Once they go public, these "principles" you speak of mean nothing, they are beholden to the stockholders to show a profit.
Google is on it's way down. People have cheated page rank to the point that it's frustratingly difficult to find legitimate information with it.
I search "samba printer share kernel dump" to try and find a usenet posting or something to help me, I wind up with 12 pages of ebay redirects. Ads are slowly getting more and more obtrusive.
If they don't fix this, and it gets worse, google will fade away to obscurity.
I ditched Yahoo when it turned into a commercial ezine full of ads and garbage.
All of it's new features let it render the new DX9 eye candy, but it renders it all too slowly to be playable, so you shut the eye candy off to make the game playable.
In the end it's really no better for gaming than the first generation Radeon I replaced with it.
The point about flight sims makes sense. If that was my bag, I'd probably invest. I'm just more the arcadey, platform-action type, I guess.
Know what? Slashdotters need to stop being so fucking pompous.
People do understand that anime is "for adults". They understand it just fine.
Many people don't like anime because, frankly, a lot of anime sucks. The ratio of shitty japanese entertainment to good japanese entertainment is probably about the same as its american counterpart.
For instance, what Cartoon Network tries to pass off as adult swim. I like Bebop, I can watch Trigun, and FLCL is visually stunning, even if the wackiness made it almost unbearable.
And then theres Blue Gender, which is dogshit. There's Kikaider, which is double dogshit. Lupin is boring to watch and completely unfunny.
But there'll be those defending it, "oh look its grownup adult japanese anime!" There are no doubt people in Japan watching reruns of "Perfect Strangers" convincing their friends that it's great entertainment because it's American.
But it's not all great entertainment, a lot of it is shit.
But, of course, not liking something that was animated by a japanese guy must make you somehow culturally lacking. I just dont understand anime, right? I must not be able to concieve of animation that's not for children.
Wrong. I understand it just fine. I just think it sucks. It sucks for all the same reasons Will and Grace or Stargate sucks. Its boring, contrived, and/or insipid.
That said, I didn't care for GITS. And it's not because I don't "understand anime". It's because I simply didn't like it.
True enough, the xbox doesn't have as much power as a PC with a $500 GeForceFX. Few games support 1080i anyways.
The sweet spot is 640p, 95% of the games support it, and there's no slowdown in anything I've seen, since the xbox is 640x480 anyways. The difference between 640p and a standard TVs interlaced pseudo-512x384 analog is night and day.
Of course, in a couple years, the next gen of consoles will likely have no problem pushing 1080i, although for my $ 720p looks much better. It's the same amount of pixels, just one is interlaced, the other is not. Once you ditch the interlaced signal, you never want to go back.
It's just a matter of preference. I can't get into PC games, because when I'm sitting in front of the monitor and keyboard, a little voice keeps nagging me "you should be writing code or something, not playing this shit!". Playing games is about escaping for a short while, and I just dont feel it sitting at my desk.
And I've never had an experience where increasing resolution or detail options in a game made it more enjoyable to me. I'm an oldschooler who's played enough nintendo that his eyes are shot, I cant tell 1600x1200 from 800x600.
I have had this conversation numerous times, though:
Me: Unreal 2 sucks.
Friend: You need a new video card.
Me: Why?
Friend: Because I can play it at 1600x1200 with specular highlights and gaussian blooglewhips and high level particle detail and mipmapped megamonster pseudo antiisotropic mega filtered ultraquads!
Me: And that will make the game suck less somehow?
Friend: Did I mention 8x full screen antialiasing and quadmipped mega triadical texture parsing?
Like you said, it's all about preference, and how you want to spend your money.
The TV is not just for games. What are PCs for? Games and porn. Yah, you keep your blurry little 6" high divx clips, thanks. I much prefer the widescreen image from a progressive scan DVD player.
Of course, you could get a decent 27-33 inch TV for the price of a quality 17" monitor.
There are simply some people who prefer playing console games to PC games. I'm one of them.
