Re:Point your finger in the right direction
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I don't believe in vampires, but for some reason I love the idea of them. There are many movies and even a couple of tv shows (you have 2 guesses) centered around them that I adore. This whole believability complex is really starting to annoy me. I've met more than my share of people who will hate a movie screaming "like THAT would ever happen!" The entire point of fantasy and fiction is to let go of reality for a while and hopefully experience a world that only the human imagination could create. Just because I don't believe Hell exists doesn't mean I wouldn't enjoy a good science fiction/horror/fantasy flick based on the premise of DOOM... if there was one being made.
Of course, you probably are (I hope) just messing around (dare I say trolling?), but there are those who will by some twist of logic agree with what you say oblivious to that. I hope they are reading this:).
QEmu however has the advantage of using dynamic recompilation. That may sound kind of weird when doing x86->x86, but it is still faster. The real beauty in it is by its design can do any supported cpu -> any supported cpu dynamic recompilation.
Don't lecture me... especially when you are wrong. Plex86 was and in its revived form still is a virtualizer. You should read the original white paper from when the original author had funding. It is a very fascinating read for how virtualization can be achieved on a platform not designed for it.
In its original form plex86 was a full virtualizer able to run windows flavors. In it's new "revived" form the new maintainers have decided to screw it up and make it only capable of running linux in the VM. Plex86 was suppose to be the oss vmware killer. Once the funding stopped, however, the author pretty much abandoned it.
Xen does not support Windows today because it uses a technique called para-virtualization to achieve high performance that involves modifying the operating system kernel, Pratt said. However, the debut of virtualization features in next-generation CPUs from Intel and AMD will make it easier to support unmodified operating systems, Pratt said.
As usual slashdot is overhyping or just getting shit plain wrong in article summaries. This is yet another usermode linux clone it seems. This is probably not very different from the "revived" plex86. VMWare is fine where it is for the time being, and it still appears OSS cannot muster the will and/or talent to produce a viable alternative to VMware.
*ahem* SPC-700, and there is no sample set stored in rom. Every game must provide it's own. Not to step on your comment you're right in that the snes had incredible sound capabilities for its time. However keep in mind even with it's multi channel 16 bit 44kHz capabilities, it used a very nasty and incredibly lossy compression format. Very vaguely put it divides a sound into small blocks and compresses it into 4 bits with a scaling value. Every block can have it's own scaling value, and as you can hear it works. However it is very crude.
OK maybe a wee bit unrelated, but how did this annoying term come into common use for an online journal? I swear to god if I heard someone say the word Blog irl I'd either want to laugh or smack them. WTH kind of word is blog? It sounds like something a 2 year old would come up with.
One little problem. How much of the brain a function utilizes is no indication of how much effort it takes to perform that function. In fact really good liers probably use even more processing power than bad liers.
There is a distinction both you and the parent post failed to make. The key is in the fact that the farmers were picking off soldiers. Terrorists, imo, are the ones bombing civilian targets.
RTFA.... why take up someones time here to ask a question that's covered already?
With that out of the way, I will now waste some of my time. The chip has flash memory on it, and it will run code on that flash memory. It includes software to upload data to it. I am not sure how large the flash memory is, but I doubt it's large enough to fit a gamecube iso on it. I don't think you'll be running burned games on the gamecube just yet.
Re:Boo F*cking Hoo. Get out of my industry.
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You're not disagreeing with me there. See I agree with you. I never denied having a tight group of skilled people working reasonable hours will produce some amazing results.
The original poster mentioned that if someone who is a tenth as skilled as him works 80 hours a week while he works 40 then that worker will appear only a fifth as skilled. He was not really clear, and most of his post was not really on topic, but I assume he meant to imply that the people at EA must work those hours so they don't seem unskilled. He neglected that idea that they might be forced to do this if they want to keep their jobs, despite how good or bad they may be.
Will's point was never about EA as much as it was a rant about how he's sick of everyone being a crappy coder compared to him. He wants all of these underskilled (when compared to him) people "out of his industry." One can only assume he meant to imply that the exploited workers of EA are a part of that group in his eyes. He feels no sympathy for them instead attributing their mistreatment as a side effect of their incompetence. If Will had that chat with EA he'd tell them to "get out of his industry.":P
Anyways yes you are correct, and I think someone needs to put a stop to what EA is doing especially if EA truely is breaking CA law as some have accused. I think 80 hour work weeks as a regular thing are counter productive. I think experience is definately something worth having. However, I also think Will needs to get over his ego trip.
You seem to be ignoring the possibility that if you are suspected of commiting the crime it probably would not be a problem to get a warrent to take your printer. So now they have the printed document and your printer, and if you are guilty then you are screwed.
