Unfortunately it looks like at the moment the various collections from Activision are out of print. It's too bad. The design of the games seperated data from code quite cleanly making it possible to write a play enine for just about any platform. I have many of these wonderful classics on my Palm handheld.
The Niagara uses Ultrasparc III type cores which have limited single thread performance. This limits this design to certain applications that are highly concurrent in nature. More interesting is the Next Gen Rock CPU which will have highly parallel Rock CPUs.
You file it as a bug, use the data that caused the failure in a new test.
The problem we face is that the failure is in the arena of performance, and it occurs on a Sun E15K with a 20 TB database on an EMC box at a customers site. And we don't have anything remotely close to that level of hardware available internally, nor will we ever. And everytime we propose infrastructure improvements in the software they don't make the development schedule because they are bumped in favor of features that the sales force has already committed to delivering.
You are wrong. The people being hurt by this are average working stiffs. Rich people hire custodians for their property so this won't happen. The average Joe gets sick, unemployed, has to move in woth his family, etc. Bye-bye house.
Well, considering the rootkit can easily be carried into the office by people wanting to listen to their protected music at work this software does at least rise to the point of annoyance for corporations too. Not to mention that it phones home, and other malwares have appeared that use the cloaking nature of this software to hid themselves.
Considering that this rootkit allows you to hide cheat programs from programs looking for online game cheats I would think the gamiong community would have a real axe to grind.
Of course Microsoft has a lack of focus. They spend too much time knee-jerking when the stock price of one of their competitors goes ballistic. Over-attention to competition and jumping from one topic to another (.Net, XBox, you name it, flavor du jour) is the best way to drive a company into the ground.
MS needs to get its own house in order and execute first. This fiasco with Vista being the perfect example.
The good news for Microsoft is that it sure looks like Google is losing focus now. Next they will have a disappointing quarter and a stock plunge, and then be like everyone else.
Not surprising. Mr. Lerner is a well-known crackpot - having wack jobs like him running around detracts from the developmnet of real alternative energy sources, much to the benefit of the mega oil companies. It would be much more likely that he is being funded by the oil companies than assassinated by them.
He is a perfect fit with tabloid web sites like slashdot.
In this case, the US is meddling in the affairs of everyone else by controlling the name servers that everyone uses.
The US publishes a root zone file that everyone uses. If you don't like it, you don't have to use it. The US doesn't control what nameservers you or your ISP use. If you don't like them, set up your own.
Perhaps the "World Domination Doctrine" would be a more apt name.
What a load of bullcrap. What this is a power grab run by 'progressive' countries like China etc. who want to be able to wring freedom of speach out of the internet.
The patent examiners have a technical background. It is not merely some non-technical judge that needs to be convinced, (the judge merely asked the patent department to re-examine - he didn't rule on the patent validity) but rather a board of examiners who re-examined the patent who actually have the technical background in the field.
If you look at the actual case the first time the patent was rejected the examiner had to assemble a counter example from 5 different technology areas to come up with something somewhat close to the Eolas implementation. This in itself made the Eolas case - such a process is not exactly within the coverage of 'obvious to one with ordinary skill in the art' that is necessary to reject a patent on obviousness.
I used to buy my stuff from the Chip Merchant, but when they sold out the character of the operation changed remarkably. I was probably one of their earliest customers - I found them in MacWeek, and remember hearing a woman and child in the background when placing an order. They guy was probably working out of his house at the time.
It's sad to see a company that used to be trustworthy turn to the dark side like this. Needless to say I am no longer one of their customers.
BUT as far as changing owners, they have no right to just blow you off. You have a contract with them. Contact the BBB in the area they are located, as well as the State Attorney general. A lot of companies try to screw people knowing that they just will not be persistant enough to complain. When they start getting letters from the Attorney General it will get their attention. I have done this in cases where the company tried to stiff me on a rebate. It usually works.
No, it wasn't. The Ars article is out of date and wrong besides. The March 2004 ruling was an appeals judge throwing out the original trial results and ordering a re-exam.
The patent was filed in 1994. Whups. And you can claim priority back to when the invenstion was actually made, which likely to be a year or two before the filing.
It covers ideas that were floating around as early as the 1970s, things which are so obvious that any computer scientist or engineer will come up with the same solution before you even finish explaining the problem to them - hell I came up with the same concept before I even saw a web browser because it's so mind-bogglingly obvious
So you are saying that Microsoft's patent attorneys are total idiots and hopelessly incompetant, and you, personally have the One True Answer? Somehow I doubt it.
I am not sure if I am ready for a 20" laptop, but I would sure like the choices in the 17" models to increase. Maybe this will drive down the price of the displays and improve the popularity of these models.
