The initial IE7 beta actually had a 5 or 6 useful search providers- including Google. I'm guessing suits hadn't gotten to it at that time. A couple betas later it only had MSN.
I've used MSH on and off for the past 2 years or so, and I can attest to it being powerful. I'm not a big bash scripter but this sure makes some things easier than what I've experienced in Linux shells.
The big thing is- who wants to wait 4-5 seconds for their shell to launch? And this is in 64-bit with 2 gigs of RAM and MSH ngened (ngen == cache of pre-JITed.NET code). What used to take a split second can now easily take orders of magnitude longer than the script itself takes to run. Plus, it runs inside the old cmd.exe - this means we're still stuck in a non-Unicode world. Good luck trying to run some quick database queries in non-ascii!
It's an admirable attempt but I think it's far too slow for normal use- until they fix that I can't imagine it picking up much of a following.
Redefining what a css pixel is will make things stupid and unpredictable.
But, you can write DPI independant sites now by using pt, em, and ex measurements. Want to test it? Just load up firefox and zoom in/out. If your site keeps the same look, just bigger/smaller (this means the size of columns etc too, not just text), then you are set. The trick comes with images which is basically impossible to do reliably right now as IE doesn't support SVG and Firefox's implementation leaves much to be desired.
I welcome screens with high DPI. We've been stuck at a low res for too damned long.
I don't mind seeing a Burger King sign in a racing game if it's in a place you'd usually see them like on a highway. I don't want to come across a bard in the next Neverwinter Nights telling me how he got his iPod accessories at his local Best Buy.
At the 2005 PDC, Microsoft presented some very interesting ideas on building threading primitives into C++. It wasn't half-assed at all either. If you are serious on the issue I suggest you google for the presentation.
If you don't make assumptions about pointer sizes in your code, always use size_t in the appropriate places, etc, it is generally just a quick recompile for x64. I find a lot of open source code (I'm sure this isn't exclusive to open source, but, well, I can't see closed source!) spits out hundreds to thousands of warnings about assigning the return of strlen() to an int and other similar and usually harmless things, but most of the time it Just Works (tm).
The only area I've ran into things being significantly harder is writing clean lock-free algorithms due to the lack of a CMPXCHG16B instruction in the original spec - only EMT64 and very recent AMD64 models have it. There are a couple ways to hack around this limitation but they aren't very pretty.
This guy loves to feel important so he kicks up as much dirt as possible. I would agree that he does it only for money, but really, where do you make crap like this up? I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if he really believes himself to be the beacon of light, savior for immoral humanity.
Slashdot really needs some better methods to filter posts (maybe use tags?).
I had to return Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory (which I was looking forward to quite a bit!) when Starforce wouldn't let me run it. Fun times trying to return an opened game, especially when the returns people don't know what copy protection is much less Starforce.
It would be awesome if they patched their old games to remove it. I just hope whatever new "protection" scheme they use in their new games will be less retarded.
Yes, they do have something to complain about. I'm sure we (and Toms) expect memory to perform within advertised spec. This is not the issue. These sites are not for the average consumer, and the manufacturers know that. These types of reviews are targeted at overclockers trying to find the best hardware possible, and sending souped up samples gives unrealistic results which only hurt the consumer.
I'm sure the majority of/. would love to buy behemoth hardware to overclock if they had the disposable cash to blow on it. If you were shopping with that in mind, wouldn't you complain about false reviews?
I've run Freenet for ages. It is an excellent idea with a not so excellent implementation. Freenet is currently taking up over 300MB of RAM, and is eating a lot of CPU.
I'm not saying Java is always less efficient. Maybe this could be improved in their codebase. I don't code Java - but I do write C/C++, and I'm certain that Freenet in native code could be orders of magnitude better than what it is now.
This may be taken as a troll, but- What did I miss out on that everyone else seems to have found? I've played Halo for the PC and found it enjoyable, sure, but the amount of praise given to it seems far overblown. Was the Xbox game that different?
There is no magic silver bullet to vectorizing code. Compilers need to guarantee that your app will run how you meant it to run and that is no small task when it needs to infer from a language without explicit parallelism support. If the PS3 uses standard C++, I doubt this compiler will do much to help measurably.
At the last PDC, Microsoft announced some very exciting ideas it is looking at to propose for the next C++ standard that will give language support for parallelism, essentially letting you do things like:
vector<int> vec;
future<int> i = active { return 1+1; };
// do stuff while we wait for i to complete for(int val : vec) active { // process each in parallel }
I hate DRM as much as the next guy, but I think you've got the wrong idea.
While the old tech allowed you to make copies, new tech allows you to make a high quality copy and send it to several hundred people in under an hour with very little effort. So they certainly have a reason to be more worried of copying now than they were before.
That said, I think they've gone from "worried" to "insane" and need to tone it down a bit.
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Zip it up and put it on kazaa as "Olsen Twins Nude.zip" - that'll keep it in circulation for a while, I bet.
The initial IE7 beta actually had a 5 or 6 useful search providers- including Google. I'm guessing suits hadn't gotten to it at that time. A couple betas later it only had MSN.
I've used MSH on and off for the past 2 years or so, and I can attest to it being powerful. I'm not a big bash scripter but this sure makes some things easier than what I've experienced in Linux shells.
