"When you die in our world, you die for real."
-- The Matrix
I can only say: this is just the beginning. When people live in constructed worlds, they move their focus away from the real world. Thus they live on a lie and still it's more fantastic than what is outside our doors.
I guess some organizations should start coming together and rescue those people. Anonymous Gamers or something. This is NOT a joke.
I'm afraid Microsoft only thinks of their "Open Source" as "Sample-code" that would only work on Microsoft platforms. E.g. Visual Basic and C# code examples may be "open source".
if you run, let's say a UDMA ATA66 controller, if you have some kind of trouble, the driver might force the OS to mark sectors as bad blocks -even if they were not. I had an IBM drive, and after rewiping the disk and testing many times, the bad blocks were gone.
So maybe many UDMA drivers are not up to date. Especially High-Point Tech (which Abit and others use) have many Beta-drivers which I do not trust completely.`
I remember when 3dfx was the ruler of the 3D-World. They were nice.
How nVidia made lives hard for 3dfx owners
After nVidia bought 3DFX, they stopped all driver-development on Voodoo-cards, and in the end making it very hard for users who wanted to run Windows XP drivers. Microsoft would not sign the opengl and glide drivers because they found some errors in the drivers. There were rumours that Microsoft even tried to make nVidia give them the drivers, so Microsoft could fix them for free.
But nVidia claimed they were not the copyright owners of the drivers, and they also did not want any Windows XP drivers on the market. This would of course push every voodoo owner to buy a new graphic card.
This was one of the worst cases of business I've ever seen. There were a lot of protests from various petitions on-line, but nVidia never wanted to respond.
I would surely NEVER buy a nVidia card, and you should not do so either. Go for ATI Radeon instead (which are even better than nVidia).
Because this was what the article was about. Stop bragging. Sony is a multi-corporation and also produces CD players or whatever, but that's "another company".:p
No. There might be pre-released movies out. The changes left are just cosmetic. Like when Lucas have a nice day and looks at the movie, he says "This robot doesn't really have to be killed". So they re-render the scene, but the story is still the same.
BTW i'm of course not saying that the review was an authentic article.
I must say I'm impressed with how Microsoft has made the AD evolve. There is a need in the industry, as networks increase in both size and bandwidth, for bigger and more centralized stuff so people don't have to use separate accounts for each apartment or whatever. There exist programs now for even synchonizing Oracle databases and AD, novell and AD (password on novell is unfortunately not possible to sync) and similar.
A norwegian company named MetaMerge who has started on this big task (synchronizing databases is not that easy).
I've seen that even Cisco is planning to support Active Directory. Wouldn't it be nice to right click on a user and just select what kind of access the user should have? E.g. "Allow only port 80, or only connections using https, or limit bandwidth of this user.. the solutions are endless".
Of course, Microsoft did not like the full LDAP specification, so they created another layer (ADSI), but what the heck, it still works.
Too many webs was around because of the users experimenting with HTML code, and to show that one can master the design.
Nowadays, it's not about this anymore. It's about the topic that the text discuss and the information that the page present. I am still visiting pages that contain pure TXT documents (e.g. ietf.org) and it still gives me the information I need.
The internet needs a better way of users telling everybody the actual value of an information. This can atleast not be done by renting HTML coders to produce a site that still lack of interesting info.
AMD recent years have been known to produce inexpensive and good performing, but hot running CPUs. They used to rely on external measurement of temperature, but in 2001 they, like Intel a long time ago, introduced internal temperature sensoring. AMD still can not be said to produce cool running processors, which also seems to be the fact for many of the most recent Intel ones, but since they aren't so expensive some say a solution for a quiet PC can be to buy a fast AMD processor and underclock it, making it run cooler thus minimizing noise of active cooling.
I've been looking into the european telecom industry and it's union. I've sometimes been shocked about the economic driven force of this industry has almost killed most services by charging money for the even smallest services.
Look at the Short Message Service (SMS) which was meant for sending control messages between cell stations around the world on the GSM network. Suddenly people started using this SMS feature because of the nice way of noting people even if they were not nearby the cellphone. Then thee telecom industry started billing the SMS messages and they have now, here in Norway, over 70% profit for each message. That's over 60$ per minute if you compare prices to the bandwidth used by normal GSM voice-calls.
