I beleive the US goverment clasifies any system that is capible of over 1gigaflop as a supercomputer. IIRC, The G4, P4 and Athlon all deleiver at least a gigaflop....So, many of us DO have supercomputers in our garage. (I keep mine in my bedroom)
I would like to take a moment to anounce my new product: McIndows! What will it do you ask? I'm thinking it'll be an OS for $0.99 hamburgers. Stay tuned!
Yes, but not everyone uses christmas lights just for christmas. I have had a string of them around the ceeling in my room for almost a year and a half now. The ladies dig em, plus there's nothing like blinking colors to stare at when you're bored out of your mind.
That's one of the nice features of an iPod. It's not a firewire hard drive. It's not an Mp3 player. It's a bit of both. You can boot off it. You can listen to music on it. That's what makes it such a cool little box. It's also friggin tiny and has a long lasting battery. If it was simply an mp3 player, or a protable HD, it wouldnt be cool. It's apple's combo of both that makes it special
So while you can get a 6x speed boost on seti@home or photoshop, it's not going to do much for your run-of-the-mill applcation.
I dont know what sort of "run-of-the-mill" apps you're talking about, but with simple stuff like word processors, I havent noticed much of a diffrence between my 200MHz 8600, my 300MHZ iBook, my 450MHz G3 Tower, my 733MHz G4 Tower or my 1GHz athlon box. Same with surfing the net. when I use a beafy proc, it's cause I'm doing photoshop or video editing or compiling lots and lots of code. Other then that, lots of ops/sec only lets you run MS (or other) bloat better
This could be one of the stranger uses of standard hardware I've ever seen. Would it be possible to make signals more fun then just beeps? Cause, beeps are cool...but, brodcasting audio at a higher quality would be very cool. I mean, hell, we all have some spare CRTs laying around...it could be your own personal radio station! no need for a stinkin transmitter...you can just use your screen. I shudder at what people will come up with next...
So, how long will it be until I can pop those spare 128MB SIMMs into my head, and finaly rember where the !@$ I left my keys?
But seriously, This could lead to some really cool research, especialy in prostetics. Imagine, with the tech we have now, it would not only look like your other arm, but you yourself wouldnt know the diffrence. You could control it just like your old arm. Quite cool, if you ask me. Then, for fun..you could probly make telapathy devices...As in, I see what you see, and stuff. Or with 802.11b cards in the back of our heads...we could be the borg. The posibilities of this are endless
Here's a few problems i see with this thing:
* Not much power. 1/22 of an AA batt. wont power much for very long. even LCD screens are rather power intensive. and since it has a rather high cost, wouldnt we have to pay for replacement creditcards quite often?
* Not rechargeable (is it?) You'd either have to replace the entire device or recharge the paper, when the batt. dies. These dont seem too replaceable, they're far too propritary/embedded
Aside from that...I could see all kinds of fun uses for this..especialy when combined with e-ink...You could have, for example..a reuseable newspaper. Hell, make it glow while we're at it. The use this will probly be put to is however some sort of tracking system. Build a little antena into my new smartcard, and Amex can tell exactly where I am at all times. If you put it into my drivers licence, so could the goverment. Fun, aint it?
And there's one quite simpe reason he can do this. "oss" as you put it, is not one entity like microsoft is. Infact, all too often it seems alot of "oss people" are too busy fighting pine/emacs wars, or kde/gnome/etc wars. Gates can get "50 moves ahead" because insted of boxing, we're busy kicking our own asses. I now have a totaly crazy idea that could never work: CENTRALIZE TASKS! Lets all build ONE distro that kicks serious ass. not 400 that are all pretty good, but have subtle diffrences and a million flame wars. Advertise! get the little money there is and use it all for the same thing. 100 ads for one thing is more productive then 1 ad for 100 things Linux is a killer os, dont get me wrong, but in the state it's in now, (orginization wise, not tech wise) it can never "beat microsoft"
Since when did "Entertainment Medium" mean something wasnt art? How about music for example. Will anyone try and tell me music isnt ment for entertainment? Okay, now try and tell me music isnt art (With the posible exception of the over-comertialized crap that is pop these days...)
I think that video games are an amazing form of art because they combine all sorts of aspects of art 1) A story. Some games (mostly older ones, but still) have stories more in depth then many novels
2) Music. It's not amazing music, and you probly couldnt get a record deal if you tried with it, but, it's still music.
