I've done complete port scans on my DSL connection from a University machine. Admittedly, it is a machine under my control, but it resides in the computer science department on campus.
I got in a lot of trouble in high school because somebody else found a, uh, "creative" use for a program I had written.
In any event I after that I rarely touched a computer at school, and I recommend all high school students do likewise to avoid trouble.
Have hope, however, the University environment is far better in that the sysadmins, professors, etc. will treat you as adults but generally expect tom-foolery from the student population, so they don't overreact if someone does something they don't like. Also, and this is a big one, they generally know what the fuck they're doing.
All kidding aside, solar cars are ridiculous. It is simply not possible to propel a 2 ton object to sustained speeds of 70mph based only on the solar energy absorbed by the top surface of the vehicle. Ever feel the heat coming of your engine? That's a hell of a lot hotter than your car will get just sitting in the sun. And forget air conditioning -- you are doing MORE work cooling the air from the ambient 80-90 down to 70 than the sun would do raising it to 100. Never mind that the air conditioning is not perfect and will lose a lot of energy from its own operation. The only practical energy solution is hybrid electric with regenerative brakes.
JFK Jr as a person certainly did not merit anyone giving two shits about. But with his father being such an important former President, the country owed it to the family to contribute.
Now, the only reason for the big missing persons investigation, is that the media hopes that insignificant congressman did it, so they're hounding the hell out of the PD and creating a public relations nightmare for them, waiting and praying for them to arrest Mr. insignificant congressman. If they found her body in an alley and tracked down some bum that mugged her and shot her, or "worse" yet, she simply fled to a commune and changed her name or something, we probably wouldn't even hear about it because the media would drop it completely as soon as they found out Mr. insignificant congressman had nothing to do with it (which he probably doesn't).
I don't understand. So what's the big deal? It's just water. I know, everyone is hoping that Water = Life. But there are many other components necessary for life. The presence of water does not mean life exists or ever existed. In fact, frankly, the chances that life has ever existed on any "water" planet are pretty low.
This article is just NASA pushing out more propaganda trying to save its funding.
Of course data is created and destroyed. It is created out of energy and is destroyed into heat. Why do you think your CPU gets so much hotter under a heavy load? Resistance? Electricity flows through it even when it's not "doing" anything.
I liked the last sentence, which pretty much sums up the state of things - everything innovative in the music world has been crushed by lawsuits
Like what? Napster? That's the only thing I can think of that you could have meant by that. And Napster is hardly "innovative in the music world." Innovative, bleeding-edge music, song, dance, etc is not really in danger of being "crushed by lawsuits."
Well, naturally arming these so-called "robots" with real weapons (guns, knives, etc) could pose a threat to the public and a liability to the producers. In addition, I'm not sure where battlebots is filmed, but they would have to make sure that they comply with local gun laws, in some states (like California) that could be tricky, and the consequences for non-compliance are severe.
That's still retarded.
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Battlebots is completely lame because the robots are human controlled. And because they are human controlled, they are cannot, by definition, be called robots.
Just because the device the human is using to control the "robot" is a computer and the "robot" has a computer onboard does not make it a robot.
With the cheap processing power available today and the current state of AI there is no excuse, bar incompetence, for this competition to not consist of truly autonomous robots. Until then, Battlebots will continue to be a show pandering to the lowest common denominator, relying on sex and loud music to attract an audience.
Don't forget that the scene descriptions of TS2 frames average between 500MB and 1GB. The data rate required to read the data in real time is at least 96Gb/sec. Think your AGP port can do that? Think again. 96 Gb/sec means that if they clock data in at 250 MHz, they need a bus 384 bits wide [this is typo. 384 _bytes_ wide!]. NBL!
Actually using vertex buffers and onboard textures the AGP bus would not need to touch most of that stuff from one frame to the next. Of course you'd need a video card with a gig+ of RAM.
While I am not the AC who originally replied to you, my guess would be the phrase "Ummm why am I the only person literate enough to know".
Not everyone who can read happened to read whatever it is you read that told you this; furthermore, they probably don't even care. Your implication that one must be iliterate not to know what you do is insulting and immature. And so, to try to answer your sort-of-question, "And the point of this message was...?", it appears that the point of calling you a moron was to in turn insult you back for your original insult directed at every single person reading your message.
Maybe VA Linux is going to acquire GIMP, the state of the art graphics and modelling package that it is, and sell support for it.
Or maybe they will announce Blender supporting actual usable file formats.
More likely, however, is that Malda is hungry for a new, graphics-fancy game to play on his "[im]pluasibly deniable" Windows machine, not realizing that Tribes 2 is available for Linux.
Of course ultimately textures are only there to make it look like there are more polygons there than are actually being used. So, in the end, it wouldn't be texture detail but model detail that you are after. Taking this a step further, as processor speeds increase graphics chips vendors will be put out of business, because with a fast enough processor we don't need to waste all that time sending polygons and textures over the bus when the CPU could raytrace infinitely detailed mathematical models faster. Note NVidia's entrance into the motherboard chipset market.