After this, they started introducing WAP. This time they thought that they should start earning money for each WAP request from the beginning, and they started the usual meetings for patent and similar stuff that so many times have totally destroyed the compareness to the free internet. The result was that the telecom operators wanted to have full control of all services, and they all ended up with no users using wap at all. Technically, the greediness of the telecom industry totally destroyed the WAP before it was even introduced. Now they are talking about the UMTS high-bandwidth network and they are still heading for the same failure as WAP since they want major control over all services.
Now, back to topic.
If Microsoft was a memember of the telecom industry:
You had to pay $0.1 for every Messenger message
You had to pay $0.00002 for every megabyte of data you sent using the OS
You had no rights to use e.g. windows media video unless you signed a contract of every-minute-fees
(Note that Cell-version of Microsoft Messenger have to charge a fee because of the greedy telecom industry requires them so).
As you can see, there is nothing better than seeing Microsoft trying to affect the Telecom Industry by moving the cell-platform for the Microsoft way. I am not saying that this would make it better, and I am not saying that it is comparable for the totally open minded and free Internet, but it's still a general leap ahead for the inevitable convergence of the Telecom and Internet industry.
I have been playing Half-Life Counter-Strike (CS) for some time, and they seem to have a working key-system (where only one or two persons in the world can have the same key). However, as techonologies advances, there has been some people who have found it hard to understand why they suddenly could not play anymore. Then they finally understand that the only solution is a) they've been hacked (cdkey is in registry) or b) somebody have had some luck in creating a key that was the exact same as yours.
This makes it pretty hard...
I guess the software companies should also make a login system, where one can register what IP's the users can use, to improve security of cdkeys.. However, there would be nice to also have a third party system to take control of this, so you get some privacy. Maybe passport or similar (yeah i dont trust passport either, but you dont exactly have to give much info to them).
I hate to say it, but I've still not seen a single java application with a lot of windows (using the GUI) perform well under my MS Windows. I know this is not Windows' fault, since they also seem to lag under Linux.
My class and I was at Sun Microsystems in Ireland in 2001. They talked a lot about how good Java was. But when I asked one of the top people this simple question "Why isn't staroffice programmed in Java?", they said "We don't know, actually".
I know why. It's because Java just can't compete with faster languages when it comes to larger programs that require real window handlement. (personal opinion ofcourse).
Now on to the "so-called" platform independability. I personally have been asked several times to convert java programs so they can be run on UNIX platforms (like HP-UX) because they just didnt perform well on those platforms. Instead we chose TCL or similar. Which seem to do the job.
Best luck to Java in the future. Hope you programmers can fix these "small" problems:-).
there's more to it than that
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there is a lot of features of windows xp. like it remembers the 8 last bootup sequences so it can boot up faster.
about that 64mb ram stuff, i can just say that i do not have a single friend with less than 256mb. nowadays, ram prices are so low that ram usage can not count as an argument.
The LinuX(P) convergence
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PERSONAL OPINIONS:
I have noticed that back in the 90's the UNIX OS was the best network operating system.
Nowadays I do not know anymore. I see that most Linux distro's somewhat looks more and more like Windows, thus one can see that the two OS'es are making a convergence, where they finally probably would make the inevitable 99,99% similarity.
I know you guys say that "We'll go for the free OS!", but I allready have Windows XP and it was free for me (I've not payed anything). So untill Microsoft do something really stupid like blocking piracy completely, I guess the normal @home workstation would contain a "free" OS.
The next logical step for Microsoft would be to secure its OS, and the Linux must become more User-friendly and, as some might say, more open. I still would like to see that my 6year-old neighbor able to install Linux like the Windows 2000.
I feel that some people who like Linux really likes that they can use the OS on old boxes like pentium 2 400mhz or similar. This is because Linux is normally an OS that most people actually upgrades every now-and-then. However, when it comes to Windows, Microsoft have seen that they only sell their OS with new PC's (99,9% sales i guess), thus they do not care about older PC's like the P2 400.
Now back to topic, Cost of Ownership (TCO) for Windows versus open source systems. Until now, conventional wisdom held that Windows wizards were a key factor in holding down TCO by countering the initial licensing costs with lower maintenance costs and lower skills requirements for the maintainers.
My main point was that the relevance of TCO and other stuff is not that high anymore, and in the end we just have to say: Know your OS and do what you want the best way. There is no Best OS and there is no Best Way.
