.. And I have a moderately-aged AthlonXP at 2100Mhz with a GeForce 4ti 4600. Game runs fine. I mean, sure, it doesn't run like Quake of course, but the game is so far beyond Quake 3 in graphics tech and it still runs fine. The great thing is, when I upgrade my computer it will look even better!
If you play games, you must know that you'll need a fairly recent machine to play new games. But I'm sure HL2 will run just fine on my machine. Maybe not at maximum quality, maybe not at maximum resolution, but it will run fine.
I'd much rather see more games that push the technology to the limit over games that cater to the people that keep on buying two year old technology to save a few bucks.
No, I think that he meant that if you have a female BOSS, in a factory/mill/manual labor situation like the "paper industry" implies, then yea, it sure could make you less happy.
And a lot of it is caused by the laws that are supposed to make women happy. (harrasment laws are for women, admit it.)
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I didn't even bother reading your whole post. I read a few key sentences and I can easily classify it as a standard "When *I* went to things were BETTER!" post.
Whatever man - not everyone attended some private school. When I went to high school, I could have gotten away with bloody murder if the Internet was around. By the time I was a Senior, the WWW was getting there but it was still infantile and you couldn't fine *anything about everything* like you can now.
As it was, I took plenty of books and copied the text verbatim to my papers and did fine, if I was late doing the paper.
If anything, tech has allowed the teachers to be able to spot a cheater more easily then before because students have always copied from encyclopedias, papers, and books - the source may be different now is all.
Like others have said and as you admit, this would provide too many false positives to be effective. You mention that you haven't seen a spam in maybe a year or two, but then you said that you also routinely check your "Spam" folder to check if there's anything good in there.
So, you DO see the spam, you DO get false positives, and you ARE put out by spam.
I work for an insurance company, a fairly large one. We have a large IT staff and we have a significant amount of clients, vendors, and whoever else e-mailing us. We cannot drop all spam into a box and check it every day because we get over 30,000 spams each and every day.
We are forced to bounce messages with a code. If it's legit, the sender will need to send the bounce to a special address. Then, we have to review each one. It sucks.
There's no easy five-step method to stopping spam.
I don't have a problem with blocking ALL commercial bulk e-mail, whether it's "legit" or not if there is such a thing. I say e-mail is off-limits for advertisment and I say back to the spammers "If YOU don't like it, DELETE our addresses."
You're so right, and although I don't support Bush at all, and believe we should at least have not been misled into the war, the people over there that think we're there so they can't be free are the ones that want to control the oil and drug cartels. They will kill anyone to do it so that the few can be rich and the rest can be slaves.
Reguardless of the reasons we're in Iraq, I do believe that a great deal of the American government and people are trying their damned best to get the people over there to be a free society; free from the supression and torture of the past so many years.
I guess they just don't trust that someone like him won't go ahead and use the technology anyways, with small modifications so that you can't enforce a patent. But really, all WD has to do is just open up a Seagate drive and take a fucking look if they want the tech that bad.
Maybe he left Seagate on bad terms, and his old bosses are just trying to give him shit. It's happened before.
These clauses have been mostly shown to not hold up in courts. And not to mention, when you sign these things, you're not exactly under no duress to sign - you're told that you have to sign it or you don't get a job - which means you can't make a living.
Not just specialization - it's a career. He was not just some electronics engineer, he was there for over 15 years and he was high up in the company.
You can't tell someone that they can't use their only skills for the next two years.
Specialization happens though, pretty much no matter what. Eventually, almost anyone that's highly skilled will fall into some sort of spec, it's unavoidable unless you want to hop from job to job every three years, while at the same time setting a cap on your salary.
God, I hate that word "bloat" that everyone throws around all the time.
Many of these medical systems are not small embedded systems. A lot of them are high-powered digital imaging systems with terrabytes of storage and multi-processor boards. They connect in to central databases to submit and retrieve data, and all sorts of other modern-day computer activities.
