They were thinking that 99% of their customers will read this as saying 'AMD Graphics Cards enable next generation Blu-Ray High Definition Movies on your PC!' and don't even know what DRM is.
Intel has shown that it can learn from it's many mistakes though. They bet on Netburst and it was Netbust, so they went back to the P6 architecture (Core). They didn't think 64 bit on the desktop would fly, and wanted Itanic to be the one to bring it there if and when it would fly. Itanic sunk and they pulled out EMT64.
I think Intel's best bet however would be to just buy Nvidia. They have some very cool tech and it would save Intel from having to totally reinvent the wheel. Imagine a future CPU that understood Cg instructions as well as x64 instructions?
If you're going to test the performance of an emulation layer you certainly don't do so using graphics intensive games on low end and/or integrated graphics solutions. They should have at least used a midrange GPU. There are numerous other problems with the whole thing. Basically, not everything works and the performance of what *does* work is on par with the Linux equivalent based on the poorly thought out testing methodology.
And they have the right to ban you for life if and when they catch you. You agree to their terms when you play. Violating those terms should be punishable somehow.
No, I'm not sure that it's copyright violation and in this case I'm not sure the end justifies the means, but the *end* is a good one. Stopping cheating is a good thing.
I wish I had mod points left. Cheating has an adverse effect on the economies of MMOG's as well as potentially impacting others more directly than that (they pay a fee too, the ones who don't cheat, and their enjoyment can be hurt by asshats who do cheat). It *should* be a civil offense to cheat in an online game. Maybe a 'fine' of 48 hours with no net connection;)
Then again that may be too harsh. I know people who play WoW, UO, SWG, etc., who would probably commit suicide if they were kept offline for two whole days...
Not at all. I'm sure a few are, but there *are* a growing number of scientists coming out and saying 'Whoa...we haven't studied this enough' and there *is* credible evidence that the Sun has far more to do with the recent warming than our contributions. The thing is, the major billions are being spent by the 'humans cause global warming' crowd, not the reverse. In fact, companies like Enron lobbied FOR things like Kyoto because they stood to make money. The vast majority of reasearch dollars spent on climate studies are given to scientists who either have a political agenda or who start their research with the assumption that humans are the main cause.
As with many things, the truth probably lies in the middle. Living things have changed the climate and environment since the first cyanobacteria 'poisoned' the atmosphere with oxygen. I'm sure we have some effect, but I think the current alarmism is just another tool to grab power and wealth. The Earth is far more resilient and mutable than most people seem to realise. There is even some evidence that the current warming trend could cause more good than harm in the long run. Severe weather should *decrease* outside of the tropics, arable land will open up, and recent studies are starting to just now look at how new climates might even be created, thus opening the door to all sorts of new bio-diversity.
I'm not saying that last is true either, but it's quite clear when we are hammered with polemics about how the debate is over, there's nothing left to study, all is doom and gloom, and if we don't do something *right now*, something with potentially bad downsides on the *chance* that it might have some small effect, that it is more a political issue than one of science.
It is *all* about taxes, not to mention the hubris that we are the primary driver of climate on the planet. The scam is a means to get centralised control over resources (money = power) by the UN and various governments.
Actually it's all about money in general. Global Warming has become huge business, from the research grants to the sale of phony carbon credits.
Oh, there is a very real danger from allowing cellphone use on a plane. It's called the danger of getting my laptop shoved up your ass if I have to listen to your half shouted conversations while I'm crammed into a flying sardine can next to you for 3 hours.
If you're going to start putting Interplanetary WAN infrastructure in place, might as well go IPv6 from the get go. Then once there are a few billion nodes scattered about the Solar System we won't have any addressing problems;)
That's still a bandaid. The real problem is ISP's overselling their bandwidth for years and it's now coming back to haunt them. They say things like "x speed" or "unlimited downloads" but they don't really mean it and the fine print in their TOS's makes that pretty clear. It borders on false advertising.
