Once Microsoft released the format for Windows Media Audio, it was cracked in the first day. Some songs restricted you to listen to them for only a very short time period, and only when connected to the Internet. But run UNFUCK.EXE, and that restriction tag would be stripped off. It might've been more worthwhile if WMA had a better spectral response.
"We asked for 6 months to work on this, and you gave us one month. Right now, all it does is erase your disk drive. If you're on a network, it erases everyone's disk drives. And god forbid if you have a modem, it calls up your friends and erases their disk drives."
"We'll call it 'Quick Protect'"
"If you have a soundcard, it swears at you."
I wish to make a call to the hardware designers to stop releasing alpha stage hardware, and stop mis-labeling them with "1.0" version numbers. For instance, the Linux Kernel 2.2.14 should really be 0.6.02.
Actually, my main reason for the tower is for full-sized hardware, unlike the stuff squeezed into the cube. Does it even take full-sized RAM? If it did, that'd be over half of the length of the cube. I like putting things in and taking them out of my computer without using tweezers. With the G4 cube, switching jumpers has got to be like microsurgery. Hopefully, they avoided jumpers to get around this.
Seriously, who the hell wants a computer that's 9 inches square? It may be attractive as hell for those people who visit the Starbucks 3 times a day, but for us hackers and power users, it's so stupid. My computer stands about a meter tall on the table, and I like it that way.
If I ever acquired a G4 cube, I would re-enact the end of Duke Nukem 3D. I would set up the cube on a tee, and punt it between the uprights.
Maestro, play that stupid guitar piece used to peddle the StinkPad.
As we all know, this is not the first big mistake made by IBM. Their retraction from retail didn't just hurt them in sales, it made them seem xenophobic. By the looks of this tactic, Big Blue is a little paranoid of the general populace.
Another big folly is their Java-powered Point of Service (to which the acronym is, hilariously, POS). I have firsthand knowledge, since CompUSA contracted IBM to replace the AIX terminals with something glitzy that would have flashing ads on the screen for the customers to see. The registers lag often, and on credit cards used often, these terminals outright refuse to let the cashier manually authorize the transaction.
Actually, the next time you walk into CompUSA or Fry's, ask a salesperson to give you the average cost of some certain SCSI cables. I say this because I work at the parts counter at CompUSA, and where much of the profit lies is in the little things, like CD-Rs and peripheral cables. A $50 SCSI cable going about 4 to 6 feet (I forget the actual length, haven't been at work for a few days) has an average cost of $20. Don't tell this to the employee; besides already knowing this, he'll be torn apart by scathing remarks. And no, don't use this as a weapon, all you'll get is the petty gain of causing someone else grief.
Damn right on the bit/byte argument. My popular example is USB: Its signaling rate is 12 megabits per second; therefore its data transfer rate is 1.0 megaBYTES per second. However, due to USB's scalability, the maximum sustained data rate is 667K/sec. This equates to 4X CD-recording (okay, but 6X CD-reading is not), partial 10base-T speed compatibility, and 30 frames per second of YUV video at 352x288.
However, as expected, non-serial interfaces (I loathe saying "parallel interfaces" because then everyone thinks about that 8-bit geezer, the LPT port) tend to perform much faster, with the only drawback being the limited scalability. But seriously, does ANYONE use 127 USB devices at once or 63 ieee1394 devices at once? If so, the transfer rate must be slow as hell.
I would personally like to see the IEEE renamed to the SICC: Sextoy Interface Connector Consortium. I've had enough with serial devices; why can't we have something with 68 pins with the signaling rate of 1394? That might break the landspeed for data transfer rate!
The reason why AGP4X isn't so dominant in the market right now is Intel's inability to create a chipset as reliable as the 82443BX (Case in point: the 820 with the MTH issue, and its pricey replacement, the 820 with RDRAM).
Until Intel can revoke their contract with Rambus (or until Rambus finally kicks the bucket), we will be damned to partially faulty chipsets until the wave of corporate greed and the proprietarization of standards has ended. Right now, P3 builders are stuck with either the Rambus 820 ($1500 just for the board, chip, and ram) or a legacy of partially faulty chipsets from VIA.
The only non-Intel chipset I would ever consider buying would be NVidia, if they actually do make one for the P4. They got it more than right with video chipsets, just wait and see how they do with the mainboard chipsets.
As the original author's signature states ("Let's put out [a] sh!tload of new technologies, let's fix the hardware incompatibilities or bugs issues later."), companies are infatuated with releasing new hardware in order to maximize profits. They then decide to fix the arising problems with virtualized drivers which lag worse than Java.
Just think about it: The US Embassy would never think of hiring a team of German, Ukranian, Swahili, Spanish, and Russian translators to aid in a conversation with French diplomats.
