No matter what the optimization through caching provides, until someone solves the pesky little problem of increasing the speed of microwave transmissions using tachyons to reduce round-trip propagation delays to a mere fraction of what they are now, you'll find that bzflag and other FPS games are right out of the question.
While that might make the beancounters a bit nervous, that's not really the point. The issue is that someone decided the legal system was the automatic response to a perceived business problem and took steps to elevate a relatively minor technical issue into a legal haggling over intellectual property.
This is the sort of stupidity that breeds dangerous laws like the DMCA and feeds dangerous organizations like the RIAA and MPAA. Until the general public wises up to technology issues (fat chance) and legislators do the same (same fat chance), this foolishness has to be met aggressively with common sense and more than a bit of shame heaped upon the heads of those who lack the aforementioned common sense.
What's all this talk about a national ID card when your driver's license and SSN are already used as such? The only step left is to coordinate all the states' driver databases with the credit bureaus and banks and Big Brother can track you wherever you go.
as long as there's an Internet connection to my servers. I can implement any level of connectivity and security I'd like using tools like iptables, ssh, and gpg/pgp. Sure, I've got to make sure that my stuff is accessible from wherever I need to be, and that I'm packing the right resources to utilize it at the access points, but other than that, why would I trust someone else to do something that (1) I can do for myself and (2) knowing that I'm looking out for my own self-interests, not relying on someone or something that doesn't take those interests to heart as much as I do.
I'd agree that there aren't a lot of supported USB devices for Linux yet (webcams in particular, due to lack of manufacturer openness about protocols), but to say that "Linux USB support isn't quite *there* yet" is a bit over the top.
Sure, there have been some problems along the way with the hotplug code, but except for the now-rare occurance of a race condition due to autoloading dependent modules, I've had little to no problem with hotplugging.
Keyboards and mice work with mini-HID drivers. The full-blown HID is pretty decent. Even some esoteric devices like USB multiport serial adapters from companies like keyspan work well.
I also love the Thunder K7, but it needs a couple of things. First off, that unique power supply need gripes me. They're hard to find and relatively expensive. Second, no USB 2.0 support. Third, the 64 bit PCI slots are only 33 MHz. The Tiger MPX, OTOH, has both 66 MHz 64 bit PCI slots and comes with an USB 2.0 card (the 760MPX is broken wrt its USB 1.1 capabilities).
The Abit WA2A should give Tyan some much-needed competition in this arena.
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The airborne/spaceborne laser has a way to go yet. The primary problem is that any laser that has sufficient power as of now happens to operate on a wavelength that's very effectively absorbed by water vapor, dangerously limiting its usefulness to either a relatively close shot or a shot in late boost phase where atmospheric water vapor is in short supply but the target is moving quite rapidly.
Although limited in its practicality, the idea of a clandestine special forces soldier with a.50 cal sniper rifle penetrating the perimeter of a silo farm to take pot shots at ICBMs as they launch sounds pretty good right now. But the chemical lasers of the right wavelength are in development.
There's a type of DoS occurring now. There are many mpegs that aren't what they claim to be. The downloading of these is a sheer waste of bandwidth, which amounts IMHO to a form of DoS, considering the limitations that the clients can place on overall bandwidth utilization, number of connections, etc.
That's all well and good, until you need to set up a server to feed these new M$ mouths that will implement the protocol strictly according to the Gospel of Bill. Then, when your server implementation that doesn't heed the GoB ceases to be useful to the newer M$ OSes, what then? Capitulate and purchase their server solutions?
Read this carefully. I stated 760MPX, not 760MP which works beautifully, as I've got 8 Tyan dualies humming in harmony to testify. The MPX, however, is broken with respect its only on-chipset USB, namely good old USB 1.1. The vendors of the MPX boards, namely Tyan, Abit, and Asus (IIRC) ship either a USB 1.1 or USB 2.0 card to make up for AMD's oversight.
But you can't count how many people are listening to your radio station. Sure, there are folks like Nielsen sampling usage patterns, but the data are inexact.
Now that the Powers That Wanna Be feel they can extract an exact headcount of listeners on the web, they figure that nailing down an exact per-listener fee model makes sense.
This is just another case where copious amounts of exact data drives people to bad decisionmaking.
M$ will find a way to make that shiny new P4 2.4GHz crawl along like a P100. A few more security bugs, a couple hundred more features in Office, a few more annoyances like Messenger, and we're there.
