bleh. Of course it doesn't work more than any other protection. If the client software checks something before allowing you to going on, simply making the check returning always true instead of making the actual check will disable the protection, as it has always been. So, it seems there are cracked versions around which merely don't connect to steam at all... How shocking. So, the ones who are screwed are those who payed for the game, and cracked it to disable the cd protection, as always. But valve doesn't even have to care, they know their legit customers will just download the non steam cracked version like everybody else. So we have a thing that just generates a lot of fuss, annoy customers, and does nothing to prevent piracy, as usual... There is no possible way to protect a single player game as long as the game is executed on the client, period.
AC is probably right, I had the same problem with a geforce 2. White spots everywhere, and other artifacts too. It was clearly a faulty card since the number of artifacts was dependent of the hotness of the thing. It took only few minuts for it to be really hot though... It wasn't appearent in every games, only those that used T&L IIRC. Underclocking the thing did help alot, but i couldn't get rid of them completly. Get a refund if you can...
Yeah, this thing rocked. Much more impressive than knoopix if you ask me... Too bad HURD doesn't seem to fly, really.
Maybe they could GPL their OS, and keep only the parts needed to make it embeded closed (if such a separation is possible, that is...). If GNU/QNX was possible, it would mean a lot of market shares for them, and a really good kernel for us. And i'm pretty sure they wouldn't loose in the end, even if some parts they keep closed finally get copied by GPL stuff. They would still be *the* company that can make industrial strenght things with QNX for you, or adapt it to suit you better. And they could charge a premium price for that (well, i suppose they do that already, but still...)
The guy has his cell phone in his hand - it's pointing with the cover facing down, but so what, lots of people hang on to their cell phones. That's not real suspicious. Picture the same scene with a guy holding a camera in his hand. You can clearly see it's pointed up the woman's skirt. That's pretty obvious.
That is exactly why we need undetectable cameras dude, didn't you notice the spy sex cams quality is not what it used to be ? Free the skirts !
He stated that vmware didn't cut it. It's not always the best solution. For example, last time I tried it was near to impossible to use a wifi card with vmware. Access to real physical peripherals in general is a problem. Speed can also be a big problem, depending on what you have to do. If it's anything graphical, good luck...
Come on, Firefox loads faster than IE ? Are you smoking crack or something ? It also has lots of other problems, really. I agree with the grandparent on most points, and i'd add it sucks way too much ram... Still i use it everyday because it's a great browser, but... i think that often, people are blind to the flaws in the things they really like...
It's sad, but get over it. There are tons of "niches" like that which have been molested by the medias and will never gain back their integrity in the eye of the public. For example, did you knew that real "skins" are in fact against racism, and try to fight the childish nazis who will go as far as commiting murders in their name ? Just like each time you'll hear a pirate on radio he'll label himself a hacker, they've labelled themselves skins because they think it makes them look cool.
BTW: I learned this in a documentary about the skins culture on TV, on a germano-french channel called Arte. If you happen to be able to have this channel, and understand german or french i highly encourage you to have a look at it. What those guys do in this day and time is nearly unbelievable. It's TV, with a brain. Really, the other channels we have are crap at least in france but I can't even understand how this one can exist at the same time as others. It seems the basis of the channel is that people are intelligent, want to think and are here to enlighten their minds, or see other views on a particular problem. And they're not especially anti US either. In fact they happened to have a long documentary on Bush and Kerry the night of the election which led me to understand why people could possibly vote Bush. I still think they are very bad reasons, but i can understand. (If you wonder, I was shocked by the "light" you can see in bush's eyes most of the time. He seems to really believe what he's saying, and seems unstoppable. If i was a christian i'd easily say that yes, this guy has been given a mission by god, and he'll do it for the good of the humanity. But i still believe he's a very dangerous kind of fool personally;)
About the data driven graphs and SVG: Maybe you know about it, but just in case... You don't need to wait for the browsers to support SVG if what you want is to display a static image. SVG can be converted directly to JPG or PNG before being send to the client. Batik is an apache probject to do that, and it is integrated very nicely into cocoon. In cocoon, you'd just add a line to your XML transformation pipeline to ask for the result of your SVG transformation to be serialized to JPG instead of being sent directly as XML
A bug in slashdot which would cause a browser to render a page sometimes the right way, and sometimes totally unreadeable ? Yeah sure... of course it's a bug in firefox. Even if it only appears because of faulty html, it should be handled cleanly and it isn't
They carry little red books around and call everybody comrade;) hum no we have those but they're considered on the really extrem left wing hehe
But what's interesting is that most europeans consider there is no left wing in the US, only right and even more right;)
BTW the fact that this party is right-wing is only noticeable in the inside politic imho (especially, much more liberal economically than the left-wing would be). I think they mostly behave the same way when it comes to exterior politics...
