I don't think it makes any difference. I always send them back with the barcode visible but the way you have to insert it is so unnatural that I doubt you are suppose to worry about it.
To insert it with the barcode visible you have to put the disc in with the label facing away from you which is probably not the way you normally hold it since you need the label facing you to read the movie title. And if you insert from the left not only is the label facing away but you have to put the disc in upside down where it can fall out of the sleeve.
Unlike Xen or VMware this OpenVZ doesn't run a separate kernel for each virtual machine. This seems like a security risk to me. A kernel bug will affect all the running virtual machines. In other words, you only need to break one kernel and you have them all.
Plus you can't run different operating systems on each virtual machine.
It does have some positive benefits, it all really depends on what you are doing. I like the security of Xen and VMware better though.
I think you got the jist of it correct. I also think there is a general lack of games for the older guys though. Like you mentioned, too many of the games take too much time and there is a general lack of high quality but quick to play games.
I'm in my 30's. DDR is about the only game I have fun with any more. It's quick and your skill progresses over time. I do play the classic arcade games because they're quick and fun but the fact that you have to start over every time you play is a bit too repetitive and doesn't provide any sort of feel of accomplishment.
I used to really enjoy games like Quake3 (again, quick to play and you get better the more you play) and I still play some UT2004 but those games are all but dead nowadays. They have given way to the incredibly boring "realistic" type games like Counter-Strike and to the time sucking black holes known as MMORPG's, neither of which are appealing to me.
There was an American mobster a few years ago who did something using PGP, and the only way the FBI were able to crack it was to bug his keyboard
Well we don't know if that's the only way they had of breaking it. It was probably one of the easiest though. Often the weakest part of any cryto algorithm isn't the algorithm. It's cheaper and faster to go for the soft targets first.
Yeah but you have to add an expensive drive controller to get decent disk performance. Those SiI3114 chipsets suck.
The Intel disk chipsets on the other hand are extremely good as far as built-in chipsets go. The only competitor would be one of the nVidia chipset boards but all of those have caused me nothing but trouble.
I think we could all see this coming. The Prescott Pentium 4's were never that great compared to the competition. They sucked tons of power, were hotter than hell, and the performance really wasn't all that great compared to the competition.
The Pentium M on the other hand had a much better core design. It just lacked the connectivity of the Pentium 4 because it used socket 478 and similar older technologies. These new Core Duo's are the logical extension to the already good Pentium M line. I wish Intel would just kill all those Prescott processors already.
I have been waiting many years to dump my Opteron machine for an Intel based version. I love the Opteron processors but you just can't get a decent motherboard for them. Hopefully in the near future I can switch to one of these newer Intel procs.
Why doesn't someone make a game like this for piano/keyboard playing?
You know, hook up a MIDI keyboard and go to town. That would be an awesome teaching tool because you learn on the real thing. Much more fun than learning to play the traditional way because it's really boring when you are just starting playing any instrument (which generally lasts many months if not years).
A high tech Guitar Hero would be nice too. I mean something that uses a real (electric) guitar and determines how you are playing by sound and/or the pickups.
Interesting progression anyway. We have tons of movies that sensationalize ideas like this so it's natural to make it more interactive I guess.
There are also tons of movies that show what can happen when we have absolute freedom. Look at how much uncivilized crap gets posted on places like Slashdot and it just gets worse the more anonymous it becomes (eg. Freenet). Indulging in this type of play can't be good for the mind. I feel sick just watching that video for the game.
The problem is that opens up a huge can of worms. What do you do about monopolies? You know, the 10 year old kid with way too much time on his hands that controls 90% of the money flow.
This provides a situation where certain game players can have a massive influence on the entire game world. That would not a good thing but now the game you just bought is being run by some unknown random people on the network that can do whatever they want.
There are surely ways to balance this but it ain't gonna be easy.
I find that generally if you install Windows first, then it works out of the box. It's Windows that is the unfriendly one about overwriting boot sectors changing partitions and screwing around with things it shouldn't (although this probably makes it easier if all you want to run is Windows).
