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Windows makes use of this to some degree, with the close gadget in the top right, and the start button in the bottom left, but this is useless when windows are not maximized
Actually, you're wrong. It makes use of the areas near the corners, which are the worst. The corners themselves -- the ONE PIXEL -- are easy because you can sling the mouse really hard and it will STOP there. try clicking in the very corner on windows -- there is a convenient two-pixel border that prevents this from actually helping. they waste every corner and every edge. No place on the edge of the screen in windows is used. Not one. Mac got this one right. there was an article on/. a while back, don't have the link. (And , fwiw, I use windows not mac.)
I think a major part of it is related to the mood/setting desired. Having the Japanese audio helps get that anime "feel" for many, in a similar way that various visual and audio styles in American movies set the mood, though somewhat different. For many, watching anime is more of an experience than just about whatching a good story well done. The Japanese audio helps with that. And most anime fans know enough Japanese (a small handful of words) to match the audio to the subtitle, but couldn't possibly follow without the subtitle. And besides, many of the english dubs suck, though Mononoke is supposedly fairly good (haven't seen it).
stop whining and go turn it off in your settings page! I turned off a couple topics, but mostly I like to just skim the ones I don't find interesting, because most topics eventually produce something interesting. So turn the Anime topic off if you don't care, and if you sort of care then accept that you won't want to read the whole thing. no need to read past the headline.
I don't know about other people, but I use CDRs for games and other software mostly, but NOT audio. I have all my audio on my hard disk, in MP3 form. seems like I shouldn't have to pay for others transgressions. Ah well. at least I live in the US. Oh, wait...
Works for me. However, don't complain when Andover realizes that they can afford some sort of bandwidth-intensive thing I haven't thought of for the paying customers, because the ads don't generate enough revenue for the non-payers to get so much of their precious bandwidth. It'll be a while, and by then maybe advertisers will have realised that slashdot-acceptable ads aren't worth much, so its a very real possibility.
I'll pay $25/yr for Slashdot if you'll turn off the ads. Make it an option. I pay that much for most magazines I get, and Slashdot is generally better. I hope the avertisers don't think my eyeballs are worth that much -- I've only clicked a couple of ThinkGeek ads in the last year, and have yet to buy from them. So turn off the ad, maybe add a few features, and charge me $25/yr. I'll pay, and won't even complain about the privacy problem -- and those that really care can just use a disposable credit card number. Anyone else willing to pay for your daily dose of slashdot? I want to see it as an *option* first; I'll also bet this crowd is more likely to pay than many. Show the world it can work. Maybe offer a $3 monthly also for new users, or whatever. Lemme know when I can send you my credit card number.
In a very fundamental sense, they can't be. Period
By definition, what a benchmark is is just a measurement of the speed of a particular piece of hardware at running a particular piece of software. That includes the OS. It makes sense to compare different pieces of software on the same hardware to compare how fast they are at solving a particular problem, or the same software on different hardware to see how fast the hardware is at a particular task, or even different pieces of hardware and software performing a similar task. The win98 benchmarks are (barring bad benchmarking techniques, etc) as accurate at measuring the win98 solution to a problem as the linux ones are at measuring the linux solution to the same problem. They may be slower, or faster, but they fundamentaly are no more accurate. They both tell how fast the hardware/software configuration is at a task.
What really matters is what task you care about, and I'm guessing you care about linux doing something, so linux benchmarks would have more meaning to you. For various reasons, I run windows (and can't switch easily enough to linux, but that's a different discussion), so the windows ones matter more to me. However, I am quite glad to see both being run.
That's the basic solution. You won't be able to prevent your kid from seeing everything you find objectionable, but neither should you want to. There's pleny out there that's bad, but good parenting should be able to instill a level of maturity to let the child figure that out. Yes, kids will access a little more than what you want, but make sure they understand the reasons and not just that it is forbidden. I remember in 7th grade trying to get movies working on win3.11 because I had found a porno clip. I spent several hours and had a very educational experience about windows, how video works, and I watched the porno once or twice, then moved on to other things. And when I was done, I don't think I was corrupted or badly influenced as a result. I guess I'm trying to say, be a good parent and raise your kids right, and they'll be able to make their own decisions. They'll be different from yours, but at least they'll know how to decide. You do your part in your kid's education, and it will work out in the end.
