I'm not too clear as to how exactly this works, and correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't it be impossible to 'cheat' the winning key since it would have to be cracked so that you know it's the winning key?
The/. article and title were very confusing. I would've picked a better wording myself. As an anon. user pointed out, it's the cracking OF distributed.net that's being halted. Read the.plan for more info.
My father's friend worked on one of the test facilities for quite some time... Fusion still isn't outputting as much energy as it takes in to start the reaction.
There were experiements which showed that we could actually construct nuclear power plants which burned off all of the excess radioactive waste except for a very small amount which isn't even harmful.
There were experiements which showed that we could have actually constructed nuclear power plants which used HALF as much water as current ones and STILL cool effectively.
Of course, we can no longer construct new nuclear power plants, so they may end up going down in history as bad just because the older ones produce tons of harmful radioactive waste and we cannot build newer ones which wouldn't.
Hopefully we can get the kind of power from microwave power plants that would could in SimCity 2000 and 3000. If not, we can always turn back to safe nuclear (The problem is convincing the rest of the world that this is possible.)
The specific code everyone's talking about was in the installer. Was this why your setup didn't work, or was it something else (like disk compression)?
Ever seen source code for an actual release verson of Win? Didn't think so.
Exactly my point. It was there in the official release version of Win 3.1, it just isn't as easily provable. I HAD DR-DOS, and Win3.1 wouldn't work on it for me.
... they had better not throw out the evidence. I quote the article: For example, Microsoft VP Jim Allchin said in a 1991 memo that "I suggest (at least for systems) that we... consider changing our apps to not run unless the OS is our OS."
Isn't that what Microsoft has really been doing all along until they essentially bought out Apple?
And it was even cheaper. Isn't it a little strange that Intel can drop the price of a chipset that much simply because of a competitor? Doesn't it make it obvious that their chips have had hugely inflated prices?
Sure, AMD's Athlon probably has a hugely inflated price, too, but it was planned to be a lot cheaper than the slower competing chips from Intel.
I realize that... but I doubt that everyone else will. Not everyone reads the articles that are linked, and I was simply informing people that they need not return them so they might actually fix them.
... it has 64 megs, just like the PMP500 will have, and it doesn't have anti-piracy stuff. I don't see why everyone's deciding not to get the Rio when you can still buy the ones without anti-piracy software with the same amount of storage.
Oh, and I doubt that the anti-piracy stuff will last. I've already seen sites working on an ext2 filesystem for the Rio. I think it will be quite easy just to use different software and initialize the flash cards differently.
... so the joke about selling video cards with Rios doesn't quite work.:)
Anyway, I'm very concerned that 3dfx will be buying S3, which would mean that I have a 3dfx Rio *shudder*. Luckily I switched to Creative Labs for nVIDIA chipsets a little while ago. I guess I'll just have to get everything from Creative Labs now. (I personally dislike 3dfx due to their business practices and the whole Babbages incident)
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Yeah, but isn't it only the person and team that get the winning key that actually win anything?
I'm not too clear as to how exactly this works, and correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't it be impossible to 'cheat' the winning key since it would have to be cracked so that you know it's the winning key?
The /. article and title were very confusing. I would've picked a better wording myself. As an anon. user pointed out, it's the cracking OF distributed.net that's being halted. Read the .plan for more info.
Yeah, I was confused by that, too. .plan file cleared everything up, though.
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It's nice to see that they can handle such things efficiently, fairly quickly, and without causing any trouble or losing their 'cool'.
I think I'll be helping with distributed.net projects for a long time to come.
My father's friend worked on one of the test facilities for quite some time... Fusion still isn't outputting as much energy as it takes in to start the reaction.
Thank you very much for that clarification.
There were experiements which showed that we could actually construct nuclear power plants which burned off all of the excess radioactive waste except for a very small amount which isn't even harmful.
There were experiements which showed that we could have actually constructed nuclear power plants which used HALF as much water as current ones and STILL cool effectively.
Of course, we can no longer construct new nuclear power plants, so they may end up going down in history as bad just because the older ones produce tons of harmful radioactive waste and we cannot build newer ones which wouldn't.
Hopefully we can get the kind of power from microwave power plants that would could in SimCity 2000 and 3000. If not, we can always turn back to safe nuclear (The problem is convincing the rest of the world that this is possible.)
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The specific code everyone's talking about was in the installer. Was this why your setup didn't work, or was it something else (like disk compression)?
It was.
Ever seen source code for an actual release verson of Win? Didn't think so.
Exactly my point. It was there in the official release version of Win 3.1, it just isn't as easily provable. I HAD DR-DOS, and Win3.1 wouldn't work on it for me.
It's not that they want it to only run on MS-DOS, it's that they make it seem as if it's DR-DOS's fault that windows didn't want to run.
I use Linux.
... they had better not throw out the evidence. I quote the article: For example, Microsoft VP Jim Allchin said in a 1991 memo that "I suggest (at least for systems) that we ... consider changing our apps to not run unless the OS is our OS."
Isn't that what Microsoft has really been doing all along until they essentially bought out Apple?
And it was even cheaper. Isn't it a little strange that Intel can drop the price of a chipset that much simply because of a competitor? Doesn't it make it obvious that their chips have had hugely inflated prices?
Sure, AMD's Athlon probably has a hugely inflated price, too, but it was planned to be a lot cheaper than the slower competing chips from Intel.
I was wondering when you guys would post that. Perhaps I should've submitted it days ago when I found out. :)
I realize that... but I doubt that everyone else will. Not everyone reads the articles that are linked, and I was simply informing people that they need not return them so they might actually fix them.
If you read the article, you'll see that you just have to call up Hasbro and they'll send you a kit to fix them.
... it has 64 megs, just like the PMP500 will have, and it doesn't have anti-piracy stuff. I don't see why everyone's deciding not to get the Rio when you can still buy the ones without anti-piracy software with the same amount of storage.
Oh, and I doubt that the anti-piracy stuff will last. I've already seen sites working on an ext2 filesystem for the Rio. I think it will be quite easy just to use different software and initialize the flash cards differently.
It's a known bug that Back and Forward don't work for URLs entered by hand in Linux.
(That means they'll fix it)
... so the joke about selling video cards with Rios doesn't quite work. :)
Anyway, I'm very concerned that 3dfx will be buying S3, which would mean that I have a 3dfx Rio *shudder*. Luckily I switched to Creative Labs for nVIDIA chipsets a little while ago. I guess I'll just have to get everything from Creative Labs now. (I personally dislike 3dfx due to their business practices and the whole Babbages incident)