I also never put my (multi)bootloader on the master boot record because Windows kills that any time you do an install. It's better to put it on another partition and then set that partition to be bootable.
KNOPPIX CD's and similar are a great help for fixing a dorked up install.
Why don't they fix the game instead of banning these "cheaters"?
Now I don't play WoW or any MMORPG but I have played Quake and UT online and these are generally fixed with tools that help prevent cheating rather than just outright banning of everyone. I don't have a problem banning true cheaters but who says who is cheating and what constitutes "cheating" versus friendly taking advantage of the system. Seems like too many innocents or people just playing around could get banned. I mean mistakes can be made, there are no laws governing this, you're just gone. This is actually part of the reason why I don't play MMORPG's, I don't want to possibly waste money on something I can't control.
I don't know about drivers and stuff but currently getting things like a CSP signed by Microsoft is free.
I have always assumed the certification process for drivers is similar. As long as you meet the requirements anyone can get a driver signed. I mean even now drivers have to be signed by Microsoft or it will pop up a dialog about unsigned drivers or whatever. If it doesn't do that when you install your HP printer driver that means HP had to get it signed by Microsoft.
Well, that is why I said "Yes and no". Maybe other people don't understand the relationship. "Logorithmic scale" provides a certain clarity in meaning. Yeah, that's it.
Instead of running Windows 2000, "I'd be racing to run the beta of the next generation of operating system... and not worry about legacy stuff that we know isn't going to be supported too much longer and has had issues."
Or how about this: Run a secure operating system that is stable and still maintained. Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, anything other than Windows. No forced upgrade required since many of the old Linux distros are still maintained.
I mean it's Microsoft forcing them to upgrade even though Windows 2000 is still a perfectly fine OS.
It's how we're wired to see the world, in terms of percentage differences.
Yes and no, generally speaking human senses work on a logorithmic scale.
Think about how sound loudness is measured. The decibel scale is logorithmic, as the sound gets louder it requires much more force to produce a result we can physically tell is "louder". Same for the other senses.
It's not rushing if you work off a small core (see OpenBSD). I would rather have a really stable up-to-date system than 1000's of packages I don't use.
They just can't make everything work stable when there are thousands upon thousands of packages, that's why it takes so long to release anything. In the meantime we're stuck with either an incredibly outdated system or running the unstable branch that changes way too often and sometimes breaks (not good for servers or media boxes and similar).
They should remove 99% of the packages from the core distribution and go with a simple small set of base packages for each release. Then switch to a 6 month release schedule like many other projects are using. All those other packages can go into an "extra" repository or something.
I think even Ubuntu tries to put too many packages in the base release. They should take a hint from the BSD distros which use this method with the base install and ports. Hell, Windows uses the same method. After installing Windows there isn't much functionality other than the OS, you can then install whatever applications you want. Note I'm not advocating a ports-like source "build it yourself" thing, I'm just saying that 99% of the packages that are currently in a Debian release don't need to be part of the core.
Obviously someone who didn't go through the American education system. The whole system is like that and I hated school because of it. 13 years of boring busy work. I distinctly remember my first experience with school (preschool) and how incredibly moronic I thought it was for us to sit around and cut pictures out of a magazine that related to some topic. The whole time I was thinking "What, do they think we are stupid?" I was 5 or 6 years old at the time and it was a harbinger of things to come...
Much more likely that Apple will start selling hardware to run Windows. It will be marketed as a "high-end" Windows platform that is certified and all that jazz. The drivers and everything will be tested (or written) by Apple just like they do now for OS X so they system will function as a cohesive unit much like OS X + Apple hardware does now.
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I don't think it makes any difference. I always send them back with the barcode visible but the way you have to insert it is so unnatural that I doubt you are suppose to worry about it.
