Seems that the guys over at ID software have been the paying Gamespot to benchmark Quake and Unreal.
"It seems they have tained the pure nature of our business by funding this research into frag count. It is just, low down and dirty" said on game that refused to be identified. This is the latests in a long string of rumors about funding benchmarking test by game companies.
The issue at heart is frag count, the dismemberment of your pray or enemy in the 3d first person shooters. "Dude, just because that artical had some lame ass gimps playing the tester and he was able to blast some ass chunks all down the air duct does not mean that that aging Hexen is a better frag fest than Quake. I got some guys at work that can't strife, it is like taking candy from a baby." spat G-spotkilla from his cubical at a trendy NY base marketing company.
Probing for the female veiw I asked G-spotkilla's cube mate, code name HelloKitty her view on this whole thing "You know, G-spotkills is just a little gimp. He could not hit you with a sniper rifle at 30 feet let alone a g-spot!". Well it turns out she had not read the artical but she was hot, so I printed her concerns.
It seems no matter what people just don't believe the media anymore. G-spotkilla was last heard running down the hall screaming something about toenail polish and gravity problems that "Just don't work like that man!"
Microsoft funds for reports on Linux, Intel refunds for reports on AMD. I guess if you don't like someone you just pay someone off to blast your target. I was under the stupid impression that this kind of thing was sort of frowned on.
I really don't know anywhere that would print something hostle just because it was pro one OS or the other...opss damn..nevermind.
Yes, yes, it rides on top of Terminal Services or Windows 2000. But before you go off on a rant, it supports everything as a client from Dos to windows, to Unix, to OS2/warp, to Irix. It has Java clients, Web clients that imbed into a browser(netscape or IE), and did I mention anything that will run JAVA?
NFuse rocks, and guess what they don't just do this kind of thing for windows shells and *nix clients. They have pure java platforms running on linux and solaris. Citrix is way way way out on the power curve when it comes to this stuff. Coming from and admin that supports a multi-national 400+ Citrix node it central administration and control are just wonderful. Anyway I am not hear to get you to use Citrix because it will not be cost effective for most here and I will get bashed for the dreaded Microsoft, but anyone that says that Citrix sucks either never spent enough time working with it, or does not have a clue.
With SpeedScreen2 the refresh rate is great, I have 40 people per dual proc machine surfing, mailing, and using the office suite. Hell you can even install a rouge copy of citrix and never register it but it will only work for one user tho it will last forever. This is very nice to set up on the box at home for remote access when your out on the road.
I wonder if you have lost your mind. You can't surf anywhere near these things. Any place that you could then would destroy the natural wave formation of that spot. As far as a rail, that is pretty funny I know it is off the cuff comment but it will never happen for a couple of reasons. First of surfboard, unlike skateboards are foam core, surrounded by fiberglass or epoxy(thin sheets to keep the weight of the board down). Any stike to the surface with a small strike area will cause a ding. The ding will crack the fiberglass letting the water in. This is bad. You will never see rail sliding on surfboard, wakeboards are anouther thing all together. We will not get into them(although they are about the most fun thing on the water outside of surfing and kite surfing..yea think about that!).
Anyway where was I? Ho yea, the only hope these thing could do for surfing is change swell redirection onto a sandbar where the surf sucked. Giving the swell a different direction to pile onto the sandbar or reef. Much like a jetty or an inlet would do. I guess it could also cause different sandbar formations. This I repeat would only be good for places that the surf sucked to begin with, if you put it someplace that had great surf it would cause the same thing to happen and cause the surf to degrade.
The truth of it is this could be seen as a virus. It is just a profitable one. They will get smacked on this one as soon as it comes out in the light of day.
You played right into the hands of the marketing dingbat that thought this up. You think they are really going to do this. No, but you just handed them more hits and advertisement to there target market than they would have ever had any other way.
They tricked you, you tricked us, they got the word out. How many people clicked on this, and now know what shadowmanII is, what it is for, and who made it.
Nice job, you should charge them for click throughs....
There is nothing new here, this has happend sence the dawn of time. The young have always been the ones to adapt, use, and have fun with the new stuff the quickest. This is just a rehash of an old theme. This is life and nature at work, this is not technology.
I just realized why I eat so much, became over weight, and often find myself shitting large blue sheets. My doctors have told me that I was driven by my experiences as a child playing Pacman and was programmed to eat everything in site. I still have not figured out where all the blue sheets are coming from....
