lol, it doesn't have an affect when EU has very strong directives about dining places, cafes and so on in the southen parts like italy and spain, but they should supersede in P2P ? come on peopel, the EU has no global resources to waste on these kind of operations.
come on, even you don't believe that , do you ?
the fact is, directives are not laws, and not for fulfilling directives the blame gets the country, and not the person himself. at least until now it has worked liked that imho.
[e.g. germany as a country gets a financial hit if it doesn't make laws which are pursued by a directive, not the german people who break the directive.]
If any of you "american patriots" would know a thing about how EU works and even read a few lines from the article pointed out you would see that it will only be a directive not a law itself.
In pure English said like that : your country problaly(, we think and hope,) should make a law that somehow enforces the idea of the directive.
Don't jump into conclusions too quickly, the EU has far more important problems with economy and extending itself than doing anything about the P2P software.
I live in a country that will soon be in EU, and i don't worry about this directive for 5-6 years i think. At least so long will it take to make it affect all the countries in EU.
Besides, most good p2p clients we know are virtually dead already.
Even if the laws are ever made in the countries there are going to be clients who encrypt the data being sent to eachother and are considered as private as e-mailing or instant messaging, so none has really anything to say about it.
Nowadays even a msn bot is writeable which would work like some kind of p2p file sharing program, e.g. the bot reacts to questions like searchfile:name and sendmefile:name , do your really think the EU can forbid us the msn connections ?
>>What is an example of such need? Web-based interfaces >>generally don't need that kind of multi-threading.
for example an web page which would need to fetch data from multiple databases on different machines at the same time.. doing it in multiple threads would be much faster than in one thread
check out the playstation2 from sony, there you have the 128bit cpu, wonder what does the pc market take so long here are the ps2 specs (a bit long but still):
CPU : 128-bit CPU System Clock Frequency: 294.912 MHz Cache Memory : Instruction: 16KB, Data: 8KB + 16 K(ScrP) Main Memory : Direct Rambus (Direct RDRAM) Memory Size : 32MB Memory Bus Bandwidth : 3.2GB per second Co-processor : FPU (Floating Point Unit) Floating Point Multiply Accumulator x 1 Floating Point Divider x 1 Vector Units : VU0 and VU1 Floating Point Multiply Accumulator x 9 Floating Point Divider x 3 Floating Point Performance : 6.2 GFLOPS 3D CG Geometric Transformation: 66 million Polygons per Second Compressed Image Decoder : MPEG2 GRAPHICS- Clock Frequency : 147.456MHz Embedded DRAM : 4MB DRAM Bus Bandwidth : 48GB per second DRAM Bus Width : 2,560 bits Pixel Configuration : RGB:Alpha:Z Buffer (24:8:32) Polygon Drawing Rate: 75 million Polygons per second Screen Resolution : Variable from 256 x 224 to 1280 x 1024
php might be a simple scripting language easy to use but,
just wanted to point out: 1) php has no real threading support e.g. other than
simple webscripts are impossible to create 2) using whatever wierd forking in your php scripts still leaves you without shared variables and so on. 3) php has still very slow interface to shared memory (shmop), which makes it even more pointless to use in real enterprise applications even for web 4) even the new php-s oop structure is still out of date when compared to java or c++ or even perl (where are protected variables and callbacks? why does the php still not have a normal automatic class searching system and still relies on user own written inclusion lines? etc.) 5) php developers are heartlessy disgarding every kind of backward compatibility with every new minor version they write, e.g. your old scripts which worked finely for 4-5 months may be buggy without you even knowing it after 1 mysterious update.
just wanted to make this statement. php has still a long way to go to make it to the real enterprise market where perl and java are already ready. the new version of php doesn't include any major necessary components to achieve the raise to real enterprise developement market.
still hope they will make the jump to real applications cause the idea of php is quite good. only the implementation needs be improved. php6 maybe ?
recently some devices came out which also work as burners not only players when attached to your pc. but i wouldn't recommend them cause the writing hardware could easilly be damaged while jumping around with the player...
that there has been no real evolution in pc history for 18 years except the buttons look more nice today. [excel,word and solitaire is there, it's the must be office kit!]
you could estabilish such a link by getting your own satellite, it can't be used for both or uplinks though, but still... for a downlink it would be satisfying.
