whats interesting is that once Vista locks in the GFX framework as part of the Avalon interface, there wont be any DirectX Updates untill the next "Service Pack" (read: Download of crud equivalent to a full sized OS) id expect. And because DirecX doesnt have any methods to enable Vendor based card optimisations and extentions, Like OpenGL 2.0 does. Vista is gonna get the short end of the Stick against Linux Machines. If nVida or ATI get off their rears and realise theres a big opportunity on the rise here we may just see "solid" linux drivers finaly arrive for the cards, as in equal, or better performance than the windows ones since they wont be held back by the inability to make use of OpenGL 2.0 Hardware based Extentions.
overspeced servers are fun:) lots of cycles to spare and no one ever notices the proccesses.
shame theres no game servers that you can run on em anymore... well suppose you could compile a Q1, Q2 or Q3 server for one now its all open source... but still id like them to make a sparc binary myself seeing what those new suns are like. Oh hell yeah. Saturating a gig ethernet connection with network traffic anyone? Who can resist the idea of having multithreaded server apps running in parralell, and when sun break out the 10 gig eth late next year. *drools* No finer multithread box on earth my freind:P
*begins pondering the threadedness of the q4 server*
anyone got a clue if its multithreaded... not half assed multithreaded (2 thread only) or fully multithreaded (scaling to any number of threads within performance boundaries)
So if you have a dual, dual core Opteron like one of those Tyan Boards, would it go to 4 threads?
"juries hold scientific evidence in high regard and it should be held to the highest standards of integrity and be open to be disputed in court just as an expert witness can be questioned about his expertise and about his actual knowledge of the case."
id be surprised if a quater of the jury in any trial honestly cared what was going on.
And id be surprised if on a given issue. Any one of them actualy knew enough to understand the issues... id expect that would be considered "outside bias"... the idea that they might have a mind capable of thinking about more than the mush that the prosecution and defence tell them.
then again i have very low expectations of any group or random people from the general populace over the number of 4 people...
As much as i agree with you, a lot of people tend to hold onto a short term emergncy fund if they can, and i mean REALY hold onto it, not keep using it and filling it back up, that works out to be a few weeks to 2 months pay in case they lose their job. Id be doing it if i worked in a volatile industry for a company i dont know the life expecancy of.
reading that makes me think of him running a mr burns style search for an heir.
if hes only going to give 30 million to his kids. why not search out 7 other people and chuck them 10 million each to spread the wealth around more. not as much philanthropy, as seeding the economy, and being very generous to 7 random people. A person with 10 million can do a lot of good if they set their mind to it, imagine if you never had to worry if the bills were paid and you could every year funnel that 100 thousand dollar income (not part of returns on the 10 million and yould probably have a big chunk of that you could funnel in too.) into a charity or to being generous and helping people.
Simple point. Theyll give a kid in etheopia a laptop for free but Comp Sci students in the western world wont even be able to buy them yet? *points to his Univesity SUBSIDISING laptop prices and still not bringing them under a grand* If some charity would cough the dough, id buy a thousand of those laptops and just give them to any of the students in the Comp Sci department. They did a study and proved it helped, so theyre unfortunatly giving an unfair advantage to those with $. If i had 100 grand a year for being generous, i could do that every year, not a single student in the department wouldnt have one and theyd all have the benefit.
Then will he give me 10 million to devote my life to spreading the availability of quality computing resources into new areas... thats a full time job no one pays for... but $10 million dollars annual investment returns would fund and pay for my time doing it...
I realy do wonder just whats going to happen to the heirs to his fortune... i mean realy... does any one have any clue what the Jnr Gates s are going to do with the worlds largest inheritance...
Suppose you have vested interests in Firefox not succeeding as a Web Browser and you hacked/setup some major site to lockup firefox and dramaticaly decrease tbe userbase over the course of a few hours...
the problem is when people play the game and it involves items of status, they WILL care about them. its how they drive the game forward, you want to play to earn more to get better things. So when people short circut this others get annoyed.