It needs the memory cleared every so often or it dies!
On a slightly more serious note, some of the early palmtops had problems when they didn't have a way to clear memory and so had no equivalent of "reboot" if the system gets hosed. I think we'll see a BIOS ability to clear the "memory" on reboot and reload everything. Or maybe OS's will improve, but when something dies really badly I find it nice (windows or linux! I find this happening under both, though more for linux) to be able to start over with a freshly cleared memory.
SO now I can write auto-targetting software on my PDA and link it wirelessly via Bluetooth to my bluetooth-enabled, Linux-running, MP3 synching machine guns to kill all those stupid people out there who are busy doing stupid things in there cars and killing people with there accidents. So where do I get one?
For some time now, I've been telling myself I'll get a PDA when it comes with wireless net, a decent CPU, bluetooth, and enough spce to be interesting, running Linux preferably. So this meets the bill (I think). A few nagging questions:
How much RAM/Flash RAM?
How fast is the Net connection?
Battery life/what does it use?
And the big one: what's it cost, both up front and monthly?
I've heard this so many times, and it's just an assertion. Before public key crypto was out, they said the same. I believe you can't secure digital data against an insecure recipient who can decode it; nothing says the data itself can't contain stuff the user can't notice -- you can't do a mathematical proof about content / the human ear, people! What's to say they can't do inaudible phase shifts, volume changes you can't hear, and other such? I don't think they can, but it takes a lot of chutzpah to just say you CAN'T outright with no backing. They did a good (not good enough, it seems) job; what's to say they can't do sufficiently better? I'll wager it takes more than just more money, but I don't see why they can't. Any thoughts?
This and other cool obfuscated c programs can be found at www.ioccc.org, the page of the International Obfuscated C Code Contest. I believe both the programs described in this and replies are there. Very cool stuff, including:
The tic tac toe program where the source is the board (recompile for next move)
The program that flips a square text file about the main diagonal, and when fed its own source produces a different c program that does the smae via a different method
A LISP compiler (in under 1KB)
The adventure game where your commands are compiler options and the response is the errors and my favorite, the first ever winner:
it's a one-line program that confuses the Slash code:(. It's the first one, by an anonymous author.
so for those interested, its worth a read. I think Slashdot covers it every year, but I don't really feel like digging up links.
happy reading (err... confusion?)!
I thought it was just us geeks complaining and getting ignored. This is one of the first things in the YRO box in a while that I didn't find downright depressing. It's great that the NYT chooses to help with this. Hopefully this is a step in the direction of noticing that these things are BAD, be they effective or not.
I guess my point here is that most games seem to require a 300MHz CPU, when I can't buy a new computer running at less than twice that speed. Why not 450MHz? I agree, you can't require a new system, but most of the gaming community, not just the high end, has a moderatly new system. The only way the games get the increased CPU power is if they demand it. Yes, I am advocating the increasing CPU power/ software need cycle; it makes cooler games. I just don't want my OS/ word processor/ email client involved. My system is over 2 years old (processor) and isn't even pushing the upper limits on any games out there. So, to all the game developers out there, keep up the good work, and write something to make use of the 1.2 GHz Thunderbird I am going to upgrade to in a few weeks.
It would seem difficult to buy a computer these days at less than 600MHz; that's an IMPRESSIVE amount of power. But when I go look at the store, there aren't games that need more than 300MHz. So there aren't games that need a new computer for the majority of gamers (faster frame rates, true, but not a convincing thing for most gamers). So I don't think the CPU power will be out there for this until games start requiring more CPU power incrementally. Also, TnL graphics take a bit of CPU load off, thereby improving things. But basically, I think games need to start demanding more CPU power. It's out there, so use it!
