SuSE, RedHat, Debian and Microsoft all used AMD64 simply because nobody knew (or could publicly admit knowing) that Intel would also support the x86-64 instruction set. Now that Intel's behind it along with AMD, the x86-64 moniker makes even more sense.
A big thumbs-down goes to Intel marketing for hiding the truth, but a big thumbs-up goes to the Intel product/engineering team(s) for choosing to make their 64-bit consumer chips compatible.
I have been playing games for most of my life, starting in the mid-to-late eighties. I am still a keen gamer now.
While I have played numerous memorable games on various platforms, I must thank the team at Black Isle Studios for producing what in my opinion is simply the best game of all time: PlaneScape: Torment.
Your dedication to the art of crafting amazing computer role-playing games went above and beyond the call of duty. I am grateful to have been given the opportunity to experience your masterpiece.
It's a sad day to see BIS close, but I hope that the talented individuals that comprised this team will move on to accomplish grander and greater deeds. If you decide to change the directions of your lives, please do so knowing your dedication and ingenuity has produced something so wondrous that at least one man would be happy to shout you beers all night were our paths to cross.
A heartfelt thanks like no other in my time gaming goes to you all.
(wow. that was rather sentimental, but that just goes to show how PS:T transcended the medium.)
Why are supercomputers primarily benchmarked by their speed? The answer comes when you consider that almost all labour-saving devices are measured in the work they perform in a given period of time.
Time is the only truly finite resource from a human perspective. As technology has progressed, distances have been conquered, vast energies harnessed, but old Father Time is still inescapable.
As a result, we place great value on just how much time is taken to accomplish anything.
I won't name my employer for confidentiality reasons, but it's a large IT company. I won't quote it's policy directly either, again for confidentiality, but can tell you that my company only owns my creations when they were created as a direct result of my duties.
If I choose to spend my own time at home to create something, and in doing so was not performing work directly for my company, then it's mine.
With my line manager's sign-off, I can even work for other companies. Of course, that would only be granted where there was no possibility of a conflict of interest, but the policy is there.
I don't know how Australia handles the issue of "check off any random candidate because I have to vote"
We don't have this problem. Everyone aged 18 years or older must vote, meaning they get checked off on the electoral roll and are given a ballot paper that they must place into the ballot box.
There is nothing in the system that states that the vote must be valid. If you want, you can put a blank ballot paper into the ballot box, or write an essay on the evils of the preferential voting system, or whatever you please as long as you show up and put the ballot paper in the box.
Our vote counters and scrutineers then remove the "donkey votes", as they are known, from the rest during the counting process.
The whole point of this is to get truly representative government, or as close to it as practical.
However, I would LOVE if there were a "I DO NOT want this candidate in power" option, and checking off a candidate would DEDUCT a vote
The Australian preferential voting system effectively gives you this ability, by allowing you to place your voting preferences in order. The candidate you loathe would be placed last amongst your preferences, meaning that under no circumstances would s/he get your vote, even if it meant your vote went the the 2nd-worst candidate.
It's too bad this Slashdot story and comments won't be seen by those who would benefit the most from it. While I cannot be certain, I would surmise that the Great Firewall of China would block access to Slashdot. It's a shame, as it is commentary like the +5s above which would be of more use to policy-makers than Barrett's pearls of wisdom.
Prepare to deal with the bane of IP networks... rogue DHCP servers.
Any sufficiently large LAN event will inevitably include attendees who for some reason run Windows 2000 Server with a DHCP Server Service configured. Without the proper tools, tracking these down can be a nightmare. Be prepared. Ideally, you'd have managed switches that can tell you what port a given MAC address is connected on, coupled with sniffers to tell you which MAC address is the source of the DHCP service. The DHCP protocol monitor plugin for Snort IDS can be used for this latter purpose (and Snort can also be used to detect hack attempts and DoS attempts).
These tools will also help in identifying conflicting IP addresses.
