Ok, its for emulation, but it Doesnt Just speed emulation. This allows for instruction ROLLBACK. Want a journeling filesystem? How about a journeling processor? The patent is for a co-processing unit that not Only translates an foreign instruction set into native instructions for a 'target processor', But, acts as a go-between for that target processor and memory. It stores the processor state, and buffers any memory writes, until it is certain that a group of instructions has been run without exception or error... If the translated instructions crash, no damage is done. Not only is this amazing overall, but it allows for Very speculative, and Very fast, instruction translation and branch prediction...
Considering the editors had to screw with this several times, and they are probably mindless M$ using people, I doubt abe had a choice.. even if he sent it raw text they prolly converted it... maybe without even meaning to. also, can someone find the link that his editors removed? i imaging that i dont want to take a personal machien to the site, due to his security mention, but still...
how about either making a slashbox for it - or putting it in a larger section to the left, whith a blurb afterwards indicating what episode is out... left side is tight thought, right side slashbox with a run-down of latest available would be great... anyone at thesynch do transscription? - i know i enjoy slashdot extreemly, am here all the time, and love geeks in space - but due to the nature of my temporary cube-dwelling life, speakers are a no-no... the systems Dont Even Have sound cards.. i could read transcriptions if they were available... hrm. this hits on something else... MP3s can encode song titles and such... could a moded version of the format have the equive of a closed-captioning ability? thus, people without sound in thier hardware, or wetware, would be able to Read the lyrics of an MP3... also, since MP3 is actually an audio layer used in video encoding, media players could be created with a closed captioning ability automatically... someone would still need to do the transcription... but why keep it seperate?
Phone answerering people, legal, and accountaing are all already budgeted for and being handled - outsourced. legal firm and accountant on retainer to do the normal things such as handle payroll and look over contracts. We will need management once the project gets bigger, but the project will never get bigger unless it is sucsessfull... I will, however, take your advice and ask Talon for some advice and opinions... We've tried to think of everything, but thats just not possible... I more then appreciate the concern, thank you for the sugestions - hopefully with some advice we'll be able to work things out.
When the road gets rocky, when you see things being done wrong - in your workplace, in buisness, etc, there are 4 things you can do about it: 1) accept it 2) complain about it 3) reject it (leave, have nothing to do with it), possibly find someplace else where things are done right. 4) fix it
The author doesnt do number 1, as many game developers have. He instead does 2 and 3.
I'm doing number 4... several other developers and I, with great creative talent, etc, are founding our own game company. No CEO. No managers, ecept ourselves. We have artists, modlers, programmers, and more. Getting funding will not be easy because we dont have any non-technical staff, and our buisness model has been called 'crazy', and 'revolutionary' because of our staff structure, but at least we're trying #4...
T, maybe if things pick up for us we'll give you a call...
Also, with some open source projects going on now, engine design is being removed from game design... For example, our first product is utilizing the CrystalSpace 3d rendering engine, an open source quake/halflife type engine. We're adding things to it, yes, but with foundations like it in place, it will be easier to reuse tools just like producers and other industries do...
Also, while I'm here, anyone in the audience know where some Free, or cheap, marketing analysis type stuff for the game industry exists? The buis plan we have needs more concrete numbers, and we dont want to pay 4k for a basic industry report...
And thus we are lead to find a new aproach...
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When the road gets rocky, when you see things being done wrong - in your workplace, in buisness, etc, there are 4 things you can do about it: 1) accept it 2) complain about it 3) reject it (leave, have nothing to do with it), possibly find someplace else where things are done right. 4) fix it
The author doesnt do number 1, as many game developers have. He instead does 2 and 3.
I'm doing number 4... several other developers and I, with great creative talent, etc, are founding our own game company. No CEO. No managers, ecept ourselves. We have artists, modlers, programmers, and more. Getting funding will not be easy because we dont have any non-technical staff, and our buisness model has been called 'crazy', and 'revolutionary' because of our staff structure, but at least we're trying #4...
T, maybe if things pick up for us we'll give you a call...
Also, with some open source projects going on now, engine design is being removed from game design... For example, our first product is utilizing the CrystalSpace 3d rendering engine, an open source quake/halflife type engine. We're adding things to it, yes, but with foundations like it in place, it will be easier to reuse tools just like producers and other industries do...
