I still don't see what the point is. My solution to this: More RAM and *Autostart*. Really. I start everything I need at boot time. Which is quite rare. So I never felt the need to speed up the first start of any programs.
Have you tried GTA4? It's a nightmare. Missions are partially next to impossible because of it. And then of course ther's a bug, where the lag goes up to 2 seconds. *And now* please add the stuttering of a crappy engine adaptation on anything less than a quad-core CPU.
The average human response time for auditory or visual input is 160-220ms.
You know exactly that you're talking bullshit. The statement is true, but is irrelevant, because this is the response time when the pipelining of predicted actions does not work. How else would we be able to do any high-speed actions?
The brain *expects* a bang and a flash when we press the pistol trigger. If it's too late, this will show later, when the predictions and reality are compared again.
You see the monster, and pipeline a shot, some ms later, your hands press the trigger. Now you get the signal of higher pressure form your fingers which goes into the input pipeline. But the bang and flash arrive much too late at that same pipeline. So when they later come out of it again, the discrepancy still is there. Which messes with your ability to predict things.
Try playing a keyboard with 100 ms of lag in-between. At 200 ms it is next to impossible. Try it with a online shooter with the additional 200 ms ping. Good luck winning that match!
One video frame? With a normal camera? That's 1000/30 = 33.333... ms. From making music, I know when you start to notice lag, and some people can notice this at around 10 ms, and I get into trouble above 30 ms. So you would have to have at least the double temporal resolution, to get useful results.
Well, if you're good, you will also get *them* busted for the same insider trading, that you'll make money off. Kinda like a honeypot.;)
I wouldn't wonder, if there are a plan and at least a big company behind all this "articles" and if the point is to get us used to it. Kinda like people here got used to calling file sharers "pirates" because they bought into the **AA world.
Well, I -- as another small business owner -- actually wonder what's the problem of you all. Who cares when someone starts?? Why are you all so pathetic?
Look at what actually matters, instead of the incomplete rules that once emerged from that. As long as someone does good work that's worth the money, I don't care if he/she/it comes only works once a week, at night, is barefoot and listens to speed metal and gabber all the time. Really!
Or are relying on the actual IQ tests, that actually prove that people got dumber!
Not when compared to the 50s or 30s. But when compared to the 70s, for sure!
There was one IQ test in the UK, that showed, that when tested with updated versions of IQ tests of the 70s -- where the average person from the 70s got 100, and the test was free from any things that are only relevant for that time -- the average IQ also lied somewhere around 75. I hope those from the UK don't feel offended, because I know many great people from there. But... well... there are many places in the UK, where it's very obvious how true this is.
Also I bet if you would test the people in my city here in Germany, you would be lucky to come up with such high results. ^^
Sure they will "originate" in the US... And the "hackers" will act as if they knew nothing and were just a mom and some small children, who got her computer hack. But we will put them to justice, and not look at those pesky fake trojans on her computer!
Have you never played System Shock 1? Man, the atmosphere that was created did let you shit bricks?
Shit, I still can't forget the scene at the very beginning, where I find a log file, listen to it... listen to the screams and the fear in the background... while seeing that woman's face, and then looking up into a air duct... trying to grab that strange thing there... and holding her freakin' HEAD in my hands! Only to get attacked by a crazy medical robot and throwing her head on that thing!
Or when you destroy that computer node in the lower area of the station, and Shodan tells you that now you're going to die! He means it! He literally floods the plate with cyborgs until they are piling up inside the now empty server room!
But OK, seeing the midwife monsters in SS2 talking to the giant eggs like they were small children that she loves, with a soothing voice... only to tell me that it will rip me apart for endangering the "children"... I can't think of a better game to this date. "You're not singing our song." "Your meat is revealing you." And small lab monkeys with open heads, losing their brain while dying. Or getting hallucinations. Especially on drugs and booze. (But not as good as SS1 drugs. There were *many* of them.)
It's really sad that EA sits on the rights for System Shock, and that BioShock turned out to be so lame and "mainstream/simple". I hope they will make a future / cyborg game again. Neuromancer as a game would fit great!!
