Trinity was binned by activision a while ago...
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...it was being written by grey matter when activision cancelled it.
from what I (and others) had seen of Trinity, it was just another fps, nothing particularly new or groundbreaking. it was being built on the RTCW engine, btw.
i don't see anything in the cnn interview or in his/. comment that even remotely hinted they were resurrecting the dead Trinity project.
and if they are indeed moving to a completely new franchise, that would appear to rule out Trinity entirely.
i expect they may do something along the lines of an mmorpg, maybe with fps elements like savage.
if you put weights in the rotors to give them a large mass like a flywheel, then use your angle of attack cheat. would that violate the energy storage rule?
Would it not be in these companies' best interest to use their formidable influence in government and over the research budgets of universities to suppress this research?
yep, that's exactly why iron lung manufacturers were successful in stopping the polio vaccine.
and the pony express was very successful in stopping the telegraph, don't you think?
gotta admire the horse & buggy manufacturers success in stopping the automobile.
and just look at all those evil film processing companies supressing digital cameras!
...the aclu watch and archive them privately, rather than broadcasting them to the public.
of course there's nothing to prevent the jail from arranging a "temporary technical outage" (webserver "crashes" / network "problems") while they do something nasty to you.
the rewards of 'enforcing' a patent against the linux kernel would have to outweigh the risks of being a permanent pariah.
given the fact that so many patents are revoked upon challenge, the fact that many patents are trivially circumvented via minor changes, and the fact that attacking one company over a 'patent infringement' in kernel code is in effect attacking millions of end users worldwide, the risk is extremely high and the rewards extremely low.
to me it seems rather unlikely any company would attempt this, unless they have nothing to lose (eg SCO).
if they're overzealous enough to take action like this that substantially harms your company's reputation, and does it without your knowledge or approval, then they obviously need to go.
very few things run slower in 64bit, nearly everything runs faster. some software is wildly faster in 64bit than 32bit.
gcc doesnt really take advantage of the larger register set yet, but lots of code should see benefits, especially memory intensive stuff. you get to smack stuff around 64bits at a time instead of 32.
there are other benefits as well, such as the amd64's power efficiency vs intel: http://www.silentpcreview.com/article169-p age3.htm l
if you want to fry eggs and compute more slowly while paying more money for the privilege, intel is definitely the way to go.
they bet everything they had on it, and blew it. had it been successful it would have destroyed amd and everyone else.
in the meantime intel neglected their core market, their current architectures are hitting their design ceilings (eg throttling problems with the current P4s), and they dont have any new architecture to jump to.
amd took the low risk approach, and is now eating intel for lunch. they have a brand new architecture which they've only begun scaling up.
thats a fault of PCI in general or a borked BIOS, not the chipset. a PCI video card can do it on any chipset -- intel or otherwise. s3 and matrox cards used to cause this all the time.
one way to fix it is to adjust the pci latency timer of devices. this has nothing to do with intel or amd or anything else. it's a function of the way PCI works, period.
the fact that the CEO masturbates to pr0n in his office during lunch is hardly something that would be covered by an NDA. also, there are specific basic constitutional and other rights which no company can ever NDA away, no matter how much they want to.
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i love armchair lawyers.
...it was being written by grey matter when activision cancelled it.
/. comment that even remotely hinted they were resurrecting the dead Trinity project.
from what I (and others) had seen of Trinity, it was just another fps, nothing particularly new or groundbreaking. it was being built on the RTCW engine, btw.
i don't see anything in the cnn interview or in his
and if they are indeed moving to a completely new franchise, that would appear to rule out Trinity entirely.
i expect they may do something along the lines of an mmorpg, maybe with fps elements like savage.
...russians are rather fond of using the dual counterrotating design.
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if you put weights in the rotors to give them a large mass like a flywheel, then use your angle of attack cheat. would that violate the energy storage rule?
its one of the rules for the competition. a big rubber band would violate the rule and disqualify them.
let them waste their time with those, misdirecting their attention away from your real servers.
works for me. its quite amusing to watch 5kr1p7 k1dd135 waste days/weeks on what they consider an "interesting" target.
hopefully did prison terms.
i say ban them from the internet 'till they're 21.
