I would also like to say 'Eat shit' to all the bandwagoneers who said HURR THEY MUST HAVE BEEN CHEATING BIZZRD IS NEVAR WRONG!!!
Even though I can't stand WoW, I can't stand shameless corporate shills either. So it's a tossup. In this case, they were both wrong, so it's a win/win situation for me.
"Hi, we're going to just cut-paste from the article like we always do except we have the reading comprehension of an american highschool football player and can't even pick paragraphs that make sense."
Every day I'm reminded why I adblock and don't subscribe here. I can get URL Cut & Paste on IRC. And it's realtime.
er, how about just a 'signature', that's a uniqe server-side thing that comes from the account that 'signed' the object? No way to clone that.
Let's put it this way: A copied DaVinci looks nice, and lots of people pay a few grand to artists to reproduce one to exquisite detail. A VERY small handful of people pay a few million (or more) to own an authenticated original.
Actual scarsity in a digital environment. Only possible due to the server-side authentication of originals.
FFMpeg has reverse-engineered many of the proprietary codecs.
intel indeo1,2,3, Sorenson Video V1 and V3 (Sorenson is what people think of as "Quicktime"), WMV1/2/3 (windows medial player 7/8/9) to an extent. RealVideo RV10/RV20 (Not 30/40 yet)
Plus a crapload of others that I don't know how closed they are.
Add that to mplayer's thunking of win32 DLL files to play propretary codecs, and I can play video more reliably and with less work on linux/opensource then in XP Media Center.
+1 month before I think about subscribing. Seriously, what the fuck DO you do with subscription money? Use it to light cigars? Because you sure as hell don't use it to ACTUALLY LOOK AT THE SITE.
P.S. 5 minute recharge at some ungodly number of amps at an insane voltage. Um, yeah, that'll almost work, really.
And correct. If you're merely gifted, you can cope with the bullshit bureaucracy and ace tests to get through HS. If you're lucky and land in a good college that's test and performance based rather then an expensive babysitting service (attendance based bullshit in COLLEGE?) you can get through. If you're far beyond that, forget it. As a society, we need to recognize that the ultra-gifted ARE a scarce resource, and ending up suiciding or on welfare isn't a good use of them. We don't say "Oh well, that oil is underground, we'll just leave it there until it decides to be motivated enough to come to the surface, refine itself and pour itself into our gas tanks." Let them work in interesting fields. They're such a low percentage of the population that it won't cost us much, but the benefits are incredible.
You know, I liked that demotivator a LOT better before they bought the idea from the guy on the SA forums who came up with it. He used a full-frame image of fries, rich in detail in their trans-fat goodness. They picked out... a plain box on a plain background. BOOORRRRIIINNNG. Compare it to every other one of their posters, it's the most dull and un-inspired they have.
Wikipedia's stance of glorifying stupidity and refusing people who actually KNOW about topics was getting rather old. If I cared what my next-door neighbor thought of invasive species I'd ask them. When I check a resource online I expect to see facts, not 'oh, but we have to save the XXX' species of the week bullshit.
Nuclear power was mentioned earlier. It's amazing how many thousands of PHDs in nuclear physics, mechanical engineering, statistics and software there are on wikipedia weighing in their fully-researched opinion on the topic. Oh wait, they're not, it's just a bunch of soundbytes and knee-jerk reactions. On both sides.
If they get rid of the ban on original research and move it to 'must be peer-reviewed' that'd be excellent start.
No, because self-important idiots will call second-line tech support because their computer won't work when the power is out. You can sometimes get account-flagged to 'not a monkey', but that's rare.
The REALLY smart people at good companies are kept entirely anonymous, because they're the only ones that can fix the really tough problems, and you don't want random idiots calling them asking how to cut-and-paste.
Game Time Card/Code. 30 or 90 days of playtime. You can buy them for RL cash, then trade them for in-game cash. You can also sell them for RL cash, hence the $70,000+ valuation on ebay.
BPO is a monopoly on an in-game item. (Well, there's 12-20 BluePrint Originals for each rare item). You normally win them in the in-game lottery, and it's the gift that keeps on giving. For WoW players, it'd be like purples not dropping and only being available from 1 player crafter per shard.
