Unless the results are released into the public domain or at least licensed under a BSD- or GPL-style license, I'm not touching it.
Id love to download a client that support your open-results based medical lab developing a cure for SARS. Sine you dont have one and there is no one else to be found I see this as the second best thing. In my book, developing a cure that will make someone else money is better than developing no cure at all.
Please provide a link and I will switch in a clockcycle.
I frankly get a bit nervous about certain integrated systems that drive many aspects of the nation's critical infrastructure where there is no domestic producer.
Quit whining, you still have Microsoft to rely on!:P
I think the US or any country for that matter should apply the same level of taxes for this as it does on other products.
No product should be subsidized by the government wether it is US steel or European grain in any country that embrace free trade.
Either you let free trade show its advantages and disadvantages by letting it run free or you impose the same level of taxes/fees for all imports. I hate to say this but if someone beats your prices by 50% then taxes is not going to be of much help in the long run if the quality of the delivery is good enough.
PunkBuster is just another piece of software. What stops it from being hacked just like the game?
You are right and Punkbuster has been circumvented and hacked in the past.
The difference however is that the company that developed the game seldom provide a good way to stop new cheats fast. PunkBuster provides protection against cheats, and does ONLY that while the developing companies might very well have moved on to different projects and so on...
Maybe so, but theres always this little DOS util if write access is needed.
There is no problem building a boot disk for BSD to bypass security either, by the way....
Its sad to see when people with good ideas being a bit ahead of their time run out of resources to develop their idea into something really big.
I take off my hat for them for being one of the pioneers of something that clearly is a part of the future... GG
I remember when some BBS'es began to replicate forums from the early internet in the same way fidonet did from BBS to BBS.
Amazingly slow and you had to wait days for everything to replicate (kinda like DNS,:P )
But it still gives me a fuzzy fealing to see myself listed in old "GreEtZ" in "elitE".NFO files. If i could go back in time I would smack myself for raising the phone bill just to transfer [insert all kind of crap here] with a 2400 modem connection.
A whole bunch of old ANSI/ASCII nfo-files and screendumps from BBS:es long gone can be found at defacto2.net
Well, I used to search with AltaVista until I tried google. Google loaded up faster and for a while I used AV and google 50-50. Then one day, there it was! A big, angry, ugly popup on my screen... I hadn't had any need for a popup killer before since they weren't as common as they are now and I sure as hell was not going to use a search engine that had any.
Now, the searches are 80% google and 20 alltheweb for me..... No more AV and it would take a lot of recommendations to get me to give them another log entry.
" I miss good ol' Digger and Prince of Persia. Soon after I updated my PC to 286, I lost Digger (cuz it was too fast on 286.)"
Yeah, but there is a trick you see... Press the little button next to "power". It should be labled "Turbo".
This will immidiately disconnect the Turbo charger from your main computer engine and make it a slower "digger". =)
I see your point and it actually is valid. Witha a big "However".
Console (action) games right now are more advanced than their PC equivalents IMO.
However, I remember when the Amiga games was many years in front of PC games but that is no longer the case.
Also, when the first Playstation came out, games like NHL, MicroMachines and Wipeout surely beat PC games easy!
Then came a period with incredible PC games with no real challenge from the console market, like Starcraft, Counterstrike and Quake.
Now, a new set of consoles are making their way and we might see a migration from PC gaming to console gaming.... But my intuition says that we have not likely seen the last of PC gaming as the PC is always developing in the background while the consoles takes a couple of years between their generations.
I am not proving you wrong since you are absolutely correct.
However, replacing a GeForce2 card with a GeForce4 card might not give you the perfomance boost you might think.
If you take a closer look at the systems most providers of "test results" use to actually test the hardware on, you wont find your average AMD T-bird 1000.
Most of theese new gfx cards from ATI and Nvidia more or less require enough raw CPU and memory power to be able to provide the GFX card with enough data to actually make a difference.
I am not saying you are wrong, just that you should think about what harware upgrades you do and that they might not provide anything in terms of increased performance.
Seiously, first statement: All things demanding high bandwitdh (like sending video streams and such) can already be done with 2.5G.
Second statement: Hello Kitty may be key to 3G success.
Coclusion: "Hello Kitty" clones can't be done with 2.5G?
Thats like comparing modems with DSL, browsing the web and look at pr0n works with a modem, why would I need a DSL connection?
