Re:Taco got D2 beta AND D2 expansion beta???
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Does Blizzard give out betas to people who run geek websites so that they get free advertising?
Uhm, yes. Upwards of 500,000 extremely computer-savvy geeks just read about Diablo II. Their target audience. Blizzard could not buy that kind of publicity for millions of dollars.
Funny story about that. My Dad and some friends were at an LA biker hangout called The Rock Store when Jay rolled up on his jet-bike. My Dad knows Jay through business so they all went up and checked the thing out. Jay said that it got lots of stares as he drove around the city that day, including one unforunate guy in a shiny new BMW who pulled right up behind him to get a look at the bike. Funny thing was, the exhaust from the jet was so hot that it started melting the front end of the guy's car off! Jay said he tried to motion to the guy but the guy just didn't understand it. Sucks for him:)
On the Koolance website they say that the water-cooled power supply only works for systems under 1ghz and with non-DDR RAM, even though it's rated at 300W. For people who want to go higher, they reccomend an air-cooled PSU at... 300W. So it's not like the cooler itself is sucking too much power. Can anyone shed some light on this? I posit that no one who cares enough to buy these cases are going to be running under 1Ghz, either before or after overclocking. On one of the distributor's web sites they say only that you shouldn't use DDR with it, meaning I guess that 1Ghz is okay. I really want to buy one of these cases for the noise reduction, and of course the PSU is one of the biggest sources of noise. OTOH I must have the latest and greatest, which means a P4 in the 1.5Ghz range. Anyone aware of what thes technical limitations stemming from a using liquid cooled PSU (even of identical voltage) are, how they relate to RAM and processor speed, and any ways to flout them? Thanks!
I'm sorry, it's 3AM two days before finals:) Apple has not released Quicktime for Linux and I maintain that they have no plans to. First, if they did, they would have already done so. Linux was mainstream two years ago. Two, they have been adamantly opposed to distributing the Sorenson video codec, to the point of not even allowing Sorenson to license it to other people. Fron the xanim webpage:
"I have contacted Sorenson about licensing their codec. They responded that Apple won't allow them to license it to others."
"As a developer for Sorenson... Sorenson would be more than happy to go along with a Linux port of QuickTime. Apple is the entity which has been holding off and because of licensing between Apple and Sorenson, there is nothing we can do about it... "
I wouldn't hold my breath, embedded Linux or not. From the massive PR that Apple lavishes on QT to watching Steve Jobs soil himself yearly at Macworld and Comdex whilst marvelling the latest and greatest QT innovations, etc., you get the sense that Apple really thinks they're sitting on the greatest thing since sliced bread here (they're not).
Quicktime has and will not be released for Linux. It goes without saying that the Windows Media Player will not, either. Along with Realplayer, then, those are the 3 predominate streaming video formats on the web. Now we've got all three.
The bigger question is whether or not this implementation will use XVideo. SHM is just too slow and CPU intensive. This questions means the difference between whether these plugins seem like bulky and awkward processes run on top of an emulator, or whether they perform as well as in Windows itself.
I was just joking, but you aren't even being humorless correctly. I guess code reuse is fine if you wrote it the first time, but the whole underlying point here is that you should be able to use code you've never even seen the internals of before. And you've done that, assuming you've ever written anything in C or C++ or Java or any language that relies on a standard set of libraries. Did you ever dig around in the glibc source to "learn" how printf() really works? I should hope not, because by that logic you'll eventually work your way down to some assembler statements in the kernel. You just used it, because it's to spec and always works and you don't have to have a clue how. And whoever wrote glibc (I wouldn't know, because despite having written literally hundreds of programs based on that library, I've never looked at the source) did the same when making low-level IO calls to the kernel, etc. That's called black-box abstraction, and without grasping that concept a lot of important things in computer science are lost upon you. The logical leap from abstraction is of course code reuse. Hence "i'm not sure what my friend did in this part of the program, but he says to write this and it works so i'm keeping it" is like the highest design principle you, as a computer scientist, can aspire to, assuming your friend writes his code bug-free and to spec.
It's called "code reuse" and it's been drilled into our heads since day one. You mean you haven't gotten the old "when engineers want to build a bridge, they don't design the whole thing from scratch" lecture ad nauseum for the past four years? I have, and I'll be a sophmore next year:)
Ahem... the guy (AKA Larry Walters, e.g. "Lawn Chair Larry") who put baloons on his lawn chair and flew up into the sky had it go off like a charm, if I remember correctly. He got up to about 16000 feet, drifted for 14 hours, drank beer, and ate sandwiches, before finally drifting into an LAX approach lane, at which point he descended, got caught in some power lines, and climbed down. He survived, and got probably the coolest, quietest, and most serene bird's eye view of Los Angeles (parts of it at night, no less) that anyone in history has ever gotten. How do you call that a failure?
