BTW the official theory is that the asteroid consisted of nothing but water, it flew down to close to the surface, and then it exploded. Thats as difficult to believe as the Tesla theory imo.
.. Kind of like when Russ was stuck in the backyard in Honey, I Shrunk The Kids and they were running away from the water asteroids pouring down and exploding all around them.:P
First, let me begin by stating that I have no direct experience with HURD, and know very little about its device driver handling.
From a purely logical standpoint, looking at how HURD positions itself internally, I don't think it would be too far-fetched to think that since the user-level has more access/control over the system than with the Linux kernel. It's quite possible that HURD may be providing the necessary hooks that can remove itself from the equation of kernel-integral drivers.
IANAVP (... videophile), but I think presently the big downfall to the (ANALOG) laserdisc format is its direct encoding of composite video. The signal has been succeeded by S-Video, which offers unique channels for chrominance and luminance, and more recently component video, taking things further with multiple luminance-to-color based channels.
You can argue that a laserdisc only has 480 horizontal lines, compared to a standard 525 lines for DVD (it supports more using various techniques, but most movies still even only use 480). Yes, there are laserdisc players with S-Video out--these are nothing more than filters. You cannot get around the fact that the video is stored as a true composite signal on the disc. Inversely, you cannot get around the fact that a DVD, being compressed, will have artifacting--you may even be able to argue that this artifacting hurts the luminance quality more so than being limited to a composite signal (I would wager that in this scenario, component video would only serve to remind you further of the artifacts!).
So what's the real issue here? Don't get me wrong, I find everything about the LaserDisc to be very ingenious, but the fact is: I don't have to get my lazy ass off the couch, or potentially ruin a special 'moment' (either with myself or someone else;)) to swap discs with DVD.;)
0.001% of species on this planet are in danger. Of that, 0.001% of which we may be directly responsible for.
"Would it not also be true that if someone murders you, oh well? You just
weren't able to adapt properly to the fact that someone was out to kill you. You lost
the "struggle" and, thus, deserved to die."
Out of context. There aren't many things that "deserve" to die, however everything else you stated is correct. If someone attempts to murder me, and I am unable to adapt and defend myself, I will die. I was not strong enough/smart enough to defend myself within the environment dictated, which evidently, as you make it seem, is an environment of murderers (we are talking species branches, not individuals). In this situation, it would take a person much stronger/smarter than me to overcome them and survive. That person will survive and breed. This is darwinistic evolution in its simplest form. Thank you for backing up my statement with a reasonable analogy. (though I would imagine that much of the general human ego may find the analogy of this paragraph tough to swallow, while the intellect will easily its logic.)
If we cryogenically save some of "the green ants that breathe dishwater," and for some reason all of the dishwater on the planet has evaporated, where do we expect to place these green ants after we revive them? They will only survive where we artificially create an environment for which they may survive... I.E. A zoo. Oh, put the ants back from whence they came, you say? OK. Let's revert their previous habitat back, restoring the dishwater --- oh! Look at that. We just killed off the species that evolved over the green ants to begin with. We have effectively stunted the natural evolution of the superior branch of the "green ants."
> Intel will NOT be putting the RF into their CPU in our lifetimes.
On what basis can you make that claim?
On the fact that there are several system-on-chip designs out there already?
Or maybe the fact that there are already single-chip RF ICs?
Why do you suppose they couldn't be integrated?
Give it another 6 years and we'll have Pentium 8 system-on-chip, always connected to the Internet and wireless LAN, 1gb RAM, 60gb storage, multimedia-station-in-your-pocket that will blast DooM 5 directly into your retina at 60fps. Oh, and the entire thing will be the size of a silver dollar that clips onto your shirt collar and will come as a prize cereal boxes. (okay, maybe not that quite yet.)
In review, do you perhaps feel a little premature in making such a claim?
Has anyone ever stopped to consider whether a dying species is dying for a reason? That reason being their inability to adapt to their environmental changes?
This is the cold hand of evolution, showing no favorites, holding no hands of the children.
What makes them think that a species they save now (cryogenically or not), would be able to survive in a climate N years from now, possibly one that is much more hostile?
Oh, so they want us to save these creatures so we can do what with them then? Release them into futuristic zoos, for the public to peruse en masse?
This is not a viable solution.
Sounds like Federal "Pound-Me-In-The-Ass" Prison
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So you're telling me that Napster wants *me* to *pay them* to use *my bandwidth* so that they can sell *my content* to other users?
I bet I would be fucked more gently by those "MAKEMONEYFA$$$T" pricks.