People, please. If all efforts to understand it concepts of this package fails. Read the README. Ok, I now it's cheating but still...
Quoted from the README:
"Vastly more coming soon; hopefully this helps a bit.
Yes, this is pretty pitiful."
Well,
I am an employee of another Siemens company (not Fujitsu) doing networking and system integration/implementation mainly based on Fujitsu's products.
Siemens has roughly 400.000 employees, most of them with a Fujitsu PC standing on their desks. I have no personal experience in large scale HD failure on either laptops or desktops although that segment is not really my piece of candy.
Internal statistics form various helpdesks around the globe does not report any alarming figures regarding HD failures either.
In the server segment we have had some really bad problems with Fujitsu servers that have failing SCSI backplanes. At first, Fujitsu refused to see this as a problem, treating every case as it was the first time they heard of the problem. We got deliveries of machines where as many as 8/10 failed the DOA tests because of this very problem.
Now they will take care of this problem and replace the malfunctioning parts.
I am sad to say, and I should know this, that Fujitsu is not very good at admiting their problems until they have a complete fix for it and a routine to solve the problem. When they do have a solution they have always been very easy to deal with in order to get the problem solved.
This is however totally unacceptable to private consumers as they will have to deal with their local computer shops instead of with the company itself....
Dammit!
One of my favorite arguments when talking to people that thinks that broadband prices are to high for everyone to afford was that, "hmm, when did internet access become part of the human rights?".
Now i'll have to find a new argument... grrrr
Don't be so negative about fruit flies.
They can train fruit flies to a number of different things... I read about single flies that were trained to avoid a course toward a visual object that had been associated with the aversive odor benzaldehyde. (to quote the site)
Study your flies on cshl.org
Don't be so negative about fruit flies.
They can train fruit flies to a number of different things... I read about single flies that were trained to avoid a course toward a visual object that had been associated with the aversive odor benzaldehyde. (to quote the site)
Study your flies on cshl.org
I don't have anything to hide... so I don't mind this.
Now thats an interesting attitude. Perhaps you have nothing illegal to hide (that you know of) but maybe you don't want [insert anyone] to know every step you take? You might not want your employer to know that you have been going to interviews at a compediting company? Or your wife to know that you spend more time at your local bar than you should? A bit extreme perhaps, but i still don't like it.
Oh, did i mention that turning off your phone isn't going to help? Batteries out is the key....
If an invasion of your privacy isn't a big deal to you then I don't even know where to start the argument..
No. Dolby AC3 would take 384 kbit/s, for all channels.
If that was the case, no one would be happier tha me but as far as I know an AC3 (encoded Dolby 5.1) stream (48kHz, 16bit) uses roughly around 1.5 mbs of bandwidth. This is according to some online test results i have read, but if you know otherwize, please convince me!
If you do a 6-channel, 96kHz, 24bit, uncompressed audio stream, it uses roughly 13Mbs of bandwidth.
This is all dependant on the compression ofcourse, but I cant find anything more than the standard includes a broad range of audio and video technologies that allow a wide variety of different applications, online and offline. about audio in the article. After that they go on to discussing MPEG-3 type sound....
When i watch movies on my computer i never notice the sound, even if it had mp3 quality sound i wouldn't care. The video is the most noticed aspect.
Yes, well one of te reasons I rather rent/buy the DVD is that my TV screen is LARGER than my monitor. I also have a remote. But that really doesnt matter since other people may have plasma screens of 62"... Besides that the top reason is that I *cannot* take afvantage of the sound since:
1: The sound is encoded with something that sounds like mp3 if I got the article correct. MP3 is stereo (dolby Pro-Logic) and most sound cards are stereo although some new ones are actually 5.1
2: My AC3 amplifier is better than ANY soundcard you can possibly come up with in the near future
The sound may not matter when watching on your computer with headphones but my guessing is that they are actualy trying to develop technology to change the way we rent DVD's and watch TV. They can't do this until the experience gets better than it is with the old technology. Im sorry, just because it's new, it isn't better in my oppinion.
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Unless the results are released into the public domain or at least licensed under a BSD- or GPL-style license, I'm not touching it.
Id love to download a client that support your open-results based medical lab developing a cure for SARS.
Sine you dont have one and there is no one else to be found I see this as the second best thing.
In my book, developing a cure that will make someone else money is better than developing no cure at all.
Please provide a link and I will switch in a clockcycle.
