"Your car requires fingerprint identification on stearing wheel"
option A: carjacking now involves hasty amputations option B: building a fake finger ( laugh, but one of the lecturers at my universty spent a few weeks with a bunch of fingerprint readers just making fake fingers to fool them, quite successufly too at the time.
since when does a self respecting geek use "shakycam" style... Much better to rig up a stationaty mount and an automatic High resoloution digital camera pointed at a good High Def, LCD screen, (they cant protect the Audio anywhere near as well since theyd be stabing their faces in if they pissed off audiophiles will decades of high quality audio gear they like to use for listening on) and then frame step through making sure you get a good clean shot of each frame before moving on.... days later... ther you are.. a high res non shaky pirate!
mmm what i would do to get a copy of the OpenVMS source... These days all such chance has vanished, HP are tight lipped, and not half the engineers that DEC were. I belive the Cost for access to the Codebase has gone from reasonable to 6 figure or so... not entirely sure... they dont exactly make it public the price figure, so thats an estimation peiced together from various sources.
Its good to run into another VMS person though. as an undergrad presently, im hoping to break out of the MS/Linux admin BA COmp Sec gets me desk job managing 50 computers kinda job and get myself a place in that 20 thousand new mainframe techs IBM want. I love the big iron.:-) Alphaservers and VMS are like little slices of the big iron cake that i can enjoy in my spare time. Soon as i get a spot for my Alphaserver 2100 Ill be popping 8.2 on it and firing it up. When was the last time you used VMS?
COngratulations on not realisng that the fundamental properties of a laser do not make any kind of modulation viable.
"Complex" Modulation (eg FM, Spread Spectrum, OFDM) requires the ability to work with multiple frequencies, a laser, by the very physical nature of its design and fundamental principles is not capable of this. It is designed to produce a Monochromatic pulse of coherent photons (thats a bunch of photons of the same frequency and all in the same phase) you cannot "modulate" a laser. Im aware there are highly advanced things on lasers that can do multiple frequencies and so on but generaly each pulse is monchromatic, and the problems of index spreading over long cables mean multichromatic pulsing would be a poor form of modulation anyway ( this would be the laser equivalent of digital FM ) because the prism effect of different index of refraction would change the path length of each different frequency to an extent that over a few kilometers of cable it would begin to mess up very high speed communications down sinlge mode fibers.
basicaly. while the amount of modulation available for a radio device is fantastic, it still pales in comparison to the basic fundamental laws about how much information you can get using a signal, the "faster" the signal (frequency [ in Hz] ) the more data it can carry. and the speed of a laser common for optical fibers. is roughly a 1000 times higher frequency than a 802.11b/g network radio signal. so that means per unit time without "modulation" or fancy methods of squeezing in extra data the laser is 1000 times higher bandwith... so are those modulation techniques that good... i definatly dont think so.
Surely be google are capable of quick soloutions, but perhaps the slow "reply" is more tied up in politics than it seems, cant be easy to debate between these foreign powers as another country, let alone as a company that could be severly burned by the loss of favour by one of them
what you describe reminds me of the RMS versioning that the ODS filesystem on OpenVMS uses. But due to its closes source nature its difficult to tell wether its actualy writing a copy of the whole file or as you said, a delta of the changes. I would be interestred to know just how it was done myself.
If some bright sparc makes a tweak that uses google searches to automaticaly track down bibliographical refferences to things i quote then ill be willing to PAY for this damn thing. so sick of shitty bibliography tools that cant handle web refferenceing, they do a fantastic job with electronic journals but the moment you want to use an ordinary website... urgh its like the stone age again, entering everyhting by hand.
While a certain degree of mistrust is good. i belive that the level of mistrust in the present enviroment is beginning to erode society, Its just wonderful to see my post labeled flamebait when i was making a valid point. Why should you trust someone that doesnt trust you at all. You shouldnt, their distrust of you is a sign of unfamiliarity and a basic clue that they do not know you well enough to be someoene to trust.
