Not to bash eye candy, but doesn't anyone have a better idea for gaming than FP shooters?
I would say, "No."
I don't see people moving along from first person shooters any sooner than I see them getting sick of auto racing and throwing it out for something "new and innovative." Sure, there are technological advances, but novelty is only a rather small part of the fun.
Multiplayer computer games are just like multiplayer non-computer games (tennis, golf, what have you) in that it takes a while to get good enough to have fun. The interest comes from the other players.
Look at the level of Starcraft competition in the far east. It would surprise me if some of those folks weren't still playing real-time stragegy games 30 years from now.
What's unstated? That they would want to (ie, same expansion desires as our species - would it be the same for an oceanbound technological species?)
Expansion (reproduction) is a hallmark of life itself. That's why "things" evolve and persist and don't just lay down and die. Any impulse to the contrary can't outlast a single generation.
Life expands to fill available resources, and searches for ways to tap new resources. That is the story of evolution.
Look at it this way, 12000 / 30 / 60 = 6 2/3, so it would take over 6 1/2 minutes to watch 1 second of video at regular framerate. The events of interest here are likely to be much less than one second. You could fit 0.1 seconds of video into a 32-bit address space. 0.1 seconds doesn't sound like alot, but it's way more than enough time to watch a bullet pierce a playing card.
The only way to NOT "ignore" the patents would be to hire an army of lawyers trained as kernel hackers (or vice-versa) to read and comprehend the entire kernel, then scour the patent database for conflicts. Even this would guarantee nothing, since it all boils down to personal interpretation.
IMHO you're way over the line separating faith and naivete.
The assumption that govt is "good" while people are "bad" is nonsensical and incredibly dangerous. (Hint: the govt is composed of ordinary, fallible people).
I'm not a real kernel hacker, but sometimes it's nice to have source code.
I want to be able to elevate priorities as a user, so I edited out the check that only lets users raise their "nice" value on processes.
On my old laptop, the driver for a new PCMCIA card was refusing to start the card because the voltage was wrong. After checking the card to verify it could take either voltage, I edited the voltage check out of the driver. I used the card successfully for over a year, and now use it in a different laptop (with a non-hacked driver). Under Windows, the card seemed to install and start but never worked.
My point is not whether these specific tasks could have been accomplished on another OS, just that it's extremely gratifying to find and fix code that's giving you troubles.
I guess the obvious "common man" argument will be made, but what do I care what somebody else wants?
My old Palm V was getting pretty outdated with its old 2-bit black and white display. But now, thanks to Palm's patented "blending" (or is it "spinning?") technology, I've been upgraded to 65,536 colors! That's right, by merely frosting the display (with sandpaper), I can no longer discern anything smaller than a 4x4 block of pixels, yeilding 2^(4*4) = 65,536* glorious colors**!
* No claim of uniqueness for each color is expressed or implied
The response to the low sales will be louder complaining about the dog that ate the music industry's homework - Internet piracy - along with more inflated "damages" and more lobbying for regulation of all information devices.
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On our next episode, "A guy's perspective on the new Tampax with wings."
And further-furthermore, if you aren't getting 100+fps at some random moment, it's unlikely your framerate will stay above 35 or so when it most matters.
Twice as fast at what? I spent a good 40 minutes on the web looking for recent Apple vs PC speed comparisons. For some reason Macs are benchmarked exclusively on Photoshop plugins (huh?). Oh, and there was one test (by CT I think) where they tried a Mac on SpecINT and it was really, really slow; about as slow as the low clockspeeds would lead you to suspect.
(PS I would be very interested in benchmarks of video encoding, compile times, data encryption, and I guess video games.)
Oh give me a break. The same could be said for almost anything.
DON'T TOUCH THAT GUITAR! It takes years to get good at it! And you have to take a vow of silence of live in a monastery! Just leave it to the experts for heaven's sake!
HBO has as good programming as anybody else, and no disruptive commercials. We're already paying for $40-$50 or more per month, so it's not like advertising is the only income stream. I'd rather have a few good channels than hundreds of crappy ones anyways.
Fiber? You've got to be joking. There's tons of it looping the earth, completely unused. Connecting two cities is pretty cheap and easy. It's connecting every house to every other house in both cities where you run into problems.
