I once read something about a class of fractals called >orchids. They are the result of monitoring crowd flow dynamics and producing the formulas.
They too noticed that for a large crowd (concert, football match) crowd flow speed INCREASES with a number of small gates rather than one large gate, hence one by one through the turnstyles actually makes the process quicker.
This appears to be a similar unintuitive process.
Anyway, I know it wasn't totally on topic I just thought I would share.
The doom3 "patch" required to run on linux is about 16MB (450MB for the demo which includes maps and textures) Older versions of the port stand at about 8MB.
Many games actually need very little in the way of code, the greatest majority of the game comes from the textures and meshes which populate the worlds.
Remember, most modern games are based upon still valid functioning code from easily 20 years ago, the algorythms haven't changed much at all, the rules are still in place.
Google maps is amazing in its form and provides a very quick overview of a location, it amazes me that we can tile and deliver the world in bite size chunks for your use. However maps fails when you want to use the 3d processing and cache abilities of your live system. In google earth, tilting and rotating the world to your perspective really helps with your orientation, inserting buildings and landscape features puts you into the world all without needing to zoom out meaning you can easily see yourself walking or driving a journey. You can follow the path you need to take and mvoe around much more fluidly than in map. Its a full 3d MMORG simply lacking in NPCs and avatars, maps is the same game but its a 2d scroller.
I also think the grand parent is wrong in his stunning accomplishments assessment, its just a refinement on an age old art of cartography mashed up (very hip) with a game engine.
One other thing, the local application versions have a home because google knows the internet isn't everything - yet. In car nav systems don't connect the whole time and rely on data from cd data or drive space with inputs from GPS units so having an internet only version would rule them out of this very lucrative market. Managing your graphics is something typically done offline, the internet is quick, but its just not quite there yet.
Theres no need for a digital cert, the codebase simply won't run. If it was a compatible chipset, then MS would've simply included the code for the original xbox bootup sequence and transparently handled backwards compatibility.
The mere fact that games are being handled on a case by case basis implies that it is a re-engineering of the original code to produce a new port of the game. Similar to the Linux ports of Doom and stuff (port the engine, use the graphics from the original disc)
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One other thing, if I am downloading movies, then generally I will be downloading from peers using home connections themselves, by your rules they should have to pay this ransom to MY isp as well as paying their own ISP for connectivity.
How do you propose to get money from those people?
If the American ISPs get their way, how would you proportion the money to all the ISPs that you make connections with?
Bottom line, You pay to connect to the internet and your monthly fee should cover all bandwidth charges you make according to your contract terms. If your ISP has oversold themselves I hope they go out of business because they do not have a sustainable business model.
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I love how you have boiled this debate into something it isn't.
If the ISP cannot afford the charges to the internet then yes they have to increase their prices to the customer. If they misled the customer by offering a 10mbit connection with no bandwidth limit then its their tuff shit, content providing sites who do pay for bandwidth should not be charged double.
I currently pay for a 10mbit line with a 75gigabyte usage cap per month. I can use my internet connection to download or upload anything from anywhere as long as I stay within the cap. I pay more for my internet from my ISP than others in my neighbourhood but I know my boundaries, the ISP in question has a lower price band for customers who use less bandwidth and does not try to extort money from the content providers on the other side of the connection.
The "problem" is entirely down to certain ISPs who have the wrong business model.
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Gold silver or bronze it doesn't matter. Any site who doesn't pony up this ransom will suffer when a gold paying site runs a live stream and requires all the bandwidth. Remember, its paying for prefenrential delivery, not for open access, we will still be able to access the other sites, but only when bandwidth allocation is available, think of it as paying for a hardware interupt in the curcuit.
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You are just pissed that google get a bulk discount and you don't.
Google are just as free as you to shop around for a provider and as long as that provider supplies a service and gives backbone bandwidth to the paying customer then what has it got to do with anyone else.
If the home user ISP isn't making money then thats not googles fault, but a problem with the ISP's business plan, it has no right to complain about content further upstream.
Meaning take the published specs and don't assume they are maximum. Its like car manufacturers telling us we will get 40mpg but when I'm dragracing I get closer to 5. Of course, YMMV.
Actually, I think its something to do with the new CSS. You cannot tell if an abbreviated article is in the mysterious future or not (normal articles have a red tint, and the abbreviated ones used to as well).
Its to keep you on your toes. Subscribers are enjoying a completely static size 15 font with all elements fitting nicely and an optional neural interface;)
Back in reality, "read more..." is back in its proper place, as is the comment score, however the font is still too small and the indent amount is too small.
No matter though because both of these can be cured with a bit of hand bolted css:)
Nasties can only get in your system if you expose bad ports or use an insecure program to run it.
Up until now, the most secure thing for win 98 users (for whatever reason they are still using it) has been to sit behind a router and use firefox.
Knowing that firefox won't support them will be bad news in my eyes.