So you would rather spend $8,000 on a TV that has lower quality resolution and dots per inch than a computer monitor than $500 to upgrade a computer?
I dunno where you shop, but $8000 would get me a 52" widescreen plasma with a full surround sound setup.
Yeah, I'll take the plasma over some silly PC monitor any day of the week. Fuck "dots per inch" "pixels per second". If you're counting dots per inch, the game you're playing must really suck.
I like you guys. You are easy to kill. Joysticks are slow and unresponsive. Mice are precise and lightning fast.
You probably didn't read the part where I said I don't like FPS games. Aside from that or RTS titles (which I don't car for either), where's the mouse advantage?
You and your keyboard and mouse can challenge me in NHL 2004 or Soul Calibur II any day of the week. I find Crimson Skies infinately more playable with the gamepad than it was on the PC.
I spend all day in front of a computer. When I get home, I can't imagine sitting in front of another computer as fun. I want to kick back on the couch, crank the volume, crack open a beer and just play.
No, I agree, Xbox's lineup of titles has sucked hard. It seems to be getting better, with Grabbed by the Ghoulies, the GTA combo, Crimson Skies, KOTOR.
The Gamecube and PS2 see much more playtime than the xbox.
no one says that it's silly to spend $1000+ on a PC to play games, when you can do the same thing with a $199 PlayStation
I say that all the time. I think it's insane that a friend of mine just spent $500 to upgrade his PC to get Halo playable, when he could have bought an Xbox for about 100 bucks used.
I much prefer sitting on the couch playing games up on the big screen than sitting in a task chair 18 inches from a monitor. I prefer a thumbstick to a keyboard and mouse. I also prefer the types of titles that come out on consoles, and find the console exclusives to be some of the best games around.
More precisely, I generally dont care for FPS titles, and am more interested in a fun game than hi-res eye candy.
The one advantage the PC had for me was online multiplayer. An advantage its rapidly losing as more and more people plug in their Xboxes, PS2s and GCNs.
The console is catching up to the PC graphically as well - it's far surpassed the low-end PC's with so many HDTV ready titles showing up. 720p or 1080i on a big screen for me please.
And of course, the cost of entry is miniscule, compared to PC hardware. Perhaps ATI and nVidia should find a way to subsidize their hardware through software sales to try and close the gap.
Most ISPs are making good $ charging out the ass for multiple IPs.
Comcast wants something like 20 bucks extra a month for each extra IP. Folks who don't understand firewalls and routers and NATs think they need one for their Xbox, PS2, laptop, etc.. Of course, they can only claim they need to charge because of the shortage within the IPv4 addressing space.
IPv6 makes this means of income obsolete. We all know that phone, cable, and media companies absolutely HATE when an improved technology comes along and makes their business model null and void.
A company wasting their time and resources ($$$) developing something that, if left alone, some hobbyist geek in his mothers basement will develop and support for nothing (which just happened for centrino, in a cheesy kludge sort of way)
Linux has no real life on the home machine, the desktop, the laptop, and certainly not on anything centrino based.
Yah, MS and IBM are stupid, you better call 'em and set them straight!
Some things to consider:
1) NT ran on PowerPC long ago, porting it wont be hard.
2) Wasn't IBM working on a new mega-chip that can run x86 and PowerPC codes side by side?
3) Perhaps making the Xbox so close to a PC blew up in MSFTs face, and they don't plan to do it again. You can turn your noses at "security through obscurity" all you want, but the Xbox, once initiall cracked, has been blown wide open - it's a no brainer to port PC emulators and apps to it. The GCN or PS2, however, have taken much longer, and are still an obfuscated mess to try and develop custom stuff for.
Think of the masses voting on each and every topic.
How much does your average citizen know about foreign policy? Health care? Criminal and civil law?
A true democracy would be the worst form of government I could think of, unless you happen to have the exact same opinions as >50% of the population, you're fucked.
Realize that around 70% of Americans are christian. Now, lets vote on whether or not to allow that mosque or synagogue (sp) to open its doors on the corner, or whether gays should be allowed to parade, etc..
