Really? The AMD E-350 (Atom competitor) board I bought a couple of months ago came with DVI, HDMI, and DisplayPort (and a DVI to VGA adaptor in the box). Shipping a VGA-only system these days is pretty short sighted.
Grep is just one example. Grep lets me search any text file. Tail -f lets me watch anything that's added to it. Wc -l lets me enumerate the entries in it. Awk lets me extract elements from it. There are lots of other standard UNIX utilities for manipulating text files. If you are replacing a text file with a binary file then you need to provide equivalent functionality to all of these. If this file is one that is important for system recovery, then you need to put all of these in the root partition, without significantly increasing its size. These are not insurmountable problems, but they are problems.
The way we used to solve that was to have the syslog output write to a dot-matrix (or other) line printer. Every line in the security logs is written to paper immediately. You can substitute anything that can record things written to RS-232 (cue the arduino fanboys) for the line printer.
This doesn't seem to actually solve the problem - if the person can modify the file, they can modify the file. If the lines are hashed, they just get the plaintext ones, delete the last ones, modify them, and then replay the fake ones and generate a new sequence of hashes. This just means that you need more tools in your recovery filesystem for fault diagnosis.
I read The Wizard of Earthsea when I was about 12 and found it irritating how stupid the protagonist was. It was obvious what the hidden name of the thing he'd created was about half way through (to my 12-year-old self), but it took him until the end of the book to work it out. Plots that rely on the hero being stupid tend to irritate me.
McCaffrey's love scenes, wooing, and relationships were very different from typical SF fare. Typical for a romance novel, perhaps?
They seemed slightly anachronistic. Her romantic story lines would have fitted into an Austen or Bronte novel with little modification, just a very different backdrop. I think that's part of the appeal of her stories. The only slightly grating aspect was the fact that her homosexual (male) characters always seemed to end up in stable sexual relationships with women...
TFS is a bit confusing. Mind you, Novell claiming that the inability to make clicky hyperlinks caused them to spend a year rewriting their open file dialog (seriously, WTF?) and cost them 40% of their sales is also a bit... interesting.
Nope, he's licensing the IP required to save babies and 'giving' the short-term temporary use of it to countries that agree to sign one-sided IP protection treaties with the USA.
Not really. Groklaw doesn't seem to say much about exactly what the APIs in question were. Like TFA, it just nebulously mentions 'name space extensions', which were supported by Windows 95 and NT4. They're also a pretty unimportant thing for a word processor. Why does a word processor need to add something that is effectively a virtual filesystem?
By His Bootstraps is classic RAH - well worth reading. The Dandelion Girl by Robert F. Young is also worth reading if you enjoy it. I don't think Anne McCaffery did any crossover stories - each of her universes were quite distinct and fitting them together would have been quite difficult and would have felt contrived. The Pern series could probably have fitted into any of the others, because it was about a planet that had been colonised and then (after genetically engineering dragons) abandoned most of its technology, but having it be contacted by people from the Tower and the Hive or Ship That Sang series would have felt a bit strange.
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For me this game would be Dungeon Keeper, for you, I bet there is a 90% chance there is something you can fit in this story.
My Dungeon Keeper CDs are too scratched to install, but I completed Dungeon Keeper 2 in WINE on OS X a few weeks ago. Judging by the comments on gog.com, it's more stable running on WINE than on Windows...
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And the great thing about DarkPlaces was that it let you run mods from the original Quake, but have them look significantly better than even GLQuakeWorld ever did. I don't know of any game company that's willing to invest money in making an old game look better on new machines years after the release, but the open source release means that people who still enjoy it can.
Possibly nostalgia talking, but I think the Crystal Singers series would appeal more to older readers than her other works. I've also reread some of the Talents of Earth / Tower and the Hive series as an adult - they were fun (although you might have to turn your brain off briefly in places) but I'm not sure if I'd enjoy them as much now if I hadn't first read them as a child.
