Think about it: License OSX from Apple and Rebrand, Buy Parallels and run legacy applications in VMs and you have the best Win7 you could ever dream of!
Eg; writing a game engine with a video thread, audio thread and an input thread still leaves 13 cores idle. You really cant thread those much farther (the ridiculously parallel problem of rendering is handled by the GPU).
Hi! My name is AI, I'll be happy to eat any number of cores you throw at me!
NOT SO FAST, AI! I'm RAY, RAY TRACING AND....
Anyways, you get the picture. 640k ram yadda yadda.
A real engineer would not be an asset to a terror-seeking team. If it is terror driven by religion, I can guarantee you that the engineer will always be the odd man out that won't want to stick to the rules, be it scheduling of prayers or that pork rinds are not acceptable, etc.
What you want is a sleeper. You find the right kind of young recruit that will make a good engineering student. Indoctrinate first, engineering education later. If you try to indoctrinate an engineer you will probably end up losing your own religion over the ordeal.
An engineer planned 9/11 afterall. That's right, Bin Laden is an engineer.*
*I might be full of shit, I'm still right though!:)
Opium was used as a treatment for disentery, arsenic for leukemia, nitroglycerin for some heart problems.
The bottom line is everything can potentially be a cure or a poison depending on proportion (Even water can be a mortal poison).
The truth is that we still suck when it comes to nutritional science. Mostly because it's hard to do proper science when your subject lives as long as you do.
Russian mob != terrorism. Say that Russian mobs in Russia make money pirating movies and go after the russian mob. Don't use terrorism as an excuse to impose restrictive laws drafted by profit-oriented corporations on americans. It's ugly.
Warez scene is vastly non-profit and done for fun, bragging rights and a prime share of the pirated data. I wouldn't compare it to the russian mob or chinese triads. Lots of teens too...:)
What Apple and OpenOffice do is negligible since they have virtually no relevance in the market MS Office dominates.
Google and Apple both have the money and savvy to try to compete in the "serious business" world but it would cost them a fortune and they have no guarantee they can beat the fantastic MS Office teams. They are the best, afterall. Excel and Word 2k7 are amazingly powerful and elegant programs.
From a John Doe point of view, when it's all said and done as you said, you're right. Google will inevitably abuse its power (A minority think it already has).
10 years after its birth, it has acted well enough to be liked by most people and that's something.
Then again, most people liked microsoft 10 years after ITS birth.
Hahaha, you had to go and pick that one:). For the record, I tried to like Quicksilver and some of it was ok, but I gave up on it before being halfway done for the same reasons you did.
I absolutely loved (and still love after many, many re-reads) his previous best sellers. Read Snow Crash, Diamond Age or Cryptonomicon (preferably in that order) for pure Neal awesomeness.
I guarantee you'll be hooked to Snow Crash by the end of the second chapter. Have faith in my words.
Yes, let's call scripts that guide avatar actions "BrainPackz" and let people start selling them. It could be a boon to the AI field and maybe South Korea will adapt Brainpackz for their soldier bots.
You're already modded +5 insightful but YES, DAMMIT, YES! If a game forces you to spend hours doing tasks a bot CAN do, then it's crap.
Now cheats that mess with the netcode and software or even assistive hackes (like artificial crosshair or playerpainting via hacked drivers in CStrike or automatic targeters with superior reflexes) are wrong.
The answer? More quality interactive content and less easily automated tasks (or make them part of the game like Final Fantasy XII's gambit system was used to program your character's actions). If the world is persistent, why can't the ingame characters be left as pseudo-NPCs in an AFK state, doing something that accumulates wealth/XP points for the player? The point is, make the game with no crappy grind so that a bot would have to be an actual human-level AI capable of learning and your problem is solved (or we all get enslaved, in which case it's solved in sort of a bad way).
FTR: Played FF online for 6 months and quit because of the grind. One day, Virtual Worlds will be awesome, today, they suck.
