but look at how much crap is released for PCs that would never sell on a console
Well, having a couple of friends realy into the N64 scene, and thus having seen a lot of games that were made for the N64. Let me just tell you that there are far more "low cost, quick and dirty" titles on consoles that on the PC. There is a virtual infinity of crappy japanese games out there. Another example is the Dreamcast, one of the first title released on it was "Pen-Pen" (a racing games except with a peguin), which clearly would never have existed on the PC market, yet it was one of the best selling titles.
Now don't take me wrong there are numerous excellent game on consols, probably considering all the different consols more than on PCs.
I think the trick Mircosoft will run to is how to keep licensed X-Box developpers from releasing games on the PC as well. Because it's the game that sell the consol and not the other way around (I bought my Playstation just for Wipeout).
Think of this: Napster has been banned on many college campuses. College campuses are traditionally the place where independent music flourishes. Thus the RIAA has managed to shut down a distribution channel for the independent artists.
Well I'm not sure about you, but I'm pretty sure that the SysAdmins that saw their bandwidth torn out of proportion didn't relly give a rats ass about the RIAA, Metalilica or anything "legal" for that matter. Since most.edu pay their bandwidth by the Mb, I can understand their postion on banning heavy-no-scholar-traffic.
Ok, so the guy did a really nice job with the rendered pictures, and the "cool" look of the site. So all in all it just all seem prefect. But there's just one tiny thing that's missing, PROOF ?
Ok so I guess if your an X-Files junky an tend to believe the whole conspiration theories it's ok the jump straight ahead a go for all this. But I simply can't get the feeling of a "never published" Popular Mechanics about secret space programs out of my head
Just give me a tiny bit of FACTS, and I will shut up;)
Gives a really "new" meaning to the blue screen of death, doesn't it ?
Windows has encoutered an error in "Guncordinate.exe".
On the other side I'm pretty sure that you now have every hacker on the planet hopping for this system to go online. Imagine using an exploit to order a bombing raid on your neighbor's house.
Strangely enough, ICO Global is launching a fleet of satelites to do the exact same thing Iridium did. Taken from an article on Yahoo talking about the recent SeaLaunch failure : The satellite lost Sunday was the first of 10 which ICO Global wants to launch to build a satellite-based mobile phone network
Found this under Josephine Baker The famous nightclub entertainer was thought to be involved in communist activities, however, no evidence was ever found that proved otherwise.
I've read it again, and again, and I still see something that baffles the constitution.
Having read, an article a couple of days back about Holographic memory reseach (I think it was in Nature Mag). I was wondering what the "big" diffrence is between the two type of technologies. I mean, it seems you can just add as many layers as you want up to the point the transparency of the accumulated layer gets too bad.
Well first the $95 is only for the Chip, so it will have to be assembled into a NIC, which will raise price a bit (still way less expensive than what is currently available).
About hubs and switches. If I understand the press release right, their chip is pretty much a big DSP, and can/will be used with NICs, Hubs, Switches. Of course the main probleme for GigSwitches is the backplane speed, just try and imagine the internal speed of a 24port GigSwitch (24x1000MB = Arghh ! ).
But I think the main problem we will see around is for implementation in current networks. Because I remember reading a while back about the lack of "true" specs for Cat5. Mostly, that you can find Cat5 in different copper diameter. And having a lot of different "brand" of Cat5 on the network may be quite a pain to diagnose the problems. Still it's pretty impressive that they were able to nudge 40m more into the specs.
I'm really looking forward to getting GigNICs and good street prices.
I sure ain't no 3D Guru, but wouldn't you say that nVidia's GeForce T&L is a step in the SGI direction ? Putting Vertex Transform and Dynamic Lightning in hardware is (in you're example anyway) pretty much what the SGI does in hardware...
I don't know if any of you have watched the avi, because you're gonna have a nice clean room, well that is only the middle of the room. The thingy stops about 30cm before any object. Well it's a nice try, but don't get rid of your girlfirend just know...
:)
Murphy(c)
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Or is there some way that the base could be pulled up into orbit?
