Jeeze. What the hell is with the whole accellerator thing now?
A physics accellerator which does jack and shit when compared and mid to high end graphics solutions. It's offloading some of the CPU load, sure. But at high-res, the CPU is NOT the bottleneck.
A network accellerator which is going to do jack and shit. It's offloading some of the network processing from the CPU, sure. See "the CPU is not the bottleneck". Sure, some people are going to build apps for the embedded Linux. Great.
Now an AI accellerator. So the AI runs faster. When the AI isn't really the issue. Nor is the CPU underlying it. It offloads the AI from the CPU, sure. See "the CPU is not the bottleneck". Nor is there a real need to have 60,000 AI running simultenously in a scene with 4 characters in it.
So what's going to happen? What difference is this going to make to your real gaming experience?
While prevarication CAN be a tool in the bag of a social engineer, it's not the only tool. There are numerous times you can tell the entire truth, or say nothing at all, and still elicit the response you desire.
I take my not-so-narrow ass down to the Field Museum today for the King Tut exhibit (ALWAYS go as early as possible, it gets brutal later on).
As I'm hitting all the exhibits, I happen by the Mold-a-Rama machines downstairs near the McDonalds (the one with suitably outrageously inflated prices) and am thinking "Wow! They still have these things! How cool is that!"
And now you're reading my damn mind again!
Grrr. Lemme grab my tinfoil hat...wait, those would actually AMPLIFY the signal. CRAP!
Someone turned me on to Syncback earlier this year. All I can say is, for a $25 backup app, I'm DAMN impressed. The guys at 2BrightSparks did a good job of pulling together some open/free apps and adding their own on top, and tying them into a nice, coherent interface.
Setting up backups is something all but the most intensly brain-dead can do.
I've been recommending it to all my smaller, somewhat "cheaper" clients.
So far, it's already saved two of them from complete system failures.
Note: If you're actually looking at operating systems, IT solutions, etc, the very last thing you're worried about is if Billy Joe Jim Bob in Bumblefsck, AR, knows about the solution. If you're actually in a position to purchase, you've DONE your research on this stuff, and you're making an informed (if not unbiased) decision.
THAT is what I have an issue with. Randomly stopping A. Guy Onastreet and asking him if he knows about one of the solutions you're looking at is NOT a way to make decisions.
Unless you REALLY want them telling you that MS SharePoint Portal Services will run JUST FINE AND DANDY on a MacOS-based server, or some other such nonsense.
The opinions that matter are those of the people you've hired to implement/support it, and those who're paying for it. A. Guy Onastreet (uninformed decision making based solely on brand name recognition) isn't one of them.
So far, all I've heard is brand-fapping. Not a real, solid TECHNICAL reason why this fantasy would become reality.
Oh, wait. Macs. Fantasy. Macs. Fantasy. I get it now!
Linux *is* underground for all intents and purposes.
No, it's just not in the general public's immediate consciousness. Kinda like Windows and MacOS aren't either. Worrying about that stuff is "for computer geeks".
Ask a bloke on the street if they've heard of Linux.
Lousy benchmark there. The general "bloke on the street" isn't the one who does the investing in IT hardware. We're not talking about "OMFGBBQ the desktop is so HAWT I want to have it's children!" bullcrap. We're talking about server-side infrastructure. Essentially, the only ones REALLY using Mac for this are the hardcore Mac-freaks who're still drinking the Flavor-Aid in the RDF. Why is this? The same reason they're moving off Windows Server onto Linux. Price/performance ratio.
If they're not in IT, web design, or a related field chances are they have not.
Again, they're also not the ones making the decisions for a company's infrastructure either.
Ask a bloke on the street if they've heard of windows, or apple. Even if they don't own a computer, they probably have.
BFD. How many people outside of enterprise IT have heard of Oracle database? Or Roxxon? Or BIND? Luddite public consciouness is a piss-poor way to limit your purchases.
Linux has made great strides in the past 10 years, but let's not confuse what it is. Linux is the survivalist to windows' soccer mom.
BWAHAHAH! You obviously are a web-wonk who thinks that because you can write HTML and rip off an occasional javascript from someone else, that it makes you "real IT".
There's no real hard and fast rule anymore. And setting it against a static value (like physical memory) is incredibly wasteful.
It's a much better idea to set it interactively. Use the system without adjusting the Virtual Memory for a while. Then take a look at your usage and set your virtual memory against that usage.
For instance.
If you're in a Windows machine, let it run normally for a few days. Run everything the way you normally use it. Multiple apps, multiple instances, games out the ass, everything.
Then open up the Task Manager and look at the Performance tab. Take a look at the Peak value under "Commit Charge". Set your virtual memory, min and max, at about 10% above that value to leave yourself a little headroom. Normally this will be enough to deal with your maximum swap requests.
If, somehow, you begin bumping against virtual memory limits again AFTER that, bump it another 10%.
If you still have problems, keep bumping it in 10% increments, and start looking for apps that are memory leaking.
This is a common misconception. GE foods are simply plants that have been engineered for the most desireable traits of it's own species. Anything that's grown outside of lab conditions is not going to have squid genes or horse genes or anything other than plant DNA in it.
