The only reason I have a Windows image at home is for a couple of games. So far, only VMWare Workstation can handle Windows gaming with any decent speed since it supports DirectX. Do any of the other virtualizers work well with gaming? I'm talking about games like COD4, America's Army, and others based on the UT2/UT3 engine.
It most certainly doesn't handle games with decent speed. Lets look at the game compability list, updated this month:
COD4 - "Starts up fine, but too slow to play. Frame rate is about 2 FPS at 640x480 with all settings reduced to minimum. VM settings - 1.5GB ram, 2 VCPU's, optimize for VM."
America's Army - Not on the list
UT2/UT3 - Not on the list. Not sure which games on the list might be derivatives
Other complaints even for games reported to work are "choppy sound, minor texture glitches", "Sluggish, but playable.", "Flawless; low FPS", "Flickery top bar and "Sticky" graphics"
This does not sound to me like something a frequent gamer would put up with, when dual booting would give much better results.
VMWare is to be applauded for their DirectX effort, but they're not quite there yet.
As an aside, the value of an idea can be destroyed when more people know it - this is why we have trade secret law.
The MONETARY value of the idea can be destroyed. Coke no longer gets to keep it's secret forumla secret and can't sell billions of dollars worth of the stuff every year with no competition from others. KFC can't claim to be the only company with their own special blend of secret herbs and spices. However the INTRINSIC value of the idea is not destroyed. In some ways it is increased if everyone can make coke and KFC to the same formula. In other words all the trade secret does is protect you from free market style competition.
I'll never understand why Slashdot, primarily a group of code-authors are so willing to shoot themselves in the feet and claim that they have no property rights in their works.
A lot of us publish FOSS too. I bet that REALLY baffles you.
Under property law, you'd have the right to exclude Microsoft from using your idea, same as you could kick Bill Gates off your lawn.
A lot of us don't want to exclude Microsoft from using our idea. Some of us don't want them to profit from doing so. Others want to get a cut off the profit. Regardless, property law is a very bad way to go if you don't want to exclude others from using your work. Even if you can use that power to eventually profit from your work instead of actually excluding it, you're still at the whim of the company that stole it (who can often simply remove it rather than pay you, or tie you up in very costly litigation).
The "I don't believe in intellectual property (in spite of making my living through its creation)" meme you're espousing is the new one, and yes, it does show just how well brainwashing works.
I don't know if you're misunderstanding on purpose or not, but most people who'd abolish or modify IP law want a better replacement that does allow them to profit WITHOUT RESTRICTING USE OF THE PRODUCT...and yes that is possible. You can force Microsoft to pay for use of the product in arrears for example without necessarily wielding the power to stop them using your product. An authors ability to profit DOES NOT have to be tied to some unenforceable right to control the work once published. Once you release something, trying to control its use is futile and a damned stupid waste of time. Tying your ability to control it to your ability to profit is even stupider. The real brainwashing is that people don't understand or imagine a world in which the two things are separate.
Problem was, when I started teaching theory and rules I lost half the class when they found out you could not swear or use profanity.
That's why you should introduce them to CB radio first.
saying SHIT is more important than knowledge to them.
They're kids. They want to rebel. It's part of growing up, and testing your boundaries and it's ingrained into the human species. It's not so easy to rebel when things are tightly regulated. They're at that stage of development. Therefore they lose interest.
If you think the lack of interest in dry rules and regs of HAM radio is depressing, what about the fact that most kids have no interest in physics or astronomy - aka the strange way the world works and how small we are and how we fit in.
It's difficult. You have to get their interest first THEN you can teach them stuff.
I imagine one could get in a lot of trouble prank calling the ISS. Though it it some what difficult to come up with space themed prank calls akin to "Is your refrigerator running".
There's always the classic of pretending to order a pizza. I'm sure the astronauts would appreciate that, what with their schedules being so full of free time to deal with idiots.
