are caused by human error, sept 11 would have been impossible if there were no controls in the plane).
And what's wrong with better and more accurate weapons? Isn't it better to use smart bombs than indisicriminate carpet bombing are shelling? Less civilian casualties. Yeah sure, "I would like there to be no wars" - wouldn we all. But looking at the world it's pretty clear that global peace isn't going to happen anytime soon.
Joke or not, it's true. Higher speed will help only when installing software or ripping audio. I install maybe one piece CD-distributed software per month, and never rip any audio CDs. Most of the time when my CD-ROM drive is in use (game wants it there for copy protection reasons etc) 2-4x would be more than enough. Of course 2-4x is a little slow when you do need to install software, but 16x does a full readthrough of a CD in 5 minutes. Going over 16x the most notable difference is more errors, longer spin-up times and more noise. Sure you will install MS Office in 9 minutes instead of 12 (remeber that installation usually consists of more than just copying a few files), but 95% of the time the extra speed offers from zero to negative benefit.
Must be a Linux (or more likely X) thing, on my Win2K box opening new window takes <1sec, new tab is instantenious.
IE 6 opens a new window at about same speed mozilla creates a new tab (pretty impressive), but IE6 doesn't have that "middle mouse button opens link in new window" feature so overall IE loses.
> Want to install the latest security or feature patches? Click a check box and hit "install".
That's bullshit. Latest security patches find their way to windows update several days, if not weeks, after their initial release. Windows Update is great service but unfortunately Microsoft uses it mainly for distributing the latest version of IE/MP/Messenger. I'm sure that one of the factors causing long delays is that I don't use an english language version of Windows, but my friedns who do say it isn't much better. I hope to see more security patches in Windows Update now that Microsoft has promised to take the matter seriously, we'll see how it goes.
And before anyone says this is just FUD from a linux fanboy let me say that the only OS in my PC is Windows 2000 and I have no plans to change that.
BAD idea. Throwing in all the major architectural changes at once will result in total chaos that is going to be next to impossible to fix. Do you get disk corruption because:
a) block caching was altered
b) VFS was changed
c) ext2 was rewritten
d) any/all of the above combined with the new scheduler/VM/device numbering?
Oh and lets not forget linux isn't exclusively x86. If fixing one arch is hard, try to imagine fixing 20.
There should be a 'make update' that atomatically retrieves (from the nearest mirror) the patch, uncompresses it and performs the patching. I can't imagine it would be too hard to code and the ease of use should convince even the "I have a 100M pipe so I don't bother with patches"-people to use it.
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Fix the exhange rate to be $1 = €1 and you could switch overnight. All would need to teach the europeans to recognise the dollar and americans to recognise the euro, but actual change could be done in a day. Euro would become good money in America and the dollar would become good in Europe. Then start phasing out the other currency, you can have a very long grace periond (even several years!) because there is not danger of confusion because of exchange rates.
Euro started at about $1.10 and is now less than $0.90, I think $1 = €1 could well happen in the future. Of course the political will is missing so it wont actually happen..
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I think the primary motivation behind the colors of the euro notes is helping vision impaired people recognise them. Imagine an elderly person paing in a poorly lit shop. Is he/she giving the salesperson a 10 or a 100 dollar bill? 10 vs. 100 euros: €10 is red, €100 is green - easy pick. Also notice how the left side of the bill is white, printed on that with big numbers is the value. Good contrast easy to see even if have bad eyesight. The bills also difffer in physical size (quite significantly), so even blind people can tell them apart.
I happen to think this kind of consideration is great and should be applauded, even if some people might think it makes the money look a bit cheesy.
Read the Linus vs. Tanenbaum thread. While it is a comparison of Linux and Minix, it gives you a pretty good indication of how Linus feels (or felt at the time) about microkernels in general. Here is one quote (my bold): "True, linux is monolithic, and I agree that microkernels are nicer. With a less argumentative subject, I'd probably have agreed with most of what you said. From a theoretical (and
aesthetical) standpoint linux looses." --Linus
The thing is, Linus does care about speed difference. A lot.
90% of games today aren't that great.. but let's face it, 90% of games from 10 years ago aren't that great either. You only remeber the good games, and most of the time you remeber them being better than they actually were. For example, many of the so called classic games are sickeningly repetitive; nobody would play games like DigDug or Bubble Bobble these days, no matter how pretty graphics they had.
