Ok, so how does that relate to real world computing then? How often does an application do the same thing over and over again?
Yes, this is a good thing for the Crusoe, but just how many people sit there and run their favorite program twice in a row with the exact same data both times? Seems kinda redundant.
Since when were elections ever based on qualification? People vote for who they relate to, who they feel will represent them. I may feel that one of the candidates is superbly suited for the job, but if he feels differently on some issues then I do, I probably wouldn't vote for him.
In which case, Mozilla wins again. IE5.5 = 15 meg. An embedded ver of Mozilla comes in below 10 (usable by Galeon or Skipstone or whatever else). That's just the browser, no mail, news, etc.
When was the last time you ever told a Win95 box to go get IE5 for it? I totally disagree that IE5 is any smaller then Mozilla. A typical IE5 install can run you 50-100 megs. Uhm, no.
..why not? Think of some people who do a lot of sewing: Housewives. Or Housepeople or whatever you want to call them to be PC. And these types of people have kids.
Is it so much of a stretch to imagine that a lot of houses out there have a Game Boy? It may be one the most successful portable game console ever.
If you don't need to reinvent the wheel, then don't do it! Sewing machines cost a lot anyway, a cheap old or new Game Boy doesn't add that much cost, and if it does the job, let it do the job.
I'm sorry, I didn't realize I needed to justify my existance to you.
Jesus Christ indeed, you have a Score:2? Man, I thought I was appealing to the Slashdot Elite. Looks like I only was heard by fools and the ignorant.
Figure it out for yourself buddy. If you want to be a Troll, what the fuck do you need a holiday for? Go wild. Use that Karma. Abuse Slashdot. Hell, everyone else is, with or without my being here.
I can assure you, I wasn't impressed any by this game either. I think it was the fact that I beat it in one night (at a LAN party) that did it.
My friends and I compared it to the average Voyager episode: Fun, but lacking. The fact that the final boss was just some big Foozle that didn't even move wasn't very helpful either.
I will give it credit for being a decent recreation of the Voyager atmosphere. The Borg excursions were most interesting, even if that strangely-numbered-Species were far too easy to kill. And like Malor said, the puzzles are braindead-dumb and the battles get horribly repetitive.
Actually, part of the problem is that the music does not belong to the artists, it belongs to the record companies. They own the copyrights.
We watch them claim to defend the artists when they couldn't care less about them. They only care about their profits.
Up until I read the Home Recording Act, I thought to myself "Well, Napster does stick it to the man, but it's hardly legal." But the law says that non-profit music sharing is totally legal. It became legal when they said we were all criminals and should pay the price of our crime before we even commit it.
You pay tax on every medium that records audio. This tax goes directly to the RIAA. It is meant to be compensation for the copyright violation you're expected to perform with this medium.
Methinks I ought to use that damn preview button. Not only did I leave that link dangling, I linked the wrong fsking site..
Precisely. If I pay, I'm going to pay for a service. And, the design of Napster puts the gist of the service in the hands of the client. I'm not going to pay Napster for sharing my music.
It's been proven by all the OpenNap servers out there (www.napigator.com) the cost of running these big databases of what-files-are-where is fairly low.
Simply put, this will be another tax from the RIAA, just like the taxes on CDR's, DAT's and everything else. Noone wants to line their pockets further.
Precisely. If I pay, I'm going to pay for a service. And, the design of Napster puts the gist of the service in the hands of the client. I'm not going to pay Napster for sharing my music.
Simply put, this will be another tax from the RIAA, just like the taxes on CDR's, DAT's and everything else. Noone wants to line their pockets further.
Of course it does (uh, duh). Is a ten year old better able to argue concepts than a five year old? It's not a question of intelligence, it's a question of knowledge and experience. The older you are, the more time you have had to accumulate knowledge. That is obviously going to affect your ability to evaluate facts and circumstances. And obviously, we are talking about generalities and not specifics (i.e., a 40 year old is not always more knowledgeable than a 20 year old).
Way to talk in a circle. You make an argument, then go ahead and withdraw it, saying it's a gross generalisation. Besides which, your argument was flawed in the first place. Significant growth and development occur in the human body between ages 5 and 10, less significant development occurs between ~25 and upwards (actually, they stop calling it development and start calling it aging after that, don't they?).
