lots of possibilities. displays mounted sunglasses are out, but displays on windows, windshields, helmet visors, etc are all possible. Imagine if your windows had a temperature reading in the corner. People would like that sort of thing. Heck why not make a whole window an interactive display of some sort (just no touchscreen please).
Sometimes its so hard to tell if there is sarcasm or not in text. I could totally see half a dozen people here asking that same question, even if it is a bit over the top. Hell, I've even thought about copying a rom just to see what the process is like. Then I found a torrent with every single one.
yeah. for all the time and effort, just download the roms. you can at least sleep easier knowing that you actually own physical copies if that sort of thing makes you feel better.
My notebook has a Nvidia 9100M, which is on the low end of the spectrum for 9x gpus. It only has 8 shader/vertex units and seems to get along fine with anything up to Morrowind, X2, IL2, KOTOR, etc. I don't think it would handle bioshock all that well, but it does play a mean game of half-life 2. Still it is leaps and bounds over any GMA solution intel has.....
They did. Search for Tienanmen Square on images.google.cn. Then search on any other flavor of google. Quite the difference!
They do give the wikipedia pages, but it seems to be picking up on my locale, but I do distinctly remember searching google on a tor exit node from china and being surprised at how censored the great wall really is.
That is amazing. I never knew that existed until now. Are they claiming they can make any application portable and you can just throw all of your apps on a drive and access them forever and retain their settings? Do you need their software to run the apps after they have been virtualized? Interesting stuff....for as bad as most of Mac OS used to be, that was one thing they got right. You had a file called preferences that referred to your application. I know unix has this concept as well (and fairly elegantly too), and I wish that windows would follow suit somehow. I don't see why every application under the sun has to write a million keys to the registry that half the time are completely useless and then just hang around after you have uninstalled the application.
I think you meant to respond to the GP. I think you missed my failed attempt at being humorous at the expense of your question "Why am I responding to a troll?" and your user #. You asked the question, after all. And since I am a retard, I thought I should point out that opensuse is not linux, nor is fedora or any other distro. Linux is the kernel. The linux kernel. In theory you cold take any kernel and swap it in and recompile your system tools (GNU) on top of it and have yet another unix lookalike. Richard Stallman would also prefer if you would start referring to Linux as GNU/Linux, and hey, why shouldn't we give credit to the organization that pioneered free software?
Also, I fail to see what is broken with compatibility in windows? Sure your Windows 9x code might not run all that well, but you can always run a VM if you really need that special app. Anything written post windows 2000 seems to work pretty well for me in windows 7, barring the odd utility that has unsigned drivers or whatnot. 10+ years of compatibility is pretty good if you ask me. Have you ever even tried to compile code against newer versions of GCC? It seems like they break libstc++ compatibility with every release. For someone like me who knows next to nothing about compiling with GCC it is kind of maddening to keep coming across code that won't compile.
They degrade rapidly at room temperature and reach a half-life in 2 years. They are just not stable enough to use in cars as people want their battery to at least last the life of their payment period (like 4 years or so). A lot of people just buy new cars at the end of the 4 years because for some reason the like to perpetually spend their money I guess. (I know this is going OT) Lead acid and NiMH are pretty reliable. The cycle durability of NiMH is 500–1,000 according to wikipedia. According to toyota the prius has "Battery type: Sealed Nickel-Metal Hydride (Ni-MH)2 Output: 273.6 V (228 1.2-V cells) Hybrid vehicle battery expected life is 150,000 miles based on laboratory bench testing." These numbers don't equate (1000cycles vs 150,000 miles), so maybe I'm missing something here, but my point is that these batteries are a lot more durable than lithium ion and buying a huge (potentially dangerous) battery pack for your basement made out of Li might not be the greatest idea. Who the heck is selling these things anyways? Also the biggest problem with the hybrid batteries is not them actually blowing up in a crash (your gas tank won't blow up either), but rather the massive electrical discharge they can put through the metal car frame while the fire fighters are trying to cut your out with their metal tools. I would say that the dangers involved with that are really pretty overstated. If it were such a safety issue, they would have banned hybrids, but I think they really haven't been in practice any more or less safe than any other cars.