Alternatively, Neo may have tapped the "battery" energy within him (and all humans) and put out an EMP. His having more "capacity" might even help explain how not only he can be trained to ignore the rules of the Matrix, but also actually alter it at will (through his own tapped power). At the final EMP, his physical self may have finally learned how to discharge that energy in the real world -- hence his coma, the result of having no energy remaining.
I can't speak for the USA, but at least in Australia (and by virtue of Common Law, probably the UK, too), for a contract to exist between two parties, there must be some form of consideration exchanged (ie. the user must have made some kind of payment to the author).
Hence, free software that comes with disclaimers cannot be held to merchantability or "fitness for purpose" requirements without specific laws being passed to force such requirements for software.
Microsoft, and any other vendor that sells software licenses, on the other hand, is forming a contract with the user at the time of the sale.
She definitely has some I/O capabilities, though:p
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They were advertising "high speed" broadband internet access. It may well be broadband, but it certainly isn't "high speed" broadband.
"Low speed broadband" would have been more appropriate, but of course, they would've made their offering pale in comparison with real "high speed" broadband, so greed took over and caused them to advertise in a misleading fashion.
Take it quietly for now, then remember it when the market picks up again and you get to choose: who to work for, when you want to leave, and how much to charge. >:)
My current plan is to ride this out in my current, moderately stable job where I'm still earning dotcom-boom money, and spend even more time than usual on skilling up.
I'm not claiming that the MS product is any better, but rather that the parent post's claim of the impossibility of having mainframe transactions available on the web is false.
Now imagine that suddenly your clientele (college students in my case) suddenly want all their data to be accessible via the web. Now do you chuck the old busted system? No, you instead place more systems on top of it to interface it with your web system. Synchronization? Forget about it. Transactional data over the web? Not gonna happen.
Seeing as my job these last few years has been designing, building and supporting a system that provides web-based access to mainframe transactions, I recommend you do a little more investigation before quitting. Let me give you a starting point: COM Transaction Integrator on Microsoft SNA Server/Host Integration Server.
Where did you get the idea that shareware on the PC has bad connotations? Maybe in the applications category, yes, but as for games, can you say Commander Keen, Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Doom II, Duke Nukem 3D and Quake?
... in other news, Microsoft SQL Server 2000 is now being included in the RedHat 8.2 distribution's default install, and a security bulletin has been released for MacOSX 10.2 Print Services running on the Commodore 64.
I don't know about desensitisation, but years of LAN parties playing team-based FPSes such as Quake Clan Arena, Counter-Strike and such had my friends and I absolutely devastate all opposition the very first time we played skirmish/paintball, just because we knew how to work as a team in a squad-based combat. This despite only one of eight of us having every used a firearm.
I can see it now: special forces recruiting from CS tournaments.:)
This reminds me of a certain other graphics vendor (now departed), who relied upon developers optimising specifically for their chipset. Then came a new entrant, who provided a chipset that outperformed it when using standard APIs like Direct3D and OpenGL.
It's ironic that I'm referring to 3dFX and the then-incumbent nVIDIA, where now it's nVIDIA expecting developers to optimise for it's cards, while ATI makes sure their card is fast without specific optimisations.
I hope nVIDIA sees the parallels, and wakes up to itself. I'd hate to see the heated competition in the graphics market come to an abrupt end due to nVIDIA's arrogant assumptions on how developers should do their thing sending it under.
Unfortunately for you, it will install on Pentium-class systems running at frequencies less than 200MHz. Tom's Hardware managed to install and benchmark WinXP on a Pentium 100, despite Microsoft's claimed minimum system requirements. TH also claims that, at least in theory, you could install WinXP on a 486.
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SuSE, RedHat, Debian and Microsoft all used AMD64 simply because nobody knew (or could publicly admit knowing) that Intel would also support the x86-64 instruction set. Now that Intel's behind it along with AMD, the x86-64 moniker makes even more sense.
