The only game I've seen that eats a baseline card is F.E.A.R. From what I can tell, this has a *lot* to do with possible bad programming, as the graphics compared to many other games I've played (just fine thank you on an FX5200) really do suck even on the higher-end cards.
My laptop have a mobile FX5600 chipset in it and runs great. My desktop ran very happily on an FX5200... good enough to run games like Half Life 2 and Quake 4 with ease (main limitation being system RAM).
The FX5200 is a sub-$100 card now... starting to get a bit dated for new games but still good for current offerings as well as desktop.
But what would/could you do with it? I'd be very reluctant to upgrade the kernel or any such thing that would likely be required to install modules/drivers required to do something neat. Nothing would quite suck like having a 'kernel panic' on a $10,000,000 sitting up in orbit... not as if you can press reset to restart it.
I'm home, reading slashdot. I assume because the implication is that most people are lazy and doing it instead of doing work. But wait, I read slashdot at work too... but then again I can have 4 machines tied up doing work for me that I'm waiting on...
But wait again, sometimes a slashdot headline pops up in my news ticket and I read it *gasp* in the middle of doing work. Why? Because some slashdot articles are actually informative on topics related to the work I do... and sometimes I just have a headache and need a break.
I've heard a lot of both good and stupid comments from people here about management. However, the most prevalent are that managers should pay more attention to the workers themselves. The best and most successful managers I've had did just that, and the company ran well. Given that as experience I'd say that you'll get some pretty good advice here along with the bias.., because really there's nowhere you can go to be completely unbiased.
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We have names for employees like you - hourly wage earners. Someone who comes in at 7:30, punches the clock, does exactly as they're told, and goes home after they have 8 hours in, and is never expected to give anything more.
We have names for managers like you. Assholes. People that expect workers to do unpaid overtime, but cut out early themselves to get in a couple early holes at golf.
I'm young, have no kids, and really don't do much in my spare time a lot of the time. I have time to work some extra hours. I've got the energy to learn more on my own. My co-workers... a lot of them have kids, spouses. They get home from work to a sink with dishes and kids that want dinner. Between the two of us, which do you think needs a promotion more?
I won't complain when you hand me a wage. But when Bob with 3 kids and an ex-wife is barely scraping by because you've passed him up for a wage increase due to the fact that he isn't doing extra, I still think you're a jerk. Being a manager isn't about micromanaging. It's about working for an understanding the people who you are supposed to manage. My best managers have been the ones that were in-touch with their employees.
So when you see Bob doing his job with a morose look on his face, clocking out at-the-minute and heading home... you as a crap manager might assume it's because he lacks competance. A good manager might have listened around or talked to Bob and learned that his mother just died, or something similar.
I have no respect for people who whine, dick around, and waste resources when they could be working. I also have no respect for managers who have no skill at understanding their workers, and expect them to work themselves to the bone. There's nothing wrong with doing your job as your told. It's a big difference between requiring directions every 5 seconds, but it's a sad day when somebody gets screwed over just for coming in and doing the work they were hired to do.
Bullshit. I don't know about WiFi but I know plenty of reasons to do targetted searches. One is similar to advertising, but it would be to deliver targetted results based on locations. If you're looking for a particular product, perhaps local merchants would show up first (something that should be opt-outable).
By other uses for tracking, there are plenty. I was on vacation in Seattle recently and searching up various locations and/or sites. Quite often I would get mixed results from similarly named items in different places. Now if it had tracked me down as in a Seattle hotel, it could have said 'hey, this guy is in Seattle, let's give him Seattle-relevant results first'
Other times, I'll be looking up local laws or case files (I had a civil injury case going for awhile). Most of my results were US.... but if google got better at tailoring them to my country/region it would have been much more helpful. Again, it might be a good option to be disabled, but tailoring results (or results order) to give precedence by area is not useful just for advertising.
Well, as a Canadian whenever I hit the google site I'm redirected to the google.ca site. When I was in Australia on holidays I believe it was google.com.au
Now my brain may be fuzzy, but I believe that various searches would tailor items for the area... tryit.
You'll notice that the advertising banners are different. For me it came up with a banner for woolworth's. Throw a little more info in there and perhaps in the future it would be grabbing stores based on proximity, such as displaying city local results first, then regional, state/province, and national/intercontinental. It's not part of the main search results but such an idea still has relevence.
Personally, such usage isn't a big deal to me. The only think I worry about is that when I'm studying a topic on perhaps a song or whatever and google caches that as my search, then somebody requests said info when trying to nail me for music piracy (which I bother with anyways, but I'm sure there might be something similar).