The biggest problem is that the USA is getting away with a lot of this stuff
And what nation doesn't get away with this? This sort of finder pointing is baloney.
Replacing the USA's role in the internet with an impartial UN-backed body would also avoid the problem of global choices being made here
More baloney. All it would do is replace one set of masters with a different set, and since the primary agitators for this are countries like China and the Middle Eastern theocracies there is no way you can legitimately state that things will be getting better. Not to mention the UN proposals to tax email and domain names to fund universal connectivity (or corruption).
What should be done is to take the approach of diversity rather than centralized control. Divy up the IPv6 address space and let every nation have a piece. Grandfather the existing non-country TLDs with the US and then let the countries that want the the UN to pick TLDs make their own bed to lie in. Others would be free to continue with the US or to roll their own. The result will be a diversity of choices and a redudundancy that will do more to insure the free flow of knowledge than any central authority could.
Those that play nice will prosper, those that don't won't.
Stop being so fucking paranoid about the Internet. So DARPA funded it years ago. Big fricking deal. We've moved on since then. Get over it and deal with it.
The problem is that what people are asking for is control of an already existing infrastructure being run in the US. It would be like the UN demanding control of all balloon flights world-wide, including those currently occurring in France.
My opinion is that what should be done is simple - split up the IPv6 address space and grandfather the part the US already runs. The UN or whatever other world wide organization can use another IPv6 address space and set up its own set of TLDs and publish its root name server hints file. The technical infrastructure to do this should not be a problem except in repressive countries who certainly won't want to see this.
The result will be diverse and redundant, which is really good for the freedom of information flow. And we will shortly see who is right in terms of who can best run the thing.
Slashdot Mirror
The Era of Infocom is fondly remembered indeed.
http://www.latz.org/infocom/
Unfortunately it looks like at the moment the various collections from Activision are out of print. It's too bad. The design of the games seperated data from code quite cleanly making it possible to write a play enine for just about any platform. I have many of these wonderful classics on my Palm handheld.
Frotz!
But will they actually have better single-thread performance
Yes, I miswrote the original comment - I meant that Rock would contain Sparc IV cores.
The Niagara uses Ultrasparc III type cores which have limited single thread performance. This limits this design to certain applications that are highly concurrent in nature. More interesting is the Next Gen Rock CPU which will have highly parallel Rock CPUs.
The 4 threads per core is designed exactly for that issue. If a thread is waiting for memory, execution can proceed on a different thread.
People are fixating on bird flu simply because it has made the jump from birds to humans.
....
Well, yes. This follows the same evolution as other flu pandemics -
1. Bird Flu
2. Infect Mammal
3. Mutate
4.
5. Pandemic!
We are basically waiting for 3 right now.
It's not such a simple thing because poorest countries don't have the infrastructure to deliver the drug even if they got it for free.
The more you tighten your grip, Sony, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.
The more ridiculous they make the EULA the more likely the whole thing will will get chucked out in court.
You file it as a bug, use the data that caused the failure in a new test.
The problem we face is that the failure is in the arena of performance, and it occurs on a Sun E15K with a 20 TB database on an EMC box at a customers site. And we don't have anything remotely close to that level of hardware available internally, nor will we ever. And everytime we propose infrastructure improvements in the software they don't make the development schedule because they are bumped in favor of features that the sales force has already committed to delivering.
Sounds like a rich person's problem to me
You are wrong. The people being hurt by this are average working stiffs. Rich people hire custodians for their property so this won't happen. The average Joe gets sick, unemployed, has to move in woth his family, etc. Bye-bye house.
Well, considering the rootkit can easily be carried into the office by people wanting to listen to their protected music at work this software does at least rise to the point of annoyance for corporations too. Not to mention that it phones home, and other malwares have appeared that use the cloaking nature of this software to hid themselves.
It is just a dirty deal.
Considering that this rootkit allows you to hide cheat programs from programs looking for online game cheats I would think the gamiong community would have a real axe to grind.
Yes, but most Linux users don't log into their machine as root.
Of course Microsoft has a lack of focus. They spend too much time knee-jerking when the stock price of one of their competitors goes ballistic. Over-attention to competition and jumping from one topic to another (.Net, XBox, you name it, flavor du jour) is the best way to drive a company into the ground.
MS needs to get its own house in order and execute first. This fiasco with Vista being the perfect example.
The good news for Microsoft is that it sure looks like Google is losing focus now. Next they will have a disappointing quarter and a stock plunge, and then be like everyone else.
Not surprising. Mr. Lerner is a well-known crackpot - having wack jobs like him running around detracts from the developmnet of real alternative energy sources, much to the benefit of the mega oil companies. It would be much more likely that he is being funded by the oil companies than assassinated by them.
