In principal the veracity of the internet's informational archive is usually better equipped to deal with problems as they arise then print media. Think of it this way. Suppose you live in a small town in California or the Midwest. You have one small town newspaper or perhaps you are lucky and have out of town newspapers delivered to your door. Well all of these can be falsified in some manner as the publisher wishes. Contrary to popular belief Willian Randolph Hurst isn't controlling the world's newspapers but the chance sitll remains for censorship. With the internet publishing is even more democratized and it's harder to control the presses easily. What must also be destinctly understood is that allowing the ineternet to become a transatory fly-by-night source of information is our own fault. In fact slashdot contributes to this. It feels fit to generate Gigs of information a year that eventually sooner or later is deleted (I think I do know that it's as hard as hell to determine the flow of a discussion when it disappears into archived mode). The best way to determine that things are in fact have been falsified is to check around and look at *all* the sources included IRC, newsgroups, Freenet, Gnutella, Napster, FSP, ftp, whois, finger, etc. We will never live in a negative utopia because at some level peole will feel the injustices they themselves cause. People rat others out for money, spying happens, etc. The best thing to do is just keep multiple reference points. Also crawling web sites and keeping said data on your new and improved drive technology isn't a bad option either. Just go through and crawl the web on your cable modem or DSL connection (yeah I am still stuck with a modem) and make sure that data remains unaltered without your notice. In fact if you are really in for a job crawl slashdot and then archive it on multiple sets of CD-RWs and keep them in storage. Or perhaps keep an extra drive array and use that. Also there's the tried and true method of paper media. I still have HOWTOS for linux in binders from early June of 1998 that I have lying around. Remember in a world where you are paranoid about data paper is a good thing.
I would think that to alter something like a video that one would still need to make human imput and the like constantly and rather anonyingly; if not this is one of the best AI jobs that anyone has done in ~30 years. But I still don't buy it's effectiveness or it's applicabiity to a stallinist regime. Internet kooks have been trying for years to think of crazy paranoid things that people can do and the like and it gets rather anoying and irritating for the mass majority of level headed people. To be frank Joseph Stalin and his cronies were a tad more effective in their work and their tools were also crude. Also this smacks of basically trying to convince people that in fact nothing but pure books are safe (told to me by one of the above mentioned kooks). I think people better realize that at least being skeptical and actual critical of what they see goes a long ways. Usually if almost every indepedent source says it's true chances that it is by logical deduction.
And shoving the polution into what rural Montana will help things? Nope something called prevailing winds takes care of that idea. Additionally pollution usually only affects those in early childhood, old age, and those with asthma and other simlar problems; at least in the levels that we have in cities from cars industry might be different see Eastern Europe. And shipping the gas would be a big preformance hit as well as transporting oil or something similar. This whole discussion seems to be a retreat of the ask slashdot article along similar ideas.
The fact that we are able to live and reproduce in cities that have this kind of polution mean we are survivors of natural selection.
Well since you are going to use all sorts of far flung heat sources to do this perhaps the human body could work. Take the flow of air (which at least has some power) and stray a little wind turbine onto the front of your mouth. Then you could take the power generated and store it into some little device perhaps like a watch or maybe as a backup for something like a CMOS battery or maybe a component in the car.
Hey thanks for demoderadating the guy because he has an actually reasoned opinion. Actually very little opinion into it. If you mass produce cars that don't need oil and you have countries that have mass exports of oil Kuait, Venezuela, etc that are transitioning countries that are in potentially politically dangerous areas you are bound to have problems. Oh and just for your information (don't take this the wrong way) but we do need to actually care about money in fact you do to. The problem is that here in America we don't have a big cushy net to really soften the blow of loosing ones job. Hell take my dad who worked in the same job for roughly about ~20 years and then got terminated when the company decided to close in the midwest? Also from personal knowledge jobs are a lot harder to come by in Europe for many. This is usually because of a tight labor market and the like but also all the benefits that come with a job. Employees are expensive items and therefore hiring new ones is a lot more expensive.
