Of course there's that competitor to Nintendo with the 120Hz webcam for its system, but I'm sure that doesn't count since its not hackable yet for this type of use.
Note that its "capable of capturing standard video with frame rates of 60 hertz at a 640x480 pixel resolution, and 120 hertz at 320x240 pixels" (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_Eye).
People who have discovered a personal life-changing belief system of any form should be expected to share it with you. How many Linux users here started preaching the gospel of Linux to everyone they met after finding their computing salvation in it?
If you get offended by people simply telling you about their beliefs, you have a problem with your ability to process raw data. Upgrade your yacc or gerp so you can grok their news better. (Sorry, that's supposed to be funny).
I believe that people who can't handle hearing about others' beliefs are a tad unstable in their own. Try objectively listening sometime and then tell them they sound stupid, it works much better than being annoyed.
SELinux (enabled by default on Fedora and others) greatly decreases the possibilities of something stupid like this happening. Now if only we didn't continually tell users to "make, sudo make install" everything and actually used signed packages. Why? How trivial is it to get a user to do a "sudo make install" on a Makefile that embeds a rootkit?
Reminds me of calling my ISP and asking them to unfirewall port 25 in/outbound to/from my IP block because I was running my own mail server. Their network tech did a quick "do you actually know what you're doing" quiz (lol) and we agreed on simple firewall parameters we could both agree on. I don't mind ISPs filtering, I just want to be told about it and be allowed to have a different service for myself.
Dude, you're full of it. If someone at Comcast believes that, they're an idiot.
That's all there is to it.
Cogeco cable up here in Canada handles file sharing loads just fine, the problem is overselling of bandwidth and 24hr bandwidth users.
What high speed Internet providers/should/ be doing is splitting packages between burst and dedicated speeds more clearly for consumers. "Guaranteed* 1Mbit, burst to 15Mbit" is what they want you to buy, so that's what they should call it, not just 15Mbit (max) or whatever and then actually show pricing for consumer dedicated connections as well.
Amen to that. djbdns is a lifesaver and daemontools is very well written and functional too. The fact that I've had E-mail arguments with him that feel like wrestling a mountain lion with your bare hands aside, his software is very functional.
The old "sticks and stones" rhyme is crap and always was, sorry to inform you. Words are much more damaging to most people in the long term than sticks or stones. Most people would rather get a punch in the arm than be called fat, or ugly, or be accused of being a rapist of small children in your example.
I don't know where some people get off believing their right to anonymous speech exists at all, especially in other countries as I'm betting most complainants here are western european or american.
Even though you may have a right to anonymous voting or other anonymous dealings/with government/, you'll have a hard time finding that right in law with respect to your dealings with fellow citizens. Also note, slander is slander and libel is libel, 'sticks and stones' is not a valid legal defense, anonymous or not.
The reason it shows executables as paged is because that's how Windows has always worked -- instead of swapping out an executable's image, it just uses the original on-disk DLL/EXE file instead. This causes minor issues for swapping apps that self-modify in memory of course (and I have no idea how they solve it), but did reduce page file requirements back when disks were small. It also means you can't replace the on-disk image of an executable while its in-use however.
The xbox division's profits include game sales and licensing as well as peripheral hardware sales, not just units sold. The profit is impressive (since its the first time EVER in xbox history), but it doesn't mean the hardware itself is profitable on its own yet.
I hate to go against the grain here, but ISPs also sell 10Mbit dedicated feeds -- read the fine print -- a regular high speed link is rated in peak throughput, not average or minimum. The ISP doesn't have to guarantee you any level of service, but you can pay for an SLA if you want. If you need or want to pay for a dedicated high speed link, call your ISP and tell them, and they'll give you an appropriate pricing scheme.
Honestly, I don't care if you want to saturate your $40/mo home bandwidth every second of the day, I do too, but when it doesn't work out that way, I consider how much money I'm saving by having a regular link instead of paying for dedicated.
Good reply -- personally I'm worried about Burnout Paradise because as much as I loved the previous games, I don't want to play a version that just resembles Need for Speed for no reason. Driving around looking for events is not "fun"... playing the events is. Oh well.
I couldn't get online for hours last night with COD4 either, quite annoying. I'd just finished beating the single player campaign and as I browsed through the levels (other than the unlocked airplane one), they all looked boring to replay.
