If they were going shield all of their lines, why not just run fiber or some other made-for-data connection? Isn't the whole point of Broadband Over Power Lines to avoid running all new ?
There are a bunch of dirty tricks Microsoft could use against google:
- They could modify IE to redirect google connection attempts to their own search engine.
- They could modify their TCP/IP stack to return their search engine's IP for any google DNS lookups.
- They could modify IE to make google pages load slower.
- They could modify their TCP/IP stack to load google pages slower.
- They could modify their TCP/IP stack to drop random packets for google connections.
- Stuff I'm not imaginative enough to think of.
Sure, some of these are really blatant and would probably get another anti-trust case going, but, if Microsoft wants the search engine market bad enough, they might just try them. By the time a case against them finished, google would be irrelevant or nonexistant and history has shown Microsoft that the "penalties" aren't so bad.
I'm not surprised that communist countries would embrace open-source software. I think it fits well within the Communist philosophy (everyone has access to it and anyone can contribute to it).
As has been mentioned before here on Slashdot, it really doesn't make sense anymore for any nation, regardless of its economic model, to base its computing infrastructure on closed-source software and proprietary document formats. Especially from a company known for locking in its customers.
One truly harrowing noise is that of a baby crying, played backward, and combined with another tone
Does anyone happen to have heard this one? What's so freaky about it?
They don't mention that the other "tone" is a Britney Spears song.
Each cpu dissipates just under 50W which is traditionally air cooled using a large heatsink and fan. This is fine for a stand alone computer but when multiple computers are used, eg a Beowulf cluster, the rise in room temperature and hotspots are an increasing problem. Normally air-conditioning is used but this is very inefficient.
Cirocco directly cool the heatsink with water which can be cooled remotely and recirculated.
Air cooling works well enough until you get many hot devices in a small space. Then you have the problem of some running too hot because the air thats supposed to be cooling them is already hot from cooling others.
I built my first Athlon system after seeing how well a friend made out with his Slot-A Athlon system. Socket-A 1.2GHz was the bleeding edge at the time so I got the 1.0GHz model w/ pc133.
After I'd pulled out half of my hair trying to figure out why it refused to run stable (or as stable as my Celeron 300A w/ Win98), I ditched the mobo for one of the new KT266A boards. It ran sort of OK for a month, then stopped running for more than 1 or 2 minutes at a time. After more hair-pulling I noticed that the power supply was putting out 3.9v on the 3.3v line and the power regulators on the board were too hot to touch. A new power supply, motherboard, and CPU later I was back in business... or so I thought.
It still had weird unexplainable crashes at odd times, so I installed Win2K and that helped a little, but it still wasn't stable. I was determined to have an Athlon system that was stable, so instead of going Intel, I started scouring message boards for anything that would help me get through this.
Many posts pointed at a buggy implementation of ACPI in the first revision of Soundblaster Live's, which I had. Got a Game Theater XP, but same problems. Finally found some info about how VIA wasn't even implementing PCI to spec, so it was time to look for a non-VIA board.
At the time it was mostly all-VIA or an AMD northbridge + VIA 686B southbridge combo. nForce had just come out, so I was hesitant to try an untested chipset, so the only other alternative was AMD's new SMP chipset. SMP was something I'd always wanted to try out and the Asus board could use my old RAM and CPU until I could afford a pair of the pricey Athlon MPs, so thats what I got.
About a year later, I'm still running it with a single XP 1800+ and it has been very stable. The only time it ever crashes is when I let it get too dirty and the geForce3 overheats.
Oh yeah, review sites are absolutely worthless if you're looking for stability. "Its very stable!" really means "It didn't explode while we overclocked the hell out of it for the 3 days we had it."
So anyway, my point is that some of us get burned bad by Athlon systems. Its only because I'm so stubborn (or maybe insane) that I stuck with it until I got it stable instead of switching to an Intel system and preaching the evils of AMD.
Why on earth would you write a script/program that automagically sends out nastygrams without a human being first checking to make sure the "hit" is even valid?
This is where the radio tags come in. If you know exactly where any product is in your store, you can see what products sell better in what location -- in real time, across the country. And yes, shoplifting will become far more difficult for the petty theives -- I doubt the pros will be stopped by this technology.
If the tags can be tracked in-store fairly accurately then It'd catch the pros too. The only "circumvention" method I've read about is the "faraday bag", but then the tag would disappear from the system, which could be set to alert security when such an event occurs. With timestamped video records and a timestamped disappearance event, it'd be trivial to roll back the tapes and see who exactly did it. If that person walks out of the store without paying for it you've got him/her (I wait until after checkout to account for tags that just die and because I think you have to try leaving with it before its shoplifting).
