Why two ethernet controllers?
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This chipset is designed to be used in OEM boards for good performance and enthusiast customers...not servers. I can't think of any legitimate use for *two* ethernet controllers other than in a broader network application (Firewall, for instance).
Perhaps you could use it to make a really stupid sort of bus network for LAN parties using nothing but crossover cables, but that's such a silly idea (performance/configuration issues) that it's probably true...
And then Tetris for the N64 (The Next Tetris). Not a bad game at all. Purists would object to being able to "save" a piece (I felt like I was cheating for the longest time), but the look-ahead, and new mono-squares and multi-squares objectives made an enjoyable new twist to my old obsession. And when playing 4-players at parties, I found that me and my friend Simon were always the targets. We completely dominated the competition. It was ALWAYS down to us two. Got so bad that we had to play hot-potato or else we'd get EVERYBODY's garbage. Hmm. Maybe shouldn't have played so much. We were both a little dominant players. Oh well.
Actually, if you want a *really* good time, try out Tetrisphere, published by Nintendo. It's a frenetic game, fast-paced and really fun, with an *AWESOME* techno soundtrack. Seriously, it's a game I'd buy an N64 for.
Then don't watch Osamu Tezuka's Metropolis. It's quite a departure from the plot of the original, taking way too many pages from the Akira playbook. The character animation is across the board, but done so intentionally - Some of the characters look like they were drawn 30 years ago, while others are clearly modern and highly detailed.
Still, the drastic departure from the original plot keeps me from really enjoying this release...
For reference...2002-03-19 20:37:21 Easter Eggs at the Expense of Resources? (askslashdot,programming) (rejected)
That just got rejected in the last three days.
My comments went something like this - I have a friend who works for a company that does Palm software, and he inserted a tic-tac-toe game in their application. The software he develops is fairly large and robust, and the thought came to mind: Where do you draw the line with Easter Eggs?
The Palm platform, and any other portable/embedded system, deals with small storage and memory footprints. Adding in a hidden extra like this isn't taking up an "infinitesmal" amount of space or resources. Proportionally, it's of significant size. On a PC, this might be different, but for a Palm with 2 MB of memory, I'd personally be a bit disappointed to find out that the software I'm installing is artificially fluffed/bloated because some yahoo decided to have a little fun.
So, where do you draw the line with Easter Eggs? Fun in programming is cool. And I'm not saying that he was wrong for doing it...but what if he decided to put in JezzBall or something larger instead? Or something that wound up being a security/system hazard?
Specifically, look at the screws on the heatsinks of each GPU. They're at exactly the same orientation on both. Someone copied the one on the left, shrunk it a bit for proportion, and copied it onto the card after rearranging the PCB a bit. Notice also the distortion in the upper surface of the heatsink, where it doesn't mesh very well with the voltage regulator behind/above it.
Puzzle games have long proved otherwise. Just ask anyone who's played Tetris, The Incredible Machine, or, for the kids, Math Munchers, Oregon Trail (Pretty much anything originally by MECC), and the Where the Fsck is Carmen Sandiego series.
However, it's well known that video games can increase your physical activity, which in turn boosts your mental capacity, aptitude, and reaction time.:)
"How are people going to justify stealing a movie by saying it isn't any good after the movie's already a $100-million hit?"
There's a difference between earning $100M in the box office, and *spending* $100M to make radio stations and Top 40 charts play music that doesn't have public appeal behind it.
"Urie says his company doesn't heavily research consumer attitude, noting, "We tend to ask how can we make more money and sell more product, not deal with consumer gripes."
Not EULA, but Microsoft's property. Apparently binaries compiled with the XDK end up with some part of them still copyrighted by Microsoft, so they clearly have a case here.
Virulent licensing indeed. And Microsoft complains about how the GPL contaminates projects.:)
Well, technically, all of Microsoft's software is Microsoft's property. It's never "given" or "sold" to us, but just licensed. So it is a EULA issue.
How Microsoft wishes to explain the fault is something different, but it's the same either way. But, at any rate, good luck fighting the fight further (if you plan to).