I frankly get a bit nervous about certain integrated systems that drive many aspects of the nation's critical infrastructure where there is no domestic producer.
:P
Quit whining, you still have Microsoft to rely on!
I think the US or any country for that matter should apply the same level of taxes for this as it does on other products.
No product should be subsidized by the government wether it is US steel or European grain in any country that embrace free trade.
Either you let free trade show its advantages and disadvantages by letting it run free or you impose the same level of taxes/fees for all imports.
I hate to say this but if someone beats your prices by 50% then taxes is not going to be of much help in the long run if the quality of the delivery is good enough.
PunkBuster is just another piece of software. What stops it from being hacked just like the game?
You are right and Punkbuster has been circumvented and hacked in the past.
The difference however is that the company that developed the game seldom provide a good way to stop new cheats fast. PunkBuster provides protection against cheats, and does ONLY that while the developing companies might very well have moved on to different projects and so on...
Something about Freud and goatse.cx comes to mind.....
Maybe so, but theres always this little DOS util if write access is needed.
There is no problem building a boot disk for BSD to bypass security either, by the way....
Its sad to see when people with good ideas being a bit ahead of their time run out of resources to develop their idea into something really big.
I take off my hat for them for being one of the pioneers of something that clearly is a part of the future... GG
I remember when some BBS'es began to replicate forums from the early internet in the same way fidonet did from BBS to BBS. :P ) .NFO files.
Amazingly slow and you had to wait days for everything to replicate (kinda like DNS,
But it still gives me a fuzzy fealing to see myself listed in old "GreEtZ" in "elitE"
If i could go back in time I would smack myself for raising the phone bill just to transfer [insert all kind of crap here] with a 2400 modem connection.
A whole bunch of old ANSI/ASCII nfo-files and screendumps from BBS:es long gone can be found at defacto2.net
"So whatever DID happen to Alta Vista?"
Well, I used to search with AltaVista until I tried google. Google loaded up faster and for a while I used AV and google 50-50.
Then one day, there it was! A big, angry, ugly popup on my screen... I hadn't had any need for a popup killer before since they weren't as common as they are now and I sure as hell was not going to use a search engine that had any.
Now, the searches are 80% google and 20 alltheweb for me..... No more AV and it would take a lot of recommendations to get me to give them another log entry.
" I miss good ol' Digger and Prince of Persia. Soon after I updated my PC to 286, I lost Digger (cuz it was too fast on 286.)"
Yeah, but there is a trick you see... Press the little button next to "power". It should be labled "Turbo".
This will immidiately disconnect the Turbo charger from your main computer engine and make it a slower "digger". =)
I see your point and it actually is valid. Witha a big "However".
Console (action) games right now are more advanced than their PC equivalents IMO.
However, I remember when the Amiga games was many years in front of PC games but that is no longer the case. Also, when the first Playstation came out, games like NHL, MicroMachines and Wipeout surely beat PC games easy!
Then came a period with incredible PC games with no real challenge from the console market, like Starcraft, Counterstrike and Quake.
Now, a new set of consoles are making their way and we might see a migration from PC gaming to console gaming.... But my intuition says that we have not likely seen the last of PC gaming as the PC is always developing in the background while the consoles takes a couple of years between their generations.
I am not proving you wrong since you are absolutely correct.
However, replacing a GeForce2 card with a GeForce4 card might not give you the perfomance boost you might think.
If you take a closer look at the systems most providers of "test results" use to actually test the hardware on, you wont find your average AMD T-bird 1000.
Most of theese new gfx cards from ATI and Nvidia more or less require enough raw CPU and memory power to be able to provide the GFX card with enough data to actually make a difference.
I am not saying you are wrong, just that you should think about what harware upgrades you do and that they might not provide anything in terms of increased performance.
#!usr/bin/perl
print "Hello Kitty...\n";
Seiously, first statement: All things demanding high bandwitdh (like sending video streams and such) can already be done with 2.5G.
Second statement: Hello Kitty may be key to 3G success.
Coclusion: "Hello Kitty" clones can't be done with 2.5G?
Thats like comparing modems with DSL, browsing the web and look at pr0n works with a modem, why would I need a DSL connection?
Didn't Moses have the first tablet PC? The only application it ran was TenCommandments(R)
...As Moses said when he dropped the stone tablets on his foot.
"Theese arguments are really heavy, dude"
People, please. If all efforts to understand it concepts of this package fails. Read the README. Ok, I now it's cheating but still...
