I bought a FX5600 which on my AMD 2500 (oc'd to about a 2800) runs Doom 3 at medium Quality at 1024x768 with hardly a slow down.
I find that hard to believe. I've owned the FX5600 and an ATI 9600, both cards are pretty similar and both have a hell of a time running Doom 3, with a gig of ram, I forget the CPU (it was close to or better than a real 2800.) I now have a 3200 with a GeForce 6800 OC (better than a standard 6800 since it's overclocked stock but not as good as the ultra, but then I overclocked it more so it's now better than the ultra.) I play Doom 3 in Ultra Quality and it runs VERY smooth. I'm very happy with the card, it was $500 plus tax at fry's and well worth it. I would have liked to have the PCI-X version but I was going to quake con (this was like a few days after the card came out and a few weeks before the game came out) and I needed something to play Doom 3 on so I didn't want to wait for PCI-X. I saw some people who had PCI-X cards at quakecon (press guys who review the things, can't buy them in the stores) wish I had one:-/.
Their "evidence" of a chimp hacking diebold is a series of poorly cut images of a chimp and a computer????? Come the fuck on now... First, half of the minute video is useless filler text and a picture of smiling chimp, which immedietly jumps to a sequence that could have only been cut by an editor with suffering from ADD syndrome. Seriously, where's that foot icon, because there's no way you could possibly take this story seriously.
Did you actually read the article? The point was "Hey look, if you hit delete you can wipe out the audit log. There's no security." Pretty much that the election results are like a text file on your desktop, with a password that only applies to directly editing the file. If you want you can delete the results with no password or anything. Then just delete the log. I'm really not getting into this new voting system and I can imagine there will be many problems come election day:-/
Umm actually I'm at the site, it's running fine. It's running pretty damn fast. Maybe it's your connection, or the person put their site on a mirror and it's being redirected.
I've been wanting something like this for quite some time now. I put a PS2 inside my car and the most annoying thing is the space it takes up, I took apart my PS2 to see if I could save some space and I noticed there was a LOT of room inside of the case. I wanted to relocate the DVD drive, add a longer ribbonand move it above my cup holders below my radio. I would have done it except I can't make a long ribbon and I don't know any places that sell the one I'd need. I was gonna put the controller/memory card ports above the drive too, but still there was the ribbon problem. Then I was gonna put the remaining hardware in a smaller case (probably just a project box) and hid it under my seat.
I eventually gave up on that idea (sort of, found a multitap and put that under the stereo, has memory card and controller ports, but I still want the DVD drive there too) but I still have a PS2 in my car, and a PS2 in my house. If this thing came out a few months ago I would have bought it specifically for the car (although when I bought a PS2 for the car I bought it with the network adapter so I could use it for the PS2 in the house, wouldn't have that option with this one since it's built in.) I really hope the PS3 comes in this form, or at least smaller than the PS2 so I can fit one in my car much easier.
What we're going to do soon is build a river... A river of freedom. A river of hope. A river which runs from coast to coast that cuts us off from
the 47 states of wastrels and bad influcences to the north. We are going to cut Florida off from the mainland of our oppressors and float
out to sea. Then, the nation of Florida will be free to start over. There're be no long-ass lines at the Log Flume or Pirate Ship ride when
I take over! You and the kids will be able to ride the rides all day! We will have a rollercoaster for each and every Florida family!
Speaking as a consumer, and no, I don't work for MS. I'm sick and tired of seeing good games companies going bankrupt, while freeloading cheapskates (some driving SUVs and sports cars) leech their games on P2P.
What companies would that be? If the game was so good most people would have bought it, if no one bought it and the company went bankrupt was the game worth buying in the first place? I bought a copy of every game I've ever liked enough to say "Ya that's worth $50." I've even bought games I don't like as much just to support the company. A lot of my friends do that too. And if the game isn't worth my $50 I'll wait till the price drops to a point where it's worth buying. A lot of times I download the games first for a trial run before putting down my money. I never like getting the demos of games cause it's not the same.
