...that was used exclusively by probably the most technologically advanced country at the time, where it had a cadre of top notch scientists to design the weapons and the resources of a nation to build and launch them in sufficient numbers to get noticed.
We have come a long way in the past 60 years, but building rockets is still, well, rocket science. Why bother when you can strap 20 pounds of explosives to a zealous follower and buy em' a bus ticket?
Yeah, Mac seems to be doing it right these days. I wonder if that is just simply because they are working off a *nix codebase and it is just that much better, or because they have people working there that really look at the bottom line of 'the OS must run fast and be good at the basics'. Their jump to *nix was a smart move.
You realize that Aero doesn't slow your machine down, right? The processing is offloaded to the GPU. Now, if you turn Aero off, then you might see a performance hit.
You are sort of correct. It offloads the desktop processing to a.dll that uses the GPU for rendering. You cannot 'turn off' Aero, because it is the rendering engine that is employed, regardless of the complexity of the effects employed by the desktop. You can turn off all the 3d effects to limit the math that the GPU has to crunch.
Ultimately, not the point though. Why must I turn it off in the first place? The rant's theme was unneeded eye candy. While Aero is in theory a good thing (offloading UI math to a coprocessor), it just means that now the windows UI team will dream up more complex cpu/gpu cycle eating junk to offset the potential gain. Example: the blurry effect that transparent vista windows have is probably generated using pixel shaders.
And memory capacities and prices have decreased even faster.
Just because you have an abundance of something doesn't mean that you should waste it. Again, not really complaining about using the memory, but what I am getting for the memory that is being used.
Personally, my hatred of vista isn't because of hardware support. For the most part, MS is pretty good about providing support of all the crap you can possibly come up with to plug into your computer. When a new driver API is released, sure, the OEMs have to get off their ass and write new drivers.
my hatred of vista is based off the fact that there is a ton of stupid crap that is loaded on the OS that does nothing but look cool and slow your machine down. I don't want any fucking Aero-transparent window bullshit. I want an os that is like a formula 1 car: fast as hell and without a single non-essential part.
Between win 2k and win7(~8 years) the memory footprint of the OS has grown from ~100mb to ~500mb. What real utility do I get for all that? They still have not bought out winzip and winrar and integrated it in the OS, which is way more basic and useful than services to 'detect unused icons on my desktop'. Using ISO images is pretty much an accepted standard these days, and how much support is there for them in vista? But there is a list of idiotic services running as long as your arm on a fresh install of vista. (Fun game, what percentage of them do you actually fully understand what they are doing on/for your system? I'm a professional windows programmer, and I understand perhaps 75%, wtf?)
No, most people will probably tell you that vista seems to run just fine. MS has spent a lot of time turning their OS into something that is easy and pretty to use. I use the OS for a living. I don't have time to fuck around all day with pretty 'abc block' themes that make the desktop animate windows when they are closed.
I suspect that a lot of people hate vista for what it isn't as much as for what it is.
Buddy, you had better not be talking trash about my homegeek, Wil. He still has some crotch leaches left over from 'Stand By Me' that he saves for naysayers that mention his name with JarJar's...
Meh, it isn't that difficult. I had a friend get into 5 boxing on WoW. He got a beefy system a couple of years ago, and could run 4 or 5 instances of WoW simultaneously without any real problem.
Two things to think about:
Does the game you want to play with her allow multiple instances to be run on a single computer? WoW does, but you have to have multiple WoW directories. It is possible to program a game to force full screen mode or to terminate if an existing instance is already running. Do some research on the software before buying the hardware. Find out about any tricks you need to use to get it to work.
Find out about the game controls and UI. Chances are, while it might be possible to play multiple instances on one box, it might be a PITA because of the complexity of the game to share a mouse/keyboard. Multi-boxing works in WoW because one person drives multiple characters. Two people using a single keyboard and mouse would not work very well for that game. Other games might be different.
Search google for 'Multi-boxing' + '(your game name)'. Chances are someone has already tried what you are wanting to do.
This is a great idea. I have been releasing a 'user rights' doc with software I work on for awhile now.
Here's one of the things I wanted to include:
The user has a right to know what ports on their machine will be used for any communication, and the locations where software makes changes to their machine (install locations, save locations,.ini files, registry changes)
Rather, the already existing demand for child pornography leads to people raping children so that they can cash in on that demand. By outlawing it, the demand is greatly reduced.
...Just like how we outlawed drugs, and that pretty much put an end to the demand for them?