Anyways, I don't think the point of Internet2 is to increase bandwidth so much as to provide protocol improvements for security, roaming, etc and to alleviate any shortage of IP addresses.
So they put some reasnable-sounding text beneath the picture. By the time you get to the bottom, you've already seen the picture. For that matter, they can probably use javascript or simply color the text white so many people never see it at all.
I'm very impressed that this was headed by a University (versus, say, Lockheed-Martin or Nasa). The article says there were collaborators from around the globe, but who picked up the tab?
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Holding out for the inpenetrable forcefield, eh?
I don't see people moving along from first person shooters any sooner than I see them getting sick of auto racing and throwing it out for something "new and innovative." Sure, there are technological advances, but novelty is only a rather small part of the fun.
Multiplayer computer games are just like multiplayer non-computer games (tennis, golf, what have you) in that it takes a while to get good enough to have fun. The interest comes from the other players.
Look at the level of Starcraft competition in the far east. It would surprise me if some of those folks weren't still playing real-time stragegy games 30 years from now.
Life expands to fill available resources, and searches for ways to tap new resources. That is the story of evolution.
Look at it this way, 12000 / 30 / 60 = 6 2/3, so it would take over 6 1/2 minutes to watch 1 second of video at regular framerate. The events of interest here are likely to be much less than one second. You could fit 0.1 seconds of video into a 32-bit address space. 0.1 seconds doesn't sound like alot, but it's way more than enough time to watch a bullet pierce a playing card.
The only way to NOT "ignore" the patents would be to hire an army of lawyers trained as kernel hackers (or vice-versa) to read and comprehend the entire kernel, then scour the patent database for conflicts. Even this would guarantee nothing, since it all boils down to personal interpretation.
The assumption that govt is "good" while people are "bad" is nonsensical and incredibly dangerous. (Hint: the govt is composed of ordinary, fallible people).
Whoah! I didn't know that...
4096 colors available only in HAM mode.
I want to be able to elevate priorities as a user, so I edited out the check that only lets users raise their "nice" value on processes.
On my old laptop, the driver for a new PCMCIA card was refusing to start the card because the voltage was wrong. After checking the card to verify it could take either voltage, I edited the voltage check out of the driver. I used the card successfully for over a year, and now use it in a different laptop (with a non-hacked driver). Under Windows, the card seemed to install and start but never worked.
My point is not whether these specific tasks could have been accomplished on another OS, just that it's extremely gratifying to find and fix code that's giving you troubles.
I guess the obvious "common man" argument will be made, but what do I care what somebody else wants?
* No claim of uniqueness for each color is expressed or implied
** If Gray isn't a color, what is it?
Or they might view recordings as an advertising expense and make their money performing.
The response to the low sales will be louder complaining about the dog that ate the music industry's homework - Internet piracy - along with more inflated "damages" and more lobbying for regulation of all information devices.
On our next episode, "A guy's perspective on the new Tampax with wings."
(Yes, I'll feel dumb if that's in the article, but I tried to visit and it's slashdotted.)
And further-furthermore, if you aren't getting 100+fps at some random moment, it's unlikely your framerate will stay above 35 or so when it most matters.
(PS I would be very interested in benchmarks of video encoding, compile times, data encryption, and I guess video games.)
DON'T TOUCH THAT GUITAR! It takes years to get good at it! And you have to take a vow of silence of live in a monastery! Just leave it to the experts for heaven's sake!
HBO has as good programming as anybody else, and no disruptive commercials. We're already paying for $40-$50 or more per month, so it's not like advertising is the only income stream. I'd rather have a few good channels than hundreds of crappy ones anyways.
So globalism DOES have a bright side, eh?
Anyways, I don't think the point of Internet2 is to increase bandwidth so much as to provide protocol improvements for security, roaming, etc and to alleviate any shortage of IP addresses.
So they put some reasnable-sounding text beneath the picture. By the time you get to the bottom, you've already seen the picture. For that matter, they can probably use javascript or simply color the text white so many people never see it at all.
LOL - get a slashdot account so you can accrue the karma you deserve, A.C.
Encoding the spam as an image really is hard to guard against. At least it would probably increase the smammers' bandwidth costs.
I'm very impressed that this was headed by a University (versus, say, Lockheed-Martin or Nasa). The article says there were collaborators from around the globe, but who picked up the tab?