I don't understand what you mean. How is the parent post prejudice? The indian economy IS doing very well. I don't know about the chinese economy though. You even mention that India has the best computer science program in the world, which would support his statement (good computer science program, more IT jobs, good for the economy.)
The reason for two windows instead of one is simply because the best place for them in my house is on that wall and the fireplace limits things significantly
He says the fireplace limits things significantly but I don't understand how it limits him to two windows instead of one. Was he going to make a huge window but the fireplace limited the space? Couldn't he have put it on another wall? It's a little odd having a window above a fireplace, that isn't looking directly inside of your chimney. Although it is possible to have a fireplace without a chimney, I have one inside my house.
Actually it's 40 miles in deep space, but if you've ever visited New York City? We have quite a number of buildings above 100ft. The top of my house is 100 feet from the ground, and I'm on a hill so that helps too.
Actually the 5.1 headphones the grandparent is refering to do not do any of the stuff you mentioned. They have 6 speakers in them and 3 inputs (front, back and sub.) They're the Zalman 5.1 headphones and I think they're around $60, they seem pretty cool but I like my Bose headphones much much better.
Can't you just get a good sound card? I'm pretty sure all the SB Live! and Audigy cards do real-time encoding. And you can get one on ebay for a decent price, for SP/DIF out you might need a Live! Drive but you're not locked into an nforce3.
Last month during QuakeCon it became clearly apparent that computer audio has become somewhat of a forgotten component in the computer industry when talking to gamers and listening to companies at the gaming event.
Obviously they didn't talk to the guys from Creative Labs selling and giving away their Soundblaster Audigy 2 cards, or the guys from Zalman showing off the 5.1 headphones. And maybe they didn't notice that 30% of the people at the event had very expensive Sennheiser headphones. They seem to have just talked to nvidia and the people buying the 6800s (or trying to win one) who care more about the video than audio.
While I was at the event I went to Fry's and purchased some nice Bose headphones to replace my Koss', they sound GREAT, I noticed a lot of people bought new headphones during the event as well.
Anyway I wish their site had more info on the general consensus of computer audio at quakecon rather than rely on the future plans of a company whose primary focus is video cards.
That format would be sitting in a theater and making fun of a bad movie? Guess they better start suing most groups of teenagers I've ever seen at a movie
Do those teenagers call themselves "Mr. Sinus Theater 3000" and charge people to see them? No? Then I don't think they have to worry, this lawsuit is just about getting "Mr. Sinus" to change their name.
It's ridiculous to claim that I can't write an application because I can't see the source to the OS itself. No one would have ever done anything non-trivial for any platform. Heck, I don't want to look at the OS source code, that shouldn't be my concern. That's just another bogus lame complaint about how "Windoze is teh sux".
It seems reading comprehension is not one of your strong points. I said HP can MODIFY their source. Seeing the source is much much different than being able to modify it. They don't need to see the source for windows they just need to change something. The article doesn't mention what it is. There's probably some situation where they need a function to behave differently or something, I don't know the limitations on windows programing but they've obviously found something that can't possibly be done in windows without modifying the source (or maybe it's something that can be done but would require breaking some windows liscensing or something stupid like that, which they obviously don't want to do.)
Funny how no one mentioned the oft-repeated fact that Microsoft "stole" the network stack from BSD. Not in this case, where apparently HP can't write something like Tiny, which as the other reply to your post mentioned, can just as easily throttle instead of just blocking. Apparently the network stack in Windows is crap, which of course explains why in cross-platform libraries (like the Apache Portable Runtime) the networking code almost always ports untouched.
Like I said before, RTFA. It does more work than tiny, it doesn't throttle bandwidth on a specific port, my grandmother can write a program to do that, it throttles bandwidth on specific applications. A firewall does NOT throttle bandwidth according to application, it just blocks traffic from a specific port. And tiny just restricts bandwidth thru a specific port, but it does not know which applications are using the bandwidth and it does not throttle the bandwidth usage of these applications. It also does not detect signs of a virus or spy ware, it just compares stuff to known cases. The HP software will detect viruses and stuff like that before having to download any kind of definitions which will make it much more functional than most stuff out there.