Also, just because you gain knowlege, it doesn't make you right over time. Especially when things change as fast as they do online. What you learned 10 years ago can be perfectly useless today. Yes, you have that knowlege, but if it cannot be used or applied, it does you no good. You can't really use it to make decisions.
Experience, on the other hand, is completely different than knowlege, but it is so varied from person to person that it's not even worth arguing over. Just think of an Olympic athlete: Very very young, but has experiences that most people can't even dream about.
Siggy was very right in saying that you can't judge his ability to argue based on his age. Base a person's ability to argue on their arguments, not the person behind them. To do otherwise is discrimination, simple as that.
Irrelevent, since we are talking about the original sense of the word in the context of computers, which is the sense of the word that the media is using
In which case, you have it backwards. A hacker was someone that performed hacks, or feats of skill using limited resources. In other words, enthusiasts. The first meaning of hacker was the enthusiast one.
Your book only counts if the CD seal says 'You can't redistribute once this seal is broken.'
This is a very specific case, CD's with books have been around for a long time. Someone is trying to bind you to a restrictive contract that is enforcable based on a seal.
You should see some of the parody pages that Bush has (www.gwbush.com, look at the listing of parody sites on the page). He tried to have the sites pulled, and is talking about there being 'limits to freedom' and calling for registration of all political websites.
Now, that's actually scary. If this man gets elected, it just might become law.
I'm so tempted to agree.. But I think it should be a matter of personal preference. As much as I like being a little buzzed (and I'm not the only one, at least 1/3 of the people I work with do it too), I know for a fact that I think more clearly after a few days off of weed.
Of course, this only depends on if you think when you work. I didn't need to think at my last IT job (I was a button-pusher) but now that I'm trying to do some work for myself, I've found that I need my wits about me.
Actually, this brings up another point. Why would Bungie want to code for a console, they've always made games that are in non-console genres.
When I say that I refer to Bungie's prevailing genres: FPS and Strategy games. Genres that don't translate to consoles.
I love consoles for a lot of things.. Chrono Cross is my current obsession and will continue to be so for a while to come, and my preordered PSX2... Well, need I go on?:)
I just had to do this. I needed to vent about this whole Bungie situation. Here, we have one of the oldest and, bar-none, coolest software companies known to man.
I don't know how many hours I lost to Marathon, its sequels, WW, Myth, Myth II.. I planned to lose massive amounts of time to Oni and Halo. But since the announcement..
Well, I haven't seen Oni (still). That game just looked so damn cool. Anime brought to life. What's worse, Halo. That game literally put my jaw on the floor. And that was before seeing the game in motion on the trailers.
What was even better was that it was Bungie, a company that was committed to being cross platform and even committed to Linux. And here we see that being tread on. Bungie is being tread on. The thought honestly fills me with anger. Here is one of the brightest groups of people making games. Here is a group of people who gets as much respect from the Macheads as id software does from PC enthusiasts.
And they're being tread on.
*sigh* I was looking forward to Halo too.. And on Linux no less. Not some console game. No, I'm not slamming consoles. I just like having a keyboard and a mouse for shooter games. Excuse me, I'm gonna go cry now.
You've hit the nail on the head. This is why graphics card reviewers use tests like the old Crusher demo.
You push the hardware as hard as it can go and you can get a good idea of how low your framerate will go in a frantic 10-people-on-the-screen-why-am-i-reloading mode:o)
I just put together an AMD 900 w/ a GeForce2 MX for a friend and it almost made me consider my personal boycott on nVidia. On my old computer and on the new one, sitting still on the average game, i get a good framerate. But when it heats up, the new computer doesn't lose framerate. And that's the difference between life and death in a game.
So why is it that we've made all these advances in graphics hardware but we still accept 30-40fps as a 'standard'? Honestly, I'd prefer a game that looks a little less glitzy and delivers 40fps at ALL times. The gameplay is what it's about, isn't it?
I have no idea where you're coming from now. Microsoft distributes help files in a variety of stupid ways (the Help program, HTML, evil hybrids, etc).
No matter what way I view it, the program i view it with is taking the documentation from file and formatting it to be displayed. Same as Linux, only on Linux, you have general tools to do the formatting that can be reused. Your argument is like saying "Dammit, I want to view Help files but I don't want to install the Help program! Boo hiss!"