To insert it with the barcode visible you have to put the disc in with the label facing away from you which is probably not the way you normally hold it since you need the label facing you to read the movie title. And if you insert from the left not only is the label facing away but you have to put the disc in upside down where it can fall out of the sleeve.
for lightness and performance. At least as far as scripting languages go. I can't say I'm a fan of Java but if you insist:
There is Java/Lua integration in the form of JLua and LuaJava. Possibly other tools as well.
Unlike Xen or VMware this OpenVZ doesn't run a separate kernel for each virtual machine. This seems like a security risk to me. A kernel bug will affect all the running virtual machines. In other words, you only need to break one kernel and you have them all.
Plus you can't run different operating systems on each virtual machine.
It does have some positive benefits, it all really depends on what you are doing. I like the security of Xen and VMware better though.
I think you got the jist of it correct. I also think there is a general lack of games for the older guys though. Like you mentioned, too many of the games take too much time and there is a general lack of high quality but quick to play games.
I'm in my 30's. DDR is about the only game I have fun with any more. It's quick and your skill progresses over time. I do play the classic arcade games because they're quick and fun but the fact that you have to start over every time you play is a bit too repetitive and doesn't provide any sort of feel of accomplishment.
I used to really enjoy games like Quake3 (again, quick to play and you get better the more you play) and I still play some UT2004 but those games are all but dead nowadays. They have given way to the incredibly boring "realistic" type games like Counter-Strike and to the time sucking black holes known as MMORPG's, neither of which are appealing to me.
There was an American mobster a few years ago who did something using PGP, and the only way the FBI were able to crack it was to bug his keyboard
Well we don't know if that's the only way they had of breaking it. It was probably one of the easiest though. Often the weakest part of any cryto algorithm isn't the algorithm. It's cheaper and faster to go for the soft targets first.
Yeah but you have to add an expensive drive controller to get decent disk performance. Those SiI3114 chipsets suck.
The Intel disk chipsets on the other hand are extremely good as far as built-in chipsets go. The only competitor would be one of the nVidia chipset boards but all of those have caused me nothing but trouble.
I think we could all see this coming. The Prescott Pentium 4's were never that great compared to the competition. They sucked tons of power, were hotter than hell, and the performance really wasn't all that great compared to the competition.
The Pentium M on the other hand had a much better core design. It just lacked the connectivity of the Pentium 4 because it used socket 478 and similar older technologies. These new Core Duo's are the logical extension to the already good Pentium M line. I wish Intel would just kill all those Prescott processors already.
I have been waiting many years to dump my Opteron machine for an Intel based version. I love the Opteron processors but you just can't get a decent motherboard for them. Hopefully in the near future I can switch to one of these newer Intel procs.
Why doesn't someone make a game like this for piano/keyboard playing?
You know, hook up a MIDI keyboard and go to town. That would be an awesome teaching tool because you learn on the real thing. Much more fun than learning to play the traditional way because it's really boring when you are just starting playing any instrument (which generally lasts many months if not years).
A high tech Guitar Hero would be nice too. I mean something that uses a real (electric) guitar and determines how you are playing by sound and/or the pickups.
Interesting progression anyway. We have tons of movies that sensationalize ideas like this so it's natural to make it more interactive I guess.
There are also tons of movies that show what can happen when we have absolute freedom. Look at how much uncivilized crap gets posted on places like Slashdot and it just gets worse the more anonymous it becomes (eg. Freenet). Indulging in this type of play can't be good for the mind. I feel sick just watching that video for the game.
What the hell kind of patent is that?
What kinds of patents does TiVo actually have? Are things like MythTV at risk?
I have been considering writing my own Myth-like software. I would hate to get it shut down because of some stupid GUI patent or something.
The problem is that opens up a huge can of worms. What do you do about monopolies? You know, the 10 year old kid with way too much time on his hands that controls 90% of the money flow.
This provides a situation where certain game players can have a massive influence on the entire game world. That would not a good thing but now the game you just bought is being run by some unknown random people on the network that can do whatever they want.
There are surely ways to balance this but it ain't gonna be easy.
I find that generally if you install Windows first, then it works out of the box. It's Windows that is the unfriendly one about overwriting boot sectors changing partitions and screwing around with things it shouldn't (although this probably makes it easier if all you want to run is Windows).
