Most game cards draw everything that could be in your field of view and then only show the surface layer. It still does all of the work for the stuff you don't see but doesn't show it. Some of the new chips coming out have the ability to figure out what you won't be able to see and not process it.
There is no legitimate purpose for this hack except to cheat. You can't name one other use for this bulls**t that can't be accomplished easier and more efficiently another way. I keep seeing all of these people saying "if you don't like cheaters play only with people you know or never play a game with that cheater again". Well folks on my schedule it is next to impossible to schedule games with my friends and it is way to easy for a cheater to set up a new id. I don't like cheaters. If you can't win fairly what is the point of playing. You can sit there and brag about how many kills you made but you know inside that you didn't make any kills. The cheats made the kills for you and you are still the pathetic, worthless little loser you always were. Anyway I challenge you to come up with one legitimate use for this hack. Don't tell me for game or level design. As has already been pointed out many times the designers would have put a switch in the editor for such things. It is much more efficient that way. As for the game programmer above, what games do you work on. Given your feelings towards cheats I sure don't want to play any games you worked on.
This is an Anonymous Coward that skipped way too much school. The trick is to make sure that it is an opinion that you are expressing. You are free to express your opinion on a subject. The tricky part is when you are claiming something to be factual.You can be sued for lying about someone, but they can't win if you have adequate proof to show that there is good reason to beleive what you say is true. However in the courts of this day and age it is easy for the opposition to limit your evidence to just the damning parts. If they truly only admitted the parts of those posts like the article says they did then this was as big a miscarriage of justice as anything that happened in rhe USSR or is happening in the PRC today. I wonder if the judge is a secret Scientologist or if he has had any recent unexplained deposits in his bank account. This smells to high heaven.
Well in my opinion if you can't beat the game without cheats then you didn't beat it. If it is multiplayer and you used cheats then you didn't win then either. A hollow victory gives you no bragging rights. I've been around almost as long as you and still can't see where the satisfaction is in such a win. I personally will buy no Asus products of any sort until they do right by this.
Buzz, wrong answer. The FCC has already ruled that all digital tv devices sold in the US only allow recording if the copyright owner allows it. I just got a Phillips dish satellite receiver and while I haven't tested this part yet. It says that if a certain symbol shows up next to the program name in the guide, that program will be unrecordable.
The FCC has already made it a regulation that all digital tv devices sold in the US have copy prevention measures built in. Hell my Dish satellite receiver has the tech. If it recieves a signal that says this program cannot be recorded it won't let me.
I don't expect absolute fidelity to the book. Movies are different than books and visuals are important. I do however hope for the feel of the books to come through.
So, you are saying the most read fantsy trilogy ever doesn't have much of a fan base. For many fantsy reader (most probably) it was their introduction to the genre. They could make 50 different movies about it and all of them suck and fans will still go to the 51st looking for the one that does justice to the books.
Actually I'm kinda curious. What BSD code is their in Linux? The only code I was aware of was the TCP stack and it was my understanding that it had been replaced with a better implementation. Another question, have they taken the BSD code that was in NT out of W2k?
WTF. NT was started as far back as 88. It wasn't called NT then but MS was working on the tech and already putting out FUD to keep people from using other systems because theirs would be out real soon now.
I generally install everything because I'm still learning and I never know what I'll want to play with. That said, I also immediately (after the install) go and turn off every service that I don't want to run right now. Then I setup the firewall to restrict everything and open back up just those ports I need. It is not that hard to do and anyone installing Linux needs to know how to do it. Just like anyone installing 2000 Pro needs to know about its security settings.
No, if I saw Bill Gates walking on water my question would be: How many of his competetors did he bury in that section of the lake? My second question is: If Linux is so much trouble to secure and Apache on Linux is by far the most common web server, how come the largest percentage of web defacements is to IIS? Third qeustion is: Why are most of the compromised systems I hear about Windows? Windows on the network isn't anywhere near the dominate force that Windows is on the desktop but they still manage to garner the majority of security problems. (Just so you all know, I don't get all of my information from/. and would expect anybody looking at the subject with reasonable objectivity to notice the same thing.) If you do the relative math (numbers of servers, numbers of actual hacks) Microsoft still looks like crap compared to just about everybody. Microsoft has deigned to notice Linux now, and that means a deluge of FUD unlike any they have ever produced. They can't compete on merits so they have no other way. If Linux had to compete on their terms it would work. Unfortunately (for them) Linux can go on being Linux no matter what MS does. Write your Congressman though, MS has already started the FUD aimed at outlawing the GPL.