3) Visual arts. While they are produced in real time by the computer, there were many skilled artists who set up every detail of the picture you see. It's just more interactive then a painting
4) Code. While everyone might not agree, Code is an art. It's creative. To those who understand it, good code can be beautiful
the combinations of all these art forms, to me, makes video games an art. An art unlike any seen before it, because it takes so many diffrent aspects and puts them together
While you might beable to, chances are you'd need to compress them to the point where it would just be a hell of alot of meat. Basicly what I mean is that anyone who told you 6 billion people could fit in a cubic kilometer was either 1)full of it or 2) talking about much, much smaller people then I know
Lens flares look cool. People want to play FPS's for cool looking things. Why are there explosions in FPS games when you barly do anything? Explosions look cool. It's all about the eye candy, man. Why are they runing it on a GeForce3? Because they can get [insert obscenely large number here] polys to display smoothly, with lens flares and explosions to boot! Cause it looks cool. Why am I going to play this game insted of watch a movie? cause it's interactive and looks cool!!
FPSs IMHO, seem to emulate movies more then real life, hence lens flares? That's another idea for you if you wont shut up and notice that lens flares are cool and shiny, and people like cool shiny eye candy.
I would say considering the coppyright line is "coppyright 2001 Advanced Micro Devices" and the ending AMD splash. it's probly amd. One question, why'd you have to post a zipped windows media video file?
My only comments on the video are that it's a little hard to tell what's going on. Did the box shut it self down when the heatsink was removed? why? what was the point of showing that it couldnt be turned on sans heatsink? The running with no fan was nice...but show us some CPU temps/speeds there. if i underclock my box and cool the room down nice and frosty, i dont need a fan either...
Nobody would run it without a heatsink...if they knew it didnt have one (outside of a test) however, my heatsink was so f*cking heavy, it cracked off the little tabs and fell off while I was away (thank god the box was off, and it took out some power cables on the way so i couldnt start it up) Features like this will save CPUs....
Mostly in NY, but I know of several places that have told me and others that I know "Dont send us snail-mail. We wont get it. Hard to say exactly what will happen, but this isnt isolated. I'm guessing the price of the stamp is going to go through the roof, however
What's not nifty:
The fucks who did this to the WTC
The damage done
The trillions of dollars lost due to damage or stock crashes
The lives lost
What is nifty:
The way we can see exactly what happened
The speed that news travels
The fact that if you forget what actuly happened, it really is a nifty looking chart
It seems to me that the idea here -COULD- be
1) Make all "legal" crypto messages be instantly decypherable via backdoor by NSA/CIA/FBI
2) Look at said "legal" plaintext. See if they're talking about blowing s*it up
3) for all non backdoor'ed messages, brute force. They must be hideing something>br>
4) Carefuly look at the bruteforced messages
I must say however, I dont support this. Encrypting my email is much like, putting an enevlope on my letters. If I put an enevlope on, yes, you could read it, but you;d have to go through the trouble of opening and resealing it. If I simply send a postcard, god knows who read the letter between me and who it was to.
The same thing goes for encryption. If I encrypt my message, anyone who REALLY wants to see what I said can snoop it, and brute force it for the next 3 years, and if I just send plaintext, there's any number of people who could read it.
Not that we all always have something to hide, But I think quite often we might not want to live our lives as an "open book" So, while I dont want to see this happen again, putting a backdoor in encryption, that will inevitbly be cracked, and posted all over creation is NOT the right way to solve this problem.
Ok. I must say that this worm is bad. So far, in the past hour, i've been hit around 2000 times. (I know that may not sound like much to some of you getting 20 hits/second..but bear with me here..) in coontrast, CodeRed only hit me 200 times an hour, at peak It also spreads in more ways then any other worm i've ever heard of. [The number of hits is going up, as i type this] this could be a very, very wide spread worm. I just hope M$ doesnt put a PR spin on it saying how they saved the internet..bastards...
Could this be the start of better software being used? Probly not. People seem to accept that every few weeks some "evil hacker" will come and f*ck everything over. If only we had the same views on cyberterrosim as we do on "Real Life" terrorisim
Will this mark the start of worse worms/viruses/viri? Yeah. This thing is spreading like wildfire, due to the fact that insted of copying ONE worm like is often done, this worm has many, many exploits, and many ways to spread
If you take away crypto, who does that hurt? Well, often crypto users are not hiding anything. so, they dont really need crypto, do they? ok. What about the people who do have something to hide? will they start sending messages in plaintext, like me? I somehow doubt that. They will come up with some truely nasty methods of hideing their info, and in the meantime, creditcard fraud will go thru the roof, because we wont have https://
Ok, we can keep secure credicard transactions? I can just set up a little fake store here, bounce all my info over HTTPS:// and nobody's the wiser How do you stop that? you put a goverment backdoor in it. Now' we're back to square one. It's all insecure. When in known history has a back door, however secure survived for more then a few months?
