Any of us who have played an intense deathmatch know how psyched up you can become and how twitchy you are for a while afterwards. With a VR game this will be more extreme.
Perhaps when these games are finally marketed, it would be a good idea to sell 'post VR Quake sedatives' or offer therapy for those who have become unhinged after a playing too much.
My cousin has been a LAN administrator at Nynex for a long time now, yet he has no computer at home, and uses AOL for internet access when he does bring home his laptop from work. His idea of a good time is working in his yard or playing golf when it's not snowing in upstate New York.
From what I've seen, he's a great IT worker, runs everything well, is always on call. He just doesn't take the job home with him, and is not terribly interested in computers, despite graduating with a degree in Computer Science.
The hardest part of his job is keeping up with the changing company name. It was Nynex for a long time, then BellAtlantic, and now Verizon.
The most interesting part of his job is the subtle nuances of "the union," of which he is not a part. As someone unfamiliar with unions, it was strange to hear tales of what union workers at his company will do (and especially, what they WON'T do). Kind of sucks when they go on strike, since he gets to take up all their slack for 13 days straight. (When the union strikes, non-union folks who dare cross the picket line get to work 13 long days before taking one day off ahead of their next 13 days.)
But it doesn't get reported because, bzzzt, the global media (including those based outside of the US) are mostly owned by the very people who benefit from our stolen election. Why don't you see what these folks have to say about it?
This is a load of bullshit. For those of you who still think the election was "stolen," please consult this AP (that's ASSOCIATED PRESS, not MEDIA CONGLOMERATES) article available from the Orlando Sentinel website:
The Sentinel largely printed stories indicating that Bush would have lost until this final story came out.
The truth is we will never know FOR SURE who would have won, but it wasn't because the election was "stolen," it was because many parts of Florida used incredibly outdated voting equipment.
P.S. And just so you don't think I'm biased, I voted for Harry Browne, not Bush.
But I figure, once I'm out the chance that the football star, fake 4.0 (no honors classes, easiest load known to man, parents are "teachers") will become anything useful are slim to none. We'll see what these people become in the future. I know at my 10-year reunion I'm going to have a nice little laugh.
When I felt down at all, I would just look around and wonder which one of these morons would be picking up my garbage in a few years...
It's the quiet ones you've got to watch...
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the junior has never been in trouble of any sort, his father says, inside or out of school: never been arrested, disciplined, suspended, or even involved in a fight.
This deserves a George Carlin quote...
"Some people say, 'It's the quiet ones you've got to watch!' I say, while you're watching the quiet ones, a noisy one will fucking kill you!"
On one hand, Apple wishes to leverage the power of open source development, and on the other they want control over their intellectual property. There is no doubt that this causes internal conflicts at Apple. They *should* be very careful on how they handle this situation.
The.NET thing has potential as a time sink. Implementing RPC via XML will be hideously inefficient. And interpreters are involved, which typically means a 10x performance loss.
Not that Java is much better. Swing seems to need upwards of 1GHz just to display menus as fast as a 20MHz Mac of a decade ago.
I realize this is supposed to be partly a joke, but the computer industry is not creating this kind of software in order to increase hardware sales -- they are generating this kind of software which has been made possible by faster hardware.
But why are they inventing so-called "inefficient" code? Because it's really EFFICIENT -- for developers. It's also easier to maintain.
Java/XML-RPC/etc. are all software inventions that make it easier to develop sophisticated programs.
Heck, why don't we program everything to the metal anymore? Everyone, turn in your C/C++ compilers and stick to assembly programming.
No, I don't think so. C/C++ makes it much easier to develop more complex programs. Java makes it easier to develop cross-platform programs. XML-RPC look to help make it easier to develop cross-platform programs that are centralized on a server and easy to upgrade/maintain.
You are trading program inefficiency for programmer efficiency. The faster hardware gets, the more we are able to do with it.
Do you want "the killer app" that's going to fuel hardware sales now and beyond? What about speech recognition technology that doesn't slow your system down to a crawl? The more advanced it gets, the more CPU power it's going to need.
Twenty years from now, if I'm still clicking on a fucking icon I will shoot myself.
If this is going to be used for cell phones, what's the point?
People with no vision always ask "what's the point?" about EVERY new technology. Computers at home: What's the point? Internet Appliances: What's the point? Cell phone technology at twice the speed of cable/dsl modems: What's the point?
There are several flaws that need to be worked out of cell phones before we need faster connections.
The real use of this technology is probably not going to be watching streaming movies on your cell phone! It'll be mainly people roaming with their laptops, PDA's, tablet PC's, and internet appliances. They'll probably have video cellphones as well. Sanyo's already released the "first" cell phone with a color LCD screen (8-bit now).