Well, let's say that the mass of the elevator would be pretty low, since its use of buckytubbes, but still have a great tensile strength. Then "all" that would be needed would be to place the receiving station (space part) further away than the normal geosyncronous orbit, so that eccentric forces would "pull" exert a pull on the entire ladder.
Well, hum, there's one tiny little problem to all this, geosyncronous orbit is about 36'000 Km up. And i sure hope that those buckytubbes are more stable than my Legos;)
I won't even come back on the fact that we've all seen the "Incredible flying car/bicycle/moto/horse/slashdot", (only one of those actually fly!:) ). Anyway, there is something that will always keep us, the mere money impaired mortals, on the ground. And that is the running/maintenance costs. Somebody befor mentioned that helicopters could now be manufactured in large numbers and if that happened they wouldn't cost that much. Well let's just remember that maintnance cost on those babies are incredible. For one thing the security checks are a lot more demanding on somthing that is going to fly over your head, than on cars for example. If your car breaks down, you can simply pull it on the side of the road, but if you're actually flying, well, it just hurts a tiny wee bit more when you finaly hit the side of the road. Just remember that a chopper goes through a complete engin check every 30'000 flight hours, and on a turbine engin the *simple* check can cost you all the way up to 15k.
So to make it short, Yhea sure it could be a fine leisure/sport, like parasailing, hanglinding, etc.. but get real, it's just not for every day commute.
I've been reading/. for quite some time now, and I've had the pleasure to have a couple of Moderation points bestowed uppon me. And it gave me great pleasure to be able to point out outstanding comments, ass-wipping funny remarks and hopefully not so often to have to weed out neuron-impaired messages.
I realy think that this system has to be the best implementation of free speech, in our thoughtless society. Because nobody should forget that free speech != arrogance.
I would love to see a goverment use of such a system. Imagine Senators beeing given good or bad Karma.... hmmm...;)
Are people still using unswitched 10Mbps ethernet extensively?
Actually, as someone else pointed out, the iMac is not aimed at the "Medium-Heavy" office market (as in more than 10-20 stations). So, as much as I disslike the iMac/Apple thing, I have to say that the AirPort is a pretty brilliant touche for the home users (so no need for switching). Though I doubt that Mom and Dad will be using it to play Quake any time soon;)
But what about the *need* for physical separation between networks ? Let's say you live in a building with pretty lousy wall insulation, that means that your private network is going to be *sniffable* form your neighbours bedroom. And that is definitaly something I DON'T want.
The computers in Mir use "old" technology in order to be more reliable.
Well Actually, the ISS is going to use about 40 i386sx 16Mhz on board, that will act as the main electronic backbone. And the reason they chose that kind of technology, is that it producess a very small amount of heat, which is a huge problem in space.
But the main interaction with the onboard computers will be done with IBM Thinkpads, and win95
This is exactly what Nostrademous said in one of his visions : "Humanity shall destroy itself within the first months of the 2nd Millenium. The Sword of thy death shall be known as RHIC*"
*Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider
I swear that this is an absolutely authentic translation from his old text, I haven't modified the slightest word.
Murphy... Well it's one way like the other to stop Microsoft from the World Dominition, but isn't it a bit too much ?
Actually the first inter-racial kiss on American television was in an episode of The Outer Limits, the one entitled Demon with a Glass Hand or somesuch. Robert Culp was the actor but I cannot recall the name of the hispanic actress.
Actually since "The Outer Limits" were in B/W, it's kinda hard to tell if she's really is Ispanic, or just pretty:)
I've been reading a good portion of the follow-ups here (which takes quite a while..;) )
And One recurring thing that stings me to the bone is that ppl still think that is normal to carry an item that has been made for one purpose and one purpose only, killing. You can give it whatever name you want, "gun, semi-automatic, shotgun", it's original design is still the same, destroy/break/kill/maim the subject aimed.
Now I do understands that it is Constitutional to bare a gun, and it's every American's right too. But did anyone ever consider that since the time were your brave forefathers fought their way free, time has quite changed, in fact more than 220 years have passed. And the chances that a neighboring country decides to make a Colony out of New York, is...quite improbable...