I'm not american, but be sure not to face the same situation france did, that is everyone voting for "little candidates", then having the choice only between the two worst scenerios on second turn. (Well for left wing people at least). You had the choice between lepen (extrem rightish neo nazi crap) or chirac (clearly right wing) so...
It happened because the extrem right persons are really determined, and were the only who didn't split their votes between little candidates.
Having to vote chirac even if you were a communist sucked, believe me...
Besides, i don't understand how you can possibly don't know for who to vote. Both candidates clearly have opposite views on a lot of issues, you should know easily which one fits your ideas the most (that is, the less worst one..)
And if you wonder, yeah, it seems US elections have now as much coverage as our country local elections, if not more...
I don't see how your comment really applies, other than as a karma vehicle.
Because it all sounds like a commercial oriented article, they're trying to make us say "wow, infinite resolution", never mind the fact that this particular technology has been known for ages. It's like if i was writing an article about a new browser i wrote, and said things like "Allows you to click on some things I call links in the pages, and be directly redirected to another page ! So all the pages in the world are linked together in an enormous network ! "
Of course it does, since that's one of the particularities of all web browsers.
So same thing here, they could just say that it displays vectorized graphics on your retina using lasers. No need to try to impress the reader with the infinite resolution crap. It just proves they don't have much to say...
Can you order a machine from Dell without OS at all ? (or with a really free os like Debian). Because i don't care if it's XP or Suse, if I already have an OS and i don't need a new one, this is still an OS tax.
Erm, it has been reported that those laser pointer DO cause harm, but it may take 10 years to appear. So just because you don't feel a thing if you quickly sweep over the eye doesn't mean that you won't end up semi blind in ten years (or maybe just with "a problem with your eyes")
Are they really taling about resolution, or about scaling of a vectorized image ? of course you can scale vector graphics as you want, but this ain't new... If they can display bitmap graphics at any resolution without pixelisation, that's impressive. But i doubt it...
Err isn't that a common practise ? maybe not in the US ?
Basically, each time i had have some words, or passwords spelled to me by an it employee over the phone, he would do this. And each time i have to spell i don't do that, and the man on the other side asks me to do so ! And i'm talking about persons with a perfect accent (natives anyway)
exactly, i was in the anarchy online boat when it launched. I quit after maybe one month, and never looked back. The thing is, when you looked at the screenshots, or read early reports you could easily be fooled into thinking that you could do this and that in game. Even if they didn't clearly said you could, lots of things were implied in what they (or the stupid zealot players who refused to admit their game sucked) said. Bottom line: you can be sure that i'll never buy a funcom game again, and that i'll recommend others to go somewhere else. When i buy something (and pay a monthly fee, on top of that !), I want it to work like it's advertised to do. I don't want any excuses or whatever, if the thing isn't finished, then don't let it out. Treating its customers like shit is the worst thing a business can do, and those customers will remember they were fooled, and make the worst things they can to turn that business into worthless crap.
So, i'd say the cost of an early release is not calculable, it's just the worst thing you can do to your business. (On the other hand, the cost of realeasing a finished product is easily calculable, and i understand it's not always easy to feed enough money in the machine without any return, but still... if the venture capitalists listened to what the people who knows what they are doing are telling them, they'd earn much more money in the end. But like allways the silly mindless pricks take the decisions, then call the developpers incompetents.)
it's not a pc issue, more a how many are you ready to cash for it one. Just buy a real server with redundant everything, tons of fans, integrated error reporting and a system which allows real remote administration (that is, even if the machine is off, or the network card is dead, or you want to access the bios, or you need to install an os but don't have the cd in the machine so you need to be able to use an image as a virtual drive)...
We had those things for something like $4000 from HP, probably other vendors have similar things, but the bottom line is: it's really worth the money. We thought we couldn't afford that, but it already payed for itself in a few months because we didn't have to do anything on the machine since they were set up, plus not having to drive 50km everytime we really need physical access...
