For them, the "web" is the "Internet", and anything that affects "the web" could bring down the whole Internet
Just one thought -- does Freenet use DNS at all? I *think* it doesn't. Because if not, it provides an existing, easy-to-migrate-to solution in case of such a catastrophic event. Just kick over to Freenet, no DNS required.
The DNS system...can withstand a direct nuclear attack on 60% of its facilities
As opposed to, say, those pesky indirect nuclear attacks?:-)
Go ahead and flash in LinuxBios and try it out. Either it works or it doesn't. If it doesn't work, just reload the Vendor's bios
One thing I can't figure out is how, if your flashed LinuxBIOS is broken, how you can even necessarily boot back to FreeDOS to flash your BIOS again back to the vendor's BIOS. I'm not one of those fortunates with a BIOS-in-ROM that I can revert to by just closing a jumper...
No longer will you have to worry about your bios ever going obsolete
I can just see Debian putting this in their tree and apt-get flashing the BIOS.;-)
It's enough to make me want to shut down the Messaging service
So why the don't you? Second thing (first thing is downloading PuTTY) I do when getting on a Windows box is shut off the Server and Messaging services.
Read the thread that you just linked to (and the ones linked to in other responses). He was shot down back in '94 as well.
I admit that I am somewhat curious as to whether the guy just opportunistically used an old troll by someone else, or whether he's actually been carrying this on for over a decade.
Okay, from a user's perspective. Even if they consider your board "supported", *and* there aren't any bugs, I have one big question.
How "supported" is "supported"? Can I change all the parameters that I can now? Does the OS get back the right sizes of drives when it asks about them? Are there issues with setting stuff like the RTC? What is broken? How about temperature sensors and other stuff on the I2C bus?
Because I'm willing to be that "we can boot BSD" is a long way from "this is a complete, end-user ready product that supports all the functionality of the hardware."
[Dark City] is the most under-rated I can think of
Mmm...I dunno.
So the set design, the lighting, the directing...all amazing. I'm very surprised that not many people know about it. But the acting of the main character wasn't that great, IMHO-- he had a few good moments, but that was it. I liked most of the other characters more.
equally as snappy compiled as either gtk1 or gtk2 apps
Hmm. I got some bad experiences with devel versions of gtk2 (which were unbelivably slow). Could be subjectivity leaking in. I stand by my claim that Qt is slow, though -- the only Qt app on my system is licq, and its menus and widgets are...ick.
The thing I really like about ROX is that it integrates with the CLI perfectly.
Yes, this is exactly what I liked, as well. And I used it in the same method you did (though with rxvt instead of Eterm, which I wholeheartedly endorse if you're a connoisseur of efficient apps.
Best of all, I've compiled AVFS...into the kernel
Yeah, I did that as well, but I eventually got tired of repatching every kernel I was using and stopped using it.
I can't stand lisp
Well...yeah, the face of it kind of turns one away. No types -- feh. But the enforced usage of it through emacs got me reasonably comfortable with it, and it really is a nice ability to be able to customize things as much as you can in emacs.
I could never find a decent taskbar app to use
Hmm...you mean something to display apps with, or something to put the pager in, or what?
I use spager+gkrellm. I've never liked the list of tasks appearing on the dock, due to "squishing" of names when you get too many things running. Even with the WinXP approach, which I'd been saying MS should use for ages, an always-present list of tasks still eats some screen space, and I don't find it as pleasant as the combination of a window menu + windows-tab.
configuration is really only text-file based
No biggie. I remember many hours with AfterStep trying to figure out how to do stuff...
The killer feature for me in sawfish is the low-latency edge flipping. Sawfish doesn't block other apps from drawing until it's done. I use zero edge flipping resistance, a PII/266, and have very low tolerance for waiting for things to redraw, so Sawfish beats almost everything for me.:-)
Black Box looked awfully nice, but it's a little too minimalistic, and supports only workspaces, not viewports, which I can't live without.:-(
Also, I actually *use* the novelty custom-frame features...I'll tag windows as sticky and strip them of a frame and put them below all other windows, for instance. This is particularly nice with movies.
Has anyone ever written a Slashdot culture archive? Slashdot has a pretty rich and entertaining culture, and I hate to see things like Natalie Portman, Beowulf, and goats.cx...well, maybe not goats.cx....vanish forgotten into the mists of time. I've tremendously enjoyed cultural archives of USENET, where various trends or customs were explained, with links to example text.
I'd love to read something like this, if anyone ever gets around to setting up a website to archive these.
It's very difficult to identify trends (like, say, what the meaning of hot grits is) long after the fact -- you're looking at hundreds of thousands of old tech posts. But if someone is thoughtful enough to make a note that this is happening...well, five or ten years from now, it could be quite a fun to read little work.
Oh, and the redraw bit...I ran on a slower computer with a G200, so I'm sure it's not a raw hardware or X limitation.
I don't know whether he's tried an alternate window manager with all the KDE apps and panel and seen how that works.
