AMD, Intel and Sun have all reached the conclusion that 'Mhz don't matter'.
Wrong. Intel archetected their entire P4 line around having higher clock speeds in order to fool the public. This isn't a rumor, I worked there at the time.
They realized that when someone went to buy a computer, performance didn't matter as much as a big number. Consumers think a P3 running at 800mhz is much faster than a P3 running at 700mhz, and don't even consider stuff like video card, memory, and disk speed, much less differences in chip archetectures.
I mean, there's a reason why P4s performed so bad. Its not like they were all done making them and realized "Oh no! This thing isn't performing that well! Its barely better than a P3!" they knew it as they started to design it.
_AMD_ realized that they couldn't win the numbers battle, and renamed their chips to compensate. I hope it works better than when Cyrix did it.
When I install Redhat, Slackware, etc, I can just stick in the disk, boot, and install, with all my my hardware, including USB mouse/keyboard detected.
When I install Debian potato OR the new woody boot disks, I need to hit shift to get a prompt, then type linux ide2=0x9400,0x9002 at the boot prompt to get it to recognize my ata100 drive.
Later, I need to go through individual modules to install, rather than the model name themselves. How the hell am I supposed to know that emu1k means "Sound Blaster Live". Many other distros autodetect.
The potato distro and the woody-reiserfs disk i've recently gotten still don't work with my 1 year old nvidia card. Later, in order to configure X, I need to know how to change my apt source, use apt-get to upgrade to a newer XFree, know to type dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86. Then, instead of saying I have a "Sony S1000" monitor, I need to know that my monitor can handle 1024x768 at 75htz.
Then, I either have to modify lilo to force the ide2=0x9400,0x9002, or I need to recompile the kernel. If I do recompile the kernel, I also need to screw around with mknod in the/dev directory to get my usb stuff to work, since a mouse device isn't created, and I usually have to use modconf to make sure all of my modules are loaded.
Maybe you haven't tried other distributions in a while, but you DON'T have to do this under Redhat.
I don't think so. Slashdot IS a pro-open source/linux/geek board. While some people just enjoy running Linux, others carefully make sure all of their software is open source, so thats useful info.
On this page, under "Operating Systems" they list:
X-Box: W2k Kernel
PS2: Closed, Sony proprietory
Cube: Closed, Nintendo proprietory
That should be:
X-Box: Closed, Microsoft proprietory
PS2: Closed, Sony proprietory
Cube: Closed, Nintendo proprietory
I like how having the OS be the W2k kernel is presented as a bonus. You have to pay a hefty license to develop/publish a game on ALL the systems. Maybe this guy is just a little too used to getting all of his Nvidia hardware and MS software for free.
That's a *very* good point. I wonder if we'll start seeing legislation about stuff like that?
There already is legislation making kiddie porn illegal even if it is just given the appearance of kiddie porn. That is, a young looking 18 year old wearing a junior high school shirt and pigtails in a pornographic act could be considered kiddie porn. I'd imagine that CG kiddie porn would fall under that.
However, not to be grotesque, but as of now, there isn't any legislation banning other kinds of CG porn. There's no reason why CG characters couldn't participate in a sexual snuff film, extreme mutilation, etc.
It currently costs so much money to develop a CG character (vs. paying some morally-impaired folks a few hundred bucks) that I don't see it happening any time real soon.
Yeah, except that you can have computer generated characters do any twisted thing you want, even if its humanly impossible or illegal.
Another method for spotting karma whores is to look for comments posting, verbatim, something stated in the article, or in the editor's summary. While this often includes italicizing the quote, this is frequently a ploy to show that the person read the article, even though it's more likely the person only skimmed to find a comment worth repeating
Or, its because the author wrote a long tedious post, and you want to respond to one point of it and make sense.
There hasn't been enough time for the "little village" to be sent new computers, and how does he even know how to connect to the internet? Dial into his local IP? Junoweb?
Yep. I didn't want to be the one to say it, because I fear the mighty, mighty hand of Pro-Katz moderation, but the entire article smells like fiction.
