so you're suggesting planning an entire industry and significant amount of government spending around the 100% conversion of "the odd document"?
No, just pointing out that there are bound to be issues with completely excluding MS's software from within government organisations, given how firmly rooted the software already is.
in other news: every country signed a new treaty for world peace, but then decided to throw it all away because one of them had signed in blue ink.
More likely 'because of opposition from the arms industry.'
Perhaps the words 'OMG! Wallhack!' will suddenly flash upon the screen of the security officer, a klaxon will go off and everyone in the casino will start shouting 'U CoUnTiNg FaG' at the perp.
.. is all very good, but China isn't isolated enough to not do business with the outside world. There's always the odd document - usually ones written with the most up to date version of MS Office that won't read properly. So if you're in an office, you find someone with MS Office and get them to convert it for you. But if you're not allowed Office at all, you're pretty much up the creek.
The only trouble with online gambling is that the idiots' money are channeled out of the country..
Exactly. Governments don't mind their citizens being exploited as long as the money's eventually making its way via taxes etc to their coffers, ethics be damned. But they'll scream blue murder if they're not seeing a penny. Eg, them making a fuss over pot but not doing a thing being quite happy to leave alcohol companies unharassed.
The webpage mentions that the program is windows based and doesn't save state. That means that all of those CPU hours came in a row (at idle priority even).
A project like this just cries out for distributed computing - if it can be done for Seti and cracking the X-Box key (or rather trying to), surely a distributed client running on many PCs would be a godsend for solving major maths problems.
They lowered prices for the weekend and started a campaign saying "Our customers are doing better". I think that's the right way to go.
But did it work, I wonder? It'd be interesting to see how the companies profits compare to its competitors. Just how many people can be swayed by a free gift of shiny baubles? Quite a few, I'd imagine.
Sure, there are people who love posting benchmarks of their systems, but surely the real test of a system is not how it handles one specific cycled demo. It's whether or not it handles the games you want to play and if you're happy with the performance of your system as you're blowing the crap out of whatever 3D menace is threatening the world, don't start worrying over a few frames per second.
I don't know how the two could be mixed up. One is a fairly pathetic letter written to solicit money from gullible recipients with no legal value at all. And the other originates in Lagos (boom boom).
Well, it could happen.. given how so many retro games are getting remade, Gorillas can only be next, complete with bump-mapped bananas on a minimum spec of a GeForce 4 with a PIII 1.7Ghz.
On another note, this guy's achievement may be impressive, but it stands out as a challenge. I wouldn't be at all surprised if someone - in all seriousness - was trying to do the same on the ZX Spectrum.
So basically if we ever knacker the planet to the extent that the only livable location is deep under the ocean, would we risk these little bugs eating away at our colonies? Looks like Seaquest DSV got it all wrong then.
Would it be possible for these bugs to spread out of the depths where they dwell to the point where any structure built on the ocean floor would be under threat? Eg, oil rigs now or colonies if we ever did indeed build things under the sea?
Iron eating creatures? These 'scientists' are just stealing ideas from the Eighties 'Transformers' comics.. anyone remember the scraplets, little transformer eating creatures?
Hah! How those fools laughed when I made my aluminium hat and bacofoil suit to block out the CIA's space-rays. Yet I alone will be safe from the iron eating scourge while those naysayers struggle to hold their trousers up as their belts are eaten away by the iron-devouring scourge.
I keep mine on top of my digital box - I'd be too afraid to have it on a desk in case it did fall off and smash through to the floor below. And then through the Earth's crust, ending up somewhere in the Earth's core, being too hardy to even melt.
Maybe this'll let Microsoft produce a console that isn't the size of a two breeze blocks. Although now I think about it, I don't why they didn't just use a laptop HD for their first console.
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No, just pointing out that there are bound to be issues with completely excluding MS's software from within government organisations, given how firmly rooted the software already is.
in other news: every country signed a new treaty for world peace, but then decided to throw it all away because one of them had signed in blue ink.
More likely 'because of opposition from the arms industry.'
Maybe they want to make sure the version of Direct 3D it comes with will support Duke Nukem Forever.
Perhaps the words 'OMG! Wallhack!' will suddenly flash upon the screen of the security officer, a klaxon will go off and everyone in the casino will start shouting 'U CoUnTiNg FaG' at the perp.
On strawberry jello if the movie, by the look of the tanks they're all submerged in. In the future, apparently everyone loves Jello.
If a tree downloads MP3s in the forest and no-one sees it, do the RIAA prosecute?
... welcome our new radioactive super-powered mutant martian overlords.
.. is all very good, but China isn't isolated enough to not do business with the outside world. There's always the odd document - usually ones written with the most up to date version of MS Office that won't read properly. So if you're in an office, you find someone with MS Office and get them to convert it for you. But if you're not allowed Office at all, you're pretty much up the creek.
Exactly. Governments don't mind their citizens being exploited as long as the money's eventually making its way via taxes etc to their coffers, ethics be damned. But they'll scream blue murder if they're not seeing a penny. Eg, them making a fuss over pot but not doing a thing being quite happy to leave alcohol companies unharassed.
Nope, but they got through about six coconuts.
Just around the time that 'Harry Potter and the Would You Like Fries With That?' is published, presumably.
A project like this just cries out for distributed computing - if it can be done for Seti and cracking the X-Box key (or rather trying to), surely a distributed client running on many PCs would be a godsend for solving major maths problems.
They lowered prices for the weekend and started a campaign saying "Our customers are doing better". I think that's the right way to go. But did it work, I wonder? It'd be interesting to see how the companies profits compare to its competitors. Just how many people can be swayed by a free gift of shiny baubles? Quite a few, I'd imagine.
Sure, there are people who love posting benchmarks of their systems, but surely the real test of a system is not how it handles one specific cycled demo. It's whether or not it handles the games you want to play and if you're happy with the performance of your system as you're blowing the crap out of whatever 3D menace is threatening the world, don't start worrying over a few frames per second.
I don't know how the two could be mixed up. One is a fairly pathetic letter written to solicit money from gullible recipients with no legal value at all. And the other originates in Lagos (boom boom).
On another note, this guy's achievement may be impressive, but it stands out as a challenge. I wouldn't be at all surprised if someone - in all seriousness - was trying to do the same on the ZX Spectrum.
Would it be possible for these bugs to spread out of the depths where they dwell to the point where any structure built on the ocean floor would be under threat? Eg, oil rigs now or colonies if we ever did indeed build things under the sea?
Iron eating creatures? These 'scientists' are just stealing ideas from the Eighties 'Transformers' comics.. anyone remember the scraplets, little transformer eating creatures?
Really? I would have thought they'd prefer Iron-Bru.
Hah! How those fools laughed when I made my aluminium hat and bacofoil suit to block out the CIA's space-rays. Yet I alone will be safe from the iron eating scourge while those naysayers struggle to hold their trousers up as their belts are eaten away by the iron-devouring scourge.
You are JeffK and I claim my five pounds.
I keep mine on top of my digital box - I'd be too afraid to have it on a desk in case it did fall off and smash through to the floor below. And then through the Earth's crust, ending up somewhere in the Earth's core, being too hardy to even melt.
Maybe this'll let Microsoft produce a console that isn't the size of a two breeze blocks. Although now I think about it, I don't why they didn't just use a laptop HD for their first console.
What's wrong with 'bronzium', eh?
Oh, wait, you said mitochondrial.. mistake.
No, but they apparently saw Donnie Darko a few times.