Any doubts about the cashing out of early adopters that made cheap and easy coin (bitcoin launched 10 months ago, when did you first hear about it?), go to the exchange and click on depth-of-market. There are several sellers offering lots of 1000+ coin (at $7-8 each). Clearly the winners are those who got in early, either mining with no competition or buying the currency eight months ago for 1/100 of it's current value...
Each hour approximately six computer in the world win a prize of 50 coin (based on cpu resources dedicated to solving an increasingly complex math crypto problem), but with the current number of people running the coin mining apps now, it currently would take an average computer years to win 50 coin.
It also seems like some big player or pool is gaming the system by turning their massive compute power on and off. Maybe they've found out how to manipulate the difficulty for max profit before it is recalculated?
The illusion is that it's not a pyramid scheme for the creators and early adopters. The mailing list in-crowd creates a few million easy coin first (out of a total of 6.2 million coin currently created, total market cap $49 million), then opens up the service for speculators. The speculators drive up the exchange value against real currency and the original 'investors' cash out their imaginary bits.
It's like how an IPO makes the original owners wealthy on the back end - they sell 49% of the company and keep a majority stock themselves that they can divest under the radar at a later higher market valuation. The only difference is there's no immediate cash infusion from the IPO and there's no company.
Apple first with USB? PCs had them a year before the iMac. Plus back in the day, the only portable music player that would dare use firewire was the iPod.
Wing Commander is another game like that. Runs about right on a 386/25, put it on a 486/33 and it's too fast to play, put it on a modern computer and you are going warp speed!
The problem for peripherals is not the emulator, but the host environment. Windows 7 has no gameport support at all (I've even tried replicating hacks that people did in Vista to put back gameport support, with no luck). That means the Sidewinder 3D and the Logitech Cyberman 2 (it even makes the cover of Boot magazine in 1997) are doorstops, which makes your Descent experience a little less 3D when you can't use the 3D controllers you already have.
Keep working on that... would it help if I mentioned there are pictures of naked chicks in there? The steganographic experts would probably be busy for days trying to figure out if there's rootkits hidden in the ADS of tentacle porn...
It's much wiser to just disable the useless Network Location Awareness and Network List Services. What is the point of those anyway; an icon to tell you you can't get on the internet to help you figure out you can't get on the Internet?
While you are at it, SSDP Discovery and UPnP Device Host, along with other cruft like WinHTTP Web Proxy Autodiscovery, Function Discovery Provider Host, Function Discovery Resource Publication, Net.Tcp Port Sharing Service. Also on the list is Peer Name Resolution Protocol, Peer Network Grouping, Peer Network Identity Manager, PNRP Machine name publisher, and HomeGroup Provider. All that crap is for lusers who still have their unsecured wi-fi's SSID set to linksys.
I don't have IPv6 through my ISP, so off goes IP Helper. No need to encrypt every internal packet on my ethernet (so my router decrypts and sends them in the clear on the Internet?), so off goes IPsec Policy Agent and IKE and AuthIP IPsec Keying. I'm not idiot enough to need AV reminders and I'm behind a firewall, so I turn off Security Center and Windows Firewall. No modem, no Telephony service needed. Nobody needs Distributed Link Tracking Client, gone. Nobody would use Window's Internet connection sharing, so that and Application Layer Gateway Service can go to. That's just the start of the list of bloat services on Win7, and no surprise that my network works better. Maybe just a few less attack vectors too...
Likely all data is collected for later 'tapping'. That's like a paedophile saying his hard drive full of child porn is not illegal because he rarely opens files on it, and then he only looks at the faces.
Or say a coded message nobody else can break comes across your desk, you crack it, and discover it details the execution of the largest terrorist attack on US soil to date. You immediately communicate it to your superiors, they send in the G-men who grab the perpetrators red-handed with the dirty bomb that was set to kill tens of thousands. We never hear about it. Thanks NSA. That's what happens on TV every week.
Or you identify a massive illegal warrantless wiretapping campaign against American citizens, blow the whistle, and face 35 years in prison. That is what happened in referenced article...
Amen, my brother! I'm sick and tired of the left-wing bleeding-heart liberal Jew-run media and their activist baby-killing agenda trying to recruit our children into homosexual athiesm! Thankfully there are fair and balanced outlets like FOX that tell it like it is to us God-fearing moderates!
You think there is any difference in the signal the loudspeaker driver receives because it goes through little wires separately insulated instead of little wires all together? Now that's silly stuff. I'll get out the signal generators, the 20MHz data acquisition card, and the laser interferometer to measure the speaker transfer function, and you bring your magic wire and I'll just use coat hangars as speaker wire. I would say we sum the differences using a comparator, but the right and left channel of the best amp would have differences in tolerance a magnitude greater than the difference between the speaker wires.