Everyone makes a big deal about cell phones and tv
They do? Where exactly are some examples of this? You're the first person I've seen to think that "watching TV on my cellphone" is going to be a big feature of high-speed cellphone technology.
Lets assume that everyone really likes this streaming video and so how many people are going to be using one cell tower?
So Sprint will more cell towers in crowded areas! What's the problem?
Switching from cell tower to cell tower
would have to have lots of error checking when streaming a video.
Someone who doesn't understand the technology ought not complain about the technical things like this. Perhaps this is a problem that is already solved?
What happens when i drive through a tunnel or something how will the error checking correct for that?
How does your computer's TCP/IP stack handle error checking when you are watching a streaming video, and you pull the ethernet out the back end? Mine stalls until I plug it back in. Dontcha think they just might be able to do the same kinds of things with this tech?
Lets say that we hook this magical cell phone up to a laptop we will still have problems
We will?
Before they installed cable they had to upgrade all the cables.
Ok... ? What's your point? I'm pretty sure Sprint realizes they are going to have to do some major upgrades in order to have a 3G network...
You sure are pessimistic and whiney...
While 2.4mbs seems great in theory, just rember communism works in theory too
Ahhh... this is the real clinker.
No, communism doesn't even work in theory. Communism provides no incentive for anyone to work hard and achieve goals. Communism basically rewards the person that does the least amount of work. Capitalism, on the other hand, works in both theory and practice, because the basic premise is that you are rewarded for working hard and achieving goals, and punished otherwise.
These things are so packed together, they probably start resetting themeselves after a couple hours, usually at the end of the 10th level too.
No, they won't get too hot, but the question is can MS keep them cool enough without inserting a fan that sounds like a jet engine when you boot the thing up.
So the phone can download a lot of data really fast. Where's it going to put it? In its few megabytes of memory?
Please think outside the box. What this means is anyone that works from home in the computer industry will be able to roam the world, in search of peace, love, and hot sex.
btw, try typing fucksprint.com into your browser, it's amusing.
No, what will be amusing is the scene that ensues tommorrow morning when the Sprint network sysadmins get into work and wonder why fucksprint.com got more accesses than sprintpcs.com.
While USB 2.0 defeats some of the problems, such as evenly slicing your bandwidth among devices no matter what they need, it's still a processor arbitrated bus. It's just an attempt by Intel for further system dependency on the processor at the expense of performance.
I'd like to point out that our systems are already fairly dependent on the processor... seeing as how THAT'S WHAT MAKES OUR SYSTEMS WORK!
It helps their bottom line to make us more dependent on their hardware at our own expense.
USB works on multiple platforms, including PPC. Please explain how USB locks us into Intel, as you imply?
Don't get me wrong, FireWire is awesome, but why do you resort to the very FUD tactics of which you accuse Intel?
If anyone honestly doesn't believe this is an out-and-out troll, please read one of the other comments from "Anne Marie," where he* asks, "Can we hope to live in a world free from sexual oppression?" (Obviously, banning porn is sexual oppression, even our troll here can't argue that.)
Slashdot Mirror
Suddenly, millions of dollars were flying around, and everybody was under pressure to turn it into profits.
Actually, the dot-com flameout was due to there NOT being any pressure to make a profit!
Any of us who have played an intense deathmatch know how psyched up you can become and how twitchy you are for a while afterwards. With a VR game this will be more extreme.
Perhaps when these games are finally marketed, it would be a good idea to sell 'post VR Quake sedatives' or offer therapy for those who have become unhinged after a playing too much.
Yes, they already sell this. It's called "pot."
Then, you could fit the entire world's yearly production of information inside a cube that measured...
cube-root(1.5 million) ~= 115 cm
..per side. That is, not as long in any dimension as most slashdot readers are tall, and only 1.5 cubic meters in total volume.
(OK, so how about we create a couple of these every year, and launch them into space, just in case something goes horribly awry with our planet?)
But before we shoot them out into space, we just HAVE to paint them black!
XFS on my beloved SGI at home does
Max Filesystem size: 18 million TB
Max File size: 9 million TB
BeOS's BFS, also a 64-bit filesystem, handles 18,000,000 TB hard drives and similarly huge file sizes (aka 18,000 petabytes).
My cousin has been a LAN administrator at Nynex for a long time now, yet he has no computer at home, and uses AOL for internet access when he does bring home his laptop from work. His idea of a good time is working in his yard or playing golf when it's not snowing in upstate New York.
