well, with p2p going so big, I think that is the first step to a new generation of networks riding on the top of the current one. But I'd bet there would be quite a few happen close to the same time, and with one or two becoming dominant.
I'd like to see this happen, I really would, but the onlye geek-friendly p2p program atm is freenet, which is about as useful as a cardboard cup without wax lining... It works at first, but after a while it won't hold water. And the good people at kazaa will likely ruin it for everybody else wrt p2p as it stands. Two days ago it took me about 10 reboots and a lot of fscking around including booting into safe mode to figure out that the reason my pc was hanging at bootup was because of GMT.exe. Whatever it was trying to do (no idea) was hanging the machine. If it does it to me it'll do it to other people too.
1) Exactly what this article states. Although I find this the least likely outcome.
2) The internet turns into tv + shopping. Lots of ads you can't get past
3) The internet gets so bad, that the geeks create decentralised, efficient, free-floating network partially on top of the existing network, partially outside of it, and it all begins again
4) It goes on exactly like it is now. the (x)AAs of the world keep trying to hold us down, the advertisers keep trying to make us look, MS keeps trying to make us pay (again), and we keep trying to stay one step ahead of them all. This is IMHO the most likely situation.
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The test ban was enacted so that nations would STOP designing better planet-busters.
No, it was to do two things:
a) stop people detonating actual devices, because they trash the environment big time.
b) keep nuclear power in the hands of those that already had it for as long as possible. If you've got an ascii white then you can build nukes. And you can't simulate a nuke without detonating a few real ones first.
Defense is a responsibility that people tend to think is something they should pass off to government and law enforcement. Where did that moronic notion come from?!
This idea came from the government, because it doesn't want the people able to defend themselves.
I hadn't heard about this before. Seems like another strike against LCDs for games because most gamers nowadays run their games with 32-bit color.
Nope, games (and your windows probably) run at 24-bit colour, 32 bits per pixel, and they simply waste one byte per pixel because it's much faster to access the pixels when aligned on a 4 byte boundary. It's simply a speed thing. Not only this, but from a reflective surface (paper) you can distinguish about 50 million colours (except some women who are reverse colour-blind in having 4 whatsijigs in their eyes instead of 3). On an emittive source (crt,tv, backlit lcd monitor) you can only see about 14 million colours. Note this doesn't apply to reflective lcd monitors such as the game boy colour, but that only does a few thousand colours in the graphics chip anyway:)
It's pretty common knowledge that the temperature in egg-ovens (the correct term just slipped, it's late) can be adjusted to ensure the sex of the chicks.
Is the sex of a human baby determined partially by temperature, like in chickens? Could I technically have a female clone? If brothers and sisters often produce mutations in their offspring (bloody tasmanians), what is to happen if two people with the same dna reproduce?
Richard M. Stallman: RMS has an exceptional track record in the.... I fully endorse him as a candidate, assuming he's willing to drop his puerile "GNU/Linux" ego stroking.
Translation: I don't want that nutjob running shit.
Why was Sam not present at the viewing of the mirror? His vision was important in the book, but deleted completely from the movie
I believe it's because the ending will be different from the books. That's the biggest problem with a film of LOTR. The ending of the book is a terrible ending for a movie. By the end of the movie, the people (who haven't read it) will be expecting a collossal battle with frodo,gandalf, and perhaps aragorn fighting sauron, with the film quickly winding down after that. Having another half hour short story at the end won't sit right with the viewing public. Not having it won't sit right with the geeks. Personally I'm dying to see what they do:-)
Also, don't discount the possibility of extra scenes for us geeky tolkien readers being on the dvd. My ass was pretty sore after 3 hours in a crappy cinema chair, but on my couch that's not gonna be a problem and jackson knows it.
Posted by CmdrNacho on Monday March 25, @06:51AM From the "we should have seen this coming" dept. Well it looks like our (ex) favourite search engine, Google has delisted slashdot due to a DMCA threat recieved by the scientologists this morning.
I really wonder how long it will take someone to get OS X running on a non-Apple PPC machine. The code is there, and Darwin is free (as in beer). If you can get Darwin to run on it, Quartz (the closed source part) shouldn't know the difference.
This makes me wonder. What about getting darwin to run natively on a pc and emulating the PPC environment to run quartz and it's counterparts? I know it's not feasible now to emulate ppc, but what about on IA64 / Hammer?
The point is, microsoft doesn't want you running servers on the non-server version of their operating system (read:license). Wow, That's news - front page stuff what.
Im intrigued as to how your going to read data from a digital format with a microscope and a camera - you can take a photo of it at any resolution and it stil wont do a damn thing - this is digital storage not analogue and no image processing program in the world could put together bits from a picture of a CD surface.