1. Time Enough for Love
2. The Number of the Beast
Writing one book about a character who travels back in time so that he can screw his mother might be excusable. Writing two is unimaginative as well as creepy. I'd skip the later Heinlein stuff and read some E.E. 'Doc' Smith for some classic space opera.
Don't forget the Talents of Earth series. Very silly in places, but fun. I didn't really like the Freedom series - they started as a short story to try to cash in on the softporn SiFi bubble (which failed), and didn't get much better - I found the gratuitous Dune references really grating. The Pern series probably had universal appeal - what child didn't want to ride teleporting time-travelling dragons and fight an alien threat? But I think I agree, the Crystal Singers had a slightly more adult feel than the rest of her books (although I've not read them since I was a teenager, so that may just be nostalgia speaking) and were the ones I wanted to reread almost immediately after finishing them.
Try reading the rest of my post before you reply. In their video, they quote worldwide piracy statistics for things that they refuse to distribute worldwide. If you're not distributing it, then you have no business complaining about piracy. If someone who can not legitimately buy your product pirates it then you have not lost a sale as a result of piracy, you have lost a sale as a result of choosing not to sell your product.
Off-processor caches existed before on-processor caches
Not on the 4004.
Moving it into the silicon was not what I'd call engineering, just geography
Wow. That's staggeringly ignorant. I am not even going to reply to the rest of your post. If you really think that so little engineering effort is involved in a modern x86 chip, then I look forward you seeing your contributions to OpenCores.
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This summer (2012) the Smithsonian Museum in Washington D.C., will be hosting "The Art of Video Games".
And if you're in DC and haven't already been, make sure you visit the National Air and Space Museum...
You know the old saying: those who fail to learn from history are doomed to forever work in the private sector.
Really? The AMD E-350 (Atom competitor) board I bought a couple of months ago came with DVI, HDMI, and DisplayPort (and a DVI to VGA adaptor in the box). Shipping a VGA-only system these days is pretty short sighted.
there were only two precedent of this, both of which ended very badly
The first one presumably is Imperator Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus? That didn't end so badly...
Check Slashdot history. There was an article posted about it a few (5ish?) years ago.
Your root partition maybe. What about the 16MB of flash on your router?
You also need to provide a txt2bin program. This is what subversion does, for example.
Grep is just one example. Grep lets me search any text file. Tail -f lets me watch anything that's added to it. Wc -l lets me enumerate the entries in it. Awk lets me extract elements from it. There are lots of other standard UNIX utilities for manipulating text files. If you are replacing a text file with a binary file then you need to provide equivalent functionality to all of these. If this file is one that is important for system recovery, then you need to put all of these in the root partition, without significantly increasing its size. These are not insurmountable problems, but they are problems.
The way we used to solve that was to have the syslog output write to a dot-matrix (or other) line printer. Every line in the security logs is written to paper immediately. You can substitute anything that can record things written to RS-232 (cue the arduino fanboys) for the line printer.
This doesn't seem to actually solve the problem - if the person can modify the file, they can modify the file. If the lines are hashed, they just get the plaintext ones, delete the last ones, modify them, and then replay the fake ones and generate a new sequence of hashes. This just means that you need more tools in your recovery filesystem for fault diagnosis.
Maybe it is like when an illiterate nigger speaks their typical gutter pidgin and wants to ax you a question.
Illiterate niggers like Geoffrey Chaucer, you mean? (See The Miller's Tale for a use in the first stanza)
I read The Wizard of Earthsea when I was about 12 and found it irritating how stupid the protagonist was. It was obvious what the hidden name of the thing he'd created was about half way through (to my 12-year-old self), but it took him until the end of the book to work it out. Plots that rely on the hero being stupid tend to irritate me.
McCaffrey's love scenes, wooing, and relationships were very different from typical SF fare. Typical for a romance novel, perhaps?