Right.
Right what? Right you didn't read the article? Right you agree in not understanding why you'd defend microsoft? Right as in a sarcastic right to defend the opposite of my previous points? Well if it's the sarcastic right, why are you defending microsoft, and did you RTFA?
Way back in the day when Half-Life came out, I played on a 300MHz AMD K6-2 (With 3D Now beotch!) I had 32 megs of ram and some 2MB video card not capable of hardware 3D acceleration. Half-Life ran fine in 640x480 in software mode. Eventually I bought a 3DFX Banshee, started playing the game with hardware acceleration and it ran perfectly at 1024x768 (max fps all the time shown in net graph). The game took a little while to load maps and that was pretty much all it would have to do to connect to a server. Time from double clicking half-life icon to joining a game I would like to play, 45 seconds.
Now I have a 2.4 GHz 3200+ XP with a gig of ram and a nVidia 6800 GT. I still get a good fps (although there was a time where I had a 800MHz PIII and the game ran pretty crappy, was one of the newer half-life versions.) It now takes 2-3 minutes to get into a server. Hey cool my favorite TFC server is active, wait damn I'm in counter-strike, I can't switch games. Oh sweet a CS server with my favorite map. Downloading security module, oh well it won't take that long. Damn the map changed while downloading, DAMN I was disconnected during the map change, I'll just reconnect, DAMN it's downloading the security module again.
Half-Life used to be my favorite game, well the mods anyway. Then Valve started to add some bloat, it started getting really bad when CS became available in stores. Now CS is so dumbed down and 10 year old friendly that it's impossible for me to play anymore. TFC has become very unpopular, and the half-life graphics are now total crap in comparisson to everything else. I supported Valve for a long time (till a while after Gunman Chronicles came out.) But with the way they've turned a game with little system requirements, with average FPS difficulty, to a game that won't run on it's system requirements anymore and has been turned into a Fisher Price version of a FPS, they can now kiss my ass. I will get Half-Life 2 to see where the story goes, but I won't be paying for it.
I agree with you except if you look up "appropriate" (part of the deffinition for stealing that you quoted from the parent) you'll find "to take or make use of without authority or right."
You're not taking the songs but you are making use of them without authority or right, anyway just wanted to point that out.
I'm pretty sure the people who wrote Tiny Personal Firewall didn't have access to the Windows source code.
I'm pretty sure you're right. And I'm also pretty sure Tiny Personal Firewall doesn't come close to doing what the software from HP would do (I think it checks for the activity of worms or viruses and throtles their usage to "block" DoS attacks or something like that.) Anyone can write a firewall, it's a bitch writing software to throttle network and CPU usage for a particular process.
So enlighten me again - what does this have to do with Windows being a "closed proprietary OS" again?
HP owns HP Unix, they can modify the source any way they want to. Linux is open source, so again HP can modify the source any way they want to. Windows is closed source, HP cannot modify the source (I don't know what they have to do, but they can't do it no matter if the firewall is enabled or not) so they cannot get their software to work on Windows.
And BTW, this is something already built into XP, as you can tell from the many comments in this article.
Yes, a firewall is built into windows, but it's nothing like the software HP is trying to create.
I understand why you want to defend microsoft (well not really) but at least RTFA next time.
NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter begins working overtime today after completing a prime mission that discovered vast supplies of frozen water
So when did that happen? I remember checking in on slashdot all the time and there would always be some thing about the mars rovers almost discovering water, but always missing some piece of evicende or something. I don't remember anything about an orbiter finding huge amounts of water (well I was on vacation for a month but I figured it would be pretty big on the news or something.)
