Wooo yah.. I hope Carmac reads this post.. or ones like it. I'm a big fan of AI improvement in games (even though it would make my gaming experience considerably harder.. considering I suck... then again.. with good AI maybe I'd be better at adapting instead of just getting crushed by the million enemies that good twitch gamers can deal with easily. Me not good twitch gamer).
Anyways.. AI/physics add-in card. my lord that would be wonderful. I wanna work on it. Sign me up. This is the kinda stuff that is going to bring my AI programming and LISP skills out of the short hiatus they've been on.
props on Six String Samurai. but I'd say my favorite underated movie be Zoolander. Maybe I'm wrong but i didn't see much hype for this once it came out. The first time I watched it was on tape.. and damn its funny.. I own the DVD now.
Six String was obscure so you can't say underated really.. in fact it won the slamdance festival it was in.. so i'd say its rated well for what it was released to. Its just obscure.
Zoolander however was a major release and then not much came of it. Still I think its damn funny.
Looks like your e-mail goes to those shifty guys at cnet or com.com damn that so confusing.. I'm guessing they didn't let you out of the cage to put this up on CNET.. so you figured you'd hoodwink/payoff timothy from slashdot to popularize your crazy apple's and oranges review(s)..
Is this a beggining of a series.. Will com.com buy Slashdot from OSDN... does com.com already own OSDN or does OSDN own com.com... Or my vote is to That cowboy neal owns it all and stores them all in a locker at the bus station..
I Say Good WORK! for a good deal of sneakyness, wiles and mystery!!
use your gameboy to take incriminating photographs of your friends.. taht are easily transfered/copied and store for possible black mail when they become a senator.. ehhh.. ehhh.. I think not. WINNER TO POWERSHOT G3..
But see they employer here is really trying to test how well people play these games after that much stress, and long-time playing. They want the experience to follow through to when you're a zombie.. thats how they test it!.. They don't want some guy dropping dead on them in a Net Cafe again, that cuts into profits. Plus they want to make the game as addictive as possible. I'm sure there's already people out there who game this much for free. In fact this guy would probably be gaming this much anyway.. so whats he got to complain about, he's getting paid. Hehe.. but yeah that is a lot.. i'd go crazy..
(hmm post started trying to be funny.. but turned more cynical.. I don't know where it is anymore..) STOP
are dell laptops just looking worse and worse. I'm not talking about features.. I'm talking about physical looks. they've release 3 different laptops recently of varying economics, they all look the same.. and they all are ugly as SIN!
At least teh old inspirions.. standard black.. with the wildly overprice clip on color pads.. were neutral looking. It was black.. it went with anything. Now these things area light blue and odd shade of gray. Seems like colors you'd have as baby-shower decorations than on a laptop.
Laptops are a fashion statement.. if your gonna be lugging one into your local starbucks it better not be an eye-sore. I looks like they cut the side off some old computer cases and formed them to a laptop case.
The laptop I will get next will need to be power efficient and powerful(not so concerned about weight).. But if I have to pick i'll choose mroe power than power efficiency. Thats why i've got hopes for Centrino.. or some variant with the Pent-M..
This laptop is neither of my requirements.. and its an ugly monster to-boot
There needs to be a different perspective on space. Up until now.. its been Russia and the US.. and thats really it. As far as the moon goes the US got their. But we didn't do anything more than just get there.
It seems they're taking a different turn. They're going there because its the closest planet like rock that you can test out planetary travel with... make it better safer and all that jazz.
Hey if other countries and corps get involved in space exploration.. maybe it'll fire up our programs a little more.. maybe make this cheaper. I mean hell the reason why everything is so expensive is we've been doing it first.. and there has been no outside perspective. Well, besides the russians... but they've been hurting as of late. But we got the space station out of that.. so i'd say even more good can come from other people doing stuff to progress.
plus I'm such a Sci-Fi freak I wanna see people living in space and traveling to other planets.. that would rock.. though I'm not quite so optimistic it will happen in my lifetime..
.. who don't know any better that you should get paid for advertising products that make money for other people. I mean why should you advertise for free for some corporation. I don't think the bloggies in question.. really have an idea of how much cheaper they're making things for Dr. Pepper. And in return they get what.. t-shirts.. hats merchanidise... Ha they're still advertising Dr.Pepper for free even with the damn compensation they get. Screw that! Thats why i hate most main line clothing products cause they plaster their name on the clothing. I mean what the hell I pay 80 bucks for a shirt.. that has the name of the company plastered all over it.. so i'm a walking advert for them.