I am pretty sure that the laws of supply and demand back me when I say that by outlawing child pornography, you have just made it MORE profitable to produce it, by reducing competition. The demand is going to be pretty constant in either case.
There comes a time when the geek needs to let go. To pull the plug.
Which is why our landfills are filling up with e-waste faster than they should be. Great example of attitudes in a disposable society.
I'm all for progress and new technology, but why discard something because it just needs a new set of drivers? The reason why manufacturers can get away with this crap is because people don't get pissed off enough and light up their call enters with complaints.
In fact from the small freaking article it seems they have a math proof probably not even a prototype yet.
What makes you think there are no prototypes yet? Just because they didn't show you photos? If you were in the military, wouldn't you fly out to see these guys ASAP when you heard this? Would you give them large amounts of cash if it looked probable? Would you keep a very tight lid on any prototypes that they produced?
I am not a believer in conspiracy theories, but I would be very disappointed in the collective militaries of the world if SOMEONE wasn't working with these guys on making this happen.
And he also assured me that the facts as they were being presented were inaccurate
This from the Seattle police department. They have a somewhat checkered history of abuse scandals and have been going back an forth with the city council for probably a decade over the issue of officer accountability.
However, like many things in life, there is rarely black and white. It is quite likely that this guy was being more of a dick than he was letting on, and the police and the rent-a-cops were more out of line than they were letting on.
Without hearing the SPD's version of the story and knowing the history of the Seattle police department though, I'll play the odds and say they were probably out of line.
The article was translated using machine translation, and contained a number of errors as a result.
The law actually is banning Nazi Paintball. It specifically states the fine is for any games where players shoot each other with diet pills, not pellets.
PURE LUXURY! Why when I was a wee nipper, We used a morise code transmitter wired into the data bus to insert raw hex instructions onto the stack! We didn't have a moniter to verify things, we had to use the BIOS to transmit beep codes to the PC speakers, and we liked it that way! Also, we did it in the dark, while me mum whipped us with a belt! UPHILL! BOTH WAYS!
It sounds good in theory, but like the parent, I also look at our country's history of using good judgment in situations like this, and worry.
I suspect that this law is mostly a diplomatic message being sent to China, to let them know we mean business if they use extra-military actors to engage in cyberwarfare. There have been a number of announcements from the pentagon that Chinese hackers have been actively poking at the military systems.
This is the polite heads up to their intelligence service to let them know that we are going to hold their China responsible for the activities of their nationalistic and zealous hackers and if they don't ease up, the counter stroke will be to park a cruse missile in the block of apartments that they are operating out of.
It sounds heavy handed, but States don't fuck around with playing games in courts when they view other states as being hostile. So if it seems like a pretty drastic measure, it is because it was likely a response crafted to deal with another state on the levels that states operate. It's possible that another Kevin Mitnik type could get dragged off to federal prison using this, but that would probably be some local prosecutor trying to show how 'tough' they were on cybercrime.
...I would kill to have an ex-employee give a tell all interview about what the hell was going on for the last ten years or so. If any game media people are out there, I will gladly click through thirty pages of crappy advertising to read this one.
Rampant egos? Ineptness? Fraud? There has to be some juicy tidbits that will come put of the tale...
Why should the FDA object to this? Its silly I say, 'Reefer madness' all over again! I've been shooting, snorting, and smoking my own DNA for years, and other than compulsively posting on/., I am the very picture of normality.
You have to actually bring them into the building and break that ice by showing them that, no, you're not snake-handlers speaking in tongues or crazy terrorists preaching jihad or whatever.
Funny you should mention that, since the above blurb mentions Seattle's Mars Hill Church, who are a pack of far right fundie whack jobs trying to pose as 'Hip' to lure in the youngsters.
The reason they are headquartered in the 'US', is so they can avoid having to pay import taxes and tariffs. If they have a way of being 'US companies', and not pay US income taxes, they get the best of both worlds.
There is no incentive for a normal US citizen to really want such a company here, it is just the corps playing games.
The reason nobody has done this before is because it is illegal
"The proper authorities are helpless against the criminal scum plaguing the Internet. I shall become become a costumed vigilante hacker, but I need a sign...wait was that a frigging BAT that just hit the basement window...? What the hell? Now, wait...where was I...Oh, yes, I need a sign. I HAVE IT! I SHALL BECOME GOATSEE MAN!"