Try not to let your (rightfully) negative feelings about some of Microsoft's distasteful business methods push you into excessive paranoia!
It'll take something a lot* bigger than MS corporate strategy to effectively shackle personal computers.
*Worry about stuff like drout, illiteracy and the horrifying lack of 10Gbps fiber to homes around the world and the likely negative effects down the line.
Nvidia's QuadroFX series are the ones that are good for 3D modeling, etc.
The current crop of "quad" SLI and Crossfire are only for gaming ($1100 for 2 dual gpu cards). Remember that the size of PC screens and resolutions have been going up at a brisk pace and many gamers have 24" or 30" monitors. That's 1920x1200 to 2560x1600 pixels. Even the most cutting edge solution gets less than 30 FPS from Crysis on even 1600x1200 and the minimum framerate dips below 12 FPS. (And that's without AA or AF enabled). Unlike on CRTs, lowering the resolution makes the monitor display a blurrier/crappier image on LCD screens.
For the non-hardcore, anything below 30FPS minimum is simply bad (jerky, choppy, ruins the experience) and ideally, you don't want it to dip below 60 FPS to have perfectly smooth motion. Most find a minimum between 30 and 60 FPS to be good.
Bottom line: Top of the line GPUs are about 5 years behind monitor resolutions.
I appreciate the offer for help but you really shouldn't lie.
No, the truth is that we have hawaiian terrorist thursdays when the whole family gathers (The moroccan carpet salesman dad, the pakistani grand uncle, the egyptian dancer mom mother, gold-toting persian cousins and saudi step brothers and of course, the terrorists (opinions differ on whether this category includes mother-in-laws).
The terrorists are always bragging about how pure and righteous they are and they go ON and ON about their post-martyrdom plans with gleaming eyes and swollen penises. Quite frankly, they are very boring and, a few years ago, someone suggested that the best way to get rid of them was just to let them blow themselves up. This has proven most effective and has become quite popular these past few decades.
Now I know this seems rather selfish of us (what with the collateral damage and all) but guys...if you had to eat dinner with them once a week, you would do the same.
Yours is a romantically appealing idea to be sure. I can't comment on the value of using erasure codes codes and I think morphing and obfuscating data the way you suggested sounds like a very educational experience (though perhaps CPU expensive or less network-efficient) but I don't think your DOS attacks would fly at all
1- The p2p user would sabotage his/her own internet connection and lose internet access altogether during the attack initiated by his client on the router(s) that provide him connectivity.
2- Comcast could just disconnect cablemodems launching these attacks quickly and perhaps use these attacks on the network as a valid excuse to terminate potentially bandwidth-expensive p2p users with total legitimacy.
3- P2P applications would be tainted by the dark side of DOS and the RIAA/MPAA and others would have a field day spinning this to demonize filesharing further.
2 can be circumvented by swapping targets between p2p users on different ISPs but inter-ISP collaboration in disconnecting any attacker would defeat this.
I don't think that's quite it. In effect you're doing the same thing you're accusing other people of doing. You're dividing the world into "good people" (folks like you who got over this good people / bad people thing) and "bad people" (folks who never unlearned the good people / bad people thing). Then you're placing blame for the problem squarely at the foot of the "bad people".
A clever response but it is a bit of a fallacy. The simple use of the concepts "good" and "bad" will automatically divide the world into two, placing the blame on the "bad people" by definition. Anyone arguing about the higher merits of a group of people with trait A vs those with trait !A can be attacked (using your argument) for using the words "good" and "bad" as a shortcut for "meet criterion A as arbitrarily postulated by author and remaining to be accepted or not by the readers" which is ridiculous.
Yes, seeing the world in binary form is not ideal. Each of us can see the world in black and white for certain issues, about certain people or things (some think porn is evil, some think pedophiles are evil, some think rapists are evil, some think drug dealers are evil, some think white people are evil) and our emotions could probably sway our judgement depending on who we judge, making us all hypocrites or "cold".