Personally I have a blog.. blogs aren't my beef.. and yes I do advertise on my blog... for Blogger.. why? because its a free service.. i pay nothing to upkeep my blog, so thats good compensation. These people still have to upkeep their sites.. no compensation.
Oh well its gonna fail miserably anyway so who cares..
I was thinking the same thing you were at first with CERT being cut out of the picture. CERT is an independent organization.. and they rely on people telling them stuff. It seems in this case.. as far as patching and notification of the initial vulnerability.. but they weren't cut out of what they do best, which is Archiving all of the notifications and making it easy to get patch info, once it comes available. Its not like CERT actually makes they patch. As you can see HERE CERT has a notification about this one.. seems CNET left out that LinkCERT I think, at least now with this development, works much more like Slashdot.. in that they get notified of the news and they post it all on their site. Of course if its the first time anybody has heard of it they notify affecting people first, so as not to create unneeded havoc, with hackers getting to the vulnerability first.
So CERT will still go on. In this case all the people involved cut out CERT voluntarily, ISS,SANS, FedCIRC and the like. I'm sure of course CERT (in that they have a notification about it) wasn't really cut out.. then again.. they didn't neccessarily do all the coordination work.. they're proabably happy about that one. They can worry about other stuff. My opinion everybody should be this involved in fixing security issues.
Ok.. The conecept is a great CompSci project, in its own idea. Determining and matching patterns in music. GREAT! The bad part is they applied EVIL statistics to the game. Statistacs can be manipulated in sooo many ways. My problem is ok for this to work.. they'd have to survey all the top hits and make a Master pattern. Not only top hits from now.. but top hits from as far back as human archives have recorded, and stratified as popular. Then look and see what common ground you find. Remember.. taste changes over time.
Now my concern personally about this is.. I don't like mainstream music *most* of the time. There is a lot of crap out now, and has been out before that I am completely boggled as to why its popular. I'd say 90%. Mostly I many of the bands I like haven't seen much pop top 40 play. I don't try and be snobbish about it.. its just what I like. If its popular I don't mark it automatically off the list. I mean I'm ashamed to admit it, but I really like that Pink song, Party started.. or whatever it was called. That was a great pop song, and dance hall song really. On the other hand I really like listening to Mike Doughty solo and from his days with Soul Coughing.
My point is everybody is different.. I hate it when everything is playing to the lowest common denominator. I guess thats a cruel fact of life though.
Oh well chances are everbody will get bored of what the program determines as pop.. and they'll have to reprogram it.. thus the industry will still be behind the trends.. as always..
does writing or contributing to open source, have anything at all with your own personal political views. I really don't think it does.
I'd say do what your own convictions tell you to. If you feel that your contributions to a project are going towards a means that you don't like.. then don't contribute. But as a previous post said, Open source is open source. Anybody can use it. If you don't like that then don't do open source anymore. (or at least not in the project that is contributing to your moral conundrum.)
What I'd really like to know. On either side of the coin, why do people get so pissed and so divided on AI.
Personally, I wouldn't call myself an expert, but I've had a little bit more schooling in AI in computer science than the average joe. At least the fundamentals of what I believe are the very useful parts of AI. I don't mean AI like a completely emulated Intelligence. I'm talking about going one step further than a macro or script to do things. I equate basic AI in computers to a kind of superset of Scripts or macros that have all been made for specific purposes. What the AI does is really weight all those scripts/macros to different conditions and situations. So when you get some sort of general input that is in the right format.. it breaks it down into as many pieces as it can uses simple confitional logic to sort it out. The key I think is the weighting. Possibly also the ability for the program to adjust its own weighting scheme through feedback..(learning machine?).
I've seen so many useful applications of this type of thing. How can anybody say its a waist of time. Hell I've even heard of a network defence program that does something of this nature.. they let it loose on the firewall and then intentionally hack the all the time.. until the thing learns to prevent the hacks.
Other obvious uses are in computer games and such. Though i don't think there has been very far advances so far is learning AI's for games.. maybe it would take too much processor speed to do a really good one.. so for the sake of optimization the just program a regimented good strategy and build off that. Though it brings an interesting thought a friend had mentioned. How long is it until we all have an AI hardware card slapped in our machine.. or added as an extra chipset on our graphics card.. for gameing? interesting thought.. it would definately bring a whole lot to the gaming world at least in the AI sense..