Anyone with an elementary school understanding of arithmetic and a lick of common sense can tell you that Red Hat's business model was unsustainable.
A free product, free downloads, free support?
Enterprise linux support? Sure, until it's profitable enough that Big Blue decides to take it from 'em.
Big Blue is the only company around poised to profit from Linux. And we all tip our hats and give them our full support. Hip hip hooray.
Does noone see that the open source community is nothing more than a source of free labour to IBM?
They'll milk Red Hat for free code, and when the work is completed to their satisfaction, they will have the might to succeed where SCO fails - "owning" Linux.
Why do people think IBM is a "good" company? Their track record makes MSFT look like a care bear convention.
For the record, the article says "parts" of Wallop are going into Longhorn, probably the user/group management features and not a built in Blogging utility. Besides, Windows already has one - it's called notepad.
Now, here's the meat in this article:
On the presentation front, Rashid said Microsoft is advancing the state of the art and making it so that the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) can be used to do more general-purpose computations for things like simulations, user interface work, font rendering, and display management and manipulation. Some examples include geometry amplification on the GPU and pre-computed radiance transfer--for doing things like translucent objects, view-dependent displacement mapping and water rendering on the Xbox.
How cool is that? Now that 500mhz CPU on your fancy video card can actually do something useful.
Step 1: Install an operating system made by anyone other than Microsoft.
Did you remember to patch OpenSSH?
I didn't need to worry about it. I had my firewall configured to block incoming connections from all but a few subnets that I trusted.
Noone writes perfect software.
If users are incompetent, then they need to be made competent.
Don't sue Ford when you wind up paralysed because you don't know how to drive a stick. Don't blame MSFT because your office network got boned when someone ran "hilarious email attachment.vbs".
I've seen stupider people running linux. Some kid asked me on IRC how to configure samba, I told him to log in as root and type "rm -rf/usr/*". It must be Linus' fault that he went and did it, obviously the code is imperfect.
It is the responsibility of the car makers to make cars safe, should it not be the responsibility of operating system makers to make desktops safe?
The car makers dont make the roads safe from malicious or stupid drives. Why should an OS author be tasked with making the internet safe from malicious or stupid users?
The car manufacturers provide seatbelts, but they cant make you use them. They can provide airbags and double wishbone suspension and antilock brakes, but they cant prevent people from driving drunk.
You wan't government regulation? Fine, go lobby for it. It'll mean the end of linux and Open Source, since everything will have to be submitted to the Bureau of Safe Software.
Repeat after me: There's no such thing as perfect software.
It's nice to see MS truthfully discussing the issue of computer security, instead of saying "for a $X per year subscription, leave your security up to us!"
It makes sense to me. Don't rely on someone else to keep your computer secure. Take steps yourself.
Look at me, I'm just going to get the latest debian iso and install it and not worry about anything!
Look at me, I'm just going to go buy a car and not worry about locking the doors or using a club, because I expect that the ignition system is tamper proof.
Don't blame the architect when someone comes through an unlocked window in your home and steals your stereo.
No, you don't need perfect code. Linux has no "perfect code". If it did, Linus et al would be finished and have moved on to other things.
I dont rely on Linus for security, I don't rely on Bill Gates for security. At the end of the day, it's my system, and it's up to me to take steps to protect it.
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Once they go public, these "principles" you speak of mean nothing, they are beholden to the stockholders to show a profit.
Google is on it's way down. People have cheated page rank to the point that it's frustratingly difficult to find legitimate information with it.
I search "samba printer share kernel dump" to try and find a usenet posting or something to help me, I wind up with 12 pages of ebay redirects. Ads are slowly getting more and more obtrusive.
If they don't fix this, and it gets worse, google will fade away to obscurity.
I ditched Yahoo when it turned into a commercial ezine full of ads and garbage.
Microsoft-IIS/6.0 on Linux
Gee I didn't know you could run IIS 6.0 under linux.