Oh and by the way next to air nothing matters if you don't have food, water, clothing on your back and a back and a place to sleep. I guess I am an "arrogant American" for wanting my life to go to hell but I believe there are some things worth fighting for. And if I am comming off as too strong or as a "hot blooded yank" it's because your statement was utter flamebait.
And realistically I can't really see this as happening. Usually freezing a massive ammount of nitrogen would impliment a greater ammount of energy than the energy being produced. Also harsh chemicals and such usually are involved in freezing technology or more ammounts of electricity that is taken from the (largely fossil fuel) power grid. I doubt this will fly except in some grad student's imagination. Those are the facts. You have a better chance for nuclear fusion. Or even better what about harnassing nuclear waste generated from fission reactors and assembling it intoa power source which could then power all sorts of devices. And when it's gone you just have a harmless number of inert elements. Of course a number of these fission wastes usually can degrade into things like lead which open up a whole new can of worms.
See thats the main difference. Realistically all the easy inventions have already been taken and done away with from about the 1970's on for stuff that Jimmy could easily get away with in his home. Now getting that new invention takes trillions and a research lab full of people who are all extremely over educated. And by the way it's called "inventor" instead of "researcher" because inventing can be done by the average man and "research" takes a hell of a lot more. So actually employing logic we can see that this is in fact a waste of time. 1. The longer something takes the more likely that failure will occur. a. exaustive checking usually means that the object of study isn't something that can easily be analyzed and therefore less likely to be found. 2. Multiple doing a process proves it even faster. a. taking 1 and 1a we see that therefore this is less likely to be found. 3. Computing power is purely sufficient now to take care of current noncommercial needs or that of people who have been shall we say "convinced" (or more properly coerced) to buy crap. 4. Better more efficient software/hardware will result from continued development on current gen stuff. 5. In conclusion this is a waste of time.
Bill Joy is a technoloon; not exactly a new thing for the internet to have either I might add. The chances that anyone will be able to do anything like that are at least 9.4562334x10^135 to one and that's generous. Hell we havn't even landed a man on mars, created a permanent moon base, developed superinteligent cyborgs or done virtually any of the things that scifi pundits have claimed should have been done. Let Picard and the boys worry about the evil nanites for now and when we get there (maybe around the 45th century) we'll have a new look ok?
I don't mess around with the jumper settings on my motherboard and keep it at the manufacturers recommended temp for my processor. Also I think that most modern hardware is really trash compared to the old stuff I thave (seriously). Take my comptuers all made from components that were in the 386/486 class range and not one hardware failure in 3-5 years and they were used! Now I hear about people ruining their motherboards by messing around with them, having constant hard disk failures, memory parity errors, dieing ram, etc. My computer has been exposed to temps within my house I was sure were above 110 and my machine didn't crash or fail in any way (running Debian and MS-DOS). Not a problem in sight. I don't have to dip my computer in liquid nitrogen or anything. In fact I have never actually seen a machine crash because of overheating in any way before. Cooling is the least of my worries as far as my computer.
It seems that most of the things we "need" are really just stupid brainless companies taking our hard earned dollars away from us using glitzy visions of tomorrow that we really don't need nor actually use. You no that most of the actual things that people use their computers for could be fulfilled with QNX and a 486 right? Get rid of the bloat and the rest will follow. People should ask themselves critically " DO I really need to be a pawn in a rich man's game?".
Why don't we concentrate on actually making the most of our current software/hardware before we decide to make bigger and better stuff first. Or standardize on some type of interface for the future and then work on getting stuff to fit into those interfaces? Oh and in theory because of things like mass distribution it's supposed to drive price down and the like. I don't see my computer that is as ubiquetous as say a bicycle or something unless it's crippled or is used. Why do you need hardware to constantly increase in power anyway? In theory what we have now is good enough. You don't see rocket powered cars or personal helicopers in mass production and in wide use do you?
Well actually hard disks and similar technologies should be worked on if that's the criterion because they are even slower than ram (buy 100x or more).
You meausure it in terms of storage space now right? Why the hell would anyone measure ram with moles? You don't buy your processor or your computer by the ounce or the gram do you?