1. Copying protected iTunes Music from Work to Home only ever required a one-time registration of your home computer, by selecting "Store -> Authorize Computer" from the iTunes menus. iTunes has always allowed you to authorize up to five systems in this way. Once authorized, you can copy the music files between these systems at will. Hardly "obscure" -- it isn't even "buried" in a sub-menu.
Does that still work if you bought content previously but you're outside the US and can no longer do that?
2.# Perhaps you missed the announcement -- Apple announced the removal of DRM from all its music files by April 2009, with a significant quantity of their library already DRM free on the day of the announcement, nearly a month ago.
So what happens to people's prior purchases that were DRM encrypted? How long will Apple support the DRM servers? Will they replace DRM music with DRM free music when those servers go dark?
I think there are legitimate questions here and no they're not all specific to Apple, but they are all DRM related.
It also is quite wrong. It is legal to own "Mein Kampf" in Germany. It is not legal to sell, give or even show it to somebody else. It is also illegal to purchase it as far as I know. Possession however is fine.
No! Don't read that! It's "Mein Kampf" not "Yourn Kampf"!
If you have proper change management policies there is no chance in hell that a computer changing function would keep the same name.
A change of function would start a project, part of which would be to deal with host names in an standardized manner.
Glad things are so tidy where you are. I've worked at some prestigious organisations, but never anywhere that bad decisions weren't made and controls and balances circumvented at some stage for business reasons, and never anywhere that didn't have staff competent in one area making decisions they don't understand. It can happen. It's called the real world.
We had this exact problem. Originally they were all named Webserver1,Webserver2,Monitoring1,Monitoring2 etc etc etc. We decided it would be cool to name them all after simpsons characters. 3 Days later I get an alert to my phone at 2am to tell me Nelson is not responding to ping. WTF is Nelson? Is he important? No idea what he did, and if he needed rebooting immediately or could wait till reasonable hours.
An Excel spreadsheet with name and function would serve you well. Print it out and put it in your wallet.
Hence I'm a big proponent for a useful naming scheme.
Until someone starts changing the function of the computer without renaming it. Then it's a real mess. Are you sure no one else would do that without consulting you?
The colours I use are different (though red is production) but I picked up that same trick from a colleague who I had a lot of respect for. Glad I'm not the only one.
On the other hand, if I told you 'mx2' and 'nas1' are down, you have a better idea of what you're dealing with... Forget that there's a CNAME from mail to daffy and a CNAME from p0rnserver to nas1.
Until someone decides to retire mx2, move functionality from nas1 to a new server named nas2, and make use of the old mx2 as the mail server.
Now you have nas1 and nas2. One's a mail server. You get to guess which one. But hey if you think you REALLY know better than the RFC, it's your network to run.
The point is you don't need to have a population that is astoundingly wedded to the idea of spreading out across the stars. You need a tiny, tiny fraction of the population to be wedded to the idea - just a handful of pioneering types who are okay with being placed in stasis for a few centuries, or raising their children and grandchildren inside a giant hollow cylinder. If you can find 500 people every few years who are willing to do something like the above, you will eventually become a pan-galactic civilization.
You don't need even that. Just find a few people willing to freeze some sperm and eggs. Send them into space frozen, with caretaking robots. You've just reduced the problem to a) building robots that can dethaw sperm and egg and combine b) building machines that can bring the baby to term c) building nanny robots d) making sure all this machinery can last the voyage.
Sure it's not trivial. Sure there are ethical considerations (like children going up supervised by robots) but that's a much easier problem than freezing live humans or creating a culture that's self sufficient in the vacuum and cold of deep space for millennia.
The info on your web site says you have no significant experience in technology, and you do not yet have your degree. Perhaps part of the reason these companies are looking for H1Bs are because there are so many people at your level of experience who think they're worth 75k a year.
Why not. CEOs whose only experience is driving one or more companies to bankruptcy command multi-million dollar salaries AND golden handshakes. Lead by example.
"So that's where I left my hand axe. Clumsy me!" said Dorthy Dinosaur before proceeding to eat more children from the front row at the Wiggles concert.
