It doesn't say it in the summary, but AMD says they also intend to release (all/some?) specs for ATI cards. This would be a tremendous boon for the OSS community - and wholly hope for support on every arch if this is the case, but I think it'd be unreasonable to ask AMD to support this natively given the very specialized niche from which they likely never gain any profit.
I didn't mean unquestionably, I wrote it - but it was wholly inappropriate. It was far too much of a blanket statement. I should say that I wasn't debating on that point, and as far as the future is concerned, I suspect that will hold. If such evidence is presented to the contrary, I certainly hope I'll be in a position to evaluate it.
On my third paragraph, I meant "This efficient farming..." to mean the farming with tractors, petroleum based fertilizers, etc.
Finally, I hold the opinion that it's not unreasonable for us, the human race, to exploit our resources to the degree that it gives us a better quality of life. If this means draining the battery, as it were, I think it's totally appropriate. The question I'm sure your book poses, and I've posed to myself on many occasions, is if we will recognize these resources are running low, and how we will compensate.
I think the points you raise are unquestionably true, to argue against them is to demonstrate some severe ignorance.
All we're doing now is currently using huge stockpiles of non-renewing (or renewing on too massive of timescales) biomass to convert to energy. The biomass is essentially a large capacitor or battery that had stockpiled billions of years of the sun's energy. We keep thinking of newer and newer ways to drain this battery, and more efficient ways to extract that energy (or at least widen its pipes for more watts per second). We're using it for everything from getting to space to farming to arguing over the internet. Eventually, whether next year or 3000A.D. it's going to start becoming harder and harder to access this energy, ultimately resulting in it drying up.
Really, this "efficient" farming as we see it is robbing peter to pay paul. It's like saying your hand-cranked flash light is more powerful than mine, while you have a 9v you found lying on the ground hooked up in series. Eventually, it's going to drain.
I venture to guess, however, by the time energy supplies start diminishing and drives the price up, we'll find some more cost effective energy.
What the article did not address, however, which wholy invalidates the entire argument, is exactly how much energy cost there was in this type farming - from planting, to de-weeding, to harvesting and processing. The amount of energy expended to acomplish those process likely exceeds that energy which it portends to save.
Are you aware of the concepts of capitalism? I don't mean to be condescending, but serious. Do you understand there are significant costs on the programming side for an entirely different architecture? Do you understand AMD needs to make money to survive as a company? Do you understand that only a fraction of their customers are running Linux, and of that a trivial fraction are running PPC?
Well that's sort of my point when I say he's paid to say it. It also meant he's paid to not say the opposite.
I agree that it is a good thing, it may help to provide more competition to Linux than the BSDs have at this point. If it's (truly) open source, it'd be hard to argue that it's anything but good.
I would extend this to "software" as a whole. Software seems to be in a special protected class, since companies are able to KNOWINGLY deliver a defective product and be immune from prosecution. Computer games I am looking at you. There seems to be a mentality in the industry of "ship now, patch later".
Whenever I hear something like this, it just screams that the speaker does not understand the principles of capitalism. You may not like them, you may not even agree with them, but ignorance is the worst thing you can do when it comes to capitalism.
Programming games, and debugging them, especially the 100% you seem to be asking for above, takes a significant amount of time and inevitably diminishing returns will kick in at some point. At some point, likely long before EVERY SINGLE BUG is worked out of a game, your profit margin starts to disappear. So what's a company to do? Spend their vast reserves to ensure that the obscure bug you run into doesn't ruin your last 2 hours of play? Fuck that, there would be no companies making games if that's the path they took.
Sure, some developers try to increase their profit and pull QA off "earlier" than what you'd like, but it's in their interest to do that. They like money. They're companies. They exist _solely_ to make money, and as much as they can. You are supposed to be the competing pressure against pulling QA off early, by not buying or word of mouth or competing.
Mr. Murdock hasn't forgot about Linux's strengths (or weaknesses for that matter), he's just paid to say other things. Ironic as it is, since he's the one who founded the most free linux distribution to date, one that will never be ran by a corporation and one that does not bend to officially include non-free software.
Well it is a _significant_ problem to fix. Imagine writing the tool that could effectively work with almost every videocard/monitor combination known. I'm sure there will be things it doesn't work with, but if it's 90% or better, it will be nice.
Windows doesn't have this problem because when manf. make video cards and monitors, they (usually) just make sure their product is "good enough for windows".
The beta wasn't designed to impress. It was meant to give a little whif of a carrot to fans, in addition to helping identify weaknesses in system - including but not limited to: high traffic spots on the maps, new risky high powered weapons, potentials of (map) exploitations, maybe low level tcp/ip code, or ati graphics code or anything even remotely related to running a system with millions of high demand, high traffic connection streams all with tons of data to parse and save.
Every beta blurb I read mentioned and linked to bungies statement on how the graphics were nowhere near finished.
You sir, have made a friend. Several minutes ago I had a post composed about my hatred for health paks. After I lost interest in writing that much, I closed the tab and found your comment. Well said.