[our whole town has a max of 20mb line i think] [100 000 residents... not much, but seems to be] [satisfying it seems] [what r u people doing there, downloading the "internet"?]
our dorm was 50m away from a railway + we had a computer in the room and hallway lights which had old halogen lamps and 'brrrrrrrr' all the time.
i got used to it all:)
just as time goes by people get used to noises which doesn't let them sleep. for example atm. my gf is using her cellphone to wake us both... it doesn't wake me after a few months at all, now my gf will have to bring some little 'wrestlingmoves' in to wake me up.
i am no "strong" sleeper, i wake up even if the wind blows too hard and my balchony door cracks a bit. but when i hear noises that i'm used to, it has no effect whatsoever.
althrough you could consider getting a more quiet keyboard, nowadays the soft feeling keyboards are quite lownoise , for example i have logitech's deluxe keyboard which practically doesn't produce any sound at all, at least my gf doesn't ever say that it would bother her.
[wonder how 60 year old grannies can sleep besides their husbands who snore like automobiles at low throttle]
imagine even a single game you wanna play with 5 friends, and you agree that you should be the server. are you juggesting that your machine would die into lagging while trying to read one of your friends's socket ?
don't think so.
anyway, my point is, on simple games you are absolutely right and while there are mostly simple games out there , the benefit from Xway smp is almost zero.
but if you want to hack your xbox and run X11 and apache on it... then smp will be your best friend:p
i guess you have no real experience with programming my friend:) some threads and events flying here and there make the programs architecture 10 times easier and more understandable. ofcourse small silly games should use exactly the thing you showed. but big games with many processes running at the same time , which also communicates with net and other players will a have a tremendous lag while using this simple while method.
have a nice day. and study a bit more about multithreaded apps:)
you got a point there... mac dudes should go back to some compact theme , these bubbles are really annoying and the annoy even more as an emulation on other systems and programs (like some "mozilla" called thangs:D)
anyway, linux will rule with the ideological points, mac os x rules with the gui & easiness (kde and gnome teams still have a lot to do..)..
so there is no winner, no matter how you may compare them.
it's like comparing linux & windows. these are totally different items, if they just want to compare gui-s like kde or gnome then just call it that way (compared kde on linux with mac os X ) or smth like it.
i consider my machine running on linux althrough i hardly ever bring up any more applications than vim in an xterm:D
[??? when is this "comparing" going to end ???] it's just a waste of time and money, as are the news about it.
the stats all seem nice on the "personal" machine you get... BUT WTF is that celeron cpu doing there ? it can't even run a opengl game properly , not to mention 2-3 realtime apps at the same time... if they'd offer an athlon or a really fast p4 it would be really worth a shot, althrough, it's costy....
it's almost impossible for a server to avoid these style of wallhacks, cause if you're using an broken video driver (sis graphics cards for example) you can see thru the walls and the GAME doesn't know about, neither does the server... there's no possible way to 'sense' it... except where people begin to aim thru the walls, shooting at the same sec when the other guy comes out from the defending corner, he won't even have the time to react, but already the other guy is shooting althrough, the games nowadays have pretty good sound effects and so the seeing through walls doesn't mean so much anyway, you can HEAR him coming, so why not shoot him ?