My point here is that takeing rights away wont fix anything. Criminals are not afraid to break the law, that's why they are criminals, see? and in the mean time, it just hurts the honst man
At the moment firewire drives are just a firewireIDE bridge, and i could be wrong, but at least on the macos, I think the tech for firewire drives is mostly IDE over firewire. While I see no real reason we couldnt slap a SCSI[ultra wide scsi, whatever[ controler in there, insted of a IDE controler (yes, each firewire drive has it's one IDE bus, if you do a little soldering, you can attach 4 drives to most enclosures) and use SCSI drives, it's not being done yet
Slightly offtopic: MS offers OEM pricing to small shops aswell. while it's not as cheap as they sell it to the "big boys" for, it's better then retail. oem.microsoft.com IIRC
While I do often bash MS's software, their hardware is normaly top-notch. They've got good engineers, and with the nFORCE (and with it, most likely an AMD CPU) and all the nice stuff the nFORCE has (AC3 encoding, nVidia graphics, AMD, lack of intel) this box will probly be fairly nice tech-wise. Combine that with the Microsoft name, probly one of the most known corp. on the planet, and you have a big seller right here. The one thing I dont love is the fact it runs XP (however, besides being windows, one if it's biggest faults is product activation, something that wont matter in this case, due to the fact you wont be upgrading it) I personaly think this is something MS should have kept hidden to boost sales on the xbox. If this thing runs windows and can run PC and xbox games, does that mean my copy of XP (no I dont have one, nor am I planing on it) will run xbox games? or does this copy of XP have some magic DDLs that will run them? (how long till those find their way to the net to become the ULTIMATE emu.) as much as I hate to say it, I do have some respect for MS's R&D team. Dont bash it till you've seen it, guys.
Has anyone else noticed that the only good things to come out of MS are hardware? And all the hardware is post '91 For example, I happen to own a MS Intellmouse Explorer, the laser kind. I've never owned a better mouse in my life, and beleive me, i beat up my mice;) I have a whole wall with mice hangin' by the tails (what will I do if i get a cordless mouse and it breaks?) AFIK, the "ballless mouse" IS something that MS did come up with, but, not only is it original, but it WORKS! you can use the thing anywhere...a desk, the top of your case, someone's back, upside down, and i'd guess in space (havent tested that yet) and the design fits my (right) hand like a glove. and everyone else i know's right hands as well. Doesn't this make you wonder if the "first research lab started by a software corp." has mostly helped MS in hardware? That would be ironic, even for MS
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I beleive the US goverment clasifies any system that is capible of over 1gigaflop as a supercomputer. IIRC, The G4, P4 and Athlon all deleiver at least a gigaflop....So, many of us DO have supercomputers in our garage. (I keep mine in my bedroom)
I would like to take a moment to anounce my new product: McIndows! What will it do you ask? I'm thinking it'll be an OS for $0.99 hamburgers. Stay tuned!
Yes, but not everyone uses christmas lights just for christmas. I have had a string of them around the ceeling in my room for almost a year and a half now. The ladies dig em, plus there's nothing like blinking colors to stare at when you're bored out of your mind.
That's one of the nice features of an iPod. It's not a firewire hard drive. It's not an Mp3 player. It's a bit of both. You can boot off it. You can listen to music on it. That's what makes it such a cool little box. It's also friggin tiny and has a long lasting battery. If it was simply an mp3 player, or a protable HD, it wouldnt be cool. It's apple's combo of both that makes it special
So while you can get a 6x speed boost on seti@home or photoshop, it's not going to do much for your run-of-the-mill applcation.
I dont know what sort of "run-of-the-mill" apps you're talking about, but with simple stuff like word processors, I havent noticed much of a diffrence between my 200MHz 8600, my 300MHZ iBook, my 450MHz G3 Tower, my 733MHz G4 Tower or my 1GHz athlon box. Same with surfing the net. when I use a beafy proc, it's cause I'm doing photoshop or video editing or compiling lots and lots of code. Other then that, lots of ops/sec only lets you run MS (or other) bloat better
This could be one of the stranger uses of standard hardware I've ever seen. Would it be possible to make signals more fun then just beeps? Cause, beeps are cool...but, brodcasting audio at a higher quality would be very cool. I mean, hell, we all have some spare CRTs laying around...it could be your own personal radio station! no need for a stinkin transmitter...you can just use your screen.
I shudder at what people will come up with next...