Didn't sega do this a long time ago with there Genesis system? Wasn't there some like cable TV channel you can get and if you had it, you could select games you wanted to play and play them from the channel? I think there was some special device you needed in your genesis to play. Anyway, too lazy to look it up but I'm very sure they had something like this.
That seemed possible back then (with games being ~1 meg) but now you need to download a 5 meg executable, then like 100 megs of textures and sound files for a map. And then there's models too, I don't see how this will work unless the games are really bad. Would work much better if the 29.95 included a 100mbit connection.
Wow I totally agree, this is stupid. We all know 2.6 Billion dollars can end world hunger, the conflict in the middle east AND global warming. Unfortunately before no one has EVER had this kind of money to spend, so now that we have a chance we should put this money into solving those problems right away!
Do you realize how many billions of dollars are spent daily on stuff much MUCH less profitable and important than an international chess city? Do you realize 2.6 billion dollars isn't all that much money?
Why can't I log on, type in my zip code, and get movies, restaurants, maps, and driving directions from my Treo? That's 90% of what I need WAP for. But the "portal" sites seem like an artifact of the dot-com boom -- missing or outdated information, or whole pages that just don't work.
I don't know what a Treo is, but my phone cost about the same amount (well would have been cheaper if I sent in the rebate, didn't care though) yet I can do all of the stuff you just mentioned except for SSH. I don't need movies.yahoo.com, I use T-Zones (some service with t-mobile.) And I can call people too (calling people with a cell phone? What a novel idea!) Was really helpfull while I was driving across the country, I had to send a few important e-mails about shipping an item to AZ so it would arrive when I got there. And I can use T-zones as long as I have service (and I don't think there was like 30 minutes where I didn't have service.) Anyway, I wonder how much your service costs, it sounds like it would be expensive.
To make this as easy as possible for insurance company representatives (or any other representatives of big business and government) to understand:
Stay the f**k out of my life.
The insurance company is there just in case something happens. It's there buisiness to know your buisiness, if you constantly get tickets, they're gonna increase your premium because you're a risk. IF you want them to stay out of your life, how's this, drive without insurance. Sure it's illegal and I wish it wasn't (oh how I wish...) Or just withhold information from them and pay a lot of money (well, don't get any discounts for certain things.) Anyway, either pay a lot for insurance, drive without it, or shut up that they're "invading your privacy" and let them track your cars speed (actually YOU track the cars speed, and if you feel like it you give them the information, and you get a discount, all for giving them the cars average speed...)
I do pretty much the same thing you do except it's not every 2 years, it's about twice a year. I have a bit over a TB of storage with only 180 gigs free, I have a "FTP" site sort of. Well if it was a site, it would be VERY popular, except for my upstream. I keep all kinds of FTP related stuff on it, a ton of MP3s, a bunch of episodes of my favorite shows (well cartoon shows, I don't download x-files episodes or anything.) A lot of ISOs, all kinds of stuff, and it always fills up my drive. And if it doesn't, the drive gets filled up with full installs of games like Doom 3 (which surprisingly takes up very little space compared to most other games) far cry, UT2K4, all these games are over 1.5 gigs with like UT2K4 currently taking up about 6 or so. I guess it also depends on how often you clean up your data since I never really want to I just keep buying more space when I run out.
Have you ever actually tried to create a server side mod (mutator) for UT2K4? The stuff that's possible is very weak. The language is very basic which makes it easy, but the stuff you can do is very limited. The Doom 3 engine doesn't see to difficult to mod, don't know why it would be, the only difference would be like the language, and map editors or whatever. Someone can make the map editors very similar so then the difference would just be the language.
Ya it was fun for me using BASIC when I was younger but that was because my computer didn't have any games on it (wasn't much that ran on it and wasn't much worth buying.) If your kid's watching you play Doom 3 on your computer do you think he'll care that he can write a little loop to print "Hey 1! Hey 2! Hey 3! Hey 4!..." He'll just get bored and go play on a console, or ask to play one of your PC games.