Then you obviously need to go back and read more about CD-ROM. CDs are not like a tape/floppy/hdd where the data is stored as invisible patterns and read-write is done with a magnet. They are read _and_ written with a laser, meaning that under heavy magnification, perhaps with the right lighting equipment the data is visible (although not necessarily to the naked eye). It would not be easy, it would not be cheap, but it's quite feasible.
And of course given that CD-ROMS are a known non-square shape and one side is different from the other, even a perfextly symmetrical shred only reduces each shard to two possible positions...
Now what the world needs is for China to get their asses (halfway) to mars. That's the only thing that'll scare the shit out the US congress enough to get the good guys there first.
Nintendo can say what they want, but after the fiasco that was the N64, and the pressure from Sony and Microsoft, Nintendo needs Square a lot more than they'll let on. Excluding Square is not really an option. They need third-party games; first-party games just aren't enough (as the N64 showed).
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA You wish dude. For about 10 years now Nintendo has had the most popular game system in the world, the gameboy. And not to mention the fact they own the most recognisable game characters in history (with the exception of sonic of course); Link, Samus, Pikachu, and those goddamned plumbers - Nintendo doesn't need square.
And although Captain James Cook was credited with discovering Australia for the British Empire in 1770, the Chinese had mapped the island continent 337 years earlier.
So what? They took off, Cook sent his mates back to colonise... I think he deserves the credit, don't you? Or else we'd all be chinese (as opposed to just Sydney and Surfers' Paradise)
Of course if the above poster wasn't sprouting utter shite, say... if he'd looked into it, or read some of macromedia's documentation on flash 6 (MX,XP,Ti whatever), he would read that there is a lot of multi-lingual and accessibility support in the new version, and it's only going to get better.
I never correct spelling, just when people use the wrong word.... It's only "liable" and "smith and weston" that get me going... Probably should see a doctor.
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well, with p2p going so big, I think that is the first step to a new generation of networks riding on the top of the current one. But I'd bet there would be quite a few happen close to the same time, and with one or two becoming dominant.
I'd like to see this happen, I really would, but the onlye geek-friendly p2p program atm is freenet, which is about as useful as a cardboard cup without wax lining... It works at first, but after a while it won't hold water. And the good people at kazaa will likely ruin it for everybody else wrt p2p as it stands. Two days ago it took me about 10 reboots and a lot of fscking around including booting into safe mode to figure out that the reason my pc was hanging at bootup was because of GMT.exe. Whatever it was trying to do (no idea) was hanging the machine. If it does it to me it'll do it to other people too.
1) Exactly what this article states. Although I find this the least likely outcome.
2) The internet turns into tv + shopping. Lots of ads you can't get past
3) The internet gets so bad, that the geeks create decentralised, efficient, free-floating network partially on top of the existing network, partially outside of it, and it all begins again
4) It goes on exactly like it is now. the (x)AAs of the world keep trying to hold us down, the advertisers keep trying to make us look, MS keeps trying to make us pay (again), and we keep trying to stay one step ahead of them all. This is IMHO the most likely situation.
Too much freddy prinze jr for you. Confiscated.
The test ban was enacted so that nations would STOP designing better planet-busters.
No, it was to do two things:
a) stop people detonating actual devices, because they trash the environment big time.
b) keep nuclear power in the hands of those that already had it for as long as possible. If you've got an ascii white then you can build nukes. And you can't simulate a nuke without detonating a few real ones first.
Defense is a responsibility that people tend to think is something they should pass off to government and law enforcement. Where did that moronic notion come from?!
This idea came from the government, because it doesn't want the people able to defend themselves.
ehh, no. The color is RGBA. The last byte is used for the alpha channel (determines the pixel's transparency).
Eh no. The last bite in a texture is (well can be) alpha, not on your screen.
I hadn't heard about this before. Seems like another strike against LCDs for games because most gamers nowadays run their games with 32-bit color.
:)
Nope, games (and your windows probably) run at 24-bit colour, 32 bits per pixel, and they simply waste one byte per pixel because it's much faster to access the pixels when aligned on a 4 byte boundary. It's simply a speed thing. Not only this, but from a reflective surface (paper) you can distinguish about 50 million colours (except some women who are reverse colour-blind in having 4 whatsijigs in their eyes instead of 3). On an emittive source (crt,tv, backlit lcd monitor) you can only see about 14 million colours. Note this doesn't apply to reflective lcd monitors such as the game boy colour, but that only does a few thousand colours in the graphics chip anyway
It's pretty common knowledge that the temperature in egg-ovens (the correct term just slipped, it's late) can be adjusted to ensure the sex of the chicks.
