This technology should be destroyed and the research should be buried. It could easily end up in Middle Eastern countries where they would use it to kill people based on the algorithm. Usually I don't support suppressing technology, but this is seriously a bad idea.
ReactOS already runs 3D Studio Max and Caligari TrueSpace. That makes it pretty useful to me already. Sure it's running in Qemu, but it already handles window management better than wine does. As it gains in compatibility It's slowly becoming a real replacement for windows in various use cases. I could see it easily replacing Windows Domain Controllers and Windows Terminal Servers in virtualised environments. No license cost, and management UI is close to Windows.
Think about it, this is the guy who invented bitcoin. He would know better than anyone that it's a deflationary currency and the longer he holds onto his pile of coins the richer he will get. Why bother selling until you're worth more than Bill Gates? The NSA probably want to unmask him to determine if he's funding terrorists/who the hell he is. I don't think they should be conducting surveillance/this sort of analysis against this particular target because the methods being used are wrong. However I can understand the interest in him. This is someone who is using up to date encryption methods. It's basically someone the NSA would be targeting anyway to try and stay ahead in electronic warfare techniques. When your entire reason for existence is to decode intelligence communication, it's a requirement you can/try to break all encryption methods available/potentially available to your adversaries.
Simple, support the sides that are lowering their population. This is really a problem with overpopulation. If you're having more than two kids, you better be living in a country with an overall birthrate below 2.0, otherwise you're just destroying the environment and making things worse for everyone.
Privateer was composed by a different team to George Sanger, Sanger was mostly involved in Wing Commander 1/2. Laura Barratt, Marc Schaefgen, and Nenad Vugrinec worked on Privateer. Each game in the series had a good soundtrack. I'd like to get the Privateer artists together to re-record the music now that technology has moved on from 1992. I have an SC-55 at home and Privateer sounds amazing on it, but I'd like to see what an orchestra/modern studio can do with it.
AROS is already adding 64-bitm SMP, and x86 support. How far along exactly does it need to go? From what I'm aware of Amiga, the way the chips interfaced with each other was where the real magic of the system was, and that's no longer relevant to how computers are designed. So you're left with a nice desktop OS which needs an overhaul it's getting to run on modern hardware, and it needs backwards compatibility emulation to run old apps, with integrated clipboard between the emulator and the x86 code. As far as I'm aware AROS has this already. Beyond that, it's yet another desktop OS which is struggling to be relevant because of the Windows game/app library it's missing. Similar to Linux, except with a smaller pool of developers. Correct me if I'm totally wrong, is anyone actually innovating software on Amiga? Not just developing on Amiga/reimplementing stuff from windows. But actually developing new technologies and concepts?
Wing Commander 1/2/3/4 Prophecy, Secret Ops, and of course Privateer. I'd like all the art assets made available so we can remaster 2,3 and Privateer in HD. The games' code is freaking useless, EA has no idea what they're doing with it. There will never be a great definitive edition of the series put on Good Old Games, just re-bundled versions of the DOS games. Open the code and let the community make proper cross platform ports and add weird features like VR support. It worked for Freespace 2 and there's a big enough Wing Commander community to make it work. EA obviously doesn't want to make a new game so why bother holding onto 27 year old sourcecode?
The only other thing I really want Open Sourced is Caligari TrueSpace. The sourcecode got leaked onto the internet in 1998 but I can't find a copy of it anywhere (.NFO files indicate it was stolen and released). Microsoft bought out Caligari in 2008 and shut it down when the GFC hit. Sure TrueSpace is freeware now, but it's buggy and could do with a lot of patches/updates.
Would this be enough documentation to enable a KVM based emulator for the PS4 to be developed? Gaming PCs would easily b powerful enough to run a PS4 game if they're executing native X86 instructions and can passthrough the GPU layer to a modern graphics card.