I've found that many WMs massively slow down edge flipping and working by (a) apparently drawing the desktop multiple times on a flip (I'm almost *certain* that Enlightenment 0.16 does this...gotta be a bug...since I can *see* a third desktop flashing into view when moving from desktop A to desktop B), or (b) blocking windows from redrawing until the WM redraws its frame.
Sawfish is actually a relatively slow WM internally -- it's running rep instead of C code. However, because the language is slower, the system was designed around coping with it, and a couple tricks are used. The WM doesn't redraw titlebars before any other app on an edge flip -- it redraws them when it gets a chance. As a result, it has much less latency until the user can get back to working away compared to, say, Enlightenment or AfterStep, and gives a much snappier feel.
The generic FB client? No, that isn't the case here -- it's using the Matrox-specific goodies, or else DRI and XV wouldn't be working, which he does use. And it isn't paging...this guy has something like 900MB of RAM.
That's a pretty neat nick...This is Shell Beach from the very-cool-imagery Dark City?
GTK2 is definitely slower at some things (unfortunately, I don't have gtkxft installed, so I'm comparing the no-aatext gtk to the aa gtk2. However, the gtk2 version of Pan, for instance, is *far* slower than the gtk1 version.
gtkxft would fix your no-aa-in-gtk1 issue.
I started with Red Hat 5.2, decided I didn't like gmc (which was out soon after, if not then), and got pretty happy using a CLI. I've tried, a few times, to go back...set up ROX, set up Nautilus (Nautilus speed improvements are by far the cause of most user-perceptable gnome improvements...Nautilus is no longer an unusably slow beast on my PII/266).
I thought about IceWM, but I think it had some issues that I didn't like...don't remember what now. Sawfish is worth a look if you like gtk (even if you aren't a gnome fan), because it's quite flexible and can be modified while running, like emacs. Oh, and the rep interpreter is a neat environment to work in. Tab completion on variables and stuff.
I've only ever seen that keyboard/mouse lock-up situation twice in nearly five years of using linux
I've had X lock up far more than two times in five years, but I can isolate most of the causes. XFree86 3.3's GLX was much flakier than 4.0's DRI (you could kill it by doing almost anything improper in a GL program). It used to be that drawing a 3000 or so point string with xlib would hard-freeze X (though this was back in the Red Hat 5.2 days that I tested this). Screwing up with DGA can make the computer unusable, and coding on a program that does DGA can be quite annoying. I can *definitely*, even with 4.2, cause problems like illegible VCs and a black screen in X by switching to VCs just when X is opening (or possibly changing resolutions, not sure about that...). You can DoS X (and hence the mouse and keyboard) by having a program that opens windows in a loop. I've seen crashing DGA programs take down XFree86 (not recently). I've had problems when using both the framebuffer console and XFree86 in the past, and ended up simply switching back to good old vga (with a better video mode, of course). I'm used a Matrox G200 and later a G450 -- probably the two (well, with the G400) best supported video cards under Linux.
I think the main reason why linux *seems* slower from an end-user perspective is because of KDE.
Yup. Gotta agree.
It would also be nice if there were a way to somehow avoid doing all the init stuff each time a relevant app opens...like, for instance, when I run a gtk app, I could really live without parsing gtkrc again and again. Make some sort of precompiled cache of it dumped to the disk? Hmm...I'd love to see gtk programs open as quickly as xlib-based apps...and I'd love to see Qt programs open anywhere near as quickly as gtk programs.
I tend to think that many industries blow too much money (*cough* IT *cough* Sun) on overpriced services or hardware, but that doesn't mean that you can always just rip out the expensive studios and throw in a basement studio. I'm not a sound engineer...anyone here care to comment?
only real marketing they did WAS P2P sharing
But the fact that P2P sharing can generate sales doesn't mean that it can replace existing marketing. Using a little oomph and connections and some money to get reviews of your music tossed around or played is hard to compare to.
You present a culture that didn't even believe in property owning, and then state that differing viewpoints copyright are "just dumb"
I'm just pointing out that the claim "that nothing is being taken", doesn't really make a lot of sense as an argument. We feel that it's certainly wrong to steal products from a store, but who owns them, their invisible property nature, is artificial and comes from humans. Many proponents of IP elimination draw a picture of a huge gap between copyright infringement and taking posession of a physical object -- that the first isn't really wrong at all, but the second is. My complaint is that they're both (intellectual property and physical property) simply constructs we've built up because they're convenient and improve our lives. To point at one as inherently invalid is silly. The justification for using either is the same.
it is almost certainly illegal to directly compensate them
Yes, but so is just grabbing a copy of their music -- you do that. You don't have to say "Here's $15 for the album I didn't buy." If you simply send them a check that says "I'm a fan, here's a tip", there's nothing that anyone can say or do to stop that.
As for getting the addresses of musicians...yes, I can see how that would be an issue.
No, it means that you have to return control to the operating system and not cause any segmentation violations while doing so. I can't see where you're coming from on this.
Identifying a troll is, IMHO, always valid, at any time. It wasn't until this point that I'd realized that his past few posts had contained bogus information.
Second of all, his account is new, and he's consistently placed his bogus sig at the end. He's almost certainly in the first phase of the Slashdot Troll HOWTO -- build up some karma, than abuse it.
