Contrary to popular belief, developers AREN'T idiots.
Besides, I haven't seen many grandmothers with Geforce4Ti's (which is the equivalent of what's inside the Xbox). Actually, most crap office PCs sold today are far inferior to the Xbox in terms of gaming capabilities despite their 2-3 GHz CPUs, because of their ridiculously underpowered graphics subsystems (810/815/845G etc.), which are about the power of a Voodoo2. Not exactly last year's technology.
2. The discoverer says that a powerful establishment is trying to suppress his or her work. The idea is that the establishment will presumably stop at nothing to suppress discoveries that might shift the balance of wealth and power in society. Often, the discoverer describes mainstream science as part of a larger conspiracy that includes industry and government. Claims that the oil companies are frustrating the invention of an automobile that runs on water, for instance, are a sure sign that the idea of such a car is baloney. In the case of cold fusion, Pons and Fleischmann blamed their cold reception on physicists who were protecting their own research in hot fusion.
Anyone remember the recent Slashdot discussion about Big Aerospace, Senators (and possibly MJ-12) stiffling little brave guys with little rockets?
Hmmm, I doubt that without the L2 cache compilation times would be anywhere near the Athlon 1800+. More like an Athlon 180+. Compilation is a very random-memory-access process, so it would kill the P4 core with its relatively large memory latency without a cache.
Try running a test that repeatedly accesses a block of memory 124, 125, 126, 127, 128 etc. KB in size. If you see a significant drop in speed when the block size grows above 128, you probably have your cache.
Anyway, is it the _kernel_'s job to turn on the cache? Isn't that supposed to be the BIOS' job?
id recently announced that Doom III won't be finished until 2004
Sure about that? Where did you read it? I did a quick search and I found the following ...on the topic of Activision's quarterly conference call. In which they stated DOOM III will ship in the 2004 fiscal year (ie April 2003 - March 2004).
Which is fits in the original timeframe of "Spring/summer 2003"
Go watch your Sony TV, listen to your Sony walkmen, jot a note on your Sony Clie PDA, take a picture of your baby on your Sony F717 and call home on your Sony cellphone. Support the free world.
Read Gen. Clark's "Waging Modern War" to understand how the Western world's armies are with hands tied behind their back because of the media's attention to civilian casualties.
Yeah, I'm sure that's exactly what you said to Steve Jobs last time he told you in a keynote how your Mac is zillion of times slower than those snail-pace PCs.
Hmmm, last time I checked out D, operator overloading was deliberately left out on grounds of being "evil" and "used only for vectors, strings and smart pointers anyway".
Goes to show that some people actually _DO_ learn.
Yeah, sure, given the Chinese' Communist Party long history in providing even more freedom to their citizens, I'm sure all they want from open source software is freedom and battling the forces of evil.
And not some absurd thing like embedding government-trusted-information-only deep in the OS.
Do you really thing that the Chinese government will release the sources of their modifications? They have violated all kinds of international laws on many occasions, but you believe the GPL will shine a light in their hearts and they will magically start to heed it?
Your post expresses the absurd notion that a corporation wanting to deny you access to a pirated Britney Spears single is much, much more evil than a government wanting to throw you into jail for criticizing it.
The inherent advantages and disadvantages of OSS make it as good a vehicle for tyranny and cenzorship as it might be for freedom.
I like Usenet, because it is an exchange rather than a bunch of stand-alone reviews. Someone can still give bad information, but they tend to get shouted down.
The human ear (and the corresponding piece of driver code in the brain) is very sensitive to regularities and irregularities in sounds. If you convert something to sound and get used to it, you can very easily spot how it "sounds wrong" when something changes.
Seismographists used to convert earthquake vibration patterns to human-audible sounds; this way it became very easy for a trained ear to distinguish between natural quakes and Soviet nuclear tests. On a screen, both looked like a jumble of lines.
Of course, a clever piece of software can do this too - but you already have this clever piece of software installed for free in your brain. (Unfortunately it is free-beer, as the source is not available. Hmmmm, I guess rms should target God as the largest producer of closed-source software in the Universe?)
In a typical stealing-from-the-rich-is-not-stealing fashion, a typical Slashdot euphemism. Uncapping? Hello? This is stealing bandwidth, and not from the evil rich capitalist ISP, but from your neighbors. If you tap into their powerline, is that "electricity theft" or "socket untapping"?