All I'm seeing here are arguments as to why the USA/Australia/Britain/Europe/Korea and Japan should push hard to harmonise taxation laws and pass a blanket 35% global tax on all businesses worldwide applied in all countries. This would stop tax avoidance as all nations would be expecting the same tax rate on all companies. Hard to implement sure, but not too hard to sell to the populations of most of these countries. The major powers could even use their military/diplomatic muscle to threaten/coerce it into happening.
I was diagnosed with a handwriting disability in year 12 (final year of high school). I was given a laptop to use at school. That laptop did more 3d modelling and Linux tinkering than it ever did the work assigned in Class. Ironically I now work as a network engineer and some of our clients are schools. In my opinion laptops just do not belong in schools at all and schools shouldn't have access to the internet. They should have a very tightly locked down network with 0 social media access and only access to academic materials. This is a major problem with modern schooling which needs to be addressed. Too many idiots think that kids need access to everything and that it's bad to limit what they can buy/use. Sure they filter offensive content in schools, but they won't censor the mundane/unimportant garbage that distracts from school work. Maths, Reading, Writing, these are king, nothing else will help you more in life. If I could change anything about my time in school I would get proper help with my mathematics. I have big ideas I've always wanted to pursue and I am completely hobbled by how bad my algebra/trigonometry skills are. Kids that dream of being game developers and engineers are being let down every day by distractions in classrooms and bad maths teachers. Computers don't help maths students.
What the hell were people expecting? Mobile data costs a shitload. Why would anyone stream over their portable device (aka the most convenient/commonly used device), when they can download to it and replay as often as they want and save on data usage charges.
No Treaty stopped Hitler using chemical weapons. It was the knowledge that Churchill had large enough stockpiles to gas every German in Germany multiple times over that stopped him from opening that Pandora's box.
Point Cook is a new housing estate. Most suburbs will not offer fibre for $800 or $8000. No Business number, no Fibre. I work in telecommunications in Australia. An experience where you can pay $800 and get fibre to the home is well outside the norms for internet infrastructure here. Go to Essendon and try to get the same deal. Or Maribyrnong, or South Yarra. You'll get laughed out of the building.
A couple of points here. I live in Australia and I got to watch this entire fiasco unroll before me.
1. The conservative party got elected before the main rollout of the NBN could get underway. They had one mission: Kill the NBN anyway they could. They did this because they didn't want the Labor party to have a political victory with a major project, and because it aligned with the interests of the largest cable tv network and news corporations in the nation. Cable TV in Australia is a monopoly owned by Fox. They dominate Satellite, and fixed line pay TV.
2. The NBN Fibre rollout was delayed by asbestos inside the pits which had to be cleaned/repaired before they could proceed. This delayed the rollout by probably 6-12 months as the clearance work had to occur. There was also a political deal made where rural/country areas would be rolled out first. This combined with the fact that the backhaul services had to be built first led to an impression that the network was facing major delays and was taking a long time to be built, when it was actually on time and on budget.
3. Where it was actually deployed the Fibre to the Home NBN works perfectly and I've never heard anyone in those areas complain about having a fibre link. The same is not true of the Fibre to the Node and HFC connections.
4. Australia is not as sparsely populated as people would have you believe. 90+% of Australians live in larg coastal cities like most major countries and Australia's major cities have population densities equal to or higher than Auckland in New Zealand which has Fibre to the Home available. Density/population were never an issue with a metropolitan rollout of the NBN.
5, The conservative vision for the NBN was always a complete clusterfuck. Policy made without proper planning or consulting of industry. Done at the urging of people with a vested interest in keeping the internet speeds in Australia as low as the electorate would allow. The largest ISP in Australia has been quite happily milking ADSL 1.5mbit services for the last 20 years and only implemented ADSL2+ because competitor ISPs began taking marketshare. They refused to do any upgrades or builds involving fibre, unless they were guaranteed a monopoly and the ability to charge massive prices for it.
I'll also add that because he bought investment property early, he has had his income supplemented by rental income, whereas I am paying rent each year at a cost to my finances of about $18,000. So assuming he's charging for rent what I pay for rent he's gaining a $36,000/year lead on me financially.