Oh, merry christmas screwmaster. The news around here has been kind of bleak lately, hasn't it?
At room temperature and a full charge LI lasts like a whole 2 years before battery life starts to seriously degrade, unless there has been some breakthrough in LI technology that I was unaware of. Keeping it 75% charged or so maximizes battery life, but who would want a partially charged battery when the power goes out for 3 days in the dead of winter? Also what about cost? I don't really see this as a cost saving measure, but I do understand the importance of having a battery solution when you are generating your own power from inconsistent natural sources.
My laptop is not too big to lug around. 14", 5lbs. Not bad at all. It is also pretty powerful. 2-3 hours of battery life isn't all that great, but how often do I need to use a laptop for more than 2 hours where there isn't a plug around? I've sat by the river and watched a few movies on it in the past. Now the crappy 15" athlon laptop I used to have with no internal battery really kind of sucked........
Seconded. An article about george w. bush might have some inconsistencies in it on wikipedia, but a page about a cpu? Why would anyone lie or make up stuff about that?
My friend had a machine with the exact problems that you just describe. I couldn't for the life of me figure out why his keyboard died and then the usb ports started flaking out and I immediately knew it was the usb controller. I gave him an external keyboard, but the machine became super unstable after that and finally totally died probably a month later. It looked like his hard drive was starting to die as well. I bought an acer since his machine seemed so reliable and then that happened. Hopefully they fixed their manufacturing process. My model is a couple of years newer and has been trouble free for about 6 months now. If I get 2 years out of it I think I'd be happy. It was reasonably cheap. I'd imagine that if you got the run around on a warranty you could take the manufacturer to small claims court if you could make a good case. There would be an excellent chance that they would never show up in court and you would get default judgement. Nothing wrong with using the law to your advantage.
I concur. Why have a huge box when you can have a little portable machine that is barely slower than a desktop? After over 20 years of strictly owning desktops, I bought a notebook and can't imagine why I never did earlier. Cost was certainly a factor, but now notebooks are damned cheap with lots of sub $1000 machines with decent specs. I went cheap and got an Acer Aspire 14" and the size and weight are pretty nice. 3gb RAM, 2ghz dual core athlon turion with cores from the latest phenom and hypertransport 3 for like $500 and a nvidia 9100m that will at least play some decent 3d games really kind of made it a nice machine. No crappy intel gma here. At this point the only thing I wish it had was a discrete video card, but seing as how the 9100M is at least pretty equivalent to an 8400GS, its a whole lot better the aging radeon 9250 PCI I used for years was. Don't think it will play oblivion all that well, but any games up to 2005-2006 run pretty good. Not bad for an integrated chipset. After 6 months this machine has been super stable, though virtualbox doesn't seem to play when I try to use both cores in a VM, but I'm suspecting it is how my bios implements AMD-V though, and probably not anything with the virtualbox code, though it is one of the things they keep tweaking for stability looking at the changelogs Turning off IO APIC seems to make things nice and stable.
I can't believe how much comcast is compressing these days. I think they went from 2 HD channels compressed into the space of one and then like 4 or something. They need to convert totally to HD and let the set top box sort it out and scale as necessary. Someone did a comparison of screen captures between FIOS and Comcast a while back ago and the differences in quality were astonishing. Never mind the $200 a month they are milking people for combined internet/cable/phone service. I mean wow, they went from figuring out how to charge people $30 a month to $200 in the space of a few short years. All with basically the same costs. I mean the television portion is obviously their biggest cost. Sure it costs money to roll out internet access, but their infrastructure was basically already built, minus a few multiplexers and modem racks. I don't know how bandwidth is rated on a scale that large, but I'm guessing they pay a flat rate for a bunch of fiber connections from larger fish. As skype has proven, we all know IP telephony can be virtually free if not downright cheap and the $30-40 they milk out of people for a dialtone is disgusting. I have comcast. Just internet and basic television though. I never watch TV (my roomate does), but I need the internet. I get it for the ultra low cost of $70 a month. $70 a month for analog stations I can get over the air and internet. I think that is a crime. My only other option is a 1.5mbps dsl line, which I was also pretty much have to pay for a useless dialtone to go along with it. The lack of any sort of competition is really pathetic and when 4-5 companies can dictate how people access the internet we are headed for really bad times.