Its not a problem of the people. Its a problem of the game design, if the game was genuinely fun to play ALL the way through... so each dungeon/area/quest, and moster/enemy was something they enjoyed finishing off then theyd probably find less of this, as players would be doing these things and earning for themselves.
And its proffitable like all addictions are to the suppliers.
So does that mean those Asian gamers getting sick/dead/mental from sleep deprivation playing 24hrs for days before their bodies pack in... are OverDosing on MMORPGs...
spoken by someone thats never tried to actualy DERIVE 3d Parametric functions for the motions of a balistic/orbital body from the laws of gravitation and motion... I have high school notebooks where pages have been filled with my efforts to work out a simple 2d version, the 3d mechanics and calculus are not at all "simple"
unless of course you have someone else do them for you and just stick numbers into a formula.
Theyd be obviously screwed over like the lousy dial-up dogs they are.
On a serious note. id say they would clearly need some kind of "checkin" system. direct p2p between people is rediculous, it works best with a distributed, decentralised network with servers still there but none in total control.
Pick your server, it determines what features to support based on whos running it, etc, and they communicate between eachother, enabling everyone on the network to find eachother.
they already have tested the standard boilerplate, there was a class action lawsuit against them way back in the DOS 6.x days where users sued for MS charging for a full update to make the fixes public. MS won. the boilerplate excused them from having to ever deliver a functional program, and they were free to charge for the effort put in to "improve" the program to make it work.
ahh the days when you could actualy find interesting/odd/weird porn without having to resort to forking out for some fetish site for a month just to swipe a few good files and send them to people you dont like.
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whats interesting is that once Vista locks in the GFX framework as part of the Avalon interface, there wont be any DirectX Updates untill the next "Service Pack" (read: Download of crud equivalent to a full sized OS) id expect. And because DirecX doesnt have any methods to enable Vendor based card optimisations and extentions, Like OpenGL 2.0 does. Vista is gonna get the short end of the Stick against Linux Machines. If nVida or ATI get off their rears and realise theres a big opportunity on the rise here we may just see "solid" linux drivers finaly arrive for the cards, as in equal, or better performance than the windows ones since they wont be held back by the inability to make use of OpenGL 2.0 Hardware based Extentions.
overspeced servers are fun :) lots of cycles to spare and no one ever notices the proccesses.
:P
shame theres no game servers that you can run on em anymore... well suppose you could compile a Q1, Q2 or Q3 server for one now its all open source... but still id like them to make a sparc binary myself seeing what those new suns are like. Oh hell yeah. Saturating a gig ethernet connection with network traffic anyone? Who can resist the idea of having multithreaded server apps running in parralell, and when sun break out the 10 gig eth late next year. *drools* No finer multithread box on earth my freind
*begins pondering the threadedness of the q4 server*
anyone got a clue if its multithreaded... not half assed multithreaded (2 thread only) or fully multithreaded (scaling to any number of threads within performance boundaries)
So if you have a dual, dual core Opteron like one of those Tyan Boards, would it go to 4 threads?
You actualy belive that...
... the idea that they might have a mind capable of thinking about more than the mush that the prosecution and defence tell them.
"juries hold scientific evidence in high regard and it should be held to the highest standards of integrity and be open to be disputed in court just as an expert witness can be questioned about his expertise and about his actual knowledge of the case."
id be surprised if a quater of the jury in any trial honestly cared what was going on.
And id be surprised if on a given issue. Any one of them actualy knew enough to understand the issues... id expect that would be considered "outside bias"
then again i have very low expectations of any group or random people from the general populace over the number of 4 people...
As much as i agree with you, a lot of people tend to hold onto a short term emergncy fund if they can, and i mean REALY hold onto it, not keep using it and filling it back up, that works out to be a few weeks to 2 months pay in case they lose their job. Id be doing it if i worked in a volatile industry for a company i dont know the life expecancy of.