Additionally, aren't Win 2000 and Win xp less secure than running an old OS which doesn't have the available OS features which l33t virus people exploit?
Games which require direct X 10 (vista only) should be able to degrade nicely just like current games can operate dx 7 or dx 9 pathways.
I can see though the marketting people having to specify on the promotional materials "available for XBox, PS2, PC(XP), PC(Vista)" Whilst there is still a market for XP the game makers won't abandon them.
Hell, microsoft might get so much stick about DX10 that they backport it, but I wouldn't hold my breath.
Read Concerned. Its a comic based in the half life world thats actually very amusing.
Its created using a hl2 mod which allows posing and positioning of all the "actors" in any scene however you like. You can make movies out of it apparantly.
If I have to do that for every slashdot page I encounter I will have RSI before too long.
I have ended up modifying the firefox minimum font size which doesn't actually break a lot of thing (though some places I lose text at thebottom of areas), it just tweaks anything that requests a smaller font to use X size (15 in my case now).
If no other solution is forthcoming this evening I will be creating my own local stylesheet to fixup this (and other none critical) errors in the new CSS.
It comes out by default as Trebuchet MS size 10 on my 1280*1024 display.
I have increased Firefoxes minimum font size to 15 and it looks reasonable now, but removing the default font size makes it look god damned awful. I've broken most other sites by increasing the minimum font, but thats better than automatically scaling up.
I wonder if the slashdotter addin will be updated (old version allows stylesheet replacement).
You have to agree to a bunch of things to get to the pdfs but there's a lot of information in them.
Cool, so what am I agreeing to before clicking on the pdf link? Also, if you have already agreed (would assume its a none disclosure type thing) then why are you breaking that agreement and posting the links to the raw documents?
offtopic protest: This new redesign font sucks, I cannot read/. without twiddling my font size up for all pages and breaking the rest of the internet
Even our good old Taco has done one (with Chris Dibona and a couple of others)
Its available on google video, but tacos Journal entry is here
This fountain on eepy is amazing though, read the rest of the site because they give a decent explaination of how it works and the various other parameters (hole size, capsule construction)
Slashdot Mirror
Wouldn't the same principles behind capillary action explain this?
I once read something about a class of fractals called >orchids.
They are the result of monitoring crowd flow dynamics and producing the formulas.
They too noticed that for a large crowd (concert, football match) crowd flow speed INCREASES with a number of small gates rather than one large gate, hence one by one through the turnstyles actually makes the process quicker.
This appears to be a similar unintuitive process.
Anyway, I know it wasn't totally on topic I just thought I would share.
It depends if the projectors are inside or outside...
The doom3 "patch" required to run on linux is about 16MB (450MB for the demo which includes maps and textures)
Older versions of the port stand at about 8MB.
Many games actually need very little in the way of code, the greatest majority of the game comes from the textures and meshes which populate the worlds.
Remember, most modern games are based upon still valid functioning code from easily 20 years ago, the algorythms haven't changed much at all, the rules are still in place.
Hey, when your reaching the maximum density, you know what you gotta do don't you?
:)
You get Perpendicular
I instantly thought of this when thinking about the Intel thing.
Google maps is amazing in its form and provides a very quick overview of a location, it amazes me that we can tile and deliver the world in bite size chunks for your use.
However maps fails when you want to use the 3d processing and cache abilities of your live system.
In google earth, tilting and rotating the world to your perspective really helps with your orientation, inserting buildings and landscape features puts you into the world all without needing to zoom out meaning you can easily see yourself walking or driving a journey. You can follow the path you need to take and mvoe around much more fluidly than in map.
Its a full 3d MMORG simply lacking in NPCs and avatars, maps is the same game but its a 2d scroller.
I also think the grand parent is wrong in his stunning accomplishments assessment, its just a refinement on an age old art of cartography mashed up (very hip) with a game engine.
One other thing, the local application versions have a home because google knows the internet isn't everything - yet.
In car nav systems don't connect the whole time and rely on data from cd data or drive space with inputs from GPS units so having an internet only version would rule them out of this very lucrative market.
Managing your graphics is something typically done offline, the internet is quick, but its just not quite there yet.
Theres no need for a digital cert, the codebase simply won't run.
If it was a compatible chipset, then MS would've simply included the code for the original xbox bootup sequence and transparently handled backwards compatibility.
Damn, now I'm getting keyboard glitches.
*kicks computer*
Swithc it to DirectX mode ;)
I found it cured all my running problems.
The mere fact that games are being handled on a case by case basis implies that it is a re-engineering of the original code to produce a new port of the game.
Similar to the Linux ports of Doom and stuff (port the engine, use the graphics from the original disc)
One other thing, if I am downloading movies, then generally I will be downloading from peers using home connections themselves, by your rules they should have to pay this ransom to MY isp as well as paying their own ISP for connectivity.
How do you propose to get money from those people?
