You bought an news game for 30 $. The reseller buy it 10 $ from you. It sells it for 20 $.
Maybe you'll then buy a new game, but more than not often you'll buy an used game at the used game shop when the reseller just gave you the money, of course you can also spend your 10 $ outside of videogames.
Assuming the best case: you keep your 10 $ to buy a new game, the industry will have the income from 1,33 games but more realistically it will just be the income for one game. Without the used market it would have been 2 games, the one you bought and the one the guy who bought your used game would have bought.
And used games can be sold numerous times, and each time the reseller makes money of it, not the publisher/developpers..
You can't compare sales of used videogames with sales of goods like mattress or cars:
If you sell a car you didn't use it in full, and you sell its residual value which represents the remaining usage potential. If you happen to buy an used car you won't be able to use it as long as if it was new.
Whereas when you finished the videogame you used it in full. But for someone else its usage potential remains full.
The so-said used videogames aren't used at all.
If each time an used car/mattress/etc.. (even almost exhausted) was sold it would magically become as good as a new car, the car industry would not last for long.
When you buy an used game, it's not only less money for sony but also less money for the publisher and the developper.
Every dollar spent on used games is money that wont be available to the gaming industry. Used games resellers are parasites depriving the video games creators from a much needed income.
If you like video games please support your industry: buy new games.
Summer 2004 we painlessly installed several opteron-based linux servers, using 64 bits linux, and gentoo distribution.
We had no problem whatsoever with these servers since, despite them doing a lot of different tasks to do (all server-oriented).
IMHO you should have known better about the hardware and software support prior to your decision to go linux 64 bits.
Then two possibilities:
* You would have concluded that it is not ready for what you want to do with it, and go 32 bits..
* You would have chosen compatible components.
Anyway you wouldn't be whining here about your experience.
You are wrong when you claim about linux AMD64 being immature: it was just not ready for what you intended to do with it, and mostly because (proprietary) drivers were not available (and not the because of the core of linux).
Linux AMD64 is ready for the server for a long time, but it's only now that I'm thinking about using it in my personal computer where my needs are vastly different.
no the MS antispyware tool wasn't distributed for free, just the BETA. as usually, when the product will be released, it won't be for free.
if i was still on of their customer i wouldn't expect an free antipsyware/antivirus from microsoft, but nothing less than to correct the problem at its source, and do what we should reasonnably expect from them: give the security the priority it deserves.
for example the network stack shouldn't be so easily parasited by spyware like new.net, that can break your internet connection when you remove them.. unsurprisingly the only tool that i could find to handle this wasn't from MS: LSP-Fix.
what is waiting MS to correct such design flaws ?
unfortunately most people don't know much about these issues, and i guesse these products won't get the boycott they deserve.
first there was an OS monoculture..
then by including its browser and mail client in their OS, and preventing by its maneuvers other products to have a chance (ie: being included by the OEM), microsoft forcibly extended its mono-culture to two other important vectors of virus and spywares...
combined with:
the numerous security fails discovered in these product in a regular fashion.. some of them very stupid and dangerous: attachment that open by itself and execute, by using audio/x-wav mime type.
bad default settings: hidden extensions (what have they done to prevent double extension scam in OE ?), netbios and co active by default on the internet connexion..etc..
microsoft created a ground very favorable to virus, spyware, worms: we could euphemistically that that they have some responsability here..
MS attempt to make money with antivirus/antispyware not only shows their opportunism but also their prevalent cynism.
i guess that a antivirus and antispyware mono-culture is what we needed:/
i built and manage an shared secured internet access, used by several organisms, it consists of redundant firewall / ipvsadm redirectors and some servers with applicative proxies behind them (redundant too).
security is critical and we need to be up-to-date about it, i just can't wait for binary packages to be available. for critical security components, for example clamav, it's not uncommon i have to hack an ebuild in order to get the latest version that is absolutely needed for detection of some viruses.. fortunately under gentoo it is as practical as it can be.
also, i want to be able to compile the software we use as i need it, not how someone at redhat or another company chosed to compile it. and having to modify a source package every time you need it is at least unpractical, especially when it is source RPM. it's why i love the USE variable (and/etc/portage/packages.use).. and don't forget the stack protectors and other things that are not usually enabled on binary packages, using you own CFLAGS is not only a ricers thing..
for all this reasons, relying of third-party compiled package is clearly NOT an option for me.
i used suse and redhat a lot before (using linux since 1997), and had many opportunities to notice that binary packages don't ensure stability by itself. (for example the squid package from the distribution maker were often subject to problem and i often had to compile it by myself).. my gentoo servers are at least as stable that my older (suse/redhat based) ones, despite some of the new ones being amd64 SMP (and using AMD64 gentoo of course), whereas older ones where only "classic" uniprocessor pentiums 3/4..