Money is like gravity, the more you have, the easier it is to attract more of it. The less you have, the more likely it is your money will be sucked into the gravity well of a larger amount of money belonging to someone else. Example: My cousin was given a $100,000 4% interest loan at the age of 21 from his multi millionaire father. He also was given a job after dropping out of university (his university debt was wiped by his parents), as a forklift driver (aroun $55k) in his dad's company. Within 2 years he was making commission as a salesman in same company (around $65k BUT with commission around $85k). after 10 years he has bought 3 investment properties. This is due to his starting conditions. Now my situation: I went to university and dropped out after 2 years. This left a student loan debt of $10,000. I have been working entry level jobs for the past 4 years (averaging $50k and am finally breaking into an 80k role). My dad is not as successful as his brother so I was never offered a 4% interest loan at the age of 21 like my cousin. In Australia there has been a property boom/bubble and the average price of an apartment is $350,000, and a house is pushing $750,000 nationally. As a result I own 0 property and am still struggling to save for a deposit, those who got in earlier such as my cousin have had a massive leg up. I am currently being head hunted for a well paying job, but I still don't have that extra boost of a loan no bank would issue a 21 year old with. Capital matters. The sooner you start with a sum of money the further ahead you'll get. Start with 100,000 at 21, and it's easy to get a million dollars by 35.
And yet Stallman is the crazy one? The man is a fucking prophet. Almost everything about computers he's predicted has come true including the eventual turning of computing technology and user data against democracy.
I actually use ReactOS quite regularly, mostly within KVM. I find it's a pretty good alternative to Windows. Like most open source software there's a few missing features which are holding it back from being a lot more useful, but overall it's getting better with each release and the future looks bright enough. I think if ReactOS wants more enterprise adoption they need to improve the domain login support, and add support for being an RDP Server/Client. This would allow a lot of companies to drop Windows Terminal Server installations from being used. They charge a full server license for something which is not that complex. The same is true for SAMBA and fileserver support. If ReactOS can improve it's Domain Controller functions, there's not much reason why it couldn't be used instead of Windows Server for a lot of the same tasks. Most businesses just like the ease of GUI administration, SAMBA already gets controlled via Remote Server Admin Tools so it could be a useful drop-in in those use cases whcih frees up Windows Server licenses for SQL/Application servers. Will ReactOS take off in enterprise? Maybe/probably not, but a lot of SMBs that are lazy/cheap will probably dabble with it at some point with varying degrees of success. It mostly depends on what server implementations run on it. Stuff like Filezilla server already runs. Now in terms of desktop OS, it really depends on the use case. It's not quite ready for desktop because of driver/control panel support that's missing, but it already runs older versions of 3D Studio Max, Caligari Truespace, and even Skyrim. I think it's a lot like wine in how it progresses, so at some point it will pickup a lot of functionality. What people forget is that wine has 74% of the Windows API reimplemented. That last 16% is hard but not insurmountable. IMHO there's too much focus on reverse engineering the newer parts of Windows, which is silly. The newest parts of Windows won't help bring in users. Think about it, a Windows user running current software is going to stick with Windows which works 100% for those cases. But a person who just wants their legacy tools to run, would be more open to running a windows alternative as long as their old apps are supported. By ignoring the older sections of the software stack and focusing on just the new stuff. They're always playing catch up, never getting reaching parity, and users who would switch get frustrated that their legacy tools don't work, think wine is crap and stop bothering to switch.
I've encountered this bug. The laptop will sleep the SSD and suddenly nothing in the filesystem works. It's like it's just unmounted or force disconnected and doesn't come back without a hard reboot.
Are they working on removing systemd from Stretch? Also what's the performance difference between the two? Can someone benchmark both startup systems on modern nVMe ssds on same hardware? I'd be interested in some comparisons.
Care to explain how a bunch of randoms on the internet downloading free shit is somehow the state managing the means of production? Or are you just misusing big words again?
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This technology should be destroyed and the research should be buried. It could easily end up in Middle Eastern countries where they would use it to kill people based on the algorithm. Usually I don't support suppressing technology, but this is seriously a bad idea.