Also, while I'm here, anyone in the audience know where some Free, or cheap, marketing analysis type stuff for the game industry exists? The buis plan we have needs more concrete numbers, and we dont want to pay 4k for a basic industry report...
I can still get a good price on books there, and thier selection is still good - so why should I care if they sell other products too? Especialy since I might, on some rare occasion, buy one of thier other products as a present for a friend or relative. Heck, I already buy a Lot of music from amazon - stuff that I cant find in local stores. Same with books... Selection + price = good deal. nuff said. I'm not giving a place money based upon its attitude, I'm giving it money in exchange for goods.
Plutonium isnt usually used in nuclear reactors, they prolly used uranium, or any other handy super-heavy element with radioactive tendancies...
The article does not describe what Kind of nuclear reactor they created - and with the time-frame of one-day, is was obviously a relatively small one. A small reactor isnt a danger, except in the local sense of radiation if it isnt properly sealed - this wasnt a water-cooled radioactive steam-releasing monster like chernobyl or anything - they didnt have time to build a water cooled reactor - which again, points to the reactor being very small...
What about doing some sort of remote boot over the network, they grab the kernel and all other core os components off a nfs server, which you keep up-to-date, let them then mount and use thier local filesystem at thier own risk, and any services they want to run that you arent maintaining on the nfs server would be have to be local... So anything you have security concerns, you load and run remote, even keep the conf files for said services and such remote... in an educational environ it will be hard to get anything approaching this implemented, due to user`s 'rights' and 'academic freedom' - I had to deal with this constantly when i worked at a college...
The comercials for this chip seem to point at it being better for web-based multimedia... Eh? wasnt microsoft going to push some web based multimedia technology, called 'Chrome' - and then dropped it due to lack of interest? the p3`s only saving grace will come Later this year when the 820 mb chipset arrives and pushes the bus speed upto 133mhz and allows for r-dimms... until then, its a piece of junk.. a p2 'overdrive' for all intents and purposes... or maybe closer to a 166mhz pentium MMX, as compared to a straight 166mhz pentium. It is Dumb, in other words, for intel to be releasing and hyping this chip without the supporting technologies to increase a systems performance... they're releasing the p3 early, apparently because of amd, but without the 820 chipset al they are doing is embarasing themselves...
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Ok, its for emulation, but it Doesnt Just speed emulation. This allows for instruction ROLLBACK. Want a journeling filesystem? How about a journeling processor?
The patent is for a co-processing unit that not Only translates an foreign instruction set into native instructions for a 'target processor', But, acts as a go-between for that target processor and memory. It stores the processor state, and buffers any memory writes, until it is certain that a group of instructions has been run without exception or error... If the translated instructions crash, no damage is done. Not only is this amazing overall, but it allows for Very speculative, and Very fast, instruction translation and branch prediction...
Considering the editors had to screw with this several times, and they are probably mindless M$ using people, I doubt abe had a choice.. even if he sent it raw text they prolly converted it... maybe without even meaning to.
also, can someone find the link that his editors removed? i imaging that i dont want to take a personal machien to the site, due to his security mention, but still...
how about either making a slashbox for it - or putting it in a larger section to the left, whith a blurb afterwards indicating what episode is out... left side is tight thought, right side slashbox with a run-down of latest available would be great...
anyone at thesynch do transscription? - i know i enjoy slashdot extreemly, am here all the time, and love geeks in space - but due to the nature of my temporary cube-dwelling life, speakers are a no-no... the systems Dont Even Have sound cards..
i could read transcriptions if they were available...
hrm.
this hits on something else... MP3s can encode song titles and such... could a moded version of the format have the equive of a closed-captioning ability? thus, people without sound in thier hardware, or wetware, would be able to Read the lyrics of an MP3... also, since MP3 is actually an audio layer used in video encoding, media players could be created with a closed captioning ability automatically...
someone would still need to do the transcription... but why keep it seperate?
Phone answerering people, legal, and accountaing are all already budgeted for and being handled - outsourced. legal firm and accountant on retainer to do the normal things such as handle payroll and look over contracts. We will need management once the project gets bigger, but the project will never get bigger unless it is sucsessfull...
I will, however, take your advice and ask Talon for some advice and opinions... We've tried to think of everything, but thats just not possible... I more then appreciate the concern, thank you for the sugestions - hopefully with some advice we'll be able to work things out.
