exceedingly so, in fact. It boils down to a single sentence:
It's better to find the security hole yourself and fix it than for someone with malicious intentions to do so and exploit it.
(And good luck convincing/them/ that it's not worth looking for it.)
...seeing as this is from the same guys who made Shareaza, which is the very likely the best P2P app out there right now. It's the first one where I didn't have to fight the program to get it to do what I wanted, it's rather user friendly, has undetectable amounts of bloat (by me, anyways), and installs a total of 0 third party programs (= spyware). And now version 2.0 is open source.
So I'd be inclined to expect good things from them:).
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Any plans for KDE integration, ie QT#? (whether by you, or an entirely seperate project)
IANAD (yet), but from what I've read (many times), it seems the greatest strength of both.NET/Mono and QT/KDE is that they're very easy/friendly/etc. to develop in (as opposed to GNOME/GTK, which I have not heard the same of), so they'd be a perfect match.
(Again, this is all just stuff I've heard, I have no experience with either.)
He's suggesting regular 'tune-ups' where they remove toxins, insert stem cells where they're needed, and various other things, et cetera. (He suggests once a decade, but obviously there's no way to know.)
I figured there'd be a reply like this, but the gist of it is that if they can prolong life indefinitely, then I assume they'd have the means to lengthen fertility as well.
On the question of overpopulation, for instance, he offers this analogy of how we've handled it in the past: "Suppose you're a scientist 200 years ago who has figured out how to drastically lower infant mortality with better hygiene," he says. "You give a talk on this, and someone stands up in back and says, 'Hang on, if we do that we're going to have a population explosion!' If you reply, 'No, everything will be fine because we'll all wear these absurd rubber things when we have sex,' nobody would have taken you seriously. Yet that's just what happenedbarrier contraception was widely adopted" about the time that infant mortality began dropping.
Perhaps people won't really feel the need to have children at all, or at least not close to the rate that they're having them now. After all, one of the main reasons, if not/the/ main reason people have children is to leave something behind after they die, which they know they will, sooner rather than later (a sort of perverse quest for immortality, if you will). Extend the life span to indefinite, until a fatal accident or suicide do us part, and suddenly it won't be nearly as urgent - a few kids every thousand years, maybe.
While I don't have any knowledge of the GC's GPU per se, what I do know is that the company that designed it, ArtX, was subsequently bought out by ATi and the same design was used as the base of their R3xx (Radeon 9x00) series of graphics cards, which do indeed use pixel and vertex shaders (versions 2.0). So it's certainly possible.
Here's the lowdown: Athlon 64s and Pentium 4 C (Northwood) processors are comparable in power consumption (or heat dissipation? one of the two, but they are rather closely related), around 80-90W iirc. The newer Pentium 4 E (Prescott) processors consume rather more, over 100W. So there's that.
IIRC Mandrake PPC installs and then supposedly something bad happens, which the site I read didn't go into much detail about, while OS9 doesn't work. The aim of the project is to emulate the PPC architechture, though, so if it works any PPC OS could supposedly be used on it. OSX has the highest interest out of these, for the assorted rather obvious reasons.
The Opteron 1xx-s cost very nearly the same as an Athlon 64 of the same speed (which in turn cost the same as a Pentium 4 with MHz equal to the A64's rating), so those are fairly priced. The 2xx-s naturally cost somewhat more, while the 8xx-s cost a/lot/ more, which is reasonable seeing as only enterprise customers would think of wanting them, and iirc they're still a lot cheaper than Xeon MPs.
AnandTech usually does them in their processor reviews, lemme dig one up. Here's one, for example.
(Of note, the Athlon FX-51 and -53 are identical to Opteron 148 and 150 processors, respectively. The Athlon 64s are similar as well, difference is they use a different socket, have only single-channel memory controllers, and use unbuffered/unregistered memory.)
Basically, the Hammers are godlike at compilation. The lowest-rated (at the time; a 2800+ has since been released) A64 3000+ beats the fastest P4 3.4GHz Extreme Edition.
The DC2 is obv. the first thing that comes to mind, but I highly doubt that's it, as while it would definitely be surprising, a console takes many years to develop, meaning they'd have to have started on it around the time they decided to focus exclusively on software as a third party -- which makes no sense.