Did I forget to mention that I'm a dolphin? I'm sorry!
The phone isn't meant too hold if you drop it in the toilet, there are proper phones with that feature.
So you admit that Nokia doesn't make "proper phones".
I love some of the features on my phone but I'd give half of them up for something more resilient. Take a look at the forums. Many phones will handle 2 seconds in water if they're carefully dried out.
- Law to force phone manufacturers to make their keys on their phones large enough for an adult male to operate without using a thimble
- Law to make phones water resistant. Currently all Nokia phones have a minature water detector linked to a self destruct mechanism
- Law to ensure annoying bugs in firmware are dealt with in a timely manner. No, not by releasing an updated model that you have to buy at full price because you're still on contract with the buggy phone.
- Law to ensure that the loudspeaker function doesn't change (and in particular isn't replaced with a cancel call button) between making a call and the call being connected.
- Law to ensure the phone doesn't require speakerphone to be activated before a human being is able to actually hear what's said. Phones shouldn't be built for magical leprechauns that live inside them
- Law to ensure that the duration of a call is logged in the call log, not just for the last call.
However, the name Vista is now such a disaster that they had to change the name....to Windows 7? That's quite a gamble! I guess if this one doesn't work out the next operating system will be called Chairs or Doors or something.
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The only reason I have a Windows image at home is for a couple of games. So far, only VMWare Workstation can handle Windows gaming with any decent speed since it supports DirectX. Do any of the other virtualizers work well with gaming? I'm talking about games like COD4, America's Army, and others based on the UT2/UT3 engine.
It most certainly doesn't handle games with decent speed. Lets look at the game compability list, updated this month:
http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-1287
Now lets look at your games:
COD4 - "Starts up fine, but too slow to play. Frame rate is about 2 FPS at 640x480 with all settings reduced to minimum. VM settings - 1.5GB ram, 2 VCPU's, optimize for VM."
America's Army - Not on the list
UT2/UT3 - Not on the list. Not sure which games on the list might be derivatives
Other complaints even for games reported to work are "choppy sound, minor texture glitches", "Sluggish, but playable.", "Flawless; low FPS", "Flickery top bar and "Sticky" graphics"
This does not sound to me like something a frequent gamer would put up with, when dual booting would give much better results.
VMWare is to be applauded for their DirectX effort, but they're not quite there yet.
What a wally!
That's priceless. Busted talking absolute bollox.
'We will see if it is safe and if those cells inhibit HIV replication in vivo,'
Alas, poor Vivo. I knew him, Horatio.
As an aside, the value of an idea can be destroyed when more people know it - this is why we have trade secret law.
The MONETARY value of the idea can be destroyed. Coke no longer gets to keep it's secret forumla secret and can't sell billions of dollars worth of the stuff every year with no competition from others. KFC can't claim to be the only company with their own special blend of secret herbs and spices. However the INTRINSIC value of the idea is not destroyed. In some ways it is increased if everyone can make coke and KFC to the same formula. In other words all the trade secret does is protect you from free market style competition.
I'll never understand why Slashdot, primarily a group of code-authors are so willing to shoot themselves in the feet and claim that they have no property rights in their works.
A lot of us publish FOSS too. I bet that REALLY baffles you.
Under property law, you'd have the right to exclude Microsoft from using your idea, same as you could kick Bill Gates off your lawn.
A lot of us don't want to exclude Microsoft from using our idea. Some of us don't want them to profit from doing so. Others want to get a cut off the profit. Regardless, property law is a very bad way to go if you don't want to exclude others from using your work. Even if you can use that power to eventually profit from your work instead of actually excluding it, you're still at the whim of the company that stole it (who can often simply remove it rather than pay you, or tie you up in very costly litigation).
The "I don't believe in intellectual property (in spite of making my living through its creation)" meme you're espousing is the new one, and yes, it does show just how well brainwashing works.
