Surely there are 1000s of out of work musicians, even hippie, new age ones, that would and can make a music track for a dentist office for a one time flat fee that has nothing to do with RIAA at all, because its a private sale/contract.
for such a message as "stay away from that location" is hardly topsecret, they could have just used normal encrypted radio links. Were they using todays.com managers to decide that?
1. make a folder with 400meg of nasa photos/mpegs 2. ask AOL, can you add this 400meg folder to your useless CDs? 3. more people will KEEP their AOL cds, rather than use em as shutgun targets. 4. manager gets a promotion for doing something good rather than just for lying his ass off.
But in this real world, we know managers at AOL dont even know where the space bar is on their keyboard.
XP embedded can be booted into a fully working desktop with IE etc.. and all start menus and still use a total of 50meg ram at desktop time.
Now god knows what gets loaded up when XPPro loads up and uses 192 megs ram. 50 unneeded services? spy ware programs, office starts, mozillas, quicktime toolbar, real player, IM client (taking 15megs ram).
I cant believe Carmack runs his code in one big ass loop with only one thread. Is he insane? surely he uses multiple threads for various things like network control for MP, and audio effects, world rotations. Coding for dual cpu is hardly that difficult, its like regular coding in multiple threads with different tasks, and semephores to tell the threads when job X is done to do job Y. If his code is truly multithreaded etc... it should at least benefit from dual cpus, even if its 10%. Only shoddy syncronous code would fail to be dualcpu ported. There must be many instances in the code where for example for world rotation or colision detection, you could do 1/2 the objects/points or 1/2 the screen on ONE cpu and the rest on the second. Games should be like renderers, and do 1/2 the screen on one cpu and the other 1/2 on the other, or 1/2 the objects, which ever way you like to split the code up.
Maybe his real reason for ROI, if only 1% of people have dual cpu, then its not worth spending 1000hrs coding a MP version of the engine with 100's of IFDEFs.
Why not add to the content, an extra file with details of when such data gets updated, or when the next update will happen as well as getting the md5 of the current content to decide if to download or not the new content.
So just one request for/get_nextupdatetime.xml and one for/get_content_md5.xml to decide if to do the whole big download of/get_our_realcontent.xml
Oh and the server can randomize the result of get_nextupdatetime.xml by jiffying the real time += 10 minutes so its not always exact, so all clients will get slightly different values.
If they had a clue, they would grow 10000 acres of canabis which;
A) grows 10000x faster than trees B) makes 10x more pulp per acre C) uses 100x less water. D) stick it to the govt.
But would they ever do that? NOOOO coz there are no patents in the process to expoit and oh the trouble of the govt wackos like bush n old guys being so anti-canabis (to protect their buddies profits)
I guess they wouldnt want 100s of pot heads heading up to the 100000s acres of weed to take a few home, but what is so wrong with that OTH?
aids drugs are cheap, but the evil usa companies keep charging crack prices. If african countries can make those same drugs for $1 per BOX, then let them, even if USA only gets 5cents profit per box.
A) better than nothing B) CEO should sleep well at night knowing hes saving peoples lives, not killing them by outpricing it. C) CEO will go to hell if he doesnt allow it, jesus will make sure;-)
We are a big planet, we have xxxx dollars, surely spending 1% of revenue on space isnt a killer.
On the other hand, i say, let the CIA/DOD etc... give those area51/alien technologies to nasa, coz we know they have it, or at least have stuff that would impress nasa, unless they are in on it too. And dont tell me govts cant keep secrets, because a simple presidential order can have you executed and thats enough to keep secrets.
All they gota do is put an add in the paper saying;
"Are you a good games programmer that got sacked by sony, or werent goon enough to be hired by sony? Come to us, we can bring you up to speed, and you can have a chance to stick it up to sony"
Surely there are jap crazy game fans/coders that are unemployed or not hired by sony/namco etc...
All it takes is $$$ and you can hire anyone with reasnable skills, hell, for MS, spending $50m on a jap game dev house isnt gona hurt even if the programmers are so so, they can be brought up to speed, or just hire 2x as much.
