You can do all that stuff in OpenLDAP, and I wasn't really aware of any speed complaints. I guess it's about as fast as the backend you use (mysql/bdb/etc)
What the world needs, facing this energy crisis, is more pseudo-scientific, completely unfeasible, sketchy "unlimited energy" solutions.
Luckily it's pure grade-A horse poop. Imagine the climactic effects, and effects on the oceans ecosystems, if we had the equipment to pump that much water up from the floor? IIRC, it takes 100s to 1000s of years for nature to do the same thing..
Yeah, these types of mods are old hat. Go look for the Radeon 9500 to 9700 mods, etc. Unlocking pipelines is as old news as overclocking, and it results in a whole bunch of 'l337 g4m0r' kids with dead video cards.
What the hell is this "confirm im not a script" crap, anyways?
Flash memory, network controllers, raid controllers, memory controllers, etc and so on.
Maybe they just plan to use an intel PIC to control the little blinky power light. Or one of Intel's DSP's to make the iPod not sound like a 70's era 8-track.
It's highly unlikely this means OS/X for the PC. Apple would never give up their fiefdom.
Of course they don't. Because high crime areas are populated by the stupidest, most drugged out criminals.
If you're going to die in the line of duty, you want it to be rescuing an infant from a burning hospital, not getting it in the back because Levron lost his favorite hi-tops.
The only thing that can eat up that much space for a video game is streaming media (movies). 3D models, even really complex ones with thousands of polygons, don't need squat-all storage for vertex data, and texture data is generally limited by what the systems GPU can manage, and memory. From there, if you render cutscenes, you're just talking about script files and some audio (mp3'd or something like that) to back it up.
It's why the Gamecube doesn't suffer too badly due to it's 1.4gig discs, it's a lot of space for a video game the games that span 2 discs generally have a whole bunch of space-hogging streaming media. The largest PS2 and XBox games get much smaller when you remove cutscenes and such.
100GB discs are mostly useful, at this point, for archival, but I doubt there'll be anything 500 bucks any time soon that can burn them.
I mentioned PS2 at 320x480 vs 640x480, but I should also mention that GCN games can run in progressive scan mode. So there's another factor of two. Making Rev 90 times more powerful than PS2, and more powerful than XB360 by math so complex it can only be explained by super string theory.
Nintendo have always been a little more honest with their numbers and PR. Even in the cartridge days, they didn't start measuring them in "megabits" to make them look 8x bigger until everyone else was doing it (notably SNK with Neo Geo, I think that was where that started)
I think 5x more powerful is about on the money for all consoles, but who really knows. So far access to N's entire back catalogue has piqued my interest much more than XB360s interchangable faceplates (lame concession to the X-Treme gamer segment I abhor), or Sony's redesigned double-ended dildo controller. Dual shock indeed!
Doubtful. Ingres is shit. MSSQL, for all your anti-MS whining, is actually a good product. It was good way back when it was a *NIX DB called Sybase SQL Server.
It's only insecure if you don't put a password on the sa (read admin/root) account. Which is the users perogative not to do so (I frequently don't on development systems, because I don't care), as well as the users fault if it gets exposed (as none of mine did since my whole dev environment is quarantined on it's own subnet).
You know what would also be cool? If they took your tuition money to Atlantic City and plunked it all down on red 36.
You don't know what you're going to get when you issue a bounty like this. It's a gamble. A good contract has obligations spelled out for both parties.
For every bungled deployment, there are dozens even hundreds that go smoothly. People just don't hop online and bitch when things work right.
I was hoping to see them launch a portable GCN. Cube discs are tiny and portable (like PSP). The hardware is cheap and runs relatively cool. Chuck it all in a GBASP-ish chassis, instant PSP killer with a built-in library of tons of cool games.
It's sad to see Nintendo being marginalized here on slashdot. They're the only company out making gaming hardware, not trying to wrestle complete control over all-things-entertainment. They know games, and they know their audience. Sony and MSFT know market-penetration and anti-competition strategies.
Oh well, who cares. The whole industry is going Hollywood. You need 50 million dollars in your pocket to even pitch a game concept these days.
Wtf? The first is dead simple, and you can swim underneath the entirety of the second.
If you've saved a couple of P-Wings, world 8 is a complete cake-walk.
World 7 is/was the toughest (most people I know never seen anything other than 1, 2 and 8, and never played on 2, you just have to get there to use the warp pipes to get to 8)
MS comes out saying XB360 is "100 times more powerful" than XBox.