Its not "america bashing" or whatever you want to call it. its a legitimate problem that is becoming worse with things like the HDCP crap being implemented because large international "root bodies" dont trust anyone. "EVERYONES A THEIF!!!"... a little suspicion is healthy, paranoia and FUD arent.
Anyway. back to my rolling along in life and trying to avoidng having people think i look suspicious in public...
Bet its most fun on Revoloution where you can stab back at the evil undead/freak/evil/whatever hordes!
And the way RE4 looked on GCN had me blown away after getting fed up with the "lame" static rendering and light effect overlays that left the other games feeling like you were always inside something that wasnt dark and evil... but burnt and then poorly hosed down.
which is why some day i want to take a cubic meter of intel cpus and then fry them from the inside with some high powered tesla coil / Explosively Pumped Flux Compression Generator hybrid/combination.
"Clustering provides you with Fault Tollerant OS/Applications. A single server with tons of redundant bits, doesn't help you if the OS or Applications that it servers get borked. "
COuldnt be more true. but while "If we were running this on one mammoth server with lots of redundant bits, then 100% of our web service capacity would be down in the interim. But since we run a pool of ten http servers under keepalived/IPVS, we only lose 10% of our capacity during that time. " is a method of solving the problem. Perhaps you chose the wrong software? or are people so entrenched in the idea that MS and Linux and Mac OS X ( and BSD and Solaris for the especialy informed) are the only available oses that they forget that big heavy ass multiply redundant machines are usualy capable of running oses with licences that can cost more than your average home PC per cpu you have in your server or other extremely reliable OSes.
OpenVMS on AlphaServers represents the primary example of a Redundant "single machine" HA system. While also coincidentaly being a fantastic Clustering soloution (equal or better than whats available presently) with redundat process and data mirroring and disaster tollerant geographicaly spread clustering and with the entire system built around the principle that if your machine is down for a minute you didnt schedule as downtime, then your loosing a LOT of money.
VMS practicaly "invented" clustering in computing when it first used it, so its got a lot of past proof as a reliable system.
the world uptime record is still held by a British Rail, Vax running VMS, something close to 15 years without downtime. if thats not HA then what is?
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Old guard indeed, excelent way to put it. And its right.
For a start stop it with the game company makes good and bad games rhetoric, its obvious. but the ratios are the true signs, I see the same number of "amazing" games on the PS2 and Xbox as i see on the Gamecube and:O there are less gamecube games, so that means the ratio of good games to mediocer and worse games it better. Better gaming quality!
And the crap about "Playing Double Dash rather than Burnout Revenge or Gran Turismo 4 (yes, both franchises - but franchises which have developed) does not make you a better person or a better gamer. It makes you a guillible twat." is void, Im sorry, playing EITHER makes you a gullible twat. All of them are rehash cruft, with nintendos Double Dash being the more quality title, it had an original aspect to it.
oh and for the whole "return to gameplay" being fud and smoke. Right, im sure they do... they arent trying to push all gameplay to that niche, what they want to do is to spread their niche, theyve realised that with Sony and MS doing the same thing as PC gaming is but on a 5 year (or shorter) cycle theyre just going to be making sequels and sporadic successes, mostly stemming from other companies efforts. Theyre aiming for people to PLAY their games not brag about owning them. Theyre making inovative design choises, careful technological ones too, designed to keep things prices down, and still deliver high quality gaming.
It boils down to this. Do you care if they go from games that look like RE4 does (on the gamecube, its fantastic) to games where theres so much proccessing power they can animate every freaking hair and folicle but the damn game still looks the same since ray trace rendering cant be made photorealistic in hardware and most game developers do not have the damn skill to push their code to the level of proffessional 3d graphics software that CAN render photorealistic effects through the use of high quality layering and light filtering effects.
It is the Xbox that finally brought online multiplayer to the masses. In other words, they made it easy.
Brought it to the masses? oooooh right you mean SPAMED it.
As for making it easy. Im sorry i have some understanding that Nintendo have made it realy easy. Its called Wireless. Theyve already done it. Their partnering with companies to do it in public places, and their also making better looking consoles.