I don't remember the original poster saying anything about "real-time." He did say embedded systems, but when you realize that a modern hospital won't have as many small embedded systems as they used to it's a moot point. If you want these embedded systems to work with the rest of your infrastructure, you're better off running the same Operating System everywhere.
"Anyone that knows anything about embedded systems with high quality requirements know that you stay away from large OSes."
Why, exactly? Because nobody would know how to hack your tiny little proprietary OS? That's crap and you know it.
I'm not saying that Windows is the right choice, nor am I saying that Linux is. But at least with Linux you can modify the kernel as much as you need to for your particular application, and you can be rest assured that there's a million man-hours on the core kernel already - probably a little bit more then the proprietaty ones, 'eh?
"Even Linux is avoided unless you need tcp/ip and if you don't then its better to have a small maybe even off the shelf OS."
Man, I dont' even know what this means. What "off the shelf" operating systems are you talking about? Because you can get, like, all of them off the shelf.
I mean, sure, it's good to know what's coming down the pipe from companies like AMD and Intel. But I just can't stand these stupid review sites that never seem to get shit right.
They compare an Intel Xeon top-of-the-line brand new chip with a desktop Athlon 64 - and not even the lastest incarnation. They should have reviewed a brand new Opteron chip in order to get the "state of the art."
But no. Instead, they compare these two things, and then say things like "for sure, the Intel chip pounced on the AMD one.." and go on and on about how the Intel chip is faster, with a small footnote "well, these chips aren't realy equal.. but INTEL SMASHED AMD!!!" Well, okay that's not word for word, but that was what I got out of it.
I have nothing against Intel. I've used their chips for years. I've also used AMD's chips for years. I love them both. But lately, I've been liking the AMD stuff more - because AMD is pushing the market *forward* with new technology that works well, instead of feeding us 50Mhz incriments every 90 days.
Like AMD or not - without them we'd still be using 500Mhz Pentium III's and paying $600 for each one. Instead, we have almost 4Ghz chips, massive amounts of speed, they are cheap as hell, and we're all going to be using 64-bit workstations soon! Who would have thought that AMD could do that much, being like.. 10% the size of Intel.
Every time one of these things is announced, with "Up to a zillion bazillion petabytes capacity!!" there's a bunch of people like you that insist that this new fancy thing could replace hard drives.
If recent history has been any lesson at all, then we've already seen that initial offerings are usually 10% of the claimed "up to" capacity, they aren't as fast, and they are extremely expensive.
Have you seen the prices on the top capacity memory cards available today? Many thousands of dollars in some cases.
If you buy any computer at the store, it's got Microsoft Windows, with Microsoft Internet Explorer installed (and not removable) and probably other Microsoft products like Works or Word/Excel.
At work, people get computers put on their desks with Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office. They connect to Microsoft Exchange servers and connect to the internet using Microsoft ISA server.
If you want to use anything else, Microsoft has made it very difficult. It's very difficult to emulate the Win32 API, which is only available on Windows. Their documents are all in proprietary formats. Their web browser has special extensions that only Microsoft can put in their browser.
People don't CHOOSE Microsoft, at least not the consumer. They've locked the market down and it's extremely hard to break free from the Monopoly.
A fully pre-installed (like how Windows usually is) Linux system is just as usuable as a Windows system for the end-user, and in many cases, even more usuable. And a lot cheaper, since a full Linux distribution contains enough software that you won't have to buy more for awhile. But when someone says "Okay but can my Linux computer open all my word and excel documents?" you have to say "well, 90% of them." And it's all over.
Ohh yea? Well I've been involved with two presidential election campaigns, I've been a volunteer official at more then two dozen voting events, and I've given my first-born child to science.
And like we'd run "Norton Internet Security" or NAV2004 on nearly 5,500 PC's. (I said users, not PC's. Many people have multiple computers + notebooks and such.)