How do you know GP doesnt?
reading that makes me think of him running a mr burns style search for an heir.
if hes only going to give 30 million to his kids. why not search out 7 other people and chuck them 10 million each to spread the wealth around more. not as much philanthropy, as seeding the economy, and being very generous to 7 random people. A person with 10 million can do a lot of good if they set their mind to it, imagine if you never had to worry if the bills were paid and you could every year funnel that 100 thousand dollar income (not part of returns on the 10 million and yould probably have a big chunk of that you could funnel in too.) into a charity or to being generous and helping people.
Simple point. Theyll give a kid in etheopia a laptop for free but Comp Sci students in the western world wont even be able to buy them yet? *points to his Univesity SUBSIDISING laptop prices and still not bringing them under a grand* If some charity would cough the dough, id buy a thousand of those laptops and just give them to any of the students in the Comp Sci department. They did a study and proved it helped, so theyre unfortunatly giving an unfair advantage to those with $. If i had 100 grand a year for being generous, i could do that every year, not a single student in the department wouldnt have one and theyd all have the benefit.
I demand you take the Cisco box apart and see where the american company gets its parts to make the things, that makes the internet work, work :P
I read that as "will this satisfy your nerds"
Then will he give me 10 million to devote my life to spreading the availability of quality computing resources into new areas... thats a full time job no one pays for... but $10 million dollars annual investment returns would fund and pay for my time doing it...
I realy do wonder just whats going to happen to the heirs to his fortune... i mean realy... does any one have any clue what the Jnr Gates s are going to do with the worlds largest inheritance...
Cause $12 bucks doesnt buy that 3 ton mainframe thats somehow survied decades without being destroyed...
Malicious no... Devious yes...
Suppose you have vested interests in Firefox not succeeding as a Web Browser and you hacked/setup some major site to lockup firefox and dramaticaly decrease tbe userbase over the course of a few hours...
the problem is when people play the game and it involves items of status, they WILL care about them. its how they drive the game forward, you want to play to earn more to get better things. So when people short circut this others get annoyed.
Its not a problem of the people. Its a problem of the game design, if the game was genuinely fun to play ALL the way through... so each dungeon/area/quest, and moster/enemy was something they enjoyed finishing off then theyd probably find less of this, as players would be doing these things and earning for themselves.
And its proffitable like all addictions are to the suppliers.
So does that mean those Asian gamers getting sick/dead/mental from sleep deprivation playing 24hrs for days before their bodies pack in... are OverDosing on MMORPGs...
spoken by someone thats never tried to actualy DERIVE 3d Parametric functions for the motions of a balistic/orbital body from the laws of gravitation and motion... I have high school notebooks where pages have been filled with my efforts to work out a simple 2d version, the 3d mechanics and calculus are not at all "simple"
unless of course you have someone else do them for you and just stick numbers into a formula.
that always makes it easier.
Right so that makes my 80 year old WWI history books permanant too?
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Theyd be obviously screwed over like the lousy dial-up dogs they are.
On a serious note. id say they would clearly need some kind of "checkin" system. direct p2p between people is rediculous, it works best with a distributed, decentralised network with servers still there but none in total control.
Pick your server, it determines what features to support based on whos running it, etc, and they communicate between eachother, enabling everyone on the network to find eachother.
Do not panic. The Authorities have been warned.
he will be unfairly treated to the full abuse of the law.
oops i didnt mean to say that........
they already have tested the standard boilerplate, there was a class action lawsuit against them way back in the DOS 6.x days where users sued for MS charging for a full update to make the fixes public. MS won. the boilerplate excused them from having to ever deliver a functional program, and they were free to charge for the effort put in to "improve" the program to make it work.
mabey they could use hermits... promising them the ultimate in peace and alone time
any video of the exploding magnets??? :D
ahh the days when you could actualy find interesting/odd/weird porn without having to resort to forking out for some fetish site for a month just to swipe a few good files and send them to people you dont like.
and ask the wiseass 14 year old whos just got slaped in the back of the head for trying to mouth off. Hell tell ya.
Wheres "+1 Intriugingly confusing" when you need it...
for those reading... i made a minor error writing that.
the long chain hydrocarbon polymers provide more hydrogen, not water.
stupid grammar.
water is much heavier than long chain hydrocarbon polymers per unit volume and gives a bit more hydrogen there too