Ill probably buy a PS3 and an Xbox 360 and you know what, theyll both wind up running linux within a week of opening the box, to me those arent game consoles, their HTPCs with game, might even see if some smart bugger codes a Xen/Virtualised Emulation layer for them so i can play the games without having to turn off linux on them since its more fun than most PS games and XBox ones.
back to the point, does automaticaly playing against your neighbours wirelessly, your gameboy wirelessly playing with other peoples gameboys, and your gameboy working as a wirelss controller for the console automaticaly with the ability to download "games" to it. weellll im not gonna be going far for my gaming, MMmmm retro games and Retro Studios games... great combo.
hrm i just realised. Sony owns a big fat international Content distribuiton network, including TV shows if im not mistaken... Oh can anyone say conflict of interest! or vote buying!
Or even WHy the hell do i care about an EMMY... if anything i think it makes everything but the atari look even more pathetic that their getting given petty little statuets for things that have NOTHING to do with what the awards are for (realy... if it was so related then why wasnt this given out 5 years ago?)
He discovered long ago the profitable nature of the "oh if you dont want my help anymore" line when you have A: all the power! and B: own their souls.
Its not realy surprising. I mean how else can he consult for MCI, Exxon, Microsoft, Blizzard, and still find the time for the personal touches like buying and selling the souls of the little people.
They made the ps1 purely to try and stab back at Nintendo who actualy did half if not a little more of the initial design and work on the PS1. it was originaly a partnership, with nintendo getting sony in for the CD drive technology, then when nintendo pulled back from the project sony took everything and went... "why the hell not" and made a console of their own...
Im not sure who this makes me more annoyed with... Sony, for never giving any credit for getting helped into the industry and now happily spamming the industry with : "" games that realy only sell cause of bargain bins, hype marketing, and people with no intent to play the game more than a few times who dont care about the games they by at all as long as they have "tons of great games" to go with their "awesome ps"....
Or nintendo for creating their own worst enemy... hrm:/
where can i get one of those 4 gig flash memory cards... or the uber tiny hard drives.... ive sudenly got a crazy idea to make a gameboy cartridge mp3 player that uses the gameboy display and controls. but uses its own audio since the old gameboys had low low quality audio (way to low for mp3 to sound any good at all no matter how you tried)
something like that an old gameboy pocket... now thats cool:)
if anyone makes one inspired by this:P lemme know.
i for one would happily be an annoying asshole for the procurement of an item such as an ipod or a plasma tv, but unfortunalty their assholes reward program is only active in the United states.... hrm... mabey thats a good thing...
damn it i want a free ipod... screw you non global marketing... what about the rest of the planet... we want free things too!
Bah if anything the diet of rehashed US tv we get down here in Australia (unless you like the ABC [ australias equivalent of PBS ] which has lots of BBC on it... urgh not another slow dull british cop show ) makes us more American than British so there:P
The only OS i know with "near-flawless" security is openVMS and if you chose to call it dead so be it but think about what other OS yould rather trust your Bank/insurance or your Hospital to run? Not only is it "unhackable" (dont believe me? google for "OpenVMS unhackable Defcon 9" and youll find the reports) its also the most reliable.
Who says the best software comes from open source never had software built not by "programers".. but by engineers.
(dont pervert that quote with the phrase software engineer:P )
the implication that its 100% fatal is over simplified and only regards one decompression scenario. Id have to admit, i dont see many scenarios that have any way to survive if the plane in mid flight loses cabin pressure AND AS A CONSEQUENCE (this is the bit that implies the 100%) the crew are rendered unconcious.
sure the plane will keep airborne. till it runs out of fuel and falls from the sky. Since the idea is that the autopilot is going to keep the plane at the set altituded where the passengers and crew is NOT going to regain conciousness once they are unconcious
yes its wonderful when they do things like this isnt it. Removing the manufacturer redundancy, removing physical redundancy.
All to save a little weight... how much weight is this total... mabey 100 kilos? 2 less passengers.. vs the lives off all the people on the plane... id never want to be the one making that decision.
