Does anyone else find the irony in the fact that most stories on here discuss open source product etc but this is a Beta test that you need Windows to participate in ?
no offense intended here, but how often do you see releases for the "latest and greatest" games that dont require Windows?
Even Neverwinter Nights which was supposedly gonna include linux "out of the box" wont be doing so with the gold release, and to top that off will require a windows install as a dual boot to even let it work once it does.
even a linux junkie will generally acknowledge that windows has a place for PC Gamers, sure there are some people who deserve big credit for trying to bring gaming to linux, but it's far from a large market
how the researchers state that the main hopes for it at this point are as an amazing encryption device, and yet 99% of the comments are about teleportation of matter.
The "SX-6 Series" will be shipped from the end of December 2001 with the monthly rental price starting from 2,800,000 Yen.
By my calculations thats actually only about 22 thousand a month in dollars... not like im gonna be grabbin one, but frankly i would of thought they charge more
But it will not be exactly the same time. It takes roughly 30 minutes to transmit and download a performance over the Internet.
asumming that it even does get the pedal work just right, which the article does not leave a really strong impression of...
what the heck do the pianists and crowd do for the 30 minute download, and the following minutes listening period (no way he will be judging on a stream, lol i could just see his face when it starts hittin traffic and buffering)...
they gonna all start having tea and crumpets while waiting for this guy on another continent to be able to score?
it does sound like really neat technology, and surely has it's uses, but is this really one of the better uses?
When customers called to say their service was out, Comcast sent a technician or asked subscribers to bring in the box. The company recovered 525 boxes that it said had been modified.
Several hundred Macomb subscribers received letters from a collection firm hired to recover money for Comcast. Most have already settled. Only people who didn't respond to letters or calls were sued, Hnilica said
considering that 509 of them took care of it on their own by doing so, and settled out of court, and only 16 of them are being sued for the 170k fine who didnt turn the boxes in...
why do people always compare the usefullness of the differing distributed computing projects?
lets face it somebody will join a project only if they find it interesting. not everybody is interested in the same things, and while searching for a cure to cancers is a very noble goal, perhaps it doesnt appeal to everyone. Some people consider searching for intelligent life like SETI a waste of time, but perhaps one day communications with other lifeforms could solve cancer quicker than the UD DC project aimed at cancer can, you never know.
Admittedly a chess DC project does not aim to do anything like that, but if it's interesting to some people who are not involved in any other projects and gets em started with the addiction that distibuted computing can become, then i think it's great. Maybe it will end up being the gateway to them someday helping you in your favorite project.
Well there are tons of links at the page if you look around, try the bottom of this pagehere
most interesting link i've found so far is this read on chess programming theory... but then again im still going all theese links still, pretty interesting stuff though
NASA said the other gyroscopes were working fine and that the failure would not affect the station's navigation and control. But the bad unit will need to be replaced, and the soonest that can happen is early next year.
they have 5 gyroscopes that they consider "major components", yet it will take em till next year till they can fly one up?
what, they dont have any backups ready to go for critical items and have to manufacture it first?
Basically the new LCD monitors coming out this summer and towards the end of year are getting very close to whats required for high quality gaming. any monitor with a response time of 20 ms or less will yield at least 50 images per second displayed, and there are quite a few nice ones that you will be able to choose from with thoose kind of times very soon.
just be prepared to whip out close to 2 grand for one:P
btw the linux version has been known about for a few weeks now according to their dates.
but anyways when the original variant came out in February they state...
The sample of this virus was sent on 14 Feb 2002 to fourteen different AV companies by the virus author. In about 2 weeks the virus sample was also circulated in an electronic magazine distributed by 29A virus writing group (version 1b).
lots of info about what it actually does to windows machines there, but almost nothing about what it does on Linux
the "security holes" this paper are about refer to the authors techniques for breaking the protection of the "secret" boat loader that MS employs.
it's just his take on where the security could have been improved. all in all MS looks to have relied on the security through obscurity approach (hiding the true boot loader behind a dummy boot loader), just that their obscurity fails when you monitor traffic over a bus with a simple card.