also i dislike the release number scheme of redhat and co, where you have to regularly install a new version of the distribution to update your server.. not only i have to take down my so-said production servers but also this process usually have its own problems.. by far i prefer the gentoo concept where you can make your system evolves seamlessly, day by day, like the free software itself.
another point i like in gentoo is it's "meta" characteristic, this distribution is very flexible and can be tuned for desktop use (i use it on my desktops), file servers, networking... better than to multiply distribution variants..
of course if i needed to run proprietary software like oracle i would use a supported distro, probably redhat. but if my servers use free software i use gentoo. i also use devil-linux where it fits the needs.
he confirmed all the hype about fable, to quote him:
everything I have said about Fable is absolutely true. [...] yes you will have children
more about children:
Q: What's so special about children in the game? Is there anything significant about your own children?
PM: Children, your own children, are significant, very much so.
But that's all I'll say about that for now.
but at the time of the interview, he knew what would and what wouldn't be in fable !
of course even when the release date was approching he didn't deny any of his allegation (another form of lie), only to make hypocritical apologies not before fable sold enough units..
sorry for replying to myself i just stumbled on this patch for the linux kernel that could allow the same performance/reliabiliry compromise to linux and i think this could be interesting..
i already used slackware, suse, redhat.. not really satisfied with these linux distributions i knew and unwanting to go the redhat route ($$$), i evaluated some "independent" distributions for use on our servers.
i failed to like debian (sorry), but falled litteraly in love w/ gentoo:
portage/emerge is very likable, and i agree with their philosophy and the way they express it. massive number of packages, transparency. the concept of meta-distribution is no joke, i use it as well for my home PC needs, on my workstation, my 64 MB old laptop and on my servers.
after a while using linux, i was loosing the flame. with all this stuff installed by default by most distribution linux was looking more and more blackboxed like windows, with its start-from-almost-nothing approache, the administrator is winning back the mastering of his system.
gentoo is a salutary return to the roots and the spirit of unix.
it brings the same freshness feeling than migrating from (bloated) gnome desktop to xfce.
P.S.: i use devil-linux too, perfect for network stuff on diskless recycled PCs.. very nice stuff too !
NT3.51 GUI was crawling. in order to enhance GUI responsiveness microsoft made a major change between NT 3.51 and NT 4, they moved lot of stuff to kernel space: GDI, USER, entire Win32 subsystem..
having done this spared a lot of context switches, so it has a positive impact on performance.. at the price of a lower reliability. at my knowledge this compromise wasn't made on linux, i don't know if this eventuality was studied.
you may have heard about the minitel, some sort of videotext terminal that iss distributed for free..
its nominal speed is 1200/75 bits/s, but you now have faster ways to access it. anyway it was sufficient for its semi-graphic interface.
the main use of the minitel was to connect to some "kiosk" and then type the name of the service you want to access. you don't have to subscribe, eventually you do not pay the services directly. you are billed by the operator (france telecom) according to the time you spent on the different service, and their respective rates (from free to something like 1.5 dollars per minute). the billing is made in the same invoice as the usual voice calls. the operator charges, collects the money, keeps some for himself, and give the remaining to the providers of the different services.
a lot of companies made a lot of money with this, with different kind of services: chats (some very sex-oriented), games, value-added professionnal databases..
minitel was launched in 1984, and it was very popular, years before most of us ever heard about internet:
more than 6 million terminals were distributed as of 1994. more than a billion connections in 2002, not too bad for a 60 million ppl country and for a medium that is slowly fading away.
if you are curious you can even try it using your internet connection:
45MFLOPS, which is better than the 36MFLOPS obtained for the Intel machine using assembler that has been heavily optimized. If anything, this performance estimate is conservative in favor of the PS2, because our primary goal was a working assembly dot product in macromode and we have made no attempt to optimize the code. For example, our code uses only three of the VPU registers, and a speedup of up to 4x (the latency of the floating point multiply instruction) may be obtained by using all of the available registers.
so, using *unoptimized* ASM on PS2, PS2 is 25% faster that the intel machine using *heavily optimized* ASM.. and optimizing code would probably earn BIG performance gains (400% !?) on the PS2.
taking the sentence the the letter there is a potential of 500 % the speed of the PIII 600 on the PS2 for this particular calculation.
read this (supposed) dow chemicals internal memo
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Dow vs. Parody
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Another factor in gaming is that there are extremely few really innovative games. Most follow well known genres because the publishers are afraid of taking risks.
would it be realistic to assume that after more than 20 years of videogames, more and more concepts were found, and that it becomes harder and harder to find new ones ?
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You bought an news game for 30 $.
The reseller buy it 10 $ from you.
It sells it for 20 $.