So know that we've got these facts down, I'm not saying that if there were stronger laws on gun control, the Denver shooting wouldn't have happened, those kids may have used "legal or easier to get" weapons, but with a stronger set of laws, they could also have been cough doing so. But what I'm getting at, is that they might have killed less kids in there attack, if for example they we're not using semi-automatics (as one of you pointed out, semi-automatics give you a better aim if not a better firing rate). It's just an example as dumb as the next, but still if 3,4 even 5 more lives were saved, that would mean a lot, and if you don't think so, try explaining your point of vue to the victim's parents.
Another one of you pointed out that on of the murderers' father was a marine, and that no amount of gun control could have stop him access to his daddy's private reserve. Well it's probably right, but in any case just loops back to what I was saying in the beginning of my rant, that If you don't educate children that guns are simply note a solution, it's barely an excuse for hunting, and that the only use for the public would be for sport competition, then I can guarantee you that those kind of massacres would simply not be possible.
I'll just add to this fairly long rant of mine, that I live in Switzerland, a country that has a militia type of army. What that means is that every adult male citizen (and a couple of crazy few females) have at home an Assault riffle, with ammo, gas masks, and the likes. But I've been brought up, as most of my friends to "dislike" guns because of their single minded purpose, to destroy/break/kill/maim
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but look at how much crap is released for PCs that would never sell on a console
Well, having a couple of friends realy into the N64 scene, and thus having seen a lot of games that were made for the N64. Let me just tell you that there are far more "low cost, quick and dirty" titles on consoles that on the PC. There is a virtual infinity of crappy japanese games out there. Another example is the Dreamcast, one of the first title released on it was "Pen-Pen" (a racing games except with a peguin), which clearly would never have existed on the PC market, yet it was one of the best selling titles.
Now don't take me wrong there are numerous excellent game on consols, probably considering all the different consols more than on PCs.
I think the trick Mircosoft will run to is how to keep licensed X-Box developpers from releasing games on the PC as well. Because it's the game that sell the consol and not the other way around (I bought my Playstation just for Wipeout).
Murphy(c)
Think of this: Napster has been banned on many college campuses. College campuses are traditionally the place where independent music flourishes. Thus the RIAA has managed to shut down a distribution channel for the independent artists.
.edu pay their bandwidth by the Mb, I can understand their postion on banning heavy-no-scholar-traffic.
Well I'm not sure about you, but I'm pretty sure that the SysAdmins that saw their bandwidth torn out of proportion didn't relly give a rats ass about the RIAA, Metalilica or anything "legal" for that matter.
Since most
Murphy(c)
The only thing we have yet to figure out is how to effectively make systems under attack "shoot back".
....
And you all thought that William Gibson was smoking something funny when he thought about Black ICE
The only thing needed now, is a nice brain implant, so that you can really fry the bastard.
Murphy(c)
Ok, so the guy did a really nice job with the rendered pictures, and the "cool" look of the site. So all in all it just all seem prefect.
;)
But there's just one tiny thing that's missing, PROOF ?
Ok so I guess if your an X-Files junky an tend to believe the whole conspiration theories it's ok the jump straight ahead a go for all this.
But I simply can't get the feeling of a "never published" Popular Mechanics about secret space programs out of my head
Just give me a tiny bit of FACTS, and I will shut up
Murphy(c)
Gives a really "new" meaning to the blue screen of death, doesn't it ?
Windows has encoutered an error in "Guncordinate.exe".
On the other side I'm pretty sure that you now have every hacker on the planet hopping for this system to go online. Imagine using an exploit to order a bombing raid on your neighbor's house.
Murphy(c)
Strangely enough, ICO Global is launching a fleet of satelites to do the exact same thing Iridium did.
Taken from an article on Yahoo talking about the recent SeaLaunch failure :
The satellite lost Sunday was the first of 10 which ICO Global wants to launch to build a satellite-based mobile phone network
Haven't they read the news lately ???
Murphy(c)
Found this under Josephine Baker
The famous nightclub entertainer was thought to be involved in communist activities, however, no evidence was ever found that proved otherwise.
I've read it again, and again, and I still see something that baffles the constitution.