They seemed slightly anachronistic. Her romantic story lines would have fitted into an Austen or Bronte novel with little modification, just a very different backdrop. I think that's part of the appeal of her stories. The only slightly grating aspect was the fact that her homosexual (male) characters always seemed to end up in stable sexual relationships with women...
No, her one attempt at writing porn, The Thorns of Barevi (1970), was... not good.
TFS is a bit confusing. Mind you, Novell claiming that the inability to make clicky hyperlinks caused them to spend a year rewriting their open file dialog (seriously, WTF?) and cost them 40% of their sales is also a bit... interesting.
Nope, he's licensing the IP required to save babies and 'giving' the short-term temporary use of it to countries that agree to sign one-sided IP protection treaties with the USA.
Not really. Groklaw doesn't seem to say much about exactly what the APIs in question were. Like TFA, it just nebulously mentions 'name space extensions', which were supported by Windows 95 and NT4. They're also a pretty unimportant thing for a word processor. Why does a word processor need to add something that is effectively a virtual filesystem?
By His Bootstraps is classic RAH - well worth reading. The Dandelion Girl by Robert F. Young is also worth reading if you enjoy it. I don't think Anne McCaffery did any crossover stories - each of her universes were quite distinct and fitting them together would have been quite difficult and would have felt contrived. The Pern series could probably have fitted into any of the others, because it was about a planet that had been colonised and then (after genetically engineering dragons) abandoned most of its technology, but having it be contacted by people from the Tower and the Hive or Ship That Sang series would have felt a bit strange.
For me this game would be Dungeon Keeper, for you, I bet there is a 90% chance there is something you can fit in this story.
My Dungeon Keeper CDs are too scratched to install, but I completed Dungeon Keeper 2 in WINE on OS X a few weeks ago. Judging by the comments on gog.com, it's more stable running on WINE than on Windows...
And the great thing about DarkPlaces was that it let you run mods from the original Quake, but have them look significantly better than even GLQuakeWorld ever did. I don't know of any game company that's willing to invest money in making an old game look better on new machines years after the release, but the open source release means that people who still enjoy it can.
Possibly nostalgia talking, but I think the Crystal Singers series would appeal more to older readers than her other works. I've also reread some of the Talents of Earth / Tower and the Hive series as an adult - they were fun (although you might have to turn your brain off briefly in places) but I'm not sure if I'd enjoy them as much now if I hadn't first read them as a child.
1. Time Enough for Love
2. The Number of the Beast
Writing one book about a character who travels back in time so that he can screw his mother might be excusable. Writing two is unimaginative as well as creepy. I'd skip the later Heinlein stuff and read some E.E. 'Doc' Smith for some classic space opera.
Don't forget the Talents of Earth series. Very silly in places, but fun. I didn't really like the Freedom series - they started as a short story to try to cash in on the softporn SiFi bubble (which failed), and didn't get much better - I found the gratuitous Dune references really grating. The Pern series probably had universal appeal - what child didn't want to ride teleporting time-travelling dragons and fight an alien threat? But I think I agree, the Crystal Singers had a slightly more adult feel than the rest of her books (although I've not read them since I was a teenager, so that may just be nostalgia speaking) and were the ones I wanted to reread almost immediately after finishing them.
Try reading the rest of my post before you reply. In their video, they quote worldwide piracy statistics for things that they refuse to distribute worldwide. If you're not distributing it, then you have no business complaining about piracy. If someone who can not legitimately buy your product pirates it then you have not lost a sale as a result of piracy, you have lost a sale as a result of choosing not to sell your product.
And they disable VT-x. AMD's low-end chips have hardware virtualisation support enabled.
Off-processor caches existed before on-processor caches
Not on the 4004.
Moving it into the silicon was not what I'd call engineering, just geography
Wow. That's staggeringly ignorant. I am not even going to reply to the rest of your post. If you really think that so little engineering effort is involved in a modern x86 chip, then I look forward you seeing your contributions to OpenCores.