(the new map - view of outside) http://dtheatre.com/image.php3?shot0000.jpg
I remember one of the first things that I did with DOOM was to go outside and see what was around. Having a look at this shot, it seems that iD have yet to explore 'natural surroundings', with the exception of lighting and materials.
jungle - L-Systems: http://spanky.triumf.ca/www/fractint/lsys/tutor.ht ml streetscape - remember Duke?
All these are possible (L-Systems, fractal geometry, noise functions) but iD continues concentrating and extending on the same (boring) old boxy architecture. Where's HR Giger when you need him?
I use the same idea, it's a good one. Though I question,
'p4ssw0rd'. This is hard to crack and easy to remember.
... hard for your human cracker but not for machines... (says in best arrogant imperial starship captain voice before darth crushes skull). I would change that to 'easy to remember non human readable...' making it easier for users to use a password that's not vulnerable to a dictionary attack.
Another example is brain volume, which in a normal human is around 1400 cubic centimeters (cc). The Starchild's brain volume, contained inside a cranium the size of a smallish human's, is 1600 cc. How can this be possible?
sort of reads like the essay Stephen J Gould wrote about debunking experiements earlier this century wrt race, intellegence and brain capacity.
Can 't remember which essay it was from. Instead check out his bibliography at amazon, http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/Author=Gould%2C% 20Stephen%20Jay/002-1147117-2205804
My point was that as the notebook-as-desktop idea catches on, people will demand the same degree of modularity and standardization, and the manufacturers will meet this demand.
okay I can buy into this one. Standards might take some time to settle (maybe 2-4 product cycles). I dearly would like to see say a Dell or IBM lead with such market using their online e-commerce sytems and allowing customers to custom make their laptops (post desktop machines) thus creating demand as you observed.
while those of use with more refined tastes will order our Abit mobo's and Transmeta processors and slap together monstrously overpowered notebooks.
In essence I can see where your coming from... but who makes cheap open note books that you can specify the parts? While notebooks may get cheaper, I don't know of any manufacturers that allow you to say, hey I want a,
-IntelPIII CPU
-BX200 mb -256Mb Ram -20Gb IBM HD -17" Viewsonic monitor -duel head AGP G400 Matrox card -2 extra fans...
In 5 years I reckon I'll still be buying a beige box with upgraded interior. Much like I did when i last bought my PC back in '94. Cheaper maybe, portable, open and exotic... we'll see.
with the advent of high quality free software (thankyou GNU & hackers everywhere) such as linux, counties that had no hope of purchasing quality software now have a chance of joining their peers on the Internet.
...of course first they need access to a computer, a telephone, decent exchange and an internet connection...
I look forward to seeing what many millions of chinese hackers/programmers can contribute...
though you must admit that it makes people think before they put their name to a post.
Here's the post moderations for the microsoft-story 1.), the other day and here's todays moderated posts 2.). What's interesting is that for 1/4 of the posts on story 2), there are a lot of high quality posts above say 2 (87/54).
Draw your own conclusions, but it appears the *quality* of the posts for this story is higher than the previous. You could only attempt statements such as by measurement, (moderation). The quality of slashdot posts can be measured... to some degree???
BTW: if you do a real dumb ass thing on slashdot you dont need to be moderated... you get howled down in replies:)
read the article, loki_hack=(source + mad_coders + time + loki + idea)
source = cpp source code of CivCTP
mad_coders = http://www.lokigames.com/hack/profiles.htmlhttp:// time = 48Hrs loki = www.lokigames.com/about/lokihack_faq.php3#whensele ct idea = http://www.lokigames.com/hack/patches.html
hmmm, Access aint relational - business needs v's
on
E-commerce and Linux
·
· Score: 1
Problem 1: require stable OS's Having 2 NT machines may point to badly configured (I can hear the sniggers now )... but rip off anything you dont need on both machines, re-install to get a clean system. This should stop the problem of NT operating system crashing, but not rouge software. Generally if the machine is configured (HW & software) they crash as often as reported.
Problem 2: database problems Our catalog has around 25,000 items in it. It's held in an Access database right now... around 14 Megs.
been there, done that. At my old work we had similiar problems. I think it's a bit premature to write NT off for this kind of a problem just yet. It's not the environment (caveat: well configured NT system with min 128MbRAM, Fast disk drives etc..) it's your database engine.