First...the whole 'carbon neutral' thing is a red herring and a scam devised to make SUV driving upper middle class people feel guilty so they'll buy 'carbon credits' and thus enrich a new cottage industry.
Second, plants are only 'carbon neutral' (there's no such thing!) if they are not converted into atmospheric carbon emmissions...such as when fermented, distilled, and burned...
Maybe it's time for individuals and corporations to be held libel for what their computers spew. Got a botnet sending phishing emails from your business? Boom, big fine. Got an infected home machine sending out spam? Boom, a somewhat smaller fine.
If you even have to ask then you don't fit my definition of a programmer anyways, or at the very least a prime example of what is wrong with our educational system.
I'm sure banks don't worry about security, or the insurance industry, or hospitals, or the oil industry, or the pharmaceuticals, or...etc.
I understand that, I just don't think it's all that it's hyped up to be. And yes, I checked it out. I also don't think it's as popular as they claim it to be, but I have no numbers to back that up it's just my impression.
That is a moot point. Any document that purports to support Human Rights that then has an 'off switch' for those rights that is of such a general language that it can be triggered for ambiguous reasons is worthless and potentially dangerous.
I'm sure some people go there, but anectodally, I don't know a single person who does. I know a lot of people. It's certainly not gamers who are 'playing' there for the most part.
The analogy to LambdaMOO in another response to you is probably an apt one.
3. These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.
I would not sign on to that either. In other words it says, "And if people decide that they don't like where the UN is going, tough shit, your rights and freedoms mean nothing in that case."
It is interesting from the standpoint that the emulator itself *should* be fully portable to any platform that runs java. It's probably not useful commercially but from a geek standpoint it could be cool.
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They were thinking that 99% of their customers will read this as saying 'AMD Graphics Cards enable next generation Blu-Ray High Definition Movies on your PC!' and don't even know what DRM is.
Intel has shown that it can learn from it's many mistakes though. They bet on Netburst and it was Netbust, so they went back to the P6 architecture (Core). They didn't think 64 bit on the desktop would fly, and wanted Itanic to be the one to bring it there if and when it would fly. Itanic sunk and they pulled out EMT64.
I think Intel's best bet however would be to just buy Nvidia. They have some very cool tech and it would save Intel from having to totally reinvent the wheel. Imagine a future CPU that understood Cg instructions as well as x64 instructions?
Yes, because heaven forbid anyone actually be *proud* of their country and to be a citizen of said country. What a ghastly thought.
If you're going to test the performance of an emulation layer you certainly don't do so using graphics intensive games on low end and/or integrated graphics solutions. They should have at least used a midrange GPU. There are numerous other problems with the whole thing. Basically, not everything works and the performance of what *does* work is on par with the Linux equivalent based on the poorly thought out testing methodology.
Don't waste your time.
And they have the right to ban you for life if and when they catch you. You agree to their terms when you play. Violating those terms should be punishable somehow.
No, I'm not sure that it's copyright violation and in this case I'm not sure the end justifies the means, but the *end* is a good one. Stopping cheating is a good thing.
I wish I had mod points left. Cheating has an adverse effect on the economies of MMOG's as well as potentially impacting others more directly than that (they pay a fee too, the ones who don't cheat, and their enjoyment can be hurt by asshats who do cheat). It *should* be a civil offense to cheat in an online game. Maybe a 'fine' of 48 hours with no net connection ;)
Then again that may be too harsh. I know people who play WoW, UO, SWG, etc., who would probably commit suicide if they were kept offline for two whole days...
Not at all. I'm sure a few are, but there *are* a growing number of scientists coming out and saying 'Whoa...we haven't studied this enough' and there *is* credible evidence that the Sun has far more to do with the recent warming than our contributions. The thing is, the major billions are being spent by the 'humans cause global warming' crowd, not the reverse. In fact, companies like Enron lobbied FOR things like Kyoto because they stood to make money. The vast majority of reasearch dollars spent on climate studies are given to scientists who either have a political agenda or who start their research with the assumption that humans are the main cause.