...it's no great loss to any one individual, but it still means you stole nearly $3 million.
what he did is roughly equivalent. he's being punished accordingly.
Would it not be in these companies' best interest to use their formidable influence in government and over the research budgets of universities to suppress this research?
yep, that's exactly why iron lung manufacturers were successful in stopping the polio vaccine.
and the pony express was very successful in stopping the telegraph, don't you think?
gotta admire the horse & buggy manufacturers success in stopping the automobile.
and just look at all those evil film processing companies supressing digital cameras!
...the aclu watch and archive them privately, rather than broadcasting them to the public.
of course there's nothing to prevent the jail from arranging a "temporary technical outage" (webserver "crashes" / network "problems") while they do something nasty to you.
the rewards of 'enforcing' a patent against the linux kernel would have to outweigh the risks of being a permanent pariah.
given the fact that so many patents are revoked upon challenge, the fact that many patents are trivially circumvented via minor changes, and the fact that attacking one company over a 'patent infringement' in kernel code is in effect attacking millions of end users worldwide, the risk is extremely high and the rewards extremely low.
to me it seems rather unlikely any company would attempt this, unless they have nothing to lose (eg SCO).
...the "low end" intel or AMD cpu is about 10x faster than the VIA.
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the via is like a 1ghz i386. very, very slow. the L2 cache is only 64kb compared to the 512kb of the p3 or xeon.
btw the p3/1g can be had for ~$60 street.
http://www.pricewatch.com/h/prc.aspx?i=3
even a xeon 1.5g is only $61!
http://www.pricewatch.com/h/prc.aspx?i=3&a=
the main attraction of the via is that it uses very little power. this makes it nice for embedded applications where raw cpu speed is not an issue.
but for desktop usage or server usage, the via is simply out of the question.
isnt the xeon dual channel as well? the desktop amd64 is only single.
this person needs to be led out the door.
that is if ZD actually cares about their reputation, which it is entirely possible they may not.
if they're overzealous enough to take action like this that substantially harms your company's reputation, and does it without your knowledge or approval, then they obviously need to go.
um, a lot?
p age3.htm l
very few things run slower in 64bit, nearly everything runs faster. some software is wildly faster in 64bit than 32bit.
gcc doesnt really take advantage of the larger register set yet, but lots of code should see benefits, especially memory intensive stuff. you get to smack stuff around 64bits at a time instead of 32.
there are other benefits as well, such as the amd64's power efficiency vs intel:
http://www.silentpcreview.com/article169-
if you want to fry eggs and compute more slowly while paying more money for the privilege, intel is definitely the way to go.
they were focusing their r&d effort on itanium while neglecting their core market (p4, etc).
now intel is desperately playing catch up with amd.
it goes to show you that even companies in monopolistic positions can make colossal fuckups and lose market dominance.
maybe one of these days microsoft will fuckup too.
they bet everything they had on it, and blew it. had it been successful it would have destroyed amd and everyone else.
in the meantime intel neglected their core market, their current architectures are hitting their design ceilings (eg throttling problems with the current P4s), and they dont have any new architecture to jump to.
amd took the low risk approach, and is now eating intel for lunch. they have a brand new architecture which they've only begun scaling up.
thats a fault of PCI in general or a borked BIOS, not the chipset. a PCI video card can do it on any chipset -- intel or otherwise. s3 and matrox cards used to cause this all the time.
one way to fix it is to adjust the pci latency timer of devices. this has nothing to do with intel or amd or anything else. it's a function of the way PCI works, period.
i guess /. really, really, really wants to make sure everyone reads this story.
i'm still trying to figure out why though.
the fact that the CEO masturbates to pr0n in his office during lunch is hardly something that would be covered by an NDA. also, there are specific basic constitutional and other rights which no company can ever NDA away, no matter how much they want to.
the victim becomes the abuser, in the name of shameless profiteering. very, very sad.
if katie t. disapproved of penguin's actions, she should say so. her complete silence on the matter speaks volumes about her and her intentions.
looks like the mozilla binary builds for x86_64 havent been updated yet.
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And in case it gets taken down, there's always the google cache:
http://216.239.57.104/search?q=cache:qixovtHTWh