As one guy put it best "$200?? Thats like a car payment!"
Don't most modern GPUs have built in decoders? I never understood the whole hardware acceleration option in various media players (what is it accelerating? just the blitting via direct draw? the actual decoding of the file?), and I must admit I never researched it much because video usually just works with the proper codecs and that is all I needed to know. For instance, I have the Nvidia 9100M on my laptop, and I know that the 9x series chipsets support accelerated video, and judging from the website it supports h.264, wmv, and mpeg4. So I'm assuming that VLC (what's up with the lack of scaling and interpolation in the latest releases?) and Windows Media Player all offload decoding the file to the GPU. I'm guessing at the 10% mark you have some acceleration going on, either that or the i7 is really astonishingly fast. The athlon turion x2 in my laptop is 2ghz and probably uses about 40-50% of a core to decode 720p. My older athlon 64 3000 desktop at also 2ghz was too slow to keep up on highly compressed (and CPU intensive) files. I'd be in shock if your i7 was only eating up 15% without hardware acceleration somewhere.
I was wondering if this is a dictionary only attack. It is possible that is all they are looking at. I don't know how long a 400 cpu cluster can bruteforce a 64 charachter key, but I would say not long.
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Pretty easy. Its out of beta (FINALLY!)
Oh god I wish I had mod points.
Did you create a user id just to post this?
Rule #1. Ignore ACs.
I heard you like windows so I made a window that you can display windows with while running windows, so you can have windows in your window.
lots of possibilities. displays mounted sunglasses are out, but displays on windows, windshields, helmet visors, etc are all possible. Imagine if your windows had a temperature reading in the corner. People would like that sort of thing. Heck why not make a whole window an interactive display of some sort (just no touchscreen please).
Sometimes its so hard to tell if there is sarcasm or not in text. I could totally see half a dozen people here asking that same question, even if it is a bit over the top. Hell, I've even thought about copying a rom just to see what the process is like. Then I found a torrent with every single one.
yeah. for all the time and effort, just download the roms. you can at least sleep easier knowing that you actually own physical copies if that sort of thing makes you feel better.
My notebook has a Nvidia 9100M, which is on the low end of the spectrum for 9x gpus. It only has 8 shader/vertex units and seems to get along fine with anything up to Morrowind, X2, IL2, KOTOR, etc. I don't think it would handle bioshock all that well, but it does play a mean game of half-life 2. Still it is leaps and bounds over any GMA solution intel has.....
They did. Search for Tienanmen Square on images.google.cn. Then search on any other flavor of google. Quite the difference!
They do give the wikipedia pages, but it seems to be picking up on my locale, but I do distinctly remember searching google on a tor exit node from china and being surprised at how censored the great wall really is.
That is amazing. I never knew that existed until now. Are they claiming they can make any application portable and you can just throw all of your apps on a drive and access them forever and retain their settings? Do you need their software to run the apps after they have been virtualized? Interesting stuff....for as bad as most of Mac OS used to be, that was one thing they got right. You had a file called preferences that referred to your application. I know unix has this concept as well (and fairly elegantly too), and I wish that windows would follow suit somehow. I don't see why every application under the sun has to write a million keys to the registry that half the time are completely useless and then just hang around after you have uninstalled the application.