As with many things, the truth probably lies in the middle. Living things have changed the climate and environment since the first cyanobacteria 'poisoned' the atmosphere with oxygen. I'm sure we have some effect, but I think the current alarmism is just another tool to grab power and wealth. The Earth is far more resilient and mutable than most people seem to realise. There is even some evidence that the current warming trend could cause more good than harm in the long run. Severe weather should *decrease* outside of the tropics, arable land will open up, and recent studies are starting to just now look at how new climates might even be created, thus opening the door to all sorts of new bio-diversity.
I'm not saying that last is true either, but it's quite clear when we are hammered with polemics about how the debate is over, there's nothing left to study, all is doom and gloom, and if we don't do something *right now*, something with potentially bad downsides on the *chance* that it might have some small effect, that it is more a political issue than one of science.
It is *all* about taxes, not to mention the hubris that we are the primary driver of climate on the planet. The scam is a means to get centralised control over resources (money = power) by the UN and various governments.
Actually it's all about money in general. Global Warming has become huge business, from the research grants to the sale of phony carbon credits.
Oh, there is a very real danger from allowing cellphone use on a plane. It's called the danger of getting my laptop shoved up your ass if I have to listen to your half shouted conversations while I'm crammed into a flying sardine can next to you for 3 hours.
If you're going to start putting Interplanetary WAN infrastructure in place, might as well go IPv6 from the get go. Then once there are a few billion nodes scattered about the Solar System we won't have any addressing problems ;)
That's still a bandaid. The real problem is ISP's overselling their bandwidth for years and it's now coming back to haunt them. They say things like "x speed" or "unlimited downloads" but they don't really mean it and the fine print in their TOS's makes that pretty clear. It borders on false advertising.
Ballmer, we told you before not to post here as an AC. Now you're late picking up Bill's dry cleaning, so stop dicking around and get back to work!
First...the whole 'carbon neutral' thing is a red herring and a scam devised to make SUV driving upper middle class people feel guilty so they'll buy 'carbon credits' and thus enrich a new cottage industry.
Second, plants are only 'carbon neutral' (there's no such thing!) if they are not converted into atmospheric carbon emmissions...such as when fermented, distilled, and burned...
Maybe it's time for individuals and corporations to be held libel for what their computers spew. Got a botnet sending phishing emails from your business? Boom, big fine. Got an infected home machine sending out spam? Boom, a somewhat smaller fine.
If you even have to ask then you don't fit my definition of a programmer anyways, or at the very least a prime example of what is wrong with our educational system.
I'm sure banks don't worry about security, or the insurance industry, or hospitals, or the oil industry, or the pharmaceuticals, or...etc.
I understand that, I just don't think it's all that it's hyped up to be. And yes, I checked it out. I also don't think it's as popular as they claim it to be, but I have no numbers to back that up it's just my impression.
I assumed nothing. Reading is fundamental. A quote from the post I replied to:
"How much worse would things be if now, in addition to those, you've got people high on ecstasy or marijuana? What about heroin?"
That is a moot point. Any document that purports to support Human Rights that then has an 'off switch' for those rights that is of such a general language that it can be triggered for ambiguous reasons is worthless and potentially dangerous.
I'm sure some people go there, but anectodally, I don't know a single person who does. I know a lot of people. It's certainly not gamers who are 'playing' there for the most part.
The analogy to LambdaMOO in another response to you is probably an apt one.
3. These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.
I would not sign on to that either. In other words it says, "And if people decide that they don't like where the UN is going, tough shit, your rights and freedoms mean nothing in that case."
By your logic then you believe that alcohol and tobacco should also be illegal. Is that the case?
I think that it certainly matters more to many of us here than whether or not some dinosaurs dug burrows.
One could argue that voting issues certainly fall under 'Stuff that matters'.
Both of those need to be ported to the target OS that they will be hosted on. A java based emulator doesn't need to be ported.
It is interesting from the standpoint that the emulator itself *should* be fully portable to any platform that runs java. It's probably not useful commercially but from a geek standpoint it could be cool.