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I bought a FX5600 which on my AMD 2500 (oc'd to about a 2800) runs Doom 3 at medium Quality at 1024x768 with hardly a slow down.
:-/.
I find that hard to believe. I've owned the FX5600 and an ATI 9600, both cards are pretty similar and both have a hell of a time running Doom 3, with a gig of ram, I forget the CPU (it was close to or better than a real 2800.) I now have a 3200 with a GeForce 6800 OC (better than a standard 6800 since it's overclocked stock but not as good as the ultra, but then I overclocked it more so it's now better than the ultra.) I play Doom 3 in Ultra Quality and it runs VERY smooth. I'm very happy with the card, it was $500 plus tax at fry's and well worth it. I would have liked to have the PCI-X version but I was going to quake con (this was like a few days after the card came out and a few weeks before the game came out) and I needed something to play Doom 3 on so I didn't want to wait for PCI-X. I saw some people who had PCI-X cards at quakecon (press guys who review the things, can't buy them in the stores) wish I had one
Their "evidence" of a chimp hacking diebold is a series of poorly cut images of a chimp and a computer????? Come the fuck on now... First, half of the minute video is useless filler text and a picture of smiling chimp, which immedietly jumps to a sequence that could have only been cut by an editor with suffering from ADD syndrome. Seriously, where's that foot icon, because there's no way you could possibly take this story seriously.
:-/
Did you actually read the article? The point was "Hey look, if you hit delete you can wipe out the audit log. There's no security." Pretty much that the election results are like a text file on your desktop, with a password that only applies to directly editing the file. If you want you can delete the results with no password or anything. Then just delete the log. I'm really not getting into this new voting system and I can imagine there will be many problems come election day
Umm actually I'm at the site, it's running fine. It's running pretty damn fast. Maybe it's your connection, or the person put their site on a mirror and it's being redirected.
I've been wanting something like this for quite some time now. I put a PS2 inside my car and the most annoying thing is the space it takes up, I took apart my PS2 to see if I could save some space and I noticed there was a LOT of room inside of the case. I wanted to relocate the DVD drive, add a longer ribbonand move it above my cup holders below my radio. I would have done it except I can't make a long ribbon and I don't know any places that sell the one I'd need. I was gonna put the controller/memory card ports above the drive too, but still there was the ribbon problem. Then I was gonna put the remaining hardware in a smaller case (probably just a project box) and hid it under my seat.
I eventually gave up on that idea (sort of, found a multitap and put that under the stereo, has memory card and controller ports, but I still want the DVD drive there too) but I still have a PS2 in my car, and a PS2 in my house. If this thing came out a few months ago I would have bought it specifically for the car (although when I bought a PS2 for the car I bought it with the network adapter so I could use it for the PS2 in the house, wouldn't have that option with this one since it's built in.) I really hope the PS3 comes in this form, or at least smaller than the PS2 so I can fit one in my car much easier.
What we're going to do soon is build a river... A river of freedom. A river of hope. A river which runs from coast to coast that cuts us off from the 47 states of wastrels and bad influcences to the north. We are going to cut Florida off from the mainland of our oppressors and float out to sea. Then, the nation of Florida will be free to start over. There're be no long-ass lines at the Log Flume or Pirate Ship ride when I take over! You and the kids will be able to ride the rides all day! We will have a rollercoaster for each and every Florida family!
Speaking as a consumer, and no, I don't work for MS. I'm sick and tired of seeing good games companies going bankrupt, while freeloading cheapskates (some driving SUVs and sports cars) leech their games on P2P.
What companies would that be? If the game was so good most people would have bought it, if no one bought it and the company went bankrupt was the game worth buying in the first place? I bought a copy of every game I've ever liked enough to say "Ya that's worth $50." I've even bought games I don't like as much just to support the company. A lot of my friends do that too. And if the game isn't worth my $50 I'll wait till the price drops to a point where it's worth buying. A lot of times I download the games first for a trial run before putting down my money. I never like getting the demos of games cause it's not the same.