They're still posting source code as they update it. Of course, without the Xbox Development Kit (which they used to develop MAME-X), you can't build it, so it's kinda useless.
Precedent has already been set forth by Sega V. Accolade. One does not need permission from a platform developer to release software for that platform, given sufficient reverse engineering. However, since MAME-X, and all other Xbox software, uses Xbox's (and Windows') APIs, effectively nothing can be released without Microsoft's consent.
My god...this article has more inaccuracies than a Slashdot story!
but Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo all intend to release plug-in adaptors to link their boxes to networks.
And WHERE do you plug in the Xbox broadband adapter, eh?
Both Sony and Microsoft decided that ordinary modem connections were too slow to do justice to their advanced consoles.
Really? Then why does the PS2 network adapter have BOTH network and modem ports?
All three firms are losing money on their consoles, though exactly how much is difficult to say.
Wrong again! Microsoft is the only one doing this!
And as far as that sales graph goes...not a single one of these systems is 128 bit. The GameCube and Xbox are both 32-bit systems (PowerPC-based and Intel x86, respectively). I don't know about the Emotion engine in the PS2, but I suspect that with less than 32 MB of RAM, there's no reason for it to have more address lines, so it's probably 32-bit as well. And the Dreamcast uses a SH4 processor...That certainly isn't 128-bit either.
15 people offering mirrors
49 people mentioning that Open Source security is indeed better than Closed Source security, and how this proves it
22 people talking about how stupid of a bug this is
6 people demonstrating how to exploit it
14 people making a funny comment about "apt-get"
9 people mentioning how they're using x.xx version because it's better and it's not afflicted by this bug
8 people claiming "Frost Pist" or somesuch
22 people shouting "Read the fucking article!"
Allow me to plug my analysis of the Parhelia chipset itself, which contains the Direct3D information. In short, the card is just shy of DX9 compliance.
http://www.slcentral.com/c/h/a/2002/5/parhelia
Include R&D costs in the price of the console. Most console build-prices only take into account the labor and parts that go into it, not the research and development efforts that have been conducted over at least two years prior to the launch of the console.
On the other hand, Microsoft didn't exactly do any R&D on the console itself, so much as how to apply it. When it came down to designing the console, they probably could have just as easily had Dell build them ten million Xboxes...
Can Bellsouth leave my DSL on if I cancel my land-line service? I'm paying $32 per month on a line I use maybe twice a month. I'd just as well disconnect it and get a cellphone, but I don't want to lose DSL.
I know there's legislation preventing cable companies from tying service. How does this apply to telcos? Anyone with Bellsouth have any experience here?
However, if you _really_ enjoy where you work, it's definitely worth the risk of asking for them to match. What do you have to lose?
How about the job that you already really enjoy?
It's not as bad as the post says.
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Anonymity is still an opt-out here. You can get a personalized card if you wish, but many users still use the plain-Jane Octopus card.
I really wish we had something like this here in the US. Say goodbye to pocket change...Businesses and the government don't realize how much long-term savings they could have if they abolished coin currency altogether, and yet our government rushes to put forth *new* coinage, on the thin hopes that they might get enough interest from collectors and whatnot.
Susan B. Anthony coins didn't work...you very rarely see half-dollars...and how many of you have seen Sacagawea dollars? I used a $25 roll I had a few months ago paying for a pizza delivery. Otherwise, they're useless.
The problem is the algorithm in developing concurrently-processed chess calculations. The people on D.net couldn't get up enough interest to do the project, and ultimately it never got off the drawing board. Now most of those people have gone on to OGR.
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This chipset is designed to be used in OEM boards for good performance and enthusiast customers...not servers. I can't think of any legitimate use for *two* ethernet controllers other than in a broader network application (Firewall, for instance).
Perhaps you could use it to make a really stupid sort of bus network for LAN parties using nothing but crossover cables, but that's such a silly idea (performance/configuration issues) that it's probably true...
