...that i'll never get a ThinkPad with a TransMeta chip in it. I love IBM laptop hardware, and Transmeta seems to have a grasp of what should be in a laptop processor, but whether or not it will ever become a reality one has to wonder.
Once, when I had just turned 18 and there was a political election of some sort in my town, I got a phone call from a political faction who asked me how I intended to vote on bill X (which I don't remember anyway). I angrily told him never to call again and hung up, and my mom went off on me for a good ten minutes yelling about how political calls are different from telemarketers. Is she, as I think, merely poisoned by society's expectations, or was I in the wrong?
I live in Texas, and not only does it cost ~$2 to sign up, but there's a bunch of confusing exemptions, roughly 6 months delay of activation, and is only available for residential phones. I can get more than $2 enjoyment out of telling off a telemarketer, or out of speaking nothing but German till they get confused and hang up. They generally don't call back after that one. So unless it's going to be free as in beer, and without exemption, I'm not gonna bother unless, as the parent post says, it becomes similarly easy to Mass.'s program, with a plus for no exemptions.
I rather like the concept of this...no more trying to pair up older processors when you run across a board someone is getting rid of a few years down the road. I recall getting a couple dual-PII workstations a year or so ago, and finding a pair of matching (and working) processors to put in them was hell...this way I could have just searched Ebay or my parts stash for a single old part.
If you're not ready to let your 10 year old read whatever they like provided it's not prohibited by law (i.e. giving the child hardcore pornography), you've got serious issues. If your child wishes to read the Chronicles of Narnia, let them. If they wish to read a biography about Charles Manson, then let them. Even if you're opposed to the views of a book or an author, forbidding it will only make them want it more. Therefore, if you're so anti-Christian, then I advise you to buy your child the Bible and see what happens.
the more obvious it will become to the courts that the Internet is what it is...a large TCP/IP network. Hopefully, this will happen before they pass so many anti-networking laws that there's no point in trying to preserve the present Internet anymore.
yes...thats what everyone seems to think. There's a lot more to it than that...have you ever spent 4 days staring at a polygon counter, trying to keep everything down to where it's within spec while the artists keep wanting to "improve" (read: raise poly count) it, or spent hours (or months) on end doing nothing but staring at the FPS readout, writing them down, putting them in excel sheets (because the programmers were too busy to make a tool for it by this point in the project) to track performance? This is the grim reality of game testing, my friend.
Linux would be worth paying for. So would HOWTO documents. But the fact is, the majority of the content online that is worth paying for is free through the generosity and/or moral values of the creator. and the rest of it is only viewed/read/used because it is free, not because it's good. Internet porn survives because men are addicted to T&A. They can get by without digital music without suffering from an unrelieved libido or having to go into a porn shop, which embarrasses many people. I don't know anybody who's embarrassed by going into a record store.
it's not paranoia. It's reality. It's been done before. Sue a small company in a lawsuit they can't really afford to fight. Remove their name. Ruin every cent they've spent on advertising by changing their name. It's nothing short of corporate terrorism.
the point is: Moore's law only applies as long as chip development is treated as an clock speed race rather than as an overall improvement (in more ways than just speed) push.
You're right, that's true that the title was that way. But is it not also true that if Moore's Law were not being actively met, we would likely have cooler-running, more efficient (yet faster than the previous) processors designed more along the lines of Astro and Crusoe rather than P4 and Athlon? Personally, I'd like it if chipmakers would strive for some efficiency and cooler-running chips. As much as I love Athlons (i run two at home), I'd rather heat my house with the central heating system than with my CPUs. As it is, since I spend all my home-time with the exception of sleep and bathroom time in my computer room anyway, I don't even have to turn on my heater.
how is that insightful? just because a bunch of guys don't have enough spare time to do what professional game developers do full time (and often overtime) they're lazy bastards? be grateful for what people do, and respect those who try.
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Windows is always cheaper because you only have to upgrade every two years and they never need service? I'm not sure whether that was supposed to be funny, sarcastic, or whether you're just stupid. I think it's either of the former, but if you can't be funny while spouting such things (by the way, your post was redundant to several above it), please don't bother.
I think Microsoft leaks these things so that OSS community members can comment on/. and the like and tell them the real story behind their farcical emails' subjects. For example, his comment that OpenOffice is the real threat, etc.
do we consider libraries to be part of the OS or the program?
