Continuing the trend of pointing out errors in the study, this is for DePauw University, #3 on the list.
Online Courses (Yes)
This is technically true, but the only one I know about it an internship that requires posting on discussion boards.
Handheld Computing (Yes)
The closest we get to true on this is that we have a wireless network. No course uses them, and our help desk doesn't list them as items they'll support.
Streaming Courses (Yes)
False. We have(again, to my knowledge) no streaming courses; the closest one can get is that some materials for the School of Music are online for easy distribution.
Ethics (Yes)
We can't even get an Honor Code approved, let alone an AUP.
Usenet (Yes)
Double-plus false. We don't have a Usenet server on campus, and the NNTP port(119) is packet shaped to a mere kilobyte a second.
Emerging Curricula (Yes)
We don't have any courses devoted specifically towards their criteria(Robotics, Comp Security, Video Games).
To the credit of the school and the CS department, there is some really cool stuff going on, but the above items are dubious at best. I doubt we really belong at #3
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Issues of DX9 aside, there's a much bigger issue: the physics engine. The engine HL2 uses, Havok, hasn't been ported to Linux, meaning that it's impossible to make a client for Linux without some combination of getting the engine ported over and getting a Linux license from Havok.
I've read that the fact that the Xbox stuff is interlaced is part of the problem. When you can't use 3:2 pulldown, the artifacting from any other deinterlacing method results in a less than happy encoder.
The word is that the Mac/PC port was a trojan horse to get more people interested in Halo to sell Halo 2, so I strongly doubt we'll ever see Halo 2 on anything besides an Xbox.
trusted chips will eventually be used by software manufacturers to make sure the computer's owner does not do anything with the software which the manufacturer does not want to permit.
When did Slashdot gain the ability to see the future? While I know we disapprove of "trusted computing" and similar systems, and for good reason, for a blurb wanting to talk about balance, that's a pretty damning statement. Trusted chips can be used to lock down software stop users, not will. We're still early in the game, and damn if we don't have any influence, but that future is still a long way off. How about instead of just bitching about "trusted computing" we start to drive it towards something that's mutually beneficial: something that allows businesses to exert power over their internal affairs(locking down documents and such), and something that lets users exert power, such as locking down systems against worms, viruses, and spyware?
The book on trusted computing hasn't been written yet, let's not call it before it's done.
Between these two non-attractions is a little-used suspended walkway about 100m long. That's now the Walk of Game.
I was down in SF for a business meeting back in July, and I can confirm this statement. The Walk of Game is in the middle of nowhere on the second floor, and as the OP notes, is going to be little used because it doesn't connect anything useful. The stars need to be on the ground floor, not a 2nd story walkway in a chunk of the complex no one visits.
Considering that this isn't a Star Wars title, I think we'll see LA be a little more flexable than usual. If they were to licence out S&M to Telltale(perhaps even the previous work), and Telltale did digital distribution, that would push all the risk on to Telltale. Without any risk, and a licence LA really doesn't really seem to see a future in, LA may bite as an easy way to score a cut of the revenue.
Considering that Mel is looking to time this with the release of Star Wars 3, I would not be the least bit surprised if they did indeed use Spaceballs 3 as the title, although perhaps not the "search for Spaceballs 2" sub-title.
Just out of curiosity, does anyone know if x86 no-execute protection(the NX bit, aka the XD bit, aka Data Execution Protection) prevents against this? With the release of SP2 and DEP support, it would seem that this would be a good test to see if DEP is all its cracked up to be.
It's interesting to note that for as advanced as the PC is, here we are in 2004, and virtually every PC game is still using CDs. PCs have had DVD drives well before consoles have, but with the exception of a couple of AAA titles(UT2004, The Sims 2, etc), nearly everything is still being released on CDs, even if it's working its way up to 4 or 5 CDs(Far Cry, Enter The Matrix), at least as far as North America goes. I seriously swear we'll still be using CDs when major PS3 games move to BD's, and the consumers will still be left as clueless as ever as to why this hasn't changed.
I'm sure it has everything to do with Thanksgiving. It makes more sense for Nintendo to ship the first batch to NA in order to make Black Friday, and ship the second batch to Japan, than it would the other way around. Travel time would be a big factor too; unless they fly everything, it's ~2 weeks by ship to NA, but only days to Japan, so a NA release second could have been almost 2 weeks after the current Japan release date.
Though it's not for everyone, slipstreaming(loading the drivers on a custom burned copy of the OS) works very well in this case. There are a couple applications out there, and numerous FAQs that can make the process pretty simple. It's certainly much nicer than trying to deal with all the driver-fopply oddities that can go wrong.
I believe the future of the floppy should be to make a dual capability drive attached via usb2.0/sata to the motherboard. It should have a 2x or 4x floppy drive mechanism to read and write standard 1.44 disks plus the ability to read and write to a new, high density media. It should be able to random write and have the ability to manage the write itself so it can provide a nice low-level interface to software so you could, for example, treat it as a hard drive and read and write to it in DOS without drivers.