Would you choose the Americans if one of them included your son? Daughter? Parents? Significant-Other? The children playing at the park?
If not.. where would you draw the line? Are you now a judge on which Americans are fit for your ideological utopian world?
We are modifying nature, but there is nothing more resilient than nature itself. If it doesn't want to be modified, it won't let it happen. We are forcing it to breed creatures that aren't easily hunted by us, and some possibly quite dangerous to us.
Killing 250m Americans to save a tiger is not the answer. We can't fix nature with science. We fix nature by letting it fix itself, in due time.
This would be an interesting project. What if you had an AM (is there such? I know of FM) tuner card, captured it, and rebuilt bits out of the modulation?
Hydrogen cells are not any more dangerous/messy than the conventional LiIon/NiMH/NiCad bateries we're used to.
You will have a laptop that is hydrogen/miniturbine-enabled. What happens when your batteries run low? There's not going to be a 'gas tank,' there will be a regular battery-sized pocket that is removed/replaced. Snap one fuel cell out, snap another fuel cell in. No mess, no danger.
If you were in an 800 degree fire, would you rather have the laptop with the LiIon or the hydrogen cell? You know what? It doesn't matter, you're dead anyway!
What happens when you through away a traditional battery? What would happen when you throw away the hydrogen cell? It would be a lot easier/safer for the hydrogen cell to leak itself empty than the conventional battery.
Who cares if you can run Max Payne in 2048x1600 at 100fps? Nobody, that's not the point. Faster hardware begats more advanced calculation in software begats faster hardware. There's nothing new here, and I don't see how you can NOT understand that.
They are designing Doom 3 to run at about 30fps on a GeForce 3. 30fps is "low" compared to what we're running todays games at with a high-end card, so I would consider this the perfect Doom 3 card.
You're placing blame on the wrong people here. Don't blame the hardware people for making their hardware "too good," blame the software people for not taking advantage of that hardware as they could.
This is the effect of mainstream users/computing watering down the arena. "Why make a game that takes advantage of a GeForce 4? No one has a GeForce 4. Instead, let's make a game that runs at 30fps on a 400MHz Celeron and a TNT 2 -- it's a larger consumer market." -- this is a simple fact of a market going mainstream.
Nothing new here, so I say buy your GeForce 4, buy Doom 3, and support the true advancement of 3D gaming and technology.
"I've had to buy some CDs twice (and #$Y&^@ Tidal by Fiona Apple FOUR times)"
"More than once I've sent a song to a friend in e-mail"
"And do you know what? I don't feel guilty about doing it."
You should feel guilty. Haven't you heard of FDSFFAS?
By the way. I am a programmer and I have little to no confidence in my time-estimation abilities, or anyone elses. It has taken me 14 years to come to grips with that.
"We've seen more than once, a customer coming back with what he said was a defective AMD CPU, and when we check the CPU, we could see the adhesive barcode that we put on the underside of each, partially burned out !"
Not that I'm taking sides, but have you bothered to check if the *working* AMD chips (and Intel chips) are burning their adhesive out also? It sounds like you're using regular barcode stickers, and personally I doubt that they can even survive a cool CPU for any extended period of time.
.. You have one guy that's broken a dozen CPUs and he still works there? How much CPUs has he damaged that you don't know about?.. are these the same ones your customers are returning?:P
"And, as has happened before, the internet community, strongly committed to free software, put things to work, which were not completed in the commercial field. At the end of last year an Italian programmers' team got hold of the US version of N64 and a SGI Indy, including the N64 card. Thus the team ported Linux/Mips to the play station. Linux/Mips originally had been initiated by the music company Waldorf (see iX 2/96) and, since the beginning of 1996, has been ready-to-run on R4x00 CPUs.
The main difficulties, according to the Italians, were caused by the port of the X Window System to the N64 I/O hardware. At first they ported the output routines to the dedicated co-processors. Although N64-X11 is not yet really stable, legendary 500000 XStones have been reached so far - running on an ordinary TV set, driven by high frequency signals. Of course, the quality of the picture is much better, if an AV cable and a high-quality monitor are used."
(Read the article for the rest..)
This thing needs to be a PDA also. What CPU does it use?
Make that screen a little bigger, a touch screen. Add the Newton OS..
Fitness freaks look out. Not only does it manage your workout, but it stores your workout music. Heck, you could make a fitness program that changes songs (faster or slower beat) for different parts of the workout.
*shrug*
I want one of these with a little better quality screen and a car docking-station with integrated GPS (into the car docking-station).
