KDE has cd-burning capabilities, too. And jukebox. And media player. And partitioning. And nobody cries about all the buissnesses that cant sell software because of the evil system that has everything integrated....
When i read the headlines, i remembered playing comanche1. 1993. Still in school, on a 386. How the world has changed since then, and they still havent got that thing ready....
and how to you direct an electron beam? Ever heard of stuff like vertical and horizontal refresh frequencys? Those are the frequencys the magnetic field bending the electron rays are oszillating...
Thats voodoo3 on a athlon500 speed. either mac sucks or the ati drivers
Would you please spoil the end?
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After reading several comments, i have no intention of ever buying this book, but i would be quite interested in what the dumb solution in the end was...
Well, 100k people WANTING it is a bit high. But 100K getting it because "its cool" is very likely.
For the matter of fact, the 5K hits were searches for the hash of the xp-source zip, and emule lets you view all names the hash is associated with, and all are xp-sources-something.zip (for example). Those 5k were people who searched it and got what they wanted.
The code is out, it wont come back. There are hundreds and hundreds of sources in emule, and thousands have been downloading (5k requests the last 5 days). Not to mention irc, ftps, kazaa , winmx and the other stuff.
As an educated guess i would say that at least 50-100.000 people have the source currently on their harddisc. Whoever wants it now has it....
I agree that you can find most of the stuff on the web. But i have NEVER EVER in 10 Years on the web seen any child pornography on a website. not once. Entering freenet and click some random links and you are garuanteed to see some in 30minutes. Most of the positive stuff on freenet only seems to be there because people think that if they post it in freenet, others will believe that its "cool prohibited stuff" you have to see. You dont need freenet to read "das kapital". The real turnoff is that there is NOTHING usefull. I browsed those directories for hours and found NOTHING that isnt childporn or on the net (where you need 20 seconds in google and 5 seconds loading, not 10 minutes in a directory and 20 minutes loading). No dissident sites, no "underground", nothing.
Freenet defines a new kind of slow. I tried it several times the last 2 or 3 years, mostly a few weeks after there was a "new improved all is better now version". It is crap, it never changed. You have to be happy if a site loads at all (90% dont, even after waiting for an hour and restarting with higher hopcount, ect). 95% of the time, the "status" page doesnt respond so you cant even see if its downloading anything. The content isnt searchable, and the link pages and directories contain only highly dubious stuff (never seen any chinese dissident site, but for those that claim "there isnt real kiddiporn", or "that are 16 year old only called kiddiporn", i dont know whats behind the obvious links, but even harmless links to "photo collections" without further descriptions in the adult link page yield highly disturbing stuff.(after middle clicking 20 links in the adult section 2 of the 3 that appeared before timeout were kiddi-porn. If the storage and delievery is really demand driven, that paints a really scary picture of what people REALLY want from freenet).
Sadly, it seems that freenet is really only something for pedophiles or wannabe terrorists (wannabe because ive not seen any usefull "terror" recipe in any of the links that got beyond a good chemistry book and common sense)
If the largest portal of the freenet(which is one of the few links you get after installing) has links in its adult section titled "they claim to have kiddy porn, looks like its true", then there is a problem. In the internet you would have to truely search for the stuff, the only things i have EVER seen in Freenet are: -warez -porn -kiddy porn -pseudo terroist stuff -pseudo "free thinking stuff" -pages that dont load even after 30minutes (99.95% od them)
The load could be the reason why they didnt fail. The problem was that while idling longer times on the same track the head could be contaminated. If your drives to a few seeks per second, that wont happen
Actually, the single bandwith of one link isnt that big. See the story, they use 16Links for Graphics.
But hypertransport is the same in that reagard. Its MUCH easier to run x links a y bits than one link with x*y bits. For Example, you have your own clock line for every link, so there is no need for temporal coherence between the links. At Ghz-speeds in copper on a pcb, a few millimeters lenght difference would be enough to kill your signal. But of course you cant put the lines to close to each other because of crosstalk, ect. With multiple seriel busses, you just give every link a big enough fifo at each end and no problems...
slingshot...
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You CAN gain velocity AND energy by doing a slingshot around a planet (But you need a 3 body system, so a slingshot around the sun wouldnt increase your speed...) Sadly, to prove it, you need a lot of calculations in center of mass systems, ect. (Was the nastiest stuff in the "newton"-part of theoretical physics I, lagrange was much more easy).
In end effect, you can reduce the kinetic energy of the planet on its way around the sun and transfer it to yourself by placing yourself in a "low part" of the combined cravitational and ratational potential behind the planet in its rotation. While you are there (during the slingshot), you are "pulled" by the planet and gain speed (and the correct integreation shows that there is a net gain)
Anyone remember that game? Was hyped as the second coming of the classical isometric shooter, produced only a few 1000 times and sold for more than a SNES+Megadrive combined?
And after all, it was only an "okay" game, but who would admit after spending 200$+?
And i remember what pain in the ass it was. Want to play a quick round of comanche? Sorry, i dont like emm386 -> reboot, watching the memory because no emm386-> no UMB -> cd-rom-driver would be to big to load, ect..
Im quite happy with the "one system to run all programs"-concept we have now.
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hm. Even more reason why it kill commercial products, dont you think?
KDE has cd-burning capabilities, too. And jukebox. And media player. And partitioning.
And nobody cries about all the buissnesses that cant sell software because of the evil system that has everything integrated....
Many flash adds use as much cpu as they can get to give you a GREAT framerate. sadly.
When i read the headlines, i remembered playing comanche1. 1993. Still in school, on a 386.
How the world has changed since then, and they still havent got that thing ready....