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"Your car requires fingerprint identification on stearing wheel"
option A: carjacking now involves hasty amputations
option B: building a fake finger ( laugh, but one of the lecturers at my universty spent a few weeks with a bunch of fingerprint readers just making fake fingers to fool them, quite successufly too at the time.
since when does a self respecting geek use "shakycam" style... Much better to rig up a stationaty mount and an automatic High resoloution digital camera pointed at a good High Def, LCD screen, (they cant protect the Audio anywhere near as well since theyd be stabing their faces in if they pissed off audiophiles will decades of high quality audio gear they like to use for listening on) and then frame step through making sure you get a good clean shot of each frame before moving on. ... days later... ther you are.. a high res non shaky pirate!
mmm what i would do to get a copy of the OpenVMS source... These days all such chance has vanished, HP are tight lipped, and not half the engineers that DEC were. I belive the Cost for access to the Codebase has gone from reasonable to 6 figure or so... not entirely sure... they dont exactly make it public the price figure, so thats an estimation peiced together from various sources.
:-) Alphaservers and VMS are like little slices of the big iron cake that i can enjoy in my spare time. Soon as i get a spot for my Alphaserver 2100 Ill be popping 8.2 on it and firing it up. When was the last time you used VMS?
Its good to run into another VMS person though. as an undergrad presently, im hoping to break out of the MS/Linux admin BA COmp Sec gets me desk job managing 50 computers kinda job and get myself a place in that 20 thousand new mainframe techs IBM want. I love the big iron.
COngratulations on not realisng that the fundamental properties of a laser do not make any kind of modulation viable.
"Complex" Modulation (eg FM, Spread Spectrum, OFDM) requires the ability to work with multiple frequencies, a laser, by the very physical nature of its design and fundamental principles is not capable of this. It is designed to produce a Monochromatic pulse of coherent photons (thats a bunch of photons of the same frequency and all in the same phase) you cannot "modulate" a laser. Im aware there are highly advanced things on lasers that can do multiple frequencies and so on but generaly each pulse is monchromatic, and the problems of index spreading over long cables mean multichromatic pulsing would be a poor form of modulation anyway ( this would be the laser equivalent of digital FM ) because the prism effect of different index of refraction would change the path length of each different frequency to an extent that over a few kilometers of cable it would begin to mess up very high speed communications down sinlge mode fibers.
basicaly. while the amount of modulation available for a radio device is fantastic, it still pales in comparison to the basic fundamental laws about how much information you can get using a signal, the "faster" the signal (frequency [ in Hz] ) the more data it can carry. and the speed of a laser common for optical fibers. is roughly a 1000 times higher frequency than a 802.11b/g network radio signal. so that means per unit time without "modulation" or fancy methods of squeezing in extra data the laser is 1000 times higher bandwith... so are those modulation techniques that good... i definatly dont think so.
Surely be google are capable of quick soloutions, but perhaps the slow "reply" is more tied up in politics than it seems, cant be easy to debate between these foreign powers as another country, let alone as a company that could be severly burned by the loss of favour by one of them
what you describe reminds me of the RMS versioning that the ODS filesystem on OpenVMS uses. But due to its closes source nature its difficult to tell wether its actualy writing a copy of the whole file or as you said, a delta of the changes. I would be interestred to know just how it was done myself.
I for one welcome our new Google Grid Overlords!
All hail Googlezon!
If some bright sparc makes a tweak that uses google searches to automaticaly track down bibliographical refferences to things i quote then ill be willing to PAY for this damn thing. so sick of shitty bibliography tools that cant handle web refferenceing, they do a fantastic job with electronic journals but the moment you want to use an ordinary website ... urgh its like the stone age again, entering everyhting by hand.
While a certain degree of mistrust is good. i belive that the level of mistrust in the present enviroment is beginning to erode society, Its just wonderful to see my post labeled flamebait when i was making a valid point. Why should you trust someone that doesnt trust you at all. You shouldnt, their distrust of you is a sign of unfamiliarity and a basic clue that they do not know you well enough to be someoene to trust.