$2.99 for unlimited! wow I wish in australia our greedy shit telcos did that (yes they make lots of profits here, see telstra.com), our sms costs 25cents at most, with special deals or 15c offers, or even 5c on the same telco, or free times 8pm-12am
But even so, 2.99 would rock here, they never like doing any $$$/unlimited offers here.
the only thing that sucked with acorn was that some stupid ass moron swapped the : and / in the ascii table (was it to not pay ascii patents?) so their whole directory stucture was:root:path:folder:crap:
YUK!
But the OS was real nice, pitty we cant rip it out today into embedded systems (its real small) it would fly, unless my memory is bad and my brain is faster today. Maybe run it on arm pdas.
-dash-dash-dash-dash-dash-dash-dash-dash-dash-da sh -dash-dash slashdot 2minute posting limit, a good way of telling us, "you cannot scale to volume and handle so many POSTS"
damn guy, you copied me:) ive been doing that for over a year too. its like having 10 bookmarks of each catagory. This should be firefoxes default setup to get people to adapt to it.
Perhaps allow an option to 'import' first 3 layers of catagories from google directories or yahoo automatically if you have nothing?
But its damn cool, just wish the bookmark search option was on the main window, not in the manage booksmarks area...
1. real page scaling , like PDF viewers, where the imags/text get scaled in perfect sync. DUH!!!! hurry up with this one.
2. proper caching (why oh why is it so hard), a smart cacher, that you can tell (* always cache this site,never flush *) manually, aswell as "never cache this site" options.
3. proper page back/forward that DOESNT RELOAD the page, just redisplay the cached html/media.
4. on windows, prevent swap to HD, i hate how it takes 20-50seconds to bring back firefox from swap, horrible. Allocate "true ram" that never swaps to HD, im sure theres an api somewhere...
5. allow ability to save/export all passwords/remembered form values, I hate loosing them all (im sick of so many websites requiring passwords to begin with)
Make a mildly usefull bit of software, release it for $5 a pop. Then come tax time, claim to the tax man, that you estimate there to be 1000000 pirate copies of your $5 wares, so you deserve $5m tax deduction, the tax man goes, "man thats a bit high, how about 100k", you go sure whip it up baby, and now you get to keep all of your $60k salary instead of giving up 35% of it.
100000000 lies by all governments, not that truth matters to the plebs and cerfs when they are forced to pay taxes.
Now on to the real thiefs, the government and banks again... taxes = theft, inflation = theft, even at 1% (true inflation for common man is more at 7%) so thats 7% of your 50k salary STOLEN!! That 2% raise just makes you feel better,but it still equals out to 5% theft.
And people/skeptics say, "government types" cannot keep a secret, thats why aliens are not real, because if they were it would be leaked out.
Bolony, theres a buncho secrets, and none of you pinko sad ass nerds who work for CIA/NORAD will ever squeel on the aliens (or are they earth people from the future) coz you'll get SHOT ON SITE;v)
excellent way to 'fire' a co-worker you hate, or your boss, just slip them a 'camera' into their pocket, bingo, watch the CEO get fired, ahahhahah
Seriously, though, if anyone wanted to 'steal' secrets, they would plan/learn how to do photographic memory, you cant 'prevent' that can you. I can imagine now, super small implant cameras that fit into your NOSE, camera in one nostral, battery in the other, just squeeze your nose to take a shot, no one is going to examine your snotty nose are they:-)
So if all the good people which know the truth dont vote to protest, and only morons evil people vote, you get a moron in power, thats their plan!
Face it, if only 10% votes, and the party wins by 60% total votes that means, that 6% of the country voted for your elpresidente. What a crock! by that way, Stalone could be voted as president.
What is wrong with requiring everyone to vote, if you dont want to, register that you are voting, but dont vote or fill the form in incorrectly as other smart humans in other countries do.
He wasnt asking for some website on whackos, he asked you if it was right for him to sit there, which implies you must be a relative of bush to not know that DigiPigiWigi.
Id rather assume his a dumbass and a bunch of wackos are controlling him for their own purpose because they want the 'new world order'
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So if you get some out of work backyard musos making their own 100% original CDs with fruityloops or garageband/mac, then you still have to pay them?
:)
Would it not be cheaper to pay $50/musician to an out of work musician to get permission to use all their music? oh and give em free coffee any time
Surely there are 1000s of out of work musicians, even hippie, new age ones, that would and can make a music track for a dentist office for a one time flat fee that has nothing to do with RIAA at all, because its a private sale/contract.
for such a message as "stay away from that location" is hardly topsecret, they could have just used normal encrypted radio links. Were they using todays .com managers to decide that?
just 2 trillion songs for storeage.
pre installed with all songs made by all human history, $9.95.
