It apparently has not only the capability to support an inbuilt cable modem, but an inbuilt DSL modem and a WiFi card. Check it out here for the 'official' (heheh) specs.
Note that all three of these are listed as optional components, so I guess you don't get them if you don't need them. Also interesting is that it apparently runs a modified WinXP kernel on an Athlon 3200+ and uses a nVidia nv36 DX9 compliant GPU.
The fact that it's potentially only a PC might be why no one has any dev kits yet... or it could be that it's a hoax. Whatever.
Raw polygon pushing is a vey misleading figure, but it's not surprising when coming from a PSX fan site. Even if I was sure about those figures (which still don't look quite right to me), they would only be applicable for games which used straight, unshaded polygons.
The main figures come in how many render passes you need to do to get the effects you're after. The GameCube for example, can apply 8 render effects to a polygon per pass (i.e. texturing, bump mapping, specular highlighting, stenciling, alpha blending etc etc), whereas the PS2 only has hardware support for a couple (i.e. texturing and bump mapping, at a guess).
Taking that into account, with all effects turned on, the PS2 would have to make 2-4 render passes to render the same scene that the GCN could do in a single pass. If a game uses fewer effects, the PS2 could compete, but the game would probably look pretty shite.
I thought this quote from an interview with the author Max Barry (about his book Syrup) was fitting:
I heard Syrup is a thinly-veiled description of your time at Hewlett-Packard.
That's a filthy lie. Why, if HP was like Syrup, it would be a seedy den of politics and corporate back-stabbing, brimming with sexual tension. That is absolutely not true. There was very little sexual tension.
You could use WebDAV (works on IIS and Apache) or, as a slightly more tricky alternative, plain HTTP uploads (you'd need an upload handling script).
As long as you enable authentication, and make sure it's not basic authentication (use digest authentication, or if it's a windows box, NTLM), you're set - your password is encrypted, but your data isn't.
Similarly, you could use either WebDAV or HTTP uploads over an HTTPS connection WITH basic authentication, which gives you overall encryption on the lot, but that's not really what you were after...
Frankly, PHP right now is the.Net killer. Java is really cool, but it's still just as bad as C++ with it's flavor-of-the-week APIs. That leaves it with corperate clients, and limits exposure of the little people to the "good stuff" like EBJs. C++ will always be the standard for the pros, but again, it's too much for the "casual" programmer. Basic has too many incarnations. Perl is just a touch to high-up-there. but PHP seems "just right".
There is just so much wrong with this paragraph, it's gotta be a troll. To put PHP even close to being in the league of J2EE and.NET (which are more or less in the same league) is utterly ludicrous. PHP is fine for little web shops and blogs and stuff, but it is virtually impossible to manage for any decent sized project. Yes, slashdot runs on it, so it can scale relatively well, but slashdot isn't particularly complex either, it just has large amounts of traffic.
Any organisation who tries to build a business-critical, enterprise scale solution with PHP is asking for trouble. Hell, I've even worked on a large scale C++ multi-tier project, and the productivity we (the developers) get on that is one tenth of the productivity from our.NET/J2EE apps, with only minimal performance bonuses.
Doing the same sorts of projects in J2EE or.NET nowadays is far more feasible. I've been involved in developing for all of them, and if I saw any large company investing its large-scale development efforts into PHP, I'd be selling my shares real quick.
I have a Microsoft Wireless Intellimouse that is powered by double-a batteries. On night, I was surfing the web and heard a loud POP. No, I wasn't surfing porn. I spent 5 minutes wondering where this loud sound came from. I looked at my tangled mess of power strips plugged into power strips. I looked all over and found nada. Then thinking I had just imagined the sound or had my ear pop for some reason, I went back to surfing but my mouse wouldn't work. Sure enough, one of the brand new, brand name double-a batteries exploded in the mouse. It destroyed the inside electronics of the mouse. Thank Microsoft uses a sturdy plastic in them or it could have been a very painful right hand.
Damn... Ending up with a painful right hand without surfing porn... Scary.
