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How the fuck did that get Informative +2 ?
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Prolly the last time your mother caught you looking at pr0n on the internet.
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Indeed. It's more of a mirroring tool than a "file sharing" tool. Wanna download the latest Madonna mp3? Use kazaa/gnutella/whatever. With bit torrent you'll have a hard time finding the seed file.
For an example of how little mainstream content it carries compared to other p2p networks I did a search for porn with a torrent file search engine. I was dissapointed with the results.
So that got me thinking - there's got to be a better actor for the job than Keanu Reeves, even though his clueless demeanor was perfect for the first movie.
And that actor is...
[Wait for it...]
Wil Wheaton. I mean, who else is the right age and has enough experience acting in the 24th century?
I'm no keanu fan but wheaton would have been wrong, in so many different ways.
I know that this is not serious... but am I the only one that doesn't even want to contemplate opening up fissures and filling them nuclear weapons, other radioactive material or something else equally high energy.
I'm no scientist but is this really the easiest way to get data ?
Apparently it is their own proprietry engine called "Source". I'm not sure if it started with the original HL codebase but I think it's fair to say that even if it had they would of had to rewrite just about everything due to the amount of adavancements in the last five years.
They are using the havoc physics engine (same as UT2K3). This is all according to the article about HL2 in this months british PCGamer magazine.
So I guess the real stumbling block is starting up such a network. If we could get enough people connected that we could be sure that at least one person will always be connected at any time then surely it could turn into a persistant decentralized second internet.
they can't yet put copy "protection" on an analog signal; which everything that makes sound must eventually send to an output. then we have a beautiful little thing called an analog input that makes ALL copy protection pointless.
Anyone who uses an analogue input is a terrorist.
Seriously though, I can see it coming to the point where content producers lean on hardware manafacturers to not include inputs. It certainly would solve a lot of problems.
Thing is whenever you copy a cd tiny errors are introduced, this is why cd's and dvd's have error protection. So if you copy a cd you have a less than perfect source, and if your ripping to mp3 or other lossy audio format then you could potentially be losing out in terms of audio quality.
May seem like a very small thing to get upset about but if you are actually willing to spend the $20 to legally listen to a cd then shouldn't you get the best possible sound quality ?
Actually the area of gaming that could benefit most from faster processors is AI. The AI in games these days is more of a hack than a serious atempt to replicate human behaviour. Serious AI simply takes up too much processor time. Beacuse AI is so difficult it is usually given whatever spare power is left after everything else in the game is run.
I have a hunch that it has to due with either unexpected capacitive coupling ( possibly related to an in-spec extreme of the process variation) or thermal transients causing timing skew.
In that case we need to change the gravitonic phase, reduce the tectronic radiation and then increase the nucleonic flux.
as evidenced by the number of people who say "WinXP is great, compared to Win98 it's very stable and pretty fast, even though I did have to buy a new PC to run it, but that's just progress, isn't it?" when you ask them what they think of it.
going a bit offtopic but that is progress isn't it ?. XP is a desktop OS that used by people at home a lot. people want their pretty colours, games and multimedia features. I'm not saying that MS software isn't a little bit bloated but it is not as bad as linux people like to make out.
just cause linux can run acceptably on a 500 mhz machine doesn't mean I am going to.
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How the fuck did that get Informative +2 ?
Prolly the last time your mother caught you looking at pr0n on the internet.
Indeed. It's more of a mirroring tool than a "file sharing" tool. Wanna download the latest Madonna mp3? Use kazaa/gnutella/whatever. With bit torrent you'll have a hard time finding the seed file.
For an example of how little mainstream content it carries compared to other p2p networks I did a search for porn with a torrent file search engine. I was dissapointed with the results.
I want one.
Smith is human
I haven't seen it, not out in the uk for a week, but maybe the zion matrix is a training ground for new agents.
So that
got me thinking - there's got to be a better actor for the job than Keanu Reeves, even though his clueless demeanor was perfect for the first movie.
And that actor is...
[Wait for it...]
Wil Wheaton. I mean, who else is the right age and has enough experience acting in the 24th century?
I'm no keanu fan but wheaton would have been wrong, in so many different ways.
I know that this is not serious... but am I the only one that doesn't even want to contemplate opening up fissures and filling them nuclear weapons, other radioactive material or something else equally high energy.
I'm no scientist but is this really the easiest way to get data ?
What engine is HL2 using? Doom 3?
Apparently it is their own proprietry engine called "Source". I'm not sure if it started with the original HL codebase but I think it's fair to say that even if it had they would of had to rewrite just about everything due to the amount of adavancements in the last five years.
They are using the havoc physics engine (same as UT2K3). This is all according to the article about HL2 in this months british PCGamer magazine.
Just read that back, if anyone makes a "don't call me shirley" joke I will cause them pain.
So I guess the real stumbling block is starting up such a network. If we could get enough people connected that we could be sure that at least one person will always be connected at any time then surely it could turn into a persistant decentralized second internet.
Or am I smoking crack ?
Thought police.
Your right to a certain extent. But the underlying problem is the that the record inustry has a very strange a complicated bussiness model.
Their argument is that the mass produced n*sync/britney type music actually subsidizes the development of the more highbrow artists.
Every one knows that terrorists listen to mp3's.
(long live daniel beddingfield....)
I'm no fan of his but he does actually write all his own stuff.
they can't yet put copy "protection" on an analog signal; which everything that makes sound must eventually send to an output. then we have a beautiful little thing called an analog input that makes ALL copy protection pointless.
Anyone who uses an analogue input is a terrorist.
Seriously though, I can see it coming to the point where content producers lean on hardware manafacturers to not include inputs. It certainly would solve a lot of problems.
That's why I took 100th Window back and why I haven't bought one of these discs since. And I used to buy 3-4 CDs a month.
Just D/L it like everybody else.
Thing is whenever you copy a cd tiny errors are introduced, this is why cd's and dvd's have error protection. So if you copy a cd you have a less than perfect source, and if your ripping to mp3 or other lossy audio format then you could potentially be losing out in terms of audio quality.
May seem like a very small thing to get upset about but if you are actually willing to spend the $20 to legally listen to a cd then shouldn't you get the best possible sound quality ?
My girlfriend (yes I have one!!)
No one likes a gloater.
I wonder if Episode VII-IX would be a good choice as first projects?
Let me answer that for you... No.
Actually the area of gaming that could benefit most from faster processors is AI. The AI in games these days is more of a hack than a serious atempt to replicate human behaviour. Serious AI simply takes up too much processor time. Beacuse AI is so difficult it is usually given whatever spare power is left after everything else in the game is run.
4) ???
5) profit!
Yeah but what if you have a life ?
prolly won't implement it until the Itanium chips are fully grown up like the x86 chips are.
I have a hunch that it has to due with either unexpected capacitive coupling ( possibly related to an in-spec extreme of the process variation) or thermal transients causing timing skew.
In that case we need to change the gravitonic phase, reduce the tectronic radiation and then increase the nucleonic flux.
as evidenced by the number of people who say "WinXP is great, compared to Win98 it's very stable and pretty fast, even though I did have to buy a new PC to run it, but that's just progress, isn't it?" when you ask them what they think of it.
going a bit offtopic but that is progress isn't it ?. XP is a desktop OS that used by people at home a lot. people want their pretty colours, games and multimedia features. I'm not saying that MS software isn't a little bit bloated but it is not as bad as linux people like to make out.
just cause linux can run acceptably on a 500 mhz machine doesn't mean I am going to.