1. make a folder with 400meg of nasa photos/mpegs
2. ask AOL, can you add this 400meg folder to your useless CDs?
3. more people will KEEP their AOL cds, rather than use em as shutgun targets.
4. manager gets a promotion for doing something good rather than just for lying his ass off.
But in this real world, we know managers at AOL dont even know where the space bar is on their keyboard.
XP embedded can be booted into a fully working desktop with IE etc.. and all start menus and still use a total of 50meg ram at desktop time.
Now god knows what gets loaded up when XPPro loads up and uses 192 megs ram. 50 unneeded services? spy ware programs, office starts, mozillas, quicktime toolbar, real player, IM client (taking 15megs ram).
I cant believe Carmack runs his code in one big ass loop with only one thread. Is he insane? surely he uses multiple threads for various things like network control for MP, and audio effects, world rotations. Coding for dual cpu is hardly that difficult, its like regular coding in multiple threads with different tasks, and semephores to tell the threads when job X is done to do job Y.
If his code is truly multithreaded etc... it should at least benefit from dual cpus, even if its 10%. Only shoddy syncronous code would fail to be dualcpu ported. There must be many instances in the code where for example for world rotation or colision detection, you could do 1/2 the objects/points or 1/2 the screen on ONE cpu and the rest on the second. Games should be like renderers, and do 1/2 the screen on one cpu and the other 1/2 on the other, or 1/2 the objects, which ever way you like to split the code up.
Maybe his real reason for ROI, if only 1% of people have dual cpu, then its not worth spending 1000hrs coding a MP version of the engine with 100's of IFDEFs.
Why not add to the content, an extra file with details of when such data gets updated, or when the next update will happen as well as getting the md5 of the current content to decide if to download or not the new content.
/get_nextupdatetime.xml /get_content_md5.xml to decide if to do the whole big download of /get_our_realcontent.xml
So just one request for
and one for
Oh and the server can randomize the result of get_nextupdatetime.xml by jiffying the real time += 10 minutes so its not always exact, so all clients will get slightly different values.
If they had a clue, they would grow 10000 acres of canabis which;
A) grows 10000x faster than trees
B) makes 10x more pulp per acre
C) uses 100x less water.
D) stick it to the govt.
But would they ever do that? NOOOO coz there are no patents in the process to expoit and oh the trouble of the govt wackos like bush n old guys being so anti-canabis (to protect their buddies profits)
I guess they wouldnt want 100s of pot heads heading up to the 100000s acres of weed to take a few home, but what is so wrong with that OTH?
oh please
;-)
aids drugs are cheap, but the evil usa companies keep charging crack prices. If african countries can make those same drugs for $1 per BOX, then let them, even if USA only gets 5cents profit per box.
A) better than nothing
B) CEO should sleep well at night knowing hes saving peoples lives, not killing them by outpricing it.
C) CEO will go to hell if he doesnt allow it, jesus will make sure
We are a big planet, we have xxxx dollars, surely spending 1% of revenue on space isnt a killer.
On the other hand, i say, let the CIA/DOD etc... give those area51/alien technologies to nasa, coz we know they have it, or at least have stuff that would impress nasa, unless they are in on it too. And dont tell me govts cant keep secrets, because a simple presidential order can have you executed and thats enough to keep secrets.
All they gota do is put an add in the paper saying;
"Are you a good games programmer that got sacked by sony, or werent goon enough to be hired by sony? Come to us, we can bring you up to speed, and you can have a chance to stick it up to sony"
Surely there are jap crazy game fans/coders that are unemployed or not hired by sony/namco etc...
All it takes is $$$ and you can hire anyone with reasnable skills, hell, for MS, spending $50m on a jap game dev house isnt gona hurt even if the programmers are so so, they can be brought up to speed, or just hire 2x as much.
does it spin backwards or does it spin forwards and the data is reversed? is there a difference?
Btw, what about the XBOX burning option in NERO? when I do that, the UDF cdrw still reads on a mac OSX 10.3 btw.
From a technical point of view, id rather reverse the data then reverse the spin, sinces its easier to design etc...