READ THE ARTICLE (or company web page,www.c-3d.net I think, I don't remember which it is in)
They are claiming 1Gb/s, or about 120MB/s. That says about 20 mniutes. Of course, that's high end, and would require at least SCSI-160. ATA100 can provide about 75MB/s, so that's a start; serial ATA I think does 200MB/s (theoretical; actual is more like 150). So those can support it. High throughtput is a result of high density.
OK, I would like to request info. What's the procedure? My high school engages in a (relatively effective -- they are very fast at changeing based on student input) censorware package. I would like to request the log files not to particularly do anything with them, simply to make it widely known that they are public. what is the procedure? I think this might have an effect on both the students and staff. Thanks in advance.
Isn't Sealand/Havenco exactly what you are talking about? They will host your server, I don't think they enforce copyright, big pipe (and growing), no unstable govt (though yet to demonstrate a long-term viable one, they have yet to fail to do so either). Why bother with Afghanistan (no pipe, unstable/oppresive govt, etc). Put Sealand to the test!
Yes, they could be there. It would be harder than most programs, but they could be there. So have some M$ engineers look at it, and announce whether or not there are. They shouldn't be hard to find; its a fscking DEFRAG program -- if it connects to the net, that's BAD. If it changes *any* content other than logs and where stuff is, thats BAD. A few more I probably can't think of, check for buffer/string format holes, and its done. Not too hard. And if M$ says its OK, well then it's as OK as the rest of the OS (not very, but good enough for most people).
is it not sufficient for M$ to simply have a team of their own engineers review the code and declare it safe? That seems to me the best way to deal with an alleged security hole. Now, that assumes it is safe. If it isn't, then more needs to be done...
I thought one of the major selling points of the DC (to developers) was that it was hard to copy games b/c PC CDROMS can't read the GDROMs used (BTW, they can hold ~1GB IIRC). So how do I get the game TO my computer? Also, what would go on a PCI CARD??? as best I can tell, impediments to playing DC games are: different ISA (OK, we put a CPU on the card or emulate), different graphics, put a graphics chip on the card? seems mre likely than a CPU. And then problems with peripherals like the GDROMs. so what the heck would a PCI card do if it wasn't a graphics card, which seems like overkill to me? This rumor seems a bit far-fetched.
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Actually, you're wrong. It makes use of the areas near the corners, which are the worst. The corners themselves -- the ONE PIXEL -- are easy because you can sling the mouse really hard and it will STOP there. try clicking in the very corner on windows -- there is a convenient two-pixel border that prevents this from actually helping. they waste every corner and every edge. No place on the edge of the screen in windows is used. Not one. Mac got this one right. there was an article on /. a while back, don't have the link. (And , fwiw, I use windows not mac.)
I think a major part of it is related to the mood/setting desired. Having the Japanese audio helps get that anime "feel" for many, in a similar way that various visual and audio styles in American movies set the mood, though somewhat different. For many, watching anime is more of an experience than just about whatching a good story well done. The Japanese audio helps with that. And most anime fans know enough Japanese (a small handful of words) to match the audio to the subtitle, but couldn't possibly follow without the subtitle. And besides, many of the english dubs suck, though Mononoke is supposedly fairly good (haven't seen it).
That the missions that have a centrifuge on board will be much more popular.
*sigh* I know, I know, don't feed the trolls...
I don't know about other people, but I use CDRs for games and other software mostly, but NOT audio. I have all my audio on my hard disk, in MP3 form. seems like I shouldn't have to pay for others transgressions. Ah well. at least I live in the US. Oh, wait...
Works for me. However, don't complain when Andover realizes that they can afford some sort of bandwidth-intensive thing I haven't thought of for the paying customers, because the ads don't generate enough revenue for the non-payers to get so much of their precious bandwidth. It'll be a while, and by then maybe advertisers will have realised that slashdot-acceptable ads aren't worth much, so its a very real possibility.