I don't know if you're misunderstanding on purpose or not, but most people who'd abolish or modify IP law want a better replacement that does allow them to profit WITHOUT RESTRICTING USE OF THE PRODUCT...and yes that is possible. You can force Microsoft to pay for use of the product in arrears for example without necessarily wielding the power to stop them using your product. An authors ability to profit DOES NOT have to be tied to some unenforceable right to control the work once published. Once you release something, trying to control its use is futile and a damned stupid waste of time. Tying your ability to control it to your ability to profit is even stupider. The real brainwashing is that people don't understand or imagine a world in which the two things are separate.
I tried to get some kids interested in ham radio.
Problem was, when I started teaching theory and rules I lost half the class when they found out you could not swear or use profanity.
That's why you should introduce them to CB radio first.
saying SHIT is more important than knowledge to them.
They're kids. They want to rebel. It's part of growing up, and testing your boundaries and it's ingrained into the human species. It's not so easy to rebel when things are tightly regulated. They're at that stage of development. Therefore they lose interest.
If you think the lack of interest in dry rules and regs of HAM radio is depressing, what about the fact that most kids have no interest in physics or astronomy - aka the strange way the world works and how small we are and how we fit in.
It's difficult. You have to get their interest first THEN you can teach them stuff.
I imagine one could get in a lot of trouble prank calling the ISS. Though it it some what difficult to come up with space themed prank calls akin to "Is your refrigerator running".
There's always the classic of pretending to order a pizza. I'm sure the astronauts would appreciate that, what with their schedules being so full of free time to deal with idiots.
1. Copying protected iTunes Music from Work to Home only ever required a one-time registration of your home computer, by selecting "Store -> Authorize Computer" from the iTunes menus. iTunes has always allowed you to authorize up to five systems in this way. Once authorized, you can copy the music files between these systems at will. Hardly "obscure" -- it isn't even "buried" in a sub-menu.
Does that still work if you bought content previously but you're outside the US and can no longer do that?
2.# Perhaps you missed the announcement -- Apple announced the removal of DRM from all its music files by April 2009, with a significant quantity of their library already DRM free on the day of the announcement, nearly a month ago.
So what happens to people's prior purchases that were DRM encrypted? How long will Apple support the DRM servers? Will they replace DRM music with DRM free music when those servers go dark?
I think there are legitimate questions here and no they're not all specific to Apple, but they are all DRM related.
It also is quite wrong. It is legal to own "Mein Kampf" in Germany. It is not legal to sell, give or even show it to somebody else. It is also illegal to purchase it as far as I know.
Possession however is fine.
No! Don't read that! It's "Mein Kampf" not "Yourn Kampf"!
I don't get it, what's so bad about some superb owl porn?
1. It makes the mediocre owls feel inadequate
2. There may be hatchlings watching.
Why do women divorce their husbands for cheating, if the husbands in fact have no interest in that kind of thing after they have their first kid?
Because "that kind of thing" translates to "sex with the wife resulting in children" not "sex with the mistress".
If you forget the piece of paper, put a copy on the damn network, and you work it out immediately.
What do you do if a machine has more than one purpose?
If you have proper change management policies there is no chance in hell that a computer changing function would keep the same name.
A change of function would start a project, part of which would be to deal with host names in an standardized manner.
Glad things are so tidy where you are. I've worked at some prestigious organisations, but never anywhere that bad decisions weren't made and controls and balances circumvented at some stage for business reasons, and never anywhere that didn't have staff competent in one area making decisions they don't understand. It can happen. It's called the real world.
We had this exact problem. Originally they were all named Webserver1,Webserver2,Monitoring1,Monitoring2 etc etc etc. We decided it would be cool to name them all after simpsons characters. 3 Days later I get an alert to my phone at 2am to tell me Nelson is not responding to ping. WTF is Nelson? Is he important? No idea what he did, and if he needed rebooting immediately or could wait till reasonable hours.
An Excel spreadsheet with name and function would serve you well. Print it out and put it in your wallet.