OK, instead of applying liberal moderation, I figured I'd reply to this obviously silly post.
Performatted man pages? Are you mad my man? i18n, portability, the ability to display on an 80x24 term or an arbitrary size framebuffer. You are talking out of your ass.
You talk about it 'not standing up to the commercial review.' Word processors format documents. Documents don't format themselves. Any commercial or open source word processor acts this way. Besides which, preformatting would make them less printable (ack, it's preformatted for 80x24, not A4 paper!) and LARGER.
I thought the one of the big points of the Home Recording Act was to line the pockets of the RIAA and company, but at the same time, not rob the common citizen of their rights by making not-for-profit music swapping legal.
Here we are, a few years later. By acting in the letter of a pro-consumer law, we are being trampled, and the rights guaranteed to us by this law are being stripped away. And still, we line the pockets of the RIAA.
This isn't merely depressing, it's utterly disgusting. The laws are being picked and chosen by the government. They ignore the ones that give us rights (Fair Use, Free Speech, a'la the DeCSS thing) and promote the ones that strip us of our rights (DMCA, UCITA).
Once again, fine line. Chess is a very logical and structured game. It requires a high level of mental discipline.
Unreal Tournament is an action game. It requires reflexes. Fairly tuned ones as well if a 360 degree circle is physically manifested as a 3 inch mouse movement.
However, this is apples to oranges. One is a game of depth, the other is a matter of lining up pixels and pressing the trigger.
True, to an extent. But don't think you can equate computer gaming to a high intensity sport. The only fair comparison that I can make is that a gamer has most of the reflexes of a trained athlete, but none of the physical strength or mental discipline.
After all, how many ski jumpers go around saying "d00d!! I cl3ared 4 g1bs0n$!! 1M l33t!!"
Am I the only one who thinks the whole 'glamour' that's developing around the computer gaming industry is a bunch of crap? I've gamed all my life, and I still do. But the ego wars, the "professional gamers" and what not..
I guess you could say "This ain't your Daddy's Wolfenstein." Is anyone else struck by the utter absurdity of it all? The developers aren't Gods, and getting 500 frags in a Quake tournamen't won't get you laid!
Yeah, but as long as our protocols aren't encrypted, then you should be able to detect the redundancy inside it..
Even when I send encrypted data over TCP/IP, I get all the FIN's and ACK's and what not. Even if the content is never read, lets hope the protocol is noticed.
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Ok, so how does that relate to real world computing then? How often does an application do the same thing over and over again?
Yes, this is a good thing for the Crusoe, but just how many people sit there and run their favorite program twice in a row with the exact same data both times? Seems kinda redundant.
Since when were elections ever based on qualification? People vote for who they relate to, who they feel will represent them. I may feel that one of the candidates is superbly suited for the job, but if he feels differently on some issues then I do, I probably wouldn't vote for him.
In which case, Mozilla wins again. IE5.5 = 15 meg. An embedded ver of Mozilla comes in below 10 (usable by Galeon or Skipstone or whatever else). That's just the browser, no mail, news, etc.
Bloat?
When was the last time you ever told a Win95 box to go get IE5 for it? I totally disagree that IE5 is any smaller then Mozilla. A typical IE5 install can run you 50-100 megs. Uhm, no.
..why not? Think of some people who do a lot of sewing: Housewives. Or Housepeople or whatever you want to call them to be PC. And these types of people have kids.
Is it so much of a stretch to imagine that a lot of houses out there have a Game Boy? It may be one the most successful portable game console ever.
If you don't need to reinvent the wheel, then don't do it! Sewing machines cost a lot anyway, a cheap old or new Game Boy doesn't add that much cost, and if it does the job, let it do the job.
I'm sorry, I didn't realize I needed to justify my existance to you.
Jesus Christ indeed, you have a Score:2? Man, I thought I was appealing to the Slashdot Elite. Looks like I only was heard by fools and the ignorant.
Figure it out for yourself buddy. If you want to be a Troll, what the fuck do you need a holiday for? Go wild. Use that Karma. Abuse Slashdot. Hell, everyone else is, with or without my being here.
I can assure you, I wasn't impressed any by this game either. I think it was the fact that I beat it in one night (at a LAN party) that did it.
My friends and I compared it to the average Voyager episode: Fun, but lacking. The fact that the final boss was just some big Foozle that didn't even move wasn't very helpful either.