Oh well.
Personally I've been toying with a local floating point coordinate system based on tiles, but I haven't optimized it well enough for my taste yet. Wurm online does something similar for long distance rendering of the world.
I don't close my browser because the things I was working on today I'll probably be working on tomorrow again. I leave my browser on at work, and lock my screen and leave for the night, then come back and continue the next day where I left off. I leave Evolution running, Kopete running, and many other apps, but Firefox is the one that drags my system into the dirt with its memory consumption habits.
Leap seconds are seconds of inaccuracy that get corrected every several years in UTC time systems.
Leap years are entire days we add to the calendar once every four years to let us have calendar years made up of regular numbers of 24 hour days 3/4 of the time.
Daylight savings time is a totally unrelated issue where we change what our local clocks say. UTC is completely unaffected as it ignores local time entirely.
Computers/should/ all be tracking time in UTC time and then doing local timezone corrections (Linux does this by default, for example) in which case a file timestamped after another was always actually created after that previous file. There are otherwise weirdnesses that show up in tracking "beforeness" and "afterness" on computers when time changes occur.
Millions of people who browse two or three pages, then close their browser have no problems.
Those of us who leave Firefox running for days at a time have problems. Firefox consumes GIGABYTES of memory in short order for me, and yes, I see this as a major programming fault.
You can't improve on Super Mario. Well, not in sales at least. You realize Super Mario sold more copies than next gen consoles have sold games combined in the entire year? Yeah, I'm guessing, but considering it sold over 40 million copies (yeah, just Super Mario Bros.), I'm pretty sure I'm close.
If you liked the old Ratchet & Clank games, the new R&C:F is more of the same beautifully explosive mayhem with a fun plot and entertaining characters. Maybe you also didn't like Halo 3 because it was just like Halo 1 and 2?
Attachment rate is a big deal though. Nintendo only profits so much from selling 3 games with each system. What they need is to engage those soccer moms with game after game they want to buy. If they're perfectly happy with Guitar Hero and Wii Sports for the next 3 years, Nintendo loses out big time.
Okay, I'll bite, besides the input method (power gloves, light pens, etc. have been around a long time), what's so innovative about Wii games in general?
Very few games are innovative. Super Monkey Ball was innovative for example, but Super Mario was essentially the same concept as lode runner if you think about it. Qbert may quality as innovative. The first light-gun game (duck hunt?) may have been innovative.
I don't expect innovative games, I expect long-term fun and engaging games. When I bought Ratchet & Clank: Future, I didn't want to put it down until I'd beaten it. Its loads of fun and the storyline is engaging and entertaining. Is jumping around shooting things innovative? of course not. Is it a helluva lot of fun? Yes.
The Wii has fun games. The PS3 has fun games. The 360 has fun games. The PC has fun games. Pick your poison.
I think the implication here is that they failed to realize the people they were taking to court were also their customers. There's often a disconnect in the mind of business (created by those who stand to profit like lawyers) between one's customers and those who do things one may not like.
Another example that comes to mind would be loitering laws at malls (as teenagers who loiter often have the highest disposable incomes to spend, and those who complain are often the ones tight in the wallet).
Warner may have believed they were suing "bad people" and providing music at the same time on CD for "good people" and have finally realized (possibly as a result of recent studies) that they've in fact been alienating their customer base.
Yes yes, we all knew this already, but its also quite obvious to me that most executives thought the loud "we" who hate these lawsuits were also not customers of theirs and therefore irrelevant. I've had personal discussions about this with people who work for record companies (some related, some not) and they often have a strange view of my perspective as somehow only existing within the "pirate" world and don't see it as pervasive amongst their customer base.
It would be especially easy with a number of online poker systems to use an emulation layer like Qemu to get a virtual machine running the original game and then "observe and interact" with it automatically. I'm betting its not that hard to make card recognition software:)
(how long until captchas are included to show the contents of your hand?)
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Of course there's that competitor to Nintendo with the 120Hz webcam for its system, but I'm sure that doesn't count since its not hackable yet for this type of use.
Note that its "capable of capturing standard video with frame rates of 60 hertz at a 640x480 pixel resolution, and 120 hertz at 320x240 pixels" (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_Eye).