Come on now, if anything Microsoft has proven to be a little smarter than the average bear. Do you honestly think that they will not at some point in time give the OS away for free, then start charging for the service. ----> see.net ----
In one respect he is right, at some point in time Windows as a purchase will become a moot point, but if they give it away to retain controll of the market and sell everything else under the sun packaged as.net they have just shifted the paradigm on you. Your still going to pay my friends.
One way or anouther, I gona find ya... I gone getcha getcha getcha getcha one way or anouther...
Troll in relation to slashdot or a newsgroup, and I am just going on what I believe it to be:
Posting something for one purpose, to piss people off and or "troll" for a response. IE like throwing bait of the back of a boat to get a fish to bite, hence the term.
If someone is saying a post is a troll they are pretty much saying it is a waste of space, and only there to get the people angry and posting more on an emotional level then about what the topic is about.
I typical troll here would be, "Microsoft is great, and linux is for bean headed slackers that care more about being cool in the eyes of thier peers than making money."
I think that about sums it up, please someone correct me if this is a bit off.
No I did not take this personally I was just saying stand back, people here are not going to like this. Honestly I could really care less as it has no effect on my world, I am just a gimp that has to run in my wheel of Microsoft to pay for my jeep, boat, and surfboards. I smile while I do also.
My point, ahhhh well it was this whole story is going to look like one big troll. That was all, enjoy.
I find it interesting that Microsoft had the nuts to get a doubleclick add on Slashdot. I may be a little slow, but that would be kind of like leading the enemy army to your new untested castle door, no?
What you don't know is that XP is just covering up Microsofts attempt to distribute the worlds first "micronet" that is processing hundreds of trillions of flops a day, everyday.
What is happening, and you the public don't know is XP is really a work of art and uses less processing power the windows 3.11! All that drive spinnig, Proccessor time, and bandwidth is MicroNet juicing your systems unused processor time. Playing it off as XP's poor coding is better than admitting they are jacking your cycles.
What else are you really going to do with p4 2ghz machines besides secretly back the worlds largest distributive net project. Your just part of Big Bills world wide web farm baby.
It was very simple, when we "flagged" someone who was suspect they got a very simple oral exam to prove the program was writen by them.
It was nothing hard, just what vars did you use for what. Why did you loop this, and a couple of other little things that anyone that wrote a program would remember.
Ok let me get this straight, they where going to flood the education market with free software, os, and hardware from Microsoft as punishment? That is great, as a payment for your crime we are going to force you to have a new market share you have never had before. Also, this will increase the number of your users, and thus your monoply by teaching a whole new generation of users to work on windows. What marketing guru figured that would fly?
Last time I checked my wrist watch did pretty well vs. the elements. It is nothing more than a circut board, a small lcd screen, and a couple of buttons surronded by a casing. Sounds close to what a laptop would be. I think what your trying to say is with current protective coverings for the kind of computer you would want to wear it will not withstand a game of rugby. Give it time, if they can water cool a processor in your AMD, in a carboard box with riceboy lights glowing around it I think they might get to the point where they can build a wearable computer that can withstand as much as a g-shock.
Below is a snippit of the artical, and I have personally used a device such as this. I have 2 small problems.
People are not likely to change on the spur of the moment, you need more than "new hardware" to create a change. Look at mice, and keyboard games. Quake/doom/duke/etc... People still use the mouse and keyboard because it is universal and it is what they know. Your going to have to flood the market to get a new standard out, and it will have to be eaiser to use, and more productive than the original. Otherwise it just will not float. Your need both to pull it off, not just "wow" factor.
For example, Sony Computer Science Laboratories has been performing cutting-edge research on input technologies, and two of their ideas, called GestureWrist and GesturePad, could be something we are all using by the end of this decade. With the goal being to make inputs to your wearable device as conceptually unnoticeable as possible, GestureWrist is a wristwatch-type input device that recognizes human gestures by measuring changes in wrist shape and forearm movements. Networked to a visual display, GestureWrist could serve as the user's virtual mouse.
try reading the S. King books that are sort of like this.
I think they are called, "The Dark Tower" series.
Sometimes they get a little out there, but what S. King book does not. Most S. King lovers don't care for this series because he kind of breaks away from his typical scare the shit out of you mode.
Slashdot Mirror
Seems that the guys over at ID software have been the paying Gamespot to benchmark Quake and Unreal.
"It seems they have tained the pure nature of our business by funding this research into frag count. It is just, low down and dirty" said on game that refused to be identified. This is the latests in a long string of rumors about funding benchmarking test by game companies.
The issue at heart is frag count, the dismemberment of your pray or enemy in the 3d first person shooters. "Dude, just because that artical had some lame ass gimps playing the tester and he was able to blast some ass chunks all down the air duct does not mean that that aging Hexen is a better frag fest than Quake. I got some guys at work that can't strife, it is like taking candy from a baby." spat G-spotkilla from his cubical at a trendy NY base marketing company.