When the road gets rocky, when you see things being done wrong - in your workplace, in buisness, etc, there are 4 things you can do about it:
1) accept it
2) complain about it
3) reject it (leave, have nothing to do with it),
possibly find someplace else where things are done right.
4) fix it
The author doesnt do number 1, as many game developers have. He instead does 2 and 3.
I'm doing number 4... several other developers and I, with great creative talent, etc, are founding our own game company. No CEO. No managers, ecept ourselves. We have artists, modlers, programmers, and more. Getting funding will not be easy because we dont have any non-technical staff, and our buisness model has been called 'crazy', and 'revolutionary' because of our staff structure, but at least we're trying #4...
T, maybe if things pick up for us we'll give you a call...
Also, with some open source projects going on now, engine design is being removed from game design...
For example, our first product is utilizing the CrystalSpace 3d rendering engine, an open source quake/halflife type engine. We're adding things to it, yes, but with foundations like it in place, it will be easier to reuse tools just like producers and other industries do...
Also, while I'm here, anyone in the audience know where some Free, or cheap, marketing analysis type stuff for the game industry exists? The buis plan we have needs more concrete numbers, and we dont want to pay 4k for a basic industry report...
When the road gets rocky, when you see things being done wrong - in your workplace, in buisness, etc, there are 4 things you can do about it:
1) accept it
2) complain about it
3) reject it (leave, have nothing to do with it),
possibly find someplace else where things are done right.
4) fix it
The author doesnt do number 1, as many game developers have. He instead does 2 and 3.
I'm doing number 4... several other developers and I, with great creative talent, etc, are founding our own game company. No CEO. No managers, ecept ourselves. We have artists, modlers, programmers, and more. Getting funding will not be easy because we dont have any non-technical staff, and our buisness model has been called 'crazy', and 'revolutionary' because of our staff structure, but at least we're trying #4...
T, maybe if things pick up for us we'll give you a call...
Also, with some open source projects going on now, engine design is being removed from game design...
For example, our first product is utilizing the CrystalSpace 3d rendering engine, an open source quake/halflife type engine. We're adding things to it, yes, but with foundations like it in place, it will be easier to reuse tools just like producers and other industries do...
Also, while I'm here, anyone in the audience know where some Free, or cheap, marketing analysis type stuff for the game industry exists? The buis plan we have needs more concrete numbers, and we dont want to pay 4k for a basic industry report...
I can still get a good price on books there, and thier selection is still good - so why should I care if they sell other products too? Especialy since I might, on some rare occasion, buy one of thier other products as a present for a friend or relative. Heck, I already buy a Lot of music from amazon - stuff that I cant find in local stores. Same with books... Selection + price = good deal. nuff said. I'm not giving a place money based upon its attitude, I'm giving it money in exchange for goods.
Plutonium isnt usually used in nuclear reactors, they prolly used uranium, or any other handy super-heavy element with radioactive tendancies...
The article does not describe what Kind of nuclear reactor they created - and with the time-frame of one-day, is was obviously a relatively small one. A small reactor isnt a danger, except in the local sense of radiation if it isnt properly sealed - this wasnt a water-cooled radioactive steam-releasing monster like chernobyl or anything - they didnt have time to build a water cooled reactor - which again, points to the reactor being very small...
What about doing some sort of remote boot over the network, they grab the kernel and all other core os components off a nfs server, which you keep up-to-date, let them then mount and use thier local filesystem at thier own risk, and any services they want to run that you arent maintaining on the nfs server would be have to be local... So anything you have security concerns, you load and run remote, even keep the conf files for said services and such remote...
in an educational environ it will be hard to get anything approaching this implemented, due to user`s 'rights' and 'academic freedom' - I had to deal with this constantly when i worked at a college...
The comercials for this chip seem to point at it being better for web-based multimedia...
Eh? wasnt microsoft going to push some web based multimedia technology, called 'Chrome' - and then dropped it due to lack of interest? the p3`s only saving grace will come Later this year when the 820 mb chipset arrives and pushes the bus speed upto 133mhz and allows for r-dimms... until then, its a piece of junk.. a p2 'overdrive' for all intents and purposes... or maybe closer to a 166mhz pentium MMX, as compared to a straight 166mhz pentium. It is Dumb, in other words, for intel to be releasing and hyping this chip without the supporting technologies to increase a systems performance... they're releasing the p3 early, apparently because of amd, but without the 820 chipset al they are doing is embarasing themselves...