Yes, but you might also consider that for various consoles, the data-media often didn't look all that similar (in concept yes, but different enough in form). I couldn't pop my NES cartridge into an SNES slot.
However, Playstation 2 still uses DVD's, and can read CD's. So will XBox.
End result:
"OK, so I can put my XBox-1 disc in here, and DAMNIT why doesn't it work....!"
Try explaining hardware shader differences to Joe average... he will just see that the old game fits in there and thus should work.
I own a PS2, got a bunch of games for it, plus a bunch of PS1 games (which I previously played emulated on PC).
Now, the PS2 seems to be going dying (it's having issues reading DVD's, oh no!), ah well I bought it used years ago.
Now, if PS3 plays my PS2 games, plus comes out with some decents ones in its own... then I'll probably buy in. I can give my PS2 to somebody who doesn't have one, or maybe mod it for linux, whatever, and still have a spiffy PS2 that handles all my previous consoles.
Just because my eyes are shut doesn't mean my brain isn't working. Plenty of times I've been staring too long at a screen, and I will either:
a) Take a short walk outside around the building to get fresh air
b) Put my head down and rest my brain/eyes
You'd be amazed at how many times one of these will either have the solution pop into my head whilst I'm resting, or come to me shortly afterwards. Banging you head against the wall for a solution is often much less productive than taking a break and hitting it after your brain has spun down.
I've actually had a lot of issues with hotmail in the last... 3-6 months? Email bounce with server errors (accounts aren't full so that's not the problem), or there's a lengthy delay between sending the email and it actually being received.
So, this may not be so much indicative of a problem with hotmail and gmail as it is hotmail in general. Possibly they're lagged in processing the some bazillion spams that must pass through there, anyone have any stats on how much spam passes through hotmail daily?
You could also download it from your linux machine, and then do the whole installation offline
Or better yet, use a morphix bootCD. You should be able to download the patches to Welchia et al directly (not using windows update), then reboot w/o the network cable in, patch, reboot, and you should be able to get the other less critical updates without being infected by RPC viruses.
You do realize, of course, that this would negate the ability of any software - included any that you bought for the specific purpose intended.
Now, it should be illegal to install any software for any purpose other than the media designates (a game should be able to install the game, office software likewike, no secondary hidden DRM or spyware BS, and music should just play). But how do you word it so that you don't encompass too much, or too little?
That's because the "rules" are bounded on our existing knowledge. Way back when the rules stated that if you sailed for too long, you'd fall off the edge of the (flat) earth, or that the sun orbited around the earth.
I'd expect that in the future, what we take for granted as a rule will be stretched, shrunk, or even broken. I'm not sure when it will be "over," but chances are that we'll be over before we learn all we could about the universe (possibly due to misunderstanding how it works).
I find it rather amusing that you mention doom 3 in a post about the rocket... I suppose to satisfy those curious geeks that would rather pay attention to a video game than a possible historic moment in technology.
A question that falls between the two though... since you seem to be working on both (and where do you find the time, man), do you find the knowledge of one can help the other? Game physics aren't quite the same as real-world, but there are probably some simularities. I'll go with the assumption that you were involved in creating the software to general launch "test scenarios" - which is a more fun project?
It's amazing to have somebody who was/is a game-geek cult hero go on to be involved with somethink like a true rocket launch... and I'd imagine you learn a lot at it. Maybe you can add an armadillo easter-egg into D3 somewhere:-)
You could probably manage a small personal mail server in something as small as a Pentium 200MMX. Mine is a K6-2/400 and it runs nicely.
In fact, less is better. So long as it does the job, a lower speed computer should use less power (which, believe it or not, becomes a factor of consideration for a machine that's on 24/7)
In this case, though, it's words vs action. When you actually start planning something in such a way "hey, let's go shoot out the windows of the synogogue" then you've gone from discussion to premeditation. On top of that, hate speech is not protected to begin with. It can, and in many cases, will be censored.
You can have a webpage stating how much you have George Bush and it will be perfectly legal. If you then start planning on said webpage an attempt to assassinate him... then it's a crime.
Sometimes the line is thinner... but in many cases the lined between damnation is pretty thick.
It's worth mentioning also that most are rated 400W max. Much like CD-ROMs (40x max), speakers (150W Max vs 30W RMS), etc it is a measurement of peak and not nominal output.