Technically, it's competition in stealing from the artists since the RIAA members are the real music pirates. And no, that's not a tired meme. The tired line is "You're stealing from the ARTISTS!" when in fact that's not true. Being a musician means that you get jack shit and the industry makes a mil or so off you. Yeah, they "front the costs" of recording... through studios they own, so the inflated profits go right back to them. The numbers Sony/Universal et al give out are purely accounting magic to extract maximum percentage. Even a complete flop where the artist gets nothing? They make money on it. Risky business my ass.
Hell, according to the contracts iTunes is stealing more from artists then Kaaza ever did. Look at the percentage hit they take for a downloaded track vs. a physical album sale.
The non-routable is a killer. Protocol-level bridging, no off-site redundancy, strict dependancies on port location. No thanks, it's a toy protocol that may get some use in the home NAS market, but it was hell to implement a reliable setup in our lab under controlled conditions. I'd hate to have to deploy it 'for real'.
The only way to really do it is to purchase a dedicated Block Controller (spare ethernet card) and a dedicated Block Data Cable (Cat 5) and hook it up to a dedicated Block Device Multiplexer (switch). If you want a replacement for FibreChannel and are willing to live with the limits of direct local physical connections, it's useful.
Just have fun getting those frames into a xen/vmware virtual host from an external machine...
Yes, I would. If you guarantee a monopoly position for a single-source vendor, there's no incentive for them to make a competetive version at a competitive price. A much more responsible solution would be an OS that has a structured policy that only allows the domain administrator to authorize software execution. That way a company could decide if they wanted Visual Studio or Eclipse as their authorized development platform, and nothing else would work.
Of course, you have the problem of interpreted languages (macros), DHTML, java applets, etc etc. And you couldn't ever develop software for this OS, or even ON this OS.
Useful perhaps in a call center, but there's already solutions for that.
Yes, and don't use iTunes to avoid buying the album in the store, either. The artists get even LESS of a cut and the labels make even more profit off iTunes then they do off overpriced CDs.
Let's face it: The artists arn't getting paid shit. We know it, they know it, they'll admit it if they're not locked into indentured servitude. You're not stealing from the artists, that's the distributor's job. Want to compensate them for their effort? Send them some cash directly. Want to hear music? Just buy from allofmp3 or download torrents of the entire discography, then hit live concerts (just not freebie promotional tours).
Really, you can't abolish slavery because the stupid slaves would starve to death without their masters! Oh wait, that wasn't true then and it's not true now.
Now, the only way this would be interesting would be if the worm / virus / trojan installed the virtualization software, moved the existing OS to a virtual machine and faked the names of all the interfaces (NIC, IDE controller, etc). If you can do that, VMWare really wants to talk to you.
Good news! That's exactly why this is interesting. It gets a hook into ring-0 (any kernel mode driver bug gets you there) then uses ring-0 priveledge to turn on the CPU's Pacifica extensions. It sets itself up as hypervisor, sets the current OS up as a domain guest, and grants the guest full I/O privs.
So a always-running-never-rebooted copy of windows goes from running on raw hardware, to running on hardware-accelerated virtuilization. Page faults bounce through the hypervisor which simply chains to the normal windows fault handler. Unless there's a special signature to the registers; then suddenly it activates and executes those user-mode commands at a hypervisor level. This could be read/modify memory not assigned to this process, grant direct hardware access; anything a hypervisor can do.
Interesting note: You probably wouldn't notice a FPS drop in any game, since there's no overhead for the OS to get to hardware (it's checked and passed in the CPU, not trapped and tested in the hypervisor) and there's no overhead like there is running windows-in-vmware-in-windows.
Try again: Hyperthreading lets the massively pipelined P4 use non-P4 optimized code more efficiently. Older code (which most of everything is, using circa 1999 DLLs) uses less pipelines, meaning more stalls. Hyperthreading takes half the pipelines away and runs them like a second core.
A loss for P4 optimized applications, a win for generically optomized apps. Yay tradeoffs.