Hence I'm a big proponent for a useful naming scheme.
Until someone starts changing the function of the computer without renaming it. Then it's a real mess. Are you sure no one else would do that without consulting you?
The colours I use are different (though red is production) but I picked up that same trick from a colleague who I had a lot of respect for. Glad I'm not the only one.
Actually, IIRC, the Pope made a declaration a while back that there's nothing biblical that bars the existence of extraterrestrial life.
Otherwise known as covering one's biblical backside.
On the other hand, if I told you 'mx2' and 'nas1' are down, you have a better idea of what you're dealing with... Forget that there's a CNAME from mail to daffy and a CNAME from p0rnserver to nas1.
Until someone decides to retire mx2, move functionality from nas1 to a new server named nas2, and make use of the old mx2 as the mail server.
Now you have nas1 and nas2. One's a mail server. You get to guess which one. But hey if you think you REALLY know better than the RFC, it's your network to run.
The point is you don't need to have a population that is astoundingly wedded to the idea of spreading out across the stars. You need a tiny, tiny fraction of the population to be wedded to the idea - just a handful of pioneering types who are okay with being placed in stasis for a few centuries, or raising their children and grandchildren inside a giant hollow cylinder. If you can find 500 people every few years who are willing to do something like the above, you will eventually become a pan-galactic civilization.
You don't need even that. Just find a few people willing to freeze some sperm and eggs. Send them into space frozen, with caretaking robots. You've just reduced the problem to a) building robots that can dethaw sperm and egg and combine b) building machines that can bring the baby to term c) building nanny robots d) making sure all this machinery can last the voyage.
Sure it's not trivial. Sure there are ethical considerations (like children going up supervised by robots) but that's a much easier problem than freezing live humans or creating a culture that's self sufficient in the vacuum and cold of deep space for millennia.
Stone stools AKA coprolites are actually pretty common, human or not.
That's a bunch of sh&t and you know it!
The info on your web site says you have no significant experience in technology, and you do not yet have your degree. Perhaps part of the reason these companies are looking for H1Bs are because there are so many people at your level of experience who think they're worth 75k a year.
Why not. CEOs whose only experience is driving one or more companies to bankruptcy command multi-million dollar salaries AND golden handshakes. Lead by example.
"So that's where I left my hand axe. Clumsy me!" said Dorthy Dinosaur before proceeding to eat more children from the front row at the Wiggles concert.
I wonder if parent live underwater.
Did I forget to mention that I'm a dolphin? I'm sorry!
The phone isn't meant too hold if you drop it in the toilet, there are proper phones with that feature.
So you admit that Nokia doesn't make "proper phones".
I love some of the features on my phone but I'd give half of them up for something more resilient. Take a look at the forums. Many phones will handle 2 seconds in water if they're carefully dried out.
Shorter parent: I'm fat, clumsy, and deaf. Wah!
Yes, since being short, clumsy and deaf causes firmware bugs too.
city living boy, but when did goats start laying eggs?
Cloning techniques aren't pefect yet. Soon we'll have egg laying goats withfour asses
- Law to force phone manufacturers to make their keys on their phones large enough for an adult male to operate without using a thimble
- Law to make phones water resistant. Currently all Nokia phones have a minature water detector linked to a self destruct mechanism
- Law to ensure annoying bugs in firmware are dealt with in a timely manner. No, not by releasing an updated model that you have to buy at full price because you're still on contract with the buggy phone.
- Law to ensure that the loudspeaker function doesn't change (and in particular isn't replaced with a cancel call button) between making a call and the call being connected.
- Law to ensure the phone doesn't require speakerphone to be activated before a human being is able to actually hear what's said. Phones shouldn't be built for magical leprechauns that live inside them
- Law to ensure that the duration of a call is logged in the call log, not just for the last call.
However, the name Vista is now such a disaster that they had to change the name. ...to Windows 7? That's quite a gamble! I guess if this one doesn't work out the next operating system will be called Chairs or Doors or something.