This sounds like a real kick in the pants to the doom3 engine. Previously, there was a good industry in selling the rights to use/modify the game engines from doom/quake in commercial products. Apparently effects is beaten out by physics in this case though, as the HL2 engine seems to be the one now selling for derivative products.
I wonder if HL2's engine will have as many derived projects as doom/quake did.
Whenever people make comments like this I really have to wonder what they're thinking. People aren't going to crowd the family in front of the PC instead of the TV, or huddle around the cellphone with a 3" screen. They're going to take it on the bus, or to a hotel. The 'cinematic experience' is fine when you're going to be at home, but I doubt you're going to carry around your surround-sound system and projection TV.
Personally I'd prefer to have a book, but not everyone's big into reading so I can understand the desire for convenience devices.
The passports will also include a 'Tin Hat' that limits the RFID signal to only a few inches
I've got to wonder why, in this case, they don't use Magcards instead of RFID. Older technology, yes, but not any more limited for the use given, and a bit more secure as they require contact with the card to read. If they're supposedly going to limit the RFID to magcard limits, why not just use a magcard?
I read in a previous post that the rootkit installed various activeX controls on your system. This would explain it being IE only, and would be counter to the objection that they aren't dumb enough to try the same trick twice.
Never underestimate the power of stupidity in the face of possible profit.
Actually, that gives me a great idea. A lot of newer anti-copying programs, anti-cracks, etc try to detect running apps (such as programs used to mount ISO images, etc) that could allow copying. Why not remake the crack too allow the ISO-mounters to work... it woul be incredibly ironic if Sony's attempt to enforce draconian protection produced a new and wonderful way to avoid other protection(s).
Hoglund noted that the text strings in title bars could easily contain credit card details or social security numbers.
Since when would a site submit a URL in the title? I assume this is for sites which don't have a <TITLE> tag, and just display the URL as the title. Even in that case, any website that submits a document with such information in the GET string is asking for trouble. It would allow it, among other things, to be viewed in the document history etc.
We need to stop jumping every perceived violation. There seems to be a witch-hunt on for privacy/security violators, and often the assumptions of what 'could' create a security risk falls into the realm of pretty silly...
I'd say that this little rootkit might just f*ck it for anyone who listens to music at work. I remember laughing at a friend because his mom made him virus-scan all his CD's before putting them in the computer, because I big corp wouldn't bundle a virus, right?
So what happens when it gets out that music CD's will install a backdoor into you system. You will *not* be allowed to listen to you CD's at work.
On the bright side though, I'm hoping that a big corporation gets infected with Sony's little backdoor and then has them for lunch in court. There is no consent given to install the software, and installing a rootkit on a music CD is for all intents and purposes no more legal than sticking a spycam in with a light-fixture or something similar...
Why woudld they do that. If they have a copy of windows, a withdrawal from the market by MS isn't going to force them to throw out their existing copies. At most it would probably delay them from getting versions of the next MS Operating System, which wouldn't be immediately needed to play games and which would probably want to go through the post-release public testing MS is famous for anyhow.
The next swing-by will be 2018. If any countries were looking to visit Mars for exploration/excavation/colonization/etc, wouldn't planning for one of these time-frames be a good idea. Certainly it would save off a lot of travel distance, given that it is nearly 1/4 of the regular distance from Earth. With that in mind though, expeditions would still need to start off long before the actual event... I'm sure that it takes a rather long time to travel 43,000,000 miles.
I don't know what speeds exactly rockets travel at, but at Mach 2 (earth relativistic since there's not air in space, but about 1200-1400MPH give or take depending on altitude)
43000000Mi/1400 Mi/h= 30714.29 h
30714.29 h / 24 h/day = 1280d
1280 d / 360 d/year = 3.5 years
So to make the next pass-by they have to leave at 2014 or so using Mach 2 as an estimate (again I have no idea on actual sustained rocket speeds, but I'm still guessing a significant lead-time)
It involves to some extent the same character, and the same basic archetype and plotline. There are a lot of games in a 'series' that are very different, hell anythin g that still is around from the old days has pretty much gone 3d. Look at the mario games for GameCube vs NES. I've been playing Metroid Prime lately and while the gameplay is vastly different, there are identifyable elements particular to the series.
You should notice that you aren't charged a restocking fee on defective hardware, nor are you charged for returns when the manufacturer recalls them due to a safety defect. Paying for somebody else's screwup is never good.