So why are driver engineers using a horde of inefficient languages and subroutines to build drivers that would work better if the compile job was centralized under one style of coding and geared toward efficiency?
These are the things that companies like Creative, AMD, and Adobe don't want us to think about.
Now I know to block out port 1062 on my firewall. I can foresee hackers "monitoring my computer's integrity."
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I have Asperger's Syndrome (many of the symptoms are the same as ADD), and DOOM has helped me to relax, and to let some stress out! I love the shotgun! Forget the ritalin, gimme a Remington 22!
One thing remains in Linux that MUST be improved: Screen resolution support. By probing the monitor, Linux should be able to detect what resolutions and refresh rates a monitor can tolerate (as Windows and Mac OS already do). Enough with this 2K xf86config file and utility, they're ancient. I do like the ctrl-alt-+ and ctrl-alt-- shortcuts - that is, if they even worked for me. I think that it's about time for someone to make a GUI Display control panel. Even if the user had to restart X after every setting, that's fine. Just as long as we don't have to wade through the 50 questions session of xf86config!
Using Nanotechnology scientists ar Rice University have been able to store 10 billion gigabytes of data on physical storage small enough to fit into a small vial
John Romero was one of the programmers in Id Software for a little while, before leaving and forming ION Storm. He helped develop DOOM, Quake, and the now infamous Daikatana.
Linux still has one demon forevermore latched to its back: latency. This is the primary reason why websites are so unresponsive, why Java and Perl are so slow, and why OSS is still a laughing stock when compared to DirectSound.
Until the problem of latency can be solved, Linux will never become more than what it is today.
Video capture is so passe. Anyone with a 300MHz processor and a good hard drive could do it with no dropped frames; the real determining factor in video capture is the same as high-speed CD recording: the ability to keep up a high system transfer rate for a specific amount of time.
How about something more strenuous, like a BSP compile job under Q3Radiant using -vis -light -extra -threads? I have the perfect level for that; it takes up almost all 8192 units (that's about 1/5 of a mile in real world standards), and right now, without a lightmap, it's 400K. It would take a hell of a long time to compile this baby, hehe.
If Trent Reznor (NIN) was to direct 'silence of the lambs' and had John Karmack at his side to create every freaky effect his disturbed heart desired, this movie would be the outcome.
You probably mean John Romero. He's the one who helped add the gore and goth to DOOM and Quake. John Carmack is the head programmer. He's more into building 3-d engines.
So far, we've had 3 actors play Bruce Wayne (I still think that Michael Keaton did it best, while Val Kilmer gets a close second. George Clooney should've stayed at the OR).
So, what are the villains this time? And will they actually die or get killed this time? I think that "BatClooney" really ruined it by having both villains live at the end. }:(
My favorite villain death scene is still The Joker. Gotta love that laughing bag.
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Once Microsoft released the format for Windows Media Audio, it was cracked in the first day. Some songs restricted you to listen to them for only a very short time period, and only when connected to the Internet. But run UNFUCK.EXE, and that restriction tag would be stripped off. It might've been more worthwhile if WMA had a better spectral response.
"We asked for 6 months to work on this, and you gave us one month. Right now, all it does is erase your disk drive. If you're on a network, it erases everyone's disk drives. And god forbid if you have a modem, it calls up your friends and erases their disk drives."
"We'll call it 'Quick Protect'"
"If you have a soundcard, it swears at you."
I wish to make a call to the hardware designers to stop releasing alpha stage hardware, and stop mis-labeling them with "1.0" version numbers. For instance, the Linux Kernel 2.2.14 should really be 0.6.02.
Actually, my main reason for the tower is for full-sized hardware, unlike the stuff squeezed into the cube. Does it even take full-sized RAM? If it did, that'd be over half of the length of the cube. I like putting things in and taking them out of my computer without using tweezers. With the G4 cube, switching jumpers has got to be like microsurgery. Hopefully, they avoided jumpers to get around this.
I know what you meant, but this one's true too. I must have put $2500 into building it. Worth it too.
It'll change when I extract it to WAV and inspect the entire file for superfluous header data!!!
If I ever acquired a G4 cube, I would re-enact the end of Duke Nukem 3D. I would set up the cube on a tee, and punt it between the uprights.
As we all know, this is not the first big mistake made by IBM. Their retraction from retail didn't just hurt them in sales, it made them seem xenophobic. By the looks of this tactic, Big Blue is a little paranoid of the general populace.
Another big folly is their Java-powered Point of Service (to which the acronym is, hilariously, POS). I have firsthand knowledge, since CompUSA contracted IBM to replace the AIX terminals with something glitzy that would have flashing ads on the screen for the customers to see. The registers lag often, and on credit cards used often, these terminals outright refuse to let the cashier manually authorize the transaction.