But if you take the words of the Grandparent as a warning, for all of us who find ourselves thinking in black and white about an issue, to pause and be humble enough to admit we might be oversimplifying and thus, we should take greater care to challenge our existing notions and rethink things, weigh evidence and give a fair "trial" before passing judgement. It requires courage and effort but that's how we earn respect from others and from ourselves. It also requires time, which we have little of, considering the incredible complexity of the world we live in so we take shortcuts.
Now I don't claim to know you're right about the scope of the problem but for whatever it's worth, what you said "sounded" like the truth to me. Kinda like "the wire" felt true when I watched it (as should you if you haven't already. It's incredibly good.)
Thank you for making slashdot worth reading today!
The fees increase too slowly. $655 after 16 years is not ok by me.
Start with a dollar (adjusted for inflation!) the first year and start doubling. $1024 to renew the 10th year, $8000 the 14th year at which point the vast majority of copyrighted materials would go into the public domain. For people/corporations with very valuable copyrighted materials (think mikey mouse or lord of he ring), they could afford to stretch this easily to 20 years ($1Mn) and no one would be able to exceed 30 years.($1Bn)
After this period, mandatory licensing at reasonable fees (so writers still get paid if a movie studio makes a movie based on their book and musicians get paid for commercials using their music, for example). Say, up to 5% of budget of the commercial product + 5% of the gross income it produces. This would allow non-profit works to be free.
It's not perfect, but shit, it encourages people to KEEP creating new stuff which is better for us all in the end.
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Think about it: License OSX from Apple and Rebrand, Buy Parallels and run legacy applications in VMs and you have the best Win7 you could ever dream of!
Say it slowly: Windows 7 is Unix-based. WOAH!
Eg; writing a game engine with a video thread, audio thread and an input thread still leaves 13 cores idle. You really cant thread those much farther (the ridiculously parallel problem of rendering is handled by the GPU).
Hi! My name is AI, I'll be happy to eat any number of cores you throw at me!
NOT SO FAST, AI! I'm RAY, RAY TRACING AND....
Anyways, you get the picture. 640k ram yadda yadda.
A real engineer would not be an asset to a terror-seeking team. If it is terror driven by religion, I can guarantee you that the engineer will always be the odd man out that won't want to stick to the rules, be it scheduling of prayers or that pork rinds are not acceptable, etc.
:)
What you want is a sleeper. You find the right kind of young recruit that will make a good engineering student. Indoctrinate first, engineering education later. If you try to indoctrinate an engineer you will probably end up losing your own religion over the ordeal.
An engineer planned 9/11 afterall. That's right, Bin Laden is an engineer.*
*I might be full of shit, I'm still right though!
Opium was used as a treatment for disentery, arsenic for leukemia, nitroglycerin for some heart problems.
The bottom line is everything can potentially be a cure or a poison depending on proportion (Even water can be a mortal poison).
The truth is that we still suck when it comes to nutritional science. Mostly because it's hard to do proper science when your subject lives as long as you do.
Russian mob != terrorism. Say that Russian mobs in Russia make money pirating movies and go after the russian mob. Don't use terrorism as an excuse to impose restrictive laws drafted by profit-oriented corporations on americans. It's ugly.
:)
Warez scene is vastly non-profit and done for fun, bragging rights and a prime share of the pirated data. I wouldn't compare it to the russian mob or chinese triads. Lots of teens too...
What Apple and OpenOffice do is negligible since they have virtually no relevance in the market MS Office dominates.
Google and Apple both have the money and savvy to try to compete in the "serious business" world but it would cost them a fortune and they have no guarantee they can beat the fantastic MS Office teams. They are the best, afterall. Excel and Word 2k7 are amazingly powerful and elegant programs.
From a John Doe point of view, when it's all said and done as you said, you're right. Google will inevitably abuse its power (A minority think it already has).
10 years after its birth, it has acted well enough to be liked by most people and that's something.