Personally, I'd consider anything that's part of another program installed on the computer as a dependency to be fair game. If I see that Program X requires me to have GAIM installed, fine. if Program X takes GAIM source, closes, and sells it in their program that way, that's bad. So as long as it only utilizes your install of GAIM rather than including it itself, then it's all good.
Note, I also don't object to them putting it on the CD with the software, as long as it's clearly seperate from their software, even if it's a dependency, as long as they provide it within GPL terms.
"Virtually everyone multi-tasks, you just don't see it because you're too in awe of your own mastery of simultaneously reading Slashdot and watching Star Trek, while compiling a kernel."
Hate to tell you this, Kombat, but not everyone can multitask successfully. Many people I know easily get engrossed in one thing or the other, or do a horrible job of it. Proper multitasking is an art, not an instinct.
This is a bad concept with terrible execution.
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The problem is, some of the most shameful and horrible games ever made were never released widely, much less heard of by the unwashed masses. In the days when shareware was common and copying was the best available method of distribution, and when programming was a hobby and not strictly a profession for most gamemakers, countless horrors and abominations were spawned which have since been deleted and/or forgotten completely, save for in that special, wonderful, (actually is) floppy disk which they no longer have a drive to read it with underneath the creator's paper stack somewhere near his computer, which he stares at nostalgically when he's depressed. That is where the real shameful games come in.
"Hes tried to fuck the environment, start a war, increase oil consumption, and now brain wash the masses."
You say "start a war" like it's a bad thing. I, and many other citizens of the United States, believe that we should have finished the job 10 years ago. As long as Saddam Hussein is in power, Iraq is running scared. Which would you rather have, a scared animal (who believing he has nothing to lose, will stop at nothing) or a dead animal? I can't think of a worse thing than an opponent with nothing to lose by anything up to and including death.
"I am somewhat disappointed by the means of choosing the papers, basically the first people to propose a talk. As a result the spam conference will only be discussing filtering approaches based on identifying the spam. The alternative approaches based on authenticating the genuine signal simply won't get a hearing. "
That's where the "confer" portion comes in. If that's your concern, go and say it over Chinese, or see if you can't get ahold of someone who is going to bring it up for you.
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...that i'll never get a ThinkPad with a TransMeta chip in it. I love IBM laptop hardware, and Transmeta seems to have a grasp of what should be in a laptop processor, but whether or not it will ever become a reality one has to wonder.
wait till a few years down the road once he's up to X10!
Once, when I had just turned 18 and there was a political election of some sort in my town, I got a phone call from a political faction who asked me how I intended to vote on bill X (which I don't remember anyway). I angrily told him never to call again and hung up, and my mom went off on me for a good ten minutes yelling about how political calls are different from telemarketers. Is she, as I think, merely poisoned by society's expectations, or was I in the wrong?
I live in Texas, and not only does it cost ~$2 to sign up, but there's a bunch of confusing exemptions, roughly 6 months delay of activation, and is only available for residential phones. I can get more than $2 enjoyment out of telling off a telemarketer, or out of speaking nothing but German till they get confused and hang up. They generally don't call back after that one. So unless it's going to be free as in beer, and without exemption, I'm not gonna bother unless, as the parent post says, it becomes similarly easy to Mass.'s program, with a plus for no exemptions.
I rather like the concept of this...no more trying to pair up older processors when you run across a board someone is getting rid of a few years down the road. I recall getting a couple dual-PII workstations a year or so ago, and finding a pair of matching (and working) processors to put in them was hell...this way I could have just searched Ebay or my parts stash for a single old part.
I'm all in favor of abandoning it. do tell more.
If you're not ready to let your 10 year old read whatever they like provided it's not prohibited by law (i.e. giving the child hardcore pornography), you've got serious issues. If your child wishes to read the Chronicles of Narnia, let them. If they wish to read a biography about Charles Manson, then let them. Even if you're opposed to the views of a book or an author, forbidding it will only make them want it more. Therefore, if you're so anti-Christian, then I advise you to buy your child the Bible and see what happens.
the more obvious it will become to the courts that the Internet is what it is...a large TCP/IP network. Hopefully, this will happen before they pass so many anti-networking laws that there's no point in trying to preserve the present Internet anymore.
yes...thats what everyone seems to think. There's a lot more to it than that...have you ever spent 4 days staring at a polygon counter, trying to keep everything down to where it's within spec while the artists keep wanting to "improve" (read: raise poly count) it, or spent hours (or months) on end doing nothing but staring at the FPS readout, writing them down, putting them in excel sheets (because the programmers were too busy to make a tool for it by this point in the project) to track performance? This is the grim reality of game testing, my friend.