PS: dreamcasts and playstations have always been hackable, as is the xbox, no real surprise there.
genies that could warn of a rotor cuff about to explode in the new hot prospect's shoulder
also impressed that they have employed genies, was wondering when Barbara Eden would find gainfull employment again, she's still got a sexy torso at like the age of 60 or something;)
i'm guessing that at least 9 out of 10 non-football fans wouldn't have a clue who AC Milan is. Almost anyone can recognize the meaning of "an Italian soccer team"
besides what is intersting about this article is not the team itself, its the way they are using the technology to attempt to predict future injuries.
im not talking big iron here my man, and a dual or quad xeon *is* high end to the average guy who is comparing prices with an athlon processor for a server or something. and thats what theese comparisons we were talkin about were in reference too.
"high end" is always relative, nowadays you could be a UNICOS master working with old Cray's and say you work on a *high end* system and someone else could come along and laugh at you, but if you were comparing your system to many other systems you would be correct in your terminology.
it's all in the context of what you are comparing it too:P
yes xeon mobos do cost more, but that is because they are for the very high end systems in general, and support dual CPUs generally have 8 or more DIMM slots for massive RAM, etc.
just saying that Intel is gettin pretty darn competitive in the high-end market. that $262 cpu was almost $500 a few days ago.
it's almost to the point where i could build a dual xeon box running at 2.2 GHz x 2 for under a grand, if i tossed my HDD and CD-RW in it from one of my old boxes... that is the kind of system i used to look at and drool wondering how long it would be till it would be within my reach financially.
given the choice of Intel's price cut to 262$ on a 2.2 gigahertz Xeon processor, or AMD's linked price cut to 224 on its 2100+. I can honestly say that i feel that Intel has far better value for the cash right now.
the competition however is great, we all stand to benefit from it:)
Everytime you hear discussions on proposed bills like the CDBTPA which would make hardware manufacturers responsible for copyright protection there is a lot of the response that, "why should they be responsible for this, it's the copyright holders responsibility to enforce it"... and this is exactly what they are trying to do here.
you cant have it both ways, and given the options of either crippled hardware, or the RIAA trying to track down indivual violations at their own expense, i would certainly say the second the second option is far and away the better solution.
Well you didn't think that spammers were doing this for nothing, with the hopes of advancing the causes of the non-profit "Larger Penises for All Mankind" group did you?
Obviously there are plenty of morons out there who buy some of this junk or it would just go away.
I use Charter. They just introduced a new tier. They have for $37.99 or so, you can get 768Kbps/128Kbps or for $50 or so, you can get 1.5MB/400Kbps. I think $50 or so is fair for now, but it sure seems like every couple months the price goes up
Fair prices for what you get there indeed, i would say.
Wouldn't expect it to last however. I'm in southern California and on Adelphia, rumor has it that Charter is the expected winner of the Adelphia fire-sale here in Los Angeles, so i decided to check their pricing plans in the So Cal area... what costs you 50 a month is gonna cost me 113.95.
Here's the prices listed for SoCal Charter Pipeline (from their website):
***
Service plans (select one)
768Kb Down / 128Kb Up Bronze Package: $39.95 Charter Pipeline High Speed Internet Access, no contract. This price does not include the promotional $4.95 modem lease or the $10.00 cable access fee for non-cable television subscribers.
256Kb Down / 64Kb Up Value Package: $29.95 Charter Pipeline High Speed Internet Access, no contract. This price does not include the promotional $4.95 modem lease or the $10.00 cable access fee for non-cable television subscribers.
1Mb Down / 256Kb Up Silver Package: $60.00 Charter Pipeline High Speed Internet Access, no contract. This price does not include the promotional $4.95 modem lease or the $10.00 cable access fee for non-cable television subscribers.
1.5Mb Down / 384Kb up Gold Package: $99.00 Charter Pipeline High Speed Internet Access, no contract. This price does not include the promotional $4.95 modem lease or the $10.00 cable access fee for non-cable television subscribers.
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Does anyone else find the irony in the fact that most stories on here discuss open source product etc but this is a Beta test that you need Windows to participate in ?
no offense intended here, but how often do you see releases for the "latest and greatest" games that dont require Windows?
Even Neverwinter Nights which was supposedly gonna include linux "out of the box" wont be doing so with the gold release, and to top that off will require a windows install as a dual boot to even let it work once it does.
even a linux junkie will generally acknowledge that windows has a place for PC Gamers, sure there are some people who deserve big credit for trying to bring gaming to linux, but it's far from a large market
how the researchers state that the main hopes for it at this point are as an amazing encryption device, and yet 99% of the comments are about teleportation of matter.
hmm for all the people who wanna figure out what it would cost to run one of theese babies.