A big thumbs-down goes to Intel marketing for hiding the truth, but a big thumbs-up goes to the Intel product/engineering team(s) for choosing to make their 64-bit consumer chips compatible.
Don't worry.
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Nobody but you reads the articles on
I have been playing games for most of my life, starting in the mid-to-late eighties. I am still a keen gamer now.
While I have played numerous memorable games on various platforms, I must thank the team at Black Isle Studios for producing what in my opinion is simply the best game of all time: PlaneScape: Torment.
Your dedication to the art of crafting amazing computer role-playing games went above and beyond the call of duty. I am grateful to have been given the opportunity to experience your masterpiece.
It's a sad day to see BIS close, but I hope that the talented individuals that comprised this team will move on to accomplish grander and greater deeds. If you decide to change the directions of your lives, please do so knowing your dedication and ingenuity has produced something so wondrous that at least one man would be happy to shout you beers all night were our paths to cross.
A heartfelt thanks like no other in my time gaming goes to you all.
(wow. that was rather sentimental, but that just goes to show how PS:T transcended the medium.)
Why are supercomputers primarily benchmarked by their speed? The answer comes when you consider that almost all labour-saving devices are measured in the work they perform in a given period of time.
Time is the only truly finite resource from a human perspective. As technology has progressed, distances have been conquered, vast energies harnessed, but old Father Time is still inescapable.
As a result, we place great value on just how much time is taken to accomplish anything.
I won't name my employer for confidentiality reasons, but it's a large IT company. I won't quote it's policy directly either, again for confidentiality, but can tell you that my company only owns my creations when they were created as a direct result of my duties.
If I choose to spend my own time at home to create something, and in doing so was not performing work directly for my company, then it's mine.
With my line manager's sign-off, I can even work for other companies. Of course, that would only be granted where there was no possibility of a conflict of interest, but the policy is there.
I don't know how Australia handles the issue of "check off any random candidate because I have to vote"
We don't have this problem. Everyone aged 18 years or older must vote, meaning they get checked off on the electoral roll and are given a ballot paper that they must place into the ballot box.
There is nothing in the system that states that the vote must be valid. If you want, you can put a blank ballot paper into the ballot box, or write an essay on the evils of the preferential voting system, or whatever you please as long as you show up and put the ballot paper in the box.
Our vote counters and scrutineers then remove the "donkey votes", as they are known, from the rest during the counting process.
The whole point of this is to get truly representative government, or as close to it as practical.
However, I would LOVE if there were a "I DO NOT want this candidate in power" option, and checking off a candidate would DEDUCT a vote
The Australian preferential voting system effectively gives you this ability, by allowing you to place your voting preferences in order. The candidate you loathe would be placed last amongst your preferences, meaning that under no circumstances would s/he get your vote, even if it meant your vote went the the 2nd-worst candidate.
You imagine incorrectly. My Seagate 15K.3 drive runs quieter and cooler than both my 7200 rpm IDE drives (WD 400BB and 800JB FYI).
Visit storagereview.com for heat and noise data, and you will be surprised.
It's too bad this Slashdot story and comments won't be seen by those who would benefit the most from it. While I cannot be certain, I would surmise that the Great Firewall of China would block access to Slashdot. It's a shame, as it is commentary like the +5s above which would be of more use to policy-makers than Barrett's pearls of wisdom.
Prepare to deal with the bane of IP networks... rogue DHCP servers.
Any sufficiently large LAN event will inevitably include attendees who for some reason run Windows 2000 Server with a DHCP Server Service configured. Without the proper tools, tracking these down can be a nightmare. Be prepared. Ideally, you'd have managed switches that can tell you what port a given MAC address is connected on, coupled with sniffers to tell you which MAC address is the source of the DHCP service. The DHCP protocol monitor plugin for Snort IDS can be used for this latter purpose (and Snort can also be used to detect hack attempts and DoS attempts).
These tools will also help in identifying conflicting IP addresses.