Its not "america bashing" or whatever you want to call it. its a legitimate problem that is becoming worse with things like the HDCP crap being implemented because large international "root bodies" dont trust anyone. "EVERYONES A THEIF!!!"... a little suspicion is healthy, paranoia and FUD arent.
Anyway. back to my rolling along in life and trying to avoidng having people think i look suspicious in public...
Bet its most fun on Revoloution where you can stab back at the evil undead/freak/evil/whatever hordes!
And the way RE4 looked on GCN had me blown away after getting fed up with the "lame" static rendering and light effect overlays that left the other games feeling like you were always inside something that wasnt dark and evil... but burnt and then poorly hosed down.
which is why some day i want to take a cubic meter of intel cpus and then fry them from the inside with some high powered tesla coil / Explosively Pumped Flux Compression Generator hybrid/combination.
Im hoping some of the pins melt!
"Clustering provides you with Fault Tollerant OS/Applications. A single server with tons of redundant bits, doesn't help you if the OS or Applications that it servers get borked. "
COuldnt be more true. but while "If we were running this on one mammoth server with lots of redundant bits, then 100% of our web service capacity would be down in the interim. But since we run a pool of ten http servers under keepalived/IPVS, we only lose 10% of our capacity during that time.
" is a method of solving the problem. Perhaps you chose the wrong software? or are people so entrenched in the idea that MS and Linux and Mac OS X ( and BSD and Solaris for the especialy informed) are the only available oses that they forget that big heavy ass multiply redundant machines are usualy capable of running oses with licences that can cost more than your average home PC per cpu you have in your server or other extremely reliable OSes.
OpenVMS on AlphaServers represents the primary example of a Redundant "single machine" HA system. While also coincidentaly being a fantastic Clustering soloution (equal or better than whats available presently) with redundat process and data mirroring and disaster tollerant geographicaly spread clustering and with the entire system built around the principle that if your machine is down for a minute you didnt schedule as downtime, then your loosing a LOT of money.
VMS practicaly "invented" clustering in computing when it first used it, so its got a lot of past proof as a reliable system.
the world uptime record is still held by a British Rail, Vax running VMS, something close to 15 years without downtime. if thats not HA then what is?
ill give you that but i still win on the math !
Old guard indeed, excelent way to put it. And its right.
:O there are less gamecube games, so that means the ratio of good games to mediocer and worse games it better. Better gaming quality!
For a start stop it with the game company makes good and bad games rhetoric, its obvious. but the ratios are the true signs, I see the same number of "amazing" games on the PS2 and Xbox as i see on the Gamecube and
And the crap about "Playing Double Dash rather than Burnout Revenge or Gran Turismo 4 (yes, both franchises - but franchises which have developed) does not make you a better person or a better gamer. It makes you a guillible twat." is void, Im sorry, playing EITHER makes you a gullible twat. All of them are rehash cruft, with nintendos Double Dash being the more quality title, it had an original aspect to it.
oh and for the whole "return to gameplay" being fud and smoke. Right, im sure they do... they arent trying to push all gameplay to that niche, what they want to do is to spread their niche, theyve realised that with Sony and MS doing the same thing as PC gaming is but on a 5 year (or shorter) cycle theyre just going to be making sequels and sporadic successes, mostly stemming from other companies efforts. Theyre aiming for people to PLAY their games not brag about owning them. Theyre making inovative design choises, careful technological ones too, designed to keep things prices down, and still deliver high quality gaming.
It boils down to this. Do you care if they go from games that look like RE4 does (on the gamecube, its fantastic) to games where theres so much proccessing power they can animate every freaking hair and folicle but the damn game still looks the same since ray trace rendering cant be made photorealistic in hardware and most game developers do not have the damn skill to push their code to the level of proffessional 3d graphics software that CAN render photorealistic effects through the use of high quality layering and light filtering effects.
Brought it to the masses? oooooh right you mean SPAMED it.
As for making it easy. Im sorry i have some understanding that Nintendo have made it realy easy. Its called Wireless. Theyve already done it. Their partnering with companies to do it in public places, and their also making better looking consoles.