Akamai runs linux, akamai caches much of the enormous volume of traffic generated by windowsupdate.
I have a GeForceFX 5200 right now.
All of it's new features let it render the new DX9 eye candy, but it renders it all too slowly to be playable, so you shut the eye candy off to make the game playable.
In the end it's really no better for gaming than the first generation Radeon I replaced with it.
The point about flight sims makes sense. If that was my bag, I'd probably invest. I'm just more the arcadey, platform-action type, I guess.
Google is getting more and more useless, as every search is plagued with those phony ebay redirects as of late.
I was thinking that too.
But then there's still all that pesky emphysema and respiratory illness bullshit.
Oh well, at least it makes you look really cool. (Despite all the anti-smoking propoganda)
Know what? Slashdotters need to stop being so fucking pompous.
People do understand that anime is "for adults". They understand it just fine.
Many people don't like anime because, frankly, a lot of anime sucks. The ratio of shitty japanese entertainment to good japanese entertainment is probably about the same as its american counterpart.
For instance, what Cartoon Network tries to pass off as adult swim. I like Bebop, I can watch Trigun, and FLCL is visually stunning, even if the wackiness made it almost unbearable.
And then theres Blue Gender, which is dogshit. There's Kikaider, which is double dogshit. Lupin is boring to watch and completely unfunny.
But there'll be those defending it, "oh look its grownup adult japanese anime!" There are no doubt people in Japan watching reruns of "Perfect Strangers" convincing their friends that it's great entertainment because it's American.
But it's not all great entertainment, a lot of it is shit.
But, of course, not liking something that was animated by a japanese guy must make you somehow culturally lacking. I just dont understand anime, right? I must not be able to concieve of animation that's not for children.
Wrong. I understand it just fine. I just think it sucks. It sucks for all the same reasons Will and Grace or Stargate sucks. Its boring, contrived, and/or insipid.
That said, I didn't care for GITS. And it's not because I don't "understand anime". It's because I simply didn't like it.
True enough, the xbox doesn't have as much power as a PC with a $500 GeForceFX. Few games support 1080i anyways.
The sweet spot is 640p, 95% of the games support it, and there's no slowdown in anything I've seen, since the xbox is 640x480 anyways. The difference between 640p and a standard TVs interlaced pseudo-512x384 analog is night and day.
Of course, in a couple years, the next gen of consoles will likely have no problem pushing 1080i, although for my $ 720p looks much better. It's the same amount of pixels, just one is interlaced, the other is not. Once you ditch the interlaced signal, you never want to go back.
It's just a matter of preference. I can't get into PC games, because when I'm sitting in front of the monitor and keyboard, a little voice keeps nagging me "you should be writing code or something, not playing this shit!". Playing games is about escaping for a short while, and I just dont feel it sitting at my desk.
And I've never had an experience where increasing resolution or detail options in a game made it more enjoyable to me. I'm an oldschooler who's played enough nintendo that his eyes are shot, I cant tell 1600x1200 from 800x600.
I have had this conversation numerous times, though:
Me: Unreal 2 sucks.
Friend: You need a new video card.
Me: Why?
Friend: Because I can play it at 1600x1200 with specular highlights and gaussian blooglewhips and high level particle detail and mipmapped megamonster pseudo antiisotropic mega filtered ultraquads!
Me: And that will make the game suck less somehow?
Friend: Did I mention 8x full screen antialiasing and quadmipped mega triadical texture parsing?
Like you said, it's all about preference, and how you want to spend your money.
The price is ... well worth it.
The TV is not just for games. What are PCs for? Games and porn. Yah, you keep your blurry little 6" high divx clips, thanks. I much prefer the widescreen image from a progressive scan DVD player.
Of course, you could get a decent 27-33 inch TV for the price of a quality 17" monitor.
There are simply some people who prefer playing console games to PC games. I'm one of them.
So you would rather spend $8,000 on a TV that has lower quality resolution and dots per inch than a computer monitor than $500 to upgrade a computer?
