Some nice example where more processing power (even in parralel) is nice is virtualisation, whether at home or on servers. Running multiple OSes in parallel will saturate all your processing power nicely. What's more quad-core surely gives more processing power per watt and per cubic meter which is a very important factor for big folks like Google or whereever hosting space is expensive. Even John Carmack who used to be very much against multi-cores for gamins recently elaborated much on this area in his keynote. Practically any modern (lets call it nextgen:D) gaming platform is now multi-core.
So I'd say overall it's nice that Intel is pushing this so fast, if developers start to realize that multi-cores are hitting mainstream, they will have to take that into account and by the time Intel and AMD launch 8-cores, there should be more software to take advantage of it.
I live outside US, in an EU country and I constantly see how many basic freedom rights are violated in US. With all the recent actions of NSA, RIAA, MPAA, it seems like you hardly care about things like: -freedom -what is not explicitly banned should be allowed -all citizens should be considered innocent unless explicitly proven otherwise, within US agencies, it seems the assumption is the other way around Perhaps your life is still very bearable with those restrictions, but I would firmly rebel against such treatment... I can't provide you a withsimple solution, but it seems nothing is being done to counteract the wrong-doings of your government, it can only deteriorate form that point:( I don't know how many people have changed their minds recently, but I don't want to go to USA anymore.
It has been said before, but I think it's not that great that someone else is donating money for me aka the consumer. Donations and sponsorship are now considered a good thing, for me it means that the product I bought could have been cheaper and that I could have donated the money myself. As it is now, I'm stripped off my money and the ability to decide where the money goes. Makes me want to quit consumerism, which I'd rather not do since it's good for the economy. Just a thought, you don't have to agree, of course.
Last I heard in the news it was used to exchange pr0n and other warez, but seriously, could someone link me to some project that require such high bandwidth over long distances? What kind of computing jobs are best paralellized with such network? Anything easy enough for casual programmer to start working on?
I haven't even thought of building HTPC simply because I don't watch TV, but I was wondering if average Joe Sixpack is willing to embrace this complexity, I mean MCE is as simple as it can be, but in many cases still a bit too complicated don't you think? Otoh average people tend to use stuff like MSN Messenger etc, I think it's a decent way of making a living: I just put together a SFF such as shuttle, MCE or linux on it and the price can be premium compared to what you get for your casual PC, the question is are 'normal' people willing to spend that extra cash for that?
Thanks, would like me to write more pieces on that, like a series or something? I could move on to subjects such as DMCA, DRM in detail etc, lot's on my mind lately....
I've been planning to write a bit on copyright for a long time and finally I did and it references this story. It's more of an intro for those who don't know much about the stuff, but you might read it if you want. If I get positive feedback I'll post some follow-ups. And please be merciful to our server in Poland we're still on baud 9600;)
Yes, you can GPO Internet Explorer to use a 0.0.0.0 proxy, but then you break Windows Update.
I'm pretty clueless at these things, but last I used 0.0.0.0 was to set the default route, so how's that going work?
The thing that helped against spyware was editing the hosts file and setting 127.0.0.1 for bad sites.
And here's my question does firefox use hosts file as well? I assume it does, it's part of windows networking stack, right?
The reason I ask is that I've seen programs struggling for control over the hosts file, and I no longer trust canonical names, there are too many ways to fake the address, if type yahoo.com the redicection to yahoo.scam can be done in browser, in the hosts file, in the OS. The DNS servers can be attacked too., or the website defaces... OMG... *runs scared*
I think it's where M$ and some of you geeks differ. No let's say you develop some app with security in mind from the very start, in theory it doesn't cost you a thing, but keeping up to high standards slows you down, let's say this is the case with unix/linux, it's been here for a while. Now there was win3.1, win95, win98 and it goes on, which are totally unsecure but usable. In the meantime there were some other totally secure environments, such as QNX (?), but totally unusable for an average user. So what you end up with is M$ that can charge even more money because security is a new feature, so one has to pay for it.
I can't help but to see the communism analogy that Bill the Magnificent has recently stated, philosophically, the communism is a much better system, it removes inequity etc In practice capitalism simply work better.
So: as far as theory goes OSS is a much better solution in the long run, but the market sort of contradicts common sense and we the dominance of M$.