Name one, I repeat one monopoly that was busted up by effective competition. There has not been a single US based monopoly that ceased being a monopoly without government intervention. The Robber Barons of the late 19th and early 20th centuries were all broken by the government not by competition. I keep seeing all of this Libertarian crap spouted by people on Slashdot but apparently history is an ignored subject by its adherents. Linux has a chance against Microsoft because it doesn't have to compete against them. No software corporation has a chance against Microsoft because they have to make a profit and Microsoft makes all the rules. Corporations tend to be started by optimists who believe they can earn a living competing in a market. After a while the software companies realize they will eventually be stomped by Microsoft but they have an obligation to their shareholders to try and make a profit. They play up to MS in hopes that in this new version MS won't go out of its way to break their software but unless totally clueless they know that one day they will come under the gun. Maybe you get lucky an MS buys you. More likely you start hearing rumours that MS is working on some stuff that will compete with you. Then surprise surprise in the next version of the OS you find that your software is broken and MS has put their software on the market or included free in the OS. MS touts in their advertising how much better that their new products work with version X of their OS. Of course it does since they broke your software and specifically tailored dlls and such to work with their new software. So a few months later you get your new version out that can work with the new OS. It probably has a few gotchas in it since none of the api's that you are used to work quite the same any more. Your software is in most respects better the MS' but you can't get the OEMs to install it because that is in violation of the agreement they made with MS. They don't like the agreement any more than you do but, they are in the same boat as you. They have to make a profit and the only way to do that is play by MS' rules. I'm sorry but by any definition it is a monopoly and destructive of free trade. The only possible winner is the company that has the monopoly. They write the rules and those rules are always to their advantage. Linux can break that monopoly posssibly. But only because it doesn't have to play by those rules. And that is why Microsoft will do everything in its power to make the GPL illegal.
My we're the optimist aren't we? Human nature has not change throughout all of recorded history. I don't see much likelyhood of it changing now. Current predictions are that nations will be fighting over fresh water in the next 20 years. In 50 years the population will be great enough that nations will be fighting over almost every resource. You would have to have something like large scale availability of nanotech to have a chance of avoiding resource wars and the tech would cause such a serious disruption to the whole system that it would take generations to fully adapt and find equilibrium. To summarize: there is almost no chance the future will be less violent than now and great likelihood that it will be far more violent and dangerous than now. If you look at the future of at least a hundred years from now, then there is some hope. If we haven't put the human race back into caves by then.
To quote the Anonymous Coward "Viagra isn't an aphrodisiac actually". An aphrodisiac makes you want to have sex. Viagra only helps if you are horny. No desire no gain.
It is your problem. If you double your population in ten years and don't build any new power plants the you deserve to do without power. What right do you have to expect some other state to shoulder the responsibility for your negligence.
Did you read the article? It actually allows you to use the windows version of the plugin with a Linux browser. If you can run WMP under Linux with wine then you should be able to use it as a browser plugin with this. At least till the next version of WMP when Microsoft will find some way to break the Wine compatability of WMP.
I agree whole heartedly. Of course even the real Theo can't be that dense about supporting business. In IT our job is to support the people who earn the money to pay our paychecks. As a general rule they are not stupid. They may not be too computer literate but they obviously have some skill that the company finds useful. We are viewed as a drain on resources by the number crunchers. Either implement solutions that the others can use easily and efficiently or be able to explain concisely and clearly why it is not possible at this time. If you treat them with contempt and don't try to make things easier for them, then one day they will come to the conclusion that there is no earthly reason for you to be on the payroll. You may be the best coder or admin in the world but if you don't work with them for the best possible solutions from their point of view then you aren't worth near as much as the less competent person that is willing to bend over backward to help.
Did you perhaps see the part where he says "Next Week Why OpenBSD Is More Secure Than Linux". I think you might have waited until after you could evaluate what he said for the other side.
I don't usually flame people but I can't resist this one.
This is so full of crap I almost don't know where to begin. The possible performance increase you might see in the future from using the P4 is offset by the fact that it costs more know and doesn't perform as well. In the future that you are looking at the Sledgehammer will make a much nicer desktop processor than either of those chips. Get the best performance you can afford know and upgrade as necessary. If you really need the best performance you use what is best at the time of purchase and upgrade when there is a significant improvement by changing. You don't buy the slower now and pray for miracles.
