I don't want to sound too preachy here, but TweakTown shows some poor judgment in useing the leaked Doom III Alpha as a test subject.
We all know that ID didn't want it out because they don't want people to judge the final product on it. I also belive that most people who would download and install it are big fans, and be quite aware that it wasn't representitive of the final product. But when TweakTown publishes frame rates, without even an attempt at a dislaimer, they're not doing anyone any favours.
Well, Mr.AC, as soon as someone comes up with a nice OOP, garbage collected, hand holding solution that even comes close to the power of C, I'm all over it.
I use objective-C, Python, Java, Perl, and any tools I've come across to make my job easier. But you know what? All the interesting bits are in C. I wonder why?
I've never seen the 'Reflections on Trusting Trust' article. It's much like 'The C Programming Language' in that it takes you far, in few words. Wow. I feel like such a newbie.
That was an amazing piece, and I'm very much looking forward to what this post turns up.
Japanese citizenship is jor Japanese people, even many generations removed. Germany also hands out citizenship by blood, but that might have changed with EU rules.
Citizenship by ethnicity seems to be a pretty archaic idea, maybe these countries should reconsider.
Yes. Linux is a great choice for supercomputers. It's support for shared memory, threading, and SMP is equal to the best designs out there, mostly because it's those designs incorporated into linux.
Unfortunatly, I havn't found the time to test it on my Cray, so I might be talking out of my ass.
I think the simputer needs to be evaluated in a different way than a normal handheld. The article points out that it could be owned communally by a village and provide many usefull services to rural villagers.
It still needs to be shown that a collection of illiterate folks can get enough out of the device to make it cost-effective though. The article also mentions the difficulty in finding power for the device, but fails to mention availability of internet access. This seems to be an important detatil.
OK. I understand that providing bandwidth is expensive, and that the telcos have to make money somehow. I don't mind paying by the gig, but high-user low-user doesn't cut it.
My idea is this; Everyone pays your ISP for bandwidth downloaded. The ISP pays you the same rate for bandwidth uploaded. The rate is one at which the ISPs can make a profit. Every bit of data being downloaded is being uploaded at the same time.
This provides an incentive to produce content, and to share it for free. No more banner adds.
I realize this is more complicated than I make it sound. But all the telcos got together on how to pay for long-distance services, so they should be able to do this.
I here-by donate my Fantastic Idea to the public domain.
He has come up with some very novel and bright ways to do several old things. The tools aren't blackhat or whitehat by themselves, but have one big blackhat advantage in that the're not going to be detected by anyone yet. They all have interesting uses in network admin or debuging.
I haven't tried them so I'm probably missing things.The tools are;
1) a _very_ fast portscanner. It lets you find computers and services on a given network.
2) a virtual router. Lets multiple hosts share the same IP address.
3) a pipe to ethernet thingy, lets you type directly out onto the network. You'ld be quite the 31337 hacker if you used this one regulary.
4) a silent traceroute that'll let you probe behind a NAT firewall. wow. That's kinda nasty.
5) and the coolest one of the bunch, a program that renders the randomness of a remote-machines packets into 3D space. Cool.
Is owning a tivo a sign of moral failing? How about the hosts file on my gateway that blocks most adds anyway? Going to the bathroom during commercials? Not clicking-through??
Fuck adds. They don't work, and the sooner we all realize that the sooner we cab get on building a better model.
You are correct in saying %99 of data on the Gnutella network is copyrighted, but so what? Simply put, P2P is the future of how we store and exchange data, so the record companies, software publishers, and others need to adjust. People want P2P, and they will have it.
RE is the process of looking at how software or hardware works, and trying to replicate it, without looking at the source code. ie, trying to build a car by looking at a car, rather than blueprints.
It'll be quite a while before recompiling a kernel gets any simpler. Recompiling assumes that you know (somewhat) what you're doing. Keep at it. It took me at least 10 tries before I compiled a bootable kernel.
quick hint; isnstall the kernel sources that came with your dist. Use the.config file found in this to compile first. These are the settings that your kernel was compiled with. The you can use make xconfig alter a known working config. Good luck.
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Uhhhh. Well, yeah. That's why it was a secret. Of course it was a spy-toy. It was the cold war. Youre tax dollars are now being spent on other spy toys.
Did anyone notice that these suits are only rated for 2-3 uses? That would preclude using them in space or almost any situation but emergencies.
Maybe they can sell a bunch to India and Pakistan,
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I agree with your sentiment, but I think the OP was asking if there was a technical or other reason for not alowing some of the code to be modified, seeing as the rest was open. At least that's how I read it. Anyone know?
At the time of Germanys invasion of the Rhineland, France had 50 tank divisions within a 2 days travel. Germany had 6, in total. Germany also had many officers convinced Hitler was mad and waiting for the counter-attack to start so they could kill Hitler. They missed a Big Chance.
France also had a naive millitary command, and very little resistance.