Ok hacker nerds, here is your chance to live out the fantasy. You have the talents, become a heroic hacker vigilante. You can break into people's computers, fix systems, counter hack black hats, and claim that you are 'the bat'. Get to it.
I guess Trent will have to take his application (and devoted money spending fans) elsewhere I guess...
Or he will write a song about Apple. Knowing Trent's material, Apple better hope he just moves on, because I doubt they will want to license it for a commercial...
I completely understand the points you make about playing a game to enjoy it. I'm just pointing out that while you quickly jump to call them losers for buying their way to the top, others would call you a loser for playing computer 'games' in the basement all day.
Personally, I don't care if someone buys their way into a game, it's their choice. Life is full of people who don't share my values. The way people are getting angry over the idea in this thread is more telling about their own mentality.
The feel cheated because they had to spend the time to get to the top of the stack, and others don't. Their status is being devaluated, because anyone can play at their level for a few bucks. Their accomplishment is cheapened as a result.
I wouldn't be so quick to toss around labels of 'loser'. It just kind of makes you look like a angry child who is pissed because he has to share his ball with other kids.
I can see why losers would want to buy things they couldn't earn.
You define people as 'losers' because they don't play the game the same way you do. Mighty full of yourself, aren't you? From the way you talk, it sounds like you define yourself as a 'winner' because you spend dozens of hours a week glued to a monitor hoping the random number generator will drop some instant self-esteem for you.
I'll cut off the easy ad-hominim rebuttal for you. Never bought a gold piece, never will. However, you might be more tolerant of people who have more free money than free time, and still like to game. You might become one someday...
Are they actually suggesting selling stuff created from the aether, or are they suggesting that they set up an internal 'ebay' where players can sell to other players with the game company taking a modest cut? I got the impression of the latter.
Where that the case, someone would still have to go grind out the epics to hock to the bling buyers. That is already happening in most games. The only difference is who gets paid, the gold farmer and the game company, or some of these dubious 'middle men' who run the resale houses.
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That's WWII technology
...that was used exclusively by probably the most technologically advanced country at the time, where it had a cadre of top notch scientists to design the weapons and the resources of a nation to build and launch them in sufficient numbers to get noticed.
We have come a long way in the past 60 years, but building rockets is still, well, rocket science. Why bother when you can strap 20 pounds of explosives to a zealous follower and buy em' a bus ticket?
Yeah, Mac seems to be doing it right these days. I wonder if that is just simply because they are working off a *nix codebase and it is just that much better, or because they have people working there that really look at the bottom line of 'the OS must run fast and be good at the basics'. Their jump to *nix was a smart move.
You realize that Aero doesn't slow your machine down, right? The processing is offloaded to the GPU. Now, if you turn Aero off, then you might see a performance hit.
.dll that uses the GPU for rendering. You cannot 'turn off' Aero, because it is the rendering engine that is employed, regardless of the complexity of the effects employed by the desktop. You can turn off all the 3d effects to limit the math that the GPU has to crunch.
You are sort of correct. It offloads the desktop processing to a
Ultimately, not the point though. Why must I turn it off in the first place? The rant's theme was unneeded eye candy. While Aero is in theory a good thing (offloading UI math to a coprocessor), it just means that now the windows UI team will dream up more complex cpu/gpu cycle eating junk to offset the potential gain. Example: the blurry effect that transparent vista windows have is probably generated using pixel shaders.
And memory capacities and prices have decreased even faster.
Just because you have an abundance of something doesn't mean that you should waste it. Again, not really complaining about using the memory, but what I am getting for the memory that is being used.
Personally, my hatred of vista isn't because of hardware support. For the most part, MS is pretty good about providing support of all the crap you can possibly come up with to plug into your computer. When a new driver API is released, sure, the OEMs have to get off their ass and write new drivers.
my hatred of vista is based off the fact that there is a ton of stupid crap that is loaded on the OS that does nothing but look cool and slow your machine down. I don't want any fucking Aero-transparent window bullshit. I want an os that is like a formula 1 car: fast as hell and without a single non-essential part.
Between win 2k and win7(~8 years) the memory footprint of the OS has grown from ~100mb to ~500mb. What real utility do I get for all that? They still have not bought out winzip and winrar and integrated it in the OS, which is way more basic and useful than services to 'detect unused icons on my desktop'. Using ISO images is pretty much an accepted standard these days, and how much support is there for them in vista? But there is a list of idiotic services running as long as your arm on a fresh install of vista. (Fun game, what percentage of them do you actually fully understand what they are doing on/for your system? I'm a professional windows programmer, and I understand perhaps 75%, wtf?)