Currently, local service sucks because their motto is "You signed a contract. We own you for 3 years. Bend over and try to enjoy the ride."
Seriously, the attitude of current providers seem no better. I'm a Canadian though, but from those in the US I know the attitude is the same. Service coverage sucks in various areas: we don't have many customers there, touch sh*t for you, you signed a contract. Billing screws up monthly (and for a co-worker of mine, it did, every month like clockwork, and never in his favour)... too bad, you signed a contract... either call at every billing period to (hopefully) get it fixed, or eat the extra charges.
Your cellphone broke. Here, we'll charge you $10 to copy your phonebook to another, inferior loaner-phone, then take your for three months only to tell you warrantee doesn't cover it because it is broken due to user abuse.
Seriously, service sucked in the past, but with the current trend of contracts or just lack of proper competition, you're still pretty much as f*cked as you were before - perhaps more.
But to copy a copy-protected disc, you need to crack the protection to a degree. It's still more of a pain than an unhindered disk, but less of a pain for me to stick the 1GB image on my 160GB fileserver along with ISO's of other various games I have.
For myself, I've had less than stellar luck ripping my own discs, despite finding numerous programs that are supposed to help me. So sometimes the download of a large image is still less annoying than constantly inserting a new disc or having to figure out have to rip my own protected discs.
It's sad though. One of the hinderances to projects like wine are that they cannot get the method to break copy-protection on an open-source project, while the binary versions of Cedega (which you pay to subscribe for) do. In this case, full-cracked rather than copy-cracked images are much nicer.
On the one hand, I find it sad that some gomer would immediately put up a link to a download of this game. On the other, if I decide to buy it, the link might come in very handy as I would be able to avoid the requirement of a CD every time I play.
Still, at the very least posting such a link is quite disrespectful given the Civ IV Team has been very forthcoming in their answers.
Most of that massive speed difference is due to XML being very processor intensive, but Microsoft still handles its own XML files about 7 times faster than OpenOffice.org handles OpenDocument ODS format and uses far less memory than OpenOffice.org
From my experience OO can open Office-formatted files. What is the comparison between OO loading an MS-Office format file and MS-Office loading its own format?
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The only game I've seen that eats a baseline card is F.E.A.R. From what I can tell, this has a *lot* to do with possible bad programming, as the graphics compared to many other games I've played (just fine thank you on an FX5200) really do suck even on the higher-end cards.
My laptop have a mobile FX5600 chipset in it and runs great. My desktop ran very happily on an FX5200... good enough to run games like Half Life 2 and Quake 4 with ease (main limitation being system RAM).
The FX5200 is a sub-$100 card now... starting to get a bit dated for new games but still good for current offerings as well as desktop.
But what would/could you do with it? I'd be very reluctant to upgrade the kernel or any such thing that would likely be required to install modules/drivers required to do something neat. Nothing would quite suck like having a 'kernel panic' on a $10,000,000 sitting up in orbit... not as if you can press reset to restart it.
I'm home, reading slashdot. I assume because the implication is that most people are lazy and doing it instead of doing work. But wait, I read slashdot at work too... but then again I can have 4 machines tied up doing work for me that I'm waiting on...
But wait again, sometimes a slashdot headline pops up in my news ticket and I read it *gasp* in the middle of doing work. Why? Because some slashdot articles are actually informative on topics related to the work I do... and sometimes I just have a headache and need a break.
I've heard a lot of both good and stupid comments from people here about management. However, the most prevalent are that managers should pay more attention to the workers themselves. The best and most successful managers I've had did just that, and the company ran well. Given that as experience I'd say that you'll get some pretty good advice here along with the bias.., because really there's nowhere you can go to be completely unbiased.
We have names for employees like you - hourly wage earners. Someone who comes in at 7:30, punches the clock, does exactly as they're told, and goes home after they have 8 hours in, and is never expected to give anything more.
We have names for managers like you. Assholes. People that expect workers to do unpaid overtime, but cut out early themselves to get in a couple early holes at golf.
I'm young, have no kids, and really don't do much in my spare time a lot of the time. I have time to work some extra hours. I've got the energy to learn more on my own. My co-workers... a lot of them have kids, spouses. They get home from work to a sink with dishes and kids that want dinner. Between the two of us, which do you think needs a promotion more?
I won't complain when you hand me a wage. But when Bob with 3 kids and an ex-wife is barely scraping by because you've passed him up for a wage increase due to the fact that he isn't doing extra, I still think you're a jerk. Being a manager isn't about micromanaging. It's about working for an understanding the people who you are supposed to manage. My best managers have been the ones that were in-touch with their employees.