Computers are never meant to be an extremely high maintaince proposition in the least. Unless you like wasting money saving some is not a bad thing. Oh and by the way jackass you can go to hell for all I care ok take your ecconomic platitudes and go somewhere bcause I have had it. I want reliability and *working* applications that don't fail or require me to change y hardware to that of the developer's pet system spec. I stand for my convictions and actually care about what I believe in. Linux is getting to be not worth it. In fact the quality of modern software is not worth it. Everything is centering over networking issues and data transfer and mindless pretty pictures and their associated programs. Totally unnecessary. Computers are more than networks and the internet. There has been little progress with almost anything for a while. Personal communications via networks, game playing with glittery (but superficial graphics), and music playing are pretty much all that linux seems to be doing as of late. Yeah that kind of thing is worth several thousand dollars of my hard earned money. Oh yes my dull whitted AC I do have a job a good one. I just don't see utility in what linux is offering.
I oftentimes make extensive use of hyperbole in my postings and take care to make it useful. I find it next to impossible to even justify the purtchess of new hardware in which to partake in the modern world if they keep changing the motherboard designs that allow said hardware to be upgraded and which is central to the PC experience. I have a rather vitrolic hatred of some of the software that has come out of the linux pike in tehe last little while which seems to force the 3d paradigm down my throat my appologies. I have had a rather dismal affair of getting any hardware to work for me. The last time I actually tried to replace or even do anything with a commputer in changing it's hardware it caused a bios error and the machine was basically inoperative.
I thought that linux was actually in my best interests and actually trying to extend the life of my comptuer and I find little difference between the type of software I see from Microsoft and linux in the fact that they are both quite resource heavy and require much in the way of hardware. Is there any hope that the motherboard will bother to stabalize at all so that at least I can upgrade components piecemail? I am hopelessly behind the times and am suffering mentally and physically because of my burdens.
Replacing my hardware to run a *free* operating system isn't something I am willing to do and I bet most people with a judicious mind would not either. Hardware should be support and work the *first* time that linux boots. A proper should be sent out and the type of setup should be read and the proper drivers loaded. What's the point of trying to save money and get better quality from linux if you have to throw out half your hardware to get it to work. I have a Mach32 card in an AST Premia 4/66d machine and it can't even use all the color depth in the damn card because xfree dosn't feel like doing development to keep their shitty server working properly. The only reason I got it to work in the first place was because I limited it to 8bit color and I still am getting signal 11 errors (the signal not the poster) a bunch. I think I should be supported the same as the rubes who decided wasting several thousand dollars for their expensive video card/29" monitor combo do.
The stupid kernel dosn't seem to be able to find my SCSI cdrom drive but dos can with the drivers that I found at adaptec. If anyone could get it to work properly in the kernel the first time I would get rid of DOS altogether. Just a magnet for virii. A good question is do any of the *BSD varieties support compressed filesystems like e2compr does and support almost any cdrom drive with SCSI under the sun. I would gladly switch.
Shiping inside of most countries (or continents) borders to be something of a no brainer. I would be rather shocked that in whatever country you are in that they don't have a single copy of the game anywhere.
I think to get a native port of a game to your OS of choice is a good incentive to wait a least a month. Oh and cheat codes are not bad things some people don't like getting slaughtered by the game they buy. What do you mean by "Package manipulation with the pure code" anyway?
Most of the time the way you feel about your computer is directly linked to the way you see that computer. One could also say that the computer experience is related to the comptuer you have. Microsoft is not my favorite group because they never know home to optimize a damn thing. It's just bloat and more bloat. Windows 3.11 was bloated and unnecessary for most things I like 95 even more so 98 is just a laughing joke largely because who they hell really needs to navigate around thier computer like it was the internet? I mean the two are entirely seperated and have different properties it should be explicetly different. Then you have strict hardware requirements. You have more and more and more hardware just going to keep the OS running without problems. I guess I come from a different backgruond but I want to avoid replacing my computer until I get some form of hardware failure that forces me to upgrade to another old cheap piece of hardware. As far as the game issue I don't think that windows + bloated game is ecconomically a good idea unless you like replacing you expensive hardware with more expensive hardware an average of 3 months at a time. I really would like QNX to be released sooon so that I can reclaim my computer from windows and from linux as well. Linux has largely become a windowsy machine design type with the option of source and crashing less plus a few utilities. The needed hardware specs for a linux gaming machine and a windows gaming machine are almost identical now and that really really really scares me. Is there a single game developer/company in the entire world that is desiging games that work to highly optimized and run well on lesser machine? I would just like at least the motherboard manufacturers to allow for backwards compatability with their products so at least the *interface* for all the expensive stuff stays the same for at least a goodly ammount of time. Why am I bitter? Well when a console system costs something like $100.00 and a computer for gaming every 3 months costs $4,000.00 because some hardware guys got a boner about screwing the consumer out of hard earned cash I think that something is wrong.