He is a perfect fit with tabloid web sites like slashdot.
In this case, the US is meddling in the affairs of everyone else by controlling the name servers that everyone uses.
The US publishes a root zone file that everyone uses. If you don't like it, you don't have to use it. The US doesn't control what nameservers you or your ISP use. If you don't like them, set up your own.
Perhaps the "World Domination Doctrine" would be a more apt name.
What a load of bullcrap. What this is a power grab run by 'progressive' countries like China etc. who want to be able to wring freedom of speach out of the internet.
This option sounds less attractive than a pointy stick in the eye.
The patent examiners have a technical background. It is not merely some non-technical judge that needs to be convinced, (the judge merely asked the patent department to re-examine - he didn't rule on the patent validity) but rather a board of examiners who re-examined the patent who actually have the technical background in the field.
If you look at the actual case the first time the patent was rejected the examiner had to assemble a counter example from 5 different technology areas to come up with something somewhat close to the Eolas implementation. This in itself made the Eolas case - such a process is not exactly within the coverage of 'obvious to one with ordinary skill in the art' that is necessary to reject a patent on obviousness.
No, the patent is valid under current law.
There is a big old BBB seal right on the web site.
Methinks they are a member. If not I am sure the BBB would be interested to know that their trademarks are being used without permission.
I used to buy my stuff from the Chip Merchant, but when they sold out the character of the operation changed remarkably. I was probably one of their earliest customers - I found them in MacWeek, and remember hearing a woman and child in the background when placing an order. They guy was probably working out of his house at the time.
It's sad to see a company that used to be trustworthy turn to the dark side like this. Needless to say I am no longer one of their customers.
BUT as far as changing owners, they have no right to just blow you off. You have a contract with them. Contact the BBB in the area they are located, as well as the State Attorney general. A lot of companies try to screw people knowing that they just will not be persistant enough to complain. When they start getting letters from the Attorney General it will get their attention. I have done this in cases where the company tried to stiff me on a rebate. It usually works.
This patent was overturned in March 2004
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No, it wasn't. The Ars article is out of date and wrong besides. The March 2004 ruling was an appeals judge throwing out the original trial results and ordering a re-exam.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,122786,
Recently the USPTO reaffirmed the patent is valid.
The patent was filed in 1994. Whups. And you can claim priority back to when the invenstion was actually made, which likely to be a year or two before the filing.
It covers ideas that were floating around as early as the 1970s, things which are so obvious that any computer scientist or engineer will come up with the same solution before you even finish explaining the problem to them - hell I came up with the same concept before I even saw a web browser because it's so mind-bogglingly obvious
So you are saying that Microsoft's patent attorneys are total idiots and hopelessly incompetant, and you, personally have the One True Answer? Somehow I doubt it.
I am not sure if I am ready for a 20" laptop, but I would sure like the choices in the 17" models to increase. Maybe this will drive down the price of the displays and improve the popularity of these models.
The biggest problem is that the USA is getting away with a lot of this stuff
And what nation doesn't get away with this? This sort of finder pointing is baloney.
Replacing the USA's role in the internet with an impartial UN-backed body would also avoid the problem of global choices being made here
More baloney. All it would do is replace one set of masters with a different set, and since the primary agitators for this are countries like China and the Middle Eastern theocracies there is no way you can legitimately state that things will be getting better. Not to mention the UN proposals to tax email and domain names to fund universal connectivity (or corruption).
What should be done is to take the approach of diversity rather than centralized control. Divy up the IPv6 address space and let every nation have a piece. Grandfather the existing non-country TLDs with the US and then let the countries that want the the UN to pick TLDs make their own bed to lie in. Others would be free to continue with the US or to roll their own. The result will be a diversity of choices and a redudundancy that will do more to insure the free flow of knowledge than any central authority could.
Those that play nice will prosper, those that don't won't.
Stop being so fucking paranoid about the Internet. So DARPA funded it years ago. Big fricking deal. We've moved on since then. Get over it and deal with it.
The problem is that what people are asking for is control of an already existing infrastructure being run in the US. It would be like the UN demanding control of all balloon flights world-wide, including those currently occurring in France.
My opinion is that what should be done is simple - split up the IPv6 address space and grandfather the part the US already runs. The UN or whatever other world wide organization can use another IPv6 address space and set up its own set of TLDs and publish its root name server hints file. The technical infrastructure to do this should not be a problem except in repressive countries who certainly won't want to see this.
The result will be diverse and redundant, which is really good for the freedom of information flow. And we will shortly see who is right in terms of who can best run the thing.
May the best root file win.