In fact i think they took an OSX user who just converted to linux, he didn't had the time to grow enough fat yet. OSX makes you slim, because you have the time to use your computer, and make sport at the same time ! just compare RMS and jobs, it says something. Linus ain't fat, but he's clearly starving to death, he doesn't have the time to have a meal between all the bugs the fatty bastards are trying to incorporate in the kernel !
Well i guess i looked at it too quickly, or there was a window where their tits where supposed to be;)
Still, that's not the problem. As far as i'm concerned they could be totally nude and have hairy 70's like pussies i wouldn't mind. It's the message that is disturbing, because it implies that cheeks are so dumb they'll jump on anyone using ubuntu, just because he's using ubuntu. Because being with a guy who uses Ubuntu makes them look cool, and that's all that matter for them. So, use ubuntu and get all those silly cheeks, at last !
I guess my sister in law feministic views are starting to find their ways in my brain, she intoxicated me;-)
I think they're talking about the desktop background where you can see two nice topless women in the arms of this beautifull guy, with a ubuntu logo on the right. (can't find the link anymore, it's getting slow)
I'm all for naked women everywhere and i'm a anti censorship guy, but this one like saying "take ubuntu, look cool and those mindless beautifull cheeks will think you're so great that you'll have two at a time". I don't think females will like that one bit and this time i can understand why...
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Not that noisy, we have two HP ML370 here that makes at least as much noise as your typical vacuum cleaner (didn't measure it, but still...). (They have debian running , and hp fan control stuff will only work on redhat or suse, so they're always blowing at full capacity for now. And there are around 15 fans in there). Still, they're just very high availibility pcs, so it wouldn't have shocked me to hear that the crays make as much noise as a jet engine...
And unlike raskin, he's generally right;)
Smalltalk feels so superior to java that it makes me laugh. The beauty of its simple concepts have never been matched, and we all know that the real powerfull ideas in cs are often shockingly simple. Only the implications of what you can do with them get quite complicated, just like a chess game.
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bleh. Of course it doesn't work more than any other protection. If the client software checks something before allowing you to going on, simply making the check returning always true instead of making the actual check will disable the protection, as it has always been. So, it seems there are cracked versions around which merely don't connect to steam at all... How shocking. So, the ones who are screwed are those who payed for the game, and cracked it to disable the cd protection, as always. But valve doesn't even have to care, they know their legit customers will just download the non steam cracked version like everybody else. So we have a thing that just generates a lot of fuss, annoy customers, and does nothing to prevent piracy, as usual... There is no possible way to protect a single player game as long as the game is executed on the client, period.
AC is probably right, I had the same problem with a geforce 2. White spots everywhere, and other artifacts too. It was clearly a faulty card since the number of artifacts was dependent of the hotness of the thing. It took only few minuts for it to be really hot though... It wasn't appearent in every games, only those that used T&L IIRC. Underclocking the thing did help alot, but i couldn't get rid of them completly. Get a refund if you can...
Yeah, this thing rocked. Much more impressive than knoopix if you ask me... Too bad HURD doesn't seem to fly, really.
Maybe they could GPL their OS, and keep only the parts needed to make it embeded closed (if such a separation is possible, that is...). If GNU/QNX was possible, it would mean a lot of market shares for them, and a really good kernel for us. And i'm pretty sure they wouldn't loose in the end, even if some parts they keep closed finally get copied by GPL stuff. They would still be *the* company that can make industrial strenght things with QNX for you, or adapt it to suit you better. And they could charge a premium price for that (well, i suppose they do that already, but still...)
The guy has his cell phone in his hand - it's pointing with the cover facing down, but so what, lots of people hang on to their cell phones. That's not real suspicious. Picture the same scene with a guy holding a camera in his hand. You can clearly see it's pointed up the woman's skirt. That's pretty obvious.
That is exactly why we need undetectable cameras dude, didn't you notice the spy sex cams quality is not what it used to be ? Free the skirts !
He stated that vmware didn't cut it. It's not always the best solution. For example, last time I tried it was near to impossible to use a wifi card with vmware. Access to real physical peripherals in general is a problem. Speed can also be a big problem, depending on what you have to do. If it's anything graphical, good luck...