Probing for the female veiw I asked G-spotkilla's cube mate, code name HelloKitty her view on this whole thing "You know, G-spotkills is just a little gimp. He could not hit you with a sniper rifle at 30 feet let alone a g-spot!". Well it turns out she had not read the artical but she was hot, so I printed her concerns.
It seems no matter what people just don't believe the media anymore. G-spotkilla was last heard running down the hall screaming something about toenail polish and gravity problems that "Just don't work like that man!"
Microsoft funds for reports on Linux, Intel refunds for reports on AMD. I guess if you don't like someone you just pay someone off to blast your target. I was under the stupid impression that this kind of thing was sort of frowned on.
I really don't know anywhere that would print something hostle just because it was pro one OS or the other...opss damn..nevermind.
Yes, yes, it rides on top of Terminal Services or Windows 2000. But before you go off on a rant, it supports everything as a client from Dos to windows, to Unix, to OS2/warp, to Irix. It has Java clients, Web clients that imbed into a browser(netscape or IE), and did I mention anything that will run JAVA?
NFuse rocks, and guess what they don't just do this kind of thing for windows shells and *nix clients. They have pure java platforms running on linux and solaris. Citrix is way way way out on the power curve when it comes to this stuff. Coming from and admin that supports a multi-national 400+ Citrix node it central administration and control are just wonderful. Anyway I am not hear to get you to use Citrix because it will not be cost effective for most here and I will get bashed for the dreaded Microsoft, but anyone that says that Citrix sucks either never spent enough time working with it, or does not have a clue.
Give it a look.
With SpeedScreen2 the refresh rate is great, I have 40 people per dual proc machine surfing, mailing, and using the office suite. Hell you can even install a rouge copy of citrix and never register it but it will only work for one user tho it will last forever. This is very nice to set up on the box at home for remote access when your out on the road.
Enjoy
I wonder if you have lost your mind. You can't surf anywhere near these things. Any place that you could then would destroy the natural wave formation of that spot. As far as a rail, that is pretty funny I know it is off the cuff comment but it will never happen for a couple of reasons. First of surfboard, unlike skateboards are foam core, surrounded by fiberglass or epoxy(thin sheets to keep the weight of the board down). Any stike to the surface with a small strike area will cause a ding. The ding will crack the fiberglass letting the water in. This is bad. You will never see rail sliding on surfboard, wakeboards are anouther thing all together. We will not get into them(although they are about the most fun thing on the water outside of surfing and kite surfing..yea think about that!).
Anyway where was I? Ho yea, the only hope these thing could do for surfing is change swell redirection onto a sandbar where the surf sucked. Giving the swell a different direction to pile onto the sandbar or reef. Much like a jetty or an inlet would do. I guess it could also cause different sandbar formations. This I repeat would only be good for places that the surf sucked to begin with, if you put it someplace that had great surf it would cause the same thing to happen and cause the surf to degrade.
Get wet, it will bring your stress down.
The truth of it is this could be seen as a virus. It is just a profitable one. They will get smacked on this one as soon as it comes out in the light of day.
haha, no not new but a true statement on one level. None the less you made me shoot diet coke out of my nose and have a good laugh.
You played right into the hands of the marketing dingbat that thought this up. You think they are really going to do this. No, but you just handed them more hits and advertisement to there target market than they would have ever had any other way.
They tricked you, you tricked us, they got the word out. How many people clicked on this, and now know what shadowmanII is, what it is for, and who made it.
Nice job, you should charge them for click throughs....
For pointing out the obvious...
There is nothing new here, this has happend sence the dawn of time. The young have always been the ones to adapt, use, and have fun with the new stuff the quickest. This is just a rehash of an old theme. This is life and nature at work, this is not technology.
I just realized why I eat so much, became over weight, and often find myself shitting large blue sheets. My doctors have told me that I was driven by my experiences as a child playing Pacman and was programmed to eat everything in site. I still have not figured out where all the blue sheets are coming from....
Come on now, if anything Microsoft has proven to be a little smarter than the average bear. Do you honestly think that they will not at some point in time give the OS away for free, then start charging for the service. ----> see .net ----
.net they have just shifted the paradigm on you. Your still going to pay my friends.
In one respect he is right, at some point in time Windows as a purchase will become a moot point, but if they give it away to retain controll of the market and sell everything else under the sun packaged as
One way or anouther, I gona find ya... I gone getcha getcha getcha getcha one way or anouther...