I mean, I couldn't get the company to switch away from MS unless I was *much* higher up in IT anyways, but to say $99 isn't a big deal is ridiculous. It's subscription based service, and we could use that extra half a million on support with Linux - added with the existing support budget we'd get friggin' gold carpet treatment, not 90 day free end user support.
Well, I guess he's never worked in a large enviornment before; pretty obvious if he thinks that anyone without more then a couple thousand machines isn't going to have a Premiere support contract with MS anyways. (big bucks.) Plus, his figures are way low; it's much more expensive then that to have a full Microsoft shop when you add everything together.
Linux/OSS would be a lot cheaper in the long run for us, especially because we have a full development staff in house developing all our own applications. Many of them already run on IBM UNIX servers, too, so it wouldn't be extremely difficult to get some code changed to be Linux desktop friendly.
But, some people want to just keep things they way they are even if it's more money. We've got a full Windows IT group and desktop support department so it would mean a huge transition in personel and a lot of end user training. It would be painful for the company, so I guess the money is worth it in their minds..
It might not always be this way though, so there's always hope for the future.
We have 4,200 users where I work. If we were to move to Solaris or Linux instead of Windows for the desktops, the $100 a seat adds up very quickly, when you have to pay every year.
If you read the sister post to mine, or have been paying attention to government affairs at all, you'd know that they are actively trying to remove that limitation; requiring someone to live in the US for 20 or 35 years- not born here.
And nowhere in my post did I say that he could, now, become president if he wanted to. I simply said that I think he'd win, not that he was elligable or not.
The problem is that there's no way to enforce an 18+ rule in a game server like that. Heck, maybe some games now can, but I haven't really seen any. And just simply saying "This is for 18+ only" is just an invitation for all the kiddies to come in and wreck house.
One of the reasons we were so successful with TacOps is because we were mostly a group of guys in our 20's. One was early 30's. We worked together, not against each other. We made it to clan matches on time. We got together for practice pretty well. A lot of the other clans were younger guys and although they could play very well indivually, we'd usually wreck them in a clan match where teamwork and tactics were king, not who can rack up the kill score.
It would be sweet if they'd start making video games with age requirements that are not pornographic in nature. Us older guys still want to play these games as we get older but we really don't want to put up with the kids anymore. Of course, it's difficult to convince a developer to do so since the kids (and their parents) buy up a lot of games.
Which, actually, I'm not entirely against. He's been trying to do some good things in California, he wasn't born rich - he's had to work hard for his money, and he has not been a career politician all his life. All these things could definately make for an interesting President, that might actually change the way things are headed now (into the shitter.)
.. or you could look at it as extra money, because it won't really cost MS much to hand the company some CD's. If the company was really serious about moving to Linux, then this is just extra money in MS's pocket that would have been used elsewhere.
I used to play a game called Tactical Ops; a mod for UT. It was awesome, we were in the #1 clanbase ladder position - because we worked together really well, we were honest players, we went over tactics and plans during practice runs.. it was just a blast. Unfortunately, a lot of bad element started to come onto the scene after awhile and we just ended up losing interest. But it was the most fun I've ever had with online gaming.
It's the kids. And no, it's not all of them. We had a couple young guys in our clan (age 14 and 15 I think) and they were cool; great players and nice kids. But that's not usually the way it goes. The young kids, age 13 - 16, are so troublesome. I ran four TacOps servers for over a year and that demographic was constantly and continuously a thorne in my side as well as all the players that played on the servers.
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.. And I have a moderately-aged AthlonXP at 2100Mhz with a GeForce 4ti 4600. Game runs fine. I mean, sure, it doesn't run like Quake of course, but the game is so far beyond Quake 3 in graphics tech and it still runs fine. The great thing is, when I upgrade my computer it will look even better!
If you play games, you must know that you'll need a fairly recent machine to play new games. But I'm sure HL2 will run just fine on my machine. Maybe not at maximum quality, maybe not at maximum resolution, but it will run fine.