"Fully natural hybrids have been used and tested for millenia and are PROVEN"
I call bullshit!
Today's non-GE corn bears fairly little resemblance (other than superficial) to the maize that some of the first Europeans were introduced to when they came to the US.
Who cares? A huge section of the population can't even afford most of those services. Remember, France also has one of the highest unemployment rates of any first-world country extant.
And, since the unemployment rate doesn't account for discouraged workers, the amount of people out of work is actually even higher.
I have no use for an iPod. I don't walk around, needing to hear tunes all the time. I have a CD player in my car and an FM transmitter that plays MP3s from any USB-enabled device.
My job has me sitting in front of a computer all day, and I have an entire setup at home.
Additionally, I have exactly zero desire to watch video on a postage-stamp-sized screen.
And, if for some reason I DID, there's already tools available for it.
So please, all you iPod junkies, get a fucking detox.
"Also, it doesn't really matter if Line 6's products came first: they clearly didn't do anything to defend the mark in the context of the iPod mark, period, so the point is moot."
If they're going to get sued by Apple over infringement on "Pod" which they've been using far longer than Apple, even though "Pod" is a generic word in the language already, the point is FAR from moot.
It does not make a lick of difference, either, that "Apple's product is more widely known".
The fact is that most pro-war folks (and nearly all politicians) aren't the ones doing the fighting themselves, if they were, they'd be the -first- pacifists.
Really? Do you have the military and/or combat experience to make that sort of overly broad claim?
If not, I suggest you refrain from accusing others of being too frightened to go and fight for something themselves.
Apple, for all that it's putting out nice, desireable machines, is still a niche market. Why take the time and write a real in-the-wild exploit to only hit 3-4% of the market? Nobody who cares about writing successful exploits cares about proving Macs to be insecure.
Why go for a relatively undocumented OS on a small niche system when there's a massively popular, well documented OS with lots of avenues to exploit?
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Jeeze. What the hell is with the whole accellerator thing now?
A physics accellerator which does jack and shit when compared and mid to high end graphics solutions. It's offloading some of the CPU load, sure. But at high-res, the CPU is NOT the bottleneck.
A network accellerator which is going to do jack and shit. It's offloading some of the network processing from the CPU, sure. See "the CPU is not the bottleneck". Sure, some people are going to build apps for the embedded Linux. Great.
Now an AI accellerator. So the AI runs faster. When the AI isn't really the issue. Nor is the CPU underlying it. It offloads the AI from the CPU, sure. See "the CPU is not the bottleneck". Nor is there a real need to have 60,000 AI running simultenously in a scene with 4 characters in it.
So what's going to happen? What difference is this going to make to your real gaming experience?
While prevarication CAN be a tool in the bag of a social engineer, it's not the only tool. There are numerous times you can tell the entire truth, or say nothing at all, and still elicit the response you desire.
I take my not-so-narrow ass down to the Field Museum today for the King Tut exhibit (ALWAYS go as early as possible, it gets brutal later on).
As I'm hitting all the exhibits, I happen by the Mold-a-Rama machines downstairs near the McDonalds (the one with suitably outrageously inflated prices) and am thinking "Wow! They still have these things! How cool is that!"
And now you're reading my damn mind again!
Grrr. Lemme grab my tinfoil hat...wait, those would actually AMPLIFY the signal. CRAP!
You know what happened the last time you said "No".
Someone turned me on to Syncback earlier this year. All I can say is, for a $25 backup app, I'm DAMN impressed. The guys at 2BrightSparks did a good job of pulling together some open/free apps and adding their own on top, and tying them into a nice, coherent interface.
Setting up backups is something all but the most intensly brain-dead can do.
I've been recommending it to all my smaller, somewhat "cheaper" clients.
So far, it's already saved two of them from complete system failures.
Note: If you're actually looking at operating systems, IT solutions, etc, the very last thing you're worried about is if Billy Joe Jim Bob in Bumblefsck, AR, knows about the solution. If you're actually in a position to purchase, you've DONE your research on this stuff, and you're making an informed (if not unbiased) decision.
THAT is what I have an issue with. Randomly stopping A. Guy Onastreet and asking him if he knows about one of the solutions you're looking at is NOT a way to make decisions.
Unless you REALLY want them telling you that MS SharePoint Portal Services will run JUST FINE AND DANDY on a MacOS-based server, or some other such nonsense.
The opinions that matter are those of the people you've hired to implement/support it, and those who're paying for it. A. Guy Onastreet (uninformed decision making based solely on brand name recognition) isn't one of them.
So far, all I've heard is brand-fapping. Not a real, solid TECHNICAL reason why this fantasy would become reality.
Oh, wait. Macs. Fantasy. Macs. Fantasy. I get it now!
No, it's just not in the general public's immediate consciousness. Kinda like Windows and MacOS aren't either. Worrying about that stuff is "for computer geeks".
Ask a bloke on the street if they've heard of Linux.
