You'd also see how many of the problem might give cross-platform problems. Perhaps that's why Sun themselves call their problem as "the Java Problem" and not "the Solaris JRE Problem" in the memo.
I don't think the "bugs" with huge memory usage and general slowness is limited to the Solaris platform since I've noticed it while running Java applications on Windows as well, while using Sun's JRE. Many of the bugs discussed in the memo is connected to the JDK itself as well, and Sun is concerned with how many bugs are closed with the "Will Not Fix" status. Since the JDK is mostly the same on all platforms due to Java's nature, I'm pretty sure this is a cross-platform problem in many ways.
"We upgrade the Geforce 2 Ti 200 to more trendy video cards, such as the Geforce 4 MX 440"
"Trendy"...? wtf?
Yes, it's newer but that's about it. Isn't the GF2 Ti 200 faster? I thought the GF4 MX 400 was just slightly faster than a GF2 MX 400?
I guess the GF4 has hardware support for some more fancy features, but not all games use the latest cutting edge features (I think it's actually pretty rare), and pure speed is usually more rewarding.
Yeah, change that to "I wish to see Sorenson Video" as a codec plugin.
Quit demanding that Apple should make you a movie player for free.
Doh. They already are.
What I'm asking for is that they'd skip the movie player, and just bring the codec, since they never knew how to make movie players for Windows anyway.:-)
Since Apple failed miserably with giving us a decent movie player. I'd be much happier if Quicktime was given to us as a normal codec "plugin" so they could be played with WMP or just about any other movie player for Windows.
Hydrogen peroxide reacts with the blood very quickly and create an expanding white mess.:-)
I was shown an experiment of it several years ago on a bucket of animal blood (don't ask). They put a little H2O2 in the bucket and it expanded to a bubbling white mess of something like 10x the size in a matter of seconds.
I think it was pretty concentrated H2O2 though since I hear it's used to clean wounds etc. Probably is related to the reaction, but in a smaller, healthier scale.
Here, I found something for you:
"A number of substances are known to cause oxidation in the body but the most important of these is Hydrogen Peroxide. Hydrogen Peroxide, when exposed to your blood or other body fluids, containing the enzyme 'Catalase', is chemically split into OXYGEN and water. Remember how Hydrogen Peroxide foams when you put it on a wound? The foam is OXYGEN being produced by the action of catalase on the Hydrogen Peroxide. A small amount of Hydrogen Peroxide can supply large amounts of OXYGEN to the tissue."
In other words, the thing that would be interesting to inject into someones blood.:-) Everyone who'd seen the reaction of H202 and blood know what I'm talking about.;-)
Then I need another fairly common media you can use to bootup an OS with in cases of catastrophic failures. The retail CD? Yeah, works good as long as it solves my problem. When I need a custom CD, I'll then need to burn a bootable CD-R (actually, preferrably a CD-RW for these purposes) in a special program made to burn CD's. And I can't even write on it at boot time if I'd need to, since the BIOS doesn't contain CD-RW drivers.
What's the best cheap, boot-time writeable, removable, non-floppy media out there on the market anyway? A bonus if it's common, since that would make it easier to get.
I've used Phoenix since 0.1, but the project has stalled a bit and with all the bugs still in Phoenix, I chose to switch. I particularly dislike the autocomplete crash bug and the address bar sometimes incorrectly picking an address from the history. I.e. I type slashdot.org, press Enter, and it picks http://www.slashdot.org/users.pl.
The 0.5 release also have a major memory leak bug, so you need to know which nightly you need to pick. I heard the very latest builds have a new image bug of some kind, unless it was fixed.
Phoenix also cause hard drive thrashing every time I visit a page with Java applets. Opera has less problems with that, and so far the applets on the pages I visit have worked.
I might come back if 0.6 fix the annoyances, but the dev team has been silent, except for some week ago when they said the project isn't dead, but that the development might slow down a bit.
Right now, Opera 7 has everything I could wish for except "a middle button opens tab in background".:-)
From: Bill Bill (billbill@wetware.com) Subject: msn.com spam humor Newsgroups: news.admin.net-abuse.misc Date: 1996/11/05
I sent email to abuse@msn.com about a spam. This is what came back:
> From MAILER-DAEMON Tue Nov 5 12:03:42 1996 > Return-Path: <MAILER-DAEMON> > Date: Tue, 5 Nov 96 19:47:00 UT > From: "System Administrator" <SysAdmin@msn.com> > To: "billbill@wetware.com" <billbill@wetware.com> > Subject: Undeliverable:[SPAM] Re: liberated finance > > Your message did not reach some or all of the intended recipients. > > Subject [SPAM] Re: liberated finance > Sent Tue, 5 Nov 96 19:47:00 UT > > The following recipient(s) could not be reached: > > abuse@msn.com On Tue, 5 Nov 96 20:01:52 UT > The Microsoft Network member inbox is full.