I think with people being forced to use these 3d "enhancemnts" and various "improvements" for $7,000 video cards I really feel that this is going to more or less require these cards for almost everything. Maybe I am old fashioned (actually I am not even 30) but I do remember when all you needed to have "3d graphics" was a VGA graphics card. Why don't people take and have 3d rendering and the video card on the same circuit board and spare the need for some piece of equipment that usually is more likely to cause your motherboard to be outdated in 6 months. I really don't believe that linux is just for "number crunching" largely because the interesting aspects of number crunching, distributed computing and such are deliberately kept in university research rat holes and only 3 people understand them. I want games that are optimized for various architectures and use something like the old games use liek assembly and the like. You simply have libraries that someone would initally figure out and then future game swould then use those for each type of video card and hardware. Linux games really seem overkill for the ammount of hardware. Kind of like an emulator. Why should I have a PII just to play a snes game properly? Why should that clone of Warcaft 2 require 128 Mbs of ram
Follow several easy steps 1. Find file/program/data file you wish to "modify" 2. Get past the header information and say get into say the half way mark of the file 3. Bang randomly on the keyboard 4. Save 5. Run and Hide 6. Wait for the screams and swearing
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In principal the veracity of the internet's informational archive is usually better equipped to deal with problems as they arise then print media. Think of it this way. Suppose you live in a small town in California or the Midwest. You have one small town newspaper or perhaps you are lucky and have out of town newspapers delivered to your door. Well all of these can be falsified in some manner as the publisher wishes. Contrary to popular belief Willian Randolph Hurst isn't controlling the world's newspapers but the chance sitll remains for censorship. With the internet publishing is even more democratized and it's harder to control the presses easily. What must also be destinctly understood is that allowing the ineternet to become a transatory fly-by-night source of information is our own fault. In fact slashdot contributes to this. It feels fit to generate Gigs of information a year that eventually sooner or later is deleted (I think I do know that it's as hard as hell to determine the flow of a discussion when it disappears into archived mode). The best way to determine that things are in fact have been falsified is to check around and look at *all* the sources included IRC, newsgroups, Freenet, Gnutella, Napster, FSP, ftp, whois, finger, etc. We will never live in a negative utopia because at some level peole will feel the injustices they themselves cause. People rat others out for money, spying happens, etc. The best thing to do is just keep multiple reference points. Also crawling web sites and keeping said data on your new and improved drive technology isn't a bad option either. Just go through and crawl the web on your cable modem or DSL connection (yeah I am still stuck with a modem) and make sure that data remains unaltered without your notice. In fact if you are really in for a job crawl slashdot and then archive it on multiple sets of CD-RWs and keep them in storage. Or perhaps keep an extra drive array and use that. Also there's the tried and true method of paper media. I still have HOWTOS for linux in binders from early June of 1998 that I have lying around. Remember in a world where you are paranoid about data paper is a good thing.
I would think that to alter something like a video that one would still need to make human imput and the like constantly and rather anonyingly; if not this is one of the best AI jobs that anyone has done in ~30 years. But I still don't buy it's effectiveness or it's applicabiity to a stallinist regime. Internet kooks have been trying for years to think of crazy paranoid things that people can do and the like and it gets rather anoying and irritating for the mass majority of level headed people. To be frank Joseph Stalin and his cronies were a tad more effective in their work and their tools were also crude. Also this smacks of basically trying to convince people that in fact nothing but pure books are safe (told to me by one of the above mentioned kooks). I think people better realize that at least being skeptical and actual critical of what they see goes a long ways. Usually if almost every indepedent source says it's true chances that it is by logical deduction.