I'll pay $25/yr for Slashdot if you'll turn off the ads. Make it an option. I pay that much for most magazines I get, and Slashdot is generally better. I hope the avertisers don't think my eyeballs are worth that much -- I've only clicked a couple of ThinkGeek ads in the last year, and have yet to buy from them. So turn off the ad, maybe add a few features, and charge me $25/yr. I'll pay, and won't even complain about the privacy problem -- and those that really care can just use a disposable credit card number. Anyone else willing to pay for your daily dose of slashdot? I want to see it as an *option* first; I'll also bet this crowd is more likely to pay than many. Show the world it can work. Maybe offer a $3 monthly also for new users, or whatever. Lemme know when I can send you my credit card number.
By definition, what a benchmark is is just a measurement of the speed of a particular piece of hardware at running a particular piece of software. That includes the OS. It makes sense to compare different pieces of software on the same hardware to compare how fast they are at solving a particular problem, or the same software on different hardware to see how fast the hardware is at a particular task, or even different pieces of hardware and software performing a similar task. The win98 benchmarks are (barring bad benchmarking techniques, etc) as accurate at measuring the win98 solution to a problem as the linux ones are at measuring the linux solution to the same problem. They may be slower, or faster, but they fundamentaly are no more accurate. They both tell how fast the hardware/software configuration is at a task.
What really matters is what task you care about, and I'm guessing you care about linux doing something, so linux benchmarks would have more meaning to you. For various reasons, I run windows (and can't switch easily enough to linux, but that's a different discussion), so the windows ones matter more to me. However, I am quite glad to see both being run.
That's the basic solution. You won't be able to prevent your kid from seeing everything you find objectionable, but neither should you want to. There's pleny out there that's bad, but good parenting should be able to instill a level of maturity to let the child figure that out. Yes, kids will access a little more than what you want, but make sure they understand the reasons and not just that it is forbidden. I remember in 7th grade trying to get movies working on win3.11 because I had found a porno clip. I spent several hours and had a very educational experience about windows, how video works, and I watched the porno once or twice, then moved on to other things. And when I was done, I don't think I was corrupted or badly influenced as a result. I guess I'm trying to say, be a good parent and raise your kids right, and they'll be able to make their own decisions. They'll be different from yours, but at least they'll know how to decide. You do your part in your kid's education, and it will work out in the end.
On a slightly more serious note, some of the early palmtops had problems when they didn't have a way to clear memory and so had no equivalent of "reboot" if the system gets hosed. I think we'll see a BIOS ability to clear the "memory" on reboot and reload everything. Or maybe OS's will improve, but when something dies really badly I find it nice (windows or linux! I find this happening under both, though more for linux) to be able to start over with a freshly cleared memory.
shouldn't it be a bit warmer? -269C seems kind of frigid.
SO now I can write auto-targetting software on my PDA and link it wirelessly via Bluetooth to my bluetooth-enabled, Linux-running, MP3 synching machine guns to kill all those stupid people out there who are busy doing stupid things in there cars and killing people with there accidents. So where do I get one?
How much RAM/Flash RAM?
How fast is the Net connection?
Battery life/what does it use?
And the big one: what's it cost, both up front and monthly?
Anyone found answers?
I've heard this so many times, and it's just an assertion. Before public key crypto was out, they said the same. I believe you can't secure digital data against an insecure recipient who can decode it; nothing says the data itself can't contain stuff the user can't notice -- you can't do a mathematical proof about content / the human ear, people! What's to say they can't do inaudible phase shifts, volume changes you can't hear, and other such? I don't think they can, but it takes a lot of chutzpah to just say you CAN'T outright with no backing. They did a good (not good enough, it seems) job; what's to say they can't do sufficiently better? I'll wager it takes more than just more money, but I don't see why they can't. Any thoughts?
The tic tac toe program where the source is the board (recompile for next move)
The program that flips a square text file about the main diagonal, and when fed its own source produces a different c program that does the smae via a different method
A LISP compiler (in under 1KB)
The adventure game where your commands are compiler options and the response is the errors
and my favorite, the first ever winner:
it's a one-line program that confuses the Slash code :(. It's the first one, by an anonymous author.
so for those interested, its worth a read. I think Slashdot covers it every year, but I don't really feel like digging up links. happy reading (err... confusion?)!