That being said, even currently all PSU's are not created equal. A decent 400W will power most computers very nicely, with closer to the rated output. A cheap PSU will die, or cause anomalies, or just not do the job as well.
While it's not always true that heavier=better... if your PSU is quite light then chances are it's a cheapy, and you aren't going to often get near the "max" rated output.
I wonder though, if the better PSU's are also more efficient in this manner as per the draw from household current?
By default Windows XP doesn't have a BSOD because MS found that people were associated it with a windows/crashing. Instead, the system will boot, or in many cases simply freeze up.
I get regular freeze-ups when playing various games. I somewhat miss the BSOD, as at least I had an idea what was causing the issue. Could be video drivers, etc but with two XP machines only one of them have the issue (same video/sound card).
Viruses: Do I need to elaborate. If it weren't for my linux boxen firewalling my XP machine, it could get ugly.
Hardware: Honestly, with the interface I'm using on my nix laptop, Celeron 700, it's just as productive at most tasks as my XP2500 desktop (sometimes moreso on the laptop). Some things I can't compare as the Cel only has 256MB RAM vs 750MB
What I'd like to know is the best way to boot software RAID. At the moment, I have a 1GB root partition on disk 1, and then various other partitions for/var/home/usr etc etc
Other than root, everything is RAID-1. But if the primary disk goes down, I will still lose my bootsector and/etc. So weekly, a cron with rsync/etc to the secondary disk. I'm wondering if anyone can think of a better way to do software RAID-1 with two disks (can you RAID your root partition using software RAID?).
That's not where you save though. What you save on, is when SBC's pricing sucks, you can go to an alternative DSL provider without having to purchase a residential phone line/# to connect to. As it is, with my local provider, I cannot get DSL with them (or anyone else to my knowledge, though that may have changed) without a phone # to connect it to.
If a service is included as part of your rent, then you should have a reasonable expectation that it will be supplied with the rental of the apartment. That being, if your service has problems: complain to the landlord. If it isn't fixed within a reasonable amount of time, you can always take them to court for not providing services paid for.
When your rent includes cable, having it broken should be the same as if your water lines, etc have broken.
The problem is, that eventually the old media fade out. I don't have many cassettes myself, but my parents do. In fact, they have a shelf of Beta tapes, then VHS, and from more recently, DVD's.
The big problem is that, to play the old Beta tapes, they still need to keep the old beta plugged in somewhere (that or transfer 50-100 tapes onto VHS/DVD). Same with the VHS player and DVD player.
So right now the main entertainment center has:
Surround sound mixer, Satellite box, DVD player, VHS player... and on another stand there's the Beta machine.
I'm going to make a wide assumption on this one though, and hope that the new format hardware will still read older format DVD's. Backwards compatability will save a lot of hassle in this case. Of course, once DVD goes down, then I'll still need to buy a new player to rent movies...
I'm not sure about other countries, but in Canada you can't even purchase US dish service legally. You can purchaes the Canadian equivilent... but for many of us it doesn't carry the shows we want and most of the rest is crap.
You *can* pirate the signal, but you aren't allowed to purchase it. Go figure.
(To be fair, I believe I've heard that this was a "cultural preservation" thing, more instituted by the gov't to protect local broadcasts)
I've been doing the same, and - oddly enough - gotten almost zero spam from the 50+ aliases I've generated thus far.
In fact, the worst aliases so far have been either my generic alias, or my slashdot one. The slashdot one (which I used when posting stories) isobfuscated when I use it online too... which tells me that either:
a) Somebody didn't like my posting and submitted my unobfuscating email for spam
b) Spammers don't like/.'ers and went to the trouble to determine my real email address
Either one sounds plausible really, since there are a lot of idiots on any online community, but the anti-spam sentiment (and the postal mailbombing that can occur) probably makes/. a prime spambot target.
Yes, but right now the "killer application" is a worm. So far it's only been good at killing batteries. Had it, say, included a 1-900 dialer or mass textmessage spammer, it might also have killed one's bank account.
I'd say the risks outweigh the gains here. If somebody is able to download a new app for their phone, the app itself could probably enable bluetooth for them.