I will give it credit for being a decent recreation of the Voyager atmosphere. The Borg excursions were most interesting, even if that strangely-numbered-Species were far too easy to kill. And like Malor said, the puzzles are braindead-dumb and the battles get horribly repetitive.
Actually, part of the problem is that the music does not belong to the artists, it belongs to the record companies. They own the copyrights.
We watch them claim to defend the artists when they couldn't care less about them. They only care about their profits.
Up until I read the Home Recording Act, I thought to myself "Well, Napster does stick it to the man, but it's hardly legal." But the law says that non-profit music sharing is totally legal. It became legal when they said we were all criminals and should pay the price of our crime before we even commit it.
You pay tax on every medium that records audio. This tax goes directly to the RIAA. It is meant to be compensation for the copyright violation you're expected to perform with this medium.
The Good: ISP's aren't responsible for content.
The Bad: ISP's can't be regulated by the FCC.
This leads us to the ugly: AOL. Everyone knows that the next big thing will be merging cable and internet and phone services.
Methinks I ought to use that damn preview button. Not only did I leave that link dangling, I linked the wrong fsking site..
Precisely. If I pay, I'm going to pay for a service. And, the design of Napster puts the gist of the service in the hands of the client. I'm not going to pay Napster for sharing my music.
It's been proven by all the OpenNap servers out there (www.napigator.com) the cost of running these big databases of what-files-are-where is fairly low.
Simply put, this will be another tax from the RIAA, just like the taxes on CDR's, DAT's and everything else. Noone wants to line their pockets further.
Precisely. If I pay, I'm going to pay for a service. And, the design of Napster puts the gist of the service in the hands of the client. I'm not going to pay Napster for sharing my music.
It's been proven by all the OpenNap servers out there (www.opennap.com) the cost of running these big databases of what-files-are-where is fairly low.
Simply put, this will be another tax from the RIAA, just like the taxes on CDR's, DAT's and everything else. Noone wants to line their pockets further.
Also, just because you gain knowlege, it doesn't make you right over time. Especially when things change as fast as they do online. What you learned 10 years ago can be perfectly useless today. Yes, you have that knowlege, but if it cannot be used or applied, it does you no good. You can't really use it to make decisions.
Experience, on the other hand, is completely different than knowlege, but it is so varied from person to person that it's not even worth arguing over. Just think of an Olympic athlete: Very very young, but has experiences that most people can't even dream about.
Siggy was very right in saying that you can't judge his ability to argue based on his age. Base a person's ability to argue on their arguments, not the person behind them. To do otherwise is discrimination, simple as that. In which case, you have it backwards. A hacker was someone that performed hacks, or feats of skill using limited resources. In other words, enthusiasts. The first meaning of hacker was the enthusiast one.
Your book only counts if the CD seal says 'You can't redistribute once this seal is broken.'
This is a very specific case, CD's with books have been around for a long time. Someone is trying to bind you to a restrictive contract that is enforcable based on a seal.
You should see some of the parody pages that Bush has (www.gwbush.com, look at the listing of parody sites on the page). He tried to have the sites pulled, and is talking about there being 'limits to freedom' and calling for registration of all political websites.
Now, that's actually scary. If this man gets elected, it just might become law.
I'm so tempted to agree.. But I think it should be a matter of personal preference. As much as I like being a little buzzed (and I'm not the only one, at least 1/3 of the people I work with do it too), I know for a fact that I think more clearly after a few days off of weed.
Of course, this only depends on if you think when you work. I didn't need to think at my last IT job (I was a button-pusher) but now that I'm trying to do some work for myself, I've found that I need my wits about me.
Actually, this brings up another point. Why would Bungie want to code for a console, they've always made games that are in non-console genres.
:)
When I say that I refer to Bungie's prevailing genres: FPS and Strategy games. Genres that don't translate to consoles.
I love consoles for a lot of things.. Chrono Cross is my current obsession and will continue to be so for a while to come, and my preordered PSX2... Well, need I go on?
I just had to do this. I needed to vent about this whole Bungie situation. Here, we have one of the oldest and, bar-none, coolest software companies known to man.
I don't know how many hours I lost to Marathon, its sequels, WW, Myth, Myth II.. I planned to lose massive amounts of time to Oni and Halo. But since the announcement..
