that a linux distro enough to only boot and run your game would probbaly fit under 128megs.
WTF are you talking about, anyway? Did I mention 128 megs anywhere?
For any other thick-skulled morons out there that are replying to my post, the hardware abstraction layer has nothing to do with memory management. If you make a bootable disc with your game on it, you'll have to supply device drivers for every possible piece of hardware. DOS games won't run on modern hardware, but old Win98 games work just fine, even though they were designed for ancient 3Dfx cards and such.
Trust me, I know more about Linux than an idiot like you does.
Linux also provides an abstraction to the hardware, via OpenGL, SDL, ALSA, etc.
Not if you supply the operating system with the game. Even a DOS game usually has a hardware abstraction layer. It just doesn't make much of a difference, since it's game-specific.
Sounds like you've never worked at any company that actually develops stuff. It does take time to investigate the problem, fix it, figure out what's affected, roll up the patches, and issue them to customers once in a while. If you issue dozens of updates per month or don't test your patches thoroughly, nobody is going to install them.
What's worse, a hacker bringing down your system, or an untested patch for a potential vulnerability bringing down your system? Security fixes cause just as many problems as any other update or patch, and you really want to make sure customers won't encounter problems.
Not to mention, care to name a single serious vulnerability in any product that was found by hackers and not security researchers? There aren't that many of them.
If you actually thought about this for at least 5 seconds, you should have seen the simple fact that this is an idiotic approach. The whole idea behind an operating system is to provide a hardware abstraction layer so that games don't need to know whether you have a Soundblaster or a CMI8738 sound chip or whether your videocard is NVIDIA, ATI, or something else. DOS games were a nightmare because of this -- just ask a Gravis UltraSound owner.
World hunger? The world doesn't have a hunger problem, or a shortage of farmland. Most farmers in the US make hardly any money -- that's not much of a shortage, is it? The world does, however, have an overpopulation problem as well as a resource management problem, which both contribute to hunger in certain localized areas.
Even easier. Do what Wal-mart does. Print a unique GUID barcode on the receipt. Use it to pull up the transaction from the central database, and mark the appropriate item as "returned". Then, you don't need any fancy paper, since duplicating a receipt is useless. Really, if a retailer can't figure out how to keep people from abusing its return policy, they don't deserve to stay in business.
You can never have true competition for fixed-line service, simply because it's not feasible for more than one company to run cables to each subscriber. Trying to make them share the infrastructure is next to impossible. Ultimately, the key here is strong regulation -- the government needs to step in and lower the prices. The real problem here is corrupt government.
Long story short, if you think someone is interferring with your wireless service, too bad.
If an unlicensed station is interfering with a licensed station, the unlicensed station must stop operating, even if it complies with Part 15 rules. Of course, if two unlicensed stations interfere with each other, it's tough shit, they need to sort it out. The only way the airport can have a case is if the Wi-fi signal interferes with a licensed service.
Transatlantic cables are expensive, but they aren't expensive enough that 512k DSL would cost $160 a month. South Africa has excellent connectivity, anyway. There are lots of trunks across the continent, connections to Europe, as well as transatlantic cables. The only reason DSL is so overpriced is because it's a monopoly.
This is one of those "this has a one in 5,000 chance of causing any problem, and a 1 in 20,000, chance of being dangerous."
Are we pulling numbers out of our ass now? I'm sure that if NASA knew that the chance of trouble was 1 in 20000 they wouldn't have even considered this problem. There's a much greater chance of damaging the space shuttle by trying to fix it.
You said that Utah has an above-average suicide rate because suicide is the #1 cause of death in some age groups. I pointed out that your statement is incorrect, because the conclusion does not follow from the premises. Whether or not Utah actually has an above-average suicide rate is completely irrelevant to my argument.
I don't see how a laser printer is "equally important". You could use an inkjet printer, a thermal printer, a dye-sub printer, a daisywheel printer, or a dot-matrix printer just as well, without much of a difference. Of course, someone would have eventually came up with the laser printer, given that it's basically a version of the copy machine.
Actually, Utah consistently ranks above the national average for suicides. In the 1990's, for instance, suicide was the #1 cause of death for males 24-40 and the #2 cause of death for males 15-24.
You are lying with statistics. The leading causes of death for people under 40 or so will always be suicide, homicide, and accidents, so saying that suicide is in the top 3 says nothing. All you are saying is that the state has a lower homicide/accident rate than it does a suicide rate, which is not very surprising.