Yes. Quake runs in ReactOS, Hell Skyrim runs on ReactOS.
ReactOS already runs 3D Studio Max and Caligari TrueSpace. That makes it pretty useful to me already. Sure it's running in Qemu, but it already handles window management better than wine does. As it gains in compatibility It's slowly becoming a real replacement for windows in various use cases. I could see it easily replacing Windows Domain Controllers and Windows Terminal Servers in virtualised environments. No license cost, and management UI is close to Windows.
Think about it, this is the guy who invented bitcoin. He would know better than anyone that it's a deflationary currency and the longer he holds onto his pile of coins the richer he will get. Why bother selling until you're worth more than Bill Gates? The NSA probably want to unmask him to determine if he's funding terrorists/who the hell he is. I don't think they should be conducting surveillance/this sort of analysis against this particular target because the methods being used are wrong. However I can understand the interest in him. This is someone who is using up to date encryption methods. It's basically someone the NSA would be targeting anyway to try and stay ahead in electronic warfare techniques. When your entire reason for existence is to decode intelligence communication, it's a requirement you can/try to break all encryption methods available/potentially available to your adversaries.
Thanks Slashdot! The project is now funded. We hit $15,000.00!
Simple, support the sides that are lowering their population. This is really a problem with overpopulation. If you're having more than two kids, you better be living in a country with an overall birthrate below 2.0, otherwise you're just destroying the environment and making things worse for everyone.
Privateer was composed by a different team to George Sanger, Sanger was mostly involved in Wing Commander 1/2. Laura Barratt, Marc Schaefgen, and Nenad Vugrinec worked on Privateer. Each game in the series had a good soundtrack. I'd like to get the Privateer artists together to re-record the music now that technology has moved on from 1992. I have an SC-55 at home and Privateer sounds amazing on it, but I'd like to see what an orchestra/modern studio can do with it.
AROS is already adding 64-bitm SMP, and x86 support. How far along exactly does it need to go? From what I'm aware of Amiga, the way the chips interfaced with each other was where the real magic of the system was, and that's no longer relevant to how computers are designed. So you're left with a nice desktop OS which needs an overhaul it's getting to run on modern hardware, and it needs backwards compatibility emulation to run old apps, with integrated clipboard between the emulator and the x86 code. As far as I'm aware AROS has this already. Beyond that, it's yet another desktop OS which is struggling to be relevant because of the Windows game/app library it's missing. Similar to Linux, except with a smaller pool of developers. Correct me if I'm totally wrong, is anyone actually innovating software on Amiga? Not just developing on Amiga/reimplementing stuff from windows. But actually developing new technologies and concepts?
Wing Commander 1/2/3/4 Prophecy, Secret Ops, and of course Privateer. I'd like all the art assets made available so we can remaster 2,3 and Privateer in HD. The games' code is freaking useless, EA has no idea what they're doing with it. There will never be a great definitive edition of the series put on Good Old Games, just re-bundled versions of the DOS games. Open the code and let the community make proper cross platform ports and add weird features like VR support. It worked for Freespace 2 and there's a big enough Wing Commander community to make it work. EA obviously doesn't want to make a new game so why bother holding onto 27 year old sourcecode? The only other thing I really want Open Sourced is Caligari TrueSpace. The sourcecode got leaked onto the internet in 1998 but I can't find a copy of it anywhere (.NFO files indicate it was stolen and released). Microsoft bought out Caligari in 2008 and shut it down when the GFC hit. Sure TrueSpace is freeware now, but it's buggy and could do with a lot of patches/updates.
Would this be enough documentation to enable a KVM based emulator for the PS4 to be developed? Gaming PCs would easily b powerful enough to run a PS4 game if they're executing native X86 instructions and can passthrough the GPU layer to a modern graphics card.
All I'm seeing here are arguments as to why the USA/Australia/Britain/Europe/Korea and Japan should push hard to harmonise taxation laws and pass a blanket 35% global tax on all businesses worldwide applied in all countries. This would stop tax avoidance as all nations would be expecting the same tax rate on all companies. Hard to implement sure, but not too hard to sell to the populations of most of these countries. The major powers could even use their military/diplomatic muscle to threaten/coerce it into happening.