Then again, most people liked microsoft 10 years after ITS birth.
We'll have to wait and see.
Hahaha, you had to go and pick that one :). For the record, I tried to like Quicksilver and some of it was ok, but I gave up on it before being halfway done for the same reasons you did.
I absolutely loved (and still love after many, many re-reads) his previous best sellers. Read Snow Crash, Diamond Age or Cryptonomicon (preferably in that order) for pure Neal awesomeness.
I guarantee you'll be hooked to Snow Crash by the end of the second chapter. Have faith in my words.
Yes, let's call scripts that guide avatar actions "BrainPackz" and let people start selling them. It could be a boon to the AI field and maybe South Korea will adapt Brainpackz for their soldier bots.
You're already modded +5 insightful but YES, DAMMIT, YES! If a game forces you to spend hours doing tasks a bot CAN do, then it's crap. Now cheats that mess with the netcode and software or even assistive hackes (like artificial crosshair or playerpainting via hacked drivers in CStrike or automatic targeters with superior reflexes) are wrong. The answer? More quality interactive content and less easily automated tasks (or make them part of the game like Final Fantasy XII's gambit system was used to program your character's actions). If the world is persistent, why can't the ingame characters be left as pseudo-NPCs in an AFK state, doing something that accumulates wealth/XP points for the player? The point is, make the game with no crappy grind so that a bot would have to be an actual human-level AI capable of learning and your problem is solved (or we all get enslaved, in which case it's solved in sort of a bad way). FTR: Played FF online for 6 months and quit because of the grind. One day, Virtual Worlds will be awesome, today, they suck.
Well, everything is poorly optimized until you code straight to assembly, harnessing bugs as performance boosters.
Why do you think it's poorly optimized? Isn't it the prettiest game of all time?
Hahaha! What a vision of doom!
Try not to let your (rightfully) negative feelings about some of Microsoft's distasteful business methods push you into excessive paranoia!
It'll take something a lot* bigger than MS corporate strategy to effectively shackle personal computers.
*Worry about stuff like drout, illiteracy and the horrifying lack of 10Gbps fiber to homes around the world and the likely negative effects down the line.
Nvidia's QuadroFX series are the ones that are good for 3D modeling, etc.
The current crop of "quad" SLI and Crossfire are only for gaming ($1100 for 2 dual gpu cards). Remember that the size of PC screens and resolutions have been going up at a brisk pace and many gamers have 24" or 30" monitors. That's 1920x1200 to 2560x1600 pixels. Even the most cutting edge solution gets less than 30 FPS from Crysis on even 1600x1200 and the minimum framerate dips below 12 FPS. (And that's without AA or AF enabled). Unlike on CRTs, lowering the resolution makes the monitor display a blurrier/crappier image on LCD screens.
For the non-hardcore, anything below 30FPS minimum is simply bad (jerky, choppy, ruins the experience) and ideally, you don't want it to dip below 60 FPS to have perfectly smooth motion. Most find a minimum between 30 and 60 FPS to be good.
Bottom line: Top of the line GPUs are about 5 years behind monitor resolutions.
i wish i had mod points to prop you up.
I appreciate the offer for help but you really shouldn't lie.
No, the truth is that we have hawaiian terrorist thursdays when the whole family gathers (The moroccan carpet salesman dad, the pakistani grand uncle, the egyptian dancer mom mother, gold-toting persian cousins and saudi step brothers and of course, the terrorists (opinions differ on whether this category includes mother-in-laws).
The terrorists are always bragging about how pure and righteous they are and they go ON and ON about their post-martyrdom plans with gleaming eyes and swollen penises. Quite frankly, they are very boring and, a few years ago, someone suggested that the best way to get rid of them was just to let them blow themselves up. This has proven most effective and has become quite popular these past few decades.
Now I know this seems rather selfish of us (what with the collateral damage and all) but guys...if you had to eat dinner with them once a week, you would do the same.