Access is good for playing with and possibly for serious applications a couple of years ago. But for a cat of say 25,000 records and more than a half dozen users Access will bog down under it's own limitations (file sharing database, not relational, mem leaks, your configuration settings, code access methods). I think before you start changing the operating system, code base and more importantly *mindset*, investigate a MS SQL server (or other politically correct db's) license.
If management is balking at the cost... then cost out the hours to rebuild, test and get the system working using a linux/db/scripting approach. I say this because it's as much a business problem as a technical one. Change takes time, time equals cost - the same money to buy a new 'relational' database on your existing code base. With NT SQL Server you have the ability to upsize the DDL, re-insert the data etc...
<rant> - sig to noise beware of suggestions to change your current setup by those preaching alternative OS's without fully investigating your current problems changing to Linux for instance is not the immediate problem. I'm a bit dubious about posts just throwing around languages, OS's and db's without working the problem first.. Don't get me wrong, I use/worship Linux as much as the next nutter...but dont do yourself and your company a disservice until you are 100% sure NT can't handle your business needs and not some *geek-lust* need to install a new OS, and code perl:) </rant>
hmmm, Access aint relational - business needs v's
on
E-commerce and Linux
·
· Score: 1
PROBLEM 1: require stable OS's Having 2 NT machines may point to badly configured (I can hear the sniggers now )... but rip off anything you dont need on both machines, re-install to get a clean system. This should stop the problem of NT operating system crashing, but not rouge software. Generally if the machine is configured (HW & software) they crash as often as reported.
Problem 2: database problemsOur catalog has around 25,000 items in it. It's held in an Access database right now... around 14 Megs.
been there, done that. At my old work we had similiar problems. I think it's a bit premature to write NT off for this kind of a problem just yet. It's not the environment (caveat: well configured NT system with min 128MbRAM, Fast disk drives etc..) it's your database engine.
Access is good for playing with and possibly for serious applications a couple of years ago. But for a cat of say 25,000 records and more than a half dozen users Access will bog down under it's own limitations (file sharing database, not relational, mem leaks, your configuration settings, code access methods). I think before you start changing the operating system, code base and more importantly *mindset*, investigate a MS SQL server (or other politically correct db's) license.
If management is balking at the cost... then cost out the hours to rebuild, test and get the system working using a linux/db/scripting approach. I say this because it's as much a business problem as a technical one. Change takes time, time equals cost - the same money to buy a new 'relational' database on your existing code base. With NT SQL Server you have the ability to upsize the DDL, re-insert the data etc...
<rant> beware of suggestions to change your current setup by those preaching alternative OS's without fully investigating your current problems changing to Linux for instance is not the immediate problem. I'm a bit dubious here, and dont get me wrong I use/worship Linux as much as the next nutter...but dont do yourself and your company a diservice until you are 100% sure NT can't handle your business needs and not some *geek-lust* need to install a new OS. </rant>
all a general-purpose ultimate molecular computer now needs is a reversible single molecule switch to a point this has already been acheived. I was reading in new scientist about qubits and quantum computing.
It works like this... using an electron spin or photon polarisation, qubits allow you to represent both 1 and 0 at the same time. Using the physical properties of electon spins you can generate different states (00, 01, 11 etc). Read the full article here...
for it's time the the newton was king. It's truely a revolutionary tool. There's no real reason why it's redundant (hw keeps on living) but it does have a number of drawbacks wrt todays generation of PDA's.
cost - expensive...just over AUS$1000 when it came out/palm is about AUS$300-$900
size - it was a bit big, but not overly so./palm fits in my pocket. apps - not as many./palm growing dev tools - unkown/palm well known and free. emulated - unkown/free emulator. suppliers- hardware is now extinct./palm, mindspring, symbol, qualcom etc...
notice that most are related to advances in engineering prodution and volume. This explains the size and cost. I think the Internet helped with the development of the software (free tools and knownledge). But a biggy in my eyes (and often undermentioned) is the emulator. You dont have to buy one to try one. Just download the emulator and ROM and a few apps.
pose (palm os emulator) - http://www.palm.com/devzone/pose/pose.html
I'll let you decide which PDA is the apple, orange and lemon.
yeah good point..... though I'm sure that the person behind wallace's voice (Peter Sallis) and favourite cheese (WENDSLEYDALE, Lancashire hotpot) sort of point to the north. Though I must admit maybe I'm confusing the man with his creation:)
nice to see they use python to script the site (even of they do use flash)... http://www.aardman.com/wallaceandgromit/workshop/f ashion.py
damn, I liked the original nick park creations because they reek of quality, attention to detail and when viewed look like those high quality totally obsessive student films (read non commercial)... remember tim burtons student works (vincent - correct me if I'm wrong).