I was diagnosed with a handwriting disability in year 12 (final year of high school). I was given a laptop to use at school. That laptop did more 3d modelling and Linux tinkering than it ever did the work assigned in Class. Ironically I now work as a network engineer and some of our clients are schools. In my opinion laptops just do not belong in schools at all and schools shouldn't have access to the internet. They should have a very tightly locked down network with 0 social media access and only access to academic materials. This is a major problem with modern schooling which needs to be addressed. Too many idiots think that kids need access to everything and that it's bad to limit what they can buy/use. Sure they filter offensive content in schools, but they won't censor the mundane/unimportant garbage that distracts from school work. Maths, Reading, Writing, these are king, nothing else will help you more in life. If I could change anything about my time in school I would get proper help with my mathematics. I have big ideas I've always wanted to pursue and I am completely hobbled by how bad my algebra/trigonometry skills are. Kids that dream of being game developers and engineers are being let down every day by distractions in classrooms and bad maths teachers. Computers don't help maths students.
What the hell were people expecting? Mobile data costs a shitload. Why would anyone stream over their portable device (aka the most convenient/commonly used device), when they can download to it and replay as often as they want and save on data usage charges.
Jokes on you I'm wasting my life in a dead end job as an IT guy anyway.
No Treaty stopped Hitler using chemical weapons. It was the knowledge that Churchill had large enough stockpiles to gas every German in Germany multiple times over that stopped him from opening that Pandora's box.
Point Cook is a new housing estate. Most suburbs will not offer fibre for $800 or $8000. No Business number, no Fibre. I work in telecommunications in Australia. An experience where you can pay $800 and get fibre to the home is well outside the norms for internet infrastructure here. Go to Essendon and try to get the same deal. Or Maribyrnong, or South Yarra. You'll get laughed out of the building.
A couple of points here. I live in Australia and I got to watch this entire fiasco unroll before me. 1. The conservative party got elected before the main rollout of the NBN could get underway. They had one mission: Kill the NBN anyway they could. They did this because they didn't want the Labor party to have a political victory with a major project, and because it aligned with the interests of the largest cable tv network and news corporations in the nation. Cable TV in Australia is a monopoly owned by Fox. They dominate Satellite, and fixed line pay TV. 2. The NBN Fibre rollout was delayed by asbestos inside the pits which had to be cleaned/repaired before they could proceed. This delayed the rollout by probably 6-12 months as the clearance work had to occur. There was also a political deal made where rural/country areas would be rolled out first. This combined with the fact that the backhaul services had to be built first led to an impression that the network was facing major delays and was taking a long time to be built, when it was actually on time and on budget. 3. Where it was actually deployed the Fibre to the Home NBN works perfectly and I've never heard anyone in those areas complain about having a fibre link. The same is not true of the Fibre to the Node and HFC connections. 4. Australia is not as sparsely populated as people would have you believe. 90+% of Australians live in larg coastal cities like most major countries and Australia's major cities have population densities equal to or higher than Auckland in New Zealand which has Fibre to the Home available. Density/population were never an issue with a metropolitan rollout of the NBN. 5, The conservative vision for the NBN was always a complete clusterfuck. Policy made without proper planning or consulting of industry. Done at the urging of people with a vested interest in keeping the internet speeds in Australia as low as the electorate would allow. The largest ISP in Australia has been quite happily milking ADSL 1.5mbit services for the last 20 years and only implemented ADSL2+ because competitor ISPs began taking marketshare. They refused to do any upgrades or builds involving fibre, unless they were guaranteed a monopoly and the ability to charge massive prices for it.
I'll also add that because he bought investment property early, he has had his income supplemented by rental income, whereas I am paying rent each year at a cost to my finances of about $18,000. So assuming he's charging for rent what I pay for rent he's gaining a $36,000/year lead on me financially.