"He just dug out his commodore, one of the only 4 in the village, and now he's pirating movies and is "mesmerized" by open source and slashdot."
I mean, you'd figure that anyone who can get a gnutella client working from a warzone has heard of linux before.
Heck, Technically, it should be able to freeze a moment in Unreal Tournament , allow you to go get a beer, then comeback and pick up where you left off.
Yes. Lets all pray that someday the scientific community will develop some sort of hardware based solution that will allow us to freeze or "pause" a computer game.
I shipped a computer from New York to Arizona, and had it packed with a local Mailboxes, etc. It arrived looking like someone rolled it down the stairs. Cards were broken and the frame was severely bent.
First they tried to say I packed it incorrectly, until I explained that one of their representatives did it.
Then they tried to say that since I built the computer myself, they couldn't reimburse me because they couldn't tell how much it cost, and that it might have been that I put it together wrong that broke it.
I eventually got back ~66% of what was broken. I hate UPS with a passion. This was right before the strike, and I suspected at the time that it was broken by disgrunted employees wanting to punish the company by making them pay insurance claims on something clearly marked "fragile" and "electonic equipment", but evidently its just poor employees.
As an FYI, the Mailboxes, etc where I got it packed was pretty annoyed with UPS and well, and helped me w/ the claims process.
If it indeed turns out that the plane crashed from a bird flying into the engine, we must react with swift and deadly force. No longer can birds, or the countries that tolerate their presence, hide from the justice they deserve.
The corporatized networks no longer pay for enough foreign correspondents to cover conflicts; they prefer to rent military retirees who can talk about AC-130 Spectre gunships and their firepower
They've kicked all foreign correspondents out of the country, remember?
The Taliban wants to make sure the only footage coming out of the conflict are the shots of the collateral damage.
Don't you guys see the scheme? Sure, a place to get your weather, stock quotes, etc is all available on the web for free now, who needs.NET????
Until its available to businesses, and all those place that offer free-everything realize they can start charging people for it after paying a $1000 fee to Microsoft. The other scenario is that even if only a minor percentage of people sign up for.NET, the "free" sites lose that advertising revenue.
George Bush and his administration runs the justice department. The justice department didn't coincidentally change its position, they were instructed to.
While I'm among the first to argue that slashdot is definately biased, this isn't an example of it.
Therefore, since people spend time and exert energy in order to obtain things in Everquest, those thing have every bit as much value as anything that requires wealth to obtain.
You're not disagreeing, really.
People who buy items in everquest are paying other people to get the items for them, which is what you're saying. End of story.
Since the items and money in everquest bear absolutely no relation to how items and money work in real life, its stupid to try and correspond the EQ economy to a real life one.
Don't forget, Everquest isn't one big glob, its split into servers. So you have maybe 5000 people "living" on one server, with monsters that pop up every 6-24 minutes and drop money and items that never (or very rarely) go away.
So the guy is comparing 5000 people playing an RPG to the economies of nations.
There is no economic model in Everquest. Items are constantly being made or found, and never destroyed.
In an economic model, cars break down, so you need to buy more. Food is consumed, so you need to go to the grocery store. You need to pay rent to live, etc. This doesn't happen in everquest. The Everquest economy, by design, is doomed. Thats a plain fact that anyone who has played the game for a reasonable amount of time realizes. The hope is that by the time the economy gets too horrible, Everquest 2 will be released.
The "economy" they're weakly trying to make some profound conclusion from is that virtual items in Everquest have real world value to some people. This may come as a shock to some people, but EVERYTHING'S value is in its perception to the person who will buy it.
How much is a sheet of paper worth? How about a piece of paper with 0.0001 dollars worth of ink on it that happens to be a sports star's signature? How about a $2.25 toy that someone spends $200 on Ebay for? Heck, what about gold? Its just a piece of metal with some moderately useful applications; but since someone out there still thinks it makes pretty things, its worth quite a bit of money.
People spend money on Everquest items because it makes them enjoy the game more by having other people spending the time earning the items for them, like a caddy on a golf course.