And shoving the polution into what rural Montana will help things? Nope something called prevailing winds takes care of that idea. Additionally pollution usually only affects those in early childhood, old age, and those with asthma and other simlar problems; at least in the levels that we have in cities from cars industry might be different see Eastern Europe.
And shipping the gas would be a big preformance hit as well as transporting oil or something similar.
This whole discussion seems to be a retreat of the ask slashdot article along similar ideas.
The fact that we are able to live and reproduce in cities that have this kind of polution mean we are survivors of natural selection.
Heard of maxwell's equation or something it's a bit blurry though
Well since you are going to use all sorts of far flung heat sources to do this perhaps the human body could work.
Take the flow of air (which at least has some power) and stray a little wind turbine onto the front of your mouth. Then you could take the power generated and store it into some little device perhaps like a watch or maybe as a backup for something like a CMOS battery or maybe a component in the car.
Hey thanks for demoderadating the guy because he has an actually reasoned opinion. Actually very little opinion into it.
If you mass produce cars that don't need oil and you have countries that have mass exports of oil Kuait, Venezuela, etc that are transitioning countries that are in potentially politically dangerous areas you are bound to have problems.
Oh and just for your information (don't take this the wrong way) but we do need to actually care about money in fact you do to.
The problem is that here in America we don't have a big cushy net to really soften the blow of loosing ones job.
Hell take my dad who worked in the same job for roughly about ~20 years and then got terminated when the company decided to close in the midwest?
Also from personal knowledge jobs are a lot harder to come by in Europe for many. This is usually because of a tight labor market and the like but also all the benefits that come with a job. Employees are expensive items and therefore hiring new ones is a lot more expensive.
Oh and by the way next to air nothing matters if you don't have food, water, clothing on your back and a back and a place to sleep.
I guess I am an "arrogant American" for wanting my life to go to hell but I believe there are some things worth fighting for.
And if I am comming off as too strong or as a "hot blooded yank" it's because your statement was utter flamebait.
And realistically I can't really see this as happening. Usually freezing a massive ammount of nitrogen would impliment a greater ammount of energy than the energy being produced. Also harsh chemicals and such usually are involved in freezing technology or more ammounts of electricity that is taken from the (largely fossil fuel) power grid.
I doubt this will fly except in some grad student's imagination.
Those are the facts. You have a better chance for nuclear fusion.
Or even better what about harnassing nuclear waste generated from fission reactors and assembling it intoa power source which could then power all sorts of devices. And when it's gone you just have a harmless number of inert elements. Of course a number of these fission wastes usually can degrade into things like lead which open up a whole new can of worms.
please elaborate
See thats the main difference. Realistically all the easy inventions have already been taken and done away with from about the 1970's on for stuff that Jimmy could easily get away with in his home.
Now getting that new invention takes trillions and a research lab full of people who are all extremely over educated.
And by the way it's called "inventor" instead of "researcher" because inventing can be done by the average man and "research" takes a hell of a lot more.
So actually employing logic we can see that this is in fact a waste of time.
1. The longer something takes the more likely that failure will occur.
a. exaustive checking usually means that the object of study isn't something that can easily be analyzed and therefore less likely to be found.
2. Multiple doing a process proves it even faster. a. taking 1 and 1a we see that therefore this is less likely to be found.
3. Computing power is purely sufficient now to take care of current noncommercial needs or that of people who have been shall we say "convinced" (or more properly coerced) to buy crap.
4. Better more efficient software/hardware will result from continued development on current gen stuff.
5. In conclusion this is a waste of time.
We get to spend trillions of dollars just to go back to analog again gee thanks.
Bill Joy is a technoloon; not exactly a new thing for the internet to have either I might add.
The chances that anyone will be able to do anything like that are at least 9.4562334x10^135 to one and that's generous.