In some years, there will not be any people left who don't know WASD & co from their early childhood on, and still want to play shooters.
I always see how seemingly intelligent game, software and other product developers dumb down their products to make them "accessible" to anyone. Only for nature to create a better idiot, because now she can. And why are people now able to be dumber? Because your new products allowed them to be in the first place!
And that is the real problem: By dumbing down your products, you create your own idiots.
Besides: Dumbing things down is not the full idea, but a bad mutation of it. The original idea was to get things more *efficient*. Which is something way different. For example there are people tho whom VIM is the most efficient UI. And there are those who prefer MS Notepad. So what you do is: You adapt it to the user. To *every* user! Not only the dumb ones!
I'm really wondering where that either/or comes from... I mean they are like children "I want this!" "No, I want THAT!".
Put in a configure option like grown-ups, and like any other real developer, and be done with it!
Power really corrupts. And actually, I have this configure option in my kernel, because of some nice guy -- that is none of those whiners -- is doing a high performance patchset. I did not even know that others have no choice.
What is that? You don't have the choice of scheduler in your kernel? I'm using the Zen sources, and I get to choose between least half a dozen schedulers, including other settings. I am certain that this scheduler will make it into that patchset, and that I will enable it, as soon as zen-sources-2.6.31 get installed on my system.
After all this is Linux! Not some one-company-one-kernel monoculture!
The idea is to be able to grow your own tools for your needs, adapt the computer to *you*, actually *use* the computer for its intended purpose (a *programmable* universal machine), instead of just playing with the programs of others.
I for example had the wish to say that I want to keep a song on a online radio station *after* I heard it. So I hooked up StreamRipper and a tiny script to delete all files by default, except for when I wanted to keep them. Over time thin grew into a full-featured tool to keep songs, even when ads were between them, also while the track was playing, with Amarok integration, and the ability to run Amarok and StreamRipper on two different computers, with the stream redirected trough an ssh tunnel. Try that with Windows!!:)
And that is why I could not live without the a Linux/Unix system anymore. I'd feel crippled.
Why is it, that all the GUI desktops abandoned Unix's philosophies completely and instead went the Windows way (which of course actually is the MacOS/Xerox/$otherProductItGotTakenFrom way)?
I mean, imagine how great it would be, if we had all the tools of Gimp, Openoffice, Firefox Add-ons, etc, as separate entities, only bound to a document / data trough its mime type. You could mash up and reconnect everything at will. Pipe stuff trough that wizard, and then trough that. Or connect a OOo tool and a Gimp tool trough pipes, and then draw with them, etc.
Imagine it like this: - A global toolbox with all the
- tools (something you "draw" with),
- wizards (something that you apply to the selection/document) and
- views (a view and controller for the model [file]). - A window for every view of a file. - A location bar, showing the current position/selection as an XPath. - A properties box, showing all the properties of the current element/selection. - The things in the toolbox would itself be normal files -- scripts or libraries implemented in every language with an API for it to be exact -- that you could show in views, edit with the properties box, apply wizards and tools to, etc. (Yes I got to this ideas a long time ago. I just got no time or money to implement it. If you do, please tell me. )
You could build your own tools like with shell scripts. And because that would make it much easier to create new apps by slowly growing them, we would get much more innovation. Also it would pose no problem for those noobs who dislike the shell for no reason.:)
Perhaps? The problem with us is, that we weren't the *first* thinking about it. Let alone thinking about something even better.
The joke behind it is, that many still subconsciously act ashamed about Linux. Very irrational and stupid, but trained into the mind, and hard to unlearn.
From what I know about the business, you sound rather optimistic.
Most people have given up their lives. They entered the never ending passive state. Without a own reality, living that those of others. Without pride, doing everything just to keep the job they hate. Just to be loved by the ones that punish them. And when they die, they have changed nothing on this planet, that will have any relevance or be remembered, in some 3 or 4 generations. They could just as well have never existed at all.