That would rock if they sold Laptops... unfortunately.. i looked around on the site.. and well either the laptop section is really hard to find or it doesn't exist..
NO i don't mean the Mega Corporation headed by Billy Gates... I mean the implantable chips William Gibson wrote about in the Neuromancer. I liked how he made them almost more fashion than functional.. and many times both.
Hmm.. I'd say they're doing what the Supreme Court Ruling tells them to do in fact. All the stores I see listed HAVE local stores in just about any place you can order and mail the stuff to on their sites. Wal-Mart.. i'd say there is a a wal-mart in just about every state.. So They have business presense in all those states.. so when you order something from wal-mart.com you should pay sales tax for the state you're in. Don't think they're wimps for that..
All I saw when I first look at the headline was BSA and grace-period scam.. I thought to myself "Boy Scouts of America" how could you? You shouldn't even deal with technology, isn't that kind of opposite of the whole idea of camping and getting back to nature.
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Oh my I can see exactly how this happened.
Billy-Bob from Southern Louisianna (sp?) finally gets into the foriegn exchange student program to go study in Germany. Dieter from Germany does the same to come to Souther Louissianna.
Billy-bob gets bored one day with builds potato cannon and shows it to all his german friend. Crazy fad begins.
Dieter learns of said cannons in the US and brings idea back to find the fad already there. He then proceeds to spread the art of potato cannon building.
the FORTH REICH ENSUES!!!!! except now the BLITZKRIEG isn't their Major offensive weapon its the POTATO CANNON!!!!
WOW Seaquest is coming true.. I wonder if it comes with an ultra smart dolphin who has a translater hooked to it so i can have conversations with it.
Damn I completely forgot about that show before i saw those pictures...
Froogle cool, but is it built on the same idea?
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Froogle definately looks cool. I mainly looked through froogle to see how well it pulled up against Pricewatch as far as computer equipment goes. While it had some good deals, it just couldn't keep up with the shear mass amount of resellers that pricewatch lists. I do have to say it looked nice with pretty pictures. Maybe though when froogle gets out of beta they'll list more stores. My little test makes me wonder though if Froogle is a partnered system, where they only list people who sign up to be listed on it. This would be most unlike Google, that scours for every and any link. Well whether people sign up or they have froogle spiders that go out and find good deals.. It'd be great to have a tool like pricewatch that you could find lots of other items besides computer stuff on sale for cheap prices.
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He he ok you got me I give up. I think we've been talking past each other but I figured I'd have some fun.. and just say I wanted to get the last post in this string of replies.. though you'll probably reply anyway.. and I'll keeping on replying back until they stop the thread..
who knows what the future holds?
the game begins..
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Well yes I do understand the logistics of moving to 64bit architecture. I know its a pain in the ass, but I think the long term benefits of architecture change, will outway the pain it causes now. Whole new generations of coders will grow up never careing that there was a 32bit architecture before. 1. It was a joke..ligthen up. 2. I'd say its short sited to believe just because moving to 64bit is a hassle, its not a benefit. Innovation has its price, and many times it involves a lot of hard work, but thats no reason to vegetate in the current medium just because that what you use now, and you can't see any good use right now. But I also saw in the article the fact that AMD Says it will be reverse compatable with 32 bit legacy software.. maybe I didn't understand the original article.. but thats what I got out of it. So it wouldn't even be that painful. Now yes to benefit MORE from 64bit you'd have to change your code or make up a whole new program.. but hey we make new versions of software all the time anyway..
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hmm don't we remember someone saying that once upon a time.....
So when did advertisements become slashdot articles?.. I mean sometimes stuff come close to adverts.. but this ones a pretty blatent sales pitch.. Hope slashdot or at least timothy is getting some sort of cash for it.
Well if everybody is really concerned about making a copy of a CD.. I know its a damn pain.. but how about a little thing called ANALOG OUT and ANALOG IN on most sound cards... I mean there really is no way that the CD can tell that your analog out is not going to a set of speakers... Thus you just port it into another record.. record the songs through analog and some good sound cables and save it as a wav file.. then make your own CD.. all this technology is readily available... I know it sucks to do it this way.. and it sucks even more that stupid music companies think ill thought ideas like this will solve their piracy problems. But really people.. it sounds like a lot of people think these schemes really bring an end to the copying of their CD's of making of MP3's onto their computers from the CD's they buy..