IMHO, halos best innovation was seamlessly integrating ranking into online play with a level playing field and actually making attempts to keep it that way. I love how once I hit level 15 or so I no longer have to worry about team killers or n00bs or quitters, because the the level range is composed of people who are bound to win a few games. I generally don't get people who talk to much, and opponents who are fun to spar with.
The story in this game struck as awesome. I've never seen a video game with this sort of story and so well executed. The play was good and the plasmid/tonic selection is so powerful it deserves to be in many future games.
I felt many distinct emotions in this game: Fear, Surprise, Empathy, Pity, Rage, Aggression, Sadness, Regret and Shock(From the dialouge, like "Don't you fucking judge me!").
Doom maybe had me on Fear and Surprise, but no other game has given me the spectrum above.
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I don't know why all of those guys are recommending putty. It's a piece of shit. It requires mousing for _everything_ related to texting - copying, pasting, new window, etc. Not very unixy if you ask me.
If you want a good program that has a lot of securecrt's strengths, check out konsole - the default kde terminal. Sure you need to install the kdelibs, but it has tabs, arbitrary shortcut assignments, huge buffer configurations, etc.
That's a great way to determine VALID accounts to spam. A lot of people bring up this point, but it's only ostensibly helpful anyway. The resources you save from not verifying an address are _quickly_ eaten up by the fact that you're queueing messages for invalid addresses on your domain at oftentimes insane rates. Pretty soon, your lame server is going to start to deliver these zillion+ NDRs and not only ruin the rest of your day for your users by stealing bandwidth and mail server resources, but also for many, many other people on the internet who need to delete the 80+ NDRs you sent them.
The july numbers came in and showed a week for week increase, but still behind everything. What's ahead? No more discounted PS3s and back to the 599 one. It's funny that 8 or so years ago we would have all had a laugh along the lines of "Haha, even Microsoft could put out a better product than that!" and, well, it happened.
They'll just re-interpret the bible saying "Earth" to mean "Earth and Other planets as well" because of translation issues. Just like they did with the Genesis 7 days thing.
The point was that he seemed to consider it so academic and so "well known" that he could just dismiss it without considering it.
Google seems to have taken this elementary technique and turned it into a something that can kick the crap out of an over-engineered solution under the right circumstances. I've read the paper, and assuming this is really used how they say it is, I can say that it does a fantastic job of performing AND HA, based on my personal experiences with gmail, google, groups, adwords, maps, analytics, etc.
Fanboy? Maybe, depending on your definition. Impressed? Hell yes.
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...can run time optimize "Lair" into "Tetris" or otherwise correct for this.
Oh...so a game worth buying then?
It doesn't say it in the summary, but AMD says they also intend to release (all/some?) specs for ATI cards. This would be a tremendous boon for the OSS community - and wholly hope for support on every arch if this is the case, but I think it'd be unreasonable to ask AMD to support this natively given the very specialized niche from which they likely never gain any profit.
Right now it's at 72% of the games listed on sony's euro site. That's not exactly a trivial amount of games it doesn't support.
Allow me to correct myself, my post was hurried.
I didn't mean unquestionably, I wrote it - but it was wholly inappropriate. It was far too much of a blanket statement. I should say that I wasn't debating on that point, and as far as the future is concerned, I suspect that will hold. If such evidence is presented to the contrary, I certainly hope I'll be in a position to evaluate it.
On my third paragraph, I meant "This efficient farming..." to mean the farming with tractors, petroleum based fertilizers, etc.
Finally, I hold the opinion that it's not unreasonable for us, the human race, to exploit our resources to the degree that it gives us a better quality of life. If this means draining the battery, as it were, I think it's totally appropriate. The question I'm sure your book poses, and I've posed to myself on many occasions, is if we will recognize these resources are running low, and how we will compensate.
I think the points you raise are unquestionably true, to argue against them is to demonstrate some severe ignorance.
All we're doing now is currently using huge stockpiles of non-renewing (or renewing on too massive of timescales) biomass to convert to energy. The biomass is essentially a large capacitor or battery that had stockpiled billions of years of the sun's energy. We keep thinking of newer and newer ways to drain this battery, and more efficient ways to extract that energy (or at least widen its pipes for more watts per second). We're using it for everything from getting to space to farming to arguing over the internet. Eventually, whether next year or 3000A.D. it's going to start becoming harder and harder to access this energy, ultimately resulting in it drying up.
Really, this "efficient" farming as we see it is robbing peter to pay paul. It's like saying your hand-cranked flash light is more powerful than mine, while you have a 9v you found lying on the ground hooked up in series. Eventually, it's going to drain.
I venture to guess, however, by the time energy supplies start diminishing and drives the price up, we'll find some more cost effective energy.
What the article did not address, however, which wholy invalidates the entire argument, is exactly how much energy cost there was in this type farming - from planting, to de-weeding, to harvesting and processing. The amount of energy expended to acomplish those process likely exceeds that energy which it portends to save.