Sony comes out and says PS3 is "30 times more powerful" than PS2.
Nintendo comes out and says that Revolution is "5 times more powerful".
So therefore Nintendo is teh suck making cheapy machines.
What these people miss, since they're clueless fanboys, is that those are made up out-of-their-ass numbers. Show me the math behind them?
Besides, for as accurate as a made up number goes, consider this. PS2 had a resolution of 320x480. GCN does 640x480. Twice the resolution. Twice as powerful already. Now, PS2 has a 300mhz CPU, GCN has 485mhz CPU. Another factor of 1.5! And GCN is PowerPC based, just like the Macs, so that makes it thrice as good as anything else by standard slashdot logic. So, the GCN is already 2x1.5x3, or 9 times as powerful as the PS2. So 9x5 makes Revolution 45 times more powerful than PS2!
Meh, who cares. Truthfully, the GCN is more "powerful" than the PS2, a side by side comparison of the games bear that out.
Nintendo are purposefully undercutting XB360 and PS3 on price. Which is really, really smart. I dont own a widescreen HDTV yet. If I did, it would be in the living room. That's where 360 or PS3 would go - just like XBox and PS2 are now. But, Gamecube's are cheap. Each of my kids have one. I have one in my office/lounge room. Gamecubes outnumber XBoxes 3 to 1 in my house.
My friends who have kids have the same situation. One XBox or PS2 for the "family" (basically just functioning as a DVD player since they won't let the kids monopolize the good TV for games), multiple Gamecubes in the kids bedrooms.
If these are a much lower price point, Revolutions will outnumber XBoxes in my house.
Anyhow, I'm no fan of hardware or corporations. I like games. Nintendo knows how to make and market games. Sony and Microsoft know only how to crush competition and dominate the market. There are three aisles of PS2 games at Best Buy, and one aisle split up between GCN and GBA. 90% of the PS2 games are pure crap, however, to the clueless consumer, it makes it look which is the obvious horse to bet on.
We'll see in a year or two what happens to Nintendo. I'm sort of rooting for them, since they're the only company left dedicated to gaming hardware, and not World Domination.
* Can you input data into your cell phone as quickly as a screen keyboard or graffiti?
Yes, as a matter of fact, my phone runs PalmOS and has a graffiti pad and on screen keyboard.
* Can you run word-processors and spreadsheets on your cell phone?
It's basically a Palm m515 integrated, so if it runs there, it runs on my phone.
* Does your cell-phone have a decent-sized display?
As big as most PDA's I've seen.
* Is there a vast library of both free and commercial software for your cell phone? Including e-books and document readers, dictionaries, map software, etc?
Yep, I told you, it runs PalmOS. It has an SD slot.
* Can you connect to a GPS via bluetooth with your cellphone, have it display real-time maps, such that you can navigate your car with it?
Nope. But I can go straight to mapquest and get turn by turn directions if I need them. My "real time display" is called the windshield and rear view mirrors, and are much more useful to me when operating my horseless carraige.
Only an Apple zealot would call that a "smart feature".
The XBox does the same thing. Turn it on without anything plugged into the A/V ports, it flashes red/green as if the unit was faulty. Plenty of people have taken perfectly good units back to Best Buy (or wherever) claiming they were broken out of the box, which of course fueled a whole bunch of "Ms is teh gay xboxes are broked" dipshittery right here on slashdot.
Anyhow, you can run VNC on a virtual framebuffer under linux or BSD, don't see why you couldn't do it on a miniMac.
If you played Halo 2 on live lately, the first thing you'd notice are the people who are just too damn accurate with the sniper rifle.
Mice have been available for a long time, and plenty of people play with mouse/keyboard. Seeing as how all the nextgen consoles have USB2.0 ports, I think the industry is catching on...
Seriously. I have an old Celeron 600 with 256 megs RAM running my firewall/squid proxy/privoxy/traffic shaper/vpn endpoint/samba pdc (just to let windows boxes auth, no fancy roaming profile bullshit) box just fine.
Hell, it's even overkill, but I don't have any AT power supplies left to wire up anything slower.
As a matter of fact, I was eyeing a nice DLP rear-projector the other day. 720P, light engine, retailed for 1500 or so, but they were willing to sell the floor model for 1100. Close enough. The launch of the 360 and next years PS3 and Revolution will really start to move HDTVs out the door, since up until now, there was really nothing to use them for (high def TV programming is overrated). Hopefully that means rapidly plummeting prices.
