Does anyone else have the problem that they cannot watch the battle scenes?
Yes. I simply cannot track what the hell is going on. With 10000 things interacting with 10000 other things with camera moving at breakneck speeds I just give up and tune out. I know it's supposed to be exciting, but it ends up being boring.
I mean seriously, in this day and age of modular kernels and separate daemons for everything, can't you just kill a service/daemon and restart it without power cycling your machine?!
In principle, I don't see how. In some particular case, yes (a standalone service without other services depending on it). But, if it's one of the base services (RPC, for example) I really don't see how it would be accomplished. In case of a kernel patch, not at all. How can an.exe replace itself, while running continuously?
What they seem plagued by are marketing-driven technologies that keep getting bolted on to Windows, broadening the code base and making the overall focus of the development harder for anyone to see.
Wow! After 50 screenfulls of comments, someone who actually understands the point of the article. Amazing.
If Media Player recognizes it, it automatically downloads and installs the codec, brainless.
I have never, never, NEVER seen this to work. Ever. To anyone, anywhere. Most of the time it recognises which codec it needs, downloads it from the net, does the 'installing' routine. And nothing happens. No playback. Never worked, not once.
Are you saying that this works for you? Unbelievable. Which Windows? Which MP?
The data is random, but the transmission that carries that random data will look quite unlike white noise or anything of the sort.
Why? The universe is full of strong sources of radio signals. How can we be sure that some (many, most, all?) of them are not space transmitters of AlienTV? Compressed data is undistinguishable from random data, you said it yourself. Maybe we're already recieving hunders of channels of AlienTV, it's just that we don't have descambler boxes.
Don't get me wrong, I crunch my number of SETI work units per day, I'm just curious since I didn't find a satisfying answer.
It's like looking for that needle in the haystack, except the needle is only in 1 of a trillion haystacks, and then it's only there for a split second before it disappears and moves to another haystack.
So what? If your have 60 teraflops of computing power (_60_teraflops_, think about that for a minute!) it gives you the ability to search quite a lot of haystacks. And the processing power will only go up. And it costs them nothing (except the cost of server and bandwidth dishing out work units, which is sponsored by Berkeley).
Using that for a possibility of a single greatest discovery in human history, I simply cannot see how anyone can argue against it.
Sort of like the moron with that windows worm that caused the pc to reboot.. announcing to everyone it was infected BEFORE the payload was sent out days later....
Machines rebooted because the service failed (crashed), and the default seeting for RPC service in WinXP is to reboot when it fails. Not in Win2k (it does nothing there). So, it was probably an unintended consequence.
On the other side, if i were trying to spread FUD about Linux with an attack, i'd do the same: pretending that a single immature highschooler could hax0r Debian would add insult to damage and hide the real motive.
Sir, you forgot to name of the conspirators. Who is it? SCO or MS? Inquiring minds want to know!
If I remember correctly, the hacker originally found a security hole and told MS about it. Weeks later he found that they had not patched the hole. So he went snooping around. He even gained access to Longhorn or Windows 2003 source code.
I call bullshit on this one.
If this has happened, the source soce would be on Kazaa. QED.
2) No, but the same can be said of Windows developers. Microsoft has a standard, but people don't seem to follow it with any consistency.
I beg to differ. The only applications on Windows I fail to grasp at a glance are almost exclusively ported over from other (unix/linux) platforms. Windows application in general have a very consistent look and feel, mostly because there is only a single set of widgets (controls/dialogs/toolbars) used by all of them.
It doesn't fix the fact that most people don't want to pay for internet content in any way, shape or form.
If the cost of watching a streaming movie is less than the price of the CD on which you would burn it, then you've got yourself a market. If listening to an album costs me 10cents per listen, I'd happily stream it every time and pay for it, insted of using up disk space.
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Does anyone else have the problem that they cannot watch the battle scenes?
Yes. I simply cannot track what the hell is going on. With 10000 things interacting with 10000 other things with camera moving at breakneck speeds I just give up and tune out. I know it's supposed to be exciting, but it ends up being boring.
I mean seriously, in this day and age of modular kernels and separate daemons for everything, can't you just kill a service/daemon and restart it without power cycling your machine?!
.exe replace itself, while running continuously?
In principle, I don't see how. In some particular case, yes (a standalone service without other services depending on it). But, if it's one of the base services (RPC, for example) I really don't see how it would be accomplished. In case of a kernel patch, not at all. How can an
Anyone care to enlighten me?
What they seem plagued by are marketing-driven technologies that keep getting bolted on to Windows, broadening the code base and making the overall focus of the development harder for anyone to see.
Wow! After 50 screenfulls of comments, someone who actually understands the point of the article. Amazing.
I move my command line shortcut out to the main start menu on every computer that I use (with permission of the owner if that isn't me)
I find it more convenient to just assign a hotkey to it. That way, whatever I do, shell is just an Alt-F8 away, no mouse action necessary.
To bad they are both still a few months away.
:-)
And a good thing, too. It means I don't have to go shopping for a new gfx card just yet.
Browsers that you can't trust to accurately represent a URL ...