Linux, being free, wants to be free. Don't force people to buy it.
"The Sims" won't be free anytime soon, so here is my humble idea for making this successful:
They create a 'standard' game/application management and installer program for these type of applications. The entire package as a whole can be compatible with the standard add/remove for a distro, but to control the contents requires using its own tools.
They distribute the application manager/control panel part for free, and keep it opensource. An installer kit is developed *specifically* for installing these type of packages, which is also kept open. Anyone can go out and buy a game, get it to work, and create an 'installer' and distribute this freely to whomever they want.
License "The Sims" from Maxis for a reduced cost - 30-50% of MSRP. Include a single "Transgaming Kit," either in the box for The Sims or as an extra shrink-wrapped CD + manual on the outside (think magazines that come in plastic bags with posters and CDs) - the kit contains a distro, packages to install their application/game management on any of the popular distros, and the installer to install "The Sims" into their application/game management system. They sell this for the regular cost for The Sims +10-20%.
What if you already own The Sims? IANAL, but you shouldn't have to purchase it again. You download the toolkit for free, and if someone has freely released an installer for The Sims, you're in luck -- for free. If there isn't, or you don't want to go through the trouble, you go to their web site and pay them.. $4.95 - $9.95? You receive two things: the installer for The Sims and a coupon for $2.95 - $8.95 off your next purchase of a full-packaged game from TransGaming -- the goal being that if you do purchase another game from them, that installer kit download ultimately only cost you $2 - $3.
This will encourage repeat business and allow them to recover some logistical/management costs without stifling the freedom of free software.
Many gamers use Linux at work, at home, but don't use it for games because it often won't run the games we want to play. If I were to pick up a game, and TransGaming could atleast compete in price for these new releases, I would purchase from them *just to support the cause* - regardless of whether I planned to play it on Linux. Why not? Their price competes. They get to keep things flowing. I get the same package either way, but now I also get the kit that will allow me to easily play it in Linux without killing myself.
..
But please, do not sell full-priced distributions with every copy of a game that you release. You're only doing this to justify the cost, not as a true value-add. How many of us are going to dump our current setup just to install that special gaming edition distro? 5%? How much of that full price are you trying to justify as being for "that special gaming distro?" 50%?
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Not much more needs to be said. PDA with this keyboard and the laser HUD retina display from this article in one unit -- THAT is the laptop for me. :P
First, let me begin by stating that I have no direct experience with HURD, and know very little about its device driver handling.
From a purely logical standpoint, looking at how HURD positions itself internally, I don't think it would be too far-fetched to think that since the user-level has more access/control over the system than with the Linux kernel. It's quite possible that HURD may be providing the necessary hooks that can remove itself from the equation of kernel-integral drivers.
Just thinking outloud.
.. while Clinton plays the saxamaphone.
You can argue that a laserdisc only has 480 horizontal lines, compared to a standard 525 lines for DVD (it supports more using various techniques, but most movies still even only use 480). Yes, there are laserdisc players with S-Video out--these are nothing more than filters. You cannot get around the fact that the video is stored as a true composite signal on the disc. Inversely, you cannot get around the fact that a DVD, being compressed, will have artifacting--you may even be able to argue that this artifacting hurts the luminance quality more so than being limited to a composite signal (I would wager that in this scenario, component video would only serve to remind you further of the artifacts!).
So what's the real issue here? Don't get me wrong, I find everything about the LaserDisc to be very ingenious, but the fact is: I don't have to get my lazy ass off the couch, or potentially ruin a special 'moment' (either with myself or someone else
Not getting into the audio differences. More information:
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LD vs CD under microscope
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Jason Fisher
Not if they use voice over IP over cellular. ;)
Man, imagine how cool it would be if we could actually TALK on our cell phones instead of type! I can't wait for 3G!
0.001% of species on this planet are in danger. Of that, 0.001% of which we may be directly responsible for.
Out of context. There aren't many things that "deserve" to die, however everything else you stated is correct. If someone attempts to murder me, and I am unable to adapt and defend myself, I will die. I was not strong enough/smart enough to defend myself within the environment dictated, which evidently, as you make it seem, is an environment of murderers (we are talking species branches, not individuals). In this situation, it would take a person much stronger/smarter than me to overcome them and survive. That person will survive and breed. This is darwinistic evolution in its simplest form. Thank you for backing up my statement with a reasonable analogy. (though I would imagine that much of the general human ego may find the analogy of this paragraph tough to swallow, while the intellect will easily its logic.)