Male pattern baldness is caused by certain men's hair follicles having a sensitivity to dihydrotestosterone (which is converted from testosterone by agents known as 5-alpha-reductates). The most popular non-topical anti-baldness drug on the market today, Propecia (Finasteride) works by blocking the 5-alpha-reductates to stop the conversion of testosterone to dihydrotestosterone. The funny thing is, Propecia is simply a smaller dose of drug used to treat swollen prostates - you can get the drug, Proscar (also Finasteride), for a quarter of the price, and it does the same job. The only difference is you have to cut the pills to get a smaller dose.
However, hair transplant surgery may be on its way out - apparently, about 6 years ago, researchers isolated the gene that caused the hair follicles to become sensitive to dihydrotestosterone. Currently, work is being done on developing a drug to block the operation of this gene, which, when it becomes active, starts the process of male pattern baldness. I'd wager that within 10-15 years you should be able to have a treatment in your teens to prevent you from going bald altogether, so if you're bald, at least your son won't have to be.
Disclaimer: all of the above is second hand from hearing my wife (who used to run a day procedure hospital specialising in hair transplants) explain the details of MPB to patients over the phone, so I may have some of the terms wrong...
I apologise in advance, since this is completely off topic and grammar nazi-ish, but I have to do it:
I think you mean 'imply' rather than 'infer'. The speaker/writer implies, the listener/reader infers.
Now to nit-pick my own nit-pick, Mr Leech could have inferred that writing backend is difficult from someone else's implication, but I don't think that's what you were getting at.:)
Well, Smilebit/Sega managed to get his permission to use his art in Jet Set Radio Future on XBox - I don't think Rockstart/Take two should have any less of an obligation in this department.
The above code can't possibly fail. There's no need for try/catch, or needless error checking - the destination array will always be large enough.
Can't possibly fail, huh? Too bad if your char arrays don't turn out to be \0 terminated... Then you're in big shit. Hell, even strncat won't help here if 'string1' doesn't have a \0 terminator.
Moral of the story - even if something "can't possibly fail", someone will still find a way to make it fail.
The virus also seems to have been poorly written. MS may not have the monopoly on bad programmers, but they definitely have the largest concentration of them
This is one of the most ridiculous statements I have ever read. Do you have any idea how difficult and competitive it is to get a programming position at Microsoft? Whether you like to believe it or not, Microsoft has some of the best programmers in the world - it also has some of the most rushed programmers in the world, and some not so great QA. Even the very best programmers don't often get their code perfect the first time around, and if a problem with some MS code is not picked up by MS's testers and QA people, it doesn't get fixed.
Sorry, wrong - HotMail was originally running on FreeBSD. When MS bought it, they transitioned to Win2K, which actually managed to perform BETTER in many circumstances - for example, negating the need for SSL accelerators, etc.
From the article: "Not every force protection device was mechanical, computerized or high tech at Force Protection Equipment Demonstration IV at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Va., in early May. Buddy Eanes with Ace, his bomb-sniffing dog, also took part in the demonstrations."
Damn! And I thought that having a dog that constantly sniffed at your crotch was inconvenient...
I'd be happy if the RIAA deleted every file in the world containing the strings 'Usher' and 'mp3'. Sure, there could be innocent casualties, but think of the lives that would be saved...
You're looking at this from the wrong level - this thing still has all the hardware to receive RF, the funky thing is that the radio demodulation/modulation et al is programmable. At the band's this is running at, it's not so interesting, but once you get up to 900MHz (and later at 2.4GHz+), you essentially have a device that can communicate with any RF device on its supported bands.
What this means (in the future, with 2.4GHz+ capable devices) is that one device (be it your PDA, mobile phone, PCMCIA card) can be a GSM phone, can be a CDMA phone, can be a 3G phone, can be a CB/commercial/police radio receiver, it could even be used for 802.11b or Bluetooth. The possibilities for software radio are mind boggling. Linux is really irrelevant in the scheme of things, it's essentially just used to bolt the stuff together - it's the underlying technology that is impressive.