Personally, I'm anti-M$, I have always been, but it's only recently that I've found out that if you want a windows network you have to pay for software: a)server b)client's OS c)licenses to use the server for every client!!!! vs $0 using linux
In US it's not so drastic, but where I live such money can get me by for an entire year, if we're talking about 20 computers!!!
If by any chance some big company gave me the budget to deploy the network for more than 1000 computers, I'd probably could live the rest of my days just using the money saved on M$ software!
I guess I'm talking crap by now and should stop, but I'll tell you about my specific issue, that is education in Poland.
The Ministry of Education has chosen to deploy school networks based on Win2003SBS + XP Clients, that's countrywide. It's meant to be for pupils to use the Internet and stuff, it's not mission critical or anything. In the default installation the server is only used to authenticate client accounts. If power/network/servers fails, you can't use the client at all. To me it is clear that Linux could be an equal if not better solution, tho I can't use it even if I wanted to. People at the ministry aren't computer experts, I think M$ didn't even have to bribe them, though they could just in case (after all it's a multi billion dollar deal), it's just that no one has approached them with an alternative. And now we're doomed for the future cause all the students will use M$ at school and some of them might become govt officials one day:(
Apparently Poland has received a fair share of the CO2 emission quota, thus enabling it to sell. It might seem good, since the relatively poor countries can improve on the their economy by selling their quotas, but doesn't that contradict the whole 'ecological' point of reducing the emissions?
TV is so much crap, I'm done watching it. Actually I haven't been watching TV for the past two years and I guess it's unworthy of the bandwidth. But how much exatcly does it take to send a proper HDTV signal? I assume that in such network you're only receiving what you're watching instead of all the channels like it is right now?
Actually if you keep them at the same level it's like raising it, right? After all the people from the last year are already there and are out of the quota basket, right?
Sure XBOX is great for average Joe - he can't screw anything up, but he can't do much either with it's clunky controller. So instead of one universal programmable, extensible machine, sometimes refferes as PC he has: XBOX, DVD player that he had before xbox came out, TV set, maybe even an old VCR, calculator and tons of junk such as 300Kpixel camera. Now I see two trends: Every new product makes some other obsolete, so in fact they don't sell something revolutionary, something really creatively new, they just sell you an upgrade, telling that you should throw away your previous version of the tool. Look at this: VINYL - Tape - CD-ROM - mp3 - ? I think in many cases vinyl gave sufficent quality, perhaps even higher that that of many mp3s, that's why many DJ still use it. Also the TV sets seem to be going in circles: CRT - LCD - PLASMA - OLED - CRT on Silicon Don't be fooled by marketing bastards, buy things that you really need and never overspend. I don't think there's a viable alternative to this consumerism so the only thing we can do is to be wise about it.
obviously you're wrong, they're skipping because the intermediate letters have been assigned already and once they run of letter they do stuff like aa or pick a new number. I would explain more but there's lot on google and I guess you're ignorant anyway so who cares:D And perhaps this page might be a good start:
They've had it coming. Truth be told we're stuck with x86 the same way we're stuck with IPv4. With Internet we at least have some reason to upgrade, however with x86 which is obsolete and has manydrawback, well it still works and we're still seeing some nice performance improvements. I think we might have to depart from x86 pretty soon as the clockspeeds can't be raised anymore. So now its either SMP or simply a different architecture, like G5 for instance.
When I browsed through the test, I headed directly to the database section and I was positively surprised, P4M excels in this area. In my computing I actually find hard disks to be a bottleneck. I use databases all the time and any improvement in that area is a plus. I bet Gentoo fanboys will lament on processor's performance while compiling, I think it has more to do with the lack of the optimisations yet and what's even more important I don't compile much, I just use the computer. Overall I find this processor to be a very attractive solution for a typical desktop computer. It's a great base for a SFF or even smaller computer with more than adequate computing power.
I couldn't agree more, actually I hope for something more advanced than that, a direct neural interface perhaps? And you're talking about output, but I think that input is much more of a concern. After all I can imagine someone having an LCD screen in front of his face and stil being able to walk, ride, drive, whatever, but if you need to write something, an email or atricle or some code you either have to go with the keyboard which is big and clunky if you want it comfortable or perhaps with voice recognition which is not feasible in public places IMHO even it worked like it, should which is not the case. The truth is that up to date there is no good input method for very portable computers.