Money is like gravity, the more you have, the easier it is to attract more of it. The less you have, the more likely it is your money will be sucked into the gravity well of a larger amount of money belonging to someone else. Example: My cousin was given a $100,000 4% interest loan at the age of 21 from his multi millionaire father. He also was given a job after dropping out of university (his university debt was wiped by his parents), as a forklift driver (aroun $55k) in his dad's company. Within 2 years he was making commission as a salesman in same company (around $65k BUT with commission around $85k). after 10 years he has bought 3 investment properties. This is due to his starting conditions. Now my situation: I went to university and dropped out after 2 years. This left a student loan debt of $10,000. I have been working entry level jobs for the past 4 years (averaging $50k and am finally breaking into an 80k role). My dad is not as successful as his brother so I was never offered a 4% interest loan at the age of 21 like my cousin. In Australia there has been a property boom/bubble and the average price of an apartment is $350,000, and a house is pushing $750,000 nationally. As a result I own 0 property and am still struggling to save for a deposit, those who got in earlier such as my cousin have had a massive leg up. I am currently being head hunted for a well paying job, but I still don't have that extra boost of a loan no bank would issue a 21 year old with. Capital matters. The sooner you start with a sum of money the further ahead you'll get. Start with 100,000 at 21, and it's easy to get a million dollars by 35.
And yet Stallman is the crazy one? The man is a fucking prophet. Almost everything about computers he's predicted has come true including the eventual turning of computing technology and user data against democracy.
I actually use ReactOS quite regularly, mostly within KVM. I find it's a pretty good alternative to Windows. Like most open source software there's a few missing features which are holding it back from being a lot more useful, but overall it's getting better with each release and the future looks bright enough. I think if ReactOS wants more enterprise adoption they need to improve the domain login support, and add support for being an RDP Server/Client. This would allow a lot of companies to drop Windows Terminal Server installations from being used. They charge a full server license for something which is not that complex. The same is true for SAMBA and fileserver support. If ReactOS can improve it's Domain Controller functions, there's not much reason why it couldn't be used instead of Windows Server for a lot of the same tasks. Most businesses just like the ease of GUI administration, SAMBA already gets controlled via Remote Server Admin Tools so it could be a useful drop-in in those use cases whcih frees up Windows Server licenses for SQL/Application servers. Will ReactOS take off in enterprise? Maybe/probably not, but a lot of SMBs that are lazy/cheap will probably dabble with it at some point with varying degrees of success. It mostly depends on what server implementations run on it. Stuff like Filezilla server already runs. Now in terms of desktop OS, it really depends on the use case. It's not quite ready for desktop because of driver/control panel support that's missing, but it already runs older versions of 3D Studio Max, Caligari Truespace, and even Skyrim. I think it's a lot like wine in how it progresses, so at some point it will pickup a lot of functionality. What people forget is that wine has 74% of the Windows API reimplemented. That last 16% is hard but not insurmountable. IMHO there's too much focus on reverse engineering the newer parts of Windows, which is silly. The newest parts of Windows won't help bring in users. Think about it, a Windows user running current software is going to stick with Windows which works 100% for those cases. But a person who just wants their legacy tools to run, would be more open to running a windows alternative as long as their old apps are supported. By ignoring the older sections of the software stack and focusing on just the new stuff. They're always playing catch up, never getting reaching parity, and users who would switch get frustrated that their legacy tools don't work, think wine is crap and stop bothering to switch.
I've encountered this bug. The laptop will sleep the SSD and suddenly nothing in the filesystem works. It's like it's just unmounted or force disconnected and doesn't come back without a hard reboot.
Are they working on removing systemd from Stretch? Also what's the performance difference between the two? Can someone benchmark both startup systems on modern nVMe ssds on same hardware? I'd be interested in some comparisons.
Thanks to VR, AI and now this. It's looking more and more like the Matrix scenario is a potential candidate for the future Earth.
Care to explain how a bunch of randoms on the internet downloading free shit is somehow the state managing the means of production? Or are you just misusing big words again?