I don't understand what you mean. How is the parent post prejudice? The indian economy IS doing very well. I don't know about the chinese economy though. You even mention that India has the best computer science program in the world, which would support his statement (good computer science program, more IT jobs, good for the economy.)
The reason for two windows instead of one is simply because the best place for them in my house is on that wall and the fireplace limits things significantly
He says the fireplace limits things significantly but I don't understand how it limits him to two windows instead of one. Was he going to make a huge window but the fireplace limited the space? Couldn't he have put it on another wall? It's a little odd having a window above a fireplace, that isn't looking directly inside of your chimney. Although it is possible to have a fireplace without a chimney, I have one inside my house.
Actually it's 40 miles in deep space, but if you've ever visited New York City? We have quite a number of buildings above 100ft. The top of my house is 100 feet from the ground, and I'm on a hill so that helps too.
Actually the 5.1 headphones the grandparent is refering to do not do any of the stuff you mentioned. They have 6 speakers in them and 3 inputs (front, back and sub.) They're the Zalman 5.1 headphones and I think they're around $60, they seem pretty cool but I like my Bose headphones much much better.
Can't you just get a good sound card? I'm pretty sure all the SB Live! and Audigy cards do real-time encoding. And you can get one on ebay for a decent price, for SP/DIF out you might need a Live! Drive but you're not locked into an nforce3.
Last month during QuakeCon it became clearly apparent that computer audio has become somewhat of a forgotten component in the computer industry when talking to gamers and listening to companies at the gaming event.
Obviously they didn't talk to the guys from Creative Labs selling and giving away their Soundblaster Audigy 2 cards, or the guys from Zalman showing off the 5.1 headphones. And maybe they didn't notice that 30% of the people at the event had very expensive Sennheiser headphones. They seem to have just talked to nvidia and the people buying the 6800s (or trying to win one) who care more about the video than audio.
While I was at the event I went to Fry's and purchased some nice Bose headphones to replace my Koss', they sound GREAT, I noticed a lot of people bought new headphones during the event as well. Anyway I wish their site had more info on the general consensus of computer audio at quakecon rather than rely on the future plans of a company whose primary focus is video cards.
That format would be sitting in a theater and making fun of a bad movie? Guess they better start suing most groups of teenagers I've ever seen at a movie
Do those teenagers call themselves "Mr. Sinus Theater 3000" and charge people to see them? No? Then I don't think they have to worry, this lawsuit is just about getting "Mr. Sinus" to change their name.
It's ridiculous to claim that I can't write an application because I can't see the source to the OS itself. No one would have ever done anything non-trivial for any platform. Heck, I don't want to look at the OS source code, that shouldn't be my concern. That's just another bogus lame complaint about how "Windoze is teh sux".
It seems reading comprehension is not one of your strong points. I said HP can MODIFY their source. Seeing the source is much much different than being able to modify it. They don't need to see the source for windows they just need to change something. The article doesn't mention what it is. There's probably some situation where they need a function to behave differently or something, I don't know the limitations on windows programing but they've obviously found something that can't possibly be done in windows without modifying the source (or maybe it's something that can be done but would require breaking some windows liscensing or something stupid like that, which they obviously don't want to do.)
Funny how no one mentioned the oft-repeated fact that Microsoft "stole" the network stack from BSD. Not in this case, where apparently HP can't write something like Tiny, which as the other reply to your post mentioned, can just as easily throttle instead of just blocking. Apparently the network stack in Windows is crap, which of course explains why in cross-platform libraries (like the Apache Portable Runtime) the networking code almost always ports untouched.
Like I said before, RTFA. It does more work than tiny, it doesn't throttle bandwidth on a specific port, my grandmother can write a program to do that, it throttles bandwidth on specific applications. A firewall does NOT throttle bandwidth according to application, it just blocks traffic from a specific port. And tiny just restricts bandwidth thru a specific port, but it does not know which applications are using the bandwidth and it does not throttle the bandwidth usage of these applications. It also does not detect signs of a virus or spy ware, it just compares stuff to known cases. The HP software will detect viruses and stuff like that before having to download any kind of definitions which will make it much more functional than most stuff out there.