Will it take until the 22nd century till people will notice that 2K+125 isnt really shorter than 2125?
ARG
and how to you direct an electron beam?
Ever heard of stuff like vertical and horizontal refresh frequencys?
Those are the frequencys the magnetic field bending the electron rays are oszillating...
More people died since ww2 in wars than in the whole 19th century.
Dont watch only foxnows, there are bloody wars all over the world.
Thats voodoo3 on a athlon500 speed. either mac sucks or the ati drivers
After reading several comments, i have no intention of ever buying this book, but i would be quite interested in what the dumb solution in the end was...
Well, 100k people WANTING it is a bit high. But 100K getting it because "its cool" is very likely.
For the matter of fact, the 5K hits were searches for the hash of the xp-source zip, and emule lets you view all names the hash is associated with, and all are xp-sources-something.zip (for example). Those 5k were people who searched it and got what they wanted.
It wasnt a wish, it was simply a statement.
The code is out, it wont come back.
There are hundreds and hundreds of sources in emule, and thousands have been downloading (5k requests the last 5 days). Not to mention irc, ftps, kazaa , winmx and the other stuff.
As an educated guess i would say that at least 50-100.000 people have the source currently on their harddisc.
Whoever wants it now has it....
I agree that you can find most of the stuff on the web.
But i have NEVER EVER in 10 Years on the web seen any child pornography on a website. not once.
Entering freenet and click some random links and you are garuanteed to see some in 30minutes.
Most of the positive stuff on freenet only seems to be there because people think that if they post it in freenet, others will believe that its "cool prohibited stuff" you have to see. You dont need freenet to read "das kapital".
The real turnoff is that there is NOTHING usefull. I browsed those directories for hours and found NOTHING that isnt childporn or on the net (where you need 20 seconds in google and 5 seconds loading, not 10 minutes in a directory and 20 minutes loading). No dissident sites, no "underground", nothing.
Its just a waste of time
no. never. not insightful.
Freenet defines a new kind of slow. I tried it several times the last 2 or 3 years, mostly a few weeks after there was a "new improved all is better now version". It is crap, it never changed.
You have to be happy if a site loads at all (90% dont, even after waiting for an hour and restarting with higher hopcount, ect). 95% of the time, the "status" page doesnt respond so you cant even see if its downloading anything.
The content isnt searchable, and the link pages and directories contain only highly dubious stuff (never seen any chinese dissident site, but for those that claim "there isnt real kiddiporn", or "that are 16 year old only called kiddiporn", i dont know whats behind the obvious links, but even harmless links to "photo collections" without further descriptions in the adult link page yield highly disturbing stuff.(after middle clicking 20 links in the adult section 2 of the 3 that appeared before timeout were kiddi-porn. If the storage and delievery is really demand driven, that paints a really scary picture of what people REALLY want from freenet).
Sadly, it seems that freenet is really only something for pedophiles or wannabe terrorists (wannabe because ive not seen any usefull "terror" recipe in any of the links that got beyond a good chemistry book and common sense)
If the largest portal of the freenet(which is one of the few links you get after installing) has links in its adult section titled "they claim to have kiddy porn, looks like its true", then there is a problem.
In the internet you would have to truely search for the stuff, the only things i have EVER seen in Freenet are:
-warez
-porn
-kiddy porn
-pseudo terroist stuff
-pseudo "free thinking stuff"
-pages that dont load even after 30minutes (99.95% od them)
The load could be the reason why they didnt fail.
The problem was that while idling longer times on the same track the head could be contaminated. If your drives to a few seeks per second, that wont happen
He devoloped a programming language called "plankalkul", which included stuff like arrays, subroutines and floating point arithmetic.
Actually, the single bandwith of one link isnt that big. See the story, they use 16Links for Graphics.
But hypertransport is the same in that reagard. Its MUCH easier to run x links a y bits than one link with x*y bits.
For Example, you have your own clock line for every link, so there is no need for temporal coherence between the links. At Ghz-speeds in copper on a pcb, a few millimeters lenght difference would be enough to kill your signal. But of course you cant put the lines to close to each other because of crosstalk, ect.
With multiple seriel busses, you just give every link a big enough fifo at each end and no problems...
You CAN gain velocity AND energy by doing a slingshot around a planet (But you need a 3 body system, so a slingshot around the sun wouldnt increase your speed...)
Sadly, to prove it, you need a lot of calculations in center of mass systems, ect. (Was the nastiest stuff in the "newton"-part of theoretical physics I, lagrange was much more easy).
In end effect, you can reduce the kinetic energy of the planet on its way around the sun and transfer it to yourself by placing yourself in a "low part" of the combined cravitational and ratational potential behind the planet in its rotation.
While you are there (during the slingshot), you are "pulled" by the planet and gain speed (and the correct integreation shows that there is a net gain)
I can feel your pain. Pissed me off, too.
And such things seem only to happen if border and text have the same color...
Anyone remember that game?
Was hyped as the second coming of the classical isometric shooter, produced only a few 1000 times and sold for more than a SNES+Megadrive combined?
And after all, it was only an "okay" game, but who would admit after spending 200$+?
Knoppix needs one too... (considering the uber-amount of gimp-stories).
And i remember what pain in the ass it was.
Want to play a quick round of comanche? Sorry, i dont like emm386 -> reboot, watching the memory because no emm386-> no UMB -> cd-rom-driver would be to big to load, ect..
Im quite happy with the "one system to run all programs"-concept we have now.
If you considere 300GB the amount of data in the sourcetree after a debug/profiling compile
that opening a tab used 4-5MB, and closing it didn't free the memory?
I remember seening mozillas with 200MB+ swapped out memory after prolonged use.