I suppose it's gonna be small, probably wearable and very integrated with our senses. Typing everything on a keyboard is so passe... And next thing worth considering is that we will have a programmable microprocessor in almost every device that we use and with IPv6 it can have it own Internet address... So many possibilities arise, I think these times are quite good to live in as it is still quite easy to innovate. On the other hand tools to develop ideas are lagging behind, if or when we break that barrier creation is going to become easier than ever and therefore not as valued as right now. With machines doing most of the gruntwork it can either go bad or it can grow pretty nicely. I just don't think human body is fit for that, however.
I'm not very proficent with cryptography, but as far as I remember the algorithms with Trusted Third Party should solve the problem. Actually that are many solutions, however why worry when you're dead? It's my opinion and you might not agree but once you're dead nothing really matters, at all.
If I were really going to make a good game and had a great concept for the game: storyline, environment, logic etc, I'd probably just make a mod for Half-Life 2. You certainly can't beat the features it offers, the best network code there is, stunning graphics, and great physics.
An average Joe can't probably buy a license to have his own standalone game based on HL2, but as you can with CS people who made greats mods for fun are not so bad off after all. 1. Start with the mod. 2. After the first beta ask for donations. 3. Profit. 4. grow big. 5. Profit.
Mind you I have the IP and the patent for this scheme so should you choose to use you have to pay $100 otherwise it'd be too easy:D
It has occured to me in a rather painful manner that I run out of money just before Christmas, so I won't be able to buy any presents, have you guys have any ideas on how to make some extra bucks in a couple of days (aside from sexual services, theft etc.)? My skills are you know typical of/. reader. You name it, I'll do it, just as long as it can be done with a keyboard. The reason I ask this here is I very much qualify for H1-B visa, except I don't want to leave my country, which for me is very unneccesary in the age of Internet.
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Some nice example where more processing power (even in parralel) is nice is virtualisation, whether at home or on servers. Running multiple OSes in parallel will saturate all your processing power nicely. :D) gaming platform is now multi-core.
What's more quad-core surely gives more processing power per watt and per cubic meter which is a very important factor for big folks like Google or whereever hosting space is expensive.
Even John Carmack who used to be very much against multi-cores for gamins recently elaborated much on this area in his keynote. Practically any modern (lets call it nextgen
So I'd say overall it's nice that Intel is pushing this so fast, if developers start to realize that multi-cores are hitting mainstream, they will have to take that into account and by the time Intel and AMD launch 8-cores, there should be more software to take advantage of it.
I live outside US, in an EU country and I constantly see how many basic freedom rights are violated in US. :(
With all the recent actions of NSA, RIAA, MPAA, it seems like you hardly care about things like:
-freedom
-what is not explicitly banned should be allowed
-all citizens should be considered innocent unless explicitly proven otherwise, within US agencies, it seems the assumption is the other way around
Perhaps your life is still very bearable with those restrictions, but I would firmly rebel against such treatment...
I can't provide you a withsimple solution, but it seems nothing is being done to counteract the wrong-doings of your government, it can only deteriorate form that point
I don't know how many people have changed their minds recently, but I don't want to go to USA anymore.
It has been said before, but I think it's not that great that someone else is donating money for me aka the consumer.
Donations and sponsorship are now considered a good thing, for me it means that the product I bought could have been cheaper and that I could have donated the money myself.
As it is now, I'm stripped off my money and the ability to decide where the money goes. Makes me want to quit consumerism, which I'd rather not do since it's good for the economy.
Just a thought, you don't have to agree, of course.
Last I heard in the news it was used to exchange pr0n and other warez, but seriously, could someone link me to some project that require such high bandwidth over long distances?
What kind of computing jobs are best paralellized with such network?
Anything easy enough for casual programmer to start working on?
I haven't even thought of building HTPC simply because I don't watch TV, but I was wondering if average Joe Sixpack is willing to embrace this complexity, I mean MCE is as simple as it can be, but in many cases still a bit too complicated don't you think?
Otoh average people tend to use stuff like MSN Messenger etc, I think it's a decent way of making a living: I just put together a SFF such as shuttle, MCE or linux on it and the price can be premium compared to what you get for your casual PC, the question is are 'normal' people willing to spend that extra cash for that?