I also never put my (multi)bootloader on the master boot record because Windows kills that any time you do an install. It's better to put it on another partition and then set that partition to be bootable.
KNOPPIX CD's and similar are a great help for fixing a dorked up install.
Why don't they fix the game instead of banning these "cheaters"?
Now I don't play WoW or any MMORPG but I have played Quake and UT online and these are generally fixed with tools that help prevent cheating rather than just outright banning of everyone. I don't have a problem banning true cheaters but who says who is cheating and what constitutes "cheating" versus friendly taking advantage of the system. Seems like too many innocents or people just playing around could get banned. I mean mistakes can be made, there are no laws governing this, you're just gone. This is actually part of the reason why I don't play MMORPG's, I don't want to possibly waste money on something I can't control.
I don't know about drivers and stuff but currently getting things like a CSP signed by Microsoft is free.
I have always assumed the certification process for drivers is similar. As long as you meet the requirements anyone can get a driver signed. I mean even now drivers have to be signed by Microsoft or it will pop up a dialog about unsigned drivers or whatever. If it doesn't do that when you install your HP printer driver that means HP had to get it signed by Microsoft.
Well, that is why I said "Yes and no". Maybe other people don't understand the relationship. "Logorithmic scale" provides a certain clarity in meaning. Yeah, that's it.
I don't think they ever found a way to produce it in quantity.
Bacteria on the other hand might be relatively easy to produce in vast quantities because it tends to reproduce quickly.
Try gaffer tape some time.
I reject you're (sic) reality and substitute my own. Smartypants.
Instead of running Windows 2000, "I'd be racing to run the beta of the next generation of operating system ... and not worry about legacy stuff that we know isn't going to be supported too much longer and has had issues."
Or how about this: Run a secure operating system that is stable and still maintained. Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, anything other than Windows. No forced upgrade required since many of the old Linux distros are still maintained.
I mean it's Microsoft forcing them to upgrade even though Windows 2000 is still a perfectly fine OS.
It's how we're wired to see the world, in terms of percentage differences.
Yes and no, generally speaking human senses work on a logorithmic scale.
Think about how sound loudness is measured. The decibel scale is logorithmic, as the sound gets louder it requires much more force to produce a result we can physically tell is "louder". Same for the other senses.
I never said to throw away the other packages. They would still be available.
It's not rushing if you work off a small core (see OpenBSD). I would rather have a really stable up-to-date system than 1000's of packages I don't use.
They just can't make everything work stable when there are thousands upon thousands of packages, that's why it takes so long to release anything. In the meantime we're stuck with either an incredibly outdated system or running the unstable branch that changes way too often and sometimes breaks (not good for servers or media boxes and similar).
They should remove 99% of the packages from the core distribution and go with a simple small set of base packages for each release. Then switch to a 6 month release schedule like many other projects are using. All those other packages can go into an "extra" repository or something.
I think even Ubuntu tries to put too many packages in the base release. They should take a hint from the BSD distros which use this method with the base install and ports. Hell, Windows uses the same method. After installing Windows there isn't much functionality other than the OS, you can then install whatever applications you want. Note I'm not advocating a ports-like source "build it yourself" thing, I'm just saying that 99% of the packages that are currently in a Debian release don't need to be part of the core.
Ha!
Obviously someone who didn't go through the American education system. The whole system is like that and I hated school because of it. 13 years of boring busy work. I distinctly remember my first experience with school (preschool) and how incredibly moronic I thought it was for us to sit around and cut pictures out of a magazine that related to some topic. The whole time I was thinking "What, do they think we are stupid?" I was 5 or 6 years old at the time and it was a harbinger of things to come...
Much more likely that Apple will start selling hardware to run Windows. It will be marketed as a "high-end" Windows platform that is certified and all that jazz. The drivers and everything will be tested (or written) by Apple just like they do now for OS X so they system will function as a cohesive unit much like OS X + Apple hardware does now.