Right.
Right what? Right you didn't read the article? Right you agree in not understanding why you'd defend microsoft? Right as in a sarcastic right to defend the opposite of my previous points? Well if it's the sarcastic right, why are you defending microsoft, and did you RTFA?
Way back in the day when Half-Life came out, I played on a 300MHz AMD K6-2 (With 3D Now beotch!) I had 32 megs of ram and some 2MB video card not capable of hardware 3D acceleration. Half-Life ran fine in 640x480 in software mode. Eventually I bought a 3DFX Banshee, started playing the game with hardware acceleration and it ran perfectly at 1024x768 (max fps all the time shown in net graph). The game took a little while to load maps and that was pretty much all it would have to do to connect to a server. Time from double clicking half-life icon to joining a game I would like to play, 45 seconds.
Now I have a 2.4 GHz 3200+ XP with a gig of ram and a nVidia 6800 GT. I still get a good fps (although there was a time where I had a 800MHz PIII and the game ran pretty crappy, was one of the newer half-life versions.) It now takes 2-3 minutes to get into a server. Hey cool my favorite TFC server is active, wait damn I'm in counter-strike, I can't switch games. Oh sweet a CS server with my favorite map. Downloading security module, oh well it won't take that long. Damn the map changed while downloading, DAMN I was disconnected during the map change, I'll just reconnect, DAMN it's downloading the security module again.
Half-Life used to be my favorite game, well the mods anyway. Then Valve started to add some bloat, it started getting really bad when CS became available in stores. Now CS is so dumbed down and 10 year old friendly that it's impossible for me to play anymore. TFC has become very unpopular, and the half-life graphics are now total crap in comparisson to everything else. I supported Valve for a long time (till a while after Gunman Chronicles came out.) But with the way they've turned a game with little system requirements, with average FPS difficulty, to a game that won't run on it's system requirements anymore and has been turned into a Fisher Price version of a FPS, they can now kiss my ass. I will get Half-Life 2 to see where the story goes, but I won't be paying for it.
I agree with you except if you look up "appropriate" (part of the deffinition for stealing that you quoted from the parent) you'll find "to take or make use of without authority or right."
You're not taking the songs but you are making use of them without authority or right, anyway just wanted to point that out.
I'm pretty sure the people who wrote Tiny Personal Firewall didn't have access to the Windows source code.
I'm pretty sure you're right. And I'm also pretty sure Tiny Personal Firewall doesn't come close to doing what the software from HP would do (I think it checks for the activity of worms or viruses and throtles their usage to "block" DoS attacks or something like that.) Anyone can write a firewall, it's a bitch writing software to throttle network and CPU usage for a particular process.
So enlighten me again - what does this have to do with Windows being a "closed proprietary OS" again?
HP owns HP Unix, they can modify the source any way they want to. Linux is open source, so again HP can modify the source any way they want to. Windows is closed source, HP cannot modify the source (I don't know what they have to do, but they can't do it no matter if the firewall is enabled or not) so they cannot get their software to work on Windows.
And BTW, this is something already built into XP, as you can tell from the many comments in this article.
Yes, a firewall is built into windows, but it's nothing like the software HP is trying to create.
I understand why you want to defend microsoft (well not really) but at least RTFA next time.
NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter begins working overtime today after completing a prime mission that discovered vast supplies of frozen water
So when did that happen? I remember checking in on slashdot all the time and there would always be some thing about the mars rovers almost discovering water, but always missing some piece of evicende or something. I don't remember anything about an orbiter finding huge amounts of water (well I was on vacation for a month but I figured it would be pretty big on the news or something.)