[on a *nix type machine] % telnet iwanttohackdns.com
You know, on a Windows type machine, replace the % with > and everything would work like on the *nix machine.:-) Yup, we have telnet too, believe it or not.;-)
XP even has those fancy ping6 and tracert6 utilities for IPv6 support. We're not *that* many years behind you unix guys.:)
Wow, that's a lot. The submitter seems to say that "it's not that bad", but if every 10 are faulty, you're likely to be affected if you regularly by DVD's.
But it's strange how the possible death of seven people can get so much attention. Yes, they were innocent and yes, they were courageous and did something good for the humanity and yes thousands of people like them die every day.
If you want to hear peoples feelings and get on the news: die a spectactular death. Is that the lesson learned from this event?
I can understand how the two towers was a major event due to the hundreds of people that tragically died from a direct attack by extremists on a nation, but this?
At least be consistent and bring us the news when some astronauts die in a car accident, if they're so honorable.
they chose it for the graphics engine, it had nothing, repeat NOTHING, to do with *any* of UT's AI, which they proly threw out....
No, you're right that they probably didn't use UT's default AI (what good would come out of *that*?), but the ease to customize it surely played a role. Or do you seriously believe they looked at the graphics and thought "hey, what a good platform for our AI project"?:-)
I seriously doubt that you'll even "learnt" the details of how to play UT, let alone how the AI works.
You're partially right. I've played UT, but haven't learned exactly how their AI works. Although I'm sure it would be interesting to learn some bot theory.:-)
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You'd also see how many of the problem might give cross-platform problems. Perhaps that's why Sun themselves call their problem as "the Java Problem" and not "the Solaris JRE Problem" in the memo.
I don't think the "bugs" with huge memory usage and general slowness is limited to the Solaris platform since I've noticed it while running Java applications on Windows as well, while using Sun's JRE. Many of the bugs discussed in the memo is connected to the JDK itself as well, and Sun is concerned with how many bugs are closed with the "Will Not Fix" status. Since the JDK is mostly the same on all platforms due to Java's nature, I'm pretty sure this is a cross-platform problem in many ways.
What components should I get to maximize Photoshop and such?
Just click that widget in the upper left corner, dude. You don't need any tools or "components" for that.
Any sites that offer such advice?
Ok, you're insisting:
HOWTO: Maximize Button
"Because an MX card is about 50 bucks and plays games just fine. It was the one bit of common sense in the article.
You CAN play todays "cutting edge" FPS titles without a $300 video card."
Yes, but it's an upgrade guide and they were talking about *upgrades*, and not about equipping a brand new system.
They thought that the GF2 Ti 200 they assume is in a gaming computer should be "upgraded" to a GF4 MX 400.
Yes, that got my attention too.
"We upgrade the Geforce 2 Ti 200 to more trendy video cards, such as the Geforce 4 MX 440"
"Trendy"...? wtf?
Yes, it's newer but that's about it. Isn't the GF2 Ti 200 faster? I thought the GF4 MX 400 was just slightly faster than a GF2 MX 400?
I guess the GF4 has hardware support for some more fancy features, but not all games use the latest cutting edge features (I think it's actually pretty rare), and pure speed is usually more rewarding.
I don't think it was the price that bothered him, but that there *was* a price on what was called "free".
Quicktime and Da Playa not withstanding, are there ANY non-Windows Media Player apps that will play mpegs etc as well as other video codecs?
;-)
Winamp3.
Sure, it has more bugs than a pile of shit in it, but it does play mpegs, etc.
Sorenson Video is the codec in this instance.
:-)
Yeah, change that to "I wish to see Sorenson Video" as a codec plugin.
Quit demanding that Apple should make you a movie player for free.
Doh. They already are.
What I'm asking for is that they'd skip the movie player, and just bring the codec, since they never knew how to make movie players for Windows anyway.
Since Apple failed miserably with giving us a decent movie player. I'd be much happier if Quicktime was given to us as a normal codec "plugin" so they could be played with WMP or just about any other movie player for Windows.
Hydrogen peroxide reacts with the blood very quickly and create an expanding white mess. :-)
I was shown an experiment of it several years ago on a bucket of animal blood (don't ask). They put a little H2O2 in the bucket and it expanded to a bubbling white mess of something like 10x the size in a matter of seconds.
I think it was pretty concentrated H2O2 though since I hear it's used to clean wounds etc. Probably is related to the reaction, but in a smaller, healthier scale.