As far as OS's go, that is what truly gave away the fact that you are a troll. SMP support in Linux and W2k is more than adequate for any purpose your limited brain can come up with. Especially since SMP performance is determined as much by the app as by the OS and the current crop of apps could all stand a little work in that area. There is also the fact that the Palimino chip cans use 3Dnow and Screamin Sindie instructions if I remember correctly.
You buy your P4. I'll spend the same amount on an Athlon system and spend the difference in price on RAM. My system will smoke yours now and even at the end of there useful lifespans there won't be an appreciable difference in performance over the range of apps most people use. I'll still beat you on everything except games and graphic apps.
Nope, it didn't require Congress. The FCC made it a regulation with the full force of law. Not one person that is accountable to the public had anything to do with it. The FCC has forgotten that they are supposed to represent the people of the United States. Legally corps are people but the rights of 40 to 50 corps should not outweigh the rights of the other 270 million of us. Especially when the FCC took away a right that the Supreme Court said that we have. They took away the right to time shift programs.
Wrong. The monitor companies have been talking about implementing this for a while now. Too bad most of you don't pay any attention to these things until it is too late to stop them. Did any of you let the FCC know how displeased you were when they mandated that new HDTV equipment be equiped with copy prevention devices. How many of you have written your Congressman demanding that they start defending your rights. I'm an American but almost ashamed to admit it. Washington, Jefferson, and Franklin would commit suicide if they were alive to see what a bunch of whiny, spineless, spoiled rotten brats they left their legacy to. Grow up and start excersizing some of the power of the people or get the kind of government you deserve. You would be amazed at how fast Congress will change its tune if people will actually start holding them accountable for how they vote. I saw one guy talking about how Hatch was his Senator. Well buddy if you didn't like the DMCA are you going to vote for him at re-election time. My bet is probably you will because you know his name. If they vote wrong get them out of officeBoucher is my Congressman. I think he at least tries to understand the issues. So I will vote for him. However, the Senate members from Va. happen to be a bunch of clueless losers and I wouldn't vote for any of them for the job of dogcatcher. The funny part is I'm Republican, Boucher is Democrat, and the Senate members are both Republican if I remember correctly.
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Most game cards draw everything that could be in your field of view and then only show the surface layer. It still does all of the work for the stuff you don't see but doesn't show it. Some of the new chips coming out have the ability to figure out what you won't be able to see and not process it.
There is no legitimate purpose for this hack except to cheat. You can't name one other use for this bulls**t that can't be accomplished easier and more efficiently another way. I keep seeing all of these people saying "if you don't like cheaters play only with people you know or never play a game with that cheater again". Well folks on my schedule it is next to impossible to schedule games with my friends and it is way to easy for a cheater to set up a new id. I don't like cheaters. If you can't win fairly what is the point of playing. You can sit there and brag about how many kills you made but you know inside that you didn't make any kills. The cheats made the kills for you and you are still the pathetic, worthless little loser you always were. Anyway I challenge you to come up with one legitimate use for this hack. Don't tell me for game or level design. As has already been pointed out many times the designers would have put a switch in the editor for such things. It is much more efficient that way. As for the game programmer above, what games do you work on. Given your feelings towards cheats I sure don't want to play any games you worked on.
This is an Anonymous Coward that skipped way too much school. The trick is to make sure that it is an opinion that you are expressing. You are free to express your opinion on a subject. The tricky part is when you are claiming something to be factual.You can be sued for lying about someone, but they can't win if you have adequate proof to show that there is good reason to beleive what you say is true. However in the courts of this day and age it is easy for the opposition to limit your evidence to just the damning parts. If they truly only admitted the parts of those posts like the article says they did then this was as big a miscarriage of justice as anything that happened in rhe USSR or is happening in the PRC today. I wonder if the judge is a secret Scientologist or if he has had any recent unexplained deposits in his bank account. This smells to high heaven.
Well in my opinion if you can't beat the game without cheats then you didn't beat it. If it is multiplayer and you used cheats then you didn't win then either. A hollow victory gives you no bragging rights. I've been around almost as long as you and still can't see where the satisfaction is in such a win. I personally will buy no Asus products of any sort until they do right by this.
Buzz, wrong answer. The FCC has already ruled that all digital tv devices sold in the US only allow recording if the copyright owner allows it. I just got a Phillips dish satellite receiver and while I haven't tested this part yet. It says that if a certain symbol shows up next to the program name in the guide, that program will be unrecordable.