Supercavitation is really not anything new, however it spells big big trouble for the US military. I haven't read this article but I'm assuming it makes mention of the Russian "shkval" (squall) rocket torpedo, which can do an amazing 200mph underwater. If not, go look it up on Google. This thing is fscking sweet. Nothing in our arsenal comes even close to competing with this technology, and, as the post said, it will change the face of naval warfare. Defense analysts say the Russians are at least 20 years ahead of anyone else for supercavitation, and they're selling it to all their friends (China, etc.) I think this stands to really alter the strategic balance of naval powers. What good are our 11? 14? whatever---what good are our carrier groups when you've got torpedoes coming in as fast as an Indycar (faster!). Nothing. Nada. Kaput.
Of course that's irrelevant if you are enrolled in a decent CS program. At least where I go, they're teaching me about large-scale application design, specifcation, data abstraction and modelling, OOP, functional programming, etc. To quote one of my professors, "A language is something you learn over the weekend. If that's not the case, then you're in the wrong field." That about sums it up. The only real skill you need to make the leap from Java to C++ is a firm grasp on memory managment, which can be gleaned by hewing to the following maxim: for every 'new', there must be a 'delete'. Simple as that:) Everything else is just details, or is not worth learning. Like operator overloading. Avoid that like the plague.
I think you are mistaken. Knuth will double the size of the bounty for every year that has passed since he made the offer (in 1986). See my other post in this thread.
Has anybody ever seen a bug-free piece of software of any complexity greater than "Hello World"?"
Go download the core (e.g. written in CWEB) part of TeX, which was written by probably the greatest computer scientist of our day, Donald Knuth. I don't think a bug has been found in TeX in at least a decade. It's gotten to the point where Knuth will cut you a check for several hundred "hexadecimal" dollars (256 cents ** years since he made the offer) if you find one, which you would never cash anyways but rather mount it on your wall. TeX is definitely a bit more complex than "Hello World". Many people in the publishing industry will tell you that the features it provides could be sold for many thousands of dollars or even tens of thousands as a closed-source software package. It's highly complex.
The site is of course Slashdotted to all hell and back, so I (patiently) downloaded the hi-res image of the box and stuck it up on Geocities. And my karma is maxed, so save your breath.
I wouldn't hold your breath. It's hard to (safely) pilot a machine that flies so much faster than the speed of sound that the paint melts off after every flight, and that the metal airframe expands - allowing jet fuel to seep out of its tanks and onto the exterior of the aircraft - all due to heat from atmospheric friction. At 80,000+ feet. Where the ambient temperature is something like -50 celsius.
Pretty fucking amazing, despite the fact that you can't fly it.
... a really good article on proper technique for playing ska guitar. I know about upstroking & all that but for some reason my ska licks just don't sound quite right.
What is the quote? "Flying is three hours of absolute boredom followed by ten minuts of sheer terror," or something along those lines. And that guy was in the military. Having flown a little bit myself, I can say that most flying is boring anyways. Me personally, I stick to hang-gliding:) Much more intense.
By CEO of Alcoa I'm assuming you are referring to the former CEO of Alcoa, Paul O'Neill, who now heads up the Treasury Department, and not Alain Belda, who is the current Chief. Perhaps you could elaborate on why exactly the Secretary of Treasury would "want" California as opposed to any of the other 49 states. Or why Alcoa, the world's largest producer of aluminum, would care about California at all. As far as I know we're newsworthy right now only because our state's energy market is a joke. I'm specualing here, but in my opinion the only way Alcoa could do anything to alleviate this problem would be to cease all operations in California. Certainly they would not encounter regulatory difficulties doing that; Compaq, Intel, GM, and all the rest already did it with nary a peep from Washington. Or, most importantly, how that post got modded up.
Hmm.. "zero", "nope", and "never", respectively. As far as looks I have about 60 ways to go with this, but why reinvent the wheel? Quoting Motorcycle Magazine:
Complaints about the radical-looking Hayabusa emanated, according to our unscientific and anecdotal observations, from motojournalists and older guys alike (most of whom are and the same) who take their fashion cues from K-Mart.
That gold and silver you blur you see blowing by you as you stock up on the latest fashions from Bugle Boys over at KMart would be me. Try and catch up - oh wait, you can't, because mine's 20 faster. I wouldn't ride a XX if you paid me to.