Read up on the black bag head position tracking systems for helicopters.
These things already exist for military application, but its still neat to do it at home.
People who have discovered a personal life-changing belief system of any form should be expected to share it with you. How many Linux users here started preaching the gospel of Linux to everyone they met after finding their computing salvation in it?
If you get offended by people simply telling you about their beliefs, you have a problem with your ability to process raw data. Upgrade your yacc or gerp so you can grok their news better. (Sorry, that's supposed to be funny).
I believe that people who can't handle hearing about others' beliefs are a tad unstable in their own. Try objectively listening sometime and then tell them they sound stupid, it works much better than being annoyed.
PS read my profile.
SELinux (enabled by default on Fedora and others) greatly decreases the possibilities of something stupid like this happening. Now if only we didn't continually tell users to "make, sudo make install" everything and actually used signed packages. Why? How trivial is it to get a user to do a "sudo make install" on a Makefile that embeds a rootkit?
Reminds me of calling my ISP and asking them to unfirewall port 25 in/outbound to/from my IP block because I was running my own mail server. Their network tech did a quick "do you actually know what you're doing" quiz (lol) and we agreed on simple firewall parameters we could both agree on. I don't mind ISPs filtering, I just want to be told about it and be allowed to have a different service for myself.
Dude, you're full of it. If someone at Comcast believes that, they're an idiot.
/should/ be doing is splitting packages between burst and dedicated speeds more clearly for consumers. "Guaranteed* 1Mbit, burst to 15Mbit" is what they want you to buy, so that's what they should call it, not just 15Mbit (max) or whatever and then actually show pricing for consumer dedicated connections as well.
That's all there is to it.
Cogeco cable up here in Canada handles file sharing loads just fine, the problem is overselling of bandwidth and 24hr bandwidth users.
What high speed Internet providers
Amen to that. djbdns is a lifesaver and daemontools is very well written and functional too. The fact that I've had E-mail arguments with him that feel like wrestling a mountain lion with your bare hands aside, his software is very functional.
The old "sticks and stones" rhyme is crap and always was, sorry to inform you. Words are much more damaging to most people in the long term than sticks or stones. Most people would rather get a punch in the arm than be called fat, or ugly, or be accused of being a rapist of small children in your example.
/with government/, you'll have a hard time finding that right in law with respect to your dealings with fellow citizens. Also note, slander is slander and libel is libel, 'sticks and stones' is not a valid legal defense, anonymous or not.
I don't know where some people get off believing their right to anonymous speech exists at all, especially in other countries as I'm betting most complainants here are western european or american.
Even though you may have a right to anonymous voting or other anonymous dealings
The reason it shows executables as paged is because that's how Windows has always worked -- instead of swapping out an executable's image, it just uses the original on-disk DLL/EXE file instead. This causes minor issues for swapping apps that self-modify in memory of course (and I have no idea how they solve it), but did reduce page file requirements back when disks were small. It also means you can't replace the on-disk image of an executable while its in-use however.
The xbox division's profits include game sales and licensing as well as peripheral hardware sales, not just units sold. The profit is impressive (since its the first time EVER in xbox history), but it doesn't mean the hardware itself is profitable on its own yet.
I hate to go against the grain here, but ISPs also sell 10Mbit dedicated feeds -- read the fine print -- a regular high speed link is rated in peak throughput, not average or minimum. The ISP doesn't have to guarantee you any level of service, but you can pay for an SLA if you want. If you need or want to pay for a dedicated high speed link, call your ISP and tell them, and they'll give you an appropriate pricing scheme.
Honestly, I don't care if you want to saturate your $40/mo home bandwidth every second of the day, I do too, but when it doesn't work out that way, I consider how much money I'm saving by having a regular link instead of paying for dedicated.
Good reply -- personally I'm worried about Burnout Paradise because as much as I loved the previous games, I don't want to play a version that just resembles Need for Speed for no reason. Driving around looking for events is not "fun" ... playing the events is. Oh well.
I couldn't get online for hours last night with COD4 either, quite annoying. I'd just finished beating the single player campaign and as I browsed through the levels (other than the unlocked airplane one), they all looked boring to replay.
Oh well.
Personally I've been toying with a local floating point coordinate system based on tiles, but I haven't optimized it well enough for my taste yet. Wurm online does something similar for long distance rendering of the world.