Hi, I don't give a fuck about some dutch movie. Now, back to the..uh..musliming.
Yours is a romantically appealing idea to be sure. I can't comment on the value of using erasure codes codes and I think morphing and obfuscating data the way you suggested sounds like a very educational experience (though perhaps CPU expensive or less network-efficient) but I don't think your DOS attacks would fly at all
1- The p2p user would sabotage his/her own internet connection and lose internet access altogether during the attack initiated by his client on the router(s) that provide him connectivity.
2- Comcast could just disconnect cablemodems launching these attacks quickly and perhaps use these attacks on the network as a valid excuse to terminate potentially bandwidth-expensive p2p users with total legitimacy.
3- P2P applications would be tainted by the dark side of DOS and the RIAA/MPAA and others would have a field day spinning this to demonize filesharing further.
2 can be circumvented by swapping targets between p2p users on different ISPs but inter-ISP collaboration in disconnecting any attacker would defeat this.
...Because .
I don't think that's quite it. In effect you're doing the same thing you're accusing other people of doing. You're dividing the world into "good people" (folks like you who got over this good people / bad people thing) and "bad people" (folks who never unlearned the good people / bad people thing). Then you're placing blame for the problem squarely at the foot of the "bad people".
A clever response but it is a bit of a fallacy. The simple use of the concepts "good" and "bad" will automatically divide the world into two, placing the blame on the "bad people" by definition . Anyone arguing about the higher merits of a group of people with trait A vs those with trait !A can be attacked (using your argument) for using the words "good" and "bad" as a shortcut for "meet criterion A as arbitrarily postulated by author and remaining to be accepted or not by the readers" which is ridiculous.
Yes, seeing the world in binary form is not ideal. Each of us can see the world in black and white for certain issues, about certain people or things (some think porn is evil, some think pedophiles are evil, some think rapists are evil, some think drug dealers are evil, some think white people are evil) and our emotions could probably sway our judgement depending on who we judge, making us all hypocrites or "cold".
But if you take the words of the Grandparent as a warning, for all of us who find ourselves thinking in black and white about an issue, to pause and be humble enough to admit we might be oversimplifying and thus, we should take greater care to challenge our existing notions and rethink things, weigh evidence and give a fair "trial" before passing judgement. It requires courage and effort but that's how we earn respect from others and from ourselves. It also requires time, which we have little of, considering the incredible complexity of the world we live in so we take shortcuts.
Now I don't claim to know you're right about the scope of the problem but for whatever it's worth, what you said "sounded" like the truth to me. Kinda like "the wire" felt true when I watched it (as should you if you haven't already. It's incredibly good.)
Thank you for making slashdot worth reading today!
And right you are, it's taking a long time to load.
I was just wondering if your approach has any impact of physics at all or if we're talking about 2 independant layers of abstraction.
:)
Pleasant surprise to see you comment on slashdot. Now go and make the Unreal 3 engine look bad
the real reason to go is for the lulz. Any good that comes out of it is just a bonus!
Ack, bugmenot is not working. Here is a link to the article that doesn't require registration.
http://biz.yahoo.com/nytimes/080309/1194753587951.html?.v=4
The fees increase too slowly. $655 after 16 years is not ok by me.
Start with a dollar (adjusted for inflation!) the first year and start doubling. $1024 to renew the 10th year, $8000 the 14th year at which point the vast majority of copyrighted materials would go into the public domain. For people/corporations with very valuable copyrighted materials (think mikey mouse or lord of he ring), they could afford to stretch this easily to 20 years ($1Mn) and no one would be able to exceed 30 years.($1Bn)
After this period, mandatory licensing at reasonable fees (so writers still get paid if a movie studio makes a movie based on their book and musicians get paid for commercials using their music, for example). Say, up to 5% of budget of the commercial product + 5% of the gross income it produces. This would allow non-profit works to be free.
It's not perfect, but shit, it encourages people to KEEP creating new stuff which is better for us all in the end.