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Wooo yah .. I hope Carmac reads this post .. or ones like it. I'm a big fan of AI improvement in games (even though it would make my gaming experience considerably harder.. considering I suck... then again.. with good AI maybe I'd be better at adapting instead of just getting crushed by the million enemies that good twitch gamers can deal with easily. Me not good twitch gamer).
Anyways.. AI/physics add-in card. my lord that would be wonderful. I wanna work on it. Sign me up. This is the kinda stuff that is going to bring my AI programming and LISP skills out of the short hiatus they've been on.
props on Six String Samurai. but I'd say my favorite underated movie be Zoolander. Maybe I'm wrong but i didn't see much hype for this once it came out. The first time I watched it was on tape.. and damn its funny.. I own the DVD now.
Six String was obscure so you can't say underated really.. in fact it won the slamdance festival it was in.. so i'd say its rated well for what it was released to. Its just obscure.
Zoolander however was a major release and then not much came of it. Still I think its damn funny.
Looks like your e-mail goes to those shifty guys at cnet or com.com damn that so confusing.. I'm guessing they didn't let you out of the cage to put this up on CNET .. so you figured you'd hoodwink/payoff timothy from slashdot to popularize your crazy apple's and oranges review(s)..
... Or my vote is to That cowboy neal owns it all and stores them all in a locker at the bus station..
Is this a beggining of a series.. Will com.com buy Slashdot from OSDN... does com.com already own OSDN or does OSDN own com.com
I Say Good WORK! for a good deal of sneakyness, wiles and mystery!!
use your gameboy to take incriminating photographs of your friends.. taht are easily transfered/copied and store for possible black mail when they become a senator.. ehhh.. ehhh.. I think not. WINNER TO POWERSHOT G3..
But see they employer here is really trying to test how well people play these games after that much stress, and long-time playing. They want the experience to follow through to when you're a zombie.. thats how they test it! .. They don't want some guy dropping dead on them in a Net Cafe again, that cuts into profits. Plus they want to make the game as addictive as possible. I'm sure there's already people out there who game this much for free. In fact this guy would probably be gaming this much anyway.. so whats he got to complain about, he's getting paid. Hehe.. but yeah that is a lot.. i'd go crazy..
(hmm post started trying to be funny.. but turned more cynical.. I don't know where it is anymore..) STOP
are dell laptops just looking worse and worse. I'm not talking about features.. I'm talking about physical looks. they've release 3 different laptops recently of varying economics, they all look the same.. and they all are ugly as SIN!
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At least teh old inspirions.. standard black.. with the wildly overprice clip on color pads.. were neutral looking. It was black.. it went with anything. Now these things area light blue and odd shade of gray. Seems like colors you'd have as baby-shower decorations than on a laptop.
Laptops are a fashion statement.. if your gonna be lugging one into your local starbucks it better not be an eye-sore. I looks like they cut the side off some old computer cases and formed them to a laptop case.
The laptop I will get next will need to be power efficient and powerful(not so concerned about weight).. But if I have to pick i'll choose mroe power than power efficiency. Thats why i've got hopes for Centrino.. or some variant with the Pent-M
This laptop is neither of my requirements.. and its an ugly monster to-boot
There needs to be a different perspective on space. Up until now.. its been Russia and the US.. and thats really it. As far as the moon goes the US got their. But we didn't do anything more than just get there.
It seems they're taking a different turn. They're going there because its the closest planet like rock that you can test out planetary travel with... make it better safer and all that jazz.
Hey if other countries and corps get involved in space exploration.. maybe it'll fire up our programs a little more.. maybe make this cheaper. I mean hell the reason why everything is so expensive is we've been doing it first.. and there has been no outside perspective. Well, besides the russians... but they've been hurting as of late. But we got the space station out of that.. so i'd say even more good can come from other people doing stuff to progress.
plus I'm such a Sci-Fi freak I wanna see people living in space and traveling to other planets.. that would rock.. though I'm not quite so optimistic it will happen in my lifetime..
.. who don't know any better that you should get paid for advertising products that make money for other people. I mean why should you advertise for free for some corporation. I don't think the bloggies in question.. really have an idea of how much cheaper they're making things for Dr. Pepper. And in return they get what.. t-shirts.. hats merchanidise... Ha they're still advertising Dr.Pepper for free even with the damn compensation they get. Screw that! Thats why i hate most main line clothing products cause they plaster their name on the clothing. I mean what the hell I pay 80 bucks for a shirt.. that has the name of the company plastered all over it.. so i'm a walking advert for them.