No, most people will probably tell you that vista seems to run just fine. MS has spent a lot of time turning their OS into something that is easy and pretty to use. I use the OS for a living. I don't have time to fuck around all day with pretty 'abc block' themes that make the desktop animate windows when they are closed.
I suspect that a lot of people hate vista for what it isn't as much as for what it is.
...cats and dogs sleeping together...
Kinky....
Buddy, you had better not be talking trash about my homegeek, Wil. He still has some crotch leaches left over from 'Stand By Me' that he saves for naysayers that mention his name with JarJar's...
SHELLFISHCORE 4 LIFE, NICKNAME!
It had better have a LOT of horsepower.
Meh, it isn't that difficult. I had a friend get into 5 boxing on WoW. He got a beefy system a couple of years ago, and could run 4 or 5 instances of WoW simultaneously without any real problem.
Two things to think about:
Does the game you want to play with her allow multiple instances to be run on a single computer? WoW does, but you have to have multiple WoW directories. It is possible to program a game to force full screen mode or to terminate if an existing instance is already running. Do some research on the software before buying the hardware. Find out about any tricks you need to use to get it to work.
Find out about the game controls and UI. Chances are, while it might be possible to play multiple instances on one box, it might be a PITA because of the complexity of the game to share a mouse/keyboard. Multi-boxing works in WoW because one person drives multiple characters. Two people using a single keyboard and mouse would not work very well for that game. Other games might be different.
Search google for 'Multi-boxing' + '(your game name)'. Chances are someone has already tried what you are wanting to do.
This is a great idea. I have been releasing a 'user rights' doc with software I work on for awhile now.
.ini files, registry changes)
Here's one of the things I wanted to include:
The user has a right to know what ports on their machine will be used for any communication, and the locations where software makes changes to their machine (install locations, save locations,
Rather, the already existing demand for child pornography leads to people raping children so that they can cash in on that demand. By outlawing it, the demand is greatly reduced.
...Just like how we outlawed drugs, and that pretty much put an end to the demand for them?
I am pretty sure that the laws of supply and demand back me when I say that by outlawing child pornography, you have just made it MORE profitable to produce it, by reducing competition. The demand is going to be pretty constant in either case.
There comes a time when the geek needs to let go. To pull the plug.
Which is why our landfills are filling up with e-waste faster than they should be. Great example of attitudes in a disposable society.
I'm all for progress and new technology, but why discard something because it just needs a new set of drivers? The reason why manufacturers can get away with this crap is because people don't get pissed off enough and light up their call enters with complaints.
In fact from the small freaking article it seems they have a math proof probably not even a prototype yet.
What makes you think there are no prototypes yet? Just because they didn't show you photos? If you were in the military, wouldn't you fly out to see these guys ASAP when you heard this? Would you give them large amounts of cash if it looked probable? Would you keep a very tight lid on any prototypes that they produced?
I am not a believer in conspiracy theories, but I would be very disappointed in the collective militaries of the world if SOMEONE wasn't working with these guys on making this happen.
And he also assured me that the facts as they were being presented were inaccurate
This from the Seattle police department. They have a somewhat checkered history of abuse scandals and have been going back an forth with the city council for probably a decade over the issue of officer accountability.
However, like many things in life, there is rarely black and white. It is quite likely that this guy was being more of a dick than he was letting on, and the police and the rent-a-cops were more out of line than they were letting on.
Without hearing the SPD's version of the story and knowing the history of the Seattle police department though, I'll play the odds and say they were probably out of line.
The article was translated using machine translation, and contained a number of errors as a result.
The law actually is banning Nazi Paintball. It specifically states the fine is for any games where players shoot each other with diet pills, not pellets.
PURE LUXURY! Why when I was a wee nipper, We used a morise code transmitter wired into the data bus to insert raw hex instructions onto the stack! We didn't have a moniter to verify things, we had to use the BIOS to transmit beep codes to the PC speakers, and we liked it that way! Also, we did it in the dark, while me mum whipped us with a belt! UPHILL! BOTH WAYS!
It sounds good in theory, but like the parent, I also look at our country's history of using good judgment in situations like this, and worry.
I suspect that this law is mostly a diplomatic message being sent to China, to let them know we mean business if they use extra-military actors to engage in cyberwarfare. There have been a number of announcements from the pentagon that Chinese hackers have been actively poking at the military systems.