That said, who can blame them? WWII was still a very nasty memory, and none could face the prospect of war again. It was very easy to belive that Hitler only wanted a little bit of Europe, and then he'd be happy. England managed to muster a fight through blind jingoism, and the U.S. had time to wake up to the fact that they were going to have to fight. I don't envy anyone of the time who had to make the big desisions.
Oh yeah... the other reason for the 'France surrenders' joke is the american feeling that they saved Europes asses. Probably true, but they were next, and the war couldn't have been won without Churchill, Turing, DeGaull and thousands upon thousands of young men who gave their lives in the mud.
Antibacterial soap doesn't contain antibiotics, but it does kill of many bacteria.
What this does is provide a food-rich enviroment for the stronger bacteria to exploit. It also lowers peoples (ie; infants) regular exposure to enviromental pathogens, messing with the natural immune response.
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I'm just wondering how many people are reading that and thinking 'Huh, the CEO of Pixar used to sell fruit with the CEO of Wings of Zeus"
We all know that ID didn't want it out because they don't want people to judge the final product on it. I also belive that most people who would download and install it are big fans, and be quite aware that it wasn't representitive of the final product. But when TweakTown publishes frame rates, without even an attempt at a dislaimer, they're not doing anyone any favours.
I use objective-C, Python, Java, Perl, and any tools I've come across to make my job easier. But you know what? All the interesting bits are in C. I wonder why?
That was an amazing piece, and I'm very much looking forward to what this post turns up.
A little piece of advice for the ladies.... If a guy says he's on the pill, use a hat anyway.
Of course, if it's your employers truck, you might not easily be able to explain the second time your antenna goes missing.
Citizenship by ethnicity seems to be a pretty archaic idea, maybe these countries should reconsider.
Unfortunatly, I havn't found the time to test it on my Cray, so I might be talking out of my ass.
It still needs to be shown that a collection of illiterate folks can get enough out of the device to make it cost-effective though. The article also mentions the difficulty in finding power for the device, but fails to mention availability of internet access. This seems to be an important detatil.
CloudMark or other systems that use peer based filtering seem like the way to go. If 10 people have said this is spam, why should I have to see it?
I'd guess that most people, including Aussies, could do without the middle bit.
My idea is this; Everyone pays your ISP for bandwidth downloaded. The ISP pays you the same rate for bandwidth uploaded. The rate is one at which the ISPs can make a profit. Every bit of data being downloaded is being uploaded at the same time.
This provides an incentive to produce content, and to share it for free. No more banner adds.
I realize this is more complicated than I make it sound. But all the telcos got together on how to pay for long-distance services, so they should be able to do this.
I here-by donate my Fantastic Idea to the public domain.
I haven't tried them so I'm probably missing things.The tools are;
1) a _very_ fast portscanner. It lets you find computers and services on a given network.
2) a virtual router. Lets multiple hosts share the same IP address.
3) a pipe to ethernet thingy, lets you type directly out onto the network. You'ld be quite the 31337 hacker if you used this one regulary.
4) a silent traceroute that'll let you probe behind a NAT firewall. wow. That's kinda nasty.
5) and the coolest one of the bunch, a program that renders the randomness of a remote-machines packets into 3D space. Cool.
Fuck adds. They don't work, and the sooner we all realize that the sooner we cab get on building a better model.
Bogomips are not a mesure of performance by any stretch of the imagination. bogus+mips = bogomips.
Of course I'm stating the obvious.
Yes I would call that stealing. I think sharing copyrighted works is stealing. My point was that the technology is unstoppable, so deal with it.
I'm not saying it's right, but it's a fact.
RE is the process of looking at how software or hardware works, and trying to replicate it, without looking at the source code. ie, trying to build a car by looking at a car, rather than blueprints.
quick hint; isnstall the kernel sources that came with your dist. Use the .config file found in this to compile first. These are the settings that your kernel was compiled with. The you can use make xconfig alter a known working config. Good luck.
Uhhhh. Well, yeah. That's why it was a secret. Of course it was a spy-toy. It was the cold war. Youre tax dollars are now being spent on other spy toys.
Maybe they can sell a bunch to India and Pakistan,
I agree with your sentiment, but I think the OP was asking if there was a technical or other reason for not alowing some of the code to be modified, seeing as the rest was open. At least that's how I read it. Anyone know?
France also had a naive millitary command, and very little resistance.
That said, who can blame them? WWII was still a very nasty memory, and none could face the prospect of war again. It was very easy to belive that Hitler only wanted a little bit of Europe, and then he'd be happy. England managed to muster a fight through blind jingoism, and the U.S. had time to wake up to the fact that they were going to have to fight. I don't envy anyone of the time who had to make the big desisions.
Oh yeah... the other reason for the 'France surrenders' joke is the american feeling that they saved Europes asses. Probably true, but they were next, and the war couldn't have been won without Churchill, Turing, DeGaull and thousands upon thousands of young men who gave their lives in the mud.
What this does is provide a food-rich enviroment for the stronger bacteria to exploit. It also lowers peoples (ie; infants) regular exposure to enviromental pathogens, messing with the natural immune response.