Still, you could get a decent 30" widescreen HDTV (CRT based) for about 700, and a 360 to go with it, and probably not go too far past a grand. I seriously doubt next gen consoles will sell for more than 300, unless they want to go the way of Neo Geo and 3DO. Maybe they will, in which case, Nintendo is *really* smart to go the route they're going (cheaper, mass appeal product with good games, rather than dazzling geeks with specs)
Anyhow I passed on the set, since I'm holding out for 1080p.
The price tags just dont justify what you get in return. So in order to make the "bling ding" cards attractive, they quietly drop support for "obsolete" hardware, that is, you don't see any bug fixes or software features being added in ATI's catylyst set for the 9x00 series anymore.
On top of that, those "obsolete" cards haven't gotten any cheaper as new products usurp them. The 9800 I saw on the shelf last weekend still cost as much as when I bought mine a year ago.
So far all signs point to the next gen of consoles being pretty much on par, visually, with the greatest crap that ATI and nVidia churn out.
It's really hard to see the point of PC gaming anymore. What's it got that consoles dont? Online gaming with annoying mouthy 14 year olds? Check. Overpriced titles, and half-baked content delivery mechanisms? Check. Half finished products that require patches and updates to work correctly? Check.
For what this card costs, I could get a jillion-inch widescreen high-def DLP set to hook my PS3 and XBox 360's up to.
Just posting to keep the "pc gamer" vs "console gamer" wars going strong. It's fun to watch dweebs and simps fight.
Look around the web, and see all the complicated PHP scripts and ASP pages serving as frontends to database of choice, to serve up what's essentially static information.
Plain HTML is quite often the most efficient solution, to produce, host and maintain.
All aboard the hype train! We'll fill the dotcom bubble back up, one asshat at a time!
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You can do all that stuff in OpenLDAP, and I wasn't really aware of any speed complaints. I guess it's about as fast as the backend you use (mysql/bdb/etc)
I think this is a good thing, I'm just honestly curious, having messed around with OpenLDAP, and never really doing much with ND.
What's the major differences, feature-wise not philosophy-wise (no Free vs free vs Open vs open rants).
What the world needs, facing this energy crisis, is more pseudo-scientific, completely unfeasible, sketchy "unlimited energy" solutions.
Luckily it's pure grade-A horse poop. Imagine the climactic effects, and effects on the oceans ecosystems, if we had the equipment to pump that much water up from the floor? IIRC, it takes 100s to 1000s of years for nature to do the same thing..
Yeah, these types of mods are old hat. Go look for the Radeon 9500 to 9700 mods, etc. Unlocking pipelines is as old news as overclocking, and it results in a whole bunch of 'l337 g4m0r' kids with dead video cards.
What the hell is this "confirm im not a script" crap, anyways?
Flash memory, network controllers, raid controllers, memory controllers, etc and so on.
Maybe they just plan to use an intel PIC to control the little blinky power light. Or one of Intel's DSP's to make the iPod not sound like a 70's era 8-track.
It's highly unlikely this means OS/X for the PC. Apple would never give up their fiefdom.
Of course they don't. Because high crime areas are populated by the stupidest, most drugged out criminals.
If you're going to die in the line of duty, you want it to be rescuing an infant from a burning hospital, not getting it in the back because Levron lost his favorite hi-tops.
The only thing that can eat up that much space for a video game is streaming media (movies). 3D models, even really complex ones with thousands of polygons, don't need squat-all storage for vertex data, and texture data is generally limited by what the systems GPU can manage, and memory. From there, if you render cutscenes, you're just talking about script files and some audio (mp3'd or something like that) to back it up.
It's why the Gamecube doesn't suffer too badly due to it's 1.4gig discs, it's a lot of space for a video game the games that span 2 discs generally have a whole bunch of space-hogging streaming media. The largest PS2 and XBox games get much smaller when you remove cutscenes and such.
100GB discs are mostly useful, at this point, for archival, but I doubt there'll be anything 500 bucks any time soon that can burn them.
Oh, oh, I forgot one.
I mentioned PS2 at 320x480 vs 640x480, but I should also mention that GCN games can run in progressive scan mode. So there's another factor of two. Making Rev 90 times more powerful than PS2, and more powerful than XB360 by math so complex it can only be explained by super string theory.
Nintendo have always been a little more honest with their numbers and PR. Even in the cartridge days, they didn't start measuring them in "megabits" to make them look 8x bigger until everyone else was doing it (notably SNK with Neo Geo, I think that was where that started)
I think 5x more powerful is about on the money for all consoles, but who really knows. So far access to N's entire back catalogue has piqued my interest much more than XB360s interchangable faceplates (lame concession to the X-Treme gamer segment I abhor), or Sony's redesigned double-ended dildo controller. Dual shock indeed!