As for saying the graphics sucked back then - I disagree. It's all relative, remeber when games first started using 256 color palette? Nobody said it sucked, it was fucking awesome.
IDE drives report the write done as soon as all the data is in the cache. When you shut down you computer, the OS waits for a few seconds before powering down, just to make sure the cache gets flushed. Win2000 actually had a bug in that it powered down too soon, before all the data was written on disk.
And what would be the benefit of having 256M RAM + 256M cache, compared to 512M of RAM? RAM is way faster, up to several GB/s, while ATA can only do 133MB/s at best. Also, the OS has more control over how RAM is used, allowing better optimisations on per application and access basis.
Awesome? You insensitive bastard! Almost 200 sailors died and call the video awesome? I tell you, it's almost as big of an insult as calling a map "nifty"!
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Create a copyprotetion technology (it doens't even have to work because braking it is illegal).
Patent said technology.
Make said technology the only copyright protection for next generation CD/DVDs.
Gather patent licensing fees for every PC that comes with a CD/DVD drive. They can set the license fee as high as they want because a computer without this tech is illegal.
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And then a hacker can try to guess the cookie value.
You can build a fancy authentification system using 2048 bit RSA an whatnot, but even that can be broken by guessing. You just need to make sure there are so many possibilities that no one ever guesses right. Use cookies or use CGI-parameters, it really doesn't matter.
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That is just outrageus! And I know for a fact that there is another hole in hotmail that involves guessing. In the front page you can type in anyone's username and try to guess the password. And they won't do anything about that either! Those guys at MS are ASSHOLES!
We are talking about a brute force attack here. Every password and all encryption (except OTP) can be broken with a brute force approach. But if the brute force attack takes 500 million years to find the correct password/key/whatever, who cares.
The stats for Quake3 have never really been that good, especially when compared to CS. It's not dying however, the numbers are not dropping at a significant rate. Quake3 has very loyal following.
IMHO, the lack of megapopularity has been a real blessing to Q3: while the community may be small compared to Counter Strike, it is of better quality. Go to any CS-related forum and you'll find cheating to be #1 topic. Cheating in seems to be common, with accusations of cheating reaching ridiculous numbers. I personally don't play CS but I do like to watch other people play, and things can sometimes get very ugly. Q3-players on the other hand are mostly skillfull (newbies tend to go with the most popular game) and very well behaved (no cheating - heck, not even name calling). And of course, smaller the community is, the stronger it is - people actually have a chance to get to know eachothers.
Not to badmouth Counter Strike players, I know many of them are very cool people, but there are more than just a couple of bad apples. And yes, I used to play Q3 a lot, actually so much that I got carpal tunnel, so I'm probably biased.
Different Future Crew member went on to found two companies: Remedy Entertainment which just released Max Payne, and BitBoys, the designers of the infamous Pyramid3D (good chip, just late for market) and Glaze3D (vapor) 3D-cores. While working on Max Payne the Remedy people also released the Final Reality benchmark (which actually has Max Payne ad in it). Although the people were essentially the same, the company that did FR was different, called Future Mark. Future Mark later renamed to Mad Onion, and has since released the 3DMark benchmarking tools.
What's the point to of all what I'm saying? Well, Mature Furk is of course a simple anagram of Future Mark...
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Now what kind of a dumbass analogy is that? You don't need to be shot by six bullets to get injured, one will do just fine. However I (and I'm sure most of you too) have survived 1-meter falls numerous times without injuries. Does that mean if I get shot by one bullet I wont get hurt? Hell no.
Yes a six meter fall will most likely hurt you, but pick a better analogy.
Not needing a pilot would greatly benefit civilian aviation too, lower cost (no cockpit, no pilots, no pilot training) and increased safety (most crashes are caused by human error, sept 11 would have been impossible if there were no controls in the plane).
And what's wrong with better and more accurate weapons? Isn't it better to use smart bombs than indisicriminate carpet bombing are shelling? Less civilian casualties. Yeah sure, "I would like there to be no wars" - wouldn we all. But looking at the world it's pretty clear that global peace isn't going to happen anytime soon.