Bah. My Suzuki GSX-1300R Hayabusa will do it in 2.2, maxes out at just 17mph below the F1, and at a list price of $10,999, costs approximately 1% of your McLaren. And it looks about as cool, too.
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Re:Do it yourself Linux TV
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No DXR3 is definitely backward compatible with MPEG1; this much I've verified. I've got a huge hard disk and I figure with the proper processor upgrade & a couple days of hacking I'll whip something up to pause live TV. DIY Tivo:)
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Uhm, yes. Upwards of 500,000 extremely computer-savvy geeks just read about Diablo II. Their target audience. Blizzard could not buy that kind of publicity for millions of dollars.
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Funny story about that. My Dad and some friends were at an LA biker hangout called The Rock Store when Jay rolled up on his jet-bike. My Dad knows Jay through business so they all went up and checked the thing out. Jay said that it got lots of stares as he drove around the city that day, including one unforunate guy in a shiny new BMW who pulled right up behind him to get a look at the bike. Funny thing was, the exhaust from the jet was so hot that it started melting the front end of the guy's car off! Jay said he tried to motion to the guy but the guy just didn't understand it. Sucks for him :)
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I have my "Crisis Week." It's called, "finals." In 37 hours, 23 minutes, and 8 seconds, I am gonna be... so fucking drunk
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Well, searching the site would be a start.
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Answered my own question.
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On the Koolance website they say that the water-cooled power supply only works for systems under 1ghz and with non-DDR RAM, even though it's rated at 300W. For people who want to go higher, they reccomend an air-cooled PSU at... 300W. So it's not like the cooler itself is sucking too much power. Can anyone shed some light on this? I posit that no one who cares enough to buy these cases are going to be running under 1Ghz, either before or after overclocking. On one of the distributor's web sites they say only that you shouldn't use DDR with it, meaning I guess that 1Ghz is okay. I really want to buy one of these cases for the noise reduction, and of course the PSU is one of the biggest sources of noise. OTOH I must have the latest and greatest, which means a P4 in the 1.5Ghz range. Anyone aware of what thes technical limitations stemming from a using liquid cooled PSU (even of identical voltage) are, how they relate to RAM and processor speed, and any ways to flout them? Thanks!
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This topic has been discussed at length on Slashdot in the past. One notable thread reads,
I wouldn't hold my breath, embedded Linux or not. From the massive PR that Apple lavishes on QT to watching Steve Jobs soil himself yearly at Macworld and Comdex whilst marvelling the latest and greatest QT innovations, etc., you get the sense that Apple really thinks they're sitting on the greatest thing since sliced bread here (they're not).
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The bigger question is whether or not this implementation will use XVideo. SHM is just too slow and CPU intensive. This questions means the difference between whether these plugins seem like bulky and awkward processes run on top of an emulator, or whether they perform as well as in Windows itself.
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I was just joking, but you aren't even being humorless correctly. I guess code reuse is fine if you wrote it the first time, but the whole underlying point here is that you should be able to use code you've never even seen the internals of before. And you've done that, assuming you've ever written anything in C or C++ or Java or any language that relies on a standard set of libraries. Did you ever dig around in the glibc source to "learn" how printf() really works? I should hope not, because by that logic you'll eventually work your way down to some assembler statements in the kernel. You just used it, because it's to spec and always works and you don't have to have a clue how. And whoever wrote glibc (I wouldn't know, because despite having written literally hundreds of programs based on that library, I've never looked at the source) did the same when making low-level IO calls to the kernel, etc. That's called black-box abstraction, and without grasping that concept a lot of important things in computer science are lost upon you. The logical leap from abstraction is of course code reuse. Hence "i'm not sure what my friend did in this part of the program, but he says to write this and it works so i'm keeping it" is like the highest design principle you, as a computer scientist, can aspire to, assuming your friend writes his code bug-free and to spec.
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It's called "code reuse" and it's been drilled into our heads since day one. You mean you haven't gotten the old "when engineers want to build a bridge, they don't design the whole thing from scratch" lecture ad nauseum for the past four years? I have, and I'll be a sophmore next year :)
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It wasn't a failure. I already knew he killed himself, which is why I'm doing justice to his memory. They guy felt like flying. He flew. End of story.
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Ahem... the guy (AKA Larry Walters, e.g. "Lawn Chair Larry") who put baloons on his lawn chair and flew up into the sky had it go off like a charm, if I remember correctly. He got up to about 16000 feet, drifted for 14 hours, drank beer, and ate sandwiches, before finally drifting into an LAX approach lane, at which point he descended, got caught in some power lines, and climbed down. He survived, and got probably the coolest, quietest, and most serene bird's eye view of Los Angeles (parts of it at night, no less) that anyone in history has ever gotten. How do you call that a failure?