Linux would be worth paying for. So would HOWTO documents. But the fact is, the majority of the content online that is worth paying for is free through the generosity and/or moral values of the creator. and the rest of it is only viewed/read/used because it is free, not because it's good. Internet porn survives because men are addicted to T&A. They can get by without digital music without suffering from an unrelieved libido or having to go into a porn shop, which embarrasses many people. I don't know anybody who's embarrassed by going into a record store.
it's not paranoia. It's reality. It's been done before. Sue a small company in a lawsuit they can't really afford to fight. Remove their name. Ruin every cent they've spent on advertising by changing their name. It's nothing short of corporate terrorism.
not competitor; ENEMY. MS has targeted Lindows for eradication. This equals corporate warfare.
the point is: Moore's law only applies as long as chip development is treated as an clock speed race rather than as an overall improvement (in more ways than just speed) push.
You're right, that's true that the title was that way. But is it not also true that if Moore's Law were not being actively met, we would likely have cooler-running, more efficient (yet faster than the previous) processors designed more along the lines of Astro and Crusoe rather than P4 and Athlon? Personally, I'd like it if chipmakers would strive for some efficiency and cooler-running chips. As much as I love Athlons (i run two at home), I'd rather heat my house with the central heating system than with my CPUs. As it is, since I spend all my home-time with the exception of sleep and bathroom time in my computer room anyway, I don't even have to turn on my heater.
how is that insightful? just because a bunch of guys don't have enough spare time to do what professional game developers do full time (and often overtime) they're lazy bastards? be grateful for what people do, and respect those who try.
Windows is always cheaper because you only have to upgrade every two years and they never need service? I'm not sure whether that was supposed to be funny, sarcastic, or whether you're just stupid. I think it's either of the former, but if you can't be funny while spouting such things (by the way, your post was redundant to several above it), please don't bother.
I think Microsoft leaks these things so that OSS community members can comment on /. and the like and tell them the real story behind their farcical emails' subjects. For example, his comment that OpenOffice is the real threat, etc.
Do they really want to do this before monsoon season? I'd suggest after myself...less damage to the wires...
do we consider libraries to be part of the OS or the program?
Personally, I'd consider anything that's part of another program installed on the computer as a dependency to be fair game. If I see that Program X requires me to have GAIM installed, fine. if Program X takes GAIM source, closes, and sells it in their program that way, that's bad. So as long as it only utilizes your install of GAIM rather than including it itself, then it's all good.
Note, I also don't object to them putting it on the CD with the software, as long as it's clearly seperate from their software, even if it's a dependency, as long as they provide it within GPL terms.
"Virtually everyone multi-tasks, you just don't see it because you're too in awe of your own mastery of simultaneously reading Slashdot and watching Star Trek, while compiling a kernel."
Hate to tell you this, Kombat, but not everyone can multitask successfully. Many people I know easily get engrossed in one thing or the other, or do a horrible job of it. Proper multitasking is an art, not an instinct.
why does this headline sound like an invitation?
The problem is, some of the most shameful and horrible games ever made were never released widely, much less heard of by the unwashed masses. In the days when shareware was common and copying was the best available method of distribution, and when programming was a hobby and not strictly a profession for most gamemakers, countless horrors and abominations were spawned which have since been deleted and/or forgotten completely, save for in that special, wonderful, (actually is) floppy disk which they no longer have a drive to read it with underneath the creator's paper stack somewhere near his computer, which he stares at nostalgically when he's depressed. That is where the real shameful games come in.
"Hes tried to fuck the environment, start a war, increase oil consumption, and now brain wash the masses."
You say "start a war" like it's a bad thing. I, and many other citizens of the United States, believe that we should have finished the job 10 years ago. As long as Saddam Hussein is in power, Iraq is running scared. Which would you rather have, a scared animal (who believing he has nothing to lose, will stop at nothing) or a dead animal? I can't think of a worse thing than an opponent with nothing to lose by anything up to and including death.
"I am somewhat disappointed by the means of choosing the papers, basically the first people to propose a talk. As a result the spam conference will only be discussing filtering approaches based on identifying the spam. The alternative approaches based on authenticating the genuine signal simply won't get a hearing. "
That's where the "confer" portion comes in. If that's your concern, go and say it over Chinese, or see if you can't get ahold of someone who is going to bring it up for you.
that would be a bad thing how? the more time they spend trying to figure out ways around, the less time they have to actually send spam.