I'd much rather see more games that push the technology to the limit over games that cater to the people that keep on buying two year old technology to save a few bucks.
Hehe, yea, that's more like it.
That was such a poorly worded quote that you couldn't tell whether he over-ruled the paper trail, or that they are NOW required to have a paper trail.
No, I think that he meant that if you have a female BOSS, in a factory/mill/manual labor situation like the "paper industry" implies, then yea, it sure could make you less happy.
And a lot of it is caused by the laws that are supposed to make women happy. (harrasment laws are for women, admit it.)
I didn't even bother reading your whole post. I read a few key sentences and I can easily classify it as a standard "When *I* went to things were BETTER!" post.
Whatever man - not everyone attended some private school. When I went to high school, I could have gotten away with bloody murder if the Internet was around. By the time I was a Senior, the WWW was getting there but it was still infantile and you couldn't fine *anything about everything* like you can now.
As it was, I took plenty of books and copied the text verbatim to my papers and did fine, if I was late doing the paper.
If anything, tech has allowed the teachers to be able to spot a cheater more easily then before because students have always copied from encyclopedias, papers, and books - the source may be different now is all.
Like others have said and as you admit, this would provide too many false positives to be effective. You mention that you haven't seen a spam in maybe a year or two, but then you said that you also routinely check your "Spam" folder to check if there's anything good in there.
So, you DO see the spam, you DO get false positives, and you ARE put out by spam.
I work for an insurance company, a fairly large one. We have a large IT staff and we have a significant amount of clients, vendors, and whoever else e-mailing us. We cannot drop all spam into a box and check it every day because we get over 30,000 spams each and every day.
We are forced to bounce messages with a code. If it's legit, the sender will need to send the bounce to a special address. Then, we have to review each one. It sucks.
There's no easy five-step method to stopping spam.
I don't have a problem with blocking ALL commercial bulk e-mail, whether it's "legit" or not if there is such a thing. I say e-mail is off-limits for advertisment and I say back to the spammers "If YOU don't like it, DELETE our addresses."
You're so right, and although I don't support Bush at all, and believe we should at least have not been misled into the war, the people over there that think we're there so they can't be free are the ones that want to control the oil and drug cartels. They will kill anyone to do it so that the few can be rich and the rest can be slaves.
Reguardless of the reasons we're in Iraq, I do believe that a great deal of the American government and people are trying their damned best to get the people over there to be a free society; free from the supression and torture of the past so many years.
That's pretty much on the money if you ask me.
I guess they just don't trust that someone like him won't go ahead and use the technology anyways, with small modifications so that you can't enforce a patent. But really, all WD has to do is just open up a Seagate drive and take a fucking look if they want the tech that bad.
Maybe he left Seagate on bad terms, and his old bosses are just trying to give him shit. It's happened before.
These clauses have been mostly shown to not hold up in courts. And not to mention, when you sign these things, you're not exactly under no duress to sign - you're told that you have to sign it or you don't get a job - which means you can't make a living.
Not just specialization - it's a career. He was not just some electronics engineer, he was there for over 15 years and he was high up in the company.
You can't tell someone that they can't use their only skills for the next two years.
Specialization happens though, pretty much no matter what. Eventually, almost anyone that's highly skilled will fall into some sort of spec, it's unavoidable unless you want to hop from job to job every three years, while at the same time setting a cap on your salary.
God, I hate that word "bloat" that everyone throws around all the time.
Many of these medical systems are not small embedded systems. A lot of them are high-powered digital imaging systems with terrabytes of storage and multi-processor boards. They connect in to central databases to submit and retrieve data, and all sorts of other modern-day computer activities.
I don't remember the original poster saying anything about "real-time." He did say embedded systems, but when you realize that a modern hospital won't have as many small embedded systems as they used to it's a moot point. If you want these embedded systems to work with the rest of your infrastructure, you're better off running the same Operating System everywhere.