Hell we havn't even landed a man on mars, created a permanent moon base, developed superinteligent cyborgs or done virtually any of the things that scifi pundits have claimed should have been done.
Let Picard and the boys worry about the evil nanites for now and when we get there (maybe around the 45th century) we'll have a new look ok?
I don't mess around with the jumper settings on my motherboard and keep it at the manufacturers recommended temp for my processor.
Also I think that most modern hardware is really trash compared to the old stuff I thave (seriously). Take my comptuers all made from components that were in the 386/486 class range and not one hardware failure in 3-5 years and they were used! Now I hear about people ruining their motherboards by messing around with them, having constant hard disk failures, memory parity errors, dieing ram, etc.
My computer has been exposed to temps within my house I was sure were above 110 and my machine didn't crash or fail in any way (running Debian and MS-DOS). Not a problem in sight. I don't have to dip my computer in liquid nitrogen or anything. In fact I have never actually seen a machine crash because of overheating in any way before.
Cooling is the least of my worries as far as my computer.
It seems that most of the things we "need" are really just stupid brainless companies taking our hard earned dollars away from us using glitzy visions of tomorrow that we really don't need nor actually use.
You no that most of the actual things that people use their computers for could be fulfilled with QNX and a 486 right?
Get rid of the bloat and the rest will follow. People should ask themselves critically " DO I really need to be a pawn in a rich man's game?".
Why don't we concentrate on actually making the most of our current software/hardware before we decide to make bigger and better stuff first.
Or standardize on some type of interface for the future and then work on getting stuff to fit into those interfaces?
Oh and in theory because of things like mass distribution it's supposed to drive price down and the like. I don't see my computer that is as ubiquetous as say a bicycle or something unless it's crippled or is used.
Why do you need hardware to constantly increase in power anyway? In theory what we have now is good enough. You don't see rocket powered cars or personal helicopers in mass production and in wide use do you?
Well actually hard disks and similar technologies should be worked on if that's the criterion because they are even slower than ram (buy 100x or more).
You meausure it in terms of storage space now right? Why the hell would anyone measure ram with moles? You don't buy your processor or your computer by the ounce or the gram do you?
Computers are never meant to be an extremely high maintaince proposition in the least.
Unless you like wasting money saving some is not a bad thing.
Oh and by the way jackass you can go to hell for all I care ok take your ecconomic platitudes and go somewhere bcause I have had it. I want reliability and *working* applications that don't fail or require me to change y hardware to that of the developer's pet system spec.
I stand for my convictions and actually care about what I believe in.
Linux is getting to be not worth it. In fact the quality of modern software is not worth it.
Everything is centering over networking issues and data transfer and mindless pretty pictures and their associated programs. Totally unnecessary. Computers are more than networks and the internet. There has been little progress with almost anything for a while. Personal communications via networks, game playing with glittery (but superficial graphics), and music playing are pretty much all that linux seems to be doing as of late.
Yeah that kind of thing is worth several thousand dollars of my hard earned money.
Oh yes my dull whitted AC I do have a job a good one. I just don't see utility in what linux is offering.
I oftentimes make extensive use of hyperbole in my postings and take care to make it useful.
I find it next to impossible to even justify the purtchess of new hardware in which to partake in the modern world if they keep changing the motherboard designs that allow said hardware to be upgraded and which is central to the PC experience.
I have a rather vitrolic hatred of some of the software that has come out of the linux pike in tehe last little while which seems to force the 3d paradigm down my throat my appologies.
I have had a rather dismal affair of getting any hardware to work for me. The last time I actually tried to replace or even do anything with a commputer in changing it's hardware it caused a bios error and the machine was basically inoperative.
I thought that linux was actually in my best interests and actually trying to extend the life of my comptuer and I find little difference between the type of software I see from Microsoft and linux in the fact that they are both quite resource heavy and require much in the way of hardware.
Is there any hope that the motherboard will bother to stabalize at all so that at least I can upgrade components piecemail? I am hopelessly behind the times and am suffering mentally and physically because of my burdens.