This link states in it that:
The "SX-6 Series" will be shipped from the end of December 2001 with the monthly rental price starting from 2,800,000 Yen.
By my calculations thats actually only about 22 thousand a month in dollars... not like im gonna be grabbin one, but frankly i would of thought they charge more
ClearChannelSucks.org
;)
brand new website, enjoy it and feel free to comment and read the stories and links...
well at least till ICANN takes the domain name away
ok taken from the article
But it will not be exactly the same time. It takes roughly 30 minutes to transmit and download a performance over the Internet.
asumming that it even does get the pedal work just right, which the article does not leave a really strong impression of...
what the heck do the pianists and crowd do for the 30 minute download, and the following minutes listening period (no way he will be judging on a stream, lol i could just see his face when it starts hittin traffic and buffering)...
they gonna all start having tea and crumpets while waiting for this guy on another continent to be able to score?
it does sound like really neat technology, and surely has it's uses, but is this really one of the better uses?
downsides of the passive approach...
;)
you may get fired for not stopping the problem before the users learn this lesson
Lux Interior is a IT manager now?
Damm last time i saw him he was practically swallowing a microphone mumbling something about being a human-fly
When customers called to say their service was out, Comcast sent a technician or asked subscribers to bring in the box. The company recovered 525 boxes that it said had been modified.
Several hundred Macomb subscribers received letters from a collection firm hired to recover money for Comcast. Most have already settled. Only people who didn't respond to letters or calls were sued, Hnilica said
considering that 509 of them took care of it on their own by doing so, and settled out of court, and only 16 of them are being sued for the 170k fine who didnt turn the boxes in...
who ya think is gonna end up paying less?
why do people always compare the usefullness of the differing distributed computing projects?
lets face it somebody will join a project only if they find it interesting. not everybody is interested in the same things, and while searching for a cure to cancers is a very noble goal, perhaps it doesnt appeal to everyone. Some people consider searching for intelligent life like SETI a waste of time, but perhaps one day communications with other lifeforms could solve cancer quicker than the UD DC project aimed at cancer can, you never know.
Admittedly a chess DC project does not aim to do anything like that, but if it's interesting to some people who are not involved in any other projects and gets em started with the addiction that distibuted computing can become, then i think it's great. Maybe it will end up being the gateway to them someday helping you in your favorite project.
Well there are tons of links at the page if you look around, try the bottom of this pagehere
most interesting link i've found so far is this read on chess programming theory... but then again im still going all theese links still, pretty interesting stuff though
It is funny ....
ironic perhaps, certainly not funny though
NASA said the other gyroscopes were working fine and that the failure would not affect the station's navigation and control. But the bad unit will need to be replaced, and the soonest that can happen is early next year.
they have 5 gyroscopes that they consider "major components", yet it will take em till next year till they can fly one up?
what, they dont have any backups ready to go for critical items and have to manufacture it first?
great planning
sure that works great on the games it applies to.
but what about the many MMORPG's reffered to in this article? a MMORPG loses quite a bit if you have to take the first M(assive) part out of it
good article about just that topic at toms hardware.
:P
Basically the new LCD monitors coming out this summer and towards the end of year are getting very close to whats required for high quality gaming. any monitor with a response time of 20 ms or less will yield at least 50 images per second displayed, and there are quite a few nice ones that you will be able to choose from with thoose kind of times very soon.
just be prepared to whip out close to 2 grand for one
at McAfee's website here
btw the linux version has been known about for a few weeks now according to their dates.
but anyways when the original variant came out in February they state...
The sample of this virus was sent on 14 Feb 2002 to fourteen different AV companies by the virus author. In about 2 weeks the virus sample was also circulated in an electronic magazine distributed by 29A virus writing group (version 1b).
lots of info about what it actually does to windows machines there, but almost nothing about what it does on Linux
is rather suspicious. If no-one has ever reported this virus, does it mean that Symantec created it?
it probably means that the first reports of the virus came from a non-symantec customer, and they just found out about it elsewhere.
the "security holes" this paper are about refer to the authors techniques for breaking the protection of the "secret" boat loader that MS employs.
it's just his take on where the security could have been improved. all in all MS looks to have relied on the security through obscurity approach (hiding the true boot loader behind a dummy boot loader), just that their obscurity fails when you monitor traffic over a bus with a simple card.