It has nothing to do with "Windows has a sucky scheduler". That's an even more half-assed answer then the original Best Buy guy's.
So you're trying to tell me that phone companies blindy allow CLECS to send unknown calls into their system?
Yup. Be nice though, he's probably just wrong, not trolling. Not too long ago, I would have argued the same, until I found out how to do it.
ANI is spoofable on most switches. Trivially if you're using a digital service (ISDN or T1), less so on analog lines but still possible. Note that I'm not talking about Caller-ID here, but the ANI service that large T1/T3 customers get (NOT 800-only). The SS7 network is as badly designed as SMTP when it comes to spoofing.
The issue is that it was designed to be spoofable for common applications such as forwarding, so that the original ANI was forwarded to the new destination, rather then getting a call from yourself/your company. Of course, there's no way to distinguish from a forwarded call and a new call, so effectivly you create a new call with bogus ANI and then patch it in to the inbound call.
The other reason is DID lines need to be able to say what number is calling out. You could have hundreds or thousands of numbers all resolve to one trunk (Think any fortune-500 company), so it's the responsibility of the PBX to give the caller's ANI. As was pointed out on Schiner's blog, while you could filter ANI, the current software doesn't make it remotly practical to do so. So any DID line can spoof ANI.
It's a fairly common T-Mobile scam, and their reps are trained to do exactly that: Ignore you or argue with you. My neighbor ended up arguing with them long enough to raise her blood pressure to the point of bursting a blood vessel in her eye. Never did get them to deal with the charge, either.
They'll get busted for it eventually, until then, just vote with your wallet.
Manage. Article. And to a previous poster, People.
The two of you have officially lost any ability to whine about offshore workers and their inability to speak english.
For every work that isnt in the public domain, that should be, i will download a film.
Eye for an eye works for me. And yes, copyright infrignement is theft if and only if stealing from the public domain is theft as well. They just don't like getting called on
that. Copyright is forever and a day because damnit we paid... er stole it from the original artist fair and square!
Also, you can't travel in time because DT/DT = 1, but since the entire universe is just information you can move instantly to any point in space by corrupting your X/Y/Z pointer. Quantum mechanics is wrong because I don't understand it, and electric current flow powers the sun.
Did I remember all your crackpot theories? I recognized them instantly, and your website linked in your sig confirmed it was the same bullshit again.
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I would also like to say 'Eat shit' to all the bandwagoneers who said HURR THEY MUST HAVE BEEN CHEATING BIZZRD IS NEVAR WRONG!!!
Even though I can't stand WoW, I can't stand shameless corporate shills either. So it's a tossup. In this case, they were both wrong, so it's a win/win situation for me.
"Hi, we're going to just cut-paste from the article like we always do except we have the reading comprehension of an american highschool football player and can't even pick paragraphs that make sense."
Every day I'm reminded why I adblock and don't subscribe here. I can get URL Cut & Paste on IRC. And it's realtime.
er, how about just a 'signature', that's a uniqe server-side thing that comes from the account that 'signed' the object? No way to clone that.
Let's put it this way: A copied DaVinci looks nice, and lots of people pay a few grand to artists to reproduce one to exquisite detail. A VERY small handful of people pay a few million (or more) to own an authenticated original.
Actual scarsity in a digital environment. Only possible due to the server-side authentication of originals.
FFMpeg has reverse-engineered many of the proprietary codecs.
intel indeo1,2,3,
Sorenson Video V1 and V3 (Sorenson is what people think of as "Quicktime"),
WMV1/2/3 (windows medial player 7/8/9) to an extent.
RealVideo RV10/RV20 (Not 30/40 yet)
Plus a crapload of others that I don't know how closed they are.
Add that to mplayer's thunking of win32 DLL files to play propretary codecs, and I can
play video more reliably and with less work on linux/opensource then in XP Media Center.
Can you downgrade, though? Or once you've upgraded, is the feature you bought it for permanently gone?
+1 month before I think about subscribing. Seriously, what the fuck DO you do with subscription money? Use it to light cigars? Because you sure as hell don't use it to ACTUALLY LOOK AT THE SITE.