The only other alternatives I can think of are that (a) they're being bought out by someone, or (b) they're becoming a second party to someone (essentially the same thing). A Sega-Nintendo merger would be/sweet/ for all the obvious reasons, but Nintendo probably has the least deep pockets of the three, so it's less likely. But I don't think the other two are very probable, either, though, so I guess it'll actually be what they said -- a surprise.
The point is that we can't tell whether it will succeed, but if it will, then it will be a huge, and it's hard to emphasize it enough, *HUGE* setback for FOSS. The WWW will have effectively become a propriety Microsoft product. Think about that for a bit.
And the other thing is if Microsoft really wants it to succeed (and they probably do), then they have the resources to just throw money at it until it does, because for them, it's worth it.
doesn't currently have it on the iFP-39x model reviewed (a firmware upgrade is planned), but does on the iFP-59x series, as well as all their HDD players and the newer CD players. (Basically, the older players don't have the processor or the flash ROM capacity to be able to use it.)
At least one of them. I've read/skimmed most, and several of them mention how (a) it's actually significantly *cooler* than the 5950 Ultra (the previous high end card); (b) it's not very loud (not silent, but not disturbing either); (c) it only draws 10-30W more than aforementioned 5950 Ultra (this figure varied from review to review).
Though you are right, using it in an SFF wouldn't be a great idea. Can't have everything.
(And several of the sites mention how it worked flawlessly with a 400W PSU, and the 480W is just there to be certain it'll work, as several PSU makers have a tendency to overrate them.)
Thanks for the long reply, I'll just be replying shortly as I really should be getting some sleep now:
I disagree that human nature is all about competition.
It's not, and I didn't say that. It's 'merely' the primary human trait exposed where business and economy is concerned.
With respect to capitalism, what you are saying isn't really capitalism.
I guess it's not, and what I said may have been misunderstandable (with respect to the definition of capitalism). At any rate, it *should* be implemented in the way I described, on the simple grounds that it is there for the good of the people (whatever happened to government for the people, by the people?:( ), and not for the good of the corporations (who really gives a ____ about the corporations, anyways).
corporations became humans around a hundread years ago
Legally, yes.:(
Physically, and in all other respects, no.
Read my post here. Since -- with all likeliness -- you are too lazy to do so, however, i'll shamelessly quote myself below:
Capitalism is a wonderful thing, but some people misunderstand it. It takes advantage of the basic human nature to compete, and makes use of it for the public good. (In this way (as in many others) it is the direct opposite of communism, which failed precisely because it went so counter to human nature.)
Some people take it too far, however. It isn't (supposed to be) some sort of idealistic framework for the superior corporations to ascend and smite their underlings, or even an 'enforcement' of a completely unregulated free-for-all. Idealism has nothing to do with it. It is simply a means towards an end, and nothing more. The end is the public good. The means is taking advantage of human nature, and having companies compete for money, while providing something useful to society in the process. There should be no moral qualms (as in *none*) against manipulating these corporations and playing them against each other, to increase competition, or to otherwise get any or sort of advantage out of them for the good of the public (the only reason I keep using that expression is because I can't for the love of whatever arbitrary higher-level being think of a different one). The principle is to take advantage of human nature to advance the public good: then this is the principle that should be applied, and not that of some sort of irrational 'freedom'. The domain of (uncompromising) freedom should be that of the individual, and not that of the corporation. We aren't, after all, corporations.
amongst which I would personally include that tiny one we call the United States
I disagree, for one reason: corporations do not have militaries. The U.S. Government does. [Warning: Understatement to commence.] Quite a big one, at that.
Capitalism is a wonderful thing, but some people misunderstand it. It takes advantage of the basic human nature to compete, and makes use of it for the public good. (In this way (as in many others) it is the direct opposite of communism, which failed precisely because it went so counter to human nature.)