Troll in relation to slashdot or a newsgroup, and I am just going on what I believe it to be:
Posting something for one purpose, to piss people off and or "troll" for a response. IE like throwing bait of the back of a boat to get a fish to bite, hence the term.
If someone is saying a post is a troll they are pretty much saying it is a waste of space, and only there to get the people angry and posting more on an emotional level then about what the topic is about.
I typical troll here would be, "Microsoft is great, and linux is for bean headed slackers that care more about being cool in the eyes of thier peers than making money."
I think that about sums it up, please someone correct me if this is a bit off.
No I did not take this personally I was just saying stand back, people here are not going to like this. Honestly I could really care less as it has no effect on my world, I am just a gimp that has to run in my wheel of Microsoft to pay for my jeep, boat, and surfboards. I smile while I do also.
My point, ahhhh well it was this whole story is going to look like one big troll. That was all, enjoy.
Sometimes I think your just baiting people. This should be interesting.
The next one will be, "Microsoft Claims it can server webpages 2x Faster on IIS3.0 than Apache!".
Stand back, even water will not save you from the flames!
Man that is going to suck when your trapped out in the wilderness, flat tire, and no food.
Where is the hotswap redundant PHONE?!!!
I find it interesting that Microsoft had the nuts to get a doubleclick add on Slashdot. I may be a little slow, but that would be kind of like leading the enemy army to your new untested castle door, no?
But don't the packets have a Time To Live in them, and that is not something that a neophyte can change without some knowledge.
That being that case they could just pick out the suspect os finger print, sniff the packets from the first hop. Than walla you have your answer.
Forgive if I am totally off here. Just a quick 1/2 dazed guess.
http://www.anandtech.com/cpu/showdoc.html?i=1574
sorry about that... above link is correct.
Anandtech match up
Interesting at least.
What you don't know is that XP is just covering up Microsofts attempt to distribute the worlds first "micronet" that is processing hundreds of trillions of flops a day, everyday.
What is happening, and you the public don't know is XP is really a work of art and uses less processing power the windows 3.11! All that drive spinnig, Proccessor time, and bandwidth is MicroNet juicing your systems unused processor time. Playing it off as XP's poor coding is better than admitting they are jacking your cycles.
What else are you really going to do with p4 2ghz machines besides secretly back the worlds largest distributive net project. Your just part of Big Bills world wide web farm baby.
It was very simple, when we "flagged" someone who was suspect they got a very simple oral exam to prove the program was writen by them.
It was nothing hard, just what vars did you use for what. Why did you loop this, and a couple of other little things that anyone that wrote a program would remember.
It was just a first run...nothing more.
I also hear that you can hook up the clapper to it.
Clap off, clap on....Ever claped a BSOD?
Ok let me get this straight, they where going to flood the education market with free software, os, and hardware from Microsoft as punishment? That is great, as a payment for your crime we are going to force you to have a new market share you have never had before. Also, this will increase the number of your users, and thus your monoply by teaching a whole new generation of users to work on windows. What marketing guru figured that would fly?
Last time I checked my wrist watch did pretty well vs. the elements. It is nothing more than a circut board, a small lcd screen, and a couple of buttons surronded by a casing. Sounds close to what a laptop would be. I think what your trying to say is with current protective coverings for the kind of computer you would want to wear it will not withstand a game of rugby. Give it time, if they can water cool a processor in your AMD, in a carboard box with riceboy lights glowing around it I think they might get to the point where they can build a wearable computer that can withstand as much as a g-shock.
Below is a snippit of the artical, and I have personally used a device such as this. I have 2 small problems.
People are not likely to change on the spur of the moment, you need more than "new hardware" to create a change. Look at mice, and keyboard games. Quake/doom/duke/etc... People still use the mouse and keyboard because it is universal and it is what they know. Your going to have to flood the market to get a new standard out, and it will have to be eaiser to use, and more productive than the original. Otherwise it just will not float. Your need both to pull it off, not just "wow" factor.
For example, Sony Computer Science Laboratories has been performing cutting-edge research on input technologies, and two of their ideas, called GestureWrist and GesturePad, could be something we are all using by the end of this decade. With the goal being to make inputs to your wearable device as conceptually unnoticeable as possible, GestureWrist is a wristwatch-type input device that recognizes human gestures by measuring changes in wrist shape and forearm movements. Networked to a visual display, GestureWrist could serve as the user's virtual mouse.
try reading the S. King books that are sort of like this.
I think they are called, "The Dark Tower" series.
Sometimes they get a little out there, but what S. King book does not. Most S. King lovers don't care for this series because he kind of breaks away from his typical scare the shit out of you mode.