Why do you think I used the word "alledged?" Originally the issue wasn't about the use of the TCP/IP stack, it was that - while programs such as FTP.EXE contained credits to the BSD regents, the TCP DLL's involved did not. By later versions of windows, these were also rewritten, as you mention.
I'm not one of the anti-MS zealots (I use 'nix and MS software equally, and have varying issues with either). The question was basically, if people got a stick up their backside about MS allegedly using the BSD TCP/IP stack improperly, and various people cry on about how MS is probably stealing from other code, how come we don't hear much about anybody delving into the leaked Win2k/NT code for IP violations.
I'm fairly sure that MS sanitizes its code fairly well... because the last thing they want is to be nailed for stealing code (other than the old fashioned kill off the competitor and reap the remains method). However, also given the closed-source nature of MS products, and the generally huge amount of code involved in their projects, I would still not be surprised to see something that snuck in there - whether intentionally or not.
The BSD stack wasn't intended to be an example of theft so much as how MS uses outside code - it can be found regardless of closed/open sourcedness - and how some people jump all over it the minute the find something.
Of course, some people jump all over me the minute they think I am trolling MS. But really, I've personally got enough real things to bitch about MS for rather than dealing with half-baked allegations.
And frankly, so should ISPs and the hardware between them and the rest of the world. I don't really think that 600kbps is for everyone is a proper expectation for this point in time, but it has to be pioneered by some requirement.
Images/etc pushed a need for something better than my old 2400bp/s modem, perhaps online movies/etc will push the need for a system capable of sustaining such media in the future?
I've wondered about this. There has always been the controversy over the alleged theft of the BSD TCP stack, amongst other things. When the source for windows 2K/NT was leaked, how many such similar violations were found?
Much as I wouldn't be surprised to see it happening, I haven't heard much on this myself. I also won't peek at the 2k/NT code because I wouldn't want to be later accused of incorporating MS code in my own projects.
Slashdot Mirror
Yes, but you might also consider that for various consoles, the data-media often didn't look all that similar (in concept yes, but different enough in form). I couldn't pop my NES cartridge into an SNES slot.
However, Playstation 2 still uses DVD's, and can read CD's. So will XBox.
End result:
"OK, so I can put my XBox-1 disc in here, and DAMNIT why doesn't it work....!"
Try explaining hardware shader differences to Joe average... he will just see that the old game fits in there and thus should work.
I own a PS2, got a bunch of games for it, plus a bunch of PS1 games (which I previously played emulated on PC).
Now, the PS2 seems to be going dying (it's having issues reading DVD's, oh no!), ah well I bought it used years ago.
Now, if PS3 plays my PS2 games, plus comes out with some decents ones in its own... then I'll probably buy in. I can give my PS2 to somebody who doesn't have one, or maybe mod it for linux, whatever, and still have a spiffy PS2 that handles all my previous consoles.
Just because my eyes are shut doesn't mean my brain isn't working. Plenty of times I've been staring too long at a screen, and I will either:
a) Take a short walk outside around the building to get fresh air
b) Put my head down and rest my brain/eyes
You'd be amazed at how many times one of these will either have the solution pop into my head whilst I'm resting, or come to me shortly afterwards. Banging you head against the wall for a solution is often much less productive than taking a break and hitting it after your brain has spun down.
I've actually had a lot of issues with hotmail in the last... 3-6 months? Email bounce with server errors (accounts aren't full so that's not the problem), or there's a lengthy delay between sending the email and it actually being received.
So, this may not be so much indicative of a problem with hotmail and gmail as it is hotmail in general. Possibly they're lagged in processing the some bazillion spams that must pass through there, anyone have any stats on how much spam passes through hotmail daily?
You could also download it from your linux machine, and then do the whole installation offline
Or better yet, use a morphix bootCD. You should be able to download the patches to Welchia et al directly (not using windows update), then reboot w/o the network cable in, patch, reboot, and you should be able to get the other less critical updates without being infected by RPC viruses.
You do realize, of course, that this would negate the ability of any software - included any that you bought for the specific purpose intended.
Now, it should be illegal to install any software for any purpose other than the media designates (a game should be able to install the game, office software likewike, no secondary hidden DRM or spyware BS, and music should just play). But how do you word it so that you don't encompass too much, or too little?