The sooner you can catch them, the easier it is. It's much more annoying to let this slip until there's a +1 bonus, hundreds of posts, and people honestly think that there *is* a high-ranking Nintendo official posting to Slashdot.
I'd have no complaint with the same comment if he was posting from a normal account, instead of trying to build up the reputability of a "trolling" account.
Even if you want to go entirely by post content, his.sig was in his post.
Oh brother. I remember seeing basically this same post, by this exact same author, a couple years ago before I quit Prodigy and found the 'Net.
You'd think he'd be able to come up with some better material...
Robert eauu142@rigel.oac.uci.edu
Incredibly, this troll has been working on his thread for *over a decade*, and has spanned three different tech discussion forums (Prodigy, USENET, Slashdot).
BTW, I believe Prodigy was only offered in the United States. So, if we assume that both the Slashdot SG, the USENET SG, and the Prodigy SG are all the same guy, he definitely lives (lived?) in the United States. Still no tack on his age, though I'd still place him as an undergraduate college student in the US.
Unfortunately, assuming this is the same guy and not a copycat, he used a free newsserver to post his message back then. So we don't get to find out where he is through the nearly decade-old headers, which is too bad. It would have been quite a find.:-)
The SegaTalk mentioned there is definitely impressive. 0.000001% error rate, with 500,000 English word vocabulary? Hell, not only does that far outstrip our best current prototype built at Carnegie Mellon University, but it also can handle, via speech recognition, 100,000 more words than exist in the Oxford English Dictionary, many of which are homonyms.
Not only that, SG was *already* working in Japan then, despite the fact that Sega is almost entirely a US company.
Oh, and the fact that he was labasted for being a fraud then as well...seems he didn't know about the Japanese.co.jp domain, and made an invalid false email.
Sir, you obviously have no life other than to post FOUR rebuttals on here.:-)
As to whether or not you believe me, I could care less.
And yet you care intensely as to what others think, as evidenced by your response and my almost immediately modded down first two exposes.
I have not given any inside information about Nintendo R&D whatsoever that is not available elswhere.
I see. Other than policy? You also claimed that what you were posting *was* an inside secret. You could be lying then, or you could be lying now...tkae your pick.
As for your other concerns, I work for a more secretive internal R&D organization within the company, apart from R&D1 and R&D2. This organization is a black one, much like the "Skunk Works" of your Lockheed Aircraft in the USA.
*snort* Okay, let's pick this one apart. Yet the *existence* of Skunk Works is hardly kept secret by Lockheed, though its actual work is not trumpeted. It is hard to imagine to benefit to a company in keeping the *existence* of a division secret. Yet even if I were to believe this, that the very existence of your division is a secret withheld by Nintendo from the rest of the world, then you have just contradicted yourself. You have claimed that no information not available elsewhere was released by you -- except, of course, the existence of your top-secret, black, utterly unacknowledged by Nintendo department. If this is so secret, why put it in your public bio *and* your signature? Indeed, the only sort of person who would gain at all from something like this would be a sham trying to gain undeserved respect.
We are looking at technologies now that are at least 1-2 generations beyond GameCube.
Ah. 1-2, eh? Well, *one* generation is exactly what you're calling "regular" R&D's goals. Your work cannot be all *that* hidden.
As for Japan, even they
You use "they", though you claim to work in Kyoto?
Nintendo, and Sony, and many other corporations
Circumstantial evidence, but Nintendo and Sony are the first two companies that most American gamers think of when they try to come up with the names of Japanese corporations.
Last I checked, Xbox is not a Nintendo product, hence, we would not have too much concern over it.
We "would" not? You mean, "if" you worked at Nintendo your group "would" not have too much concern? I believe the word you should have used is "do": "...we do not have too much concern...".
I won't even entertain your attacks on my academic credentials
Heh. Okay.
but if you read my bio and do some arithmetic, you will find that I started graduate studies at MIT five years before I got my first degree.
Oh, really? I had read your bio as claiming that you started *undergraduate studies* at the age of 16. Impressive, but not unheard of. So if we read your bio, you would have had to have completed all primary, secondary (or the Indian equivalents thereof -- I know little of the Indian sub-college education system, and undergraduate schooling by the age of 16. That is, while not entirely impossible, is very unlikely. You then completed three doctorates concurrently over the next nine years -- again, while not impossible, extremely unusual. I know only one PhD personally that peruses Slashdot, and he is younger than you claim to be -- most 42-year-old triple PhDs are unlikely to be blowing their afternoons posting to Slashdot.
I shall entertain no further correspondence with the boorish likes of you.
Convenient, that. It certainly saves you from having to, say, like to your three doctoral theses, or any of the papers that you wrote while working in academia. The funny thing is that at least in computer science, the overwhelming majority of published papers are also available on the Web. Google does an excellent job of indexing both PDF and PS format papers. Yet, strangely enough, I find no useful references to anyone by your name.
Oh, there's a Samir Gupta who was a management professor (not what you have any of your claimed PhDs in) who was co-author on a single rather basic distributed systems paper. Unfortunately, he was still in academia almost a decade after you claim to have left.