Didn't sega do this a long time ago with there Genesis system? Wasn't there some like cable TV channel you can get and if you had it, you could select games you wanted to play and play them from the channel? I think there was some special device you needed in your genesis to play. Anyway, too lazy to look it up but I'm very sure they had something like this.
That seemed possible back then (with games being ~1 meg) but now you need to download a 5 meg executable, then like 100 megs of textures and sound files for a map. And then there's models too, I don't see how this will work unless the games are really bad. Would work much better if the 29.95 included a 100mbit connection.
Wow I totally agree, this is stupid. We all know 2.6 Billion dollars can end world hunger, the conflict in the middle east AND global warming. Unfortunately before no one has EVER had this kind of money to spend, so now that we have a chance we should put this money into solving those problems right away!
Do you realize how many billions of dollars are spent daily on stuff much MUCH less profitable and important than an international chess city? Do you realize 2.6 billion dollars isn't all that much money?
Why can't I log on, type in my zip code, and get movies, restaurants, maps, and driving directions from my Treo? That's 90% of what I need WAP for. But the "portal" sites seem like an artifact of the dot-com boom -- missing or outdated information, or whole pages that just don't work.
I don't know what a Treo is, but my phone cost about the same amount (well would have been cheaper if I sent in the rebate, didn't care though) yet I can do all of the stuff you just mentioned except for SSH. I don't need movies.yahoo.com, I use T-Zones (some service with t-mobile.) And I can call people too (calling people with a cell phone? What a novel idea!) Was really helpfull while I was driving across the country, I had to send a few important e-mails about shipping an item to AZ so it would arrive when I got there. And I can use T-zones as long as I have service (and I don't think there was like 30 minutes where I didn't have service.) Anyway, I wonder how much your service costs, it sounds like it would be expensive.
To make this as easy as possible for insurance company representatives (or any other representatives of big business and government) to understand:
Stay the f**k out of my life.
The insurance company is there just in case something happens. It's there buisiness to know your buisiness, if you constantly get tickets, they're gonna increase your premium because you're a risk. IF you want them to stay out of your life, how's this, drive without insurance. Sure it's illegal and I wish it wasn't (oh how I wish...) Or just withhold information from them and pay a lot of money (well, don't get any discounts for certain things.) Anyway, either pay a lot for insurance, drive without it, or shut up that they're "invading your privacy" and let them track your cars speed (actually YOU track the cars speed, and if you feel like it you give them the information, and you get a discount, all for giving them the cars average speed...)
I do pretty much the same thing you do except it's not every 2 years, it's about twice a year. I have a bit over a TB of storage with only 180 gigs free, I have a "FTP" site sort of. Well if it was a site, it would be VERY popular, except for my upstream. I keep all kinds of FTP related stuff on it, a ton of MP3s, a bunch of episodes of my favorite shows (well cartoon shows, I don't download x-files episodes or anything.) A lot of ISOs, all kinds of stuff, and it always fills up my drive. And if it doesn't, the drive gets filled up with full installs of games like Doom 3 (which surprisingly takes up very little space compared to most other games) far cry, UT2K4, all these games are over 1.5 gigs with like UT2K4 currently taking up about 6 or so. I guess it also depends on how often you clean up your data since I never really want to I just keep buying more space when I run out.
Have you ever actually tried to create a server side mod (mutator) for UT2K4? The stuff that's possible is very weak. The language is very basic which makes it easy, but the stuff you can do is very limited. The Doom 3 engine doesn't see to difficult to mod, don't know why it would be, the only difference would be like the language, and map editors or whatever. Someone can make the map editors very similar so then the difference would just be the language.
Ya it was fun for me using BASIC when I was younger but that was because my computer didn't have any games on it (wasn't much that ran on it and wasn't much worth buying.) If your kid's watching you play Doom 3 on your computer do you think he'll care that he can write a little loop to print "Hey 1! Hey 2! Hey 3! Hey 4!..." He'll just get bored and go play on a console, or ask to play one of your PC games.