Ill probably buy a PS3 and an Xbox 360 and you know what, theyll both wind up running linux within a week of opening the box, to me those arent game consoles, their HTPCs with game, might even see if some smart bugger codes a Xen/Virtualised Emulation layer for them so i can play the games without having to turn off linux on them since its more fun than most PS games and XBox ones.
back to the point, does automaticaly playing against your neighbours wirelessly, your gameboy wirelessly playing with other peoples gameboys, and your gameboy working as a wirelss controller for the console automaticaly with the ability to download "games" to it. weellll im not gonna be going far for my gaming, MMmmm retro games and Retro Studios games... great combo.
hrm i just realised. Sony owns a big fat international Content distribuiton network, including TV shows if im not mistaken... Oh can anyone say conflict of interest! or vote buying!
Or even WHy the hell do i care about an EMMY... if anything i think it makes everything but the atari look even more pathetic that their getting given petty little statuets for things that have NOTHING to do with what the awards are for (realy... if it was so related then why wasnt this given out 5 years ago?)
of course he does freelance.
He discovered long ago the profitable nature of the "oh if you dont want my help anymore" line when you have A: all the power! and B: own their souls.
Its not realy surprising. I mean how else can he consult for MCI, Exxon, Microsoft, Blizzard, and still find the time for the personal touches like buying and selling the souls of the little people.
They made the ps1 purely to try and stab back at Nintendo who actualy did half if not a little more of the initial design and work on the PS1. it was originaly a partnership, with nintendo getting sony in for the CD drive technology, then when nintendo pulled back from the project sony took everything and went... "why the hell not" and made a console of their own...
:/
Im not sure who this makes me more annoyed with... Sony, for never giving any credit for getting helped into the industry and now happily spamming the industry with : "" games that realy only sell cause of bargain bins, hype marketing, and people with no intent to play the game more than a few times who dont care about the games they by at all as long as they have "tons of great games" to go with their "awesome ps"....
Or nintendo for creating their own worst enemy... hrm
where can i get one of those 4 gig flash memory cards... or the uber tiny hard drives.... ive sudenly got a crazy idea to make a gameboy cartridge mp3 player that uses the gameboy display and controls. but uses its own audio since the old gameboys had low low quality audio (way to low for mp3 to sound any good at all no matter how you tried)
:)
:P lemme know.
something like that an old gameboy pocket... now thats cool
if anyone makes one inspired by this
i for one would happily be an annoying asshole for the procurement of an item such as an ipod or a plasma tv, but unfortunalty their assholes reward program is only active in the United states.... hrm... mabey thats a good thing...
damn it i want a free ipod... screw you non global marketing... what about the rest of the planet... we want free things too!
Bah if anything the diet of rehashed US tv we get down here in Australia (unless you like the ABC [ australias equivalent of PBS ] which has lots of BBC on it... urgh not another slow dull british cop show ) makes us more American than British so there :P
The only OS i know with "near-flawless" security is openVMS and if you chose to call it dead so be it but think about what other OS yould rather trust your Bank/insurance or your Hospital to run? Not only is it "unhackable" (dont believe me? google for "OpenVMS unhackable Defcon 9" and youll find the reports) its also the most reliable.
.. but by engineers.
:P )
Who says the best software comes from open source never had software built not by "programers"
(dont pervert that quote with the phrase software engineer
the implication that its 100% fatal is over simplified and only regards one decompression scenario. Id have to admit, i dont see many scenarios that have any way to survive if the plane in mid flight loses cabin pressure AND AS A CONSEQUENCE (this is the bit that implies the 100%) the crew are rendered unconcious.
sure the plane will keep airborne. till it runs out of fuel and falls from the sky. Since the idea is that the autopilot is going to keep the plane at the set altituded where the passengers and crew is NOT going to regain conciousness once they are unconcious
yes its wonderful when they do things like this isnt it. Removing the manufacturer redundancy, removing physical redundancy.
.. vs the lives off all the people on the plane... id never want to be the one making that decision.
All to save a little weight... how much weight is this total... mabey 100 kilos?
2 less passengers