The FCC has already made it a regulation that all digital tv devices sold in the US have copy prevention measures built in. Hell my Dish satellite receiver has the tech. If it recieves a signal that says this program cannot be recorded it won't let me.
What self-respecting porn surfer is going to be willing to put away his joystick?
I don't expect absolute fidelity to the book. Movies are different than books and visuals are important. I do however hope for the feel of the books to come through.
So, you are saying the most read fantsy trilogy ever doesn't have much of a fan base. For many fantsy reader (most probably) it was their introduction to the genre. They could make 50 different movies about it and all of them suck and fans will still go to the 51st looking for the one that does justice to the books.
Actually I'm kinda curious. What BSD code is their in Linux? The only code I was aware of was the TCP stack and it was my understanding that it had been replaced with a better implementation. Another question, have they taken the BSD code that was in NT out of W2k?
WTF. NT was started as far back as 88. It wasn't called NT then but MS was working on the tech and already putting out FUD to keep people from using other systems because theirs would be out real soon now.
I generally install everything because I'm still learning and I never know what I'll want to play with. That said, I also immediately (after the install) go and turn off every service that I don't want to run right now. Then I setup the firewall to restrict everything and open back up just those ports I need. It is not that hard to do and anyone installing Linux needs to know how to do it. Just like anyone installing 2000 Pro needs to know about its security settings.
No, if I saw Bill Gates walking on water my question would be: How many of his competetors did he bury in that section of the lake? My second question is: If Linux is so much trouble to secure and Apache on Linux is by far the most common web server, how come the largest percentage of web defacements is to IIS? Third qeustion is: Why are most of the compromised systems I hear about Windows? Windows on the network isn't anywhere near the dominate force that Windows is on the desktop but they still manage to garner the majority of security problems. (Just so you all know, I don't get all of my information from /. and would expect anybody looking at the subject with reasonable objectivity to notice the same thing.) If you do the relative math (numbers of servers, numbers of actual hacks) Microsoft still looks like crap compared to just about everybody. Microsoft has deigned to notice Linux now, and that means a deluge of FUD unlike any they have ever produced. They can't compete on merits so they have no other way. If Linux had to compete on their terms it would work. Unfortunately (for them) Linux can go on being Linux no matter what MS does. Write your Congressman though, MS has already started the FUD aimed at outlawing the GPL.
Actually I've heard there can be some serious problems with Adaptec in some setups.
Name one, I repeat one monopoly that was busted up by effective competition. There has not been a single US based monopoly that ceased being a monopoly without government intervention. The Robber Barons of the late 19th and early 20th centuries were all broken by the government not by competition. I keep seeing all of this Libertarian crap spouted by people on Slashdot but apparently history is an ignored subject by its adherents. Linux has a chance against Microsoft because it doesn't have to compete against them. No software corporation has a chance against Microsoft because they have to make a profit and Microsoft makes all the rules. Corporations tend to be started by optimists who believe they can earn a living competing in a market. After a while the software companies realize they will eventually be stomped by Microsoft but they have an obligation to their shareholders to try and make a profit. They play up to MS in hopes that in this new version MS won't go out of its way to break their software but unless totally clueless they know that one day they will come under the gun. Maybe you get lucky an MS buys you. More likely you start hearing rumours that MS is working on some stuff that will compete with you. Then surprise surprise in the next version of the OS you find that your software is broken and MS has put their software on the market or included free in the OS. MS touts in their advertising how much better that their new products work with version X of their OS. Of course it does since they broke your software and specifically tailored dlls and such to work with their new software. So a few months later you get your new version out that can work with the new OS. It probably has a few gotchas in it since none of the api's that you are used to work quite the same any more. Your software is in most respects better the MS' but you can't get the OEMs to install it because that is in violation of the agreement they made with MS. They don't like the agreement any more than you do but, they are in the same boat as you. They have to make a profit and the only way to do that is play by MS' rules. I'm sorry but by any definition it is a monopoly and destructive of free trade. The only possible winner is the company that has the monopoly. They write the rules and those rules are always to their advantage. Linux can break that monopoly posssibly. But only because it doesn't have to play by those rules. And that is why Microsoft will do everything in its power to make the GPL illegal.