Companies don't just disappear, they are liquidated. This means all assets are sold to the highest bidder. Of course, SCO doesn't own the UNIX trademark, so nothing would happen to it.
The only benefit you get from journaling is that the filesystem check doesn't take half an hour if the computer isn't shut down properly. There are no other benefits.
$ host chrisbartle.com chrisbartle.com has address 216.17.137.189
$ host 216.17.137.189 189.137.17.216.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer bartle189.dsl.frii.net.
It may not be a static IP, but it's obviously an end-user address, and free services aren't too picky about who they block. I bet anything that has.dsl. in the reverse DNS is blocked.
because 'normal' domestic users don't have mail servers, or so these parties seem to wrongfully think
There is really no good reason to run a mail server on your own machine, and most spam is sent out from dynamic IPs using either hijacked machines or by spammers that subscribe to the service. You are lucky your e-mail provider doesn't block port 25, anyway.
The reason you are getting jaggies is because RET is disabled. RET is basically a way to get improved resolution, so if you aren't using it, you are printing out high-resolution pixels. On a printer without that technology, you will not get the same detail, but you won't see pixels either. That's been the case with my cheap Samsung as well as another Brother printer, and an ancient crappy HP Laserjet 6L (which still works, amazingly enough, though it's a slow and unreliable POS).
Unless they can drastically improve quality, I don't see SkypeOut being a big factor. Yeah, I used it for a while and put up with the shitty quality, constant downtime, and high prices. Then I found out that I could get toll-quality calls for next to nothing using a service like voxee.com or nufone.net, not to mention use it with Asterisk or any SIP or IAX device.
There is no such thing as anti-aliasing on a laser printer, since laser printers are strictly bitonal. The way they get grays is by dithering. They don't need antialiasing, since there are no discrete pixels and resolution is limited by feature size. Low resolution on a laser printer manifests itself as smearing, not jaggies.
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that a linux distro enough to only boot and run your game would probbaly fit under 128megs.
WTF are you talking about, anyway? Did I mention 128 megs anywhere?
For any other thick-skulled morons out there that are replying to my post, the hardware abstraction layer has nothing to do with memory management. If you make a bootable disc with your game on it, you'll have to supply device drivers for every possible piece of hardware. DOS games won't run on modern hardware, but old Win98 games work just fine, even though they were designed for ancient 3Dfx cards and such.
Just because it has a CLI doesn't make it DOS.
Trust me, I know more about Linux than an idiot like you does.
Linux also provides an abstraction to the hardware, via OpenGL, SDL, ALSA, etc.
Not if you supply the operating system with the game. Even a DOS game usually has a hardware abstraction layer. It just doesn't make much of a difference, since it's game-specific.
A "reasonable timeframe" is measured in hours, days, or - very occasionally - weeks. Not months or years (such as the recent Oracle fixes)
Does your company do any type of quality assurance? How the hell can you do proper QA in a few hours, unless it's a trivial fix?
Sounds like you've never worked at any company that actually develops stuff. It does take time to investigate the problem, fix it, figure out what's affected, roll up the patches, and issue them to customers once in a while. If you issue dozens of updates per month or don't test your patches thoroughly, nobody is going to install them.
What's worse, a hacker bringing down your system, or an untested patch for a potential vulnerability bringing down your system? Security fixes cause just as many problems as any other update or patch, and you really want to make sure customers won't encounter problems.
Not to mention, care to name a single serious vulnerability in any product that was found by hackers and not security researchers? There aren't that many of them.
Well, you probably got scammed for like $5 by the phone company. Those prison collect calls are like $1.00 per minute.
If you actually thought about this for at least 5 seconds, you should have seen the simple fact that this is an idiotic approach. The whole idea behind an operating system is to provide a hardware abstraction layer so that games don't need to know whether you have a Soundblaster or a CMI8738 sound chip or whether your videocard is NVIDIA, ATI, or something else. DOS games were a nightmare because of this -- just ask a Gravis UltraSound owner.
World hunger? The world doesn't have a hunger problem, or a shortage of farmland. Most farmers in the US make hardly any money -- that's not much of a shortage, is it? The world does, however, have an overpopulation problem as well as a resource management problem, which both contribute to hunger in certain localized areas.
Even easier. Do what Wal-mart does. Print a unique GUID barcode on the receipt. Use it to pull up the transaction from the central database, and mark the appropriate item as "returned". Then, you don't need any fancy paper, since duplicating a receipt is useless. Really, if a retailer can't figure out how to keep people from abusing its return policy, they don't deserve to stay in business.