LOL. The demo effect in action! I'm truly sorry! Forgot the slash in the closing <strong> tag (and the preview function I guess;). After being awake for 36 hours and being sick like a dog, I should go to bed. Wait... one more story...;))
The ability to integrate Flash-like FX, Video and Audio SEAMLESSLY with (X)HTML and CSS (and every other supported XML language, like MathML), is just beyond words... It's what I'm waiting for, for at least a decade! And the performance of both environments gets closer and closer to being equal. With that, soon nobody needs or even wants Flash anymore.
I'll just use those features, and frankly, I can stand "losing" even 50% of the users for it. Those are the dumbest part of the population anyway. You only have problems with those. They can go to AOL or whatever. I have enough clients.:)
Mind you that these ELF guys (or rather girls, I've seen such groups) are not really environmentalists or whatever you might call people who like to protect nature. They are from the same set of loonies that believe in "energy crystals and magnets" and "singing bowl meridian therapy with expressive bongo dancing" or that sitting in a steel frame "dodecahedron will heal you, because it contains the golden ration and the infinite number phi" (I'm not even making this shit up!)
As black hat hackers / crackers and Internet child harassers give us computer experts a bad image, those idiots give people who care about nature a bad image.
At its core, we all care for our planet. It makes sense. So fuck these idiots! I hope they end up being harassed by those child molesters and vice versa.:P
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I still don't see what the point is. My solution to this: More RAM and *Autostart*. Really. I start everything I need at boot time. Which is quite rare. So I never felt the need to speed up the first start of any programs.
Have you tried GTA4? It's a nightmare. Missions are partially next to impossible because of it. And then of course ther's a bug, where the lag goes up to 2 seconds. *And now* please add the stuttering of a crappy engine adaptation on anything less than a quad-core CPU.
The average human response time for auditory or visual input is 160-220ms.
You know exactly that you're talking bullshit. The statement is true, but is irrelevant, because this is the response time when the pipelining of predicted actions does not work. How else would we be able to do any high-speed actions?
The brain *expects* a bang and a flash when we press the pistol trigger. If it's too late, this will show later, when the predictions and reality are compared again.
You see the monster, and pipeline a shot, some ms later, your hands press the trigger. Now you get the signal of higher pressure form your fingers which goes into the input pipeline. But the bang and flash arrive much too late at that same pipeline. So when they later come out of it again, the discrepancy still is there. Which messes with your ability to predict things.
Try playing a keyboard with 100 ms of lag in-between. At 200 ms it is next to impossible.
Try it with a online shooter with the additional 200 ms ping. Good luck winning that match!
One video frame? With a normal camera? That's 1000/30 = 33.333... ms. From making music, I know when you start to notice lag, and some people can notice this at around 10 ms, and I get into trouble above 30 ms. So you would have to have at least the double temporal resolution, to get useful results.
Well, if you're good, you will also get *them* busted for the same insider trading, that you'll make money off. Kinda like a honeypot. ;)
I wouldn't wonder, if there are a plan and at least a big company behind all this "articles" and if the point is to get us used to it. Kinda like people here got used to calling file sharers "pirates" because they bought into the **AA world.
...that a WebOS is yet another "great" example of the inner platform anti-pattern.
(I guess that is why I stopped working on it, as soon as I left the company, and why I then started to code in Haskell. :)
Can we now stop the web economy bullshit generator and go back to news for actual nerds instead of pointy-haired "IT deciders"?
(Apropos, I did start a WebOS (warning: never finished alpha version) back in 2003/2004, so if there ever would have been a time for it, we (or at least me) would have long passed it. ;)
Well, I -- as another small business owner -- actually wonder what's the problem of you all. Who cares when someone starts?? Why are you all so pathetic?
Look at what actually matters, instead of the incomplete rules that once emerged from that.
As long as someone does good work that's worth the money, I don't care if he/she/it comes only works once a week, at night, is barefoot and listens to speed metal and gabber all the time. Really!
Or are relying on the actual IQ tests, that actually prove that people got dumber!
