Trillian rocks for me... I actually *bought* it, (funny concept, buying software, eh, linux users?) and it's worked beautifully for me. I have friends who use different protocols, as well as linux friends, so this royally sucks...
+1 for irony here. Lawsuits-in-Motion gets bitten by the litigation bug themselves, with potentially business-crippling consequences. I fear for the contracts that RIM has with the US Federal Government...doesn't it have business relations with the Department of Defence?
This is great from Microsoft's angle, for a few reasons:
A: MS gets goodwill from one of the new-growing areas of programming and computing. B: MS gets, for free, all enhancements anyone makes to its CE OS. C: Modified WinCE a go-go. This quite possibly will foster greater acceptance for the OS itself. D: I'm not sure, but I believe that MS isn't going to have to provide any tech support for modified software. E: MS gets to dip its toes in the water of shared-source. It's easy to see this as a tentative step in the right direction for better MS operating systems in the future.
Bullshit. Take one joe blow (not AOL-stupid, reasonably ignorant) user, give him WinXP, 2K, or ME, a blank machine, and tell him to go at it. I've done this myself as an experiment after my dad fucked up his Dell box. In about 2 or 3 hours, you will have a pretty functional system, and guess what: As bad as some of the device drivers are for Windows, the GUI is *CONSISTENT*, the user support is *HELPFUL*, and things tend to work the way they're advertised. I have friends who use linux. I have seen them spend HOURS trying to get their printer, or tv capture card, or dual monitor setup, or hell, even the newest version of gnome to work. My friend has even had to hunt through source code to find specific problems when his binary refuses to compile.
And here's me, using Windows gleefully, maybe I don't have access to the source code, can't really change the GUI (not that I'd want to, it's a few years ahead of Linux in terms of predictability and consistency), and it's code-bloaty. I haven't had a blue screen or other badness in months, and haven't had a viral infection in YEARS. And I use IE6/Outlook Express. I leave my computer on 24/7. It took me 5 hours to get Windows installed, configured, software installed, tweaked for security/stability, etc. And I have some pretty exotic hardware in my system. Can Linux do that?
I'm pretty sure you can get J2ME to run on almost anything...and it uses Unicode, so would it qualify as a "complex" language, appropriate for requested uses?
Correction - Parents *did* sue Wizards of the Coast and Nintendo over child-gambling charges (the State department looked at it, told the parents they were on their own). Let's make the distinction here: Public gambling is *always* well-regulated; I doubt anyone will be able to touch this venture where terms of legality are concerned.
I guess this is what Greece really was scared of when they banned vidgames;)
Heh, I can so see some great geek fun in this...but you guys of course know that the violent videogame media diatribe is going to become the violent video links to abusive gambling diatribe, right?
Oh God, imagine if we were to gamble on, say, Starcraft...he who gets Zerg as the chosen race will receive overwhelming odds from the bookie's.
One of the primary reasons for the criticism of 3DMark2003 is the fact that it *DOESN'T* use DX9 extensively. Pixel shader 1.1 and 1.4 are primarily used, which is absolutely laughable, and only in ONE benchmark are there SOME PS2.0 and VS2.0 paths used. The first test is DX7 for chrissakes...
Even if the days of simple benchmarking are gone, you can still form a reasonably balanced, overall idea of system performance and scaling from a well-coded test. Quake3 did it, and still does it, not only for graphics cards, but for memory, CPUs, and mainboards as well. 3DMark2001 did it as well.
Geforce3Ti200 GFX
AthlonXP1700 CPU
256MB SDRAM
ECS K7S5A Mainboard
I don't like it. I'm gonna rely on actual game benchmarks when I compare my system's performance. Some good games to use:
Quake3 (still scales nicely)
UT2003 (the game sucks, but it's a decent CPU benchmark)
C&C: Generals (don't know how it scales, but it cripples most computers)
Doom3 (Will hopefully scale as well as Q3 when it comes out in 2 months)
Synthetic benchies just aren't that reliable anymore...
It's called Wayback ^_^. But agreed, we need a more comprehensive method of archiving for posterity...but how do we go about doing that? Hard Drives don't last forever, nonvolatile memory is frikkin expensive, and optical media dies after 10-15 years...
I bet those laser-style keyboard projector thingies could easily be programmed to show a different key layout. I could see a use in gaming for that, WSAD is useful, but there could be better layouts.