Doubtful. Ingres is shit. MSSQL, for all your anti-MS whining, is actually a good product. It was good way back when it was a *NIX DB called Sybase SQL Server.
It's only insecure if you don't put a password on the sa (read admin/root) account. Which is the users perogative not to do so (I frequently don't on development systems, because I don't care), as well as the users fault if it gets exposed (as none of mine did since my whole dev environment is quarantined on it's own subnet).
You know what would also be cool? If they took your tuition money to Atlantic City and plunked it all down on red 36.
You don't know what you're going to get when you issue a bounty like this. It's a gamble. A good contract has obligations spelled out for both parties.
For every bungled deployment, there are dozens even hundreds that go smoothly. People just don't hop online and bitch when things work right.
I was hoping to see them launch a portable GCN. Cube discs are tiny and portable (like PSP). The hardware is cheap and runs relatively cool. Chuck it all in a GBASP-ish chassis, instant PSP killer with a built-in library of tons of cool games.
It's sad to see Nintendo being marginalized here on slashdot. They're the only company out making gaming hardware, not trying to wrestle complete control over all-things-entertainment. They know games, and they know their audience. Sony and MSFT know market-penetration and anti-competition strategies.
Oh well, who cares. The whole industry is going Hollywood. You need 50 million dollars in your pocket to even pitch a game concept these days.
Wtf? The first is dead simple, and you can swim underneath the entirety of the second.
If you've saved a couple of P-Wings, world 8 is a complete cake-walk.
World 7 is/was the toughest (most people I know never seen anything other than 1, 2 and 8, and never played on 2, you just have to get there to use the warp pipes to get to 8)
Here's what the hoo-haw is based on.
MS comes out saying XB360 is "100 times more powerful" than XBox.
Sony comes out and says PS3 is "30 times more powerful" than PS2.
Nintendo comes out and says that Revolution is "5 times more powerful".
So therefore Nintendo is teh suck making cheapy machines.
What these people miss, since they're clueless fanboys, is that those are made up out-of-their-ass numbers. Show me the math behind them?
Besides, for as accurate as a made up number goes, consider this. PS2 had a resolution of 320x480. GCN does 640x480. Twice the resolution. Twice as powerful already. Now, PS2 has a 300mhz CPU, GCN has 485mhz CPU. Another factor of 1.5! And GCN is PowerPC based, just like the Macs, so that makes it thrice as good as anything else by standard slashdot logic. So, the GCN is already 2x1.5x3, or 9 times as powerful as the PS2. So 9x5 makes Revolution 45 times more powerful than PS2!
Meh, who cares. Truthfully, the GCN is more "powerful" than the PS2, a side by side comparison of the games bear that out.
Nintendo are purposefully undercutting XB360 and PS3 on price. Which is really, really smart. I dont own a widescreen HDTV yet. If I did, it would be in the living room. That's where 360 or PS3 would go - just like XBox and PS2 are now. But, Gamecube's are cheap. Each of my kids have one. I have one in my office/lounge room. Gamecubes outnumber XBoxes 3 to 1 in my house.
My friends who have kids have the same situation. One XBox or PS2 for the "family" (basically just functioning as a DVD player since they won't let the kids monopolize the good TV for games), multiple Gamecubes in the kids bedrooms.
If these are a much lower price point, Revolutions will outnumber XBoxes in my house.
Anyhow, I'm no fan of hardware or corporations. I like games. Nintendo knows how to make and market games. Sony and Microsoft know only how to crush competition and dominate the market. There are three aisles of PS2 games at Best Buy, and one aisle split up between GCN and GBA. 90% of the PS2 games are pure crap, however, to the clueless consumer, it makes it look which is the obvious horse to bet on.
We'll see in a year or two what happens to Nintendo. I'm sort of rooting for them, since they're the only company left dedicated to gaming hardware, and not World Domination.
* Can you input data into your cell phone as quickly as a screen keyboard or graffiti?
Yes, as a matter of fact, my phone runs PalmOS and has a graffiti pad and on screen keyboard.
* Can you run word-processors and spreadsheets on your cell phone?
It's basically a Palm m515 integrated, so if it runs there, it runs on my phone.
* Does your cell-phone have a decent-sized display?
As big as most PDA's I've seen.