There's another Samir Gupta who worked for Renaissance Software, but graduated in '93...far later than you claim to have graduated.
You are, of course, free to point Slashdotters to any of your theses.
Or, of course, you could give up on this troll account, and start a new one. Perhaps your next one will be a bit more plausible, and you will make fewer mistakes.
If I had to guess, I'd place you as an undergraduate in college, probably in the United States.
Troll Hunting is the new, exciting Slashdot sport. See how many you can flush from the brush!
And this has always happened. The most open solution in the computer world comes along and beats the snot out of the competitors. DEC falls to Sun. Sun is falling to Microsoft in increasingly higher-end systems (to be fair, they don't aim for exactly the same markets), and Microsoft is falling to the Linux vendors and the BSD world.
Sun may figure this out ahead of time -- they need to cut their profit margins, provide less expensive hardware, and avoid even the hint of trying to induce lock-in to their own services. However, I don't know if they can do it. Once you've been charging obscene amounts of money for a product for a long time, it's hard to stop and cut costs. People have to go, departments have to be streamlined...and there are hungry competitors that don't have all your baggage waiting...
I posted a reply pointing out that this guy is a fake, and was promptly modded down, presumably by another troll crony. Well, here's the information again.
To the parent troll: your friends can keep modding me down, and I can keep reposting the truth over, and over, and over. I've got more karma than you have mod points, and once people take a look at this for themselves, you're going to start getting modded down. If I'm wrong, post a followup and tell Slashdot why I'm wrong, because trying to prevent my posts from being read isn't going to work.
Here's the content that was suppressed:
Aren't you the guy that claimed that you were head of Nintendo R&D, and then had someone else (a few articles back, IIRC) point out that they knew the person in charge of Nintendo R&D and that you weren'thim?
Furthermore, you've been giving what you claim is inside information about Nintendo on Slashdot, which I can hardly see the head of a corporate R&D division doing. I've worked in corporate R&D, and they're quite secretive, -- and more so the higher they get.
Finally, the heads of Nintendo's two R&D departments are, according to Planet Nintendo, Takehiro Izushi(R&D section 1) and Kazuhiko Taniguchi (R&D section 2). There is no "Nintendo Advanced R&D" division that I could find any reference to, nor is the informal term "head" a title that is likely to be used in the formal Japanese corporate culture. Finally, I find it rather unlikely that a non-Japanese person such as yourself would hold such a high-ranking position at a large Japanese firm.
Finally, I find it beyond belief that the head of "Nintendo Advanced R&D" would beg on Slashdot for details of how modchips work, when there are engineers aplenty that have worked hard on exactly this problem present in hordes working in Nintendo's R&D departments.
Sir, I accuse you of being both a troll and a fraud! To the Foe list with you!
And, sir, I must say that I find your claim in your User Bio that you earned three PhDs in three years highly unconvincing.
And, sir, I must say that I find your claim in your User Bio that you earned three PhDs in three years highly unconvincing.
While your style differs, your tactics -- assuming the role of a PhD and letting blind trust lead Slashdotters on -- is akin to that of the dastardedly Professor Collins, a man who truly knows no shame. A man who has claimed flaws in numerous Open Source technologies when there were none there. A man who has gone so far as to inconvenience Monty himself, creator of those two paragons of Open Source, cdparanoia and Ogg Vorbis. It is men like you two -- dangerous men -- that threaten to crush Slashdot under the weight of false information.
Aren't you the guy that claimed that you were head of Nintendo R&D, and then had someone else (a few articles back, IIRC) point out that they knew the person in charge of Nintendo R&D and that you weren't him?
Furthermore, you've been giving what you claim is inside information about Nintendo on Slashdot, which I can hardly see the head of a corporate R&D division doing. I've worked in corporate R&D, and they're quite secretive, -- and more so the higher they get.
Finally, the heads of Nintendo's two R&D departments are, according to Planet Nintendo, Takehiro Izushi (R&D section 1) and Kazuhiko Taniguchi (R&D section 2). There is no "Nintendo Advanced R&D" division that I could find any reference to, nor is the informal term "head" a title that is likely to be used in the formal Japanese corporate culture. Finally, I find it rather unlikely that a non-Japanese person such as yourself would hold such a high-ranking position at a large Japanese firm.
Finally, I find it beyond belief that the head of "Nintendo Advanced R&D" would beg on Slashdot for details of how modchips work, when there are engineers aplenty that have worked hard on exactly this problem present in hordes working in Nintendo's R&D departments.
Sir, I accuse you of being both a troll and a fraud! To the Foe list with you!
I mean, I haven't looked at the protocols that digital radio systems use (XFM or whatever they call it), but I suppose it's not impossible that the thing has two-way capabilities...
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Now the skript kiddies are in with the government on the Conspiracy!
For them, the "web" is the "Internet", and anything that affects "the web" could bring down the whole Internet
:-)
Just one thought -- does Freenet use DNS at all? I *think* it doesn't. Because if not, it provides an existing, easy-to-migrate-to solution in case of such a catastrophic event. Just kick over to Freenet, no DNS required.