;-)
t m
Like Mozilla? You're right. That's why I use Opera.
Try this one in Mozilla:
http://www.mozilla.com%00@www.opera.com/index.h
(I can't href it, slash strips the bug bit out)
Imagine (accidently) cutting someones throat with a fiber thinner than a hair, which is almost invible to the eye.
Wiliam Gibson, "Johhny Mnemonic"? IIRC, it features a japanese dude with a 'monomolecule' spooled in his thumb, used for exactly that purposes.
If Media Player recognizes it, it automatically downloads and installs the codec, brainless.
I have never, never, NEVER seen this to work. Ever. To anyone, anywhere. Most of the time it recognises which codec it needs, downloads it from the net, does the 'installing' routine. And nothing happens. No playback. Never worked, not once.
Are you saying that this works for you? Unbelievable. Which Windows? Which MP?
If not, it's probably safe to exclude about 50% of that user mass.
Still, the CPU power used to crunch the work units is ~60 teraflops, that's the number that counts.
Earth Simpulator, by far (3x) the fastest supercomputer out there, does ~36Tflops, and at a price of $350 million.
Kinda puts things into perspective.
The data is random, but the transmission that carries that random data will look quite unlike white noise or anything of the sort.
Why? The universe is full of strong sources of radio signals. How can we be sure that some (many, most, all?) of them are not space transmitters of AlienTV? Compressed data is undistinguishable from random data, you said it yourself. Maybe we're already recieving hunders of channels of AlienTV, it's just that we don't have descambler boxes.
Don't get me wrong, I crunch my number of SETI work units per day, I'm just curious since I didn't find a satisfying answer.
On my 1.6GHz Win XP machine with screen saver client it would take approx. 20 hours for one WU.
Interesting. My experience is as follows: Celeron@950 - ~18h/WU
Duron@950 - 10-12h/WU
Duron@750 - ~15h/WU
All clients with screen saver (v3.08), running on W2k. You numbers seem a little low.
On another note, I notice the time per unit varies. Do different work units take different amount of calculation to be done or what?
It's like looking for that needle in the haystack, except the needle is only in 1 of a trillion haystacks, and then it's only there for a split second before it disappears and moves to another haystack.
So what? If your have 60 teraflops of computing power (_60_teraflops_, think about that for a minute!) it gives you the ability to search quite a lot of haystacks. And the processing power will only go up. And it costs them nothing (except the cost of server and bandwidth dishing out work units, which is sponsored by Berkeley).
Using that for a possibility of a single greatest discovery in human history, I simply cannot see how anyone can argue against it.
In talking to executive producer Neil Young...
So, Neil decided to try for a different career? Well, I guess I like him as a singer/songwriter better.
Also probably the entire US power grid:
;-)
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=12875
Wasn't this in the end attributed to an Unix machine failing?
"Slashdot article"
Sort of like the moron with that windows worm that caused the pc to reboot.. announcing to everyone it was infected BEFORE the payload was sent out days later....
Machines rebooted because the service failed (crashed), and the default seeting for RPC service in WinXP is to reboot when it fails. Not in Win2k (it does nothing there). So, it was probably an unintended consequence.
and that was how started learning about virii :)
;-)
Huh, huh... He said virii...
Congratulations on the ObLetsAnnoyTheGrammarNazis post of the day.
On the other side, if i were trying to spread FUD about Linux with an attack, i'd do the same: pretending that a single immature highschooler could hax0r Debian would add insult to damage and hide the real motive.
Sir, you forgot to name of the conspirators. Who is it? SCO or MS? Inquiring minds want to know!
Virii is not a word.
Ok. How about fungi? Fungii?
I guess this means that all RotK items are going to rehash The Matrix Re: sequels until RotK is released?
If not after the RotK release.
It just highlights the vast Matrix suckage.
If I remember correctly, the hacker originally found a security hole and told MS about it. Weeks later he found that they had not patched the hole. So he went snooping around. He even gained access to Longhorn or Windows 2003 source code.
I call bullshit on this one.
If this has happened, the source soce would be on Kazaa. QED.
This has erupted.
Surely you mean 'e-rupted'?
2) No, but the same can be said of Windows developers. Microsoft has a standard, but people don't seem to follow it with any consistency.
I beg to differ. The only applications on Windows I fail to grasp at a glance are almost exclusively ported over from other (unix/linux) platforms. Windows application in general have a very consistent look and feel, mostly because there is only a single set of widgets (controls/dialogs/toolbars) used by all of them.
The reason they use X is because their systems are managed by MCSEs.
Now, this, my friends, is a masterpiece. Take a case of critical Unix system failure and blame it on Microsoft.
Respect.
That's stupid. It's VIRUSES, now please stop using that insane bastardization.
;-) Sorry, couldn't help myself.
But, it is 'fungii', right?
It doesn't fix the fact that most people don't want to pay for internet content in any way, shape or form.
If the cost of watching a streaming movie is less than the price of the CD on which you would burn it, then you've got yourself a market. If listening to an album costs me 10cents per listen, I'd happily stream it every time and pay for it, insted of using up disk space.
I believe this is only a matter of time.