Re:Boo F*cking Hoo. Get out of my industry.
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You talk a lot, but your words have little meaning. A nice 7 paragraph rant about how much better you are than everyone else. What bearing this has on EA and its mistreatment of its employees this little rant has however I do not know. Perhaps you are meaning to imply that EA is doing the things it is because clearly none of its employees could match your amazing skill. Do you mean to say that if these employees could attain your level of excellence then EA would not do the things it does? Well, I have bad news for you. Employers like EA will abuse their employees no matter how good they are. Yes if you worked at EA they wouldn't say "well you're so productive we don't care if you only work 40 hours." They would be pulling the same shit with you, despite your amazing self proclaimed coding abilities.
I suppose I could be wrong about your intent. You did ask them to get out of YOUR industry. I don't think you said that because you think YOUR industry is overcrowded. It seemed like frustration that everybody else isn't as good as you. Maybe you know every single employee at EA and have come to the conclusion that you are better (although I assume you come to that same conclusion with everyone you meet).
Maybe I am looking at it in the wrong way tho. Perhaps this is a rant based on pent up rage. Perhaps you have spent so long being better than everybody else that you are starting to get angry that nobody can keep up! Maybe this has been building for so long that some random story about mistreated EA employees was all it took to set you off. If so, then that would mean your rant actually has nothing to do with EA. Must be horrible being better than everyone else.
Whatever relation your rant has with EA and its mistreated employees, if any, I just have one thing to say to you.
ohh i see, so the drivers API are changed not to improve them but for the only purpose of make the using of binary drivers impossible !!
Not quite. They won't change the API just for the sake of changing it. They just won't shed any tears if a new feature or improvement comes along that changes it. The fact that it makes binary drivers more difficult to support is merely a side effect, and a side effect the kernel developers don't really care about.
I'm getting sick of vapor announcements... especially from HP. Is anyone else still waiting for LightScribe?! If HP's backing of Blu-Ray is gonna be anything like that we won't see it 'till the next decade.:/
Tricked him? It really amazes me how many people screw up the difference between a flat screen CRT and a flat panel LCD. Blame your boss, not the people he bought them from. Chances are they were using terms for CRT's that existed way before LCD's became popular. Terms that only resemble eachother in the use of the word FLAT.
Re:The freezer trick does work though
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I have a 60gb maxtor that is having issues spinning up. It has a S.M.A.R.T. warning too about excessively high spinup retry counts. I'm currently working on backing up the data, but I was curious if you knew the model # of the drive you had problems with?
God I even previewed it... should previewed the preview. Anyone else wondering how they got black on the white sheet of paper with a red laser in the image of this device in TFA?:)
You are just naive if you think it is that simple. In an ideal world it would be, but as anybody knows, this is not an ideal world. Quiting a job is not just something you can do in a whim. You must make sure you have something to fallback on. Of course looking for another job between the 80 hour work week is no small task. EA also tends to employree fresh out of college kids with no experience, and when you are in that situation finding a job is more difficult than if you have experience in the field. Do you honestly think that every single mistreated employee there wants to stick around? Obviously there are other factors involved in how easy it is just just quit than if you want to.
Anyways, the reason this is an issue is EA is taking advantage of the fact that its employees have nowhere else to go, and are making it harder for them to find other jobs. EA realizes that for a lot of its employees it's either EA's way or no paycheck. This in and of itself is not neccessarily bad. There are many job markets that are saturated. The bad part is EA is exploiting this situation to treat the employees very poorly.
Capitalism is not perfect. The human factor remains, and treating people like slaves to make a few extra dollars is not ethical and in many situations not legal. It is our job as a society for all our sakes to make sure this kind of abuse does not happen.
I like it. I don't care enough about gaming to frequent any gaming specific site, but I do still like to play a good game the rare times the are made. If once in a blue moon a good game with geek appeal gets released,/. will probably be the only way I hear about it.
It is well documented that those promise controllers are not intended for use with ATAPI devices. Hell they barely work for hard disks. The best thing you could do is toss that piece of crap in the garbage.
In order to be an evolutionary success story all you have to do is survive. So until we come up against a predator that requires us to have such finely tuned senses to survive we'll just have to make do:).
Just because you can't stand using Windows, doesn't mean that it can't be a perfectly enjoyable enjoyable experience for the rest of the users.
You cannot fully understand misery without first experiencing joy. So how can they know that they are not miserable without experiencing the joy of linux? There is no basis of comparison for "them." (I am only slightly serious:).