Joke or not, it's true. Higher speed will help only when installing software or ripping audio. I install maybe one piece CD-distributed software per month, and never rip any audio CDs. Most of the time when my CD-ROM drive is in use (game wants it there for copy protection reasons etc) 2-4x would be more than enough. Of course 2-4x is a little slow when you do need to install software, but 16x does a full readthrough of a CD in 5 minutes. Going over 16x the most notable difference is more errors, longer spin-up times and more noise. Sure you will install MS Office in 9 minutes instead of 12 (remeber that installation usually consists of more than just copying a few files), but 95% of the time the extra speed offers from zero to negative benefit.
IE 6 opens a new window at about same speed mozilla creates a new tab (pretty impressive), but IE6 doesn't have that "middle mouse button opens link in new window" feature so overall IE loses.
That's bullshit. Latest security patches find their way to windows update several days, if not weeks, after their initial release. Windows Update is great service but unfortunately Microsoft uses it mainly for distributing the latest version of IE/MP/Messenger. I'm sure that one of the factors causing long delays is that I don't use an english language version of Windows, but my friedns who do say it isn't much better. I hope to see more security patches in Windows Update now that Microsoft has promised to take the matter seriously, we'll see how it goes.
And before anyone says this is just FUD from a linux fanboy let me say that the only OS in my PC is Windows 2000 and I have no plans to change that.
a) block caching was altered
b) VFS was changed
c) ext2 was rewritten
d) any/all of the above combined with the new scheduler/VM/device numbering?
Oh and lets not forget linux isn't exclusively x86. If fixing one arch is hard, try to imagine fixing 20.
There should be a 'make update' that atomatically retrieves (from the nearest mirror) the patch, uncompresses it and performs the patching. I can't imagine it would be too hard to code and the ease of use should convince even the "I have a 100M pipe so I don't bother with patches"-people to use it.
Euro started at about $1.10 and is now less than $0.90, I think $1 = €1 could well happen in the future. Of course the political will is missing so it wont actually happen..
I happen to think this kind of consideration is great and should be applauded, even if some people might think it makes the money look a bit cheesy.
[* - Luckily, people will never learn so we can avoid this stupid shit altogether]
The thing is, Linus does care about speed difference. A lot.
Because it takes them a staggering five days to "reproduce the behaviour" - even when working exploit code is provided for them.
As for saying the graphics sucked back then - I disagree. It's all relative, remeber when games first started using 256 color palette? Nobody said it sucked, it was fucking awesome.
And what would be the benefit of having 256M RAM + 256M cache, compared to 512M of RAM? RAM is way faster, up to several GB/s, while ATA can only do 133MB/s at best. Also, the OS has more control over how RAM is used, allowing better optimisations on per application and access basis.
Awesome? You insensitive bastard! Almost 200 sailors died and call the video awesome? I tell you, it's almost as big of an insult as calling a map "nifty"!
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Start a mirror if you are so worried.
Here is the real link to the PC1066 review: http://www.aceshardware.com/Spades/read.php?articl e_id=45000217
I also recommend checking out their new PC1066 RDRAM review, which really shows shows you just how bandwidth dependant the Pentium 4 is.
You can build a fancy authentification system using 2048 bit RSA an whatnot, but even that can be broken by guessing. You just need to make sure there are so many possibilities that no one ever guesses right. Use cookies or use CGI-parameters, it really doesn't matter.
We are talking about a brute force attack here. Every password and all encryption (except OTP) can be broken with a brute force approach. But if the brute force attack takes 500 million years to find the correct password/key/whatever, who cares.
"Zeppelin NT? I bet it'll crash alot! HAHAHAHA!!11". Jesus F*ing Christ, my mother could have come up with that one.
IMHO, the lack of megapopularity has been a real blessing to Q3: while the community may be small compared to Counter Strike, it is of better quality. Go to any CS-related forum and you'll find cheating to be #1 topic. Cheating in seems to be common, with accusations of cheating reaching ridiculous numbers. I personally don't play CS but I do like to watch other people play, and things can sometimes get very ugly. Q3-players on the other hand are mostly skillfull (newbies tend to go with the most popular game) and very well behaved (no cheating - heck, not even name calling). And of course, smaller the community is, the stronger it is - people actually have a chance to get to know eachothers.
Not to badmouth Counter Strike players, I know many of them are very cool people, but there are more than just a couple of bad apples. And yes, I used to play Q3 a lot, actually so much that I got carpal tunnel, so I'm probably biased.
Q: Can anyone attend boozembly, or do only sceners qualify?
What's the point to of all what I'm saying? Well, Mature Furk is of course a simple anagram of Future Mark...