This "defense in depth" seems to be working, at least in this case.
It seems to me that the whole virus scene has been much quieter lately than at its peak 2 or 3 years ago when Outlook and IIS bugs were clogging up the Internet (and our inboxes). Either security improved, or the same people figured out it's easier to get the same effect by tricking people into installing spyware.
I don't care if it bothers other people. They have no right to be in my busines, and neither does the government which you probably wish would regulate SUVs.
Somebody else already mentioned the environment, so I'll ignore that.
When you make choices that cost other people money, you would be crazy not to expect them to notice and to care. Grabbing up scarce natural resources for yourself does just that. Driving a gas guzzler drives up the price for everybody. If it didn't they wouldn't care.
What happened to all the libertarians that used to congregate here?
Libertarianism is mostly wishful thinking. It would be nice if we could all do whatever we wanted without impacting each other, but unfortunately that's often unrealistic. Even worse, it becomes progressively less true as limited natural resources (like land and oil) become scarce and the fighting begins. IMHO anybody who comes up with a workable alternative energy plan will be striking a great blow for freedom.
Could you plug your own cable in and pretend to be the server?
Brilliant! You could win Internet blackjack the same way! Slight problem: since you're now playing your own, isolated game, you have to pay off your winnings, to yourself. Fun!
How much experience have others had with lifetimes of chips once you overclock them by a lot.
I bought a Bh6 motherboard and Celeron 300a processor to overclock to 450 mhz (I don't remember when, but it wasn't this century). Ran that for a few years, then upgraded just the CPU to a C566 overclocked to 850mhz with the same mobo/ram. It run 24/7 in my living room. It's a router, my kids' desktop machine (at the moment running Flash games), and multimedia server (pvr/mp3) for the entertainment console.
Granted not extreme like in this story, but it's a 50% overclock, and obviously nobody has 6-7 years running current hardware this way.
If Intel only expected 3.5-4GHz from the P4, then why didn't they have a followup x86 chip ready sooner? Intel has been stalled with very small CPU speedups for at least a couple years now. Their dual core support seems to have been an afterthought. Leaving me to wonder, did they really expect P4 to hit the wall so soon?
That's the ideal, sure. I hope it will work out that way, but remember during the bubble when we thought the Internet was going to overturn all the big players?
If the upheaval were going to happen, I think it would already have happened in music. The public learned about music downloading years ago through napster, there are no technical hurdles because the files aren't very big... yet the Old Boys of the music biz are still dictating the terms to online music companies like iTunes.
Here's an interesting article from the Wall Street Journal on how real estate brokers legally rob us all using protectionist laws.
Argh, you're making the wrong point with the right analogy.
The truth is, Limited hardware support is precisely the reason Linux cannot become mainstream on the desktop in the forseeable future, and it does not bode well for OSX on general PC hardware.
I use Linux full time every day, and the software, for the most part, is good. But fighting with hardware is the #1 source of frustration. The fact is you just don't know a lot of times whether something you buy will work. There are tons of supported hardware lists out there, and every one is about 50% wrong for a variety of reasons - they're outdated, incomplete, and also people who submit information to them are very liberal in calling devices "fully supported." In practice, very many don't work fully and are unstable. This despite the fact that most of the linux kernel is drivers. To have everything but the drivers is to have very little.
RAID1 is one thing, but it's redundancy, still not a true backup.
Don't use Raid1. Raid does nothing to prevent the #1 cause (IME) for data recovery: accidental deletion. Instead, take that second drive and make weekly full backups with nightly incrementals.
Also, keep the stuff you care about (photos, tax records) in a certain folder and burn it to a DVD every once in a while, encrypted. Leave the DVD with a relative or somewhere else you have a good chance of getting to it later.
I think this will become more of an issue now that people are keeping personal photo collections and music collections on their computers.
Expecting anyone to actually keep records of their computer part purchases over on year (let alone 5 minutes after the drive was pulled from it's carton) is another study I'd like to see.