Yeah. But the $150 video card would only be the requirements for about 40 frames per second. And we all know that we need atleast 70 to own a First Person Shooter (FPS) game.
Okay. I know this will be slashdotted, but please read this guide: http://www.doom9.org/codecs.htm
THIS IS TRUE
1. DivX;-) (=v4.0)is just compatible with this old format.
2. DivX is NOT open source.
3. OpenDivX is open source, but it sucks nowadays.
4. The http://www.xvid.org is the best open-source video. And actually it's no need to licence Divx.com since xvid is free.
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I've done some JPEG2000 reading, but I've not found any hits on animated jpeg's. I want a format that can compete with Animated GIF's.
Letter from 1954, December 15th
It works! I traveled back in time. But I guess you knew that allready, huh?
"When you die in our world, you die for real."
-- The Matrix
I can only say: this is just the beginning. When people live in constructed worlds, they move their focus away from the real world. Thus they live on a lie and still it's more fantastic than what is outside our doors.
I guess some organizations should start coming together and rescue those people. Anonymous Gamers or something. This is NOT a joke.
I'm afraid Microsoft only thinks of their "Open Source" as "Sample-code" that would only work on Microsoft platforms. E.g. Visual Basic and C# code examples may be "open source".
if you run, let's say a UDMA ATA66 controller, if you have some kind of trouble, the driver might force the OS to mark sectors as bad blocks -even if they were not. I had an IBM drive, and after rewiping the disk and testing many times, the bad blocks were gone.
So maybe many UDMA drivers are not up to date. Especially High-Point Tech (which Abit and others use) have many Beta-drivers which I do not trust completely.`
How nVidia made lives hard for 3dfx owners
After nVidia bought 3DFX, they stopped all driver-development on Voodoo-cards, and in the end making it very hard for users who wanted to run Windows XP drivers. Microsoft would not sign the opengl and glide drivers because they found some errors in the drivers. There were rumours that Microsoft even tried to make nVidia give them the drivers, so Microsoft could fix them for free.
But nVidia claimed they were not the copyright owners of the drivers, and they also did not want any Windows XP drivers on the market. This would of course push every voodoo owner to buy a new graphic card.
This was one of the worst cases of business I've ever seen. There were a lot of protests from various petitions on-line, but nVidia never wanted to respond.
I would surely NEVER buy a nVidia card, and you should not do so either. Go for ATI Radeon instead (which are even better than nVidia).
It turns out that other people than Microsoft also complained.
I would like to point out that CeBit is NOT a game show. I think you are taking this story a bit too ANTI-Microsoft'ish.
Sometimes I wonder how independent Slashdot is.
Because this was what the article was about. Stop bragging. Sony is a multi-corporation and also produces CD players or whatever, but that's "another company". :p
BTW i'm of course not saying that the review was an authentic article.
It's Micros~1 format Windows media but it works okay.
Enjoy!
A norwegian company named MetaMerge who has started on this big task (synchronizing databases is not that easy).
I've seen that even Cisco is planning to support Active Directory. Wouldn't it be nice to right click on a user and just select what kind of access the user should have? E.g. "Allow only port 80, or only connections using https, or limit bandwidth of this user .. the solutions are endless".
Of course, Microsoft did not like the full LDAP specification, so they created another layer (ADSI), but what the heck, it still works.
Nowadays, it's not about this anymore. It's about the topic that the text discuss and the information that the page present. I am still visiting pages that contain pure TXT documents (e.g. ietf.org) and it still gives me the information I need.
The internet needs a better way of users telling everybody the actual value of an information. This can atleast not be done by renting HTML coders to produce a site that still lack of interesting info.
From http://home.swipnet.se/tr/solutions.html
I want an alternative server for WinXP cd-keys so I can activate winxp products! How about www.activatexpkeys.org? :-)
Look at the Short Message Service (SMS) which was meant for sending control messages between cell stations around the world on the GSM network. Suddenly people started using this SMS feature because of the nice way of noting people even if they were not nearby the cellphone. Then thee telecom industry started billing the SMS messages and they have now, here in Norway, over 70% profit for each message. That's over 60$ per minute if you compare prices to the bandwidth used by normal GSM voice-calls.