From what I've seen, he's a great IT worker, runs everything well, is always on call. He just doesn't take the job home with him, and is not terribly interested in computers, despite graduating with a degree in Computer Science.
The hardest part of his job is keeping up with the changing company name. It was Nynex for a long time, then BellAtlantic, and now Verizon.
The most interesting part of his job is the subtle nuances of "the union," of which he is not a part. As someone unfamiliar with unions, it was strange to hear tales of what union workers at his company will do (and especially, what they WON'T do). Kind of sucks when they go on strike, since he gets to take up all their slack for 13 days straight. (When the union strikes, non-union folks who dare cross the picket line get to work 13 long days before taking one day off ahead of their next 13 days.)
Not sure why I just told you all this.
But it doesn't get reported because, bzzzt, the global media (including those based outside of the US) are mostly owned by the very people who benefit from our stolen election. Why don't you see what these folks have to say about it?
. story
This is a load of bullshit. For those of you who still think the election was "stolen," please consult this AP (that's ASSOCIATED PRESS, not MEDIA CONGLOMERATES) article available from the Orlando Sentinel website:
http://orlandosentinel.com/news/sns-heraldrecount
The Sentinel largely printed stories indicating that Bush would have lost until this final story came out.
The truth is we will never know FOR SURE who would have won, but it wasn't because the election was "stolen," it was because many parts of Florida used incredibly outdated voting equipment.
P.S. And just so you don't think I'm biased, I voted for Harry Browne, not Bush.
But I figure, once I'm out the chance that the football star, fake 4.0 (no honors classes, easiest load known to man, parents are "teachers") will become anything useful are slim to none. We'll see what these people become in the future. I know at my 10-year reunion I'm going to have a nice little laugh.
When I felt down at all, I would just look around and wonder which one of these morons would be picking up my garbage in a few years...
the junior has never been in trouble of any sort, his father says, inside or out of school: never been arrested, disciplined, suspended, or even involved in a fight.
This deserves a George Carlin quote...
"Some people say, 'It's the quiet ones you've got to watch!' I say, while you're watching the quiet ones, a noisy one will fucking kill you!"
... the next step being they stop accepting ALL federal money, and generate all the money they need as any other private business.
...your postal address. And who do I make the check out to?
Send me $10!
There. I rely on people like you to send me ten bucks -- without which, i would not be able to continue publishing content on Slashdot.
Mr. Dvorak is one of the worst 'major' PC columnists in almost all regards (accuracy, predictions, impartiality).
Plus his keyboard SUCKS.
On one hand, Apple wishes to leverage the power of open source development, and on the other they want control over their intellectual property. There is no doubt that this causes internal conflicts at Apple. They *should* be very careful on how they handle this situation.
Too late.
Then there is the obnoxious habit of saving their most popular programming for fund raising marathons (e.g. new episodes of Red Dwarf).
Yeah, how dare they try to raise money! They should operate for free, or better yet, steal money from tax-payers through government subsidies!
My donations went to the EFF, thanks...
You're welcome.
I don't watch TV much, but PBS falls into a class of
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things that I consider vital to our nation's citizenry. I hope things work out ok
Those who really do feel PBS is "vital to our nation's citizenry," please donate money to PBS by becoming a member:
http://www.pbs.org/insidepbs/membership/local.htm
And for those corporations that would like to help:
http://sponsorship.pbs.org/
The .NET thing has potential as a time sink. Implementing RPC via XML will be hideously inefficient. And interpreters are involved, which typically means a 10x performance loss.
Not that Java is much better. Swing seems to need upwards of 1GHz just to display menus as fast as a 20MHz Mac of a decade ago.
I realize this is supposed to be partly a joke, but the computer industry is not creating this kind of software in order to increase hardware sales -- they are generating this kind of software which has been made possible by faster hardware.
But why are they inventing so-called "inefficient" code? Because it's really EFFICIENT -- for developers. It's also easier to maintain.
Java/XML-RPC/etc. are all software inventions that make it easier to develop sophisticated programs.
Heck, why don't we program everything to the metal anymore? Everyone, turn in your C/C++ compilers and stick to assembly programming.
No, I don't think so. C/C++ makes it much easier to develop more complex programs. Java makes it easier to develop cross-platform programs. XML-RPC look to help make it easier to develop cross-platform programs that are centralized on a server and easy to upgrade/maintain.
You are trading program inefficiency for programmer efficiency. The faster hardware gets, the more we are able to do with it.
Do you want "the killer app" that's going to fuel hardware sales now and beyond? What about speech recognition technology that doesn't slow your system down to a crawl? The more advanced it gets, the more CPU power it's going to need.