Murphy(c)
Or maybe it's just me....
Having read, an article a couple of days back about Holographic memory reseach (I think it was in Nature Mag). I was wondering what the "big" diffrence is between the two type of technologies.
I mean, it seems you can just add as many layers as you want up to the point the transparency of the accumulated layer gets too bad.
Murphy(c)
Well first the $95 is only for the Chip, so it will have to be assembled into a NIC, which will raise price a bit (still way less expensive than what is currently available).
:)
About hubs and switches. If I understand the press release right, their chip is pretty much a big DSP, and can/will be used with NICs, Hubs, Switches. Of course the main probleme for GigSwitches is the backplane speed, just try and imagine the internal speed of a 24port GigSwitch (24x1000MB = Arghh ! ).
But I think the main problem we will see around is for implementation in current networks. Because I remember reading a while back about the lack of "true" specs for Cat5. Mostly, that you can find Cat5 in different copper diameter. And having a lot of different "brand" of Cat5 on the network may be quite a pain to diagnose the problems.
Still it's pretty impressive that they were able to nudge 40m more into the specs.
I'm really looking forward to getting GigNICs and good street prices.
Murphy(c) - Nope My name isn't openSource
I sure ain't no 3D Guru, but wouldn't you say that nVidia's GeForce T&L is a step in the SGI direction ?
:)
Putting Vertex Transform and Dynamic Lightning in hardware is (in you're example anyway) pretty much what the SGI does in hardware...
Murphy
Nitpicking to the end...
I don't know if any of you have watched the avi, because you're gonna have a nice clean room, well that is only the middle of the room. The thingy stops about 30cm before any object. Well it's a nice try, but don't get rid of your girlfirend just know ...
:)
Murphy(c)
Or is there some way that the base could be pulled up into orbit?
;)
Well, let's say that the mass of the elevator would be pretty low, since its use of buckytubbes, but still have a great tensile strength.
Then "all" that would be needed would be to place the receiving station (space part) further away than the normal geosyncronous orbit, so that eccentric forces would "pull" exert a pull on the entire ladder.
Well, hum, there's one tiny little problem to all this, geosyncronous orbit is about 36'000 Km up.
And i sure hope that those buckytubbes are more stable than my Legos
Murphy(c)
I won't even come back on the fact that we've all seen the "Incredible flying car/bicycle/moto/horse/slashdot", (only one of those actually fly!:) ).
Anyway, there is something that will always keep us, the mere money impaired mortals, on the ground. And that is the running/maintenance costs.
Somebody befor mentioned that helicopters could now be manufactured in large numbers and if that happened they wouldn't cost that much. Well let's just remember that maintnance cost on those babies are incredible. For one thing the security checks are a lot more demanding on somthing that is going to fly over your head, than on cars for example. If your car breaks down, you can simply pull it on the side of the road, but if you're actually flying, well, it just hurts a tiny wee bit more when you finaly hit the side of the road.
Just remember that a chopper goes through a complete engin check every 30'000 flight hours, and on a turbine engin the *simple* check can cost you all the way up to 15k.
So to make it short, Yhea sure it could be a fine leisure/sport, like parasailing, hanglinding, etc.. but get real, it's just not for every day commute.
Murphy(c)
I've been reading /. for quite some time now, and I've had the pleasure to have a couple of Moderation points bestowed uppon me. And it gave me great pleasure to be able to point out outstanding comments, ass-wipping funny remarks and hopefully not so often to have to weed out neuron-impaired messages.
;)
I realy think that this system has to be the best implementation of free speech, in our thoughtless society. Because nobody should forget that free speech != arrogance.
I would love to see a goverment use of such a system. Imagine Senators beeing given good or bad Karma.... hmmm...
Murphy(c)
As one Hawaiian once said "Hurricanes are the price we have to pay for living in paradise"
Let's all bear down for a minute, and think about all the people and all the fear they have right know about losing everything they ever treasured.
Murphy(c)
That's one done. Now all that needs to be done is to try and get the Miltary budget down to almost nothing. And we should be in the clear.
Murphy(c) 4 3l33t pReZi
Okay, so Dad has got is brand new Psion.