Quoted from the README:
"Vastly more coming soon; hopefully this helps a bit.
Yes, this is pretty pitiful."
Get it??
Well,
I am an employee of another Siemens company (not Fujitsu) doing networking and system integration/implementation mainly based on Fujitsu's products.
Siemens has roughly 400.000 employees, most of them with a Fujitsu PC standing on their desks.
I have no personal experience in large scale HD failure on either laptops or desktops although that segment is not really my piece of candy.
Internal statistics form various helpdesks around the globe does not report any alarming figures regarding HD failures either.
In the server segment we have had some really bad problems with Fujitsu servers that have failing SCSI backplanes.
At first, Fujitsu refused to see this as a problem, treating every case as it was the first time they heard of the problem. We got deliveries of machines where as many as 8/10 failed the DOA tests because of this very problem.
Now they will take care of this problem and replace the malfunctioning parts.
I am sad to say, and I should know this, that Fujitsu is not very good at admiting their problems until they have a complete fix for it and a routine to solve the problem. When they do have a solution they have always been very easy to deal with in order to get the problem solved.
This is however totally unacceptable to private consumers as they will have to deal with their local computer shops instead of with the company itself....
a very MINOR operation by the car manufacturers could give each automobile a distinct magnetic signature, similar to a magnetic VIN
Good thing i know where to buy enough led to encapsulate my car. I wonder how i'll cut out the doors though....
Dammit!
One of my favorite arguments when talking to people that thinks that broadband prices are to high for everyone to afford was that, "hmm, when did internet access become part of the human rights?".
Now i'll have to find a new argument... grrrr
"it is feared that the loss of the ice cap will also cause a drop off in tourism."
Ice melts = More water
Why no go from tourist ski trips to waterskiing?
Don't be so negative about fruit flies.
They can train fruit flies to a number of different things... I read about single flies that were trained to avoid a course toward a visual object that had been associated with the aversive odor benzaldehyde. (to quote the site)
Study your flies on cshl.org
Don't be so negative about fruit flies.
They can train fruit flies to a number of different things... I read about single flies that were trained to avoid a course toward a visual object that had been associated with the aversive odor benzaldehyde. (to quote the site)
Study your flies on cshl.org
I don't have anything to hide ... so I don't mind this.
Now thats an interesting attitude. Perhaps you have nothing illegal to hide (that you know of) but maybe you don't want [insert anyone] to know every step you take? You might not want your employer to know that you have been going to interviews at a compediting company? Or your wife to know that you spend more time at your local bar than you should?
A bit extreme perhaps, but i still don't like it.
Oh, did i mention that turning off your phone isn't going to help? Batteries out is the key....
If an invasion of your privacy isn't a big deal to you then I don't even know where to start the argument..
Excellent!
I'll read some more into it, thanks!
Now, lets just hope they've taken care of this in the new compression the article is about.
No. Dolby AC3 would take 384 kbit/s, for all channels.
If that was the case, no one would be happier tha me but as far as I know an AC3 (encoded Dolby 5.1) stream (48kHz, 16bit) uses roughly around 1.5 mbs of bandwidth. This is according to some online test results i have read, but if you know otherwize, please convince me!
If you do a 6-channel, 96kHz, 24bit, uncompressed audio stream, it uses roughly 13Mbs of bandwidth.
This is all dependant on the compression ofcourse, but I cant find anything more than the standard includes a broad range of audio and video technologies that allow a wide variety of different applications, online and offline. about audio in the article. After that they go on to discussing MPEG-3 type sound....
When i watch movies on my computer i never notice the sound, even if it had mp3 quality sound i wouldn't care. The video is the most noticed aspect.
Yes, well one of te reasons I rather rent/buy the DVD is that my TV screen is LARGER than my monitor. I also have a remote. But that really doesnt matter since other people may have plasma screens of 62"... Besides that the top reason is that I *cannot* take afvantage of the sound since:
1: The sound is encoded with something that sounds like mp3 if I got the article correct. MP3 is stereo (dolby Pro-Logic) and most sound cards are stereo although some new ones are actually 5.1
2: My AC3 amplifier is better than ANY soundcard you can possibly come up with in the near future
The sound may not matter when watching on your computer with headphones but my guessing is that they are actualy trying to develop technology to change the way we rent DVD's and watch TV. They can't do this until the experience gets better than it is with the old technology. Im sorry, just because it's new, it isn't better in my oppinion.