I see this issue coming up more and more in the years to come, as the mass health effects of computer-related careers become more commonplace.
Sigh, eventually I'm going to have to unlearn QWERTY typing, and I only just started getting good at it, after years of practice!...Sigh...
Here's my message to those who would decry this as another RIAA/MPAA evil act:
Just remember, kiddies, that most large workplaces don't even CARE WTF you're doing on their computers, as long as it isn't work related. Using company equipment for non-work-related activities is grounds for dismissal in many firms, so the RIAA really shouldn't have any resistance here. They're lobbying for a different idea, but will have the same result.
And with our late-breakings story is reporter, Mr. Blatantly Obvious:
"It's just horrible out here! Who would have guessed that the greatest remote access security measures available today could do nothing to protect the integrity of MasterCard's server from a man with a CD-writer!"
The "Centrino" which was previously known by the codename "Banias" is the first ever CPU Intel has designed specifically for mobile computing.
It's the combination of the a mutant P3 with the quad-pumped P4 bus, SSE2, lots of power-saving tricks, and an assload of L2 cache (1MB!).
From the limited previews I have seen of it, these things are quite nice, especially with Intel combining the new CPU with mainboard built-in wireless networking adapter. They perform well, and do consume significantly less power than any other mobile chip (excluding the Transmeta CPU, as I have come to the conclusion that they never really existed outside of Japan. Have you seen one in North America?).
"Centrino" is now officially branded Pentium-M...a rather obvious naming strategy IMHO, but a good one. Look out next year, once Intel has its 90nm fabrication process up and running, we should see "Dothan" code-named CPUs...with 2MB L2 cache...mmm
Btw, this news story is old, Slashdot admins, pick up the slack!
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Trillian rocks for me... I actually *bought* it, (funny concept, buying software, eh, linux users?) and it's worked beautifully for me. I have friends who use different protocols, as well as linux friends, so this royally sucks...
...except Ogg Theora's quality blows chunks compared to Divx. Just use a well-documented (and legal!) registry tweak to disable the adware software.
+1 for irony here. Lawsuits-in-Motion gets bitten by the litigation bug themselves, with potentially business-crippling consequences. I fear for the contracts that RIM has with the US Federal Government...doesn't it have business relations with the Department of Defence?
...are belong to us!
*sigh* lol, when Promise ATA raid cards go for like 50 bucks...software raid sucks CPU cycles...
all you need is to have the OS recognize and support the RAID controller. Actual RAID array building and configuring is a manual hardware task...
There is a reason why accountants are highly paid professionals. Find one that is trustworthy (family/friends are helpful here) and then use them.
This is great from Microsoft's angle, for a few reasons:
A: MS gets goodwill from one of the new-growing areas of programming and computing.
B: MS gets, for free, all enhancements anyone makes to its CE OS.
C: Modified WinCE a go-go. This quite possibly will foster greater acceptance for the OS itself.
D: I'm not sure, but I believe that MS isn't going to have to provide any tech support for modified software.
E: MS gets to dip its toes in the water of shared-source. It's easy to see this as a tentative step in the right direction for better MS operating systems in the future.
Good idea, Microsoft...
*gives Bill Gates a cookie*
>>>
Bullshit. Take one joe blow (not AOL-stupid, reasonably ignorant) user, give him WinXP, 2K, or ME, a blank machine, and tell him to go at it. I've done this myself as an experiment after my dad fucked up his Dell box. In about 2 or 3 hours, you will have a pretty functional system, and guess what: As bad as some of the device drivers are for Windows, the GUI is *CONSISTENT*, the user support is *HELPFUL*, and things tend to work the way they're advertised. I have friends who use linux. I have seen them spend HOURS trying to get their printer, or tv capture card, or dual monitor setup, or hell, even the newest version of gnome to work. My friend has even had to hunt through source code to find specific problems when his binary refuses to compile.
And here's me, using Windows gleefully, maybe I don't have access to the source code, can't really change the GUI (not that I'd want to, it's a few years ahead of Linux in terms of predictability and consistency), and it's code-bloaty. I haven't had a blue screen or other badness in months, and haven't had a viral infection in YEARS. And I use IE6/Outlook Express. I leave my computer on 24/7. It took me 5 hours to get Windows installed, configured, software installed, tweaked for security/stability, etc. And I have some pretty exotic hardware in my system. Can Linux do that?
I'm pretty sure you can get J2ME to run on almost anything...and it uses Unicode, so would it qualify as a "complex" language, appropriate for requested uses?