Replacing my hardware to run a *free* operating system isn't something I am willing to do and I bet most people with a judicious mind would not either. Hardware should be support and work the *first* time that linux boots. A proper should be sent out and the type of setup should be read and the proper drivers loaded. What's the point of trying to save money and get better quality from linux if you have to throw out half your hardware to get it to work. I have a Mach32 card in an AST Premia 4/66d machine and it can't even use all the color depth in the damn card because xfree dosn't feel like doing development to keep their shitty server working properly. The only reason I got it to work in the first place was because I limited it to 8bit color and I still am getting signal 11 errors (the signal not the poster) a bunch. I think I should be supported the same as the rubes who decided wasting several thousand dollars for their expensive video card/29" monitor combo do.
The stupid kernel dosn't seem to be able to find my SCSI cdrom drive but dos can with the drivers that I found at adaptec. If anyone could get it to work properly in the kernel the first time I would get rid of DOS altogether. Just a magnet for virii. A good question is do any of the *BSD varieties support compressed filesystems like e2compr does and support almost any cdrom drive with SCSI under the sun. I would gladly switch.
Shiping inside of most countries (or continents) borders to be something of a no brainer. I would be rather shocked that in whatever country you are in that they don't have a single copy of the game anywhere.
I think to get a native port of a game to your OS of choice is a good incentive to wait a least a month. Oh and cheat codes are not bad things some people don't like getting slaughtered by the game they buy. What do you mean by "Package manipulation with the pure code" anyway?
Most of the time the way you feel about your computer is directly linked to the way you see that computer. One could also say that the computer experience is related to the comptuer you have. Microsoft is not my favorite group because they never know home to optimize a damn thing. It's just bloat and more bloat. Windows 3.11 was bloated and unnecessary for most things I like 95 even more so 98 is just a laughing joke largely because who they hell really needs to navigate around thier computer like it was the internet? I mean the two are entirely seperated and have different properties it should be explicetly different. Then you have strict hardware requirements. You have more and more and more hardware just going to keep the OS running without problems. I guess I come from a different backgruond but I want to avoid replacing my computer until I get some form of hardware failure that forces me to upgrade to another old cheap piece of hardware. As far as the game issue I don't think that windows + bloated game is ecconomically a good idea unless you like replacing you expensive hardware with more expensive hardware an average of 3 months at a time. I really would like QNX to be released sooon so that I can reclaim my computer from windows and from linux as well. Linux has largely become a windowsy machine design type with the option of source and crashing less plus a few utilities. The needed hardware specs for a linux gaming machine and a windows gaming machine are almost identical now and that really really really scares me. Is there a single game developer/company in the entire world that is desiging games that work to highly optimized and run well on lesser machine? I would just like at least the motherboard manufacturers to allow for backwards compatability with their products so at least the *interface* for all the expensive stuff stays the same for at least a goodly ammount of time. Why am I bitter? Well when a console system costs something like $100.00 and a computer for gaming every 3 months costs $4,000.00 because some hardware guys got a boner about screwing the consumer out of hard earned cash I think that something is wrong.
I think with people being forced to use these 3d "enhancemnts" and various "improvements" for $7,000 video cards I really feel that this is going to more or less require these cards for almost everything. Maybe I am old fashioned (actually I am not even 30) but I do remember when all you needed to have "3d graphics" was a VGA graphics card. Why don't people take and have 3d rendering and the video card on the same circuit board and spare the need for some piece of equipment that usually is more likely to cause your motherboard to be outdated in 6 months. I really don't believe that linux is just for "number crunching" largely because the interesting aspects of number crunching, distributed computing and such are deliberately kept in university research rat holes and only 3 people understand them. I want games that are optimized for various architectures and use something like the old games use liek assembly and the like. You simply have libraries that someone would initally figure out and then future game swould then use those for each type of video card and hardware. Linux games really seem overkill for the ammount of hardware. Kind of like an emulator. Why should I have a PII just to play a snes game properly? Why should that clone of Warcaft 2 require 128 Mbs of ram
Follow several easy steps
1. Find file/program/data file you wish to "modify"
2. Get past the header information and say get into say the half way mark of the file
3. Bang randomly on the keyboard
4. Save
5. Run and Hide
6. Wait for the screams and swearing