I dunno where you shop, but $8000 would get me a 52" widescreen plasma with a full surround sound setup.
Yeah, I'll take the plasma over some silly PC monitor any day of the week. Fuck "dots per inch" "pixels per second". If you're counting dots per inch, the game you're playing must really suck.
I like you guys. You are easy to kill. Joysticks are slow and unresponsive. Mice are precise and lightning fast.
You probably didn't read the part where I said I don't like FPS games. Aside from that or RTS titles (which I don't car for either), where's the mouse advantage?
You and your keyboard and mouse can challenge me in NHL 2004 or Soul Calibur II any day of the week. I find Crimson Skies infinately more playable with the gamepad than it was on the PC.
I spend all day in front of a computer. When I get home, I can't imagine sitting in front of another computer as fun. I want to kick back on the couch, crank the volume, crack open a beer and just play.
I'd imagine stuff gets pulled into the sun all the time, it's gravity is immense.
I'd also imagine that anything pulled into it is completely vaporized before it gets too close.
Tell your mother in law it's probably because god is angry, and that he's probably angry about something that she did.
No, I agree, Xbox's lineup of titles has sucked hard. It seems to be getting better, with Grabbed by the Ghoulies, the GTA combo, Crimson Skies, KOTOR.
The Gamecube and PS2 see much more playtime than the xbox.
no one says that it's silly to spend $1000+ on a PC to play games, when you can do the same thing with a $199 PlayStation
I say that all the time. I think it's insane that a friend of mine just spent $500 to upgrade his PC to get Halo playable, when he could have bought an Xbox for about 100 bucks used.
I much prefer sitting on the couch playing games up on the big screen than sitting in a task chair 18 inches from a monitor. I prefer a thumbstick to a keyboard and mouse. I also prefer the types of titles that come out on consoles, and find the console exclusives to be some of the best games around.
More precisely, I generally dont care for FPS titles, and am more interested in a fun game than hi-res eye candy.
The one advantage the PC had for me was online multiplayer. An advantage its rapidly losing as more and more people plug in their Xboxes, PS2s and GCNs.
The console is catching up to the PC graphically as well - it's far surpassed the low-end PC's with so many HDTV ready titles showing up. 720p or 1080i on a big screen for me please.
And of course, the cost of entry is miniscule, compared to PC hardware. Perhaps ATI and nVidia should find a way to subsidize their hardware through software sales to try and close the gap.
Most ISPs are making good $ charging out the ass for multiple IPs.
Comcast wants something like 20 bucks extra a month for each extra IP. Folks who don't understand firewalls and routers and NATs think they need one for their Xbox, PS2, laptop, etc.. Of course, they can only claim they need to charge because of the shortage within the IPv4 addressing space.
IPv6 makes this means of income obsolete. We all know that phone, cable, and media companies absolutely HATE when an improved technology comes along and makes their business model null and void.
IPv4 is here to stay for a long while.
Witness the fad of the 2000's - online music services.
You know which one will survive? The one the RIAA sets up for themselves.
Umm..
A company wasting their time and resources ($$$) developing something that, if left alone, some hobbyist geek in his mothers basement will develop and support for nothing (which just happened for centrino, in a cheesy kludge sort of way)
Linux has no real life on the home machine, the desktop, the laptop, and certainly not on anything centrino based.
Yah, MS and IBM are stupid, you better call 'em and set them straight!
Some things to consider:
1) NT ran on PowerPC long ago, porting it wont be hard.
2) Wasn't IBM working on a new mega-chip that can run x86 and PowerPC codes side by side?
3) Perhaps making the Xbox so close to a PC blew up in MSFTs face, and they don't plan to do it again. You can turn your noses at "security through obscurity" all you want, but the Xbox, once initiall cracked, has been blown wide open - it's a no brainer to port PC emulators and apps to it. The GCN or PS2, however, have taken much longer, and are still an obfuscated mess to try and develop custom stuff for.
Think of the implications of a true democracy.