Correction - Parents *did* sue Wizards of the Coast and Nintendo over child-gambling charges (the State department looked at it, told the parents they were on their own). Let's make the distinction here: Public gambling is *always* well-regulated; I doubt anyone will be able to touch this venture where terms of legality are concerned.
I guess this is what Greece really was scared of when they banned vidgames ;)
Heh, I can so see some great geek fun in this...but you guys of course know that the violent videogame media diatribe is going to become the violent video links to abusive gambling diatribe, right?
Oh God, imagine if we were to gamble on, say, Starcraft...he who gets Zerg as the chosen race will receive overwhelming odds from the bookie's.
Haven't we seen this already a few weeks ago?
A BeOS user was spotted in the wild...
...Microsoft's windows update server logged a user updating Windows 95...
Counterstrike continues to make thousands and thousands of owners of outdated PCs think they have decent machines...
LOL, I guess this does speak for Linux's maintenance outlook...
One of the primary reasons for the criticism of 3DMark2003 is the fact that it *DOESN'T* use DX9 extensively. Pixel shader 1.1 and 1.4 are primarily used, which is absolutely laughable, and only in ONE benchmark are there SOME PS2.0 and VS2.0 paths used. The first test is DX7 for chrissakes...
Even if the days of simple benchmarking are gone, you can still form a reasonably balanced, overall idea of system performance and scaling from a well-coded test. Quake3 did it, and still does it, not only for graphics cards, but for memory, CPUs, and mainboards as well. 3DMark2001 did it as well.
And the point of running a gaming benchmark from a BASH shell is??
792 3DMarks.
System:
Geforce3Ti200 GFX
AthlonXP1700 CPU
256MB SDRAM
ECS K7S5A Mainboard
I don't like it. I'm gonna rely on actual game benchmarks when I compare my system's performance. Some good games to use:
Quake3 (still scales nicely)
UT2003 (the game sucks, but it's a decent CPU benchmark)
C&C: Generals (don't know how it scales, but it cripples most computers)
Doom3 (Will hopefully scale as well as Q3 when it comes out in 2 months)
Synthetic benchies just aren't that reliable anymore...
Dave Barry questions you!
;)
Aww, c'mon. Had to burn some Karma sooner or later
It's called Wayback ^_^. But agreed, we need a more comprehensive method of archiving for posterity...but how do we go about doing that? Hard Drives don't last forever, nonvolatile memory is frikkin expensive, and optical media dies after 10-15 years...
I bet those laser-style keyboard projector thingies could easily be programmed to show a different key layout. I could see a use in gaming for that, WSAD is useful, but there could be better layouts.
I see this issue coming up more and more in the years to come, as the mass health effects of computer-related careers become more commonplace.
Sigh, eventually I'm going to have to unlearn QWERTY typing, and I only just started getting good at it, after years of practice!...Sigh...
Here's my message to those who would decry this as another RIAA/MPAA evil act:
Just remember, kiddies, that most large workplaces don't even CARE WTF you're doing on their computers, as long as it isn't work related. Using company equipment for non-work-related activities is grounds for dismissal in many firms, so the RIAA really shouldn't have any resistance here. They're lobbying for a different idea, but will have the same result.
And with our late-breakings story is reporter, Mr. Blatantly Obvious:
"It's just horrible out here! Who would have guessed that the greatest remote access security measures available today could do nothing to protect the integrity of MasterCard's server from a man with a CD-writer!"
We really are all aliens!
The "Centrino" which was previously known by the codename "Banias" is the first ever CPU Intel has designed specifically for mobile computing.
It's the combination of the a mutant P3 with the quad-pumped P4 bus, SSE2, lots of power-saving tricks, and an assload of L2 cache (1MB!).
From the limited previews I have seen of it, these things are quite nice, especially with Intel combining the new CPU with mainboard built-in wireless networking adapter. They perform well, and do consume significantly less power than any other mobile chip (excluding the Transmeta CPU, as I have come to the conclusion that they never really existed outside of Japan. Have you seen one in North America?).
"Centrino" is now officially branded Pentium-M...a rather obvious naming strategy IMHO, but a good one. Look out next year, once Intel has its 90nm fabrication process up and running, we should see "Dothan" code-named CPUs...with 2MB L2 cache...mmm
Btw, this news story is old, Slashdot admins, pick up the slack!