And then Tetris for the N64 (The Next Tetris). Not a bad game at all. Purists would object to being able to "save" a piece (I felt like I was cheating for the longest time), but the look-ahead, and new mono-squares and multi-squares objectives made an enjoyable new twist to my old obsession. And when playing 4-players at parties, I found that me and my friend Simon were always the targets. We completely dominated the competition. It was ALWAYS down to us two. Got so bad that we had to play hot-potato or else we'd get EVERYBODY's garbage. Hmm. Maybe shouldn't have played so much. We were both a little dominant players. Oh well.
Actually, if you want a *really* good time, try out Tetrisphere, published by Nintendo. It's a frenetic game, fast-paced and really fun, with an *AWESOME* techno soundtrack. Seriously, it's a game I'd buy an N64 for.
Then don't watch Osamu Tezuka's Metropolis. It's quite a departure from the plot of the original, taking way too many pages from the Akira playbook. The character animation is across the board, but done so intentionally - Some of the characters look like they were drawn 30 years ago, while others are clearly modern and highly detailed.
Still, the drastic departure from the original plot keeps me from really enjoying this release...
Pictures? There are pictures there? All I get is is "Cannot find server". :)
6527 Total Impressions, 4923 Unique Impressions
Stats from July 11, 2002, 15:00 until Present (July 11, 2002, 17:34)
For reference...2002-03-19 20:37:21 Easter Eggs at the Expense of Resources? (askslashdot,programming) (rejected)
That just got rejected in the last three days.
My comments went something like this - I have a friend who works for a company that does Palm software, and he inserted a tic-tac-toe game in their application. The software he develops is fairly large and robust, and the thought came to mind: Where do you draw the line with Easter Eggs?
The Palm platform, and any other portable/embedded system, deals with small storage and memory footprints. Adding in a hidden extra like this isn't taking up an "infinitesmal" amount of space or resources. Proportionally, it's of significant size. On a PC, this might be different, but for a Palm with 2 MB of memory, I'd personally be a bit disappointed to find out that the software I'm installing is artificially fluffed/bloated because some yahoo decided to have a little fun.
So, where do you draw the line with Easter Eggs? Fun in programming is cool. And I'm not saying that he was wrong for doing it...but what if he decided to put in JezzBall or something larger instead? Or something that wound up being a security/system hazard?
So, that'd be recursive cat'ing, wouldn't it? :)
On the other hand, you could always recursively "cat tail"...
Specifically, look at the screws on the heatsinks of each GPU. They're at exactly the same orientation on both. Someone copied the one on the left, shrunk it a bit for proportion, and copied it onto the card after rearranging the PCB a bit. Notice also the distortion in the upper surface of the heatsink, where it doesn't mesh very well with the voltage regulator behind/above it.
Puzzle games have long proved otherwise. Just ask anyone who's played Tetris, The Incredible Machine, or, for the kids, Math Munchers, Oregon Trail (Pretty much anything originally by MECC), and the Where the Fsck is Carmen Sandiego series.
:)
However, it's well known that video games can increase your physical activity, which in turn boosts your mental capacity, aptitude, and reaction time.
"How are people going to justify stealing a movie by saying it isn't any good after the movie's already a $100-million hit?"
There's a difference between earning $100M in the box office, and *spending* $100M to make radio stations and Top 40 charts play music that doesn't have public appeal behind it.
"Urie says his company doesn't heavily research consumer attitude, noting, "We tend to ask how can we make more money and sell more product, not deal with consumer gripes."
And therein lies the problem.
Can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of Daleks?
In a dark room, from a pile of pizza boxes and makeshift rackmounts, hundreds of nodes start croaking through their motherboard speakers: Exterminate!
Not EULA, but Microsoft's property. Apparently binaries compiled with the XDK end up with some part of them still copyrighted by Microsoft, so they clearly have a case here.
:)
Virulent licensing indeed. And Microsoft complains about how the GPL contaminates projects.
Well, technically, all of Microsoft's software is Microsoft's property. It's never "given" or "sold" to us, but just licensed. So it is a EULA issue.
How Microsoft wishes to explain the fault is something different, but it's the same either way. But, at any rate, good luck fighting the fight further (if you plan to).
They're still posting source code as they update it. Of course, without the Xbox Development Kit (which they used to develop MAME-X), you can't build it, so it's kinda useless.