Once again, Big Blue bites the Big one.
Actually, the next time you walk into CompUSA or Fry's, ask a salesperson to give you the average cost of some certain SCSI cables. I say this because I work at the parts counter at CompUSA, and where much of the profit lies is in the little things, like CD-Rs and peripheral cables. A $50 SCSI cable going about 4 to 6 feet (I forget the actual length, haven't been at work for a few days) has an average cost of $20. Don't tell this to the employee; besides already knowing this, he'll be torn apart by scathing remarks. And no, don't use this as a weapon, all you'll get is the petty gain of causing someone else grief.
However, as expected, non-serial interfaces (I loathe saying "parallel interfaces" because then everyone thinks about that 8-bit geezer, the LPT port) tend to perform much faster, with the only drawback being the limited scalability. But seriously, does ANYONE use 127 USB devices at once or 63 ieee1394 devices at once? If so, the transfer rate must be slow as hell.
I would personally like to see the IEEE renamed to the SICC: Sextoy Interface Connector Consortium. I've had enough with serial devices; why can't we have something with 68 pins with the signaling rate of 1394? That might break the landspeed for data transfer rate!
By the way, my Win2k machine is still up and running at full capacity. How's your computer, still breathing the bilgewater of the internet?
Until Intel can revoke their contract with Rambus (or until Rambus finally kicks the bucket), we will be damned to partially faulty chipsets until the wave of corporate greed and the proprietarization of standards has ended. Right now, P3 builders are stuck with either the Rambus 820 ($1500 just for the board, chip, and ram) or a legacy of partially faulty chipsets from VIA.
The only non-Intel chipset I would ever consider buying would be NVidia, if they actually do make one for the P4. They got it more than right with video chipsets, just wait and see how they do with the mainboard chipsets.
As the original author's signature states ("Let's put out [a] sh!tload of new technologies, let's fix the hardware incompatibilities or bugs issues later."), companies are infatuated with releasing new hardware in order to maximize profits. They then decide to fix the arising problems with virtualized drivers which lag worse than Java.
Just think about it: The US Embassy would never think of hiring a team of German, Ukranian, Swahili, Spanish, and Russian translators to aid in a conversation with French diplomats.
So why are driver engineers using a horde of inefficient languages and subroutines to build drivers that would work better if the compile job was centralized under one style of coding and geared toward efficiency?
These are the things that companies like Creative, AMD, and Adobe don't want us to think about.
Now I know to block out port 1062 on my firewall. I can foresee hackers "monitoring my computer's integrity."
I have Asperger's Syndrome (many of the symptoms are the same as ADD), and DOOM has helped me to relax, and to let some stress out! I love the shotgun! Forget the ritalin, gimme a Remington 22!
One thing remains in Linux that MUST be improved: Screen resolution support. By probing the monitor, Linux should be able to detect what resolutions and refresh rates a monitor can tolerate (as Windows and Mac OS already do). Enough with this 2K xf86config file and utility, they're ancient. I do like the ctrl-alt-+ and ctrl-alt-- shortcuts - that is, if they even worked for me. I think that it's about time for someone to make a GUI Display control panel. Even if the user had to restart X after every setting, that's fine. Just as long as we don't have to wade through the 50 questions session of xf86config!
Most of the StrongARM processors used in portable devices rarely exceed 200MHz. And now talk of a 1 GHz StrongARM? BRING IT ON!
We are the Borg.
Resistance is Futile.
Your uniqueness and your source code will be augmented onto our own
Your life as it has been is over
From this time forward, you will service us.
How many exabytes is that?
John Romero was one of the programmers in Id Software for a little while, before leaving and forming ION Storm. He helped develop DOOM, Quake, and the now infamous Daikatana.
Until the problem of latency can be solved, Linux will never become more than what it is today.
Now, pardon me as I install RedHat.. English, what do I look like, a foreigner?...101 keyboard, 2-button PS2, GNOME!!!...
How about something more strenuous, like a BSP compile job under Q3Radiant using -vis -light -extra -threads? I have the perfect level for that; it takes up almost all 8192 units (that's about 1/5 of a mile in real world standards), and right now, without a lightmap, it's 400K. It would take a hell of a long time to compile this baby, hehe.
At least /. has a Quake section.
You probably mean John Romero. He's the one who helped add the gore and goth to DOOM and Quake. John Carmack is the head programmer. He's more into building 3-d engines.
So, what are the villains this time? And will they actually die or get killed this time? I think that "BatClooney" really ruined it by having both villains live at the end. }:(
My favorite villain death scene is still The Joker. Gotta love that laughing bag.