Lousy benchmark there. The general "bloke on the street" isn't the one who does the investing in IT hardware. We're not talking about "OMFGBBQ the desktop is so HAWT I want to have it's children!" bullcrap. We're talking about server-side infrastructure. Essentially, the only ones REALLY using Mac for this are the hardcore Mac-freaks who're still drinking the Flavor-Aid in the RDF. Why is this? The same reason they're moving off Windows Server onto Linux. Price/performance ratio.
If they're not in IT, web design, or a related field chances are they have not.
Again, they're also not the ones making the decisions for a company's infrastructure either.
Ask a bloke on the street if they've heard of windows, or apple. Even if they don't own a computer, they probably have.
BFD. How many people outside of enterprise IT have heard of Oracle database? Or Roxxon? Or BIND? Luddite public consciouness is a piss-poor way to limit your purchases.
Linux has made great strides in the past 10 years, but let's not confuse what it is. Linux is the survivalist to windows' soccer mom.
BWAHAHAH! You obviously are a web-wonk who thinks that because you can write HTML and rip off an occasional javascript from someone else, that it makes you "real IT".
There's no real hard and fast rule anymore. And setting it against a static value (like physical memory) is incredibly wasteful.
It's a much better idea to set it interactively. Use the system without adjusting the Virtual Memory for a while. Then take a look at your usage and set your virtual memory against that usage.
For instance.
If you're in a Windows machine, let it run normally for a few days.
Run everything the way you normally use it.
Multiple apps, multiple instances, games out the ass, everything.
Then open up the Task Manager and look at the Performance tab.
Take a look at the Peak value under "Commit Charge".
Set your virtual memory, min and max, at about 10% above that value to leave yourself a little headroom.
Normally this will be enough to deal with your maximum swap requests.
If, somehow, you begin bumping against virtual memory limits again AFTER that, bump it another 10%.
If you still have problems, keep bumping it in 10% increments, and start looking for apps that are memory leaking.
"If we had a cross-breed from two strains, one of whic was not safe to eat, you can bet there would be some testing before it was made publically available."
Appeal to fear
I was waiting for someone to start talking about thalidomide babies.
This is a common misconception. GE foods are simply plants that have been engineered for the most desireable traits of it's own species. Anything that's grown outside of lab conditions is not going to have squid genes or horse genes or anything other than plant DNA in it.
"Fully natural hybrids have been used and tested for millenia and are PROVEN"
I call bullshit!
Today's non-GE corn bears fairly little resemblance (other than superficial) to the maize that some of the first Europeans were introduced to when they came to the US.
How much empirical data do you have that a straight-pollinated cross-breed of two strains of a particular plant are safe to eat?
Who cares? A huge section of the population can't even afford most of those services. Remember, France also has one of the highest unemployment rates of any first-world country extant.
And, since the unemployment rate doesn't account for discouraged workers, the amount of people out of work is actually even higher.
"Andrews said while record companies once offered artists about 30 cents for each song sold, now musicians are earning less than a dime."
Now why would the recording companies want to do that?
Oh yeah, because downloading pretty much destroys their reason for continued existence!
Thanks. Nice to know we were appreciated.
You apparently didn't read my quote, or the article.
Line6 has been producing "pod" products since well before the iPod debuted.
I have no use for an iPod. I don't walk around, needing to hear tunes all the time. I have a CD player in my car and an FM transmitter that plays MP3s from any USB-enabled device.
My job has me sitting in front of a computer all day, and I have an entire setup at home.
Additionally, I have exactly zero desire to watch video on a postage-stamp-sized screen.
And, if for some reason I DID, there's already tools available for it.
So please, all you iPod junkies, get a fucking detox.
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Yeah, go ahead. Classify it a troll.
"Also, it doesn't really matter if Line 6's products came first: they clearly didn't do anything to defend the mark in the context of the iPod mark, period, so the point is moot."
If they're going to get sued by Apple over infringement on "Pod" which they've been using far longer than Apple, even though "Pod" is a generic word in the language already, the point is FAR from moot.
It does not make a lick of difference, either, that "Apple's product is more widely known".
How the fuck is self-promotional bullshit like this "News for Nerds"?
Last I checked, April 1st only came once a year, and we've already celebrated it.
Really? Do you have the military and/or combat experience to make that sort of overly broad claim?
If not, I suggest you refrain from accusing others of being too frightened to go and fight for something themselves.
He said conflict. Not violence. There can be conflict without violence.
If you want to argue his point, argue his point. Don't argue your auto-interpretation of his point.
Why would it change?
Apple, for all that it's putting out nice, desireable machines, is still a niche market. Why take the time and write a real in-the-wild exploit to only hit 3-4% of the market? Nobody who cares about writing successful exploits cares about proving Macs to be insecure.
Why go for a relatively undocumented OS on a small niche system when there's a massively popular, well documented OS with lots of avenues to exploit?
Better computers?
You're using the same hardware I am.
You're using a PC running an alternative OS.
Better computers my *COUGH*.
Did it with BattleTech years ago.
What would normally be a 3-4 hour game became a 7 hour game.
The problem is making certain everybody's on the same page (and not cheating).
Now tabletop simulations like Megamek outstrip tabletop over IRC by orders of magnitude.