If we cryogenically save some of "the green ants that breathe dishwater," and for some reason all of the dishwater on the planet has evaporated, where do we expect to place these green ants after we revive them? They will only survive where we artificially create an environment for which they may survive. .. I.E. A zoo. Oh, put the ants back from whence they came, you say? OK. Let's revert their previous habitat back, restoring the dishwater --- oh! Look at that. We just killed off the species that evolved over the green ants to begin with. We have effectively stunted the natural evolution of the superior branch of the "green ants."
> Intel will NOT be putting the RF into their CPU in our lifetimes.
On what basis can you make that claim?
On the fact that there are several system-on-chip designs out there already?
Or maybe the fact that there are already single-chip RF ICs?
Why do you suppose they couldn't be integrated?
Give it another 6 years and we'll have Pentium 8 system-on-chip, always connected to the Internet and wireless LAN, 1gb RAM, 60gb storage, multimedia-station-in-your-pocket that will blast DooM 5 directly into your retina at 60fps. Oh, and the entire thing will be the size of a silver dollar that clips onto your shirt collar and will come as a prize cereal boxes. (okay, maybe not that quite yet.)
In review, do you perhaps feel a little premature in making such a claim?
Jason
Has anyone ever stopped to consider whether a dying species is dying for a reason? That reason being their inability to adapt to their environmental changes?
This is the cold hand of evolution, showing no favorites, holding no hands of the children.
What makes them think that a species they save now (cryogenically or not), would be able to survive in a climate N years from now, possibly one that is much more hostile?
Oh, so they want us to save these creatures so we can do what with them then? Release them into futuristic zoos, for the public to peruse en masse?
This is not a viable solution.
So you're telling me that Napster wants *me* to *pay them* to use *my bandwidth* so that they can sell *my content* to other users?
I bet I would be fucked more gently by those "MAKEMONEYFA$$$T" pricks.
Just look at the pictures. ;)
Would you choose the Americans if one of them included your son? Daughter? Parents? Significant-Other? The children playing at the park?
.. where would you draw the line? Are you now a judge on which Americans are fit for your ideological utopian world?
If not
We are modifying nature, but there is nothing more resilient than nature itself. If it doesn't want to be modified, it won't let it happen. We are forcing it to breed creatures that aren't easily hunted by us, and some possibly quite dangerous to us.
Killing 250m Americans to save a tiger is not the answer. We can't fix nature with science. We fix nature by letting it fix itself, in due time.
This would be an interesting project. What if you had an AM (is there such? I know of FM) tuner card, captured it, and rebuilt bits out of the modulation?
Hydrogen cells are not any more dangerous/messy than the conventional LiIon/NiMH/NiCad bateries we're used to.
You will have a laptop that is hydrogen/miniturbine-enabled. What happens when your batteries run low? There's not going to be a 'gas tank,' there will be a regular battery-sized pocket that is removed/replaced. Snap one fuel cell out, snap another fuel cell in. No mess, no danger.
If you were in an 800 degree fire, would you rather have the laptop with the LiIon or the hydrogen cell? You know what? It doesn't matter, you're dead anyway!
What happens when you through away a traditional battery? What would happen when you throw away the hydrogen cell? It would be a lot easier/safer for the hydrogen cell to leak itself empty than the conventional battery.
Jason
What is 3D's next killer app? Simple.
Doom 3.
Who cares if you can run Max Payne in 2048x1600 at 100fps? Nobody, that's not the point. Faster hardware begats more advanced calculation in software begats faster hardware. There's nothing new here, and I don't see how you can NOT understand that.
They are designing Doom 3 to run at about 30fps on a GeForce 3. 30fps is "low" compared to what we're running todays games at with a high-end card, so I would consider this the perfect Doom 3 card.
You're placing blame on the wrong people here. Don't blame the hardware people for making their hardware "too good," blame the software people for not taking advantage of that hardware as they could.
This is the effect of mainstream users/computing watering down the arena. "Why make a game that takes advantage of a GeForce 4? No one has a GeForce 4. Instead, let's make a game that runs at 30fps on a 400MHz Celeron and a TNT 2 -- it's a larger consumer market." -- this is a simple fact of a market going mainstream.
Nothing new here, so I say buy your GeForce 4, buy Doom 3, and support the true advancement of 3D gaming and technology.
Jason
"I've had to buy some CDs twice (and #$Y&^@ Tidal by Fiona Apple FOUR times)"
:P !