Not when compared to the 50s or 30s. But when compared to the 70s, for sure!
There was one IQ test in the UK, that showed, that when tested with updated versions of IQ tests of the 70s -- where the average person from the 70s got 100, and the test was free from any things that are only relevant for that time -- the average IQ also lied somewhere around 75.
I hope those from the UK don't feel offended, because I know many great people from there. But... well... there are many places in the UK, where it's very obvious how true this is.
Also I bet if you would test the people in my city here in Germany, you would be lucky to come up with such high results. ^^
I imagined you saying this as Tweek Tweak, the twitching boy from South Park. ^^
Sure they will "originate" in the US... And the "hackers" will act as if they knew nothing and were just a mom and some small children, who got her computer hack. But we will put them to justice, and not look at those pesky fake trojans on her computer!
Have you never played System Shock 1? Man, the atmosphere that was created did let you shit bricks?
Shit, I still can't forget the scene at the very beginning, where I find a log file, listen to it... listen to the screams and the fear in the background... while seeing that woman's face, and then looking up into a air duct... trying to grab that strange thing there... and holding her freakin' HEAD in my hands!
Only to get attacked by a crazy medical robot and throwing her head on that thing!
Or when you destroy that computer node in the lower area of the station, and Shodan tells you that now you're going to die! He means it! He literally floods the plate with cyborgs until they are piling up inside the now empty server room!
But OK, seeing the midwife monsters in SS2 talking to the giant eggs like they were small children that she loves, with a soothing voice... only to tell me that it will rip me apart for endangering the "children"... I can't think of a better game to this date. "You're not singing our song." "Your meat is revealing you." And small lab monkeys with open heads, losing their brain while dying. Or getting hallucinations. Especially on drugs and booze. (But not as good as SS1 drugs. There were *many* of them.)
It's really sad that EA sits on the rights for System Shock, and that BioShock turned out to be so lame and "mainstream/simple". I hope they will make a future / cyborg game again. Neuromancer as a game would fit great!!
In some years, there will not be any people left who don't know WASD & co from their early childhood on, and still want to play shooters.
I always see how seemingly intelligent game, software and other product developers dumb down their products to make them "accessible" to anyone. Only for nature to create a better idiot, because now she can. And why are people now able to be dumber? Because your new products allowed them to be in the first place!
And that is the real problem: By dumbing down your products, you create your own idiots.
Besides: Dumbing things down is not the full idea, but a bad mutation of it. The original idea was to get things more *efficient*. Which is something way different. For example there are people tho whom VIM is the most efficient UI. And there are those who prefer MS Notepad.
So what you do is: You adapt it to the user. To *every* user! Not only the dumb ones!
I'm really wondering where that either/or comes from... I mean they are like children "I want this!" "No, I want THAT!".
Put in a configure option like grown-ups, and like any other real developer, and be done with it!
Power really corrupts. And actually, I have this configure option in my kernel, because of some nice guy -- that is none of those whiners -- is doing a high performance patchset. I did not even know that others have no choice.
What is that? You don't have the choice of scheduler in your kernel? I'm using the Zen sources, and I get to choose between least half a dozen schedulers, including other settings. I am certain that this scheduler will make it into that patchset, and that I will enable it, as soon as zen-sources-2.6.31 get installed on my system.
After all this is Linux! Not some one-company-one-kernel monoculture!
How about re-integrating them by pulling them of the Wayback Machine and into the database again?
You never got the idea, did you?
The idea is to be able to grow your own tools for your needs, adapt the computer to *you*, actually *use* the computer for its intended purpose (a *programmable* universal machine), instead of just playing with the programs of others.
I for example had the wish to say that I want to keep a song on a online radio station *after* I heard it. So I hooked up StreamRipper and a tiny script to delete all files by default, except for when I wanted to keep them. Over time thin grew into a full-featured tool to keep songs, even when ads were between them, also while the track was playing, with Amarok integration, and the ability to run Amarok and StreamRipper on two different computers, with the stream redirected trough an ssh tunnel. :)
Try that with Windows!!