This is the polite heads up to their intelligence service to let them know that we are going to hold their China responsible for the activities of their nationalistic and zealous hackers and if they don't ease up, the counter stroke will be to park a cruse missile in the block of apartments that they are operating out of.
It sounds heavy handed, but States don't fuck around with playing games in courts when they view other states as being hostile. So if it seems like a pretty drastic measure, it is because it was likely a response crafted to deal with another state on the levels that states operate. It's possible that another Kevin Mitnik type could get dragged off to federal prison using this, but that would probably be some local prosecutor trying to show how 'tough' they were on cybercrime.
...I would kill to have an ex-employee give a tell all interview about what the hell was going on for the last ten years or so. If any game media people are out there, I will gladly click through thirty pages of crappy advertising to read this one.
Rampant egos? Ineptness? Fraud? There has to be some juicy tidbits that will come put of the tale...
Why should the FDA object to this? Its silly I say, 'Reefer madness' all over again! I've been shooting, snorting, and smoking my own DNA for years, and other than compulsively posting on /., I am the very picture of normality.
You have to actually bring them into the building and break that ice by showing them that, no, you're not snake-handlers speaking in tongues or crazy terrorists preaching jihad or whatever.
Funny you should mention that, since the above blurb mentions Seattle's Mars Hill Church, who are a pack of far right fundie whack jobs trying to pose as 'Hip' to lure in the youngsters.
Snake handlers, indeed...
The reason they are headquartered in the 'US', is so they can avoid having to pay import taxes and tariffs. If they have a way of being 'US companies', and not pay US income taxes, they get the best of both worlds.
There is no incentive for a normal US citizen to really want such a company here, it is just the corps playing games.
The reason nobody has done this before is because it is illegal
"The proper authorities are helpless against the criminal scum plaguing the Internet. I shall become become a costumed vigilante hacker, but I need a sign...wait was that a frigging BAT that just hit the basement window...? What the hell? Now, wait...where was I...Oh, yes, I need a sign. I HAVE IT! I SHALL BECOME GOATSEE MAN!"
Ok hacker nerds, here is your chance to live out the fantasy. You have the talents, become a heroic hacker vigilante. You can break into people's computers, fix systems, counter hack black hats, and claim that you are 'the bat'. Get to it.
I guess Trent will have to take his application (and devoted money spending fans) elsewhere I guess...
Or he will write a song about Apple. Knowing Trent's material, Apple better hope he just moves on, because I doubt they will want to license it for a commercial...
1)Variables change type. And then you have to rename everything. Its a pain
.3 seconds
Visual studio -> Right click on any variable -> rename -> type new name -> click ok
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You might not use VS, but really, any good IDE should have this feature. Don't get down on tha' hung' because you are using a shoddy IDE.
Would I call them "losers" for it? Hell, yes.
I completely understand the points you make about playing a game to enjoy it. I'm just pointing out that while you quickly jump to call them losers for buying their way to the top, others would call you a loser for playing computer 'games' in the basement all day.
Personally, I don't care if someone buys their way into a game, it's their choice. Life is full of people who don't share my values. The way people are getting angry over the idea in this thread is more telling about their own mentality. The feel cheated because they had to spend the time to get to the top of the stack, and others don't. Their status is being devaluated, because anyone can play at their level for a few bucks. Their accomplishment is cheapened as a result.
I wouldn't be so quick to toss around labels of 'loser'. It just kind of makes you look like a angry child who is pissed because he has to share his ball with other kids.
I can see why losers would want to buy things they couldn't earn.
You define people as 'losers' because they don't play the game the same way you do. Mighty full of yourself, aren't you? From the way you talk, it sounds like you define yourself as a 'winner' because you spend dozens of hours a week glued to a monitor hoping the random number generator will drop some instant self-esteem for you.
I'll cut off the easy ad-hominim rebuttal for you. Never bought a gold piece, never will. However, you might be more tolerant of people who have more free money than free time, and still like to game. You might become one someday...
Are they actually suggesting selling stuff created from the aether, or are they suggesting that they set up an internal 'ebay' where players can sell to other players with the game company taking a modest cut? I got the impression of the latter.
Where that the case, someone would still have to go grind out the epics to hock to the bling buyers. That is already happening in most games. The only difference is who gets paid, the gold farmer and the game company, or some of these dubious 'middle men' who run the resale houses.