It's not new, it's the best.
Has anyone actually done some interesting stuff that now works in a productive environment?
I've submitted, but it's highly doubtful it's getting through.
Thanks, would like me to write more pieces on that, like a series or something?
I could move on to subjects such as DMCA, DRM in detail etc, lot's on my mind lately....
I've been planning to write a bit on copyright for a long time and finally I did and it references this story. It's more of an intro for those who don't know much about the stuff, but you might read it if you want. If I get positive feedback I'll post some follow-ups. ;)
= article&sid=295&mode=&order=0&thold=0
And please be merciful to our server in Poland we're still on baud 9600
This is the first story on the frontpage of http://aboutculture.pl/ and the exact link is http://aboutculture.pl/modules.php?name=News&file
Your comments are highly welcome.
I'm pretty clueless at these things, but last I used 0.0.0.0 was to set the default route, so how's that going work?
The thing that helped against spyware was editing the hosts file and setting 127.0.0.1 for bad sites.
And here's my question does firefox use hosts file as well?
I assume it does, it's part of windows networking stack, right?
The reason I ask is that I've seen programs struggling for control over the hosts file, and I no longer trust canonical names, there are too many ways to fake the address, if type yahoo.com the redicection to yahoo.scam can be done in browser, in the hosts file, in the OS. The DNS servers can be attacked too., or the website defaces... OMG... *runs scared*
I think it's where M$ and some of you geeks differ.
:(
No let's say you develop some app with security in mind from the very start, in theory it doesn't cost you a thing, but keeping up to high standards slows you down, let's say this is the case with unix/linux, it's been here for a while.
Now there was win3.1, win95, win98 and it goes on, which are totally unsecure but usable.
In the meantime there were some other totally secure environments, such as QNX (?), but totally unusable for an average user.
So what you end up with is M$ that can charge even more money because security is a new feature, so one has to pay for it.
I can't help but to see the communism analogy that Bill the Magnificent has recently stated, philosophically, the communism is a much better system, it removes inequity etc
In practice capitalism simply work better.
So: as far as theory goes OSS is a much better solution in the long run, but the market sort of contradicts common sense and we the dominance of M$.
Personally, I'm anti-M$, I have always been, but it's only recently that I've found out that if you want a windows network you have to pay for software:
a)server
b)client's OS
c)licenses to use the server for every client!!!!
vs
$0 using linux
In US it's not so drastic, but where I live such money can get me by for an entire year, if we're talking about 20 computers!!!
If by any chance some big company gave me the budget to deploy the network for more than 1000 computers, I'd probably could live the rest of my days just using the money saved on M$ software!
I guess I'm talking crap by now and should stop, but I'll tell you about my specific issue, that is education in Poland.
The Ministry of Education has chosen to deploy school networks based on Win2003SBS + XP Clients, that's countrywide. It's meant to be for pupils to use the Internet and stuff, it's not mission critical or anything.
In the default installation the server is only used to authenticate client accounts. If power/network/servers fails, you can't use the client at all. To me it is clear that Linux could be an equal if not better solution, tho I can't use it even if I wanted to. People at the ministry aren't computer experts, I think M$ didn't even have to bribe them, though they could just in case (after all it's a multi billion dollar deal), it's just that no one has approached them with an alternative.
And now we're doomed for the future cause all the students will use M$ at school and some of them might become govt officials one day
Apparently Poland has received a fair share of the CO2 emission quota, thus enabling it to sell.
It might seem good, since the relatively poor countries can improve on the their economy by selling their quotas, but doesn't that contradict the whole 'ecological' point of reducing the emissions?
TV is so much crap, I'm done watching it. Actually I haven't been watching TV for the past two years and I guess it's unworthy of the bandwidth. But how much exatcly does it take to send a proper HDTV signal?
I assume that in such network you're only receiving what you're watching instead of all the channels like it is right now?
Actually if you keep them at the same level it's like raising it, right?
After all the people from the last year are already there and are out of the quota basket, right?
Sure XBOX is great for average Joe - he can't screw anything up, but he can't do much either with it's clunky controller.
So instead of one universal programmable, extensible machine, sometimes refferes as PC he has: XBOX, DVD player that he had before xbox came out, TV set, maybe even an old VCR, calculator and tons of junk such as 300Kpixel camera.