:)
Mom has here PalmPilote
And now Junior can have is own hand held organiser.
Who are the aiming next ?
What about something for the household dog ?
Like a digital collar, that will *beep* the dog, whenever food is wainting for him inside.
Grinnn
Murphy(c)
Are people still using unswitched 10Mbps ethernet extensively?
;)
;)
Actually, as someone else pointed out, the iMac is not aimed at the "Medium-Heavy" office market (as in more than 10-20 stations). So, as much as I disslike the iMac/Apple thing, I have to say that the AirPort is a pretty brilliant touche for the home users (so no need for switching). Though I doubt that Mom and Dad will be using it to play Quake any time soon
But what about the *need* for physical separation between networks ? Let's say you live in a building with pretty lousy wall insulation, that means that your private network is going to be *sniffable* form your neighbours bedroom. And that is definitaly something I DON'T want.
My pr0n is my pr0n
Murphy(c)
The computers in Mir use "old" technology in order to be more reliable.
Well Actually, the ISS is going to use about 40 i386sx 16Mhz on board, that will act as the main electronic backbone. And the reason they chose that kind of technology, is that it producess a very small amount of heat, which is a huge problem in space.
But the main interaction with the onboard computers will be done with IBM Thinkpads, and win95
We're all Gonna Die !!!!!!!!!
This is exactly what Nostrademous said in one of his visions :
"Humanity shall destroy itself within the first months of the 2nd Millenium. The Sword of thy death shall be known as RHIC*"
*Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider
I swear that this is an absolutely authentic translation from his old text, I haven't modified the slightest word.
Murphy...
Well it's one way like the other to stop Microsoft from the World Dominition, but isn't it a bit too much ?
Just wondering if anyone had a trick to download the file, and not just play it.
:)
cause I wanna play it in loops, even when I'm offline
Murphy
Actually the first inter-racial kiss on American television was in an episode of The Outer Limits, the one entitled Demon with a Glass Hand or somesuch. Robert Culp was the actor but I cannot recall the name of the hispanic actress.
:)
Actually since "The Outer Limits" were in B/W, it's kinda hard to tell if she's really is Ispanic, or just pretty
Murphy
I've been reading a good portion of the follow-ups here (which takes quite a while .. ;) )
...quite improbable...
And One recurring thing that stings me to the bone is that ppl still think that is normal to carry an item that has been made for one purpose and one purpose only, killing. You can give it whatever name you want, "gun, semi-automatic, shotgun", it's original design is still the same, destroy/break/kill/maim the subject aimed.
Now I do understands that it is Constitutional to bare a gun, and it's every American's right too.
But did anyone ever consider that since the time were your brave forefathers fought their way free, time has quite changed, in fact more than 220 years have passed. And the chances that a neighboring country decides to make a Colony out of New York, is
So know that we've got these facts down, I'm not saying that if there were stronger laws on gun
control, the Denver shooting wouldn't have happened, those kids may have used "legal or easier to get" weapons, but with a stronger set of laws, they could also have been cough doing so.
But what I'm getting at, is that they might have killed less kids in there attack, if for example they we're not using semi-automatics (as one of you pointed out, semi-automatics give you a better aim if not a better firing rate). It's just an example as dumb as the next, but still if 3,4 even 5 more lives were saved, that would mean a lot, and if you don't think so, try explaining your point of vue to the victim's parents.
Another one of you pointed out that on of the murderers' father was a marine, and that no amount of gun control could have stop him access to his daddy's private reserve.
Well it's probably right, but in any case just loops back to what I was saying in the beginning of my rant, that If you don't educate children that guns are simply note a solution, it's barely an excuse for hunting, and that the only use for the public would be for sport competition, then I can guarantee you that those kind of massacres would simply not be possible.
I'll just add to this fairly long rant of mine, that I live in Switzerland, a country that has a militia type of army. What that means is that every adult male citizen (and a couple of crazy few females) have at home an Assault riffle, with ammo, gas masks, and the likes. But I've been brought up, as most of my friends to "dislike" guns because of their single minded purpose, to destroy/break/kill/maim
Murphy(c).