Nice try bud, but it's obvious you're an Imation SuperDisk engineer. Now where's that ZIP engineer lurking...
In many situations any data inconsistency can cause catastrophe
Bingo. Take BitTorrent for example; it uses SHA-1 hashing to make sure every piece downloaded isn't corrupt, and otherwise helps ensure that no one is tampering with the torrent(and if they are, most clients kick them). However, if you can generate an arbitrary SHA-1 hash, anyone could seed the swarm with bad data, and the clients would never know. This could not only be used by the **AA to disrupt illegitimate torrents, but script kiddies could disrupt legitimate torrents too, resulting in everyone downloading a corrupt version of Knoppix, for example.
While this is only 1 case, the point remains: in many cases, you only need to disrupt the data, not explicitly replace it.
the only advantage it has over a PDA is its 640x480 screen
That isn't even the realm of "big" devices only anymore; the latest PocketPC/WindowsMobile devices(specifically, high-end Windows Mobile 2003 SE devices) have VGA screens.
This means that if they were to make a current chip using the new 30% smaller technology, the result would probably produce about 30% less heat and use that much less power.
Up until the latest process shrink(90nm), I would agree with you, but the laws of physics are starting to catch up with silicon chips. Intel, as has everyone else at 90nm, has had a major problem with current leakage with the process, which is causing any power savings to dissapear due to the excess leakage(and results in the infamous 100wt CPU). Without a special technology(like strained silicon) to go along with further process shrinks, you're looking at breaking even at best, and needing more energy at worst.
The OP may be right, but so is the Grandparent. Hard drives don't consume a lot of energy, so in a second, they simply can't generate more than 5W of heat, due to the whole "conservation of energy" thing. However, since hard drives don't put out a lot of heat, there's not a lot of effort to cool them, and they can build up heat to be hotter than other components, making the OP correct too. Without more info though, it's hard to say who's right.
Server 2003 basically is SP2; the betas of WinXP 64bit edition list the Server 2003 kernel as their kernel too, but it's still decked out with all the features we'd recognize as WinXP. Windows is becoming less and less distinct at the kernel level, and more and more seperated at higher levels.
In defense of Microsoft, they've stated right up that it would break things; between the firewall and the NX bit, things(largely poorly coded things) were destined to break. They've done a good deal to prevent breakage, but anyone caught by surprise if something breaks, has bigger problems.
This was only true for a very short period of time on paper, and is no longer true on the consumer market. The first IA-32e/EM64T enabled Pentium 4 Intel is shipping is the P4 "Prescott" Model F, which is based off of the E-0 core. The E-0 core not only supports EM64T(which was added in the D-0 core for Xeons), but eXecute Disable(XD) support, Intel's version of NX, was added in the latest core(AnandTech has the full details). We should see the first P4F's this September.
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Your motherboard most certainly wasn't assembled by robots. Even tier-1 companies like Abit still use a fair amount of human labor.
Online Courses (Yes)
This is technically true, but the only one I know about it an internship that requires posting on discussion boards.
Handheld Computing (Yes)
The closest we get to true on this is that we have a wireless network. No course uses them, and our help desk doesn't list them as items they'll support.
Streaming Courses (Yes)
False. We have(again, to my knowledge) no streaming courses; the closest one can get is that some materials for the School of Music are online for easy distribution.
Ethics (Yes)
We can't even get an Honor Code approved, let alone an AUP.
Usenet (Yes)
Double-plus false. We don't have a Usenet server on campus, and the NNTP port(119) is packet shaped to a mere kilobyte a second.
Emerging Curricula (Yes)
We don't have any courses devoted specifically towards their criteria(Robotics, Comp Security, Video Games).
To the credit of the school and the CS department, there is some really cool stuff going on, but the above items are dubious at best. I doubt we really belong at #3
Issues of DX9 aside, there's a much bigger issue: the physics engine. The engine HL2 uses, Havok, hasn't been ported to Linux, meaning that it's impossible to make a client for Linux without some combination of getting the engine ported over and getting a Linux license from Havok.
I've read that the fact that the Xbox stuff is interlaced is part of the problem. When you can't use 3:2 pulldown, the artifacting from any other deinterlacing method results in a less than happy encoder.
The Grandparent is right, it's locked down for distribution. The European version has more "stuff" visable in it than the NA version, for example.
The word is that the Mac/PC port was a trojan horse to get more people interested in Halo to sell Halo 2, so I strongly doubt we'll ever see Halo 2 on anything besides an Xbox.
When did Slashdot gain the ability to see the future? While I know we disapprove of "trusted computing" and similar systems, and for good reason, for a blurb wanting to talk about balance, that's a pretty damning statement. Trusted chips can be used to lock down software stop users, not will. We're still early in the game, and damn if we don't have any influence, but that future is still a long way off. How about instead of just bitching about "trusted computing" we start to drive it towards something that's mutually beneficial: something that allows businesses to exert power over their internal affairs(locking down documents and such), and something that lets users exert power, such as locking down systems against worms, viruses, and spyware?