but mainstream hollywood will never understand or capture 'wallace & grommit'.. essetially the creation of an english (northern) ecentrics over-active imagination.
dont be fooled. Any work done by Mr S. is for money only. I'll be waiting for reviews and shorts.
while I'm no fan of drinking coke (jolt's tastes nicer), I think this type of marketing would lead to vendor-hackering. I can imagine enterprising fools trying to find the location of the sensor and alter it's temp settings to drop the price:)
...we spent a period once calculating the total amount of energy striking the earth from the sun...and it wasn't enough to power one american city. which means if you covered the planet with a PERFECTLY EFFICIENT solar cell array, it still wouldn't be enough to be a major contributor of power...
thats a problem with poor western-civs use of energy. but heres an example of solar power in use. in australia right now a race, some 3000Km is just about to finish with solar cars. Start time (OCT 17) to fin time (OCT21). Now thats pretty efficeint.
"...these people were obsessed with the notion that the FBI/CIA/NSA/Shadowy NWO/paranoid three-letter-acronym(TLA) du-jour was spying on them....you and I are totally irrelevant."
however it appears that Echelon data is used for non-spook, intel related uses. The broad band nature of information gathered Echelon, it's possible local busines intel is captured, then used againt them in trade deals. I know that scenario has been reported in the australian press.
I've got both on order at amazon... (Dave Baum's Definitive Guide to LEGO Mindstorms) - of NQC fame. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1893115097/ o/qid=940377031/sr=8-2/002-1147117-22058 04
damn... you are lucky I hust checked out the link at CPS196. There's some pretty interesting stuff here. If anyone else is looking for an interesting read and problems then read on, especially the different design and code examples there's even the reading list:)
...The Opera web page says that they are "experimenting" with FreeBSD and Linux/sparc support... when they make some bucks on the psion, linux and be ports
....When will we see the results, and why such a small range of platforms?...I've gotten along just fine with free alternatives... when enough people like yourself start jumping up and down for 'commercial' version... it's all to do with numbers and economics of the situation... maybe never:(
Slashdot Mirror
http://dtheatre.com/image.php3?shot0000.jpg
I remember one of the first things that I did with DOOM was to go outside and see what was around. Having a look at this shot, it seems that iD have yet to explore 'natural surroundings', with the exception of lighting and materials.
Things I would like to see in Quake IV,
jungle - L-Systems: http://spanky.triumf.ca/www/fractint/lsys/tutor.h
streetscape - remember Duke?
All these are possible (L-Systems, fractal geometry, noise functions) but iD continues concentrating and extending on the same (boring) old boxy architecture. Where's HR Giger when you need him?
Another example is brain volume, which in a normal human is around 1400 cubic centimeters (cc). The Starchild's brain volume, contained inside a cranium the size of a smallish human's, is 1600 cc. How can this be possible?
% 20Stephen%20Jay/002-1147117-2205804
sort of reads like the essay Stephen J Gould wrote about debunking experiements earlier this century wrt race, intellegence and brain capacity.
Can 't remember which essay it was from. Instead check out his bibliography at amazon,
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/Author=Gould%2C
My point was that as the notebook-as-desktop idea catches on, people will demand the same degree of modularity and standardization, and the manufacturers will meet this demand.
okay I can buy into this one. Standards might take some time to settle (maybe 2-4 product cycles). I dearly would like to see say a Dell or IBM lead with such market using their online e-commerce sytems and allowing customers to custom make their laptops (post desktop machines) thus creating demand as you observed.
In essence I can see where your coming from... but who makes cheap open note books that you can specify the parts? While notebooks may get cheaper, I don't know of any manufacturers that allow you to say, hey I want a,
-BX200 mb
-256Mb Ram
-20Gb IBM HD
-17" Viewsonic monitor
-duel head AGP G400 Matrox card
-2 extra fans...
In 5 years I reckon I'll still be buying a beige box with upgraded interior. Much like I did when i last bought my PC back in '94. Cheaper maybe, portable, open and exotic... we'll see.
with the advent of high quality free software (thankyou GNU & hackers everywhere) such as linux, counties that had no hope of purchasing quality software now have a chance of joining their peers on the Internet.
...of course first they need access to a computer, a telephone, decent exchange and an internet connection...
I look forward to seeing what many millions of chinese hackers/programmers can contribute...