And that is why I could not live without the a Linux/Unix system anymore. I'd feel crippled.
You mean sweet and pure like "C-x M-c M-Butterfly"? :D
On a more serious note:
Why is it, that all the GUI desktops abandoned Unix's philosophies completely and instead went the Windows way (which of course actually is the MacOS/Xerox/$otherProductItGotTakenFrom way)?
I mean, imagine how great it would be, if we had all the tools of Gimp, Openoffice, Firefox Add-ons, etc, as separate entities, only bound to a document / data trough its mime type. You could mash up and reconnect everything at will. Pipe stuff trough that wizard, and then trough that.
Or connect a OOo tool and a Gimp tool trough pipes, and then draw with them, etc.
Imagine it like this:
- A global toolbox with all the
- tools (something you "draw" with),
- wizards (something that you apply to the selection/document) and
- views (a view and controller for the model [file]).
- A window for every view of a file.
- A location bar, showing the current position/selection as an XPath.
- A properties box, showing all the properties of the current element/selection.
- The things in the toolbox would itself be normal files -- scripts or libraries implemented in every language with an API for it to be exact -- that you could show in views, edit with the properties box, apply wizards and tools to, etc.
(Yes I got to this ideas a long time ago. I just got no time or money to implement it. If you do, please tell me. )
You could build your own tools like with shell scripts. And because that would make it much easier to create new apps by slowly growing them, we would get much more innovation. :)
Also it would pose no problem for those noobs who dislike the shell for no reason.
Perhaps? The problem with us is, that we weren't the *first* thinking about it. Let alone thinking about something even better.
The joke behind it is, that many still subconsciously act ashamed about Linux. Very irrational and stupid, but trained into the mind, and hard to unlearn.
From what I know about the business, you sound rather optimistic.
Most people have given up their lives. They entered the never ending passive state. Without a own reality, living that those of others. Without pride, doing everything just to keep the job they hate. Just to be loved by the ones that punish them.
And when they die, they have changed nothing on this planet, that will have any relevance or be remembered, in some 3 or 4 generations. They could just as well have never existed at all.
LOL. The demo effect in action! I'm truly sorry! Forgot the slash in the closing <strong> tag (and the preview function I guess ;). After being awake for 36 hours and being sick like a dog, I should go to bed. Wait... one more story... ;))
Well, with SVG and the video tag, that is about to change! Big time!
I'm a professional, and man, watch those demos in at least Firefox 3.5 (or something comparable): http://people.mozilla.com/~prouget/demos/
The ability to integrate Flash-like FX, Video and Audio SEAMLESSLY with (X)HTML and CSS (and every other supported XML language, like MathML), is just beyond words... It's what I'm waiting for, for at least a decade! And the performance of both environments gets closer and closer to being equal.
With that, soon nobody needs or even wants Flash anymore.
I'll just use those features, and frankly, I can stand "losing" even 50% of the users for it. Those are the dumbest part of the population anyway. You only have problems with those. They can go to AOL or whatever. I have enough clients. :)
"Development"
"Development"
"Development"
"Development!"
"Development!"
"Development!"
"DEVELOPMENT!"
"DEVELOPMENT!"
"DEVELOPMENT!"
"Fuck! Yeah!"
*throws a school book with a image of a chair on it*
"Sorry, I got a bit excited there..."
-- Beef Stallmer
Mind you that these ELF guys (or rather girls, I've seen such groups) are not really environmentalists or whatever you might call people who like to protect nature.
They are from the same set of loonies that believe in "energy crystals and magnets" and "singing bowl meridian therapy with expressive bongo dancing" or that sitting in a steel frame "dodecahedron will heal you, because it contains the golden ration and the infinite number phi" (I'm not even making this shit up!)
As black hat hackers / crackers and Internet child harassers give us computer experts a bad image, those idiots give people who care about nature a bad image.
At its core, we all care for our planet. It makes sense. So fuck these idiots! I hope they end up being harassed by those child molesters and vice versa. :P