Precedent has already been set forth by Sega V. Accolade. One does not need permission from a platform developer to release software for that platform, given sufficient reverse engineering. However, since MAME-X, and all other Xbox software, uses Xbox's (and Windows') APIs, effectively nothing can be released without Microsoft's consent.
The EULA strikes again.
My god...this article has more inaccuracies than a Slashdot story!
but Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo all intend to release plug-in adaptors to link their boxes to networks.
And WHERE do you plug in the Xbox broadband adapter, eh?
Both Sony and Microsoft decided that ordinary modem connections were too slow to do justice to their advanced consoles.
Really? Then why does the PS2 network adapter have BOTH network and modem ports?
All three firms are losing money on their consoles, though exactly how much is difficult to say.
Wrong again! Microsoft is the only one doing this!
And as far as that sales graph goes...not a single one of these systems is 128 bit. The GameCube and Xbox are both 32-bit systems (PowerPC-based and Intel x86, respectively). I don't know about the Emotion engine in the PS2, but I suspect that with less than 32 MB of RAM, there's no reason for it to have more address lines, so it's probably 32-bit as well. And the Dreamcast uses a SH4 processor...That certainly isn't 128-bit either.
What you submitted appears below. If there is a mistake...well, you should have used the 'Preview' button!
15 people offering mirrors
49 people mentioning that Open Source security is indeed better than Closed Source security, and how this proves it
22 people talking about how stupid of a bug this is
6 people demonstrating how to exploit it
14 people making a funny comment about "apt-get"
9 people mentioning how they're using x.xx version because it's better and it's not afflicted by this bug
8 people claiming "Frost Pist" or somesuch 22 people shouting "Read the fucking article!"
Heck, I don't think you can even put that third line of text in a game nowadays.
:)
Or the fourth line, for that matter.
I've been reading Slashdot for a while...this whole time, I thought it was *BSD that was dying...
:)
Or so many people at -1 keep saying, anyhow...
Allow me to plug my analysis of the Parhelia chipset itself, which contains the Direct3D information. In short, the card is just shy of DX9 compliance. http://www.slcentral.com/c/h/a/2002/5/parhelia
Include R&D costs in the price of the console. Most console build-prices only take into account the labor and parts that go into it, not the research and development efforts that have been conducted over at least two years prior to the launch of the console.
On the other hand, Microsoft didn't exactly do any R&D on the console itself, so much as how to apply it. When it came down to designing the console, they probably could have just as easily had Dell build them ten million Xboxes...
Can Bellsouth leave my DSL on if I cancel my land-line service? I'm paying $32 per month on a line I use maybe twice a month. I'd just as well disconnect it and get a cellphone, but I don't want to lose DSL.
I know there's legislation preventing cable companies from tying service. How does this apply to telcos? Anyone with Bellsouth have any experience here?
However, if you _really_ enjoy where you work, it's definitely worth the risk of asking for them to match. What do you have to lose?
How about the job that you already really enjoy?
Anonymity is still an opt-out here. You can get a personalized card if you wish, but many users still use the plain-Jane Octopus card.
I really wish we had something like this here in the US. Say goodbye to pocket change...Businesses and the government don't realize how much long-term savings they could have if they abolished coin currency altogether, and yet our government rushes to put forth *new* coinage, on the thin hopes that they might get enough interest from collectors and whatnot.
Susan B. Anthony coins didn't work...you very rarely see half-dollars...and how many of you have seen Sacagawea dollars? I used a $25 roll I had a few months ago paying for a pizza delivery. Otherwise, they're useless.
The problem is the algorithm in developing concurrently-processed chess calculations. The people on D.net couldn't get up enough interest to do the project, and ultimately it never got off the drawing board. Now most of those people have gone on to OGR.
Let me get this straight...Oracle is helping to make an "Unbreakable Linux"?
So how much money do we get when some admin forgets to patch zlib or whatever? $100 million?
They can work day and night to make Linux more secure, but if the customers don't maintain the systems, they're perfectly breakable.
I'll take my $100M now.
Not hard to do...I do this with any story about Verisign. After all, anyone who has business relations with them generally winds up being a victim...