You can never have true competition for fixed-line service, simply because it's not feasible for more than one company to run cables to each subscriber. Trying to make them share the infrastructure is next to impossible. Ultimately, the key here is strong regulation -- the government needs to step in and lower the prices. The real problem here is corrupt government.
Long story short, if you think someone is interferring with your wireless service, too bad.
If an unlicensed station is interfering with a licensed station, the unlicensed station must stop operating, even if it complies with Part 15 rules. Of course, if two unlicensed stations interfere with each other, it's tough shit, they need to sort it out. The only way the airport can have a case is if the Wi-fi signal interferes with a licensed service.
It seems to me like the airport made sure to put something important over WiFi so that they could try to exclude everyone else.
Yeah, that something called "money". One system is $8.00 per day per user. The other is free. You do the math.
Transatlantic cables are expensive, but they aren't expensive enough that 512k DSL would cost $160 a month. South Africa has excellent connectivity, anyway. There are lots of trunks across the continent, connections to Europe, as well as transatlantic cables. The only reason DSL is so overpriced is because it's a monopoly.
This is one of those "this has a one in 5,000 chance of causing any problem, and a 1 in 20,000, chance of being dangerous."
Are we pulling numbers out of our ass now? I'm sure that if NASA knew that the chance of trouble was 1 in 20000 they wouldn't have even considered this problem. There's a much greater chance of damaging the space shuttle by trying to fix it.
The OS would probably be purchased by someone else and the developers rehired. There are too many existing customers to just let it die off.
You said that Utah has an above-average suicide rate because suicide is the #1 cause of death in some age groups. I pointed out that your statement is incorrect, because the conclusion does not follow from the premises. Whether or not Utah actually has an above-average suicide rate is completely irrelevant to my argument.
I don't see how a laser printer is "equally important". You could use an inkjet printer, a thermal printer, a dye-sub printer, a daisywheel printer, or a dot-matrix printer just as well, without much of a difference. Of course, someone would have eventually came up with the laser printer, given that it's basically a version of the copy machine.
What rights could Xerox have given them if look and feel is not covered by copyright?
Actually, Utah consistently ranks above the national average for suicides. In the 1990's, for instance, suicide was the #1 cause of death for males 24-40 and the #2 cause of death for males 15-24.
You are lying with statistics. The leading causes of death for people under 40 or so will always be suicide, homicide, and accidents, so saying that suicide is in the top 3 says nothing. All you are saying is that the state has a lower homicide/accident rate than it does a suicide rate, which is not very surprising.
Here's another example of misleading statistics.
Companies don't just disappear, they are liquidated. This means all assets are sold to the highest bidder. Of course, SCO doesn't own the UNIX trademark, so nothing would happen to it.
The only benefit you get from journaling is that the filesystem check doesn't take half an hour if the computer isn't shut down properly. There are no other benefits.
$ host chrisbartle.com
.dsl. in the reverse DNS is blocked.
chrisbartle.com has address 216.17.137.189
$ host 216.17.137.189
189.137.17.216.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer bartle189.dsl.frii.net.
It may not be a static IP, but it's obviously an end-user address, and free services aren't too picky about who they block. I bet anything that has
because 'normal' domestic users don't have mail servers, or so these parties seem to wrongfully think
There is really no good reason to run a mail server on your own machine, and most spam is sent out from dynamic IPs using either hijacked machines or by spammers that subscribe to the service. You are lucky your e-mail provider doesn't block port 25, anyway.
The reason you are getting jaggies is because RET is disabled. RET is basically a way to get improved resolution, so if you aren't using it, you are printing out high-resolution pixels. On a printer without that technology, you will not get the same detail, but you won't see pixels either. That's been the case with my cheap Samsung as well as another Brother printer, and an ancient crappy HP Laserjet 6L (which still works, amazingly enough, though it's a slow and unreliable POS).
Unless they can drastically improve quality, I don't see SkypeOut being a big factor. Yeah, I used it for a while and put up with the shitty quality, constant downtime, and high prices. Then I found out that I could get toll-quality calls for next to nothing using a service like voxee.com or nufone.net, not to mention use it with Asterisk or any SIP or IAX device.
There is no such thing as anti-aliasing on a laser printer, since laser printers are strictly bitonal. The way they get grays is by dithering. They don't need antialiasing, since there are no discrete pixels and resolution is limited by feature size. Low resolution on a laser printer manifests itself as smearing, not jaggies.