P.S. 5 minute recharge at some ungodly number of amps at an insane voltage. Um, yeah, that'll almost work, really.
And correct. If you're merely gifted, you can cope with the bullshit bureaucracy and ace tests to get through HS. If you're lucky and land in a good college that's test and performance based rather then an expensive babysitting service (attendance based bullshit in COLLEGE?) you can get through. If you're far beyond that, forget it. As a society, we need to recognize that the ultra-gifted ARE a scarce resource, and ending up suiciding or on welfare isn't a good use of them. We don't say "Oh well, that oil is underground, we'll just leave it there until it decides to be motivated enough to come to the surface, refine itself and pour itself into our gas tanks." Let them work in interesting fields. They're such a low percentage of the population that it won't cost us much, but the benefits are incredible.
You know, I liked that demotivator a LOT better before they bought the idea from the guy on the SA forums who came up with it. He used a full-frame image of fries, rich in detail in their trans-fat goodness. They picked out... a plain box on a plain background. BOOORRRRIIINNNG. Compare it to every other one of their posters, it's the most dull and un-inspired they have.
Wikipedia's stance of glorifying stupidity and refusing people who actually KNOW about topics was getting rather old. If I cared what my next-door neighbor thought of invasive species I'd ask them. When I check a resource online I expect to see facts, not 'oh, but we have to save the XXX' species of the week bullshit.
Nuclear power was mentioned earlier. It's amazing how many thousands of PHDs in nuclear physics, mechanical engineering, statistics and software there are on wikipedia weighing in their fully-researched opinion on the topic. Oh wait, they're not, it's just a bunch of soundbytes and knee-jerk reactions. On both sides.
If they get rid of the ban on original research and move it to 'must be peer-reviewed' that'd be excellent start.
No, because self-important idiots will call second-line tech support because their computer won't work when the power is out. You can sometimes get account-flagged to 'not a monkey', but that's rare.
The REALLY smart people at good companies are kept entirely anonymous, because they're the only ones that can fix the really tough problems, and you don't want random idiots calling them asking how to cut-and-paste.
Game Time Card/Code. 30 or 90 days of playtime. You can buy them for RL cash, then trade them for in-game cash. You can also sell them for RL cash, hence the $70,000+ valuation on ebay.
BPO is a monopoly on an in-game item. (Well, there's 12-20 BluePrint Originals for each rare item). You normally win them in the in-game lottery, and it's the gift that keeps on giving. For WoW players, it'd be like purples not dropping and only being available from 1 player crafter per shard.
Hell, according to the contracts iTunes is stealing more from artists then Kaaza ever did. Look at the percentage hit they take for a downloaded track vs. a physical album sale.
The non-routable is a killer. Protocol-level bridging, no off-site redundancy, strict dependancies on port location. No thanks, it's a toy protocol that may get some use in the home NAS market, but it was hell to implement a reliable setup in our lab under controlled conditions. I'd hate to have to deploy it 'for real'.
The only way to really do it is to purchase a dedicated Block Controller (spare ethernet card) and a dedicated Block Data Cable (Cat 5) and hook it up to a dedicated Block Device Multiplexer (switch). If you want a replacement for FibreChannel and are willing to live with the limits of direct local physical connections, it's useful.
Just have fun getting those frames into a xen/vmware virtual host from an external machine...
Of course, you have the problem of interpreted languages (macros), DHTML, java applets, etc etc. And you couldn't ever develop software for this OS, or even ON this OS.
Useful perhaps in a call center, but there's already solutions for that.
Yes, and don't use iTunes to avoid buying the album in the store, either. The artists get even LESS of a cut and the labels make even more profit off iTunes then they do off overpriced CDs.
Let's face it: The artists arn't getting paid shit. We know it, they know it, they'll admit it if they're not locked into indentured servitude. You're not stealing from the artists, that's the distributor's job. Want to compensate them for their effort? Send them some cash directly. Want to hear music? Just buy from allofmp3 or download torrents of the entire discography, then hit live concerts (just not freebie promotional tours).