Since when are you required to put X, TrueType, and "every printer and USB device known to man" on any Linux distribution?
There's embedded Linux if you wanna go that route, but there's also very easy ways to setup your kernel exactly the way you want it.
And you don't have to put *any* software you don't need on it.
You can keep Linux simple "stupid." Go hide in the corner with your QNX.
"Anyone that knows anything about embedded systems with high quality requirements know that you stay away from large OSes."
Why, exactly? Because nobody would know how to hack your tiny little proprietary OS? That's crap and you know it.
I'm not saying that Windows is the right choice, nor am I saying that Linux is. But at least with Linux you can modify the kernel as much as you need to for your particular application, and you can be rest assured that there's a million man-hours on the core kernel already - probably a little bit more then the proprietaty ones, 'eh?
"Even Linux is avoided unless you need tcp/ip and if you don't then its better to have a small maybe even off the shelf OS."
Man, I dont' even know what this means. What "off the shelf" operating systems are you talking about? Because you can get, like, all of them off the shelf.
.. or a very good writer.
"They can also be modelled over a time period of weeks or months instead of over just a few days."
Ohh sweet, so then what used to take days now takes months?
And at one point in the article, it says "20 nodes" and then at another part it says "512 nodes." So like, what is it?
You know what, I don't even care.
I mean, sure, it's good to know what's coming down the pipe from companies like AMD and Intel. But I just can't stand these stupid review sites that never seem to get shit right.
They compare an Intel Xeon top-of-the-line brand new chip with a desktop Athlon 64 - and not even the lastest incarnation. They should have reviewed a brand new Opteron chip in order to get the "state of the art."
But no. Instead, they compare these two things, and then say things like "for sure, the Intel chip pounced on the AMD one.." and go on and on about how the Intel chip is faster, with a small footnote "well, these chips aren't realy equal.. but INTEL SMASHED AMD!!!" Well, okay that's not word for word, but that was what I got out of it.
I have nothing against Intel. I've used their chips for years. I've also used AMD's chips for years. I love them both. But lately, I've been liking the AMD stuff more - because AMD is pushing the market *forward* with new technology that works well, instead of feeding us 50Mhz incriments every 90 days.
Like AMD or not - without them we'd still be using 500Mhz Pentium III's and paying $600 for each one. Instead, we have almost 4Ghz chips, massive amounts of speed, they are cheap as hell, and we're all going to be using 64-bit workstations soon! Who would have thought that AMD could do that much, being like.. 10% the size of Intel.
Every time one of these things is announced, with "Up to a zillion bazillion petabytes capacity!!" there's a bunch of people like you that insist that this new fancy thing could replace hard drives.
If recent history has been any lesson at all, then we've already seen that initial offerings are usually 10% of the claimed "up to" capacity, they aren't as fast, and they are extremely expensive.
Have you seen the prices on the top capacity memory cards available today? Many thousands of dollars in some cases.
It's forced on people.
If you buy any computer at the store, it's got Microsoft Windows, with Microsoft Internet Explorer installed (and not removable) and probably other Microsoft products like Works or Word/Excel.
At work, people get computers put on their desks with Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office. They connect to Microsoft Exchange servers and connect to the internet using Microsoft ISA server.
If you want to use anything else, Microsoft has made it very difficult. It's very difficult to emulate the Win32 API, which is only available on Windows. Their documents are all in proprietary formats. Their web browser has special extensions that only Microsoft can put in their browser.
People don't CHOOSE Microsoft, at least not the consumer. They've locked the market down and it's extremely hard to break free from the Monopoly.
A fully pre-installed (like how Windows usually is) Linux system is just as usuable as a Windows system for the end-user, and in many cases, even more usuable. And a lot cheaper, since a full Linux distribution contains enough software that you won't have to buy more for awhile. But when someone says "Okay but can my Linux computer open all my word and excel documents?" you have to say "well, 90% of them." And it's all over.