I haven't run into this problem myself (yet), but some of the DVDs I have are in cases that require you to BEND THE DISC to get it out. What a horrible design!
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If the AI were approaching self-awareness, then there could be more disincentives to killing random characters. In Vice City, the worst that'll happen if you kill a random person is your wanted level might go up, but you'll get weapons/cash from them. Theres no way they can help you while alive unless they're one of those special characters that have a storyline script attached to them. With really good AI they could become your allies, have information you might want/need, have access to places you want to get into, etc.
As to not killing them just because they're so life-like, they'd still "die" when you quit the game or got far enough away from them (it'll be a LONG time before computers are powerful enough to keep track of all AI characters you run into indefinately), not to mention uninstalling the game. At any rate, what we'll see in games will never reach true self-awareness, just something that seems convincing enough to immerse the player.
So you want a "redundant pair" of drives in one package?? Wheres the redundancy in that? I can't imagine them cramming in completely independant electronics, heads, servos, spindles, platters, and spindle motors, and if they did, I'd imagine the extra heat from all that would make the drive fry itself much faster than a non-redundant 40G drive would. Also, with one IDE connection as per your specs, that alone becomes a single point of failure.
What I really want is a reasonable backup solution thats affordable, fast, and easy to use.
Its still only polling X number of times per second. Ideally, you want the driver to poll the hardware when you request the data. No more, no less. I guess it could be argued that something like that could mess up multitasking, but it would be a non-issue if the OS had been designed with native support for games and was aware that some apps want immediate access to current hardware data or that they might want to change certain hardware parameters (like screen resolution) for themselves and not for the entire system.
the mouse always feels not quite up to par, and the movement has been slightly 'off' since that engine... Just, nothing has ever felt right since then.
Thats because everything up to glQuake was DOS and in that OS you can poll the mouse as often as you want and always get the real current value. You could even get down to mouse mickeys (the best way, IMO, to do mouse control in a FPS). I remember Carmack bitching about the mouse when he converted over to Win32-native. The complaint, as I remember it, was that no matter how many times per second you poll, the driver only polls the hardware X times per second and theres no way to change that. Thats where hacks like m_filter came from. Hopefully, some day MS will write an OS from the ground up with gaming in mind instead of hacking gaming features into an OS designed to run business apps. I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for that though:/
Thats my whole complaint (well, most of it) with the RIAA. Every time some new technology comes along they fight it tooth and nail instead of trying to exploit it. Even now they fight against MP3, which has proven to be wildly popular, instead of setting up a server and selling them themselves. I know they'll argue that nobody would buy something they could get for free, but, atleast in my case, that would be wrong. I would pay to just point my browser at an ad/spyware-free site and know that anything I want is there and the download will be fast and I won't end up with an MP3 full of encoding errors/skips/whatever. Instead they fight it while they either try to coerce magical fairies to produce an unbreakable file format or they lobby the government to assrape the computer/tech industry as a whole so people are unable to copy at all. What a bunch of fucking idiotic assholes!
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Just do what they do in Los Santos and make every other person a cop with the authority to use deadly force for any crime.
If they were going shield all of their lines, why not just run fiber or some other made-for-data connection? Isn't the whole point of Broadband Over Power Lines to avoid running all new ?
There are a bunch of dirty tricks Microsoft could use against google:
- They could modify IE to redirect google connection attempts to their own search engine.
- They could modify their TCP/IP stack to return their search engine's IP for any google DNS lookups.
- They could modify IE to make google pages load slower.
- They could modify their TCP/IP stack to load google pages slower.
- They could modify their TCP/IP stack to drop random packets for google connections.
- Stuff I'm not imaginative enough to think of.
Sure, some of these are really blatant and would probably get another anti-trust case going, but, if Microsoft wants the search engine market bad enough, they might just try them. By the time a case against them finished, google would be irrelevant or nonexistant and history has shown Microsoft that the "penalties" aren't so bad.
A better question is why clicking the window's close button while the cascade is happening still brings up the "deal again?" dialog box.
I'm not surprised that communist countries would embrace open-source software. I think it fits well within the Communist philosophy (everyone has access to it and anyone can contribute to it).
As has been mentioned before here on Slashdot, it really doesn't make sense anymore for any nation, regardless of its economic model, to base its computing infrastructure on closed-source software and proprietary document formats. Especially from a company known for locking in its customers.