The DNS system...can withstand a direct nuclear attack on 60% of its facilities
As opposed to, say, those pesky indirect nuclear attacks?
Go ahead and flash in LinuxBios and try it out. Either it works or it doesn't. If it doesn't work, just reload the Vendor's bios
;-)
One thing I can't figure out is how, if your flashed LinuxBIOS is broken, how you can even necessarily boot back to FreeDOS to flash your BIOS again back to the vendor's BIOS. I'm not one of those fortunates with a BIOS-in-ROM that I can revert to by just closing a jumper...
No longer will you have to worry about your bios ever going obsolete
I can just see Debian putting this in their tree and apt-get flashing the BIOS.
It's enough to make me want to shut down the Messaging service
So why the don't you? Second thing (first thing is downloading PuTTY) I do when getting on a Windows box is shut off the Server and Messaging services.
Read the thread that you just linked to (and the ones linked to in other responses). He was shot down back in '94 as well.
I admit that I am somewhat curious as to whether the guy just opportunistically used an old troll by someone else, or whether he's actually been carrying this on for over a decade.
Okay, from a user's perspective. Even if they consider your board "supported", *and* there aren't any bugs, I have one big question.
How "supported" is "supported"? Can I change all the parameters that I can now? Does the OS get back the right sizes of drives when it asks about them? Are there issues with setting stuff like the RTC? What is broken? How about temperature sensors and other stuff on the I2C bus?
Because I'm willing to be that "we can boot BSD" is a long way from "this is a complete, end-user ready product that supports all the functionality of the hardware."
[Dark City] is the most under-rated I can think of
:-)
:-(
Mmm...I dunno.
So the set design, the lighting, the directing...all amazing. I'm very surprised that not many people know about it. But the acting of the main character wasn't that great, IMHO-- he had a few good moments, but that was it. I liked most of the other characters more.
equally as snappy compiled as either gtk1 or gtk2 apps
Hmm. I got some bad experiences with devel versions of gtk2 (which were unbelivably slow). Could be subjectivity leaking in. I stand by my claim that Qt is slow, though -- the only Qt app on my system is licq, and its menus and widgets are...ick.
The thing I really like about ROX is that it integrates with the CLI perfectly.
Yes, this is exactly what I liked, as well. And I used it in the same method you did (though with rxvt instead of Eterm, which I wholeheartedly endorse if you're a connoisseur of efficient apps.
Best of all, I've compiled AVFS...into the kernel
Yeah, I did that as well, but I eventually got tired of repatching every kernel I was using and stopped using it.
I can't stand lisp
Well...yeah, the face of it kind of turns one away. No types -- feh. But the enforced usage of it through emacs got me reasonably comfortable with it, and it really is a nice ability to be able to customize things as much as you can in emacs.
I could never find a decent taskbar app to use
Hmm...you mean something to display apps with, or something to put the pager in, or what?
I use spager+gkrellm. I've never liked the list of tasks appearing on the dock, due to "squishing" of names when you get too many things running. Even with the WinXP approach, which I'd been saying MS should use for ages, an always-present list of tasks still eats some screen space, and I don't find it as pleasant as the combination of a window menu + windows-tab.
configuration is really only text-file based
No biggie. I remember many hours with AfterStep trying to figure out how to do stuff...
The killer feature for me in sawfish is the low-latency edge flipping. Sawfish doesn't block other apps from drawing until it's done. I use zero edge flipping resistance, a PII/266, and have very low tolerance for waiting for things to redraw, so Sawfish beats almost everything for me.
Black Box looked awfully nice, but it's a little too minimalistic, and supports only workspaces, not viewports, which I can't live without.
Also, I actually *use* the novelty custom-frame features...I'll tag windows as sticky and strip them of a frame and put them below all other windows, for instance. This is particularly nice with movies.
Has anyone ever written a Slashdot culture archive? Slashdot has a pretty rich and entertaining culture, and I hate to see things like Natalie Portman, Beowulf, and goats.cx...well, maybe not goats.cx....vanish forgotten into the mists of time. I've tremendously enjoyed cultural archives of USENET, where various trends or customs were explained, with links to example text.
I'd love to read something like this, if anyone ever gets around to setting up a website to archive these.
It's very difficult to identify trends (like, say, what the meaning of hot grits is) long after the fact -- you're looking at hundreds of thousands of old tech posts. But if someone is thoughtful enough to make a note that this is happening...well, five or ten years from now, it could be quite a fun to read little work.
That is an X problem not a KDE3 problem.
Oh, and the redraw bit...I ran on a slower computer with a G200, so I'm sure it's not a raw hardware or X limitation.
I don't know whether he's tried an alternate window manager with all the KDE apps and panel and seen how that works.
I've found that many WMs massively slow down edge flipping and working by (a) apparently drawing the desktop multiple times on a flip (I'm almost *certain* that Enlightenment 0.16 does this...gotta be a bug...since I can *see* a third desktop flashing into view when moving from desktop A to desktop B), or (b) blocking windows from redrawing until the WM redraws its frame.