The book on trusted computing hasn't been written yet, let's not call it before it's done.
I was down in SF for a business meeting back in July, and I can confirm this statement. The Walk of Game is in the middle of nowhere on the second floor, and as the OP notes, is going to be little used because it doesn't connect anything useful. The stars need to be on the ground floor, not a 2nd story walkway in a chunk of the complex no one visits.
Considering that this isn't a Star Wars title, I think we'll see LA be a little more flexable than usual. If they were to licence out S&M to Telltale(perhaps even the previous work), and Telltale did digital distribution, that would push all the risk on to Telltale. Without any risk, and a licence LA really doesn't really seem to see a future in, LA may bite as an easy way to score a cut of the revenue.
Considering that Mel is looking to time this with the release of Star Wars 3, I would not be the least bit surprised if they did indeed use Spaceballs 3 as the title, although perhaps not the "search for Spaceballs 2" sub-title.
It would fit, Barf could be the Jar Jar parody this time around, and I certainly wouldn't complain.
Just out of curiosity, does anyone know if x86 no-execute protection(the NX bit, aka the XD bit, aka Data Execution Protection) prevents against this? With the release of SP2 and DEP support, it would seem that this would be a good test to see if DEP is all its cracked up to be.
It's interesting to note that for as advanced as the PC is, here we are in 2004, and virtually every PC game is still using CDs. PCs have had DVD drives well before consoles have, but with the exception of a couple of AAA titles(UT2004, The Sims 2, etc), nearly everything is still being released on CDs, even if it's working its way up to 4 or 5 CDs(Far Cry, Enter The Matrix), at least as far as North America goes. I seriously swear we'll still be using CDs when major PS3 games move to BD's, and the consumers will still be left as clueless as ever as to why this hasn't changed.
I'm sure it has everything to do with Thanksgiving. It makes more sense for Nintendo to ship the first batch to NA in order to make Black Friday, and ship the second batch to Japan, than it would the other way around. Travel time would be a big factor too; unless they fly everything, it's ~2 weeks by ship to NA, but only days to Japan, so a NA release second could have been almost 2 weeks after the current Japan release date.
You mean something like Microsoft's Next Gen Computing Base(NGCB), aka Trusted Computing?
n/t
Though it's not for everyone, slipstreaming(loading the drivers on a custom burned copy of the OS) works very well in this case. There are a couple applications out there, and numerous FAQs that can make the process pretty simple. It's certainly much nicer than trying to deal with all the driver-fopply oddities that can go wrong.
Nice try bud, but it's obvious you're an Imation SuperDisk engineer. Now where's that ZIP engineer lurking...
Bingo. Take BitTorrent for example; it uses SHA-1 hashing to make sure every piece downloaded isn't corrupt, and otherwise helps ensure that no one is tampering with the torrent(and if they are, most clients kick them). However, if you can generate an arbitrary SHA-1 hash, anyone could seed the swarm with bad data, and the clients would never know. This could not only be used by the **AA to disrupt illegitimate torrents, but script kiddies could disrupt legitimate torrents too, resulting in everyone downloading a corrupt version of Knoppix, for example.
While this is only 1 case, the point remains: in many cases, you only need to disrupt the data, not explicitly replace it.
That isn't even the realm of "big" devices only anymore; the latest PocketPC/WindowsMobile devices(specifically, high-end Windows Mobile 2003 SE devices) have VGA screens.
Up until the latest process shrink(90nm), I would agree with you, but the laws of physics are starting to catch up with silicon chips. Intel, as has everyone else at 90nm, has had a major problem with current leakage with the process, which is causing any power savings to dissapear due to the excess leakage(and results in the infamous 100wt CPU). Without a special technology(like strained silicon) to go along with further process shrinks, you're looking at breaking even at best, and needing more energy at worst.
The OP may be right, but so is the Grandparent. Hard drives don't consume a lot of energy, so in a second, they simply can't generate more than 5W of heat, due to the whole "conservation of energy" thing. However, since hard drives don't put out a lot of heat, there's not a lot of effort to cool them, and they can build up heat to be hotter than other components, making the OP correct too. Without more info though, it's hard to say who's right.
Server 2003 basically is SP2; the betas of WinXP 64bit edition list the Server 2003 kernel as their kernel too, but it's still decked out with all the features we'd recognize as WinXP. Windows is becoming less and less distinct at the kernel level, and more and more seperated at higher levels.
In defense of Microsoft, they've stated right up that it would break things; between the firewall and the NX bit, things(largely poorly coded things) were destined to break. They've done a good deal to prevent breakage, but anyone caught by surprise if something breaks, has bigger problems.
This was only true for a very short period of time on paper, and is no longer true on the consumer market. The first IA-32e/EM64T enabled Pentium 4 Intel is shipping is the P4 "Prescott" Model F, which is based off of the E-0 core. The E-0 core not only supports EM64T(which was added in the D-0 core for Xeons), but eXecute Disable(XD) support, Intel's version of NX, was added in the latest core(AnandTech has the full details). We should see the first P4F's this September.