Personally I have a blog.. blogs aren't my beef.. and yes I do advertise on my blog... for Blogger.. why? because its a free service.. i pay nothing to upkeep my blog, so thats good compensation. These people still have to upkeep their sites.. no compensation.
Oh well its gonna fail miserably anyway so who cares..
I was thinking the same thing you were at first with CERT being cut out of the picture. CERT is an independent organization.. and they rely on people telling them stuff. It seems in this case.. as far as patching and notification of the initial vulnerability.. but they weren't cut out of what they do best, which is Archiving all of the notifications and making it easy to get patch info, once it comes available. Its not like CERT actually makes they patch. As you can see HERE CERT has a notification about this one.. seems CNET left out that LinkCERT I think, at least now with this development, works much more like Slashdot.. in that they get notified of the news and they post it all on their site. Of course if its the first time anybody has heard of it they notify affecting people first, so as not to create unneeded havoc, with hackers getting to the vulnerability first.
So CERT will still go on. In this case all the people involved cut out CERT voluntarily, ISS,SANS, FedCIRC and the like. I'm sure of course CERT (in that they have a notification about it) wasn't really cut out.. then again.. they didn't neccessarily do all the coordination work.. they're proabably happy about that one. They can worry about other stuff. My opinion everybody should be this involved in fixing security issues.
Hey you stole my joke :)... I can forgive you.. i love that joke.. and I'm glad others think of it..
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Here's my post.
Ha beat you to it.. but seems nobody noticed mine
Ok.. The conecept is a great CompSci project, in its own idea. Determining and matching patterns in music. GREAT! The bad part is they applied EVIL statistics to the game. Statistacs can be manipulated in sooo many ways. My problem is ok for this to work.. they'd have to survey all the top hits and make a Master pattern. Not only top hits from now.. but top hits from as far back as human archives have recorded, and stratified as popular. Then look and see what common ground you find. Remember.. taste changes over time.
Now my concern personally about this is.. I don't like mainstream music *most* of the time. There is a lot of crap out now, and has been out before that I am completely boggled as to why its popular. I'd say 90%. Mostly I many of the bands I like haven't seen much pop top 40 play. I don't try and be snobbish about it.. its just what I like. If its popular I don't mark it automatically off the list. I mean I'm ashamed to admit it, but I really like that Pink song, Party started.. or whatever it was called. That was a great pop song, and dance hall song really. On the other hand I really like listening to Mike Doughty solo and from his days with Soul Coughing.
My point is everybody is different.. I hate it when everything is playing to the lowest common denominator. I guess thats a cruel fact of life though.
Oh well chances are everbody will get bored of what the program determines as pop.. and they'll have to reprogram it.. thus the industry will still be behind the trends.. as always..
does writing or contributing to open source, have anything at all with your own personal political views. I really don't think it does.
I'd say do what your own convictions tell you to. If you feel that your contributions to a project are going towards a means that you don't like.. then don't contribute. But as a previous post said, Open source is open source. Anybody can use it. If you don't like that then don't do open source anymore. (or at least not in the project that is contributing to your moral conundrum.)
What I'd really like to know. On either side of the coin, why do people get so pissed and so divided on AI.
Personally, I wouldn't call myself an expert, but I've had a little bit more schooling in AI in computer science than the average joe. At least the fundamentals of what I believe are the very useful parts of AI. I don't mean AI like a completely emulated Intelligence. I'm talking about going one step further than a macro or script to do things. I equate basic AI in computers to a kind of superset of Scripts or macros that have all been made for specific purposes. What the AI does is really weight all those scripts/macros to different conditions and situations. So when you get some sort of general input that is in the right format.. it breaks it down into as many pieces as it can uses simple confitional logic to sort it out. The key I think is the weighting. Possibly also the ability for the program to adjust its own weighting scheme through feedback..(learning machine?).
I've seen so many useful applications of this type of thing. How can anybody say its a waist of time. Hell I've even heard of a network defence program that does something of this nature.. they let it loose on the firewall and then intentionally hack the all the time.. until the thing learns to prevent the hacks.
Other obvious uses are in computer games and such. Though i don't think there has been very far advances so far is learning AI's for games.. maybe it would take too much processor speed to do a really good one.. so for the sake of optimization the just program a regimented good strategy and build off that. Though it brings an interesting thought a friend had mentioned. How long is it until we all have an AI hardware card slapped in our machine.. or added as an extra chipset on our graphics card.. for gameing? interesting thought.. it would definately bring a whole lot to the gaming world at least in the AI sense..