I'm more annoyed because I can't hook up the registers to blinkenlights or input data a bit at a time with switches. 512 words is more than enough memory (a bit less than 1k bytes). 0x31 == 1 ?? What a waste of bits these modern systems are!
FreeBASIC. It's a compiler though, not an interpreter, which is much better because you can distribute binaries. I've used it to whip up little internet applications that as an.exe are a lot easier for end users than a.pl or.php. If you want an IDE, try fbedit, which is of course written in FreeBASIC.
Just watched the linked video to the end, it's awesome to see SMS and Internet chat shorthand like "brb", "LOL", and smileys being used in chat rooms 22 years ago. Take that you whippersnappers!;)
What is this trying to emulate? A telnet BBS that had a few unix-like commands? I would at least hope for a shell account on some big old university iron running usenet and talk with the clocks set back to 1983 as the real experience. Remember that this era was pre-PC, with no access outside the uni or a connected company.
BBS's, that's nostalgia. Making a phone call to a computer system in someone's basement that if you were lucky had more than one phone line or modem so you could interact with random user #2. Basically you would play a single player "door" game that might have stats for other players, or leave messages that someone else could log in and read. I knew two BBS ops, one ran PC in 1991 and the other C128 in 1989. Yawn.
The real good times was services like Quantumlink (actual video of the service from 1989) and Compuserve, where you actually interacted with a larger community. A lot of time spent on something that was nothing of significance, but was something new. Kind of like Slashdot.
I would be unsurprised if it was sponsored by the FBI? (cops with a budget of $4.4 billion), easy one-stop-shopping data collection with a handy web interface, no subpoena needed?
Slashdot Mirror
Any doubts about the cashing out of early adopters that made cheap and easy coin (bitcoin launched 10 months ago, when did you first hear about it?), go to the exchange and click on depth-of-market. There are several sellers offering lots of 1000+ coin (at $7-8 each). Clearly the winners are those who got in early, either mining with no competition or buying the currency eight months ago for 1/100 of it's current value...
Each hour approximately six computer in the world win a prize of 50 coin (based on cpu resources dedicated to solving an increasingly complex math crypto problem), but with the current number of people running the coin mining apps now, it currently would take an average computer years to win 50 coin.
It also seems like some big player or pool is gaming the system by turning their massive compute power on and off. Maybe they've found out how to manipulate the difficulty for max profit before it is recalculated?
The illusion is that it's not a pyramid scheme for the creators and early adopters. The mailing list in-crowd creates a few million easy coin first (out of a total of 6.2 million coin currently created, total market cap $49 million), then opens up the service for speculators. The speculators drive up the exchange value against real currency and the original 'investors' cash out their imaginary bits.
It's like how an IPO makes the original owners wealthy on the back end - they sell 49% of the company and keep a majority stock themselves that they can divest under the radar at a later higher market valuation. The only difference is there's no immediate cash infusion from the IPO and there's no company.
Apple first with USB? PCs had them a year before the iMac. Plus back in the day, the only portable music player that would dare use firewire was the iPod.
Apple Computer is the new Sony for proprietary f-you lock-in.
Are you still using your Apple Bus Mouse with an ADB connector?
As seen in Zoolander
Wing Commander is another game like that. Runs about right on a 386/25, put it on a 486/33 and it's too fast to play, put it on a modern computer and you are going warp speed!
1993 called, it wants it's computer back...
Imagine if you bought $3000 of Apple stock instead of a $3000 computer back then... You'd have $80,000 instead of a $10 thrift shop computer.
The problem for peripherals is not the emulator, but the host environment. Windows 7 has no gameport support at all (I've even tried replicating hacks that people did in Vista to put back gameport support, with no luck). That means the Sidewinder 3D and the Logitech Cyberman 2 (it even makes the cover of Boot magazine in 1997) are doorstops, which makes your Descent experience a little less 3D when you can't use the 3D controllers you already have.
Keep working on that... would it help if I mentioned there are pictures of naked chicks in there? The steganographic experts would probably be busy for days trying to figure out if there's rootkits hidden in the ADS of tentacle porn...
Let me fix that for you:
-Windows: edit undocumented registry key option to disable undocumented network location service that contacts Microsoft's servers,
-Linux: doesn't surreptitiously phone home.
It's much wiser to just disable the useless Network Location Awareness and Network List Services. What is the point of those anyway; an icon to tell you you can't get on the internet to help you figure out you can't get on the Internet?