That's because the "rules" are bounded on our existing knowledge. Way back when the rules stated that if you sailed for too long, you'd fall off the edge of the (flat) earth, or that the sun orbited around the earth.
I'd expect that in the future, what we take for granted as a rule will be stretched, shrunk, or even broken. I'm not sure when it will be "over," but chances are that we'll be over before we learn all we could about the universe (possibly due to misunderstanding how it works).
I find it rather amusing that you mention doom 3 in a post about the rocket... I suppose to satisfy those curious geeks that would rather pay attention to a video game than a possible historic moment in technology.
:-)
A question that falls between the two though... since you seem to be working on both (and where do you find the time, man), do you find the knowledge of one can help the other? Game physics aren't quite the same as real-world, but there are probably some simularities. I'll go with the assumption that you were involved in creating the software to general launch "test scenarios" - which is a more fun project?
It's amazing to have somebody who was/is a game-geek cult hero go on to be involved with somethink like a true rocket launch... and I'd imagine you learn a lot at it. Maybe you can add an armadillo easter-egg into D3 somewhere
25 MB seems to be a paid upgrade. See here
I think that's been upped from what it used to be though. I believe that previously the paid upgrades were smaller.
You could probably manage a small personal mail server in something as small as a Pentium 200MMX. Mine is a K6-2/400 and it runs nicely.
In fact, less is better. So long as it does the job, a lower speed computer should use less power (which, believe it or not, becomes a factor of consideration for a machine that's on 24/7)
In this case, though, it's words vs action. When you actually start planning something in such a way "hey, let's go shoot out the windows of the synogogue" then you've gone from discussion to premeditation. On top of that, hate speech is not protected to begin with. It can, and in many cases, will be censored.
You can have a webpage stating how much you have George Bush and it will be perfectly legal. If you then start planning on said webpage an attempt to assassinate him... then it's a crime.
Sometimes the line is thinner... but in many cases the lined between damnation is pretty thick.
It's worth mentioning also that most are rated 400W max. Much like CD-ROMs (40x max), speakers (150W Max vs 30W RMS), etc it is a measurement of peak and not nominal output.
That being said, even currently all PSU's are not created equal. A decent 400W will power most computers very nicely, with closer to the rated output. A cheap PSU will die, or cause anomalies, or just not do the job as well.
While it's not always true that heavier=better... if your PSU is quite light then chances are it's a cheapy, and you aren't going to often get near the "max" rated output.
I wonder though, if the better PSU's are also more efficient in this manner as per the draw from household current?
Participants have too much vested interest in the race to ruin it playing with things like this.
Spectators, on the other hand, may have bets on the outcome - in which caes foul play is much more profitable per the risk.
Firstly:
By default Windows XP doesn't have a BSOD because MS found that people were associated it with a windows/crashing. Instead, the system will boot, or in many cases simply freeze up.
I get regular freeze-ups when playing various games. I somewhat miss the BSOD, as at least I had an idea what was causing the issue. Could be video drivers, etc but with two XP machines only one of them have the issue (same video/sound card).
Viruses: Do I need to elaborate. If it weren't for my linux boxen firewalling my XP machine, it could get ugly.
Hardware: Honestly, with the interface I'm using on my nix laptop, Celeron 700, it's just as productive at most tasks as my XP2500 desktop (sometimes moreso on the laptop). Some things I can't compare as the Cel only has 256MB RAM vs 750MB
What I'd like to know is the best way to boot software RAID. At the moment, I have a 1GB root partition on disk 1, and then various other partitions for /var /home /usr etc etc
/etc. So weekly, a cron with rsync /etc to the secondary disk. I'm wondering if anyone can think of a better way to do software RAID-1 with two disks (can you RAID your root partition using software RAID?).
Other than root, everything is RAID-1. But if the primary disk goes down, I will still lose my bootsector and
That's not where you save though. What you save on, is when SBC's pricing sucks, you can go to an alternative DSL provider without having to purchase a residential phone line/# to connect to. As it is, with my local provider, I cannot get DSL with them (or anyone else to my knowledge, though that may have changed) without a phone # to connect it to.
If a service is included as part of your rent, then you should have a reasonable expectation that it will be supplied with the rental of the apartment. That being, if your service has problems: complain to the landlord. If it isn't fixed within a reasonable amount of time, you can always take them to court for not providing services paid for.