My question is simple. Why not recreate it with the Q2 engine? I'm no graphic artist, but someone with The Gimp should easily be able to revamp them.
I just this line... 'should easily be able to revamp them'... lot's of things are easy in s/w in theory... but still it's nice idea.
though you must admit that it makes people think before they put their name to a post.
... to some degree???
:)
Here's the post moderations for the microsoft-story 1.), the other day and here's todays moderated posts 2.). What's interesting is that for 1/4 of the posts on story 2), there are a lot of high quality posts above say 2 (87/54).
Draw your own conclusions, but it appears the *quality* of the posts for this story is higher than the previous. You could only attempt statements such as by measurement, (moderation). The quality of slashdot posts can be measured
BTW: if you do a real dumb ass thing on slashdot you dont need to be moderated... you get howled down in replies
1. Microsoft == Monopoly says Judge
-1:944
0:927
1:596
2:77
3:6
4:2
5:2
2. Mainstream Media on Slashdot and Microsoft
-1:243
0:238
1:176
2:39
3:13
4:2
5:0
mad_coders = http://www.lokigames.com/hack/profiles.htmlhttp:/
time = 48Hrs
loki = www.lokigames.com/about/lokihack_faq.php3#whensel
idea = http://www.lokigames.com/hack/patches.html
Problem 1: require stable OS's ... but rip off anything you dont need on both machines, re-install to get a clean system. This should stop the problem of NT operating system crashing, but not rouge software. Generally if the machine is configured (HW & software) they crash as often as reported.
:)
Having 2 NT machines may point to badly configured (I can hear the sniggers now )
Problem 2: database problems
Our catalog has around 25,000 items in it. It's held in an Access database right now... around 14 Megs.
been there, done that. At my old work we had similiar problems. I think it's a bit premature to write NT off for this kind of a problem just yet. It's not the environment (caveat: well configured NT system with min 128MbRAM, Fast disk drives etc..) it's your database engine.
Access is good for playing with and possibly for serious applications a couple of years ago. But for a cat of say 25,000 records and more than a half dozen users Access will bog down under it's own limitations (file sharing database, not relational, mem leaks, your configuration settings, code access methods). I think before you start changing the operating system, code base and more importantly *mindset*, investigate a MS SQL server (or other politically correct db's) license.
If management is balking at the cost... then cost out the hours to rebuild, test and get the system working using a linux/db/scripting approach. I say this because it's as much a business problem as a technical one. Change takes time, time equals cost - the same money to buy a new 'relational' database on your existing code base. With NT SQL Server you have the ability to upsize the DDL, re-insert the data etc...
<rant> - sig to noise
beware of suggestions to change your current setup by those preaching alternative OS's without fully investigating your current problems
changing to Linux for instance is not the immediate problem.
I'm a bit dubious about posts just throwing around languages, OS's and db's without working the problem first.. Don't get me wrong, I use/worship Linux as much as the next nutter...but dont do yourself and your company a disservice until you are 100% sure NT can't handle your business needs and not some *geek-lust* need to install a new OS, and code perl
</rant>
PROBLEM 1: require stable OS's ... but rip off anything you dont need on both machines, re-install to get a clean system. This should stop the problem of NT operating system crashing, but not rouge software. Generally if the machine is configured (HW & software) they crash as often as reported.
Having 2 NT machines may point to badly configured (I can hear the sniggers now )
Problem 2:
database problems Our catalog has around 25,000 items in it. It's held in an Access database right now... around 14 Megs.
been there, done that. At my old work we had similiar problems. I think it's a bit premature to write NT off for this kind of a problem just yet. It's not the environment (caveat: well configured NT system with min 128MbRAM, Fast disk drives etc..) it's your database engine.
Access is good for playing with and possibly for serious applications a couple of years ago. But for a cat of say 25,000 records and more than a half dozen users Access will bog down under it's own limitations (file sharing database, not relational, mem leaks, your configuration settings, code access methods). I think before you start changing the operating system, code base and more importantly *mindset*, investigate a MS SQL server (or other politically correct db's) license.
If management is balking at the cost... then cost out the hours to rebuild, test and get the system working using a linux/db/scripting approach. I say this because it's as much a business problem as a technical one. Change takes time, time equals cost - the same money to buy a new 'relational' database on your existing code base. With NT SQL Server you have the ability to upsize the DDL, re-insert the data etc...