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Supercavitation is really not anything new, however it spells big big trouble for the US military. I haven't read this article but I'm assuming it makes mention of the Russian "shkval" (squall) rocket torpedo, which can do an amazing 200mph underwater. If not, go look it up on Google. This thing is fscking sweet. Nothing in our arsenal comes even close to competing with this technology, and, as the post said, it will change the face of naval warfare. Defense analysts say the Russians are at least 20 years ahead of anyone else for supercavitation, and they're selling it to all their friends (China, etc.) I think this stands to really alter the strategic balance of naval powers. What good are our 11? 14? whatever---what good are our carrier groups when you've got torpedoes coming in as fast as an Indycar (faster!). Nothing. Nada. Kaput.
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Of course that's irrelevant if you are enrolled in a decent CS program. At least where I go, they're teaching me about large-scale application design, specifcation, data abstraction and modelling, OOP, functional programming, etc. To quote one of my professors, "A language is something you learn over the weekend. If that's not the case, then you're in the wrong field." That about sums it up. The only real skill you need to make the leap from Java to C++ is a firm grasp on memory managment, which can be gleaned by hewing to the following maxim: for every 'new', there must be a 'delete'. Simple as that :) Everything else is just details, or is not worth learning. Like operator overloading. Avoid that like the plague.
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I think you are mistaken. Knuth will double the size of the bounty for every year that has passed since he made the offer (in 1986). See my other post in this thread.
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Read the manual page for mf(1) under the "BUGS" section.
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Go download the core (e.g. written in CWEB) part of TeX, which was written by probably the greatest computer scientist of our day, Donald Knuth. I don't think a bug has been found in TeX in at least a decade. It's gotten to the point where Knuth will cut you a check for several hundred "hexadecimal" dollars (256 cents ** years since he made the offer) if you find one, which you would never cash anyways but rather mount it on your wall. TeX is definitely a bit more complex than "Hello World". Many people in the publishing industry will tell you that the features it provides could be sold for many thousands of dollars or even tens of thousands as a closed-source software package. It's highly complex.
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The site is of course Slashdotted to all hell and back, so I (patiently) downloaded the hi-res image of the box and stuck it up on Geocities. And my karma is maxed, so save your breath.
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I wouldn't hold your breath. It's hard to (safely) pilot a machine that flies so much faster than the speed of sound that the paint melts off after every flight, and that the metal airframe expands - allowing jet fuel to seep out of its tanks and onto the exterior of the aircraft - all due to heat from atmospheric friction. At 80,000+ feet. Where the ambient temperature is something like -50 celsius.
Pretty fucking amazing, despite the fact that you can't fly it.
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... a really good article on proper technique for playing ska guitar. I know about upstroking & all that but for some reason my ska licks just don't sound quite right.
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What is the quote? "Flying is three hours of absolute boredom followed by ten minuts of sheer terror," or something along those lines. And that guy was in the military. Having flown a little bit myself, I can say that most flying is boring anyways. Me personally, I stick to hang-gliding :) Much more intense.
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By CEO of Alcoa I'm assuming you are referring to the former CEO of Alcoa, Paul O'Neill, who now heads up the Treasury Department, and not Alain Belda, who is the current Chief. Perhaps you could elaborate on why exactly the Secretary of Treasury would "want" California as opposed to any of the other 49 states. Or why Alcoa, the world's largest producer of aluminum, would care about California at all. As far as I know we're newsworthy right now only because our state's energy market is a joke. I'm specualing here, but in my opinion the only way Alcoa could do anything to alleviate this problem would be to cease all operations in California. Certainly they would not encounter regulatory difficulties doing that; Compaq, Intel, GM, and all the rest already did it with nary a peep from Washington. Or, most importantly, how that post got modded up.
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That gold and silver you blur you see blowing by you as you stock up on the latest fashions from Bugle Boys over at KMart would be me. Try and catch up - oh wait, you can't, because mine's 20 faster. I wouldn't ride a XX if you paid me to.
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Bah. My Suzuki GSX-1300R Hayabusa will do it in 2.2, maxes out at just 17mph below the F1, and at a list price of $10,999, costs approximately 1% of your McLaren. And it looks about as cool, too.
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No DXR3 is definitely backward compatible with MPEG1; this much I've verified. I've got a huge hard disk and I figure with the proper processor upgrade & a couple days of hacking I'll whip something up to pause live TV. DIY Tivo :)
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