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They don't seem to notice or care.
In any event I after that I rarely touched a computer at school, and I recommend all high school students do likewise to avoid trouble.
Have hope, however, the University environment is far better in that the sysadmins, professors, etc. will treat you as adults but generally expect tom-foolery from the student population, so they don't overreact if someone does something they don't like. Also, and this is a big one, they generally know what the fuck they're doing.
By not dropping charges, this thing could go all the way to the supreme court and be ruled unconstitutional. Of course, sucks to be Sklyarov.
1 tonne = 1000 kg
1 ton = 2000 lb
As you say, wise up.
1 horsepower is about 750 watts. Even at 100% efficiency, that's still like 6 HP.
All kidding aside, solar cars are ridiculous. It is simply not possible to propel a 2 ton object to sustained speeds of 70mph based only on the solar energy absorbed by the top surface of the vehicle. Ever feel the heat coming of your engine? That's a hell of a lot hotter than your car will get just sitting in the sun. And forget air conditioning -- you are doing MORE work cooling the air from the ambient 80-90 down to 70 than the sun would do raising it to 100. Never mind that the air conditioning is not perfect and will lose a lot of energy from its own operation. The only practical energy solution is hybrid electric with regenerative brakes.
Now, the only reason for the big missing persons investigation, is that the media hopes that insignificant congressman did it, so they're hounding the hell out of the PD and creating a public relations nightmare for them, waiting and praying for them to arrest Mr. insignificant congressman. If they found her body in an alley and tracked down some bum that mugged her and shot her, or "worse" yet, she simply fled to a commune and changed her name or something, we probably wouldn't even hear about it because the media would drop it completely as soon as they found out Mr. insignificant congressman had nothing to do with it (which he probably doesn't).
I don't understand. So what's the big deal? It's just water. I know, everyone is hoping that Water = Life. But there are many other components necessary for life. The presence of water does not mean life exists or ever existed. In fact, frankly, the chances that life has ever existed on any "water" planet are pretty low. This article is just NASA pushing out more propaganda trying to save its funding.
Of course data is created and destroyed. It is created out of energy and is destroyed into heat. Why do you think your CPU gets so much hotter under a heavy load? Resistance? Electricity flows through it even when it's not "doing" anything.
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Well, if they're unsigned, I guess they don't have to worry about lawsuits.
Like what? Napster? That's the only thing I can think of that you could have meant by that. And Napster is hardly "innovative in the music world." Innovative, bleeding-edge music, song, dance, etc is not really in danger of being "crushed by lawsuits."
Well, naturally arming these so-called "robots" with real weapons (guns, knives, etc) could pose a threat to the public and a liability to the producers. In addition, I'm not sure where battlebots is filmed, but they would have to make sure that they comply with local gun laws, in some states (like California) that could be tricky, and the consequences for non-compliance are severe.
Just because the device the human is using to control the "robot" is a computer and the "robot" has a computer onboard does not make it a robot.
With the cheap processing power available today and the current state of AI there is no excuse, bar incompetence, for this competition to not consist of truly autonomous robots. Until then, Battlebots will continue to be a show pandering to the lowest common denominator, relying on sex and loud music to attract an audience.
Actually using vertex buffers and onboard textures the AGP bus would not need to touch most of that stuff from one frame to the next. Of course you'd need a video card with a gig+ of RAM.
Not everyone who can read happened to read whatever it is you read that told you this; furthermore, they probably don't even care. Your implication that one must be iliterate not to know what you do is insulting and immature. And so, to try to answer your sort-of-question, "And the point of this message was...?", it appears that the point of calling you a moron was to in turn insult you back for your original insult directed at every single person reading your message.
Or maybe they will announce Blender supporting actual usable file formats.
More likely, however, is that Malda is hungry for a new, graphics-fancy game to play on his "[im]pluasibly deniable" Windows machine, not realizing that Tribes 2 is available for Linux.
Check out the 7th Heaven demo from scene.org.
Of course ultimately textures are only there to make it look like there are more polygons there than are actually being used. So, in the end, it wouldn't be texture detail but model detail that you are after. Taking this a step further, as processor speeds increase graphics chips vendors will be put out of business, because with a fast enough processor we don't need to waste all that time sending polygons and textures over the bus when the CPU could raytrace infinitely detailed mathematical models faster. Note NVidia's entrance into the motherboard chipset market.
Given the landfill liners and the technology that has been in place for some time now to filter landfill runoff I don't think it will matter.
Congratulations then.
And the river Styx references the band Styx which references the movie Big Daddy which means Kubrick was adopted. So there.
Clearly we are worlds apart...
Don't listen to any of these fools. Everyone in the game industry is working now, not reading slashdot.