Maybe you'll then buy a new game, but more than not often you'll buy an used game at the used game shop when the reseller just gave you the money, of course you can also spend your 10 $ outside of videogames.
Assuming the best case: you keep your 10 $ to buy a new game, the industry will have the income from 1,33 games but more realistically it will just be the income for one game. Without the used market it would have been 2 games, the one you bought and the one the guy who bought your used game would have bought.
And used games can be sold numerous times, and each time the reseller makes money of it, not the publisher/developpers..
You can't compare sales of used videogames with sales of goods like mattress or cars:
If you sell a car you didn't use it in full, and you sell its residual value which represents the remaining usage potential.
If you happen to buy an used car you won't be able to use it as long as if it was new.
Whereas when you finished the videogame you used it in full.
But for someone else its usage potential remains full.
The so-said used videogames aren't used at all.
If each time an used car/mattress/etc.. (even almost exhausted) was sold it would magically become as good as a new car, the car industry would not last for long.
When you buy an used game, it's not only less money for sony but also less money for the publisher and the developper.
Every dollar spent on used games is money that wont be available to the gaming industry. Used games resellers are parasites depriving the video games creators from a much needed income.
If you like video games please support your industry: buy new games.
They could use a dongle, if your PS3 is broken you just use the dongle with the new PS3.
You don't prove anything with your anecdote.
Summer 2004 we painlessly installed several opteron-based linux servers, using 64 bits linux, and gentoo distribution.
We had no problem whatsoever with these servers since, despite them doing a lot of different tasks to do (all server-oriented).
IMHO you should have known better about the hardware and software support prior to your decision to go linux 64 bits.
Then two possibilities:
* You would have concluded that it is not ready for what you want to do with it, and go 32 bits..
* You would have chosen compatible components.
Anyway you wouldn't be whining here about your experience.
You are wrong when you claim about linux AMD64 being immature: it was just not ready for what you intended to do with it, and mostly because (proprietary) drivers were not available (and not the because of the core of linux).
Linux AMD64 is ready for the server for a long time, but it's only now that I'm thinking about using it in my personal computer where my needs are vastly different.
But how could Intel do such a thing ?
if i was still on of their customer i wouldn't expect an free antipsyware/antivirus from microsoft, but nothing less than to correct the problem at its source, and do what we should reasonnably expect from them: give the security the priority it deserves.
for example the network stack shouldn't be so easily parasited by spyware like new.net, that can break your internet connection when you remove them.. unsurprisingly the only tool that i could find to handle this wasn't from MS: LSP-Fix.
what is waiting MS to correct such design flaws ?
unfortunately most people don't know much about these issues, and i guesse these products won't get the boycott they deserve.
then by including its browser and mail client in their OS, and preventing by its maneuvers other products to have a chance (ie: being included by the OEM), microsoft forcibly extended its mono-culture to two other important vectors of virus and spywares...
combined with:
- the numerous security fails discovered in these product in a regular fashion.. some of them very stupid and dangerous: attachment that open by itself and execute, by using audio/x-wav mime type.
- bad default settings: hidden extensions (what have they done to prevent double extension scam in OE ?), netbios and co active by default on the internet connexion..etc..
microsoft created a ground very favorable to virus, spyware, worms: we could euphemistically that that they have some responsability here..MS attempt to make money with antivirus/antispyware not only shows their opportunism but also their prevalent cynism.
i guess that a antivirus and antispyware mono-culture is what we needed :/
BTW for those poor fellows still using OS oses ;) there is a great paper about network services minimization on windows 2000/XP (also available in french) a good way to close some present and future security holes, thanks to herve schauer consultants.
isn't this what we usually call a modem ?
it could be something more than a non-event if stinger wasn't available for a long time and didn't remove more malware..
security is critical and we need to be up-to-date about it, i just can't wait for binary packages to be available. for critical security components, for example clamav, it's not uncommon i have to hack an ebuild in order to get the latest version that is absolutely needed for detection of some viruses.. fortunately under gentoo it is as practical as it can be.
also, i want to be able to compile the software we use as i need it, not how someone at redhat or another company chosed to compile it. and having to modify a source package every time you need it is at least unpractical, especially when it is source RPM. it's why i love the USE variable (and /etc/portage/packages.use).. and don't forget the stack protectors and other things that are not usually enabled on binary packages, using you own CFLAGS is not only a ricers thing..
for all this reasons, relying of third-party compiled package is clearly NOT an option for me.
i used suse and redhat a lot before (using linux since 1997), and had many opportunities to notice that binary packages don't ensure stability by itself. (for example the squid package from the distribution maker were often subject to problem and i often had to compile it by myself).. my gentoo servers are at least as stable that my older (suse/redhat based) ones, despite some of the new ones being amd64 SMP (and using AMD64 gentoo of course), whereas older ones where only "classic" uniprocessor pentiums 3/4..