"More than once I've sent a song to a friend in e-mail"
"And do you know what? I don't feel guilty about doing it."
You should feel guilty. Haven't you heard of FDSFFAS?
Friends Don't Send Friends Fiona Apple Spam.
:P?
By the way. I am a programmer and I have little to no confidence in my time-estimation abilities, or anyone elses. It has taken me 14 years to come to grips with that.
14 years? Is that your final answer?
Not that I'm taking sides, but have you bothered to check if the *working* AMD chips (and Intel chips) are burning their adhesive out also? It sounds like you're using regular barcode stickers, and personally I doubt that they can even survive a cool CPU for any extended period of time.
Jason
www.:P.com
I actually thought it looked more like a bending robot. An evil twin perhaps?
"And, as has happened before, the internet community, strongly committed to free software, put things to work, which were not completed in the commercial field. At the end of last year an Italian programmers' team got hold of the US version of N64 and a SGI Indy, including the N64 card. Thus the team ported Linux/Mips to the play station. Linux/Mips originally had been initiated by the music company Waldorf (see iX 2/96) and, since the beginning of 1996, has been ready-to-run on R4x00 CPUs.
The main difficulties, according to the Italians, were caused by the port of the X Window System to the N64 I/O hardware. At first they ported the output routines to the dedicated co-processors. Although N64-X11 is not yet really stable, legendary 500000 XStones have been reached so far - running on an ordinary TV set, driven by high frequency signals. Of course, the quality of the picture is much better, if an AV cable and a high-quality monitor are used." (Read the article for the rest..)
Easy.
/dev/cdrom now."
The install script will request "Please insert your Windows 95/98 CD into
.. and extract the necessary DLLs from the Windows setup CABs.
Jason
This thing needs to be a PDA also. What CPU does it use?
Make that screen a little bigger, a touch screen. Add the Newton OS..
Fitness freaks look out. Not only does it manage your workout, but it stores your workout music. Heck, you could make a fitness program that changes songs (faster or slower beat) for different parts of the workout.
*shrug*
I want one of these with a little better quality screen and a car docking-station with integrated GPS (into the car docking-station).
Jason
DOA means Dead On Arrival, right?
XMAME, XMESS, ZSNES, .. all definitely need to be ported to this thing.
:)
Please?
Jason
Linux, being free, wants to be free. Don't force people to buy it.
.. $4.95 - $9.95? You receive two things: the installer for The Sims and a coupon for $2.95 - $8.95 off your next purchase of a full-packaged game from TransGaming -- the goal being that if you do purchase another game from them, that installer kit download ultimately only cost you $2 - $3.
.. business major)
"The Sims" won't be free anytime soon, so here is my humble idea for making this successful:
They create a 'standard' game/application management and installer program for these type of applications. The entire package as a whole can be compatible with the standard add/remove for a distro, but to control the contents requires using its own tools.
They distribute the application manager/control panel part for free, and keep it opensource. An installer kit is developed *specifically* for installing these type of packages, which is also kept open. Anyone can go out and buy a game, get it to work, and create an 'installer' and distribute this freely to whomever they want.
License "The Sims" from Maxis for a reduced cost - 30-50% of MSRP. Include a single "Transgaming Kit," either in the box for The Sims or as an extra shrink-wrapped CD + manual on the outside (think magazines that come in plastic bags with posters and CDs) - the kit contains a distro, packages to install their application/game management on any of the popular distros, and the installer to install "The Sims" into their application/game management system. They sell this for the regular cost for The Sims +10-20%.
What if you already own The Sims? IANAL, but you shouldn't have to purchase it again. You download the toolkit for free, and if someone has freely released an installer for The Sims, you're in luck -- for free. If there isn't, or you don't want to go through the trouble, you go to their web site and pay them
This will encourage repeat business and allow them to recover some logistical/management costs without stifling the freedom of free software.
Many gamers use Linux at work, at home, but don't use it for games because it often won't run the games we want to play. If I were to pick up a game, and TransGaming could atleast compete in price for these new releases, I would purchase from them *just to support the cause* - regardless of whether I planned to play it on Linux. Why not? Their price competes. They get to keep things flowing. I get the same package either way, but now I also get the kit that will allow me to easily play it in Linux without killing myself.
..
But please, do not sell full-priced distributions with every copy of a game that you release. You're only doing this to justify the cost, not as a true value-add. How many of us are going to dump our current setup just to install that special gaming edition distro? 5%? How much of that full price are you trying to justify as being for "that special gaming distro?" 50%?
IANABM. (..
Good luck,
Jason