* Is there a vast library of both free and commercial software for your cell phone? Including e-books and document readers, dictionaries, map software, etc?
Yep, I told you, it runs PalmOS. It has an SD slot.
* Can you connect to a GPS via bluetooth with your cellphone, have it display real-time maps, such that you can navigate your car with it?
Nope. But I can go straight to mapquest and get turn by turn directions if I need them. My "real time display" is called the windshield and rear view mirrors, and are much more useful to me when operating my horseless carraige.
Why don't you just shove it straight up your ass so it can dock with your iPod!
Call it a prostate-top!
Only an Apple zealot would call that a "smart feature".
The XBox does the same thing. Turn it on without anything plugged into the A/V ports, it flashes red/green as if the unit was faulty. Plenty of people have taken perfectly good units back to Best Buy (or wherever) claiming they were broken out of the box, which of course fueled a whole bunch of "Ms is teh gay xboxes are broked" dipshittery right here on slashdot.
Anyhow, you can run VNC on a virtual framebuffer under linux or BSD, don't see why you couldn't do it on a miniMac.
I agree, why not have your crypto loops piss away a few extra cycles, randomly.
for (i=0; isome_random_number; i++) { do_some_stuff_that_looks_like_crypto }
This seems like another pointless nerd debate. It sounds like that "hack a key by examining the frequencies the CPU emits" type stuff.
If you played Halo 2 on live lately, the first thing you'd notice are the people who are just too damn accurate with the sniper rifle.
Mice have been available for a long time, and plenty of people play with mouse/keyboard. Seeing as how all the nextgen consoles have USB2.0 ports, I think the industry is catching on...
Seriously. I have an old Celeron 600 with 256 megs RAM running my firewall/squid proxy/privoxy/traffic shaper/vpn endpoint/samba pdc (just to let windows boxes auth, no fancy roaming profile bullshit) box just fine.
Hell, it's even overkill, but I don't have any AT power supplies left to wire up anything slower.
And your solution to a password locked drive?
AH HAH I got you mr hackoo
Cant log on to my router that way.
I was making the point that with xbox live, console games are that way too.
Halo 2 was unplayable due to rampant glitching and cheating until they released the update.
Sure I could.
As a matter of fact, I was eyeing a nice DLP rear-projector the other day. 720P, light engine, retailed for 1500 or so, but they were willing to sell the floor model for 1100. Close enough. The launch of the 360 and next years PS3 and Revolution will really start to move HDTVs out the door, since up until now, there was really nothing to use them for (high def TV programming is overrated). Hopefully that means rapidly plummeting prices.
Still, you could get a decent 30" widescreen HDTV (CRT based) for about 700, and a 360 to go with it, and probably not go too far past a grand. I seriously doubt next gen consoles will sell for more than 300, unless they want to go the way of Neo Geo and 3DO. Maybe they will, in which case, Nintendo is *really* smart to go the route they're going (cheaper, mass appeal product with good games, rather than dazzling geeks with specs)
Anyhow I passed on the set, since I'm holding out for 1080p.
It's not 1000 dollars! It's only $999.99!
.99 marketing trick actually work on anyone anymore? I'd love to stop seeing .99 on price tags.
Does that goofy
The price tags just dont justify what you get in return. So in order to make the "bling ding" cards attractive, they quietly drop support for "obsolete" hardware, that is, you don't see any bug fixes or software features being added in ATI's catylyst set for the 9x00 series anymore.
On top of that, those "obsolete" cards haven't gotten any cheaper as new products usurp them. The 9800 I saw on the shelf last weekend still cost as much as when I bought mine a year ago.
So far all signs point to the next gen of consoles being pretty much on par, visually, with the greatest crap that ATI and nVidia churn out.
It's really hard to see the point of PC gaming anymore. What's it got that consoles dont? Online gaming with annoying mouthy 14 year olds? Check. Overpriced titles, and half-baked content delivery mechanisms? Check. Half finished products that require patches and updates to work correctly? Check.
For what this card costs, I could get a jillion-inch widescreen high-def DLP set to hook my PS3 and XBox 360's up to.
Just posting to keep the "pc gamer" vs "console gamer" wars going strong. It's fun to watch dweebs and simps fight.
Look around the web, and see all the complicated PHP scripts and ASP pages serving as frontends to database of choice, to serve up what's essentially static information.
Plain HTML is quite often the most efficient solution, to produce, host and maintain.
All aboard the hype train! We'll fill the dotcom bubble back up, one asshat at a time!