I expect a story "Microsoft calls FBI to arrest a warehouse with 100,000 backups for personal purposes of Windows XP" next time...
Oh cmon. Hardware changes don't mean software incompatibilities. Playstation2 has undergone 7 revisions of the motherboard (AFAIK), even merging two of the chips into one. This hasn't broken the games and hasn't hurt the sales. It's only normal and expected for MS to fight back against hackers. Expect more iterations of the modchips-anti modchip hardware revisions war between MS's Xbox team and the Xbox hackers. (GNU-tradition meaning of "hackers", or mass-media meaning of "hackers", whichever you prefer)
AMD and Intel leapfrogging each other turned out to be beneficial for everybody ('cept for those funny guys with the colored plastic) because their products are mostly compatible with each other. Two (three? four?) divergent advanced shader standards means more "simply texture the triangles because it works everywhere" games. Which is not good.
In the presence of a jamming signal cell phones around you would increase their output power in an attempt to hear their basestation. So all you'll achieve will be a increased drain on their batteries - like, they'll last 3.5 days instead of 4. Not to mention the radiation you'll be getting from the jammer itself.
A month or so ago somebody at GamingGroove (you can guess the URL) "reviewed" our upcoming game based on a leaked demo from April 2001. Even if you put aside the fact that the demo was soooo old, the reviewer has managed to express an opinion on the game's multiplayer, single-player campaign and AI opponents while the demo included only a single mission without any AI and without multiplayer support. Of course, no amount of polite, whining or threatening emails made them take the stupid thing down.
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Contrary to popular belief, developers AREN'T idiots.
Besides, I haven't seen many grandmothers with Geforce4Ti's (which is the equivalent of what's inside the Xbox). Actually, most crap office PCs sold today are far inferior to the Xbox in terms of gaming capabilities despite their 2-3 GHz CPUs, because of their ridiculously underpowered graphics subsystems (810/815/845G etc.), which are about the power of a Voodoo2. Not exactly last year's technology.
2. The discoverer says that a powerful establishment is trying to suppress his or her work. The idea is that the establishment will presumably stop at nothing to suppress discoveries that might shift the balance of wealth and power in society. Often, the discoverer describes mainstream science as part of a larger conspiracy that includes industry and government. Claims that the oil companies are frustrating the invention of an automobile that runs on water, for instance, are a sure sign that the idea of such a car is baloney. In the case of cold fusion, Pons and Fleischmann blamed their cold reception on physicists who were protecting their own research in hot fusion.
Anyone remember the recent Slashdot discussion about Big Aerospace, Senators (and possibly MJ-12) stiffling little brave guys with little rockets?
OF COURSE Miguel is wrong, that's the same guy that said good things about .NET, he can't be possibly right on anything.
Nah, I'm waiting for glTrashTalk or at least gl13375p34k.
Hmmm, I doubt that without the L2 cache compilation times would be anywhere near the Athlon 1800+. More like an Athlon 180+. Compilation is a very random-memory-access process, so it would kill the P4 core with its relatively large memory latency without a cache.
Try running a test that repeatedly accesses a block of memory 124, 125, 126, 127, 128 etc. KB in size. If you see a significant drop in speed when the block size grows above 128, you probably have your cache.
Anyway, is it the _kernel_'s job to turn on the cache? Isn't that supposed to be the BIOS' job?
id recently announced that Doom III won't be finished until 2004
...on the topic of Activision's quarterly conference call. In which they stated DOOM III will ship in the 2004 fiscal year (ie April 2003 - March 2004).
Sure about that? Where did you read it?
I did a quick search and I found the following
Which is fits in the original timeframe of "Spring/summer 2003"
...all your abandoned airfield are belong to us!
OTOH, a floppy is about as relevant as the Atari 2600. A "Hello, world!", even with libraries, JDK's, .NET runtime etc. perfectly fits on a $.25 CD-R.
What bothers me is that I'm beginning to see less and less 'innovation' and more and more 'feature copying'.
Tell me, have you ever taken a look at OpenOffice? Or, even better, an OpenOffice app and the corresponding MS Office app side by side?
Sure.
Go watch your Sony TV, listen to your Sony walkmen, jot a note on your Sony Clie PDA, take a picture of your baby on your Sony F717 and call home on your Sony cellphone. Support the free world.