.NET code). What used to take a split second can now easily take orders of magnitude longer than the script itself takes to run. Plus, it runs inside the old cmd.exe - this means we're still stuck in a non-Unicode world. Good luck trying to run some quick database queries in non-ascii!
The big thing is- who wants to wait 4-5 seconds for their shell to launch? And this is in 64-bit with 2 gigs of RAM and MSH ngened (ngen == cache of pre-JITed
It's an admirable attempt but I think it's far too slow for normal use- until they fix that I can't imagine it picking up much of a following.
Redefining what a css pixel is will make things stupid and unpredictable.
But, you can write DPI independant sites now by using pt, em, and ex measurements. Want to test it? Just load up firefox and zoom in/out. If your site keeps the same look, just bigger/smaller (this means the size of columns etc too, not just text), then you are set. The trick comes with images which is basically impossible to do reliably right now as IE doesn't support SVG and Firefox's implementation leaves much to be desired.
I welcome screens with high DPI. We've been stuck at a low res for too damned long.
I hope this "explosive growth" will be tasteful.
I don't mind seeing a Burger King sign in a racing game if it's in a place you'd usually see them like on a highway.
I don't want to come across a bard in the next Neverwinter Nights telling me how he got his iPod accessories at his local Best Buy.
At the 2005 PDC, Microsoft presented some very interesting ideas on building threading primitives into C++. It wasn't half-assed at all either. If you are serious on the issue I suggest you google for the presentation.
If you don't make assumptions about pointer sizes in your code, always use size_t in the appropriate places, etc, it is generally just a quick recompile for x64. I find a lot of open source code (I'm sure this isn't exclusive to open source, but, well, I can't see closed source!) spits out hundreds to thousands of warnings about assigning the return of strlen() to an int and other similar and usually harmless things, but most of the time it Just Works (tm).
The only area I've ran into things being significantly harder is writing clean lock-free algorithms due to the lack of a CMPXCHG16B instruction in the original spec - only EMT64 and very recent AMD64 models have it. There are a couple ways to hack around this limitation but they aren't very pretty.
This guy loves to feel important so he kicks up as much dirt as possible. I would agree that he does it only for money, but really, where do you make crap like this up? I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if he really believes himself to be the beacon of light, savior for immoral humanity. Slashdot really needs some better methods to filter posts (maybe use tags?).
I had to return Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory (which I was looking forward to quite a bit!) when Starforce wouldn't let me run it. Fun times trying to return an opened game, especially when the returns people don't know what copy protection is much less Starforce.
It would be awesome if they patched their old games to remove it. I just hope whatever new "protection" scheme they use in their new games will be less retarded.
Yes, they do have something to complain about. I'm sure we (and Toms) expect memory to perform within advertised spec. This is not the issue. These sites are not for the average consumer, and the manufacturers know that. These types of reviews are targeted at overclockers trying to find the best hardware possible, and sending souped up samples gives unrealistic results which only hurt the consumer.
/. would love to buy behemoth hardware to overclock if they had the disposable cash to blow on it. If you were shopping with that in mind, wouldn't you complain about false reviews?
I'm sure the majority of
No, his horrible reputation on Slashdot is from things like this.
No kidding. What happened to the kid may have been unfair but he didn't handle the situation very good by whining about it.
Look at this Andy Milonakis character. This 30yo guy looks like he's 14 and makes an ass of himself on TV every week, probably makes bank off it.
When can I get eyes in the back of my head?
There are plenty of dangerous appliances that are expected to be operated responsibly by their owner. How should this be any different?
Okay then, I'll support his remarks.
I've run Freenet for ages. It is an excellent idea with a not so excellent implementation. Freenet is currently taking up over 300MB of RAM, and is eating a lot of CPU.
I'm not saying Java is always less efficient. Maybe this could be improved in their codebase. I don't code Java - but I do write C/C++, and I'm certain that Freenet in native code could be orders of magnitude better than what it is now.
This may be taken as a troll, but- What did I miss out on that everyone else seems to have found? I've played Halo for the PC and found it enjoyable, sure, but the amount of praise given to it seems far overblown. Was the Xbox game that different?
neko mimi mode! ok.. yes, i'm a loser.
Is Microsoft supposed to completely rewrite all of their already working software? Maybe I was the only one that expects _new_ things to be in .NET.
Obviously the guys who named it watched The Drew Carey Show.
They do, but they havn't named it yet - at the moment it's just called Longhorn Server.
At the last PDC, Microsoft announced some very exciting ideas it is looking at to propose for the next C++ standard that will give language support for parallelism, essentially letting you do things like:
Am I the only one that thought it would make a good intro for the next Resident Evil movie?
I hate DRM as much as the next guy, but I think you've got the wrong idea.
While the old tech allowed you to make copies, new tech allows you to make a high quality copy and send it to several hundred people in under an hour with very little effort. So they certainly have a reason to be more worried of copying now than they were before.
That said, I think they've gone from "worried" to "insane" and need to tone it down a bit.
$20 for four hours of gameplay and old crap that I already have (and don't play)? No thanks. Make it $10 if you already have HL2 - then I'll buy it.
This is ridiculous, how hard is it to make a machine for basic data entry? Is the company who made these machines really that incompetent?