Drives are stamped with manufacture date. I haven't had to produce any receipts to get broken drives exchanged for new.
If there's a company that does require the reciept, I'd like to hear about it so I can avoid them like the plague.
To me a hard drive is the one computer component I *do* want a good warranty on, because it's 1) likely to fail and 2) expensive enough to matter.
The question was what to do about places that aren't sunny enough for solar power. Some means must be used to transport the energy over long distances.
The desert location these will go in is fine, but you won't see too many 4500 acre lots of them sprining up in Merry old England.
Good! I'm tired of Saudi Arabia and Alaska getting all the free money. I live in a desert state and I like the idea of exporting solar-generated hydrogen.
The voters here in Colorado were suckered into an initiative requiring the utility companies to get 15% of their power from renewable sources whether it made economic sense or not.
"What makes economic sense" depends on the rules of the marketplace. Oil is not currently pulling all its own weight, not when you factor in the health impacts of smog, environmental damage and wars.
You might run into some problems with TCP rate limiting though - it's probably best to run some non-TCP protocol over the satellite link.
What!? Maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but if it's latency impacting bandwidth you're worried about, all you need is a bigger window size, i.e. bigger send & recieve buffers. Anyways, 250ms isn't that much, I doubt you would even need to make any adjustments.
There's only one problem: GAs don't work very well. Nobody has been able to get them to invent tactics competitive with what a person can easily devise. (That's the falsifiable claim of this post). And that's allowing for thousands of hours of offline computation, which games don't generally have. GAs work for simple problems (like the inverted pendulum), but even then are much slower than other approaches. In the early history of Robocup (in the simulation league) there were several attempts to evolve team behavior, and performance was not competitive with handcoded teams.
Learning is only a subset of artificial intelligence.
So the question is whether learning is an important element of AI for games.
I can imagine one great benefit of learning for games: the AI should determine when a player is using a single tactic over and over, and come up with a counter-tactic. That would fix one of the biggest reasons games get boring, which is you find some silly hole that makes winning too easy.
I had a cellphone 9 years ago, then cancelled it because I realized I don't like monthly bills! Whoda thunk. Since then I've been waiting for prices to fall, basically staging a one-man boycott, but the cellphone industry doesn't seem too worried about losing my business.
Ha, I use VMWare all the time and I see LOTS Of room for performance improvement. The big problem: VMWare seems to run mostly in kernel mode (as you stated), which defeats the Linux scheduler! Thus VMWare is a hog that doesn't play nice with processes on the host OS. I now resort to launching VMWare from a console so I can Ctrl-Z (suspend) it while I'm not actively doing something in Windows. Besides, it seems to me all I/O on the virtual machine is slow.
Don't get me wrong, VMWare is a good product and I see no current competition for running Windows in any reasonable way. But to imply only a 5% performance penalty across the board is just wrong. IME, graphics are several hundred percent slower than native, not 5%.
This is "open source", actually..sort of. It's open source in the sense that, if you are a partner of VMWare, you're given royalty-free access to the source code, with the ability to share your modified code with the original codebase pool, and/or redistribute your modified code to your buyers, albeit only in binary form.
In other words, it's not open. Look, ANY company will share code with other companies so long as the IP is protected by contracts and enough money changes hands. That's simply not what "open" means.
How do you know the 9BN pages google's not indexing are not worth indexing? How would google know? And if they did know those pages were no good, how would indexing them pose a risk of obscuring the better pages?
Oil is costing $65 a barrel right now. If anybody is getting rich off the current state of affairs, it's hybrid car manufacturers.
Huh? If anybody is getting rich, it's the Arabs, including terrorists. However, international oil companies are also drowning in profit.
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When you make choices that cost other people money, you would be crazy not to expect them to notice and to care. Grabbing up scarce natural resources for yourself does just that. Driving a gas guzzler drives up the price for everybody. If it didn't they wouldn't care.