Unless you're talking about the USB support, which is broken in the latest AMD 760MPX chipset. Most vendors are shipping a USB PCI card to make up for it, but for some that loss of a PCI slot is very painful.
This is the same hysteria that surrounds those who incriminate the firearms manufacturers and tobacco companies. Liberals tend to blame the inanimate objects that certain idiots use in ways that damage themselves and others instead of blaming the idiots themselves.
Another excellent design decision is that JSAPI blocks any attempt at viral activity by disallowing execution of the transmitSTD() methods by both the Man and Woman classes.
and we all know what walks. Yes, it's been said before, but most people don't seem to be listening. Don't hand these big corporations your money. Without you purchasing their products, they will lack the wherewithall to purchase political clout to force their agendas down our throats.
Changing brainwashed people's habits who have been taught to believe that they "just can't live without" the latest media moguls' products won't be easy, but without disemboweling these cretins, we're all at their lobbying mercy.
and true QoS widely deployed on the majority of the Internet, this just isn't workable. And then it'll work only by force of law.
Despite the kudos to the feds for not pushing this down our throats with the Congressional ramrod, a poo-poo on them for thinking that this will actually work. After all, US law doesn't extend over the water very well.
They're hammering out their differences in court; the building, the judge, the paper-pushers, all funded by the taxpayer.
Is litigating disputes between spam-monkeys in the public interest? I fully understand the need to not allow sellers of poor product to prevail, but in this case the low quality of the product in question actually may end up keeping a public nuisance from pursuing their goal of spamming thousands of unwilling (I don't believe the "opt-in" claim for a minute) victims.
Who cares about geomagnetic north with the advent of GPS? Sure, legacy devices abound, but these are mostly amusements that aren't used for precision tasks.
Ever since the FCC started selling off bandwidth, we should have known that the open, free, public bands would become attractive battlefields for commercial interests. But instead of ponying up hard cash to the FCC, they buy themselves a few shysters in an attempt to take over the free frontier by claiming interference from those who first took advantage of the space.
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No matter what the optimization through caching provides, until someone solves the pesky little problem of increasing the speed of microwave transmissions using tachyons to reduce round-trip propagation delays to a mere fraction of what they are now, you'll find that bzflag and other FPS games are right out of the question.
While that might make the beancounters a bit nervous, that's not really the point. The issue is that someone decided the legal system was the automatic response to a perceived business problem and took steps to elevate a relatively minor technical issue into a legal haggling over intellectual property.
This is the sort of stupidity that breeds dangerous laws like the DMCA and feeds dangerous organizations like the RIAA and MPAA. Until the general public wises up to technology issues (fat chance) and legislators do the same (same fat chance), this foolishness has to be met aggressively with common sense and more than a bit of shame heaped upon the heads of those who lack the aforementioned common sense.
by the good folks at Matrox with that Headcasting nonsense.
What's all this talk about a national ID card when your driver's license and SSN are already used as such? The only step left is to coordinate all the states' driver databases with the credit bureaus and banks and Big Brother can track you wherever you go.
as long as there's an Internet connection to my servers. I can implement any level of connectivity and security I'd like using tools like iptables, ssh, and gpg/pgp. Sure, I've got to make sure that my stuff is accessible from wherever I need to be, and that I'm packing the right resources to utilize it at the access points, but other than that, why would I trust someone else to do something that (1) I can do for myself and (2) knowing that I'm looking out for my own self-interests, not relying on someone or something that doesn't take those interests to heart as much as I do.
It may come, but as has every scheme before it, it will be defeated.
I'd agree that there aren't a lot of supported USB devices for Linux yet (webcams in particular, due to lack of manufacturer openness about protocols), but to say that "Linux USB support isn't quite *there* yet" is a bit over the top.
Sure, there have been some problems along the way with the hotplug code, but except for the now-rare occurance of a race condition due to autoloading dependent modules, I've had little to no problem with hotplugging.
Keyboards and mice work with mini-HID drivers. The full-blown HID is pretty decent. Even some esoteric devices like USB multiport serial adapters from companies like keyspan work well.
I also love the Thunder K7, but it needs a couple of things. First off, that unique power supply need gripes me. They're hard to find and relatively expensive. Second, no USB 2.0 support. Third, the 64 bit PCI slots are only 33 MHz. The Tiger MPX, OTOH, has both 66 MHz 64 bit PCI slots and comes with an USB 2.0 card (the 760MPX is broken wrt its USB 1.1 capabilities).