PS: dreamcasts and playstations have always been hackable, as is the xbox, no real surprise there.
genies that could warn of a rotor cuff about to explode in the new hot prospect's shoulder
;)
also impressed that they have employed genies, was wondering when Barbara Eden would find gainfull employment again, she's still got a sexy torso at like the age of 60 or something
i'm guessing that at least 9 out of 10 non-football fans wouldn't have a clue who AC Milan is. Almost anyone can recognize the meaning of "an Italian soccer team"
besides what is intersting about this article is not the team itself, its the way they are using the technology to attempt to predict future injuries.
PS wtg Senegal, go Azul!!!
im not talking big iron here my man, and a dual or quad xeon *is* high end to the average guy who is comparing prices with an athlon processor for a server or something. and thats what theese comparisons we were talkin about were in reference too.
:P
"high end" is always relative, nowadays you could be a UNICOS master working with old Cray's and say you work on a *high end* system and someone else could come along and laugh at you, but if you were comparing your system to many other systems you would be correct in your terminology.
it's all in the context of what you are comparing it too
yes xeon mobos do cost more, but that is because they are for the very high end systems in general, and support dual CPUs generally have 8 or more DIMM slots for massive RAM, etc.
:)
just saying that Intel is gettin pretty darn competitive in the high-end market. that $262 cpu was almost $500 a few days ago.
it's almost to the point where i could build a dual xeon box running at 2.2 GHz x 2 for under a grand, if i tossed my HDD and CD-RW in it from one of my old boxes... that is the kind of system i used to look at and drool wondering how long it would be till it would be within my reach financially.
gotta love price wars
given the choice of Intel's price cut to 262$ on a 2.2 gigahertz Xeon processor, or AMD's linked price cut to 224 on its 2100+. I can honestly say that i feel that Intel has far better value for the cash right now.
:)
the competition however is great, we all stand to benefit from it
Everytime you hear discussions on proposed bills like the CDBTPA which would make hardware manufacturers responsible for copyright protection there is a lot of the response that, "why should they be responsible for this, it's the copyright holders responsibility to enforce it"... and this is exactly what they are trying to do here.
you cant have it both ways, and given the options of either crippled hardware, or the RIAA trying to track down indivual violations at their own expense, i would certainly say the second the second option is far and away the better solution.
Well you didn't think that spammers were doing this for nothing, with the hopes of advancing the causes of the non-profit "Larger Penises for All Mankind" group did you?
Obviously there are plenty of morons out there who buy some of this junk or it would just go away.
I use Charter. They just introduced a new tier. They have for $37.99 or so, you can get 768Kbps/128Kbps or for $50 or so, you can get 1.5MB/400Kbps. I think $50 or so is fair for now, but it sure seems like every couple months the price goes up
Fair prices for what you get there indeed, i would say.
Wouldn't expect it to last however. I'm in southern California and on Adelphia, rumor has it that Charter is the expected winner of the Adelphia fire-sale here in Los Angeles, so i decided to check their pricing plans in the So Cal area... what costs you 50 a month is gonna cost me 113.95.
Here's the prices listed for SoCal Charter Pipeline (from their website):
***
Service plans (select one)
768Kb Down / 128Kb Up Bronze Package: $39.95 Charter Pipeline High Speed Internet Access, no contract. This price does not include the promotional $4.95 modem lease or the $10.00 cable access fee for non-cable television subscribers.
256Kb Down / 64Kb Up Value Package: $29.95 Charter Pipeline High Speed Internet Access, no contract. This price does not include the promotional $4.95 modem lease or the $10.00 cable access fee for non-cable television subscribers.
1Mb Down / 256Kb Up Silver Package: $60.00 Charter Pipeline High Speed Internet Access, no contract. This price does not include the promotional $4.95 modem lease or the $10.00 cable access fee for non-cable television subscribers.
1.5Mb Down / 384Kb up Gold Package: $99.00 Charter Pipeline High Speed Internet Access, no contract. This price does not include the promotional $4.95 modem lease or the $10.00 cable access fee for non-cable television subscribers.