So when you see Bob doing his job with a morose look on his face, clocking out at-the-minute and heading home... you as a crap manager might assume it's because he lacks competance. A good manager might have listened around or talked to Bob and learned that his mother just died, or something similar.
I have no respect for people who whine, dick around, and waste resources when they could be working. I also have no respect for managers who have no skill at understanding their workers, and expect them to work themselves to the bone. There's nothing wrong with doing your job as your told. It's a big difference between requiring directions every 5 seconds, but it's a sad day when somebody gets screwed over just for coming in and doing the work they were hired to do.
Bullshit. I don't know about WiFi but I know plenty of reasons to do targetted searches. One is similar to advertising, but it would be to deliver targetted results based on locations. If you're looking for a particular product, perhaps local merchants would show up first (something that should be opt-outable).
By other uses for tracking, there are plenty. I was on vacation in Seattle recently and searching up various locations and/or sites. Quite often I would get mixed results from similarly named items in different places. Now if it had tracked me down as in a Seattle hotel, it could have said 'hey, this guy is in Seattle, let's give him Seattle-relevant results first'
Other times, I'll be looking up local laws or case files (I had a civil injury case going for awhile). Most of my results were US.... but if google got better at tailoring them to my country/region it would have been much more helpful. Again, it might be a good option to be disabled, but tailoring results (or results order) to give precedence by area is not useful just for advertising.
Well, as a Canadian whenever I hit the google site I'm redirected to the google.ca site. When I was in Australia on holidays I believe it was google.com.au
Now my brain may be fuzzy, but I believe that various searches would tailor items for the area... try it.
You'll notice that the advertising banners are different. For me it came up with a banner for woolworth's. Throw a little more info in there and perhaps in the future it would be grabbing stores based on proximity, such as displaying city local results first, then regional, state/province, and national/intercontinental. It's not part of the main search results but such an idea still has relevence.
Personally, such usage isn't a big deal to me. The only think I worry about is that when I'm studying a topic on perhaps a song or whatever and google caches that as my search, then somebody requests said info when trying to nail me for music piracy (which I bother with anyways, but I'm sure there might be something similar).
This sounds like a real kick in the pants to the doom3 engine. Previously, there was a good industry in selling the rights to use/modify the game engines from doom/quake in commercial products. Apparently effects is beaten out by physics in this case though, as the HL2 engine seems to be the one now selling for derivative products.
I wonder if HL2's engine will have as many derived projects as doom/quake did.
Whenever people make comments like this I really have to wonder what they're thinking. People aren't going to crowd the family in front of the PC instead of the TV, or huddle around the cellphone with a 3" screen. They're going to take it on the bus, or to a hotel. The 'cinematic experience' is fine when you're going to be at home, but I doubt you're going to carry around your surround-sound system and projection TV.
Personally I'd prefer to have a book, but not everyone's big into reading so I can understand the desire for convenience devices.
The passports will also include a 'Tin Hat' that limits the RFID signal to only a few inches
I've got to wonder why, in this case, they don't use Magcards instead of RFID. Older technology, yes, but not any more limited for the use given, and a bit more secure as they require contact with the card to read. If they're supposedly going to limit the RFID to magcard limits, why not just use a magcard?
I read in a previous post that the rootkit installed various activeX controls on your system. This would explain it being IE only, and would be counter to the objection that they aren't dumb enough to try the same trick twice.
Never underestimate the power of stupidity in the face of possible profit.
Actually, that gives me a great idea. A lot of newer anti-copying programs, anti-cracks, etc try to detect running apps (such as programs used to mount ISO images, etc) that could allow copying. Why not remake the crack too allow the ISO-mounters to work... it woul be incredibly ironic if Sony's attempt to enforce draconian protection produced a new and wonderful way to avoid other protection(s).
It's more likely in a browser, but as stupid as if not more stupid to have it shown in the title bar of a normal applicaton.
Hoglund noted that the text strings in title bars could easily contain credit card details or social security numbers.
Since when would a site submit a URL in the title? I assume this is for sites which don't have a <TITLE> tag, and just display the URL as the title. Even in that case, any website that submits a document with such information in the GET string is asking for trouble. It would allow it, among other things, to be viewed in the document history etc.
We need to stop jumping every perceived violation. There seems to be a witch-hunt on for privacy/security violators, and often the assumptions of what 'could' create a security risk falls into the realm of pretty silly...
