Uh... You might want to check out the architechture spec on the AMD64 IA. It's not got ANY 16-bit or 8-bit backwards x86 compatibility.
yeah, i've got the AMD programming manuals buried here somewhere. in the 64-bit "long mode", 16-bit operations are illegal. however, it initializes in 16-bit mode, and all 16-bit instructions are valid instructions at that point.
16-bit instructions only become illegal in 64-bit "long mode." please make sure you remember to clarify that point in the future.
i play any game on a paddle for more than an hour and my thumbs start giving out. that's why i prefer the mouse/keyboard combo over joysticks/joypads/paddles. at least with a keyboard i don't use my thumbs for much other than the space bar.:)
while that's true, i was stating my position on the matter. i will call it spyware. that is my right. i'm also fed up with finding copies of GAIN on my system with no audit trail as to what installed it to begin with.
i'm mad. i WANT them to come for me. i WANT to put those fuckers in their place.
i want to put up one big sign that says, "come get me fuckers!" i don't care. i've got nothing to lose - except their fucking software.
it's all the same damn fucking piece of shit to me.
if Adaware picks it up, it's spyware. if it tracks what i do or what ads i click on, it's spyware. if it's on my computer and i don't know or don't want it there, it's spyware.
Gator corp can kiss my big fat hairy ass.
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does anyone know if there's an interface i can use to write a ext3 driver?:)
i'd say probably not.
it's annoying enough that most businesses in my area (Idaho, though i'm sure it's likewise elsewhere) will only hire you if you're bilingual - but in that sense, only if you speak spanish and english.
so learning Japanese (very fun) is completely useless to me in my state, and to get any use out of the language, i have to move further west (until i'm in the east, most likely).
and learning esperanto? sorry. i'm working on learning two other artificials already: D'ni and Quenya. just for fun.
he didn't just spoof "a from: header". he spoofed several from: addresses, including an FBI address, and send hundreds of thousands of rather offensive emails, including one with the subject "EAT SHIT AND DIE".
yeah, i say let him rot. 400+ years is a bit much, but let him rot anyway.
i'll go out and buy that AmigaOne right now. That way i can have all my favorite linux software, MacOS and MacOS X stuff, and other toys without worries.
key word here: THEY have the OPTION of allowing users to turn it off. that doesn't necessarily mean that they're going to give YOU the option to turn it off. watch the grammar and choice of words there.
really, this is going to continue unles they can fix the net code. after i was told how easy it was to dupe gold, i said, "shit, that's easy to fix."
really, i don't understand why they don't fix it. whether they see it as being hard or not, it should be fixed. immediately. otherwise, the unbalanced economy will simply destroy the game beyond where it has gone already.
i'm a big fan of Legend of the Red Dragon and Trade Wars 2002. google either name (or their acronyms as in the subject) and you're sure to get a list of some of them. although i've been seeing most here pointing out D&D MUDs, LORD has a lot of D&D-like aspects, but TW2002 is a more sci-fi game.
i haven't looked too much into DX9, but historically (right up through DX8), the interfaces DirectX provides are convoluted and difficult to use. in fact, initialization for DirectX (in DX8) took over 800 lines of C++, IIRC.
by contrast, OpenGL only requires about 100 lines of C.
and that's just for initialization. DirectX has other issues, such as its coordinate system (opposite that of OpenGL) and its matrix system (transposed from that of OpenGL), which make it very difficult to write code that uses both APIs. and added to that, DirectX is a class system inherited from the MFC. i don't know about you, but IMHO, MFC is a pretty badly-botched job.
honestly, i don't see why anyone writes even one line of DirectX code. it's too messy.
Yes, it's free. Yes it'll run on any machine you own. Afterall, if you're a gamer, you have Windows installed. Pointless and stupid? DirectX is behind just about every successful PC game out there.
i can't speak for other platforms, but on x86, such protection does exist, but OS designers seem lax in implementing it.
there are two registers on the x86 that point to segment descriptor lists that define how a memory segment is treated: read-only, write-only, executeable, etc.
but to maintain compatibility with other platforms, paging is often used instead, since it is available across all platforms.
so in answer of your question, it's both poor software and poor hardware, IMHO, and it is possible to prevent at some level. the problem is simply the fact that segmentation and memory space separation on x86 is far underutilized. ideally, the data segment exists entirely outside the code segment without execute permission.
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yeah, i've got the AMD programming manuals buried here somewhere. in the 64-bit "long mode", 16-bit operations are illegal. however, it initializes in 16-bit mode, and all 16-bit instructions are valid instructions at that point.
16-bit instructions only become illegal in 64-bit "long mode." please make sure you remember to clarify that point in the future.
screw those Psychology and Pholosophy freaks.