When your rent includes cable, having it broken should be the same as if your water lines, etc have broken.
The problem is, that eventually the old media fade out. I don't have many cassettes myself, but my parents do. In fact, they have a shelf of Beta tapes, then VHS, and from more recently, DVD's.
The big problem is that, to play the old Beta tapes, they still need to keep the old beta plugged in somewhere (that or transfer 50-100 tapes onto VHS/DVD). Same with the VHS player and DVD player.
So right now the main entertainment center has:
Surround sound mixer, Satellite box, DVD player, VHS player... and on another stand there's the Beta machine.
I'm going to make a wide assumption on this one though, and hope that the new format hardware will still read older format DVD's. Backwards compatability will save a lot of hassle in this case. Of course, once DVD goes down, then I'll still need to buy a new player to rent movies...
I'm not sure about other countries, but in Canada you can't even purchase US dish service legally. You can purchaes the Canadian equivilent... but for many of us it doesn't carry the shows we want and most of the rest is crap.
You *can* pirate the signal, but you aren't allowed to purchase it. Go figure.
(To be fair, I believe I've heard that this was a "cultural preservation" thing, more instituted by the gov't to protect local broadcasts)
I've been doing the same, and - oddly enough - gotten almost zero spam from the 50+ aliases I've generated thus far.
/.'ers and went to the trouble to determine my real email address
/. a prime spambot target.
In fact, the worst aliases so far have been either my generic alias, or my slashdot one. The slashdot one (which I used when posting stories) isobfuscated when I use it online too... which tells me that either:
a) Somebody didn't like my posting and submitted my unobfuscating email for spam
b) Spammers don't like
Either one sounds plausible really, since there are a lot of idiots on any online community, but the anti-spam sentiment (and the postal mailbombing that can occur) probably makes
Yes, but right now the "killer application" is a worm. So far it's only been good at killing batteries. Had it, say, included a 1-900 dialer or mass textmessage spammer, it might also have killed one's bank account.
I'd say the risks outweigh the gains here. If somebody is able to download a new app for their phone, the app itself could probably enable bluetooth for them.
Except if somebody else's ISP does - and it becomes a selling point.
At that point they'd have to choose to either:
-Offer a competetive/innovative online package
-Modify their Starz package to compete.
Why do you think I used the word "alledged?" Originally the issue wasn't about the use of the TCP/IP stack, it was that - while programs such as FTP.EXE contained credits to the BSD regents, the TCP DLL's involved did not. By later versions of windows, these were also rewritten, as you mention.
I'm not one of the anti-MS zealots (I use 'nix and MS software equally, and have varying issues with either). The question was basically, if people got a stick up their backside about MS allegedly using the BSD TCP/IP stack improperly, and various people cry on about how MS is probably stealing from other code, how come we don't hear much about anybody delving into the leaked Win2k/NT code for IP violations.
I'm fairly sure that MS sanitizes its code fairly well... because the last thing they want is to be nailed for stealing code (other than the old fashioned kill off the competitor and reap the remains method). However, also given the closed-source nature of MS products, and the generally huge amount of code involved in their projects, I would still not be surprised to see something that snuck in there - whether intentionally or not.
The BSD stack wasn't intended to be an example of theft so much as how MS uses outside code - it can be found regardless of closed/open sourcedness - and how some people jump all over it the minute the find something.
Of course, some people jump all over me the minute they think I am trolling MS. But really, I've personally got enough real things to bitch about MS for rather than dealing with half-baked allegations.
And frankly, so should ISPs and the hardware between them and the rest of the world. I don't really think that 600kbps is for everyone is a proper expectation for this point in time, but it has to be pioneered by some requirement.
Images/etc pushed a need for something better than my old 2400bp/s modem, perhaps online movies/etc will push the need for a system capable of sustaining such media in the future?
I've wondered about this. There has always been the controversy over the alleged theft of the BSD TCP stack, amongst other things. When the source for windows 2K/NT was leaked, how many such similar violations were found?
Much as I wouldn't be surprised to see it happening, I haven't heard much on this myself. I also won't peek at the 2k/NT code because I wouldn't want to be later accused of incorporating MS code in my own projects.