So, how long will it be until I can pop those spare 128MB SIMMs into my head, and finaly rember where the !@$ I left my keys? But seriously, This could lead to some really cool research, especialy in prostetics. Imagine, with the tech we have now, it would not only look like your other arm, but you yourself wouldnt know the diffrence. You could control it just like your old arm. Quite cool, if you ask me. Then, for fun..you could probly make telapathy devices...As in, I see what you see, and stuff. Or with 802.11b cards in the back of our heads...we could be the borg. The posibilities of this are endless
* Not much power. 1/22 of an AA batt. wont power much for very long. even LCD screens are rather power intensive. and since it has a rather high cost, wouldnt we have to pay for replacement creditcards quite often?
* Not rechargeable (is it?) You'd either have to replace the entire device or recharge the paper, when the batt. dies. These dont seem too replaceable, they're far too propritary/embedded
Aside from that...I could see all kinds of fun uses for this..especialy when combined with e-ink...You could have, for example..a reuseable newspaper. Hell, make it glow while we're at it. The use this will probly be put to is however some sort of tracking system. Build a little antena into my new smartcard, and Amex can tell exactly where I am at all times. If you put it into my drivers licence, so could the goverment. Fun, aint it?
And there's one quite simpe reason he can do this. "oss" as you put it, is not one entity like microsoft is. Infact, all too often it seems alot of "oss people" are too busy fighting pine/emacs wars, or kde/gnome/etc wars.
Gates can get "50 moves ahead" because insted of boxing, we're busy kicking our own asses. I now have a totaly crazy idea that could never work: CENTRALIZE TASKS! Lets all build ONE distro that kicks serious ass. not 400 that are all pretty good, but have subtle diffrences and a million flame wars. Advertise! get the little money there is and use it all for the same thing. 100 ads for one thing is more productive then 1 ad for 100 things
Linux is a killer os, dont get me wrong, but in the state it's in now, (orginization wise, not tech wise) it can never "beat microsoft"
I think that video games are an amazing form of art because they combine all sorts of aspects of art
1) A story. Some games (mostly older ones, but still) have stories more in depth then many novels
2) Music. It's not amazing music, and you probly couldnt get a record deal if you tried with it, but, it's still music. 3) Visual arts. While they are produced in real time by the computer, there were many skilled artists who set up every detail of the picture you see. It's just more interactive then a painting 4) Code. While everyone might not agree, Code is an art. It's creative. To those who understand it, good code can be beautiful
the combinations of all these art forms, to me, makes video games an art. An art unlike any seen before it, because it takes so many diffrent aspects and puts them together
While you might beable to, chances are you'd need to compress them to the point where it would just be a hell of alot of meat. Basicly what I mean is that anyone who told you 6 billion people could fit in a cubic kilometer was either 1)full of it or 2) talking about much, much smaller people then I know
FPSs IMHO, seem to emulate movies more then real life, hence lens flares? That's another idea for you if you wont shut up and notice that lens flares are cool and shiny, and people like cool shiny eye candy.
I was using a OCZ Gladiator all copper hsf. It weighs in at somewhere near half a pound. The one little plastic tab dealie didnt support it
My only comments on the video are that it's a little hard to tell what's going on. Did the box shut it self down when the heatsink was removed? why? what was the point of showing that it couldnt be turned on sans heatsink? The running with no fan was nice...but show us some CPU temps/speeds there. if i underclock my box and cool the room down nice and frosty, i dont need a fan either...
Nobody would run it without a heatsink...if they knew it didnt have one (outside of a test) however, my heatsink was so f*cking heavy, it cracked off the little tabs and fell off while I was away (thank god the box was off, and it took out some power cables on the way so i couldnt start it up)
Features like this will save CPUs....
Mostly in NY, but I know of several places that have told me and others that I know "Dont send us snail-mail. We wont get it. Hard to say exactly what will happen, but this isnt isolated.
I'm guessing the price of the stamp is going to go through the roof, however
Yes. You do. However, if you shoot enough lighting out at us, you'll hit us eventuly
The fucks who did this to the WTC
The damage done
The trillions of dollars lost due to damage or stock crashes
The lives lost
What is nifty:
The way we can see exactly what happened
The speed that news travels
The fact that if you forget what actuly happened, it really is a nifty looking chart
1) Make all "legal" crypto messages be instantly decypherable via backdoor by NSA/CIA/FBI
2) Look at said "legal" plaintext. See if they're talking about blowing s*it up
3) for all non backdoor'ed messages, brute force. They must be hideing something>br> 4) Carefuly look at the bruteforced messages
I must say however, I dont support this. Encrypting my email is much like, putting an enevlope on my letters. If I put an enevlope on, yes, you could read it, but you;d have to go through the trouble of opening and resealing it. If I simply send a postcard, god knows who read the letter between me and who it was to.