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I don't believe in vampires, but for some reason I love the idea of them. There are many movies and even a couple of tv shows (you have 2 guesses) centered around them that I adore. This whole believability complex is really starting to annoy me. I've met more than my share of people who will hate a movie screaming "like THAT would ever happen!" The entire point of fantasy and fiction is to let go of reality for a while and hopefully experience a world that only the human imagination could create. Just because I don't believe Hell exists doesn't mean I wouldn't enjoy a good science fiction/horror/fantasy flick based on the premise of DOOM... if there was one being made.
:).
Of course, you probably are (I hope) just messing around (dare I say trolling?), but there are those who will by some twist of logic agree with what you say oblivious to that. I hope they are reading this
QEmu however has the advantage of using dynamic recompilation. That may sound kind of weird when doing x86->x86, but it is still faster. The real beauty in it is by its design can do any supported cpu -> any supported cpu dynamic recompilation.
Don't lecture me... especially when you are wrong. Plex86 was and in its revived form still is a virtualizer. You should read the original white paper from when the original author had funding. It is a very fascinating read for how virtualization can be achieved on a platform not designed for it.
In its original form plex86 was a full virtualizer able to run windows flavors. In it's new "revived" form the new maintainers have decided to screw it up and make it only capable of running linux in the VM. Plex86 was suppose to be the oss vmware killer. Once the funding stopped, however, the author pretty much abandoned it.
From TFA:
Xen does not support Windows today because it uses a technique called para-virtualization to achieve high performance that involves modifying the operating system kernel, Pratt said. However, the debut of virtualization features in next-generation CPUs from Intel and AMD will make it easier to support unmodified operating systems, Pratt said.
As usual slashdot is overhyping or just getting shit plain wrong in article summaries. This is yet another usermode linux clone it seems. This is probably not very different from the "revived" plex86. VMWare is fine where it is for the time being, and it still appears OSS cannot muster the will and/or talent to produce a viable alternative to VMware.
*ahem* SPC-700, and there is no sample set stored in rom. Every game must provide it's own. Not to step on your comment you're right in that the snes had incredible sound capabilities for its time. However keep in mind even with it's multi channel 16 bit 44kHz capabilities, it used a very nasty and incredibly lossy compression format. Very vaguely put it divides a sound into small blocks and compresses it into 4 bits with a scaling value. Every block can have it's own scaling value, and as you can hear it works. However it is very crude.
OK maybe a wee bit unrelated, but how did this annoying term come into common use for an online journal? I swear to god if I heard someone say the word Blog irl I'd either want to laugh or smack them. WTH kind of word is blog? It sounds like something a 2 year old would come up with.
One little problem. How much of the brain a function utilizes is no indication of how much effort it takes to perform that function. In fact really good liers probably use even more processing power than bad liers.
Whoa you're right. I knew BSD was dying...
There is a distinction both you and the parent post failed to make. The key is in the fact that the farmers were picking off soldiers. Terrorists, imo, are the ones bombing civilian targets.
RTFA.... why take up someones time here to ask a question that's covered already?
With that out of the way, I will now waste some of my time. The chip has flash memory on it, and it will run code on that flash memory. It includes software to upload data to it. I am not sure how large the flash memory is, but I doubt it's large enough to fit a gamecube iso on it. I don't think you'll be running burned games on the gamecube just yet.
You're not disagreeing with me there. See I agree with you. I never denied having a tight group of skilled people working reasonable hours will produce some amazing results.
:P
The original poster mentioned that if someone who is a tenth as skilled as him works 80 hours a week while he works 40 then that worker will appear only a fifth as skilled. He was not really clear, and most of his post was not really on topic, but I assume he meant to imply that the people at EA must work those hours so they don't seem unskilled. He neglected that idea that they might be forced to do this if they want to keep their jobs, despite how good or bad they may be.
Will's point was never about EA as much as it was a rant about how he's sick of everyone being a crappy coder compared to him. He wants all of these underskilled (when compared to him) people "out of his industry." One can only assume he meant to imply that the exploited workers of EA are a part of that group in his eyes. He feels no sympathy for them instead attributing their mistreatment as a side effect of their incompetence. If Will had that chat with EA he'd tell them to "get out of his industry."
Anyways yes you are correct, and I think someone needs to put a stop to what EA is doing especially if EA truely is breaking CA law as some have accused. I think 80 hour work weeks as a regular thing are counter productive. I think experience is definately something worth having. However, I also think Will needs to get over his ego trip.
Hmm mirrordot doesn't seem to edit links to point to itself. The poor guys account has been suspended too.
You seem to be ignoring the possibility that if you are suspected of commiting the crime it probably would not be a problem to get a warrent to take your printer. So now they have the printed document and your printer, and if you are guilty then you are screwed.