Is the sex of a human baby determined partially by temperature, like in chickens? Could I technically have a female clone? If brothers and sisters often produce mutations in their offspring (bloody tasmanians), what is to happen if two people with the same dna reproduce?
Anybody got a mirror?
Richard M. Stallman: RMS has an exceptional track record in the .... I fully endorse him as a
candidate, assuming he's willing to drop his puerile "GNU/Linux"
ego stroking.
Translation: I don't want that nutjob running shit.
Cool I didn't know that. Cheers.
Why was Sam not present at the viewing of the mirror? His vision was important in the book, but deleted completely from the movie
:-)
I believe it's because the ending will be different from the books. That's the biggest problem with a film of LOTR. The ending of the book is a terrible ending for a movie. By the end of the movie, the people (who haven't read it) will be expecting a collossal battle with frodo,gandalf, and perhaps aragorn fighting sauron, with the film quickly winding down after that. Having another half hour short story at the end won't sit right with the viewing public. Not having it won't sit right with the geeks. Personally I'm dying to see what they do
Also, don't discount the possibility of extra scenes for us geeky tolkien readers being on the dvd. My ass was pretty sore after 3 hours in a crappy cinema chair, but on my couch that's not gonna be a problem and jackson knows it.
Posted by CmdrNacho on Monday March 25, @06:51AM
From the "we should have seen this coming" dept.
Well it looks like our (ex) favourite search engine, Google has delisted slashdot due to a DMCA threat recieved by the scientologists this morning.
I really wonder how long it will take someone to get OS X running on a non-Apple PPC machine. The code is there, and Darwin is free (as in beer). If you can get Darwin to run on it, Quartz (the closed source part) shouldn't know the difference.
This makes me wonder. What about getting darwin to run natively on a pc and emulating the PPC environment to run quartz and it's counterparts? I know it's not feasible now to emulate ppc, but what about on IA64 / Hammer?
The point is, microsoft doesn't want you running servers on the non-server version of their operating system (read:license). Wow, That's news - front page stuff what.
Enter the Game Man.
It's Big.
It's Bad.
It's Heavy.
It's over 3 feet tall and it's totally in your face.
... It's almost as big as an Atari Lynx!
Im intrigued as to how your going to read data from a digital format with a microscope and a camera - you can take a photo of it at any resolution and it stil wont do a damn thing - this is digital storage not analogue and no image processing program in the world could put together bits from a picture of a CD surface.
Then you obviously need to go back and read more about CD-ROM. CDs are not like a tape/floppy/hdd where the data is stored as invisible patterns and read-write is done with a magnet. They are read _and_ written with a laser, meaning that under heavy magnification, perhaps with the right lighting equipment the data is visible (although not necessarily to the naked eye). It would not be easy, it would not be cheap, but it's quite feasible.
And of course given that CD-ROMS are a known non-square shape and one side is different from the other, even a perfextly symmetrical shred only reduces each shard to two possible positions...
You forgot:
11 "All your trailer" posts
8 "Summary of Posts" posts.
Oops...
Hahaha :-)
Now what the world needs is for China to get their asses (halfway) to mars. That's the only thing that'll scare the shit out the US congress enough to get the good guys there first.
Nintendo can say what they want, but after the fiasco that was the N64, and the pressure from Sony and Microsoft, Nintendo needs Square a lot more than they'll let on. Excluding Square is not really an option. They need third-party games; first-party games just aren't enough (as the N64 showed).
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA You wish dude. For about 10 years now Nintendo has had the most popular game system in the world, the gameboy. And not to mention the fact they own the most recognisable game characters in history (with the exception of sonic of course); Link, Samus, Pikachu, and those goddamned plumbers - Nintendo doesn't need square.
And although Captain James Cook was credited with discovering Australia for the British Empire in 1770, the Chinese had mapped the island continent 337 years earlier.
So what? They took off, Cook sent his mates back to colonise... I think he deserves the credit, don't you? Or else we'd all be chinese (as opposed to just Sydney and Surfers' Paradise)
+5???
Of course if the above poster wasn't sprouting utter shite, say... if he'd looked into it, or read some of macromedia's documentation on flash 6 (MX,XP,Ti whatever), he would read that there is a lot of multi-lingual and accessibility support in the new version, and it's only going to get better.
Judging from the photo it seems to be a new form of 3d tetris.... This shall definitely shape the future!
I never correct spelling, just when people use the wrong word.... It's only "liable" and "smith and weston" that get me going... Probably should see a doctor.