In a three-month pilot program, the Australian Communications & Media Authority will identify zombie computers and ask their owners to clean them or risk being disconnected. When will U.S. regulators and ISPs get on board?
Our local cable and DSL providers are always shutting connections off for userse who's computers are virus-ridden. If your PC is acting as an open spam proxy or found to be connecting to zombie-networks, they shut you off, and you have to call to find out why. They recommend a service or software to help clean your PC, and they won't let you back on until you're free of any malware.
Buy/find a Commodore/Apple/Atari computer. Then scour the net for a book on how to program that machine. You'll be using BASIC and ASSEMBLER. Fun stuff.
Next up, get a 386/20 and introduce yourself to Borland. Turbo Pascal and Turbo C. Actually, free downloads at Borland.com. Do some x86 assembly while you're there.
Now you're at about 1995. Find a Pentium and pick up the Petzold book. Alternatively, find an old Mac and find a copy of Think C. You're using GUI's now!
Enter the net. Perl, Java, HTML (not really programming but you'll want to know it), JavaScript.
That'll get you pretty current. Then you'll want to hop on C# or Ruby or Python or whatever's hot this week.
"The biggest problem is that Java is really slow. On a pure cpu / memory / display / communications level, most modern cell phones should be considerably better gaming platforms than a Game Boy Advanced. With Java, on most phones you are left with about the CPU power of an original 4.77 mhz IBM PC, and lousy control over everything."
Ubuntu is hugely popular recently in the home/hobby market. It's the only thing keeping Debian alive.
Redhat/Fedora are big. So is Suse. And then in Asia you have a couple distributions. Most of the other distros are there to filla niche, like Knoppix, Smoothwall, DSL, etc.
VoIP phones should be hitting the market soon, within 2 years expect it to be standard on all phones.
Companies will only need one phone per employee, instaed of a mobile+desk phone, they'll just have the mobile. Saves those costly peak minutes while you're in the office as well.
And ironically,ports from PS2 to Gamecube dont look as good. Now why is that? Oh yeah, all ports designed from the ground up for one system will not be as good on another system. Thats how it works.
If there are a lot of textures, they won't all fit. Developers can't fit the same amount/detail of textures in the total game on the Gamecubes discs, as opposed to the PS2 DVD's.
The ][ platform wasn't opened up to cloning. Granted, no one, including IBM, was prepared to actually sanction this; the culture back then was of every microcomputer manufacturer having its own hardware, OS, disk format, et cetera - each one dreamed of total domination with its own platform. It took Compaq's sleight-of-hand on IBM to do it. Why was no such cleverness pulled with the Apple ][ platform?
Have you ever heard of the Apple II clones such as the Laser?
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You've got the work orders for the last, say 6 months, right?
If the person is documenting their job, as they should be, it should be easy to find out what/how much they are doing.
Diesels are 'dirtier' than gas engines
In a three-month pilot program, the Australian Communications & Media Authority will identify zombie computers and ask their owners to clean them or risk being disconnected. When will U.S. regulators and ISPs get on board?
Our local cable and DSL providers are always shutting connections off for userse who's computers are virus-ridden. If your PC is acting as an open spam proxy or found to be connecting to zombie-networks, they shut you off, and you have to call to find out why. They recommend a service or software to help clean your PC, and they won't let you back on until you're free of any malware.
It's been like this for...years?
The Pentium 4 is weak. The Pentium D isn't any better.
Where are the Pentium-M based desktop chips?! They are proven to be faster than AMD's chips.
It Intel just toying with us for fun?
Apple really needs a widescreen 12" PB. 1024x768 is just too limiting.
Buy/find a Commodore/Apple/Atari computer. Then scour the net for a book on how to program that machine. You'll be using BASIC and ASSEMBLER. Fun stuff.
Next up, get a 386/20 and introduce yourself to Borland. Turbo Pascal and Turbo C. Actually, free downloads at Borland.com. Do some x86 assembly while you're there.
Now you're at about 1995. Find a Pentium and pick up the Petzold book. Alternatively, find an old Mac and find a copy of Think C. You're using GUI's now!
Enter the net. Perl, Java, HTML (not really programming but you'll want to know it), JavaScript.
That'll get you pretty current. Then you'll want to hop on C# or Ruby or Python or whatever's hot this week.
The intiative over the past several years has been to get graphics off the CPU, so this seems a little backwards to me.
They started this back in 1995, before 3D hardware became commonplace. And they've just now finished it.
I remember the old newsgroup posts where people were using MMX and writing '5 cycle per pixel' texture mappers and such.
They're on DistroWatch's front page.
Here's a link to their Ubunto section:
http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=02965#0
He made a comment a while back:
"The biggest problem is that Java is really slow. On a pure cpu / memory / display / communications level, most modern cell phones should be considerably better gaming platforms than a Game Boy Advanced. With Java, on most phones you are left with about the CPU power of an original 4.77 mhz IBM PC, and lousy control over everything."
There's really only a few distros that matter.
Ubuntu is hugely popular recently in the home/hobby market. It's the only thing keeping Debian alive.
Redhat/Fedora are big. So is Suse. And then in Asia you have a couple distributions. Most of the other distros are there to filla niche, like Knoppix, Smoothwall, DSL, etc.
VoIP phones should be hitting the market soon, within 2 years expect it to be standard on all phones.
Companies will only need one phone per employee, instaed of a mobile+desk phone, they'll just have the mobile. Saves those costly peak minutes while you're in the office as well.
But does the internet negate the "porn factor" in a format war anymore?
Did porn magazines negate the porn factor before?
Yes, but I'm not going to pay a portable based on ONE game.
Tetris
I don't put my shopping cart in the corral when I leave the store. I just leave them out in the parking lot.
It's Microsoft, not Sony or Sega. Microsoft isn't a Japanese company.
The new Sun servers run on Opteron, an implementation of x86-64. These servers spell D.E.A.T.H. for the SPARC implementations
Just the AMD based systems are 64-bit doesn't mean they'll replace the SPARC systems.
I keep music CD's there.
http://www.usa.canon.com/html/conCprProductDetail. jsp?modelid=6623&item=6633§ion=10217?
$49.99
USB+power in one cable
Pretty good quality. Very small size.
Read: Nowhere near the performance of ATI/NVIDIA.
Unless they plan on taking over the integrated graphics, $300 PC market, why bother?
And ironically,ports from PS2 to Gamecube dont look as good. Now why is that? Oh yeah, all ports designed from the ground up for one system will not be as good on another system. Thats how it works.
If there are a lot of textures, they won't all fit. Developers can't fit the same amount/detail of textures in the total game on the Gamecubes discs, as opposed to the PS2 DVD's.
The ][ platform wasn't opened up to cloning. Granted, no one, including IBM, was prepared to actually sanction this; the culture back then was of every microcomputer manufacturer having its own hardware, OS, disk format, et cetera - each one dreamed of total domination with its own platform. It took Compaq's sleight-of-hand on IBM to do it. Why was no such cleverness pulled with the Apple ][ platform?
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Have you ever heard of the Apple II clones such as the Laser?
http://apple2history.org/museum/computers_clones/
When is the last time a solid freeware game caught the imagination of millions? About 15 years.
Snood has had between 8-20 million downloads, depending on who you ask.
Okay, so then in a year and a half, when a 7800GT is $75, I can just run them in SLI mode and beat the pants off a PS3 GPU?
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Damn. There goes that idea.
If they sell 30 million game systems, it won't be enough.
Last time I checked, they have been selling 150 million PC's a year for the last few years.