Come on, Firefox loads faster than IE ? Are you smoking crack or something ? It also has lots of other problems, really. I agree with the grandparent on most points, and i'd add it sucks way too much ram... Still i use it everyday because it's a great browser, but...
i think that often, people are blind to the flaws in the things they really like...
It's sad, but get over it. There are tons of "niches" like that which have been molested by the medias and will never gain back their integrity in the eye of the public.
;)
For example, did you knew that real "skins" are in fact against racism, and try to fight the childish nazis who will go as far as commiting murders in their name ? Just like each time you'll hear a pirate on radio he'll label himself a hacker, they've labelled themselves skins because they think it makes them look cool.
BTW: I learned this in a documentary about the skins culture on TV, on a germano-french channel called Arte. If you happen to be able to have this channel, and understand german or french i highly encourage you to have a look at it. What those guys do in this day and time is nearly unbelievable. It's TV, with a brain. Really, the other channels we have are crap at least in france but I can't even understand how this one can exist at the same time as others.
It seems the basis of the channel is that people are intelligent, want to think and are here to enlighten their minds, or see other views on a particular problem.
And they're not especially anti US either. In fact they happened to have a long documentary on Bush and Kerry the night of the election which led me to understand why people could possibly vote Bush.
I still think they are very bad reasons, but i can understand. (If you wonder, I was shocked by the "light" you can see in bush's eyes most of the time. He seems to really believe what he's saying, and seems unstoppable. If i was a christian i'd easily say that yes, this guy has been given a mission by god, and he'll do it for the good of the humanity. But i still believe he's a very dangerous kind of fool personally
About the data driven graphs and SVG: Maybe you know about it, but just in case...
You don't need to wait for the browsers to support SVG if what you want is to display a static image. SVG can be converted directly to JPG or PNG before being send to the client. Batik is an apache probject to do that, and it is integrated very nicely into cocoon.
In cocoon, you'd just add a line to your XML transformation pipeline to ask for the result of your SVG transformation to be serialized to JPG instead of being sent directly as XML
A bug in slashdot which would cause a browser to render a page sometimes the right way, and sometimes totally unreadeable ? Yeah sure... of course it's a bug in firefox. Even if it only appears because of faulty html, it should be handled cleanly and it isn't
They carry little red books around and call everybody comrade ;) hum no we have those but they're considered on the really extrem left wing hehe
;)
BTW the fact that this party is right-wing is only noticeable in the inside politic imho (especially, much more liberal economically than the left-wing would be). I think they mostly behave the same way when it comes to exterior politics...
But what's interesting is that most europeans consider there is no left wing in the US, only right and even more right
I'm not american, but be sure not to face the same situation france did, that is everyone voting for "little candidates", then having the choice only between the two worst scenerios on second turn. (Well for left wing people at least). You had the choice between lepen (extrem rightish neo nazi crap) or chirac (clearly right wing) so... It happened because the extrem right persons are really determined, and were the only who didn't split their votes between little candidates.
Having to vote chirac even if you were a communist sucked, believe me...
Besides, i don't understand how you can possibly don't know for who to vote. Both candidates clearly have opposite views on a lot of issues, you should know easily which one fits your ideas the most (that is, the less worst one..)
And if you wonder, yeah, it seems US elections have now as much coverage as our country local elections, if not more...
I don't see how your comment really applies, other than as a karma vehicle.
Because it all sounds like a commercial oriented article, they're trying to make us say "wow, infinite resolution", never mind the fact that this particular technology has been known for ages. It's like if i was writing an article about a new browser i wrote, and said things like "Allows you to click on some things I call links in the pages, and be directly redirected to another page ! So all the pages in the world are linked together in an enormous network ! "
Of course it does, since that's one of the particularities of all web browsers.
So same thing here, they could just say that it displays vectorized graphics on your retina using lasers. No need to try to impress the reader with the infinite resolution crap. It just proves they don't have much to say...
Can you order a machine from Dell without OS at all ? (or with a really free os like Debian). Because i don't care if it's XP or Suse, if I already have an OS and i don't need a new one, this is still an OS tax.
Erm, it has been reported that those laser pointer DO cause harm, but it may take 10 years to appear.