I'd say that this little rootkit might just f*ck it for anyone who listens to music at work. I remember laughing at a friend because his mom made him virus-scan all his CD's before putting them in the computer, because I big corp wouldn't bundle a virus, right?
So what happens when it gets out that music CD's will install a backdoor into you system. You will *not* be allowed to listen to you CD's at work.
On the bright side though, I'm hoping that a big corporation gets infected with Sony's little backdoor and then has them for lunch in court. There is no consent given to install the software, and installing a rootkit on a music CD is for all intents and purposes no more legal than sticking a spycam in with a light-fixture or something similar...
Why woudld they do that. If they have a copy of windows, a withdrawal from the market by MS isn't going to force them to throw out their existing copies. At most it would probably delay them from getting versions of the next MS Operating System, which wouldn't be immediately needed to play games and which would probably want to go through the post-release public testing MS is famous for anyhow.
Some are, some aren't. We're in the process of putting in managed at the trouble sites.
The next swing-by will be 2018. If any countries were looking to visit Mars for exploration/excavation/colonization/etc, wouldn't planning for one of these time-frames be a good idea. Certainly it would save off a lot of travel distance, given that it is nearly 1/4 of the regular distance from Earth. With that in mind though, expeditions would still need to start off long before the actual event... I'm sure that it takes a rather long time to travel 43,000,000 miles.
I don't know what speeds exactly rockets travel at, but at Mach 2 (earth relativistic since there's not air in space, but about 1200-1400MPH give or take depending on altitude)
43000000Mi/1400 Mi/h= 30714.29 h
30714.29 h / 24 h/day = 1280d
1280 d / 360 d/year = 3.5 years
So to make the next pass-by they have to leave at 2014 or so using Mach 2 as an estimate (again I have no idea on actual sustained rocket speeds, but I'm still guessing a significant lead-time)
It involves to some extent the same character, and the same basic archetype and plotline. There are a lot of games in a 'series' that are very different, hell anythin g that still is around from the old days has pretty much gone 3d. Look at the mario games for GameCube vs NES. I've been playing Metroid Prime lately and while the gameplay is vastly different, there are identifyable elements particular to the series.
Not that it would do him any good, but why wouldn't they have a military judge that could deal with such sensitive issues?
You should notice that you aren't charged a restocking fee on defective hardware, nor are you charged for returns when the manufacturer recalls them due to a safety defect. Paying for somebody else's screwup is never good.
Currently, local service sucks because their motto is "You signed a contract. We own you for 3 years. Bend over and try to enjoy the ride."
Seriously, the attitude of current providers seem no better. I'm a Canadian though, but from those in the US I know the attitude is the same. Service coverage sucks in various areas: we don't have many customers there, touch sh*t for you, you signed a contract. Billing screws up monthly (and for a co-worker of mine, it did, every month like clockwork, and never in his favour)... too bad, you signed a contract... either call at every billing period to (hopefully) get it fixed, or eat the extra charges.
Your cellphone broke. Here, we'll charge you $10 to copy your phonebook to another, inferior loaner-phone, then take your for three months only to tell you warrantee doesn't cover it because it is broken due to user abuse.
Seriously, service sucked in the past, but with the current trend of contracts or just lack of proper competition, you're still pretty much as f*cked as you were before - perhaps more.
But to copy a copy-protected disc, you need to crack the protection to a degree. It's still more of a pain than an unhindered disk, but less of a pain for me to stick the 1GB image on my 160GB fileserver along with ISO's of other various games I have.
For myself, I've had less than stellar luck ripping my own discs, despite finding numerous programs that are supposed to help me. So sometimes the download of a large image is still less annoying than constantly inserting a new disc or having to figure out have to rip my own protected discs.
It's sad though. One of the hinderances to projects like wine are that they cannot get the method to break copy-protection on an open-source project, while the binary versions of Cedega (which you pay to subscribe for) do. In this case, full-cracked rather than copy-cracked images are much nicer.
On the one hand, I find it sad that some gomer would immediately put up a link to a download of this game. On the other, if I decide to buy it, the link might come in very handy as I would be able to avoid the requirement of a CD every time I play.
Still, at the very least posting such a link is quite disrespectful given the Civ IV Team has been very forthcoming in their answers.
Most of that massive speed difference is due to XML being very processor intensive, but Microsoft still handles its own XML files about 7 times faster than OpenOffice.org handles OpenDocument ODS format and uses far less memory than OpenOffice.org
From my experience OO can open Office-formatted files. What is the comparison between OO loading an MS-Office format file and MS-Office loading its own format?