I think you meant to respond to the GP. I think you missed my failed attempt at being humorous at the expense of your question "Why am I responding to a troll?" and your user #. You asked the question, after all. And since I am a retard, I thought I should point out that opensuse is not linux, nor is fedora or any other distro. Linux is the kernel. The linux kernel. In theory you cold take any kernel and swap it in and recompile your system tools (GNU) on top of it and have yet another unix lookalike. Richard Stallman would also prefer if you would start referring to Linux as GNU/Linux, and hey, why shouldn't we give credit to the organization that pioneered free software?
Also, I fail to see what is broken with compatibility in windows? Sure your Windows 9x code might not run all that well, but you can always run a VM if you really need that special app. Anything written post windows 2000 seems to work pretty well for me in windows 7, barring the odd utility that has unsigned drivers or whatnot. 10+ years of compatibility is pretty good if you ask me. Have you ever even tried to compile code against newer versions of GCC? It seems like they break libstc++ compatibility with every release. For someone like me who knows next to nothing about compiling with GCC it is kind of maddening to keep coming across code that won't compile.
Awwww shucks. Why am I responding to a troll?
you must be new here.....
They degrade rapidly at room temperature and reach a half-life in 2 years. They are just not stable enough to use in cars as people want their battery to at least last the life of their payment period (like 4 years or so). A lot of people just buy new cars at the end of the 4 years because for some reason the like to perpetually spend their money I guess. (I know this is going OT) Lead acid and NiMH are pretty reliable. The cycle durability of NiMH is 500–1,000 according to wikipedia. According to toyota the prius has "Battery type: Sealed Nickel-Metal Hydride (Ni-MH)2 Output: 273.6 V (228 1.2-V cells) Hybrid vehicle battery expected life is 150,000 miles based on laboratory bench testing." These numbers don't equate (1000cycles vs 150,000 miles), so maybe I'm missing something here, but my point is that these batteries are a lot more durable than lithium ion and buying a huge (potentially dangerous) battery pack for your basement made out of Li might not be the greatest idea. Who the heck is selling these things anyways? Also the biggest problem with the hybrid batteries is not them actually blowing up in a crash (your gas tank won't blow up either), but rather the massive electrical discharge they can put through the metal car frame while the fire fighters are trying to cut your out with their metal tools. I would say that the dangers involved with that are really pretty overstated. If it were such a safety issue, they would have banned hybrids, but I think they really haven't been in practice any more or less safe than any other cars.
Oh, merry christmas screwmaster. The news around here has been kind of bleak lately, hasn't it?
At room temperature and a full charge LI lasts like a whole 2 years before battery life starts to seriously degrade, unless there has been some breakthrough in LI technology that I was unaware of. Keeping it 75% charged or so maximizes battery life, but who would want a partially charged battery when the power goes out for 3 days in the dead of winter? Also what about cost? I don't really see this as a cost saving measure, but I do understand the importance of having a battery solution when you are generating your own power from inconsistent natural sources.
My laptop is not too big to lug around. 14", 5lbs. Not bad at all. It is also pretty powerful. 2-3 hours of battery life isn't all that great, but how often do I need to use a laptop for more than 2 hours where there isn't a plug around? I've sat by the river and watched a few movies on it in the past. Now the crappy 15" athlon laptop I used to have with no internal battery really kind of sucked........
Seconded. An article about george w. bush might have some inconsistencies in it on wikipedia, but a page about a cpu? Why would anyone lie or make up stuff about that?
My friend had a machine with the exact problems that you just describe. I couldn't for the life of me figure out why his keyboard died and then the usb ports started flaking out and I immediately knew it was the usb controller. I gave him an external keyboard, but the machine became super unstable after that and finally totally died probably a month later. It looked like his hard drive was starting to die as well. I bought an acer since his machine seemed so reliable and then that happened. Hopefully they fixed their manufacturing process. My model is a couple of years newer and has been trouble free for about 6 months now. If I get 2 years out of it I think I'd be happy. It was reasonably cheap. I'd imagine that if you got the run around on a warranty you could take the manufacturer to small claims court if you could make a good case. There would be an excellent chance that they would never show up in court and you would get default judgement. Nothing wrong with using the law to your advantage.