Alternatively, Neo may have tapped the "battery" energy within him (and all humans) and put out an EMP. His having more "capacity" might even help explain how not only he can be trained to ignore the rules of the Matrix, but also actually alter it at will (through his own tapped power). At the final EMP, his physical self may have finally learned how to discharge that energy in the real world -- hence his coma, the result of having no energy remaining.
Amen. If you're going to argue for OSS, make damn sure you know enough about MS products to be able to find comparable OSS offerings.
I can't speak for the USA, but at least in Australia (and by virtue of Common Law, probably the UK, too), for a contract to exist between two parties, there must be some form of consideration exchanged (ie. the user must have made some kind of payment to the author).
Hence, free software that comes with disclaimers cannot be held to merchantability or "fitness for purpose" requirements without specific laws being passed to force such requirements for software.
Microsoft, and any other vendor that sells software licenses, on the other hand, is forming a contract with the user at the time of the sale.
She definitely has some I/O capabilities, though :p
They were advertising "high speed" broadband internet access. It may well be broadband, but it certainly isn't "high speed" broadband.
"Low speed broadband" would have been more appropriate, but of course, they would've made their offering pale in comparison with real "high speed" broadband, so greed took over and caused them to advertise in a misleading fashion.
Take it quietly for now, then remember it when the market picks up again and you get to choose: who to work for, when you want to leave, and how much to charge. >:)
My current plan is to ride this out in my current, moderately stable job where I'm still earning dotcom-boom money, and spend even more time than usual on skilling up.
I'm not claiming that the MS product is any better, but rather that the parent post's claim of the impossibility of having mainframe transactions available on the web is false.
Now imagine that suddenly your clientele (college students in my case) suddenly want all their data to be accessible via the web. Now do you chuck the old busted system? No, you instead place more systems on top of it to interface it with your web system. Synchronization? Forget about it. Transactional data over the web? Not gonna happen.
Seeing as my job these last few years has been designing, building and supporting a system that provides web-based access to mainframe transactions, I recommend you do a little more investigation before quitting. Let me give you a starting point: COM Transaction Integrator on Microsoft SNA Server/Host Integration Server.
Puzzle, much like Tetris.
Where did you get the idea that shareware on the PC has bad connotations? Maybe in the applications category, yes, but as for games, can you say Commander Keen, Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Doom II, Duke Nukem 3D and Quake?
... in other news, Microsoft SQL Server 2000 is now being included in the RedHat 8.2 distribution's default install, and a security bulletin has been released for MacOSX 10.2 Print Services running on the Commodore 64.
Despite the parent being moderated Funny, his/her statement about how stupid laws get treated (ignored) in Australia is Informative.
I don't know about desensitisation, but years of LAN parties playing team-based FPSes such as Quake Clan Arena, Counter-Strike and such had my friends and I absolutely devastate all opposition the very first time we played skirmish/paintball, just because we knew how to work as a team in a squad-based combat. This despite only one of eight of us having every used a firearm.
:)
I can see it now: special forces recruiting from CS tournaments.
I did indeed. Silly me :) Sorry about the confusion.
This reminds me of a certain other graphics vendor (now departed), who relied upon developers optimising specifically for their chipset. Then came a new entrant, who provided a chipset that outperformed it when using standard APIs like Direct3D and OpenGL.
It's ironic that I'm referring to 3dFX and the then-incumbent nVIDIA, where now it's nVIDIA expecting developers to optimise for it's cards, while ATI makes sure their card is fast without specific optimisations.
I hope nVIDIA sees the parallels, and wakes up to itself. I'd hate to see the heated competition in the graphics market come to an abrupt end due to nVIDIA's arrogant assumptions on how developers should do their thing sending it under.
Unfortunately for you, it will install on Pentium-class systems running at frequencies less than 200MHz. Tom's Hardware managed to install and benchmark WinXP on a Pentium 100, despite Microsoft's claimed minimum system requirements. TH also claims that, at least in theory, you could install WinXP on a 486.