[sigh - i love the 'normal' players] [and i hate the stupids cheaters . they don't win actually] [they just lose].. i'll stick with 'not cheating' for i want to win because of my skill and not because of my cheats
i'm willing to donate 10$ to build this damn elevator already.... anyone else ? if every citizen on earth could donate 10 bucks, we would have 60 billions ? should be almoust enough or what ? [the sum is an average i guess, a chinese worker can't afford 10$ , but an american businessman can surely give it a 1000$ so it makes us all even i think]
gogogogogo spaaaaceeee !!! [tired of sitting down here , let's go startrek crazy !]
anyone who's married agrees with the 90% thing... unless his wife is watching... cause if she's watching and you agree to the 90% question, then kansas is going bye-bye...
i'm not saying that men are more intelligent than women or otherwise. there are smart women around and also a lot of stupid men.
but still if it comes to rational logic (programming, playing chess, doing heavy weight math, resolving physics problems). most of the women fail (some men fail too:( )
i have only 'met' one really good female programmer. anyone had more luck ?
i still wear leather boots, black jeans and a black t-shirt which has the 'i read your e-mail' slogan on it....
lmao , i wanna see that office that puts me into a suit if i'd earn 500k$ a year, maybe , but below that ? no tu.
why do i need suit while i'm compiling or debugging ? how does wearing a tie make easier an analyse of a database ? how does wearing normal shoes improve my productivity ?
looking like another yuppiy doesn't make my code faster nor does it make me feel more comfortable...
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lol, it doesn't have an affect when EU has very strong
directives about dining places, cafes and so on in the
southen parts like italy and spain, but they should
supersede in P2P ? come on peopel, the EU has no
global resources to waste on these kind of operations.
come on, even you don't believe that , do you ?
the fact is, directives are not laws, and not for
fulfilling directives the blame gets the country,
and not the person himself. at least until now
it has worked liked that imho.
[e.g. germany as a country gets a financial hit if it
doesn't make laws which are pursued by a directive, not
the german people who break the directive.]
If any of you "american patriots" would know a thing about
how EU works and even read a few lines from the article
pointed out you would see that it will only be a directive
not a law itself.
In pure English said like that : your country problaly(,
we think and hope,) should make a law that somehow enforces
the idea of the directive.
Don't jump into conclusions too quickly, the EU has far
more important problems with economy and extending itself
than doing anything about the P2P software.
I live in a country that will soon be in EU, and i don't
worry about this directive for 5-6 years i think. At least
so long will it take to make it affect all the countries
in EU.
Besides, most good p2p clients we know are virtually dead
already.
Even if the laws are ever made in the countries there are
going to be clients who encrypt the data being sent to
eachother and are considered as private as e-mailing or
instant messaging, so none has really anything to say
about it.
Nowadays even a msn bot is writeable which would work like
some kind of p2p file sharing program, e.g. the bot reacts
to questions like searchfile:name and sendmefile:name , do
your really think the EU can forbid us the msn
connections ?
dont't think so.
Keep up the hope brothers, P2P will not die.
>>What is an example of such need? Web-based interfaces
>>generally don't need that kind of multi-threading.
for example an web page which would need to
fetch data from multiple databases on different
machines at the same time..
doing it in multiple threads would be much faster
than in one thread
check out the playstation2 from sony, there you have the 128bit cpu, wonder what does the pc market take so long :
here are the ps2 specs (a bit long but still)
CPU : 128-bit CPU
System Clock Frequency: 294.912 MHz
Cache Memory : Instruction: 16KB, Data: 8KB + 16 K(ScrP)
Main Memory : Direct Rambus (Direct RDRAM)
Memory Size : 32MB
Memory Bus Bandwidth : 3.2GB per second
Co-processor : FPU (Floating Point Unit) Floating Point Multiply Accumulator x 1 Floating Point Divider x 1
Vector Units : VU0 and VU1 Floating Point Multiply Accumulator x 9 Floating Point Divider x 3 Floating Point Performance : 6.2 GFLOPS 3D CG Geometric Transformation: 66 million Polygons per Second Compressed Image Decoder : MPEG2
GRAPHICS- Clock Frequency : 147.456MHz Embedded DRAM : 4MB DRAM Bus Bandwidth : 48GB per second DRAM Bus Width : 2,560 bits Pixel Configuration : RGB:Alpha:Z Buffer (24:8:32) Polygon Drawing Rate: 75 million Polygons per second Screen Resolution : Variable from 256 x 224 to 1280 x 1024
now go and compare it to your pc and get stunned
php might be a simple scripting language easy to
:
use but,
just wanted to point out
1) php has no real threading support e.g. other than
simple webscripts are impossible to create
2) using whatever wierd forking in your php scripts
still leaves you without shared variables and so on.