If the American ISPs get their way, how would you proportion the money to all the ISPs that you make connections with?
Bottom line,
You pay to connect to the internet and your monthly fee should cover all bandwidth charges you make according to your contract terms.
If your ISP has oversold themselves I hope they go out of business because they do not have a sustainable business model.
I love how you have boiled this debate into something it isn't.
If the ISP cannot afford the charges to the internet then yes they have to increase their prices to the customer.
If they misled the customer by offering a 10mbit connection with no bandwidth limit then its their tuff shit, content providing sites who do pay for bandwidth should not be charged double.
I currently pay for a 10mbit line with a 75gigabyte usage cap per month. I can use my internet connection to download or upload anything from anywhere as long as I stay within the cap.
I pay more for my internet from my ISP than others in my neighbourhood but I know my boundaries, the ISP in question has a lower price band for customers who use less bandwidth and does not try to extort money from the content providers on the other side of the connection.
The "problem" is entirely down to certain ISPs who have the wrong business model.
Gold silver or bronze it doesn't matter.
Any site who doesn't pony up this ransom will suffer when a gold paying site runs a live stream and requires all the bandwidth.
Remember, its paying for prefenrential delivery, not for open access, we will still be able to access the other sites, but only when bandwidth allocation is available, think of it as paying for a hardware interupt in the curcuit.
You are just pissed that google get a bulk discount and you don't.
Google are just as free as you to shop around for a provider and as long as that provider supplies a service and gives backbone bandwidth to the paying customer then what has it got to do with anyone else.
If the home user ISP isn't making money then thats not googles fault, but a problem with the ISP's business plan, it has no right to complain about content further upstream.
Therein lies the problem.
its still and always will be an estimate.
Meaning take the published specs and don't assume they are maximum.
Its like car manufacturers telling us we will get 40mpg but when I'm dragracing I get closer to 5.
Of course, YMMV.
Actually, I think its something to do with the new CSS.
;)
You cannot tell if an abbreviated article is in the mysterious future or not (normal articles have a red tint, and the abbreviated ones used to as well).
Either that or its just a crappy article
Its to keep you on your toes. ;)
:)
Subscribers are enjoying a completely static size 15 font with all elements fitting nicely and an optional neural interface
Back in reality, "read more..." is back in its proper place, as is the comment score, however the font is still too small and the indent amount is too small.
No matter though because both of these can be cured with a bit of hand bolted css
Nasties can only get in your system if you expose bad ports or use an insecure program to run it.
Up until now, the most secure thing for win 98 users (for whatever reason they are still using it) has been to sit behind a router and use firefox.
Knowing that firefox won't support them will be bad news in my eyes.
Additionally, aren't Win 2000 and Win xp less secure than running an old OS which doesn't have the available OS features which l33t virus people exploit?
Games which require direct X 10 (vista only) should be able to degrade nicely just like current games can operate dx 7 or dx 9 pathways.
I can see though the marketting people having to specify on the promotional materials "available for XBox, PS2, PC(XP), PC(Vista)"
Whilst there is still a market for XP the game makers won't abandon them.
Hell, microsoft might get so much stick about DX10 that they backport it, but I wouldn't hold my breath.
Read Concerned.
Its a comic based in the half life world thats actually very amusing.
Its created using a hl2 mod which allows posing and positioning of all the "actors" in any scene however you like.
You can make movies out of it apparantly.
If I have to do that for every slashdot page I encounter I will have RSI before too long.
I have ended up modifying the firefox minimum font size which doesn't actually break a lot of thing (though some places I lose text at thebottom of areas), it just tweaks anything that requests a smaller font to use X size (15 in my case now).
If no other solution is forthcoming this evening I will be creating my own local stylesheet to fixup this (and other none critical) errors in the new CSS.
I am using Firefox.
It comes out by default as Trebuchet MS size 10 on my 1280*1024 display.
I have increased Firefoxes minimum font size to 15 and it looks reasonable now, but removing the default font size makes it look god damned awful.
I've broken most other sites by increasing the minimum font, but thats better than automatically scaling up.
I wonder if the slashdotter addin will be updated (old version allows stylesheet replacement).
You have to agree to a bunch of things to get to the pdfs but there's a lot of information in them.
/. without twiddling my font size up for all pages and breaking the rest of the internet
Cool, so what am I agreeing to before clicking on the pdf link?
Also, if you have already agreed (would assume its a none disclosure type thing) then why are you breaking that agreement and posting the links to the raw documents?
offtopic protest: This new redesign font sucks, I cannot read
But labeling it won't work.
Especially considering that your DRM might not be compatible with my DRM.
Even our good old Taco has done one (with Chris Dibona and a couple of others)
Its available on google video, but tacos Journal entry is here
This fountain on eepy is amazing though, read the rest of the site because they give a decent explaination of how it works and the various other parameters (hole size, capsule construction)