Sawfish is actually a relatively slow WM internally -- it's running rep instead of C code. However, because the language is slower, the system was designed around coping with it, and a couple tricks are used. The WM doesn't redraw titlebars before any other app on an edge flip -- it redraws them when it gets a chance. As a result, it has much less latency until the user can get back to working away compared to, say, Enlightenment or AfterStep, and gives a much snappier feel.
The generic FB client? No, that isn't the case here -- it's using the Matrox-specific goodies, or else DRI and XV wouldn't be working, which he does use. And it isn't paging...this guy has something like 900MB of RAM.
That's a pretty neat nick...This is Shell Beach from the very-cool-imagery Dark City?
GTK2 is definitely slower at some things (unfortunately, I don't have gtkxft installed, so I'm comparing the no-aatext gtk to the aa gtk2. However, the gtk2 version of Pan, for instance, is *far* slower than the gtk1 version.
gtkxft would fix your no-aa-in-gtk1 issue.
I started with Red Hat 5.2, decided I didn't like gmc (which was out soon after, if not then), and got pretty happy using a CLI. I've tried, a few times, to go back...set up ROX, set up Nautilus (Nautilus speed improvements are by far the cause of most user-perceptable gnome improvements...Nautilus is no longer an unusably slow beast on my PII/266).
I thought about IceWM, but I think it had some issues that I didn't like...don't remember what now. Sawfish is worth a look if you like gtk (even if you aren't a gnome fan), because it's quite flexible and can be modified while running, like emacs. Oh, and the rep interpreter is a neat environment to work in. Tab completion on variables and stuff.
I've only ever seen that keyboard/mouse lock-up situation twice in nearly five years of using linux
I've had X lock up far more than two times in five years, but I can isolate most of the causes. XFree86 3.3's GLX was much flakier than 4.0's DRI (you could kill it by doing almost anything improper in a GL program). It used to be that drawing a 3000 or so point string with xlib would hard-freeze X (though this was back in the Red Hat 5.2 days that I tested this). Screwing up with DGA can make the computer unusable, and coding on a program that does DGA can be quite annoying. I can *definitely*, even with 4.2, cause problems like illegible VCs and a black screen in X by switching to VCs just when X is opening (or possibly changing resolutions, not sure about that...). You can DoS X (and hence the mouse and keyboard) by having a program that opens windows in a loop. I've seen crashing DGA programs take down XFree86 (not recently). I've had problems when using both the framebuffer console and XFree86 in the past, and ended up simply switching back to good old vga (with a better video mode, of course). I'm used a Matrox G200 and later a G450 -- probably the two (well, with the G400) best supported video cards under Linux.
I think the main reason why linux *seems* slower from an end-user perspective is because of KDE.
Yup. Gotta agree.
It would also be nice if there were a way to somehow avoid doing all the init stuff each time a relevant app opens...like, for instance, when I run a gtk app, I could really live without parsing gtkrc again and again. Make some sort of precompiled cache of it dumped to the disk? Hmm...I'd love to see gtk programs open as quickly as xlib-based apps...and I'd love to see Qt programs open anywhere near as quickly as gtk programs.
And you know what? [Basement studios] sounds fine
I tend to think that many industries blow too much money (*cough* IT *cough* Sun) on overpriced services or hardware, but that doesn't mean that you can always just rip out the expensive studios and throw in a basement studio. I'm not a sound engineer...anyone here care to comment?
only real marketing they did WAS P2P sharing
But the fact that P2P sharing can generate sales doesn't mean that it can replace existing marketing. Using a little oomph and connections and some money to get reviews of your music tossed around or played is hard to compare to.
You present a culture that didn't even believe in property owning, and then state that differing viewpoints copyright are "just dumb"
I'm just pointing out that the claim "that nothing is being taken", doesn't really make a lot of sense as an argument. We feel that it's certainly wrong to steal products from a store, but who owns them, their invisible property nature, is artificial and comes from humans. Many proponents of IP elimination draw a picture of a huge gap between copyright infringement and taking posession of a physical object -- that the first isn't really wrong at all, but the second is. My complaint is that they're both (intellectual property and physical property) simply constructs we've built up because they're convenient and improve our lives. To point at one as inherently invalid is silly. The justification for using either is the same.
it is almost certainly illegal to directly compensate them
Yes, but so is just grabbing a copy of their music -- you do that. You don't have to say "Here's $15 for the album I didn't buy." If you simply send them a check that says "I'm a fan, here's a tip", there's nothing that anyone can say or do to stop that.
As for getting the addresses of musicians...yes, I can see how that would be an issue.
No, it means that you have to return control to the operating system and not cause any segmentation violations while doing so. I can't see where you're coming from on this.
Because it keeps people who would otherwise be writing tiny exploit code to take advantage of buffer overflows otherwise occupied.
Identifying a troll is, IMHO, always valid, at any time. It wasn't until this point that I'd realized that his past few posts had contained bogus information.
.sig was in his post.
Second of all, his account is new, and he's consistently placed his bogus sig at the end. He's almost certainly in the first phase of the Slashdot Troll HOWTO -- build up some karma, than abuse it.