The Abit WA2A should give Tyan some much-needed competition in this arena.
The airborne/spaceborne laser has a way to go yet. The primary problem is that any laser that has sufficient power as of now happens to operate on a wavelength that's very effectively absorbed by water vapor, dangerously limiting its usefulness to either a relatively close shot or a shot in late boost phase where atmospheric water vapor is in short supply but the target is moving quite rapidly.
.50 cal sniper rifle penetrating the perimeter of a silo farm to take pot shots at ICBMs as they launch sounds pretty good right now. But the chemical lasers of the right wavelength are in development.
Although limited in its practicality, the idea of a clandestine special forces soldier with a
There's a type of DoS occurring now. There are many mpegs that aren't what they claim to be. The downloading of these is a sheer waste of bandwidth, which amounts IMHO to a form of DoS, considering the limitations that the clients can place on overall bandwidth utilization, number of connections, etc.
That's all well and good, until you need to set up a server to feed these new M$ mouths that will implement the protocol strictly according to the Gospel of Bill. Then, when your server implementation that doesn't heed the GoB ceases to be useful to the newer M$ OSes, what then? Capitulate and purchase their server solutions?
Read this carefully. I stated 760MPX, not 760MP which works beautifully, as I've got 8 Tyan dualies humming in harmony to testify. The MPX, however, is broken with respect its only on-chipset USB, namely good old USB 1.1. The vendors of the MPX boards, namely Tyan, Abit, and Asus (IIRC) ship either a USB 1.1 or USB 2.0 card to make up for AMD's oversight.
But you can't count how many people are listening to your radio station. Sure, there are folks like Nielsen sampling usage patterns, but the data are inexact.
Now that the Powers That Wanna Be feel they can extract an exact headcount of listeners on the web, they figure that nailing down an exact per-listener fee model makes sense.
This is just another case where copious amounts of exact data drives people to bad decisionmaking.
M$ will find a way to make that shiny new P4 2.4GHz crawl along like a P100. A few more security bugs, a couple hundred more features in Office, a few more annoyances like Messenger, and we're there.
Unless you're talking about the USB support, which is broken in the latest AMD 760MPX chipset. Most vendors are shipping a USB PCI card to make up for it, but for some that loss of a PCI slot is very painful.
This is the same hysteria that surrounds those who incriminate the firearms manufacturers and tobacco companies. Liberals tend to blame the inanimate objects that certain idiots use in ways that damage themselves and others instead of blaming the idiots themselves.
Another excellent design decision is that JSAPI blocks any attempt at viral activity by disallowing execution of the transmitSTD() methods by both the Man and Woman classes.
and we all know what walks. Yes, it's been said before, but most people don't seem to be listening. Don't hand these big corporations your money. Without you purchasing their products, they will lack the wherewithall to purchase political clout to force their agendas down our throats.
Changing brainwashed people's habits who have been taught to believe that they "just can't live without" the latest media moguls' products won't be easy, but without disemboweling these cretins, we're all at their lobbying mercy.
and true QoS widely deployed on the majority of the Internet, this just isn't workable. And then it'll work only by force of law.
Despite the kudos to the feds for not pushing this down our throats with the Congressional ramrod, a poo-poo on them for thinking that this will actually work. After all, US law doesn't extend over the water very well.
They're hammering out their differences in court; the building, the judge, the paper-pushers, all funded by the taxpayer.
Is litigating disputes between spam-monkeys in the public interest? I fully understand the need to not allow sellers of poor product to prevail, but in this case the low quality of the product in question actually may end up keeping a public nuisance from pursuing their goal of spamming thousands of unwilling (I don't believe the "opt-in" claim for a minute) victims.
The sad part of this is that tax dollars are funding the ability for these cretins to sue each other.
You misunderstand the USSR. Bravery has nothing to do with it. You did what you were told or ended up in the Gulag.
Who cares about geomagnetic north with the advent of GPS? Sure, legacy devices abound, but these are mostly amusements that aren't used for precision tasks.
Ever since the FCC started selling off bandwidth, we should have known that the open, free, public bands would become attractive battlefields for commercial interests. But instead of ponying up hard cash to the FCC, they buy themselves a few shysters in an attempt to take over the free frontier by claiming interference from those who first took advantage of the space.
They just don't apply to this art/science. Would Michelangelo's boss have put him to task for square inches/day or pounds of statue/week output?