It would be nice if Sun (and IBM et al) started contributing to an OS with real promise, like one of the BSDs. Not that Linux isn't promising, I just think that BSD's long-term future is brighter...
Imagine if one of the BSD's had Linux's hype behind it, but with *BSD's existing code-review and QA systems - if they could manage the influx of interest, I think we would end up with a much nicer product.
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As an addendum, I'd add a very important:
Seriously man, most LAN places fucking stink of B.O. If they didn't reek so badly, I might even go occasionally.
It apparently has not only the capability to support an inbuilt cable modem, but an inbuilt DSL modem and a WiFi card. Check it out here for the 'official' (heheh) specs.
Note that all three of these are listed as optional components, so I guess you don't get them if you don't need them. Also interesting is that it apparently runs a modified WinXP kernel on an Athlon 3200+ and uses a nVidia nv36 DX9 compliant GPU.
The fact that it's potentially only a PC might be why no one has any dev kits yet... or it could be that it's a hoax. Whatever.
This article, I believe, has already been published in the well known programmers' journal "No shit Sherlock - monthly"
Raw polygon pushing is a vey misleading figure, but it's not surprising when coming from a PSX fan site. Even if I was sure about those figures (which still don't look quite right to me), they would only be applicable for games which used straight, unshaded polygons.
The main figures come in how many render passes you need to do to get the effects you're after. The GameCube for example, can apply 8 render effects to a polygon per pass (i.e. texturing, bump mapping, specular highlighting, stenciling, alpha blending etc etc), whereas the PS2 only has hardware support for a couple (i.e. texturing and bump mapping, at a guess).
Taking that into account, with all effects turned on, the PS2 would have to make 2-4 render passes to render the same scene that the GCN could do in a single pass. If a game uses fewer effects, the PS2 could compete, but the game would probably look pretty shite.
I thought this quote from an interview with the author Max Barry (about his book Syrup) was fitting:
You could use WebDAV (works on IIS and Apache) or, as a slightly more tricky alternative, plain HTTP uploads (you'd need an upload handling script).
As long as you enable authentication, and make sure it's not basic authentication (use digest authentication, or if it's a windows box, NTLM), you're set - your password is encrypted, but your data isn't.
Similarly, you could use either WebDAV or HTTP uploads over an HTTPS connection WITH basic authentication, which gives you overall encryption on the lot, but that's not really what you were after...
There is just so much wrong with this paragraph, it's gotta be a troll. To put PHP even close to being in the league of J2EE and .NET (which are more or less in the same league) is utterly ludicrous. PHP is fine for little web shops and blogs and stuff, but it is virtually impossible to manage for any decent sized project. Yes, slashdot runs on it, so it can scale relatively well, but slashdot isn't particularly complex either, it just has large amounts of traffic.
Any organisation who tries to build a business-critical, enterprise scale solution with PHP is asking for trouble. Hell, I've even worked on a large scale C++ multi-tier project, and the productivity we (the developers) get on that is one tenth of the productivity from our .NET/J2EE apps, with only minimal performance bonuses.
Doing the same sorts of projects in J2EE or .NET nowadays is far more feasible. I've been involved in developing for all of them, and if I saw any large company investing its large-scale development efforts into PHP, I'd be selling my shares real quick.
Damn... Ending up with a painful right hand without surfing porn... Scary.
Male pattern baldness is caused by certain men's hair follicles having a sensitivity to dihydrotestosterone (which is converted from testosterone by agents known as 5-alpha-reductates). The most popular non-topical anti-baldness drug on the market today, Propecia (Finasteride) works by blocking the 5-alpha-reductates to stop the conversion of testosterone to dihydrotestosterone. The funny thing is, Propecia is simply a smaller dose of drug used to treat swollen prostates - you can get the drug, Proscar (also Finasteride), for a quarter of the price, and it does the same job. The only difference is you have to cut the pills to get a smaller dose.
However, hair transplant surgery may be on its way out - apparently, about 6 years ago, researchers isolated the gene that caused the hair follicles to become sensitive to dihydrotestosterone. Currently, work is being done on developing a drug to block the operation of this gene, which, when it becomes active, starts the process of male pattern baldness. I'd wager that within 10-15 years you should be able to have a treatment in your teens to prevent you from going bald altogether, so if you're bald, at least your son won't have to be.