The sooner you can catch them, the easier it is. It's much more annoying to let this slip until there's a +1 bonus, hundreds of posts, and people honestly think that there *is* a high-ranking Nintendo official posting to Slashdot.
I'd have no complaint with the same comment if he was posting from a normal account, instead of trying to build up the reputability of a "trolling" account.
Even if you want to go entirely by post content, his
Even more incredibly, from the thread you linked to:
Newsgroups: rec.games.video.nintendo, rec.games.video.advocacy, rec.games.video.3do, rec.games.video.atari
Date: 1994-02-20 19:50:41 PST
Oh brother. I remember seeing basically this same post, by this exact same author, a couple years ago before I quit Prodigy and found the 'Net.
You'd think he'd be able to come up with some better material...
Robert
eauu142@rigel.oac.uci.edu
Incredibly, this troll has been working on his thread for *over a decade*, and has spanned three different tech discussion forums (Prodigy, USENET, Slashdot).
BTW, I believe Prodigy was only offered in the United States. So, if we assume that both the Slashdot SG, the USENET SG, and the Prodigy SG are all the same guy, he definitely lives (lived?) in the United States. Still no tack on his age, though I'd still place him as an undergraduate college student in the US.
Unfortunately, assuming this is the same guy and not a copycat, he used a free newsserver to post his message back then. So we don't get to find out where he is through the nearly decade-old headers, which is too bad. It would have been quite a find. :-)
The SegaTalk mentioned there is definitely impressive. 0.000001% error rate, with 500,000 English word vocabulary? Hell, not only does that far outstrip our best current prototype built at Carnegie Mellon University, but it also can handle, via speech recognition, 100,000 more words than exist in the Oxford English Dictionary, many of which are homonyms.
.co.jp domain, and made an invalid false email.
Not only that, SG was *already* working in Japan then, despite the fact that Sega is almost entirely a US company.
Oh, and the fact that he was labasted for being a fraud then as well...seems he didn't know about the Japanese
Sir, you obviously have no life other than to post FOUR rebuttals on here. :-)
As to whether or not you believe me, I could care less.
And yet you care intensely as to what others think, as evidenced by your response and my almost immediately modded down first two exposes.
I have not given any inside information about Nintendo R&D whatsoever that is not available elswhere.
I see. Other than policy? You also claimed that what you were posting *was* an inside secret. You could be lying then, or you could be lying now...tkae your pick.
As for your other concerns, I work for a more secretive internal R&D organization within the company, apart from R&D1 and R&D2. This organization is a black one, much like the "Skunk Works" of your Lockheed Aircraft in the USA.
*snort* Okay, let's pick this one apart. Yet the *existence* of Skunk Works is hardly kept secret by Lockheed, though its actual work is not trumpeted. It is hard to imagine to benefit to a company in keeping the *existence* of a division secret. Yet even if I were to believe this, that the very existence of your division is a secret withheld by Nintendo from the rest of the world, then you have just contradicted yourself. You have claimed that no information not available elsewhere was released by you -- except, of course, the existence of your top-secret, black, utterly unacknowledged by Nintendo department. If this is so secret, why put it in your public bio *and* your signature? Indeed, the only sort of person who would gain at all from something like this would be a sham trying to gain undeserved respect.
We are looking at technologies now that are at least 1-2 generations beyond GameCube.
Ah. 1-2, eh? Well, *one* generation is exactly what you're calling "regular" R&D's goals. Your work cannot be all *that* hidden.
As for Japan, even they
You use "they", though you claim to work in Kyoto?
Nintendo, and Sony, and many other corporations
Circumstantial evidence, but Nintendo and Sony are the first two companies that most American gamers think of when they try to come up with the names of Japanese corporations.
Last I checked, Xbox is not a Nintendo product, hence, we would not have too much concern over it.
We "would" not? You mean, "if" you worked at Nintendo your group "would" not have too much concern? I believe the word you should have used is "do": "...we do not have too much concern...".
I won't even entertain your attacks on my academic credentials
Heh. Okay.
but if you read my bio and do some arithmetic, you will find that I started graduate studies at MIT five years before I got my first degree.
Oh, really? I had read your bio as claiming that you started *undergraduate studies* at the age of 16. Impressive, but not unheard of. So if we read your bio, you would have had to have completed all primary, secondary (or the Indian equivalents thereof -- I know little of the Indian sub-college education system, and undergraduate schooling by the age of 16. That is, while not entirely impossible, is very unlikely. You then completed three doctorates concurrently over the next nine years -- again, while not impossible, extremely unusual. I know only one PhD personally that peruses Slashdot, and he is younger than you claim to be -- most 42-year-old triple PhDs are unlikely to be blowing their afternoons posting to Slashdot.
I shall entertain no further correspondence with the boorish likes of you.
Convenient, that. It certainly saves you from having to, say, like to your three doctoral theses, or any of the papers that you wrote while working in academia. The funny thing is that at least in computer science, the overwhelming majority of published papers are also available on the Web. Google does an excellent job of indexing both PDF and PS format papers. Yet, strangely enough, I find no useful references to anyone by your name.