This isn't spiffy Cyber-Economics of the Virutal Internet Future Era. Sorry.
I was exaggerating a bit, I've never been actually tossed out, but I have gotten funny looks over the silly grin I wear on my face
I figured you were exaggerating, but I had this image of a unibomber-looking guy dancing from shelf to shelf,giggling and pointing at various merchance while yelling "Fools!!! You're all fools for shopping here!!!!"
BTW: I recently moved to an area where there are no Fry's, and I miss them dearly. They didn't have the very best prices, but you'd have your stuff TODAY.
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Wrong. Intel archetected their entire P4 line around having higher clock speeds in order to fool the public. This isn't a rumor, I worked there at the time.
They realized that when someone went to buy a computer, performance didn't matter as much as a big number. Consumers think a P3 running at 800mhz is much faster than a P3 running at 700mhz, and don't even consider stuff like video card, memory, and disk speed, much less differences in chip archetectures.
I mean, there's a reason why P4s performed so bad. Its not like they were all done making them and realized "Oh no! This thing isn't performing that well! Its barely better than a P3!" they knew it as they started to design it.
_AMD_ realized that they couldn't win the numbers battle, and renamed their chips to compensate. I hope it works better than when Cyrix did it.
That actually would be quite funny.
"Huh? Make money fast??? PLONK!"
"Yeah! PLONK! Thank God we won't see any more of that kind of stuff anymore."
When I install Redhat, Slackware, etc, I can just stick in the disk, boot, and install, with all my my hardware, including USB mouse/keyboard detected.
When I install Debian potato OR the new woody boot disks, I need to hit shift to get a prompt, then type linux ide2=0x9400,0x9002 at the boot prompt to get it to recognize my ata100 drive.
Later, I need to go through individual modules to install, rather than the model name themselves. How the hell am I supposed to know that emu1k means "Sound Blaster Live". Many other distros autodetect.
The potato distro and the woody-reiserfs disk i've recently gotten still don't work with my 1 year old nvidia card. Later, in order to configure X, I need to know how to change my apt source, use apt-get to upgrade to a newer XFree, know to type dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86. Then, instead of saying I have a "Sony S1000" monitor, I need to know that my monitor can handle 1024x768 at 75htz.
Then, I either have to modify lilo to force the ide2=0x9400,0x9002, or I need to recompile the kernel. If I do recompile the kernel, I also need to screw around with mknod in the /dev directory to get my usb stuff to work, since a mouse device isn't created, and I usually have to use modconf to make sure all of my modules are loaded.
Maybe you haven't tried other distributions in a while, but you DON'T have to do this under Redhat.
I don't think so. Slashdot IS a pro-open source/linux/geek board. While some people just enjoy running Linux, others carefully make sure all of their software is open source, so thats useful info.
Katz is one busy dude!
X-Box: W2k Kernel
PS2: Closed, Sony proprietory
Cube: Closed, Nintendo proprietory
That should be:
X-Box: Closed, Microsoft proprietory
PS2: Closed, Sony proprietory
Cube: Closed, Nintendo proprietory
I like how having the OS be the W2k kernel is presented as a bonus. You have to pay a hefty license to develop/publish a game on ALL the systems. Maybe this guy is just a little too used to getting all of his Nvidia hardware and MS software for free.
And thus, with some battle lost, Rome fell, leaving only monuments and lead piping behind
NEXT>>>> The American Civil War
Like EFF? Or FSF?
Please, we must not allow our emotions to take over, or we might start hating ALL groups of three letters, which would be a tragedy...
There already is legislation making kiddie porn illegal even if it is just given the appearance of kiddie porn. That is, a young looking 18 year old wearing a junior high school shirt and pigtails in a pornographic act could be considered kiddie porn. I'd imagine that CG kiddie porn would fall under that.
However, not to be grotesque, but as of now, there isn't any legislation banning other kinds of CG porn. There's no reason why CG characters couldn't participate in a sexual snuff film, extreme mutilation, etc.
Yeah, except that you can have computer generated characters do any twisted thing you want, even if its humanly impossible or illegal.