After this, they started introducing WAP. This time they thought that they should start earning money for each WAP request from the beginning, and they started the usual meetings for patent and similar stuff that so many times have totally destroyed the compareness to the free internet. The result was that the telecom operators wanted to have full control of all services, and they all ended up with no users using wap at all. Technically, the greediness of the telecom industry totally destroyed the WAP before it was even introduced. Now they are talking about the UMTS high-bandwidth network and they are still heading for the same failure as WAP since they want major control over all services.
Now, back to topic.
If Microsoft was a memember of the telecom industry:
You had to pay $0.1 for every Messenger message
You had to pay $0.00002 for every megabyte of data you sent using the OS
You had no rights to use e.g. windows media video unless you signed a contract of every-minute-fees
(Note that Cell-version of Microsoft Messenger have to charge a fee because of the greedy telecom industry requires them so).
As you can see, there is nothing better than seeing Microsoft trying to affect the Telecom Industry by moving the cell-platform for the Microsoft way. I am not saying that this would make it better, and I am not saying that it is comparable for the totally open minded and free Internet, but it's still a general leap ahead for the inevitable convergence of the Telecom and Internet industry.
It's evolution, guys (n gooorls)!
This makes it pretty hard...
I guess the software companies should also make a login system, where one can register what IP's the users can use, to improve security of cdkeys.. However, there would be nice to also have a third party system to take control of this, so you get some privacy. Maybe passport or similar (yeah i dont trust passport either, but you dont exactly have to give much info to them).
My class and I was at Sun Microsystems in Ireland in 2001. They talked a lot about how good Java was. But when I asked one of the top people this simple question "Why isn't staroffice programmed in Java?", they said "We don't know, actually".
I know why. It's because Java just can't compete with faster languages when it comes to larger programs that require real window handlement. (personal opinion ofcourse).
Now on to the "so-called" platform independability. I personally have been asked several times to convert java programs so they can be run on UNIX platforms (like HP-UX) because they just didnt perform well on those platforms. Instead we chose TCL or similar. Which seem to do the job.
Best luck to Java in the future. Hope you programmers can fix these "small" problems :-).
about that 64mb ram stuff, i can just say that i do not have a single friend with less than 256mb. nowadays, ram prices are so low that ram usage can not count as an argument.
I have noticed that back in the 90's the UNIX OS was the best network operating system.
Nowadays I do not know anymore. I see that most Linux distro's somewhat looks more and more like Windows, thus one can see that the two OS'es are making a convergence, where they finally probably would make the inevitable 99,99% similarity.
I know you guys say that "We'll go for the free OS!", but I allready have Windows XP and it was free for me (I've not payed anything). So untill Microsoft do something really stupid like blocking piracy completely, I guess the normal @home workstation would contain a "free" OS.
The next logical step for Microsoft would be to secure its OS, and the Linux must become more User-friendly and, as some might say, more open. I still would like to see that my 6year-old neighbor able to install Linux like the Windows 2000.
I feel that some people who like Linux really likes that they can use the OS on old boxes like pentium 2 400mhz or similar. This is because Linux is normally an OS that most people actually upgrades every now-and-then. However, when it comes to Windows, Microsoft have seen that they only sell their OS with new PC's (99,9% sales i guess), thus they do not care about older PC's like the P2 400.
Now back to topic,
Cost of Ownership (TCO) for Windows versus open source systems. Until now, conventional wisdom held that Windows wizards were a key factor in holding down TCO by countering the initial licensing costs with lower maintenance costs and lower skills requirements for the maintainers.
My main point was that the relevance of TCO and other stuff is not that high anymore, and in the end we just have to say: Know your OS and do what you want the best way. There is no Best OS and there is no Best Way.
Yeah. But the $150 video card would only be the requirements for about 40 frames per second. And we all know that we need atleast 70 to own a First Person Shooter (FPS) game.
Squid
Wolfman (i guess this is the best)
Tidepool
Looks like they had some spelling errors on some of the videos (they spelled content as contnent).
A blind guess: It might be that there are some errors in the code, and the OS tries to adjust clock for daylight saving changes.
Okay. I know this will be slashdotted, but please read this guide: http://www.doom9.org/codecs.htm
;-) (=v4.0)is just compatible with this old format.
THIS IS TRUE
1. DivX
2. DivX is NOT open source.
3. OpenDivX is open source, but it sucks nowadays.
4. The http://www.xvid.org is the best open-source video. And actually it's no need to licence Divx.com since xvid is free.