Oh, there's a Samir Gupta who was a management professor (not what you have any of your claimed PhDs in) who was co-author on a single rather basic distributed systems paper. Unfortunately, he was still in academia almost a decade after you claim to have left.
There's another Samir Gupta who worked for Renaissance Software, but graduated in '93...far later than you claim to have graduated.
You are, of course, free to point Slashdotters to any of your theses.
Or, of course, you could give up on this troll account, and start a new one. Perhaps your next one will be a bit more plausible, and you will make fewer mistakes.
If I had to guess, I'd place you as an undergraduate in college, probably in the United States.
Troll Hunting is the new, exciting Slashdot sport. See how many you can flush from the brush!
And this has always happened. The most open solution in the computer world comes along and beats the snot out of the competitors. DEC falls to Sun. Sun is falling to Microsoft in increasingly higher-end systems (to be fair, they don't aim for exactly the same markets), and Microsoft is falling to the Linux vendors and the BSD world.
Sun may figure this out ahead of time -- they need to cut their profit margins, provide less expensive hardware, and avoid even the hint of trying to induce lock-in to their own services. However, I don't know if they can do it. Once you've been charging obscene amounts of money for a product for a long time, it's hard to stop and cut costs. People have to go, departments have to be streamlined...and there are hungry competitors that don't have all your baggage waiting...
To the parent troll: your friends can keep modding me down, and I can keep reposting the truth over, and over, and over. I've got more karma than you have mod points, and once people take a look at this for themselves, you're going to start getting modded down. If I'm wrong, post a followup and tell Slashdot why I'm wrong, because trying to prevent my posts from being read isn't going to work.
Here's the content that was suppressed:
Aren't you the guy that claimed that you were head of Nintendo R&D, and then had someone else (a few articles back, IIRC) point out that they knew the person in charge of Nintendo R&D and that you weren'thim?
Furthermore, you've been giving what you claim is inside information about Nintendo on Slashdot, which I can hardly see the head of a corporate R&D division doing. I've worked in corporate R&D, and they're quite secretive, -- and more so the higher they get.
Finally, the heads of Nintendo's two R&D departments are, according to Planet Nintendo, Takehiro Izushi(R&D section 1) and Kazuhiko Taniguchi (R&D section 2). There is no "Nintendo Advanced R&D" division that I could find any reference to, nor is the informal term "head" a title that is likely to be used in the formal Japanese corporate culture. Finally, I find it rather unlikely that a non-Japanese person such as yourself would hold such a high-ranking position at a large Japanese firm.
Finally, I find it beyond belief that the head of "Nintendo Advanced R&D" would beg on Slashdot for details of how modchips work, when there are engineers aplenty that have worked hard on exactly this problem present in hordes working in Nintendo's R&D departments.
Sir, I accuse you of being both a troll and a fraud! To the Foe list with you!
And, sir, I must say that I find your claim in your User Bio that you earned three PhDs in three years highly unconvincing.
So I point out that someone's probably a troll, supply evidence, and get modded down as offtopic by a buddy of said troll? Lovely.
Slashdot's going to *need* a trust system that interacts with their moderation system, and soon.
And, sir, I must say that I find your claim in your User Bio that you earned three PhDs in three years highly unconvincing.
While your style differs, your tactics -- assuming the role of a PhD and letting blind trust lead Slashdotters on -- is akin to that of the dastardedly Professor Collins, a man who truly knows no shame. A man who has claimed flaws in numerous Open Source technologies when there were none there. A man who has gone so far as to inconvenience Monty himself, creator of those two paragons of Open Source, cdparanoia and Ogg Vorbis. It is men like you two -- dangerous men -- that threaten to crush Slashdot under the weight of false information.
Aren't you the guy that claimed that you were head of Nintendo R&D, and then had someone else (a few articles back, IIRC) point out that they knew the person in charge of Nintendo R&D and that you weren't him?
Furthermore, you've been giving what you claim is inside information about Nintendo on Slashdot, which I can hardly see the head of a corporate R&D division doing. I've worked in corporate R&D, and they're quite secretive, -- and more so the higher they get.
Finally, the heads of Nintendo's two R&D departments are, according to Planet Nintendo, Takehiro Izushi (R&D section 1) and Kazuhiko Taniguchi (R&D section 2). There is no "Nintendo Advanced R&D" division that I could find any reference to, nor is the informal term "head" a title that is likely to be used in the formal Japanese corporate culture. Finally, I find it rather unlikely that a non-Japanese person such as yourself would hold such a high-ranking position at a large Japanese firm.
Finally, I find it beyond belief that the head of "Nintendo Advanced R&D" would beg on Slashdot for details of how modchips work, when there are engineers aplenty that have worked hard on exactly this problem present in hordes working in Nintendo's R&D departments.
Sir, I accuse you of being both a troll and a fraud! To the Foe list with you!
I mean, I haven't looked at the protocols that digital radio systems use (XFM or whatever they call it), but I suppose it's not impossible that the thing has two-way capabilities...