Well, I haven't seen Oni (still). That game just looked so damn cool. Anime brought to life. What's worse, Halo. That game literally put my jaw on the floor. And that was before seeing the game in motion on the trailers.
What was even better was that it was Bungie, a company that was committed to being cross platform and even committed to Linux. And here we see that being tread on. Bungie is being tread on. The thought honestly fills me with anger. Here is one of the brightest groups of people making games. Here is a group of people who gets as much respect from the Macheads as id software does from PC enthusiasts.
And they're being tread on.
*sigh* I was looking forward to Halo too.. And on Linux no less. Not some console game. No, I'm not slamming consoles. I just like having a keyboard and a mouse for shooter games. Excuse me, I'm gonna go cry now.
You've hit the nail on the head. This is why graphics card reviewers use tests like the old Crusher demo.
:o)
You push the hardware as hard as it can go and you can get a good idea of how low your framerate will go in a frantic 10-people-on-the-screen-why-am-i-reloading mode
I just put together an AMD 900 w/ a GeForce2 MX for a friend and it almost made me consider my personal boycott on nVidia. On my old computer and on the new one, sitting still on the average game, i get a good framerate. But when it heats up, the new computer doesn't lose framerate. And that's the difference between life and death in a game.
So why is it that we've made all these advances in graphics hardware but we still accept 30-40fps as a 'standard'? Honestly, I'd prefer a game that looks a little less glitzy and delivers 40fps at ALL times. The gameplay is what it's about, isn't it?
I have no idea where you're coming from now. Microsoft distributes help files in a variety of stupid ways (the Help program, HTML, evil hybrids, etc).
No matter what way I view it, the program i view it with is taking the documentation from file and formatting it to be displayed. Same as Linux, only on Linux, you have general tools to do the formatting that can be reused. Your argument is like saying "Dammit, I want to view Help files but I don't want to install the Help program! Boo hiss!"
OK, instead of applying liberal moderation, I figured I'd reply to this obviously silly post.
Performatted man pages? Are you mad my man? i18n, portability, the ability to display on an 80x24 term or an arbitrary size framebuffer. You are talking out of your ass.
You talk about it 'not standing up to the commercial review.' Word processors format documents. Documents don't format themselves. Any commercial or open source word processor acts this way. Besides which, preformatting would make them less printable (ack, it's preformatted for 80x24, not A4 paper!) and LARGER.
I thought the one of the big points of the Home Recording Act was to line the pockets of the RIAA and company, but at the same time, not rob the common citizen of their rights by making not-for-profit music swapping legal.
Here we are, a few years later. By acting in the letter of a pro-consumer law, we are being trampled, and the rights guaranteed to us by this law are being stripped away. And still, we line the pockets of the RIAA.
This isn't merely depressing, it's utterly disgusting. The laws are being picked and chosen by the government. They ignore the ones that give us rights (Fair Use, Free Speech, a'la the DeCSS thing) and promote the ones that strip us of our rights (DMCA, UCITA).
What a sad state of affairs.
Once again, fine line. Chess is a very logical and structured game. It requires a high level of mental discipline.
Unreal Tournament is an action game. It requires reflexes. Fairly tuned ones as well if a 360 degree circle is physically manifested as a 3 inch mouse movement.
However, this is apples to oranges. One is a game of depth, the other is a matter of lining up pixels and pressing the trigger.
ROFL.
True, to an extent. But don't think you can equate computer gaming to a high intensity sport. The only fair comparison that I can make is that a gamer has most of the reflexes of a trained athlete, but none of the physical strength or mental discipline.
After all, how many ski jumpers go around saying "d00d!! I cl3ared 4 g1bs0n$!! 1M l33t!!"
Am I the only one who thinks the whole 'glamour' that's developing around the computer gaming industry is a bunch of crap? I've gamed all my life, and I still do. But the ego wars, the "professional gamers" and what not..
I guess you could say "This ain't your Daddy's Wolfenstein." Is anyone else struck by the utter absurdity of it all? The developers aren't Gods, and getting 500 frags in a Quake tournamen't won't get you laid!
Yeah, but as long as our protocols aren't encrypted, then you should be able to detect the redundancy inside it..
Even when I send encrypted data over TCP/IP, I get all the FIN's and ACK's and what not. Even if the content is never read, lets hope the protocol is noticed.