<rant>
beware of suggestions to change your current setup by those preaching alternative OS's without fully investigating your current problems
changing to Linux for instance is not the immediate problem.
I'm a bit dubious here, and dont get me wrong I use/worship Linux as much as the next nutter...but dont do yourself and your company a diservice until you are 100% sure NT can't handle your business needs and not some *geek-lust* need to install a new OS. </rant>
all a general-purpose ultimate molecular computer now needs is a reversible single molecule switch
m /48.htmlp uter.html
to a point this has already been acheived. I was reading in new scientist about qubits and quantum computing.
It works like this... using an electron spin or photon polarisation, qubits allow you to represent both 1 and 0 at the same time. Using the physical properties of electon spins you can generate different states (00, 01, 11 etc). Read the full article here...
http://www.newscientist.com/nsplus/insight/quantu
http://www.newscientist.com/ns/980418/nquantumcom
size - it was a bit big, but not overly so./palm fits in my pocket.
apps - not as many./palm growing
dev tools - unkown/palm well known and free.
emulated - unkown/free emulator.
suppliers- hardware is now extinct./palm, mindspring, symbol, qualcom etc...
notice that most are related to advances in engineering prodution and volume. This explains the size and cost. I think the Internet helped with the development of the software (free tools and knownledge). But a biggy in my eyes (and often undermentioned) is the emulator. You dont have to buy one to try one. Just download the emulator and ROM and a few apps.
pose (palm os emulator) - http://www.palm.com/devzone/pose/pose.html
I'll let you decide which PDA is the apple, orange and lemon.
yeah good point..... though I'm sure that the person behind wallace's voice (Peter Sallis) and favourite cheese (WENDSLEYDALE, Lancashire hotpot) sort of point to the north. Though I must admit maybe I'm confusing the man with his creation :)
f ashion.py
nice to see they use python to script the site (even of they do use flash)... http://www.aardman.com/wallaceandgromit/workshop/
damn, I liked the original nick park creations because they reek of quality, attention to detail and when viewed look like those high quality totally obsessive student films (read non commercial)... remember tim burtons student works (vincent - correct me if I'm wrong).
.. essetially the creation of an english (northern) ecentrics over-active imagination.
but mainstream hollywood will never understand or capture 'wallace & grommit'
dont be fooled. Any work done by Mr S. is for money only. I'll be waiting for reviews and shorts.
while I'm no fan of drinking coke (jolt's tastes nicer), I think this type of marketing would lead to vendor-hackering. I can imagine enterprising fools trying to find the location of the sensor and alter it's temp settings to drop the price :)
...we spent a period once calculating the total amount of energy striking the earth from the sun...and it wasn't enough to power one american city. which means if you covered the planet with a PERFECTLY EFFICIENT solar cell array, it still wouldn't be enough to be a major contributor of power...
thats a problem with poor western-civs use of energy. but heres an example of solar power in use. in australia right now a race, some 3000Km is just about to finish with solar cars. Start time (OCT 17) to fin time (OCT21). Now thats pretty efficeint.
"...these people were obsessed with the notion that the FBI/CIA/NSA/Shadowy NWO/paranoid three-letter-acronym(TLA) du-jour was spying on them....you and I are totally irrelevant."
however it appears that Echelon data is used for non-spook, intel related uses. The broad band nature of information gathered Echelon, it's possible local busines intel is captured, then used againt them in trade deals. I know that scenario has been reported in the australian press.
yr wish is palms command... http://www.palm.com/products/enterprise/ethernet.h tml
spotted this when I was looking over palm.com Check out the url for more details (speed, versions U can use it with 'palmIII,palmVII etc).
I've got both on order at amazon.../ o/qid=940377031/sr=8-2/002-1147117-22058 04
(Dave Baum's Definitive Guide to LEGO Mindstorms) - of NQC fame.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1893115097
damn ... you are lucky I hust checked out the link at CPS196. There's some pretty interesting stuff here. If anyone else is looking for an interesting read and problems then read on, especially the different design and code examples there's even the reading list :)
http://www.husky.co.uk/uk/products/fex21.html
pretty nice looking pc's dont care for the OS though.
...The Opera web page says that they are "experimenting" with FreeBSD and Linux/sparc support...
....When will we see the results, and why such a small range of platforms?...I've gotten along just fine with free alternatives... :(
when they make some bucks on the psion, linux and be ports
when enough people like yourself start jumping up and down for 'commercial' version... it's all to do with numbers and economics of the situation...
maybe never
do you know of thier vic distributors?