Think of the masses voting on each and every topic.
How much does your average citizen know about foreign policy? Health care? Criminal and civil law?
A true democracy would be the worst form of government I could think of, unless you happen to have the exact same opinions as >50% of the population, you're fucked.
Realize that around 70% of Americans are christian. Now, lets vote on whether or not to allow that mosque or synagogue (sp) to open its doors on the corner, or whether gays should be allowed to parade, etc..
Anyone with an elementary school understanding of arithmetic and a lick of common sense can tell you that Red Hat's business model was unsustainable.
A free product, free downloads, free support?
Enterprise linux support? Sure, until it's profitable enough that Big Blue decides to take it from 'em.
Big Blue is the only company around poised to profit from Linux. And we all tip our hats and give them our full support. Hip hip hooray.
Does noone see that the open source community is nothing more than a source of free labour to IBM?
They'll milk Red Hat for free code, and when the work is completed to their satisfaction, they will have the might to succeed where SCO fails - "owning" Linux.
Why do people think IBM is a "good" company? Their track record makes MSFT look like a care bear convention.
The number of people who actually use it as a desktop OS?
I know lots of people SAY they use it. They partition a couple gigs and install it.
Now blow out your candles and update your howtos damnit!
For the record, the article says "parts" of Wallop are going into Longhorn, probably the user/group management features and not a built in Blogging utility. Besides, Windows already has one - it's called notepad.
Now, here's the meat in this article:
On the presentation front, Rashid said Microsoft is advancing the state of the art and making it so that the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) can be used to do more general-purpose computations for things like simulations, user interface work, font rendering, and display management and manipulation. Some examples include geometry amplification on the GPU and pre-computed radiance transfer--for doing things like translucent objects, view-dependent displacement mapping and water rendering on the Xbox.
How cool is that? Now that 500mhz CPU on your fancy video card can actually do something useful.
Step 1: Install an operating system made by anyone other than Microsoft.
/usr/*". It must be Linus' fault that he went and did it, obviously the code is imperfect.
Did you remember to patch OpenSSH?
I didn't need to worry about it. I had my firewall configured to block incoming connections from all but a few subnets that I trusted.
Noone writes perfect software.
If users are incompetent, then they need to be made competent.
Don't sue Ford when you wind up paralysed because you don't know how to drive a stick. Don't blame MSFT because your office network got boned when someone ran "hilarious email attachment.vbs".
I've seen stupider people running linux. Some kid asked me on IRC how to configure samba, I told him to log in as root and type "rm -rf
It is the responsibility of the car makers to make cars safe, should it not be the responsibility of operating system makers to make desktops safe?
The car makers dont make the roads safe from malicious or stupid drives. Why should an OS author be tasked with making the internet safe from malicious or stupid users?
The car manufacturers provide seatbelts, but they cant make you use them. They can provide airbags and double wishbone suspension and antilock brakes, but they cant prevent people from driving drunk.
You wan't government regulation? Fine, go lobby for it. It'll mean the end of linux and Open Source, since everything will have to be submitted to the Bureau of Safe Software.
Repeat after me: There's no such thing as perfect software.
It's nice to see MS truthfully discussing the issue of computer security, instead of saying "for a $X per year subscription, leave your security up to us!"
Which is the point. The word needs to get out, there is no "perfect code".
Which makes it a good thing that Gates is being truthful about the situation.
It makes sense to me. Don't rely on someone else to keep your computer secure. Take steps yourself.
Look at me, I'm just going to get the latest debian iso and install it and not worry about anything!
Look at me, I'm just going to go buy a car and not worry about locking the doors or using a club, because I expect that the ignition system is tamper proof.
Don't blame the architect when someone comes through an unlocked window in your home and steals your stereo.
No, you don't need perfect code. Linux has no "perfect code". If it did, Linus et al would be finished and have moved on to other things.
I dont rely on Linus for security, I don't rely on Bill Gates for security. At the end of the day, it's my system, and it's up to me to take steps to protect it.