Ohh yea? Well I've been involved with two presidential election campaigns, I've been a volunteer official at more then two dozen voting events, and I've given my first-born child to science.
Prove I didn't, and I'll believe you.
Phew. I couldn't have said it better myself.
And like we'd run "Norton Internet Security" or NAV2004 on nearly 5,500 PC's. (I said users, not PC's. Many people have multiple computers + notebooks and such.)
I mean, I couldn't get the company to switch away from MS unless I was *much* higher up in IT anyways, but to say $99 isn't a big deal is ridiculous. It's subscription based service, and we could use that extra half a million on support with Linux - added with the existing support budget we'd get friggin' gold carpet treatment, not 90 day free end user support.
Well, I guess he's never worked in a large enviornment before; pretty obvious if he thinks that anyone without more then a couple thousand machines isn't going to have a Premiere support contract with MS anyways. (big bucks.) Plus, his figures are way low; it's much more expensive then that to have a full Microsoft shop when you add everything together.
Linux/OSS would be a lot cheaper in the long run for us, especially because we have a full development staff in house developing all our own applications. Many of them already run on IBM UNIX servers, too, so it wouldn't be extremely difficult to get some code changed to be Linux desktop friendly.
But, some people want to just keep things they way they are even if it's more money. We've got a full Windows IT group and desktop support department so it would mean a huge transition in personel and a lot of end user training. It would be painful for the company, so I guess the money is worth it in their minds..
It might not always be this way though, so there's always hope for the future.
We have 4,200 users where I work. If we were to move to Solaris or Linux instead of Windows for the desktops, the $100 a seat adds up very quickly, when you have to pay every year.
.. and call it Kenity.
Wow, you're slick.
If you read the sister post to mine, or have been paying attention to government affairs at all, you'd know that they are actively trying to remove that limitation; requiring someone to live in the US for 20 or 35 years- not born here.
And nowhere in my post did I say that he could, now, become president if he wanted to. I simply said that I think he'd win, not that he was elligable or not.
The problem is that there's no way to enforce an 18+ rule in a game server like that. Heck, maybe some games now can, but I haven't really seen any. And just simply saying "This is for 18+ only" is just an invitation for all the kiddies to come in and wreck house.
One of the reasons we were so successful with TacOps is because we were mostly a group of guys in our 20's. One was early 30's. We worked together, not against each other. We made it to clan matches on time. We got together for practice pretty well. A lot of the other clans were younger guys and although they could play very well indivually, we'd usually wreck them in a clan match where teamwork and tactics were king, not who can rack up the kill score.
It would be sweet if they'd start making video games with age requirements that are not pornographic in nature. Us older guys still want to play these games as we get older but we really don't want to put up with the kids anymore. Of course, it's difficult to convince a developer to do so since the kids (and their parents) buy up a lot of games.
I think he'd win, too.
Which, actually, I'm not entirely against. He's been trying to do some good things in California, he wasn't born rich - he's had to work hard for his money, and he has not been a career politician all his life. All these things could definately make for an interesting President, that might actually change the way things are headed now (into the shitter.)
Too bad he's Republican! hah
.. or you could look at it as extra money, because it won't really cost MS much to hand the company some CD's. If the company was really serious about moving to Linux, then this is just extra money in MS's pocket that would have been used elsewhere.
I used to play a game called Tactical Ops; a mod for UT. It was awesome, we were in the #1 clanbase ladder position - because we worked together really well, we were honest players, we went over tactics and plans during practice runs.. it was just a blast. Unfortunately, a lot of bad element started to come onto the scene after awhile and we just ended up losing interest. But it was the most fun I've ever had with online gaming.
It's the kids. And no, it's not all of them. We had a couple young guys in our clan (age 14 and 15 I think) and they were cool; great players and nice kids. But that's not usually the way it goes. The young kids, age 13 - 16, are so troublesome. I ran four TacOps servers for over a year and that demographic was constantly and continuously a thorne in my side as well as all the players that played on the servers.