My we're the optimist aren't we? Human nature has not change throughout all of recorded history. I don't see much likelyhood of it changing now. Current predictions are that nations will be fighting over fresh water in the next 20 years. In 50 years the population will be great enough that nations will be fighting over almost every resource. You would have to have something like large scale availability of nanotech to have a chance of avoiding resource wars and the tech would cause such a serious disruption to the whole system that it would take generations to fully adapt and find equilibrium. To summarize: there is almost no chance the future will be less violent than now and great likelihood that it will be far more violent and dangerous than now. If you look at the future of at least a hundred years from now, then there is some hope. If we haven't put the human race back into caves by then.
To quote the Anonymous Coward "Viagra isn't an aphrodisiac actually". An aphrodisiac makes you want to have sex. Viagra only helps if you are horny. No desire no gain.
It is your problem. If you double your population in ten years and don't build any new power plants the you deserve to do without power. What right do you have to expect some other state to shoulder the responsibility for your negligence.
Did you read the article? It actually allows you to use the windows version of the plugin with a Linux browser. If you can run WMP under Linux with wine then you should be able to use it as a browser plugin with this. At least till the next version of WMP when Microsoft will find some way to break the Wine compatability of WMP.
I agree whole heartedly. Of course even the real Theo can't be that dense about supporting business. In IT our job is to support the people who earn the money to pay our paychecks. As a general rule they are not stupid. They may not be too computer literate but they obviously have some skill that the company finds useful. We are viewed as a drain on resources by the number crunchers. Either implement solutions that the others can use easily and efficiently or be able to explain concisely and clearly why it is not possible at this time. If you treat them with contempt and don't try to make things easier for them, then one day they will come to the conclusion that there is no earthly reason for you to be on the payroll. You may be the best coder or admin in the world but if you don't work with them for the best possible solutions from their point of view then you aren't worth near as much as the less competent person that is willing to bend over backward to help.
Did you perhaps see the part where he says "Next Week Why OpenBSD Is More Secure Than Linux". I think you might have waited until after you could evaluate what he said for the other side.
I don't usually flame people but I can't resist this one.
This is so full of crap I almost don't know where to begin. The possible performance increase you might see in the future from using the P4 is offset by the fact that it costs more know and doesn't perform as well. In the future that you are looking at the Sledgehammer will make a much nicer desktop processor than either of those chips. Get the best performance you can afford know and upgrade as necessary. If you really need the best performance you use what is best at the time of purchase and upgrade when there is a significant improvement by changing. You don't buy the slower now and pray for miracles.
As far as OS's go, that is what truly gave away the fact that you are a troll. SMP support in Linux and W2k is more than adequate for any purpose your limited brain can come up with. Especially since SMP performance is determined as much by the app as by the OS and the current crop of apps could all stand a little work in that area. There is also the fact that the Palimino chip cans use 3Dnow and Screamin Sindie instructions if I remember correctly.
You buy your P4. I'll spend the same amount on an Athlon system and spend the difference in price on RAM. My system will smoke yours now and even at the end of there useful lifespans there won't be an appreciable difference in performance over the range of apps most people use. I'll still beat you on everything except games and graphic apps.
Nope, it didn't require Congress. The FCC made it a regulation with the full force of law. Not one person that is accountable to the public had anything to do with it. The FCC has forgotten that they are supposed to represent the people of the United States. Legally corps are people but the rights of 40 to 50 corps should not outweigh the rights of the other 270 million of us. Especially when the FCC took away a right that the Supreme Court said that we have. They took away the right to time shift programs.
Wrong. The monitor companies have been talking about implementing this for a while now. Too bad most of you don't pay any attention to these things until it is too late to stop them. Did any of you let the FCC know how displeased you were when they mandated that new HDTV equipment be equiped with copy prevention devices. How many of you have written your Congressman demanding that they start defending your rights. I'm an American but almost ashamed to admit it. Washington, Jefferson, and Franklin would commit suicide if they were alive to see what a bunch of whiny, spineless, spoiled rotten brats they left their legacy to. Grow up and start excersizing some of the power of the people or get the kind of government you deserve. You would be amazed at how fast Congress will change its tune if people will actually start holding them accountable for how they vote. I saw one guy talking about how Hatch was his Senator. Well buddy if you didn't like the DMCA are you going to vote for him at re-election time. My bet is probably you will because you know his name. If they vote wrong get them out of officeBoucher is my Congressman. I think he at least tries to understand the issues. So I will vote for him. However, the Senate members from Va. happen to be a bunch of clueless losers and I wouldn't vote for any of them for the job of dogcatcher. The funny part is I'm Republican, Boucher is Democrat, and the Senate members are both Republican if I remember correctly.
It'll be a cold day in hell when I order a book from Amazon.