So just because you don't feel a thing if you quickly sweep over the eye doesn't mean that you won't end up semi blind in ten years (or maybe just with "a problem with your eyes")
Are they really taling about resolution, or about scaling of a vectorized image ? of course you can scale vector graphics as you want, but this ain't new... If they can display bitmap graphics at any resolution without pixelisation, that's impressive. But i doubt it...
Sorry replied to the bad post, i wanted to reply to the grandparent.
Err isn't that a common practise ? maybe not in the US ?
Basically, each time i had have some words, or passwords spelled to me by an it employee over the phone, he would do this. And each time i have to spell i don't do that, and the man on the other side asks me to do so ! And i'm talking about persons with a perfect accent (natives anyway)
But but... how do you access the robot remotly when it needs flashing ?
exactly, i was in the anarchy online boat when it launched. I quit after maybe one month, and never looked back. The thing is, when you looked at the screenshots, or read early reports you could easily be fooled into thinking that you could do this and that in game. Even if they didn't clearly said you could, lots of things were implied in what they (or the stupid zealot players who refused to admit their game sucked) said.
Bottom line: you can be sure that i'll never buy a funcom game again, and that i'll recommend others to go somewhere else. When i buy something (and pay a monthly fee, on top of that !), I want it to work like it's advertised to do. I don't want any excuses or whatever, if the thing isn't finished, then don't let it out. Treating its customers like shit is the worst thing a business can do, and those customers will remember they were fooled, and make the worst things they can to turn that business into worthless crap.
So, i'd say the cost of an early release is not calculable, it's just the worst thing you can do to your business. (On the other hand, the cost of realeasing a finished product is easily calculable, and i understand it's not always easy to feed enough money in the machine without any return, but still... if the venture capitalists listened to what the people who knows what they are doing are telling them, they'd earn much more money in the end. But like allways the silly mindless pricks take the decisions, then call the developpers incompetents.)
it's not a pc issue, more a how many are you ready to cash for it one. Just buy a real server with redundant everything, tons of fans, integrated error reporting and a system which allows real remote administration (that is, even if the machine is off, or the network card is dead, or you want to access the bios, or you need to install an os but don't have the cd in the machine so you need to be able to use an image as a virtual drive)...
We had those things for something like $4000 from HP, probably other vendors have similar things, but the bottom line is: it's really worth the money. We thought we couldn't afford that, but it already payed for itself in a few months because we didn't have to do anything on the machine since they were set up, plus not having to drive 50km everytime we really need physical access...
In fact i think they took an OSX user who just converted to linux, he didn't had the time to grow enough fat yet.
OSX makes you slim, because you have the time to use your computer, and make sport at the same time ! just compare RMS and jobs, it says something.
Linus ain't fat, but he's clearly starving to death, he doesn't have the time to have a meal between all the bugs the fatty bastards are trying to incorporate in the kernel !
Well i guess i looked at it too quickly, or there was a window where their tits where supposed to be ;) ;-)
Still, that's not the problem. As far as i'm concerned they could be totally nude and have hairy 70's like pussies i wouldn't mind. It's the message that is disturbing, because it implies that cheeks are so dumb they'll jump on anyone using ubuntu, just because he's using ubuntu. Because being with a guy who uses Ubuntu makes them look cool, and that's all that matter for them. So, use ubuntu and get all those silly cheeks, at last !
I guess my sister in law feministic views are starting to find their ways in my brain, she intoxicated me
I think they're talking about the desktop background where you can see two nice topless women in the arms of this beautifull guy, with a ubuntu logo on the right. (can't find the link anymore, it's getting slow)
I'm all for naked women everywhere and i'm a anti censorship guy, but this one like saying "take ubuntu, look cool and those mindless beautifull cheeks will think you're so great that you'll have two at a time". I don't think females will like that one bit and this time i can understand why...
Not that noisy, we have two HP ML370 here that makes at least as much noise as your typical vacuum cleaner (didn't measure it, but still...). (They have debian running , and hp fan control stuff will only work on redhat or suse, so they're always blowing at full capacity for now. And there are around 15 fans in there). Still, they're just very high availibility pcs, so it wouldn't have shocked me to hear that the crays make as much noise as a jet engine...
And unlike raskin, he's generally right ;)
Smalltalk feels so superior to java that it makes me laugh. The beauty of its simple concepts have never been matched, and we all know that the real powerfull ideas in cs are often shockingly simple. Only the implications of what you can do with them get quite complicated, just like a chess game.