While you are at it, SSDP Discovery and UPnP Device Host, along with other cruft like WinHTTP Web Proxy Autodiscovery, Function Discovery Provider Host, Function Discovery Resource Publication, Net.Tcp Port Sharing Service. Also on the list is Peer Name Resolution Protocol, Peer Network Grouping, Peer Network Identity Manager, PNRP Machine name publisher, and HomeGroup Provider. All that crap is for lusers who still have their unsecured wi-fi's SSID set to linksys.
I don't have IPv6 through my ISP, so off goes IP Helper. No need to encrypt every internal packet on my ethernet (so my router decrypts and sends them in the clear on the Internet?), so off goes IPsec Policy Agent and IKE and AuthIP IPsec Keying. I'm not idiot enough to need AV reminders and I'm behind a firewall, so I turn off Security Center and Windows Firewall. No modem, no Telephony service needed. Nobody needs Distributed Link Tracking Client, gone. Nobody would use Window's Internet connection sharing, so that and Application Layer Gateway Service can go to. That's just the start of the list of bloat services on Win7, and no surprise that my network works better. Maybe just a few less attack vectors too...
Likely all data is collected for later 'tapping'. That's like a paedophile saying his hard drive full of child porn is not illegal because he rarely opens files on it, and then he only looks at the faces.
How did you crack that one? Now I'm hoping the NSA doesn't crack the anagrammatical obfuscation on my nicked hacks directory!
Why shouldn't I work for the N.S.A.?....
Or say a coded message nobody else can break comes across your desk, you crack it, and discover it details the execution of the largest terrorist attack on US soil to date. You immediately communicate it to your superiors, they send in the G-men who grab the perpetrators red-handed with the dirty bomb that was set to kill tens of thousands. We never hear about it. Thanks NSA. That's what happens on TV every week.
Or you identify a massive illegal warrantless wiretapping campaign against American citizens, blow the whistle, and face 35 years in prison. That is what happened in referenced article...
Here's a better link to the article, the whole article on one page instead of entering on page 3 of 10.
Amen, my brother! I'm sick and tired of the left-wing bleeding-heart liberal Jew-run media and their activist baby-killing agenda trying to recruit our children into homosexual athiesm! Thankfully there are fair and balanced outlets like FOX that tell it like it is to us God-fearing moderates!
What's Bing?
It's the sound of a machine in a Monty Python movie, I believe.
Ned Ryerson! BING!
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You think there is any difference in the signal the loudspeaker driver receives because it goes through little wires separately insulated instead of little wires all together? Now that's silly stuff. I'll get out the signal generators, the 20MHz data acquisition card, and the laser interferometer to measure the speaker transfer function, and you bring your magic wire and I'll just use coat hangars as speaker wire. I would say we sum the differences using a comparator, but the right and left channel of the best amp would have differences in tolerance a magnitude greater than the difference between the speaker wires.
Why would a mouse own a dog? :-/
It sure was like a game of packet hot potato there for a while... Fortunately they cleaned off the old packets on Internet cleaning day.
I'm more annoyed because I can't hook up the registers to blinkenlights or input data a bit at a time with switches. 512 words is more than enough memory (a bit less than 1k bytes). 0x31 == 1 ?? What a waste of bits these modern systems are!
Also, it's nice to remember when The Internet knew how to spell, use apostrophes and assemble sentences within some form of grammar.
That's because getting on the Internet required a license: you had to be employable in high tech or pass college admissions.
FreeBASIC. It's a compiler though, not an interpreter, which is much better because you can distribute binaries. I've used it to whip up little internet applications that as an .exe are a lot easier for end users than a .pl or .php. If you want an IDE, try fbedit, which is of course written in FreeBASIC.
Just watched the linked video to the end, it's awesome to see SMS and Internet chat shorthand like "brb", "LOL", and smileys being used in chat rooms 22 years ago. Take that you whippersnappers! ;)
What is this trying to emulate? A telnet BBS that had a few unix-like commands? I would at least hope for a shell account on some big old university iron running usenet and talk with the clocks set back to 1983 as the real experience. Remember that this era was pre-PC, with no access outside the uni or a connected company.
BBS's, that's nostalgia. Making a phone call to a computer system in someone's basement that if you were lucky had more than one phone line or modem so you could interact with random user #2. Basically you would play a single player "door" game that might have stats for other players, or leave messages that someone else could log in and read. I knew two BBS ops, one ran PC in 1991 and the other C128 in 1989. Yawn.
The real good times was services like Quantumlink (actual video of the service from 1989) and Compuserve, where you actually interacted with a larger community. A lot of time spent on something that was nothing of significance, but was something new. Kind of like Slashdot.
Some bullet points of the Google Prediction API:
I would be unsurprised if it was sponsored by the FBI? (cops with a budget of $4.4 billion), easy one-stop-shopping data collection with a handy web interface, no subpoena needed?