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it think more has been done and more points discussed in these few hours than all those quacks have "accomplished" in the last 50 years.
thank God for
that'd be kinda hard since it happened SIX YEARS AGO in June.
at least, that's why i call it.
:)
i play any game on a paddle for more than an hour and my thumbs start giving out. that's why i prefer the mouse/keyboard combo over joysticks/joypads/paddles. at least with a keyboard i don't use my thumbs for much other than the space bar.
while that's true, i was stating my position on the matter. i will call it spyware. that is my right. i'm also fed up with finding copies of GAIN on my system with no audit trail as to what installed it to begin with.
i'm mad. i WANT them to come for me. i WANT to put those fuckers in their place.
i want to put up one big sign that says, "come get me fuckers!" i don't care. i've got nothing to lose - except their fucking software.
if Adaware picks it up, it's spyware. if it tracks what i do or what ads i click on, it's spyware. if it's on my computer and i don't know or don't want it there, it's spyware.
Gator corp can kiss my big fat hairy ass.
does anyone know if there's an interface i can use to write a ext3 driver? :)
i'd say probably not. it's annoying enough that most businesses in my area (Idaho, though i'm sure it's likewise elsewhere) will only hire you if you're bilingual - but in that sense, only if you speak spanish and english. so learning Japanese (very fun) is completely useless to me in my state, and to get any use out of the language, i have to move further west (until i'm in the east, most likely). and learning esperanto? sorry. i'm working on learning two other artificials already: D'ni and Quenya. just for fun.
and i am one such fellow. (although, i will admit it was a 6510...)
he didn't just spoof "a from: header". he spoofed several from: addresses, including an FBI address, and send hundreds of thousands of rather offensive emails, including one with the subject "EAT SHIT AND DIE".
yeah, i say let him rot. 400+ years is a bit much, but let him rot anyway.
from what i understand they license their BIOS from... oh, oops. guess who?
phoenix.
Amiga, here i come!
key word here: THEY have the OPTION of allowing users to turn it off. that doesn't necessarily mean that they're going to give YOU the option to turn it off. watch the grammar and choice of words there.
they're not cube shaped, per se, but don't they do that already?
will not.
how can i say that with such certainty?
I'M THE ONLY ONE, DAMNIT
really, i don't understand why they don't fix it. whether they see it as being hard or not, it should be fixed. immediately. otherwise, the unbalanced economy will simply destroy the game beyond where it has gone already.
since when has ATi had good linux drivers?
big deal. it's only $30/year. cancel one of your magazine subscriptions if you can't afford it.
i'm a big fan of Legend of the Red Dragon and Trade Wars 2002. google either name (or their acronyms as in the subject) and you're sure to get a list of some of them. although i've been seeing most here pointing out D&D MUDs, LORD has a lot of D&D-like aspects, but TW2002 is a more sci-fi game.
my problem is that i needed a good compiler for win32. IFC is non-free. it costs lots of money. i don't use it any more.
IFC is ideal, but it is harder to deal with than G77.
IMHO, G77 is the better of the two, but i just flat out hate fortran as it is.
i haven't looked too much into DX9, but historically (right up through DX8), the interfaces DirectX provides are convoluted and difficult to use. in fact, initialization for DirectX (in DX8) took over 800 lines of C++, IIRC.
by contrast, OpenGL only requires about 100 lines of C.
and that's just for initialization. DirectX has other issues, such as its coordinate system (opposite that of OpenGL) and its matrix system (transposed from that of OpenGL), which make it very difficult to write code that uses both APIs. and added to that, DirectX is a class system inherited from the MFC. i don't know about you, but IMHO, MFC is a pretty badly-botched job.
honestly, i don't see why anyone writes even one line of DirectX code. it's too messy.
ehm... NeverWinter Nights.
i don't know if anyone noticed, but this particular Compaq article was originally posted in October of 2001, and modified again a year later.
:)
i'm sure someone hadn't seen it yet, but i saw it way back in 2001.
i can't speak for other platforms, but on x86, such protection does exist, but OS designers seem lax in implementing it.
there are two registers on the x86 that point to segment descriptor lists that define how a memory segment is treated: read-only, write-only, executeable, etc.
but to maintain compatibility with other platforms, paging is often used instead, since it is available across all platforms.
so in answer of your question, it's both poor software and poor hardware, IMHO, and it is possible to prevent at some level. the problem is simply the fact that segmentation and memory space separation on x86 is far underutilized. ideally, the data segment exists entirely outside the code segment without execute permission.
try going to ISO for their Fortran specs.
45 swiss francs?!?! FOR A PDF?