Or, its because the author wrote a long tedious post, and you want to respond to one point of it and make sense.
Yep. I didn't want to be the one to say it, because I fear the mighty, mighty hand of Pro-Katz moderation, but the entire article smells like fiction.
"He just dug out his commodore, one of the only 4 in the village, and now he's pirating movies and is "mesmerized" by open source and slashdot."
I mean, you'd figure that anyone who can get a gnutella client working from a warzone has heard of linux before.
He's trying to download movies on a Commodore?
For example, the part when the scientists are apologizing for how bad the movie is won't make sense if this is your FIRST one.
I'd recommend starting with a Gamera or Godzilla movie. The movies are prob more familar, and the jokes are great.
Yes. Lets all pray that someday the scientific community will develop some sort of hardware based solution that will allow us to freeze or "pause" a computer game.
First they tried to say I packed it incorrectly, until I explained that one of their representatives did it.
Then they tried to say that since I built the computer myself, they couldn't reimburse me because they couldn't tell how much it cost, and that it might have been that I put it together wrong that broke it.
I eventually got back ~66% of what was broken. I hate UPS with a passion. This was right before the strike, and I suspected at the time that it was broken by disgrunted employees wanting to punish the company by making them pay insurance claims on something clearly marked "fragile" and "electonic equipment", but evidently its just poor employees.
As an FYI, the Mailboxes, etc where I got it packed was pretty annoyed with UPS and well, and helped me w/ the claims process.
Thank you, and God bless America.
They've kicked all foreign correspondents out of the country, remember?
The Taliban wants to make sure the only footage coming out of the conflict are the shots of the collateral damage.
Please think more, or at least think.
Until its available to businesses, and all those place that offer free-everything realize they can start charging people for it after paying a $1000 fee to Microsoft. The other scenario is that even if only a minor percentage of people sign up for .NET, the "free" sites lose that advertising revenue.
Yeah, if you can't prove the device works, they incinerate it, and sometimes you as well.
While I'm among the first to argue that slashdot is definately biased, this isn't an example of it.
You're not disagreeing, really.
People who buy items in everquest are paying other people to get the items for them, which is what you're saying. End of story.
Since the items and money in everquest bear absolutely no relation to how items and money work in real life, its stupid to try and correspond the EQ economy to a real life one.
Don't forget, Everquest isn't one big glob, its split into servers. So you have maybe 5000 people "living" on one server, with monsters that pop up every 6-24 minutes and drop money and items that never (or very rarely) go away.
So the guy is comparing 5000 people playing an RPG to the economies of nations.
In an economic model, cars break down, so you need to buy more. Food is consumed, so you need to go to the grocery store. You need to pay rent to live, etc. This doesn't happen in everquest. The Everquest economy, by design, is doomed. Thats a plain fact that anyone who has played the game for a reasonable amount of time realizes. The hope is that by the time the economy gets too horrible, Everquest 2 will be released.
The "economy" they're weakly trying to make some profound conclusion from is that virtual items in Everquest have real world value to some people. This may come as a shock to some people, but EVERYTHING'S value is in its perception to the person who will buy it.
How much is a sheet of paper worth? How about a piece of paper with 0.0001 dollars worth of ink on it that happens to be a sports star's signature? How about a $2.25 toy that someone spends $200 on Ebay for? Heck, what about gold? Its just a piece of metal with some moderately useful applications; but since someone out there still thinks it makes pretty things, its worth quite a bit of money.
People spend money on Everquest items because it makes them enjoy the game more by having other people spending the time earning the items for them, like a caddy on a golf course.
This isn't spiffy Cyber-Economics of the Virutal Internet Future Era. Sorry.
I figured you were exaggerating, but I had this image of a unibomber-looking guy dancing from shelf to shelf,giggling and pointing at various merchance while yelling "Fools!!! You're all fools for shopping here!!!!"
BTW: I recently moved to an area where there are no Fry's, and I miss them dearly. They didn't have the very best prices, but you'd have your stuff TODAY.