You talk a lot, but your words have little meaning. A nice 7 paragraph rant about how much better you are than everyone else. What bearing this has on EA and its mistreatment of its employees this little rant has however I do not know. Perhaps you are meaning to imply that EA is doing the things it is because clearly none of its employees could match your amazing skill. Do you mean to say that if these employees could attain your level of excellence then EA would not do the things it does? Well, I have bad news for you. Employers like EA will abuse their employees no matter how good they are. Yes if you worked at EA they wouldn't say "well you're so productive we don't care if you only work 40 hours." They would be pulling the same shit with you, despite your amazing self proclaimed coding abilities.
I suppose I could be wrong about your intent. You did ask them to get out of YOUR industry. I don't think you said that because you think YOUR industry is overcrowded. It seemed like frustration that everybody else isn't as good as you. Maybe you know every single employee at EA and have come to the conclusion that you are better (although I assume you come to that same conclusion with everyone you meet).
Maybe I am looking at it in the wrong way tho. Perhaps this is a rant based on pent up rage. Perhaps you have spent so long being better than everybody else that you are starting to get angry that nobody can keep up! Maybe this has been building for so long that some random story about mistreated EA employees was all it took to set you off. If so, then that would mean your rant actually has nothing to do with EA. Must be horrible being better than everyone else.
Whatever relation your rant has with EA and its mistreated employees, if any, I just have one thing to say to you.
GET OVER THE EGO TRIP!
ohh i see, so the drivers API are changed not to improve them but for the only purpose of make the using of binary drivers impossible !!
Not quite. They won't change the API just for the sake of changing it. They just won't shed any tears if a new feature or improvement comes along that changes it. The fact that it makes binary drivers more difficult to support is merely a side effect, and a side effect the kernel developers don't really care about.
I'm getting sick of vapor announcements... especially from HP. Is anyone else still waiting for LightScribe?! If HP's backing of Blu-Ray is gonna be anything like that we won't see it 'till the next decade. :/
Tricked him? It really amazes me how many people screw up the difference between a flat screen CRT and a flat panel LCD. Blame your boss, not the people he bought them from. Chances are they were using terms for CRT's that existed way before LCD's became popular. Terms that only resemble eachother in the use of the word FLAT.
I have a 60gb maxtor that is having issues spinning up. It has a S.M.A.R.T. warning too about excessively high spinup retry counts. I'm currently working on backing up the data, but I was curious if you knew the model # of the drive you had problems with?
God I even previewed it... should previewed the preview. :)
Anyone else wondering how they got black on the white sheet of paper with a red laser in the image of this device in TFA?
Anyone else wondering how they got on and the white sheet of paper with a red laser in the image of this device in TFA? :)
You are just naive if you think it is that simple. In an ideal world it would be, but as anybody knows, this is not an ideal world. Quiting a job is not just something you can do in a whim. You must make sure you have something to fallback on. Of course looking for another job between the 80 hour work week is no small task. EA also tends to employree fresh out of college kids with no experience, and when you are in that situation finding a job is more difficult than if you have experience in the field. Do you honestly think that every single mistreated employee there wants to stick around? Obviously there are other factors involved in how easy it is just just quit than if you want to.
Anyways, the reason this is an issue is EA is taking advantage of the fact that its employees have nowhere else to go, and are making it harder for them to find other jobs. EA realizes that for a lot of its employees it's either EA's way or no paycheck. This in and of itself is not neccessarily bad. There are many job markets that are saturated. The bad part is EA is exploiting this situation to treat the employees very poorly.
Capitalism is not perfect. The human factor remains, and treating people like slaves to make a few extra dollars is not ethical and in many situations not legal. It is our job as a society for all our sakes to make sure this kind of abuse does not happen.
I like it. I don't care enough about gaming to frequent any gaming specific site, but I do still like to play a good game the rare times the are made. If once in a blue moon a good game with geek appeal gets released, /. will probably be the only way I hear about it.
It is well documented that those promise controllers are not intended for use with ATAPI devices. Hell they barely work for hard disks. The best thing you could do is toss that piece of crap in the garbage.
In order to be an evolutionary success story all you have to do is survive. So until we come up against a predator that requires us to have such finely tuned senses to survive we'll just have to make do :).
Just because you can't stand using Windows, doesn't mean that it can't be a perfectly enjoyable enjoyable experience for the rest of the users.
:).
You cannot fully understand misery without first experiencing joy. So how can they know that they are not miserable without experiencing the joy of linux? There is no basis of comparison for "them." (I am only slightly serious