Because people like to have a sense of accomplishment, as well as being able to compare with friends.
... they have items and character levels instead.
Why do books have chapters for that matter?
Why do roads have names?
Why do we name the stars or planets?
Order helps us keep things straight. Levels are a form of order. Worlds are another (like Super Mario) and so on.
Sure, MMORPGs don't need "levels"
Thank-you :-)
I don't close my browser because the things I was working on today I'll probably be working on tomorrow again. I leave my browser on at work, and lock my screen and leave for the night, then come back and continue the next day where I left off. I leave Evolution running, Kopete running, and many other apps, but Firefox is the one that drags my system into the dirt with its memory consumption habits.
Leap seconds are seconds of inaccuracy that get corrected every several years in UTC time systems.
/should/ all be tracking time in UTC time and then doing local timezone corrections (Linux does this by default, for example) in which case a file timestamped after another was always actually created after that previous file. There are otherwise weirdnesses that show up in tracking "beforeness" and "afterness" on computers when time changes occur.
Leap years are entire days we add to the calendar once every four years to let us have calendar years made up of regular numbers of 24 hour days 3/4 of the time.
Daylight savings time is a totally unrelated issue where we change what our local clocks say. UTC is completely unaffected as it ignores local time entirely.
Computers
Millions of people who browse two or three pages, then close their browser have no problems.
Those of us who leave Firefox running for days at a time have problems. Firefox consumes GIGABYTES of memory in short order for me, and yes, I see this as a major programming fault.
You can't improve on Super Mario. Well, not in sales at least. You realize Super Mario sold more copies than next gen consoles have sold games combined in the entire year? Yeah, I'm guessing, but considering it sold over 40 million copies (yeah, just Super Mario Bros.), I'm pretty sure I'm close.
If you liked the old Ratchet & Clank games, the new R&C:F is more of the same beautifully explosive mayhem with a fun plot and entertaining characters. Maybe you also didn't like Halo 3 because it was just like Halo 1 and 2?
Attachment rate is a big deal though. Nintendo only profits so much from selling 3 games with each system. What they need is to engage those soccer moms with game after game they want to buy. If they're perfectly happy with Guitar Hero and Wii Sports for the next 3 years, Nintendo loses out big time.
Okay, I'll bite, besides the input method (power gloves, light pens, etc. have been around a long time), what's so innovative about Wii games in general?
Very few games are innovative. Super Monkey Ball was innovative for example, but Super Mario was essentially the same concept as lode runner if you think about it. Qbert may quality as innovative. The first light-gun game (duck hunt?) may have been innovative.
I don't expect innovative games, I expect long-term fun and engaging games. When I bought Ratchet & Clank: Future, I didn't want to put it down until I'd beaten it. Its loads of fun and the storyline is engaging and entertaining. Is jumping around shooting things innovative? of course not. Is it a helluva lot of fun? Yes.
The Wii has fun games. The PS3 has fun games. The 360 has fun games. The PC has fun games. Pick your poison.
As another poster said, you obviously need to brush up on what irony means.
I think the implication here is that they failed to realize the people they were taking to court were also their customers. There's often a disconnect in the mind of business (created by those who stand to profit like lawyers) between one's customers and those who do things one may not like.
Another example that comes to mind would be loitering laws at malls (as teenagers who loiter often have the highest disposable incomes to spend, and those who complain are often the ones tight in the wallet).
Warner may have believed they were suing "bad people" and providing music at the same time on CD for "good people" and have finally realized (possibly as a result of recent studies) that they've in fact been alienating their customer base.
Yes yes, we all knew this already, but its also quite obvious to me that most executives thought the loud "we" who hate these lawsuits were also not customers of theirs and therefore irrelevant. I've had personal discussions about this with people who work for record companies (some related, some not) and they often have a strange view of my perspective as somehow only existing within the "pirate" world and don't see it as pervasive amongst their customer base.
Hopefully that's changing.
It would be especially easy with a number of online poker systems to use an emulation layer like Qemu to get a virtual machine running the original game and then "observe and interact" with it automatically. I'm betting its not that hard to make card recognition software :)
(how long until captchas are included to show the contents of your hand?)
Feels ... massive ... space-time ... rift ... opening! :o
;-)
That can't be possible