3) php has still very slow interface to shared memory
(shmop), which makes it even more pointless to use in
real enterprise applications even for web
4) even the new php-s oop structure is still out of date
when compared to java or c++ or even perl (where are
protected variables and callbacks? why does the php still
not have a normal automatic class searching system and
still relies on user own written inclusion lines? etc.)
5) php developers are heartlessy disgarding every kind of
backward compatibility with every new minor version they
write, e.g. your old scripts which worked finely for 4-5
months may be buggy without you even knowing it after 1
mysterious update.
just wanted to make this statement. php has still a long
way to go to make it to the real enterprise market where
perl and java are already ready. the new version of php
doesn't include any major necessary components to achieve
the raise to real enterprise developement market.
still hope they will make the jump to real applications
cause the idea of php is quite good. only the
implementation needs be improved. php6 maybe ?
recently some devices came out which also work as burners not only players when attached to your pc. but i wouldn't ...
recommend them cause the writing hardware could easilly
be damaged while jumping around with the player
[did i really fp on this one ???]
are mostly on thinkgeek
:)
check the link
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/mp3/6356/
seems like an handy device for me
if i wasn't like 12000 miles away from america
i would get this one for myself.
that there has been no real evolution in pc history for 18 years except the buttons look more nice today.
[excel,word and solitaire is there, it's the must be office kit!]
you could estabilish such a link by getting your own satellite, it can't be used for both or uplinks though, ... for a downlink it would be satisfying.
... not much, but seems to be]
but still
[our whole town has a max of 20mb line i think]
[100 000 residents
[satisfying it seems]
[what r u people doing there, downloading the "internet"?]
our dorm was 50m away from a railway + we had a computer in the room and hallway lights which had old halogen lamps and 'brrrrrrrr' all the time. :)
i got used to it all
just as time goes by people get used to noises which doesn't let them sleep. for example atm. my gf is using
her cellphone to wake us both... it doesn't wake me after
a few months at all, now my gf will have to bring some little 'wrestlingmoves' in to wake me up.
i am no "strong" sleeper, i wake up even if the wind blows too hard and my balchony door cracks a bit. but when i hear noises that i'm used to, it has no effect whatsoever.
althrough you could consider getting a more quiet keyboard, nowadays the soft feeling keyboards are quite
lownoise , for example i have logitech's deluxe keyboard which practically doesn't produce any sound at all, at least my gf doesn't ever say that it would bother her.
[wonder how 60 year old grannies can sleep besides their husbands who snore like automobiles at low throttle]
imagine even a single game you wanna play with 5 friends, and you agree that you should be the server.
... then smp will be your best friend :p
:)
are you juggesting that your machine would die into lagging while trying to read one of your friends's socket ?
don't think so.
anyway, my point is, on simple games you are absolutely right and while there are mostly simple games out there , the benefit from Xway smp is almost zero.
but if you want to hack your xbox and run X11 and apache on it
sigh
i guess you have no real experience with programming my friend :)
:)
some threads and events flying here and there make the programs architecture 10 times easier and more understandable.
ofcourse small silly games should use exactly the thing you showed. but big games with many processes running at the same time , which also communicates with net and other players will a have a tremendous lag while using this simple while method.
have a nice day.
and study a bit more about multithreaded apps
you got a point there ... :D)
..) ..
mac dudes should go back to some compact
theme , these bubbles are really annoying
and the annoy even more as an emulation
on other systems and programs
(like some "mozilla" called thangs
anyway, linux will rule with the ideological points,
mac os x rules with the gui & easiness (kde and gnome
teams still have a lot to do
so there is no winner, no matter how you may compare them.
it's like comparing linux & windows.