also i dislike the release number scheme of redhat and co, where you have to regularly install a new version of the distribution to update your server.. not only i have to take down my so-said production servers but also this process usually have its own problems.. by far i prefer the gentoo concept where you can make your system evolves seamlessly, day by day, like the free software itself.
another point i like in gentoo is it's "meta" characteristic, this distribution is very flexible and can be tuned for desktop use (i use it on my desktops), file servers, networking... better than to multiply distribution variants..
of course if i needed to run proprietary software like oracle i would use a supported distro, probably redhat. but if my servers use free software i use gentoo. i also use devil-linux where it fits the needs.
just one year before it was released, peter molyneux gave an interview to spong:
Part One
more about children:Part Two
Part Three
he confirmed all the hype about fable, to quote him:
but at the time of the interview, he knew what would and what wouldn't be in fable !
of course even when the release date was approching he didn't deny any of his allegation (another form of lie), only to make hypocritical apologies not before fable sold enough units..
nothing but deceptive advertising.
Bochs is a CPU emulator. Even if it was integrated to the kernel the emulated speed would be abysmal compared to the native processor speed.
Wine Is Not an Emulator, and it doesn't rely on bochs.
sorry for replying to myself i just stumbled on this patch for the linux kernel that could allow the same performance/reliabiliry compromise to linux and i think this could be interesting..
;)
Kernel Mode Linux : Execute user processes in kernel mode
i'll give it a try at home
i failed to like debian (sorry), but falled litteraly in love w/ gentoo:
portage/emerge is very likable, and i agree with their philosophy and the way they express it. massive number of packages, transparency. the concept of meta-distribution is no joke, i use it as well for my home PC needs, on my workstation, my 64 MB old laptop and on my servers.
after a while using linux, i was loosing the flame. with all this stuff installed by default by most distribution linux was looking more and more blackboxed like windows, with its start-from-almost-nothing approache, the administrator is winning back the mastering of his system.
gentoo is a salutary return to the roots and the spirit of unix.
it brings the same freshness feeling than migrating from (bloated) gnome desktop to xfce.
P.S.: i use devil-linux too, perfect for network stuff on diskless recycled PCs.. very nice stuff too !
having done this spared a lot of context switches, so it has a positive impact on performance.. at the price of a lower reliability. at my knowledge this compromise wasn't made on linux, i don't know if this eventuality was studied.
for more, look for win32k.sys on these pages:h tml
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http://www.windowsitlibrary.com/Content/356/01/2.
http://www.windowsitlibrary.com/Content/356/01/3.
if you really matter about filesytem performance you'll use some options like disabling access time updating.
ext2 should be mounted with noatime, reiserfs with noatime,notail,nodiratime etc..
not using the usual performance-oriented mount options (only the ones that don't compromise FS security) :(
makes this benchmark a lot less meaningful
it is compiled in the great multiplatform media player VLC.
you may have heard about the minitel, some sort of videotext terminal that iss distributed for free.. its nominal speed is 1200/75 bits/s, but you now have faster ways to access it. anyway it was sufficient for its semi-graphic interface.
the main use of the minitel was to connect to some "kiosk" and then type the name of the service you want to access. you don't have to subscribe, eventually you do not pay the services directly. you are billed by the operator (france telecom) according to the time you spent on the different service, and their respective rates (from free to something like 1.5 dollars per minute). the billing is made in the same invoice as the usual voice calls. the operator charges, collects the money, keeps some for himself, and give the remaining to the providers of the different services.
a lot of companies made a lot of money with this, with different kind of services: chats (some very sex-oriented), games, value-added professionnal databases..
minitel was launched in 1984, and it was very popular, years before most of us ever heard about internet:
http://www.ust.hk/~webiway/content/France/history. html
more than 6 million terminals were distributed as of 1994. more than a billion connections in 2002, not too bad for a 60 million ppl country and for a medium that is slowly fading away.
if you are curious you can even try it using your internet connection:
http://www.minitelfr.com/home/index.html
redhat enterprise linux distributions aren't GPL, as they include proprietary software.
because of that you can't redistribute the iso.
however the sources of every GPL component are available for download.
microsoft did create the software with the considerable amount of vulnerabilities that makes virus like bugbear so popular.
now they'll sell the cure to the problem they seriously took part to create..
so, using *unoptimized* ASM on PS2, PS2 is 25% faster that the intel machine using *heavily optimized* ASM.. and optimizing code would probably earn BIG performance gains (400% !?) on the PS2.
taking the sentence the the letter there is a potential of 500 % the speed of the PIII 600 on the PS2 for this particular calculation.
cynism at its best...
is this for real ?
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