I concur. Why have a huge box when you can have a little portable machine that is barely slower than a desktop? After over 20 years of strictly owning desktops, I bought a notebook and can't imagine why I never did earlier. Cost was certainly a factor, but now notebooks are damned cheap with lots of sub $1000 machines with decent specs. I went cheap and got an Acer Aspire 14" and the size and weight are pretty nice. 3gb RAM, 2ghz dual core athlon turion with cores from the latest phenom and hypertransport 3 for like $500 and a nvidia 9100m that will at least play some decent 3d games really kind of made it a nice machine. No crappy intel gma here. At this point the only thing I wish it had was a discrete video card, but seing as how the 9100M is at least pretty equivalent to an 8400GS, its a whole lot better the aging radeon 9250 PCI I used for years was. Don't think it will play oblivion all that well, but any games up to 2005-2006 run pretty good. Not bad for an integrated chipset. After 6 months this machine has been super stable, though virtualbox doesn't seem to play when I try to use both cores in a VM, but I'm suspecting it is how my bios implements AMD-V though, and probably not anything with the virtualbox code, though it is one of the things they keep tweaking for stability looking at the changelogs Turning off IO APIC seems to make things nice and stable.
That was my point exactly. I mean if you need newer libraries or something you can alway just upgrade the packages you need......
I can't believe how much comcast is compressing these days. I think they went from 2 HD channels compressed into the space of one and then like 4 or something. They need to convert totally to HD and let the set top box sort it out and scale as necessary. Someone did a comparison of screen captures between FIOS and Comcast a while back ago and the differences in quality were astonishing. Never mind the $200 a month they are milking people for combined internet/cable/phone service. I mean wow, they went from figuring out how to charge people $30 a month to $200 in the space of a few short years. All with basically the same costs. I mean the television portion is obviously their biggest cost. Sure it costs money to roll out internet access, but their infrastructure was basically already built, minus a few multiplexers and modem racks. I don't know how bandwidth is rated on a scale that large, but I'm guessing they pay a flat rate for a bunch of fiber connections from larger fish. As skype has proven, we all know IP telephony can be virtually free if not downright cheap and the $30-40 they milk out of people for a dialtone is disgusting. I have comcast. Just internet and basic television though. I never watch TV (my roomate does), but I need the internet. I get it for the ultra low cost of $70 a month. $70 a month for analog stations I can get over the air and internet. I think that is a crime. My only other option is a 1.5mbps dsl line, which I was also pretty much have to pay for a useless dialtone to go along with it. The lack of any sort of competition is really pathetic and when 4-5 companies can dictate how people access the internet we are headed for really bad times.
As one guy put it best "$200?? Thats like a car payment!"
Don't most modern GPUs have built in decoders? I never understood the whole hardware acceleration option in various media players (what is it accelerating? just the blitting via direct draw? the actual decoding of the file?), and I must admit I never researched it much because video usually just works with the proper codecs and that is all I needed to know. For instance, I have the Nvidia 9100M on my laptop, and I know that the 9x series chipsets support accelerated video, and judging from the website it supports h.264, wmv, and mpeg4. So I'm assuming that VLC (what's up with the lack of scaling and interpolation in the latest releases?) and Windows Media Player all offload decoding the file to the GPU. I'm guessing at the 10% mark you have some acceleration going on, either that or the i7 is really astonishingly fast. The athlon turion x2 in my laptop is 2ghz and probably uses about 40-50% of a core to decode 720p. My older athlon 64 3000 desktop at also 2ghz was too slow to keep up on highly compressed (and CPU intensive) files. I'd be in shock if your i7 was only eating up 15% without hardware acceleration somewhere.
Why not just run debian? I don't think a production server needs to be on the bleeding edge.....
I was wondering if this is a dictionary only attack. It is possible that is all they are looking at. I don't know how long a 400 cpu cluster can bruteforce a 64 charachter key, but I would say not long.
Thanks for exposing my key! It took so long to memorize too! I thought I'd never have to change passwords........*grumble* *grumble*