I thought it was just us geeks complaining and getting ignored. This is one of the first things in the YRO box in a while that I didn't find downright depressing. It's great that the NYT chooses to help with this. Hopefully this is a step in the direction of noticing that these things are BAD, be they effective or not.
I guess my point here is that most games seem to require a 300MHz CPU, when I can't buy a new computer running at less than twice that speed. Why not 450MHz? I agree, you can't require a new system, but most of the gaming community, not just the high end, has a moderatly new system. The only way the games get the increased CPU power is if they demand it. Yes, I am advocating the increasing CPU power/ software need cycle; it makes cooler games. I just don't want my OS/ word processor/ email client involved. My system is over 2 years old (processor) and isn't even pushing the upper limits on any games out there. So, to all the game developers out there, keep up the good work, and write something to make use of the 1.2 GHz Thunderbird I am going to upgrade to in a few weeks.
It would seem difficult to buy a computer these days at less than 600MHz; that's an IMPRESSIVE amount of power. But when I go look at the store, there aren't games that need more than 300MHz. So there aren't games that need a new computer for the majority of gamers (faster frame rates, true, but not a convincing thing for most gamers). So I don't think the CPU power will be out there for this until games start requiring more CPU power incrementally. Also, TnL graphics take a bit of CPU load off, thereby improving things. But basically, I think games need to start demanding more CPU power. It's out there, so use it!
READ THE ARTICLE (or company web page,www.c-3d.net I think, I don't remember which it is in)
They are claiming 1Gb/s, or about 120MB/s. That says about 20 mniutes. Of course, that's high end, and would require at least SCSI-160. ATA100 can provide about 75MB/s, so that's a start; serial ATA I think does 200MB/s (theoretical; actual is more like 150). So those can support it. High throughtput is a result of high density.
OK, I would like to request info. What's the procedure? My high school engages in a (relatively effective -- they are very fast at changeing based on student input) censorware package. I would like to request the log files not to particularly do anything with them, simply to make it widely known that they are public. what is the procedure? I think this might have an effect on both the students and staff. Thanks in advance.
Isn't .5 CD/hr (1 hr music, listen twice?) * 15 $/CD = 7.50 $/hr an easier calculation? yes, its expensive.
Isn't Sealand/Havenco exactly what you are talking about? They will host your server, I don't think they enforce copyright, big pipe (and growing), no unstable govt (though yet to demonstrate a long-term viable one, they have yet to fail to do so either). Why bother with Afghanistan (no pipe, unstable/oppresive govt, etc). Put Sealand to the test!
Yes, they could be there. It would be harder than most programs, but they could be there. So have some M$ engineers look at it, and announce whether or not there are. They shouldn't be hard to find; its a fscking DEFRAG program -- if it connects to the net, that's BAD. If it changes *any* content other than logs and where stuff is, thats BAD. A few more I probably can't think of, check for buffer/string format holes, and its done. Not too hard. And if M$ says its OK, well then it's as OK as the rest of the OS (not very, but good enough for most people).
is it not sufficient for M$ to simply have a team of their own engineers review the code and declare it safe? That seems to me the best way to deal with an alleged security hole. Now, that assumes it is safe. If it isn't, then more needs to be done...
I thought one of the major selling points of the DC (to developers) was that it was hard to copy games b/c PC CDROMS can't read the GDROMs used (BTW, they can hold ~1GB IIRC). So how do I get the game TO my computer? Also, what would go on a PCI CARD??? as best I can tell, impediments to playing DC games are: different ISA (OK, we put a CPU on the card or emulate), different graphics, put a graphics chip on the card? seems mre likely than a CPU. And then problems with peripherals like the GDROMs. so what the heck would a PCI card do if it wasn't a graphics card, which seems like overkill to me? This rumor seems a bit far-fetched.