Read Gen. Clark's "Waging Modern War" to understand how the Western world's armies are with hands tied behind their back because of the media's attention to civilian casualties.
Yeah, I'm sure that's exactly what you said to Steve Jobs last time he told you in a keynote how your Mac is zillion of times slower than those snail-pace PCs.
This may be true in the US due to tradition, but magazines are usually typeset on PCs in Europe.
Hmmm, last time I checked out D, operator overloading was deliberately left out on grounds of being "evil" and "used only for vectors, strings and smart pointers anyway".
Goes to show that some people actually _DO_ learn.
Yeah, sure, given the Chinese' Communist Party long history in providing even more freedom to their citizens, I'm sure all they want from open source software is freedom and battling the forces of evil.
And not some absurd thing like embedding government-trusted-information-only deep in the OS.
Do you really thing that the Chinese government will release the sources of their modifications? They have violated all kinds of international laws on many occasions, but you believe the GPL will shine a light in their hearts and they will magically start to heed it?
Your post expresses the absurd notion that a corporation wanting to deny you access to a pirated Britney Spears single is much, much more evil than a government wanting to throw you into jail for criticizing it.
The inherent advantages and disadvantages of OSS make it as good a vehicle for tyranny and cenzorship as it might be for freedom.
I like Usenet, because it is an exchange rather than a bunch of stand-alone reviews. Someone can still give bad information, but they tend to get shouted down.
Actually, on Usenet EVERYONE gets shouted down.
Can you imagine what would the Slashdot response be if Microsoft did it? This is much, much worse than their rental licensing models.
The human ear (and the corresponding piece of driver code in the brain) is very sensitive to regularities and irregularities in sounds. If you convert something to sound and get used to it, you can very easily spot how it "sounds wrong" when something changes.
Seismographists used to convert earthquake vibration patterns to human-audible sounds; this way it became very easy for a trained ear to distinguish between natural quakes and Soviet nuclear tests. On a screen, both looked like a jumble of lines.
Of course, a clever piece of software can do this too - but you already have this clever piece of software installed for free in your brain.
(Unfortunately it is free-beer, as the source is not available. Hmmmm, I guess rms should target God as the largest producer of closed-source software in the Universe?)
In a typical stealing-from-the-rich-is-not-stealing fashion, a typical Slashdot euphemism. Uncapping? Hello? This is stealing bandwidth, and not from the evil rich capitalist ISP, but from your neighbors. If you tap into their powerline, is that "electricity theft" or "socket untapping"?
I expect a story "Microsoft calls FBI to arrest a warehouse with 100,000 backups for personal purposes of Windows XP" next time...
Oh cmon. Hardware changes don't mean software incompatibilities. Playstation2 has undergone 7 revisions of the motherboard (AFAIK), even merging two of the chips into one. This hasn't broken the games and hasn't hurt the sales. It's only normal and expected for MS to fight back against hackers. Expect more iterations of the modchips-anti modchip hardware revisions war between MS's Xbox team and the Xbox hackers. (GNU-tradition meaning of "hackers", or mass-media meaning of "hackers", whichever you prefer)
No, it's not a good thing (competition).
AMD and Intel leapfrogging each other turned out to be beneficial for everybody ('cept for those funny guys with the colored plastic) because their products are mostly compatible with each other. Two (three? four?) divergent advanced shader standards means more "simply texture the triangles because it works everywhere" games. Which is not good.
Microsoft makes $9 from each third-party title, not $15.
In the presence of a jamming signal cell phones around you would increase their output power in an attempt to hear their basestation. So all you'll achieve will be a increased drain on their batteries - like, they'll last 3.5 days instead of 4. Not to mention the radiation you'll be getting from the jammer itself.
Resistance is futile.
...is the statistics tool which is probably sufficient for us 99% of the population outside the elite statistician circle.
A month or so ago somebody at GamingGroove (you can guess the URL) "reviewed" our upcoming game based on a leaked demo from April 2001. Even if you put aside the fact that the demo was soooo old, the reviewer has managed to express an opinion on the game's multiplayer, single-player campaign and AI opponents while the demo included only a single mission without any AI and without multiplayer support. Of course, no amount of polite, whining or threatening emails made them take the stupid thing down.