Disclaimer: all of the above is second hand from hearing my wife (who used to run a day procedure hospital specialising in hair transplants) explain the details of MPB to patients over the phone, so I may have some of the terms wrong...
Funny, I thought I had already mentioned that.
Welcome to 'read before you post' land.
I apologise in advance, since this is completely off topic and grammar nazi-ish, but I have to do it:
I think you mean 'imply' rather than 'infer'. The speaker/writer implies, the listener/reader infers.
Now to nit-pick my own nit-pick, Mr Leech could have inferred that writing backend is difficult from someone else's implication, but I don't think that's what you were getting at. :)
Well, Smilebit/Sega managed to get his permission to use his art in Jet Set Radio Future on XBox - I don't think Rockstart/Take two should have any less of an obligation in this department.
Can't possibly fail, huh? Too bad if your char arrays don't turn out to be \0 terminated... Then you're in big shit. Hell, even strncat won't help here if 'string1' doesn't have a \0 terminator.
Moral of the story - even if something "can't possibly fail", someone will still find a way to make it fail.
This is one of the most ridiculous statements I have ever read. Do you have any idea how difficult and competitive it is to get a programming position at Microsoft? Whether you like to believe it or not, Microsoft has some of the best programmers in the world - it also has some of the most rushed programmers in the world, and some not so great QA. Even the very best programmers don't often get their code perfect the first time around, and if a problem with some MS code is not picked up by MS's testers and QA people, it doesn't get fixed.
Idiot Lunix zealots.
Sorry, wrong - HotMail was originally running on FreeBSD. When MS bought it, they transitioned to Win2K, which actually managed to perform BETTER in many circumstances - for example, negating the need for SSL accelerators, etc.
You can read the whole case study here.
Is there any irony in this, given that Sweden produces so much porn? It's gotta be in there somewhere... someone, help me out here!
From the article:
"Not every force protection device was mechanical, computerized or high tech at Force Protection Equipment Demonstration IV at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Va., in early May. Buddy Eanes with Ace, his bomb-sniffing dog, also took part in the demonstrations."
Damn! And I thought that having a dog that constantly sniffed at your crotch was inconvenient...
...and .NET has exactly the same capability to prevent this with its own code permission framework.
I'd be happy if the RIAA deleted every file in the world containing the strings 'Usher' and 'mp3'. Sure, there could be innocent casualties, but think of the lives that would be saved...
You're looking at this from the wrong level - this thing still has all the hardware to receive RF, the funky thing is that the radio demodulation/modulation et al is programmable. At the band's this is running at, it's not so interesting, but once you get up to 900MHz (and later at 2.4GHz+), you essentially have a device that can communicate with any RF device on its supported bands.
What this means (in the future, with 2.4GHz+ capable devices) is that one device (be it your PDA, mobile phone, PCMCIA card) can be a GSM phone, can be a CDMA phone, can be a 3G phone, can be a CB/commercial/police radio receiver, it could even be used for 802.11b or Bluetooth. The possibilities for software radio are mind boggling. Linux is really irrelevant in the scheme of things, it's essentially just used to bolt the stuff together - it's the underlying technology that is impressive.
It would be nice if Sun (and IBM et al) started contributing to an OS with real promise, like one of the BSDs. Not that Linux isn't promising, I just think that BSD's long-term future is brighter...
Imagine if one of the BSD's had Linux's hype behind it, but with *BSD's existing code-review and QA systems - if they could manage the influx of interest, I think we would end up with a much nicer product.
In the matter of the people vs 778;[ODBC Contraint];&H00062671 on 6743281 counts of 990;0--[ODBCError];, the court will come to order!
If they're not worried about accuracy, they'll save millions by simply using a very large MS Access database!
We've had a blimp deliver items around the office for years now... His name's Robert, and he likes McDonalds a little bit too much.
From the article:
...and a nasty case of trying to count without taking their socks off... :)