:D
these are totally different items, if they
just want to compare gui-s like kde or gnome
then just call it that way (compared kde on linux with mac os X ) or smth like it.
i consider my machine running on linux althrough i hardly ever bring up any more applications than vim in an xterm
[??? when is this "comparing" going to end ???]
it's just a waste of time and money, as are the
news about it.
expect any romantic stuff from there.
a part is here
read some interesting literature & poems
from a friend of mine
[no need to be affraid, no images nor javascript on the page, just some plain text]
see ya
the stats all seem nice on the "personal" machine you ... BUT WTF is that celeron cpu doing there ? ...
get
it can't even run a opengl game properly , not to mention
2-3 realtime apps at the same time
if they'd offer an athlon or a really fast p4 it would
be really worth a shot, althrough, it's costy....
it's almost impossible for a server to avoid ... ... except
.. i'll stick with 'not cheating' for i want to win
t
these style of wallhacks, cause if you're using an
broken video driver (sis graphics cards for example)
you can see thru the walls and the GAME doesn't
know about, neither does the server
there's no possible way to 'sense' it
where people begin to aim thru the walls, shooting
at the same sec when the other guy comes out
from the defending corner, he won't even have
the time to react, but already the other guy is shooting
althrough, the games nowadays have pretty good
sound effects and so the seeing through walls doesn't
mean so much anyway, you can HEAR him coming,
so why not shoot him ?
[sigh - i love the 'normal' players]
[and i hate the stupids cheaters . they don't win actually]
[they just lose]
because of my skill and not because of my cheats
urbanterror & navyseals rock !!!!
http://www.urbanterror.net
http://www.ns-co.ne
go people go
i don't give a damn about this sound device
but i WANT THAT CHOPPER !!!!!
the only question now is how to raise 50k $ ????
anyone else interested for the chopper ?
i'm willing to donate 10$ to build this damn elevator .... anyone else ?
already
if every citizen on earth could donate 10 bucks, we would
have 60 billions ? should be almoust enough or what ?
[the sum is an average i guess, a chinese worker can't
afford 10$ , but an american businessman can surely give
it a 1000$ so it makes us all even i think]
gogogogogo spaaaaceeee !!!
[tired of sitting down here , let's go startrek crazy !]
there we must succeed ... ...
too bad it took these poor lifes with it
the astronauts are dead, long live the astronauts !
[p.s. it would be about the time to build a new shuttle]
anyone who's married agrees with the 90% ... unless his wife is watching ... ...
:( )
thing
cause if she's watching and you agree to
the 90% question, then kansas is going bye-bye
i'm not saying that men are more intelligent than
women or otherwise. there are smart women around
and also a lot of stupid men.
but still if it comes to rational logic (programming,
playing chess, doing heavy weight math, resolving physics
problems). most of the women fail (some men fail too
i have only 'met' one really good female programmer.
anyone had more luck ?
Martin - it never is
i still wear leather boots, black jeans and a black ....
...
t-shirt which has the 'i read your e-mail' slogan
on it
lmao , i wanna see that office that puts me into a suit
if i'd earn 500k$ a year, maybe , but below that ? no tu.
why do i need suit while i'm compiling or debugging ?
how does wearing a tie make easier an analyse of a
database ? how does wearing normal shoes improve my
productivity ?
looking like another yuppiy doesn't make my code faster
nor does it make me feel more comfortable
KILL ALL HUMANS !!! - [(tm) by Bender (CartoonAction!) ]
is just enough, make it run linux (i prefer debian)
...
or freebsd thingy....
(i like debian cause i don't need the sci-fi moments
that the commercial distributions have added, apt-get
is handy too.)
samba/squid/apache should run of them 'out-of-the-box'
so
that's my advice.
[ps. if u can, avoid running the machine with less than
128 megs of ram, it will save you from swapping often etc.]
if u must server dynamic content from your webpages,
choose perl or php (java and python are a bit more
heavy weight) and mysql or postgres.
when i was admin, i patched the machines as often as i could
:)
cause it was fun.
do the same and you'll be safe