Here, I found something for you:
"A number of substances are known to cause oxidation in the body but
the most important of these is Hydrogen Peroxide. Hydrogen Peroxide,
when exposed to your blood or other body fluids, containing the enzyme
'Catalase', is chemically split into OXYGEN and water. Remember how
Hydrogen Peroxide foams when you put it on a wound? The foam is OXYGEN
being produced by the action of catalase on the Hydrogen Peroxide. A
small amount of Hydrogen Peroxide can supply large amounts of OXYGEN
to the tissue."
In other words, the thing that would be interesting to inject into someones blood. :-) Everyone who'd seen the reaction of H202 and blood know what I'm talking about. ;-)
Aopen's Live Update updates the BIOS from inside Windows. Never a need for floppies. But this relies on:
:-P
a) You use an Aopen motherboard. It's definitely no standard way of performing BIOS updates...
b) You use Windows.
Then I need another fairly common media you can use to bootup an OS with in cases of catastrophic failures. The retail CD? Yeah, works good as long as it solves my problem. When I need a custom CD, I'll then need to burn a bootable CD-R (actually, preferrably a CD-RW for these purposes) in a special program made to burn CD's. And I can't even write on it at boot time if I'd need to, since the BIOS doesn't contain CD-RW drivers.
What's the best cheap, boot-time writeable, removable, non-floppy media out there on the market anyway? A bonus if it's common, since that would make it easier to get.
Funny, to me it was the other way around. :-)
:-)
I've used Phoenix since 0.1, but the project has stalled a bit and with all the bugs still in Phoenix, I chose to switch. I particularly dislike the autocomplete crash bug and the address bar sometimes incorrectly picking an address from the history. I.e. I type slashdot.org, press Enter, and it picks http://www.slashdot.org/users.pl.
The 0.5 release also have a major memory leak bug, so you need to know which nightly you need to pick. I heard the very latest builds have a new image bug of some kind, unless it was fixed.
Phoenix also cause hard drive thrashing every time I visit a page with Java applets. Opera has less problems with that, and so far the applets on the pages I visit have worked.
I might come back if 0.6 fix the annoyances, but the dev team has been silent, except for some week ago when they said the project isn't dead, but that the development might slow down a bit.
Right now, Opera 7 has everything I could wish for except "a middle button opens tab in background".
Buffy game - great for about 7-8 hours, then once it's beaten, it's done.
:-)
Buffy game? Bah.
Buffy boob! Yay!
Damn, MS need to rethink what they're focusing on to sell better. Literally.
Still, it says "thinner" than a wavelength. It would make more sense if it said "shorter" than a wavelength.
[on a *nix type machine]
:-) Yup, we have telnet too, believe it or not. ;-)
:)
% telnet iwanttohackdns.com
You know, on a Windows type machine, replace the % with > and everything would work like on the *nix machine.
XP even has those fancy ping6 and tracert6 utilities for IPv6 support. We're not *that* many years behind you unix guys.
Wow, that's a lot. The submitter seems to say that "it's not that bad", but if every 10 are faulty, you're likely to be affected if you regularly by DVD's.
But it's strange how the possible death of seven people can get so much attention. Yes, they were innocent and yes, they were courageous and did something good for the humanity and yes thousands of people like them die every day.
If you want to hear peoples feelings and get on the news: die a spectactular death. Is that the lesson learned from this event?
I can understand how the two towers was a major event due to the hundreds of people that tragically died from a direct attack by extremists on a nation, but this?
At least be consistent and bring us the news when some astronauts die in a car accident, if they're so honorable.
they chose it for the graphics engine, it had nothing, repeat NOTHING, to do with *any* of UT's AI, which they proly threw out....
:-)
:-)
No, you're right that they probably didn't use UT's default AI (what good would come out of *that*?), but the ease to customize it surely played a role. Or do you seriously believe they looked at the graphics and thought "hey, what a good platform for our AI project"?
I seriously doubt that you'll even "learnt" the details of how to play UT, let alone how the AI works.
You're partially right. I've played UT, but haven't learned exactly how their AI works. Although I'm sure it would be interesting to learn some bot theory.
The irony is not the commercial links, but the fact that the page contain ads and links to advertisement sites. Read the URL again. ;-)
If all you do on a system is play solitaire and MS word, you'll be ok with a 333MHz, providing you have sufficiently fast memory and disk space.
:-(
This should, by the way, be considered to be a very sad fact.
just curious: what would you have chosen?
:-)
Ask me again after I've learnt the details about how this kind of AI works and what they wish to accomplish.
Choosing a first person shooter just seemed illogical to me, but the other poster has a point that it might be easily customizable on an AI level.
... The Mimesis Project might be interesting as well. Apparently, they are using Unreal Tournament as a test-bed for the AI discussed in the article.
:-)
But I'm still at a loss why they chose UT, of all games, as a "story-telling" AI test-bed.