Its not "and", its "web".
I built my first Athlon system after seeing how well a friend made out with his Slot-A Athlon system. Socket-A 1.2GHz was the bleeding edge at the time so I got the 1.0GHz model w/ pc133.
After I'd pulled out half of my hair trying to figure out why it refused to run stable (or as stable as my Celeron 300A w/ Win98), I ditched the mobo for one of the new KT266A boards. It ran sort of OK for a month, then stopped running for more than 1 or 2 minutes at a time. After more hair-pulling I noticed that the power supply was putting out 3.9v on the 3.3v line and the power regulators on the board were too hot to touch. A new power supply, motherboard, and CPU later I was back in business... or so I thought.
It still had weird unexplainable crashes at odd times, so I installed Win2K and that helped a little, but it still wasn't stable. I was determined to have an Athlon system that was stable, so instead of going Intel, I started scouring message boards for anything that would help me get through this.
Many posts pointed at a buggy implementation of ACPI in the first revision of Soundblaster Live's, which I had. Got a Game Theater XP, but same problems. Finally found some info about how VIA wasn't even implementing PCI to spec, so it was time to look for a non-VIA board.
At the time it was mostly all-VIA or an AMD northbridge + VIA 686B southbridge combo. nForce had just come out, so I was hesitant to try an untested chipset, so the only other alternative was AMD's new SMP chipset. SMP was something I'd always wanted to try out and the Asus board could use my old RAM and CPU until I could afford a pair of the pricey Athlon MPs, so thats what I got.
About a year later, I'm still running it with a single XP 1800+ and it has been very stable. The only time it ever crashes is when I let it get too dirty and the geForce3 overheats.
Oh yeah, review sites are absolutely worthless if you're looking for stability. "Its very stable!" really means "It didn't explode while we overclocked the hell out of it for the 3 days we had it."
So anyway, my point is that some of us get burned bad by Athlon systems. Its only because I'm so stubborn (or maybe insane) that I stuck with it until I got it stable instead of switching to an Intel system and preaching the evils of AMD.
Why on earth would you write a script/program that automagically sends out nastygrams without a human being first checking to make sure the "hit" is even valid?
I haven't run into this problem myself (yet), but some of the DVDs I have are in cases that require you to BEND THE DISC to get it out. What a horrible design!
If the AI were approaching self-awareness, then there could be more disincentives to killing random characters. In Vice City, the worst that'll happen if you kill a random person is your wanted level might go up, but you'll get weapons/cash from them. Theres no way they can help you while alive unless they're one of those special characters that have a storyline script attached to them. With really good AI they could become your allies, have information you might want/need, have access to places you want to get into, etc.
As to not killing them just because they're so life-like, they'd still "die" when you quit the game or got far enough away from them (it'll be a LONG time before computers are powerful enough to keep track of all AI characters you run into indefinately), not to mention uninstalling the game. At any rate, what we'll see in games will never reach true self-awareness, just something that seems convincing enough to immerse the player.
So you want a "redundant pair" of drives in one package?? Wheres the redundancy in that? I can't imagine them cramming in completely independant electronics, heads, servos, spindles, platters, and spindle motors, and if they did, I'd imagine the extra heat from all that would make the drive fry itself much faster than a non-redundant 40G drive would. Also, with one IDE connection as per your specs, that alone becomes a single point of failure. What I really want is a reasonable backup solution thats affordable, fast, and easy to use.
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Its still only polling X number of times per second. Ideally, you want the driver to poll the hardware when you request the data. No more, no less. I guess it could be argued that something like that could mess up multitasking, but it would be a non-issue if the OS had been designed with native support for games and was aware that some apps want immediate access to current hardware data or that they might want to change certain hardware parameters (like screen resolution) for themselves and not for the entire system.
Thats my whole complaint (well, most of it) with the RIAA. Every time some new technology comes along they fight it tooth and nail instead of trying to exploit it. Even now they fight against MP3, which has proven to be wildly popular, instead of setting up a server and selling them themselves. I know they'll argue that nobody would buy something they could get for free, but, atleast in my case, that would be wrong. I would pay to just point my browser at an ad/spyware-free site and know that anything I want is there and the download will be fast and I won't end up with an MP3 full of encoding errors/skips/whatever. Instead they fight it while they either try to coerce magical fairies to produce an unbreakable file format or they lobby the government to assrape the computer/tech industry as a whole so people are unable to copy at all. What a bunch of fucking idiotic assholes!