Are you aware of the concepts of capitalism? I don't mean to be condescending, but serious. Do you understand there are significant costs on the programming side for an entirely different architecture? Do you understand AMD needs to make money to survive as a company? Do you understand that only a fraction of their customers are running Linux, and of that a trivial fraction are running PPC?
You seem to be missing:
-PROFIT!
Playstation magazine gave it a 5/10. I bet that's part of the conspiracy, too.
Well that's sort of my point when I say he's paid to say it. It also meant he's paid to not say the opposite.
I agree that it is a good thing, it may help to provide more competition to Linux than the BSDs have at this point. If it's (truly) open source, it'd be hard to argue that it's anything but good.
I would extend this to "software" as a whole. Software seems to be in a special protected class, since companies are able to KNOWINGLY deliver a defective product and be immune from prosecution. Computer games I am looking at you. There seems to be a mentality in the industry of "ship now, patch later".
Whenever I hear something like this, it just screams that the speaker does not understand the principles of capitalism. You may not like them, you may not even agree with them, but ignorance is the worst thing you can do when it comes to capitalism.
Programming games, and debugging them, especially the 100% you seem to be asking for above, takes a significant amount of time and inevitably diminishing returns will kick in at some point. At some point, likely long before EVERY SINGLE BUG is worked out of a game, your profit margin starts to disappear. So what's a company to do? Spend their vast reserves to ensure that the obscure bug you run into doesn't ruin your last 2 hours of play? Fuck that, there would be no companies making games if that's the path they took.
Sure, some developers try to increase their profit and pull QA off "earlier" than what you'd like, but it's in their interest to do that. They like money. They're companies. They exist _solely_ to make money, and as much as they can. You are supposed to be the competing pressure against pulling QA off early, by not buying or word of mouth or competing.
Mr. Murdock hasn't forgot about Linux's strengths (or weaknesses for that matter), he's just paid to say other things. Ironic as it is, since he's the one who founded the most free linux distribution to date, one that will never be ran by a corporation and one that does not bend to officially include non-free software.
Well it is a _significant_ problem to fix. Imagine writing the tool that could effectively work with almost every videocard/monitor combination known. I'm sure there will be things it doesn't work with, but if it's 90% or better, it will be nice.
Windows doesn't have this problem because when manf. make video cards and monitors, they (usually) just make sure their product is "good enough for windows".
Did someone say cheesecake?
The beta wasn't designed to impress. It was meant to give a little whif of a carrot to fans, in addition to helping identify weaknesses in system - including but not limited to: high traffic spots on the maps, new risky high powered weapons, potentials of (map) exploitations, maybe low level tcp/ip code, or ati graphics code or anything even remotely related to running a system with millions of high demand, high traffic connection streams all with tons of data to parse and save.
Every beta blurb I read mentioned and linked to bungies statement on how the graphics were nowhere near finished.
You sir, have made a friend. Several minutes ago I had a post composed about my hatred for health paks. After I lost interest in writing that much, I closed the tab and found your comment. Well said.
IMHO, halos best innovation was seamlessly integrating ranking into online play with a level playing field and actually making attempts to keep it that way. I love how once I hit level 15 or so I no longer have to worry about team killers or n00bs or quitters, because the the level range is composed of people who are bound to win a few games. I generally don't get people who talk to much, and opponents who are fun to spar with.
They did it on star trek episodes! And star war movies!
"Java" would have sufficed.
The story in this game struck as awesome. I've never seen a video game with this sort of story and so well executed. The play was good and the plasmid/tonic selection is so powerful it deserves to be in many future games.
I felt many distinct emotions in this game: Fear, Surprise, Empathy, Pity, Rage, Aggression, Sadness, Regret and Shock(From the dialouge, like "Don't you fucking judge me!").
Doom maybe had me on Fear and Surprise, but no other game has given me the spectrum above.
I don't know why all of those guys are recommending putty. It's a piece of shit. It requires mousing for _everything_ related to texting - copying, pasting, new window, etc. Not very unixy if you ask me.
If you want a good program that has a lot of securecrt's strengths, check out konsole - the default kde terminal. Sure you need to install the kdelibs, but it has tabs, arbitrary shortcut assignments, huge buffer configurations, etc.
The july numbers came in and showed a week for week increase, but still behind everything. What's ahead? No more discounted PS3s and back to the 599 one. It's funny that 8 or so years ago we would have all had a laugh along the lines of "Haha, even Microsoft could put out a better product than that!" and, well, it happened.
They'll just re-interpret the bible saying "Earth" to mean "Earth and Other planets as well" because of translation issues. Just like they did with the Genesis 7 days thing.
The point was that he seemed to consider it so academic and so "well known" that he could just dismiss it without considering it.
Google seems to have taken this elementary technique and turned it into a something that can kick the crap out of an over-engineered solution under the right circumstances. I've read the paper, and assuming this is really used how they say it is, I can say that it does a fantastic job of performing AND HA, based on my personal experiences with gmail, google, groups, adwords, maps, analytics, etc.
Fanboy? Maybe, depending on your definition. Impressed? Hell yes.