Libertarianism is mostly wishful thinking. It would be nice if we could all do whatever we wanted without impacting each other, but unfortunately that's often unrealistic. Even worse, it becomes progressively less true as limited natural resources (like land and oil) become scarce and the fighting begins. IMHO anybody who comes up with a workable alternative energy plan will be striking a great blow for freedom.Granted not extreme like in this story, but it's a 50% overclock, and obviously nobody has 6-7 years running current hardware this way.
If Intel only expected 3.5-4GHz from the P4, then why didn't they have a followup x86 chip ready sooner? Intel has been stalled with very small CPU speedups for at least a couple years now. Their dual core support seems to have been an afterthought. Leaving me to wonder, did they really expect P4 to hit the wall so soon?
If the upheaval were going to happen, I think it would already have happened in music. The public learned about music downloading years ago through napster, there are no technical hurdles because the files aren't very big... yet the Old Boys of the music biz are still dictating the terms to online music companies like iTunes.
Here's an interesting article from the Wall Street Journal on how real estate brokers legally rob us all using protectionist laws.
The truth is, Limited hardware support is precisely the reason Linux cannot become mainstream on the desktop in the forseeable future, and it does not bode well for OSX on general PC hardware.
I use Linux full time every day, and the software, for the most part, is good. But fighting with hardware is the #1 source of frustration. The fact is you just don't know a lot of times whether something you buy will work. There are tons of supported hardware lists out there, and every one is about 50% wrong for a variety of reasons - they're outdated, incomplete, and also people who submit information to them are very liberal in calling devices "fully supported." In practice, very many don't work fully and are unstable. This despite the fact that most of the linux kernel is drivers. To have everything but the drivers is to have very little.
Also, keep the stuff you care about (photos, tax records) in a certain folder and burn it to a DVD every once in a while, encrypted. Leave the DVD with a relative or somewhere else you have a good chance of getting to it later.
I think this will become more of an issue now that people are keeping personal photo collections and music collections on their computers.
If there's a company that does require the reciept, I'd like to hear about it so I can avoid them like the plague.
To me a hard drive is the one computer component I *do* want a good warranty on, because it's 1) likely to fail and 2) expensive enough to matter.
The question was what to do about places that aren't sunny enough for solar power. Some means must be used to transport the energy over long distances.
There's only one problem: GAs don't work very well. Nobody has been able to get them to invent tactics competitive with what a person can easily devise. (That's the falsifiable claim of this post). And that's allowing for thousands of hours of offline computation, which games don't generally have. GAs work for simple problems (like the inverted pendulum), but even then are much slower than other approaches. In the early history of Robocup (in the simulation league) there were several attempts to evolve team behavior, and performance was not competitive with handcoded teams.
I can imagine one great benefit of learning for games: the AI should determine when a player is using a single tactic over and over, and come up with a counter-tactic. That would fix one of the biggest reasons games get boring, which is you find some silly hole that makes winning too easy.
I had a cellphone 9 years ago, then cancelled it because I realized I don't like monthly bills! Whoda thunk. Since then I've been waiting for prices to fall, basically staging a one-man boycott, but the cellphone industry doesn't seem too worried about losing my business.
Optical networking will be nice here in the Southwest where we never have any weather. Anywhere else, I think not.
Don't get me wrong, VMWare is a good product and I see no current competition for running Windows in any reasonable way. But to imply only a 5% performance penalty across the board is just wrong. IME, graphics are several hundred percent slower than native, not 5%.
How do you know the 9BN pages google's not indexing are not worth indexing? How would google know? And if they did know those pages were no good, how would indexing them pose a risk of obscuring the better pages?
Oil is costing $65 a barrel right now. If anybody is getting rich off the current state of affairs, it's hybrid car manufacturers. Huh? If anybody is getting rich, it's the Arabs, including terrorists. However, international oil companies are also drowning in profit.