Twenty years from now, if I'm still clicking on a fucking icon I will shoot myself.
Linux users don't need to upgrade because they never right bloated.....ooo wait, Mozilla.
Check that thought.
And Linux users don't need Mozilla because they already have a decent brow... ooh, check that thought.
the brain is still the most advanced computer in existence, even in the age of AI
... I believe as long as that statement is true, we are not truly in "the age of AI."
Excuse me
If this is going to be used for cell phones, what's the point?
People with no vision always ask "what's the point?" about EVERY new technology. Computers at home: What's the point? Internet Appliances: What's the point? Cell phone technology at twice the speed of cable/dsl modems: What's the point?
There are several flaws that need to be worked out of cell phones before we need faster connections.
The real use of this technology is probably not going to be watching streaming movies on your cell phone! It'll be mainly people roaming with their laptops, PDA's, tablet PC's, and internet appliances. They'll probably have video cellphones as well. Sanyo's already released the "first" cell phone with a color LCD screen (8-bit now).
Everyone makes a big deal about cell phones and tv
They do? Where exactly are some examples of this? You're the first person I've seen to think that "watching TV on my cellphone" is going to be a big feature of high-speed cellphone technology.
Lets assume that everyone really likes this streaming video and so how many people are going to be using one cell tower?
So Sprint will more cell towers in crowded areas! What's the problem?
Switching from cell tower to cell tower
would have to have lots of error checking when streaming a video.
Someone who doesn't understand the technology ought not complain about the technical things like this. Perhaps this is a problem that is already solved?
What happens when i drive through a tunnel or something how will the error checking correct for that?
How does your computer's TCP/IP stack handle error checking when you are watching a streaming video, and you pull the ethernet out the back end? Mine stalls until I plug it back in. Dontcha think they just might be able to do the same kinds of things with this tech?
Lets say that we hook this magical cell phone up to a laptop we will still have problems
We will?
Before they installed cable they had to upgrade all the cables.
Ok... ? What's your point? I'm pretty sure Sprint realizes they are going to have to do some major upgrades in order to have a 3G network...
You sure are pessimistic and whiney...
While 2.4mbs seems great in theory, just rember communism works in theory too
Ahhh... this is the real clinker.
No, communism doesn't even work in theory. Communism provides no incentive for anyone to work hard and achieve goals. Communism basically rewards the person that does the least amount of work. Capitalism, on the other hand, works in both theory and practice, because the basic premise is that you are rewarded for working hard and achieving goals, and punished otherwise.
Guess you need to pick a new analogy.
These things are so packed together, they probably start resetting themeselves after a couple hours, usually at the end of the 10th level too.
No, they won't get too hot, but the question is can MS keep them cool enough without inserting a fan that sounds like a jet engine when you boot the thing up.
So the phone can download a lot of data really fast. Where's it going to put it? In its few megabytes of memory?
Please think outside the box. What this means is anyone that works from home in the computer industry will be able to roam the world, in search of peace, love, and hot sex.
btw, try typing fucksprint.com into your browser, it's amusing.
No, what will be amusing is the scene that ensues tommorrow morning when the Sprint network sysadmins get into work and wonder why fucksprint.com got more accesses than sprintpcs.com.
While USB 2.0 defeats some of the problems, such as evenly slicing your bandwidth among devices no matter what they need, it's still a processor arbitrated bus. It's just an attempt by Intel for further system dependency on the processor at the expense of performance.
I'd like to point out that our systems are already fairly dependent on the processor... seeing as how THAT'S WHAT MAKES OUR SYSTEMS WORK!
It helps their bottom line to make us more dependent on their hardware at our own expense.
USB works on multiple platforms, including PPC. Please explain how USB locks us into Intel, as you imply?
Don't get me wrong, FireWire is awesome, but why do you resort to the very FUD tactics of which you accuse Intel?
If anyone honestly doesn't believe this is an out-and-out troll, please read one of the other comments from "Anne Marie," where he* asks, "Can we hope to live in a world free from sexual oppression?" (Obviously, banning porn is sexual oppression, even our troll here can't argue that.)
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http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=01/04/10/1518
*Yes I said "he." How many women do you know that would troll on slashdot?
Thanks to NorthPoint going down, my DSL modem is 100% secure...
...it's 100% useless, but totally secure.
Two weeks without Internet access and still surviving.
And you posted this message, how?
LIAR!
Better to sign up to something like CERT advisories than rely on random postings to Slashdot.
Really.
This was announced on their list about 14 hours ago.
14 whole hours! Gosh.