Really, you can't abolish slavery because the stupid slaves would starve to death without their masters! Oh wait, that wasn't true then and it's not true now.
Good news! That's exactly why this is interesting. It gets a hook into ring-0 (any kernel mode driver bug gets you there) then uses ring-0 priveledge to turn on the CPU's Pacifica extensions. It sets itself up as hypervisor, sets the current OS up as a domain guest, and grants the guest full I/O privs.
So a always-running-never-rebooted copy of windows goes from running on raw hardware, to running on hardware-accelerated virtuilization. Page faults bounce through the hypervisor which simply chains to the normal windows fault handler. Unless there's a special signature to the registers; then suddenly it activates and executes those user-mode commands at a hypervisor level. This could be read/modify memory not assigned to this process, grant direct hardware access; anything a hypervisor can do.
Interesting note: You probably wouldn't notice a FPS drop in any game, since there's no overhead for the OS to get to hardware (it's checked and passed in the CPU, not trapped and tested in the hypervisor) and there's no overhead like there is running windows-in-vmware-in-windows.
Troll.
Try again: Hyperthreading lets the massively pipelined P4 use non-P4 optimized code more efficiently. Older code (which most of everything is, using circa 1999 DLLs) uses less pipelines, meaning more stalls. Hyperthreading takes half the pipelines away and runs them like a second core.
A loss for P4 optimized applications, a win for generically optomized apps. Yay tradeoffs.
It has nothing to do with "Windows has a sucky scheduler". That's an even more half-assed answer then the original Best Buy guy's.
So you're trying to tell me that phone companies blindy allow CLECS to send unknown calls into their system?
Yup. Be nice though, he's probably just wrong, not trolling. Not too long ago, I would have argued the same, until I found out how to do it.
ANI is spoofable on most switches. Trivially if you're using a digital service (ISDN or T1), less so on analog lines but still possible. Note that I'm not talking about Caller-ID here, but the ANI service that large T1/T3 customers get (NOT 800-only). The SS7 network is as badly designed as SMTP when it comes to spoofing.
The issue is that it was designed to be spoofable for common applications such as forwarding, so that the original ANI was forwarded to the new destination, rather then getting a call from yourself/your company. Of course, there's no way to distinguish from a forwarded call and a new call, so effectivly you create a new call with bogus ANI and then patch it in to the inbound call.
The other reason is DID lines need to be able to say what number is calling out. You could have hundreds or thousands of numbers all resolve to one trunk (Think any fortune-500 company), so it's the responsibility of the PBX to give the caller's ANI. As was pointed out on Schiner's blog, while you could filter ANI, the current software doesn't make it remotly practical to do so. So any DID line can spoof ANI.
Whee!
It's a fairly common T-Mobile scam, and their reps are trained to do exactly that: Ignore you or argue with you. My neighbor ended up arguing with them long enough to raise her blood pressure to the point of bursting a blood vessel in her eye. Never did get them to deal with the charge, either.
They'll get busted for it eventually, until then, just vote with your wallet.
Debian unstable with a linus kernel.
I was astonished myself, but the stock DRI in debian supports my x800 in 3d, and multihead 3200x1200.
ATI X800 with the opensource drivers, running on an athlon 64 X2 in a 32-bit chroot (64bit X) on debian...
and it works.
That's got to be as unsupported as it gets, what with the R420 core, 32-bit userspace and 64bit DRI, etc.
My only issue is it flickers a lot when redrawing, must be doing something wrong with the double buffering.
Still, perfectly usable as long as I don't set it to Large detail size (it locks up, but I can ssh in and kill googleearth-bin)
Very nice indeed. Thanks, google!
Manage. Article. And to a previous poster, People. The two of you have officially lost any ability to whine about offshore workers and their inability to speak english.
No, seriously, WHAT?!
I hear that food is an addiction and you can overcome the withdrawal symptoms and live on air. You should try that, it's a better way of life.
Did I remember all your crackpot theories? I recognized them instantly, and your website linked in your sig confirmed it was the same bullshit again.