The same thing goes for encryption. If I encrypt my message, anyone who REALLY wants to see what I said can snoop it, and brute force it for the next 3 years, and if I just send plaintext, there's any number of people who could read it.
Not that we all always have something to hide, But I think quite often we might not want to live our lives as an "open book"
So, while I dont want to see this happen again, putting a backdoor in encryption, that will inevitbly be cracked, and posted all over creation is NOT the right way to solve this problem.
So far, in the past hour, i've been hit around 2000 times. (I know that may not sound like much to some of you getting 20 hits/second..but bear with me here..) in coontrast, CodeRed only hit me 200 times an hour, at peak
It also spreads in more ways then any other worm i've ever heard of. [The number of hits is going up, as i type this] this could be a very, very wide spread worm. I just hope M$ doesnt put a PR spin on it saying how they saved the internet..bastards...
Could this be the start of better software being used?
Probly not. People seem to accept that every few weeks some "evil hacker" will come and f*ck everything over. If only we had the same views on cyberterrosim as we do on "Real Life" terrorisim
Will this mark the start of worse worms/viruses/viri?
Yeah. This thing is spreading like wildfire, due to the fact that insted of copying ONE worm like is often done, this worm has many, many exploits, and many ways to spread
Well, often crypto users are not hiding anything. so, they dont really need crypto, do they? ok.
What about the people who do have something to hide? will they start sending messages in plaintext, like me? I somehow doubt that. They will come up with some truely nasty methods of hideing their info, and in the meantime, creditcard fraud will go thru the roof, because we wont have https://
Ok, we can keep secure credicard transactions? I can just set up a little fake store here, bounce all my info over HTTPS:// and nobody's the wiser
How do you stop that? you put a goverment backdoor in it. Now' we're back to square one. It's all insecure. When in known history has a back door, however secure survived for more then a few months?
My point here is that takeing rights away wont fix anything. Criminals are not afraid to break the law, that's why they are criminals, see? and in the mean time, it just hurts the honst man
At the moment firewire drives are just a firewireIDE bridge, and i could be wrong, but at least on the macos, I think the tech for firewire drives is mostly IDE over firewire.
While I see no real reason we couldnt slap a SCSI[ultra wide scsi, whatever[ controler in there, insted of a IDE controler (yes, each firewire drive has it's one IDE bus, if you do a little soldering, you can attach 4 drives to most enclosures) and use SCSI drives, it's not being done yet
Slightly offtopic: MS offers OEM pricing to small shops aswell. while it's not as cheap as they sell it to the "big boys" for, it's better then retail. oem.microsoft.com IIRC
While I do often bash MS's software, their hardware is normaly top-notch. They've got good engineers, and with the nFORCE (and with it, most likely an AMD CPU) and all the nice stuff the nFORCE has (AC3 encoding, nVidia graphics, AMD, lack of intel) this box will probly be fairly nice tech-wise. Combine that with the Microsoft name, probly one of the most known corp. on the planet, and you have a big seller right here. The one thing I dont love is the fact it runs XP (however, besides being windows, one if it's biggest faults is product activation, something that wont matter in this case, due to the fact you wont be upgrading it) I personaly think this is something MS should have kept hidden to boost sales on the xbox.
If this thing runs windows and can run PC and xbox games, does that mean my copy of XP (no I dont have one, nor am I planing on it) will run xbox games? or does this copy of XP have some magic DDLs that will run them? (how long till those find their way to the net to become the ULTIMATE emu.)
as much as I hate to say it, I do have some respect for MS's R&D team. Dont bash it till you've seen it, guys.
Has anyone else noticed that the only good things to come out of MS are hardware? ;) I have a whole wall with mice hangin' by the tails (what will I do if i get a cordless mouse and it breaks?) AFIK, the "ballless mouse" IS something that MS did come up with, but, not only is it original, but it WORKS! you can use the thing anywhere...a desk, the top of your case, someone's back, upside down, and i'd guess in space (havent tested that yet) and the design fits my (right) hand like a glove. and everyone else i know's right hands as well. Doesn't this make you wonder if the "first research lab started by a software corp." has mostly helped MS in hardware? That would be ironic, even for MS
And all the hardware is post '91
For example, I happen to own a MS Intellmouse Explorer, the laser kind. I've never owned a better mouse in my life, and beleive me, i beat up my mice