$2.99 for unlimited! wow I wish in australia our greedy shit telcos did that (yes they make lots of profits here, see telstra.com), our sms costs 25cents at most, with special deals or 15c offers, or even 5c on the same telco, or free times 8pm-12am
But even so, 2.99 would rock here, they never like doing any $$$/unlimited offers here.
the only thing that sucked with acorn was that some stupid ass moron swapped the : and / in the ascii table (was it to not pay ascii patents?) so their whole directory stucture was :root:path:folder:crap:
YUK!
But the OS was real nice, pitty we cant rip it out today into embedded systems (its real small) it would fly, unless my memory is bad and my brain is faster today. Maybe run it on arm pdas.
firefox/manage bookmarks/search
a sh -dash-dash
its there...
hardly difficult and works.
-dash-dash-dash-dash-dash-dash-dash-dash-dash-d
slashdot 2minute posting limit, a good way of telling us, "you cannot scale to volume and handle so many POSTS"
damn guy, you copied me :) ive been doing that for over a year too. its like having 10 bookmarks of each catagory. This should be firefoxes default setup to get people to adapt to it.
Perhaps allow an option to 'import' first 3 layers of catagories from google directories or yahoo automatically if you have nothing?
But its damn cool, just wish the bookmark search option was on the main window, not in the manage booksmarks area...
1. real page scaling , like PDF viewers, where the imags/text get scaled in perfect sync. DUH!!!! hurry up with this one.
2. proper caching (why oh why is it so hard), a smart cacher, that you can tell (* always cache this site,never flush *) manually, aswell as "never cache this site" options.
3. proper page back/forward that DOESNT RELOAD the page, just redisplay the cached html/media.
4. on windows, prevent swap to HD, i hate how it takes 20-50seconds to bring back firefox from swap, horrible. Allocate "true ram" that never swaps to HD, im sure theres an api somewhere...
5. allow ability to save/export all passwords/remembered form values, I hate loosing them all (im sick of so many websites requiring passwords to begin with)
Make a mildly usefull bit of software, release it for $5 a pop. Then come tax time, claim to the tax man, that you estimate there to be 1000000 pirate copies of your $5 wares, so you deserve $5m tax deduction, the tax man goes, "man thats a bit high, how about 100k", you go sure whip it up baby, and now you get to keep all of your $60k salary instead of giving up 35% of it.
re your cig.
,but it still equals out to 5% theft.
100000000 lies by all governments, not that truth matters to the plebs and cerfs when they are forced to pay taxes.
Now on to the real thiefs, the government and banks again... taxes = theft, inflation = theft, even at 1% (true inflation for common man is more at 7%) so thats 7% of your 50k salary STOLEN!! That 2% raise just makes you feel better
And people/skeptics say, "government types" cannot keep a secret, thats why aliens are not real, because if they were it would be leaked out.
;v)
Bolony, theres a buncho secrets, and none of you pinko sad ass nerds who work for CIA/NORAD will ever squeel on the aliens (or are they earth people from the future) coz you'll get SHOT ON SITE
excellent way to 'fire' a co-worker you hate, or your boss, just slip them a 'camera' into their pocket, bingo, watch the CEO get fired, ahahhahah
:-)
Seriously, though, if anyone wanted to 'steal' secrets, they would plan/learn how to do photographic memory, you cant 'prevent' that can you. I can imagine now, super small implant cameras that fit into your NOSE, camera in one nostral, battery in the other, just squeeze your nose to take a shot, no one is going to examine your snotty nose are they
Show em MyIE , its like firefox, but with IE engine.
Can someone tell those smartass 'actors' not news reporters to read that :-)
So if all the good people which know the truth dont vote to protest, and only morons evil people vote, you get a moron in power, thats their plan!
Face it, if only 10% votes, and the party wins by 60% total votes that means, that 6% of the country voted for your elpresidente. What a crock! by that way, Stalone could be voted as president.
What is wrong with requiring everyone to vote, if you dont want to, register that you are voting, but dont vote or fill the form in incorrectly as other smart humans in other countries do.
He wasnt asking for some website on whackos, he asked you if it was right for him to sit there, which implies you must be a relative of bush to not know that DigiPigiWigi.
Id rather assume his a dumbass and a bunch of wackos are controlling him for their own purpose because they want the 'new world order'