Now I see two trends:
Every new product makes some other obsolete, so in fact they don't sell something revolutionary, something really creatively new, they just sell you an upgrade, telling that you should throw away your previous version of the tool.
Look at this:
VINYL - Tape - CD-ROM - mp3 - ?
I think in many cases vinyl gave sufficent quality, perhaps even higher that that of many mp3s, that's why many DJ still use it.
Also the TV sets seem to be going in circles:
CRT - LCD - PLASMA - OLED - CRT on Silicon
Don't be fooled by marketing bastards, buy things that you really need and never overspend.
I don't think there's a viable alternative to this consumerism so the only thing we can do is to be wise about it.
obviously you're wrong, they're skipping because the intermediate letters have been assigned already and once they run of letter they do stuff like aa or pick a new number. I would explain more but there's lot on google and I guess you're ignorant anyway so who cares :D
And perhaps this page might be a good start:
http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/11/
They've had it coming. Truth be told we're stuck with x86 the same way we're stuck with IPv4.
With Internet we at least have some reason to upgrade, however with x86 which is obsolete and has manydrawback, well it still works and we're still seeing some nice performance improvements. I think we might have to depart from x86 pretty soon as the clockspeeds can't be raised anymore. So now its either SMP or simply a different architecture, like G5 for instance.
When I browsed through the test, I headed directly to the database section and I was positively surprised, P4M excels in this area.
In my computing I actually find hard disks to be a bottleneck. I use databases all the time and any improvement in that area is a plus.
I bet Gentoo fanboys will lament on processor's performance while compiling, I think it has more to do with the lack of the optimisations yet and what's even more important I don't compile much, I just use the computer.
Overall I find this processor to be a very attractive solution for a typical desktop computer.
It's a great base for a SFF or even smaller computer with more than adequate computing power.
I couldn't agree more, actually I hope for something more advanced than that, a direct neural interface perhaps?
And you're talking about output, but I think that input is much more of a concern. After all I can imagine someone having an LCD screen in front of his face and stil being able to walk, ride, drive, whatever, but if you need to write something, an email or atricle or some code you either have to go with the keyboard which is big and clunky if you want it comfortable or perhaps with voice recognition which is not feasible in public places IMHO even it worked like it, should which is not the case. The truth is that up to date there is no good input method for very portable computers.
I suppose it's gonna be small, probably wearable and very integrated with our senses. Typing everything on a keyboard is so passe...
And next thing worth considering is that we will have a programmable microprocessor in almost every device that we use and with IPv6 it can have it own Internet address...
So many possibilities arise, I think these times are quite good to live in as it is still quite easy to innovate.
On the other hand tools to develop ideas are lagging behind, if or when we break that barrier creation is going to become easier than ever and therefore not as valued as right now.
With machines doing most of the gruntwork it can either go bad or it can grow pretty nicely.
I just don't think human body is fit for that, however.
I'm not very proficent with cryptography, but as far as I remember the algorithms with Trusted Third Party should solve the problem.
Actually that are many solutions, however why worry when you're dead? It's my opinion and you might not agree but once you're dead nothing really matters, at all.
If I were really going to make a good game and had a great concept for the game: storyline, environment, logic etc, I'd probably just make a mod for Half-Life 2.
:D
You certainly can't beat the features it offers, the best network code there is, stunning graphics, and great physics.
An average Joe can't probably buy a license to have his own standalone game based on HL2, but as you can with CS people who made greats mods for fun are not so bad off after all.
1. Start with the mod.
2. After the first beta ask for donations.
3. Profit.
4. grow big.
5. Profit.
Mind you I have the IP and the patent for this scheme so should you choose to use you have to pay $100 otherwise it'd be too easy
Will they share, after all I am a vicitm as well?
Ask Slashdot:
/. reader. You name it, I'll do it, just as long as it can be done with a keyboard. The reason I ask this here is I very much qualify for H1-B visa, except I don't want to leave my country, which for me is very unneccesary in the age of Internet.
It has occured to me in a rather painful manner that I run out of money just before Christmas, so I won't be able to buy any presents, have you guys have any ideas on how to make some extra bucks in a couple of days (aside from sexual services, theft etc.)?
My skills are you know typical of