Ok enough rambling for me now...
That would rock if they sold Laptops... unfortunately.. i looked around on the site.. and well either the laptop section is really hard to find or it doesn't exist..
NO i don't mean the Mega Corporation headed by Billy Gates... I mean the implantable chips William Gibson wrote about in the Neuromancer. I liked how he made them almost more fashion than functional.. and many times both.
Hmm.. I'd say they're doing what the Supreme Court Ruling tells them to do in fact. All the stores I see listed HAVE local stores in just about any place you can order and mail the stuff to on their sites. Wal-Mart.. i'd say there is a a wal-mart in just about every state.. So They have business presense in all those states.. so when you order something from wal-mart.com you should pay sales tax for the state you're in. Don't think they're wimps for that..
All I saw when I first look at the headline was BSA and grace-period scam.. I thought to myself "Boy Scouts of America" how could you? You shouldn't even deal with technology, isn't that kind of opposite of the whole idea of camping and getting back to nature.
Oh my I can see exactly how this happened.
Billy-Bob from Southern Louisianna (sp?) finally gets into the foriegn exchange student program to go study in Germany. Dieter from Germany does the same to come to Souther Louissianna.
Billy-bob gets bored one day with builds potato cannon and shows it to all his german friend. Crazy fad begins.
Dieter learns of said cannons in the US and brings idea back to find the fad already there. He then proceeds to spread the art of potato cannon building.
the FORTH REICH ENSUES!!!!! except now the BLITZKRIEG isn't their Major offensive weapon its the POTATO CANNON!!!!
WOW Seaquest is coming true.. I wonder if it comes with an ultra smart dolphin who has a translater hooked to it so i can have conversations with it.
Damn I completely forgot about that show before i saw those pictures...
Froogle definately looks cool. I mainly looked through froogle to see how well it pulled up against Pricewatch as far as computer equipment goes. While it had some good deals, it just couldn't keep up with the shear mass amount of resellers that pricewatch lists. I do have to say it looked nice with pretty pictures. Maybe though when froogle gets out of beta they'll list more stores. My little test makes me wonder though if Froogle is a partnered system, where they only list people who sign up to be listed on it. This would be most unlike Google, that scours for every and any link. Well whether people sign up or they have froogle spiders that go out and find good deals.. It'd be great to have a tool like pricewatch that you could find lots of other items besides computer stuff on sale for cheap prices.
He he ok you got me I give up. I think we've been talking past each other but I figured I'd have some fun.. and just say I wanted to get the last post in this string of replies.. though you'll probably reply anyway.. and I'll keeping on replying back until they stop the thread..
who knows what the future holds?
the game begins..
Well yes I do understand the logistics of moving to 64bit architecture. I know its a pain in the ass, but I think the long term benefits of architecture change, will outway the pain it causes now. Whole new generations of coders will grow up never careing that there was a 32bit architecture before. 1. It was a joke..ligthen up. 2. I'd say its short sited to believe just because moving to 64bit is a hassle, its not a benefit. Innovation has its price, and many times it involves a lot of hard work, but thats no reason to vegetate in the current medium just because that what you use now, and you can't see any good use right now. But I also saw in the article the fact that AMD Says it will be reverse compatable with 32 bit legacy software.. maybe I didn't understand the original article.. but thats what I got out of it. So it wouldn't even be that painful. Now yes to benefit MORE from 64bit you'd have to change your code or make up a whole new program.. but hey we make new versions of software all the time anyway..
hmm don't we remember someone saying that once upon a time.....
So when did advertisements become slashdot articles?.. I mean sometimes stuff come close to adverts.. but this ones a pretty blatent sales pitch.. Hope slashdot or at least timothy is getting some sort of cash for it.
Well if everybody is really concerned about making a copy of a CD.. I know its a damn pain.. but how about a little thing called ANALOG OUT and ANALOG IN on most sound cards... I mean there really is no way that the CD can tell that your analog out is not going to a set of speakers... Thus you just port it into another record.. record the songs through analog and some good sound cables and save it as a wav file.. then make your own CD.. all this technology is readily available... I know it sucks to do it this way .. and it sucks even more that stupid music companies think ill thought ideas like this will solve their piracy problems. But really people.. it sounds like a lot of people think these schemes really bring an end to the copying of their CD's of making of MP3's onto their computers from the CD's they buy..