Some people take it too far, however. It isn't (supposed to be) some sort of idealistic framework for the superior corporations to ascend and smite their underlings, or even an 'enforcement' of a completely unregulated free-for-all. Idealism has nothing to do with it. It is simply a means towards an end, and nothing more. The end is the public good. The means is taking advantage of human nature, and having companies compete for money, while providing something useful to society in the process. There should be no moral qualms (as in *none*) against manipulating these corporations and playing them against each other, to increase competition, or to otherwise get any or sort of advantage out of them for the good of the public (the only reason I keep using that expression is because I can't for the love of whatever arbitrary higher-level being think of a different one). The principle is to take advantage of human nature to advance the public good: then this is the principle that should be applied, and not that of some sort of irrational 'freedom'. The domain of (uncompromising) freedom should be that of the individual, and not that of the corporation. We aren't, after all, corporations.
it would be expensive. If it were to be done at a scale to have any sort of significance whatsoever, then very, expensive. Which is one of the big problems with software patents in the first place: you have to pay fees which for an individual or small company are nearly insurmountable, and at the same time not even pocket change for large corporations. And then there's paying the lawyers to actually have it enforced.
That's just coincidence, and due to the chipsets and not the boards themselves. The nForce and BX are both solid and stable chipsets. Anything VIA before KT266/333 is complete and utter, worthless, unusable primate feces. That is the explanation for your experiences:)
For all of you who were suggesting IBM do the same thing when [H]ardOCP did this against Infinium, well, they just did:).
Here's what the [H]'s website says about it:
IBM Amends Suit:
IBM has amended its counterclaim with a Declaratory Judgment action against SCO looking for a resolution to the current Linux lawsuit that is pending.
By seeking a declaratory judgement, which a judge could issue as soon as the discovery process is over and before the case goes to trial, IBM appears to be indicating that has conducted an internal analysis of SCO's claims and has found them to be without merit, said Jeff Norman, an intellectual property partner with the Chicago law firm Kirkland Ellis LLP.
This is basically the same thing HardOCP has done with Infinium Labs.
Bennett's lawsuit seeks a declaration from the court that the article did not constitute unfair business practices or competition, trademark infringement or dilution, common law or trade libel, trade disparagement or tortious interference.
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exceedingly so, in fact. It boils down to a single sentence: /them/ that it's not worth looking for it.)
It's better to find the security hole yourself and fix it than for someone with malicious intentions to do so and exploit it.
(And good luck convincing
...seeing as this is from the same guys who made Shareaza, which is the very likely the best P2P app out there right now. It's the first one where I didn't have to fight the program to get it to do what I wanted, it's rather user friendly, has undetectable amounts of bloat (by me, anyways), and installs a total of 0 third party programs (= spyware). And now version 2.0 is open source. :).
So I'd be inclined to expect good things from them
Any plans for KDE integration, ie QT#? (whether by you, or an entirely seperate project) .NET/Mono and QT/KDE is that they're very easy/friendly/etc. to develop in (as opposed to GNOME/GTK, which I have not heard the same of), so they'd be a perfect match.
IANAD (yet), but from what I've read (many times), it seems the greatest strength of both
(Again, this is all just stuff I've heard, I have no experience with either.)
He's suggesting regular 'tune-ups' where they remove toxins, insert stem cells where they're needed, and various other things, et cetera. (He suggests once a decade, but obviously there's no way to know.)
I figured there'd be a reply like this, but the gist of it is that if they can prolong life indefinitely, then I assume they'd have the means to lengthen fertility as well.
Perhaps people won't really feel the need to have children at all, or at least not close to the rate that they're having them now. After all, one of the main reasons, if not
While I don't have any knowledge of the GC's GPU per se, what I do know is that the company that designed it, ArtX, was subsequently bought out by ATi and the same design was used as the base of their R3xx (Radeon 9x00) series of graphics cards, which do indeed use pixel and vertex shaders (versions 2.0). So it's certainly possible.
Here's the lowdown: Athlon 64s and Pentium 4 C (Northwood) processors are comparable in power consumption (or heat dissipation? one of the two, but they are rather closely related), around 80-90W iirc. The newer Pentium 4 E (Prescott) processors consume rather more, over 100W. So there's that.
IIRC Mandrake PPC installs and then supposedly something bad happens, which the site I read didn't go into much detail about, while OS9 doesn't work. The aim of the project is to emulate the PPC architechture, though, so if it works any PPC OS could supposedly be used on it. OSX has the highest interest out of these, for the assorted rather obvious reasons.
The Opteron 1xx-s cost very nearly the same as an Athlon 64 of the same speed (which in turn cost the same as a Pentium 4 with MHz equal to the A64's rating), so those are fairly priced. The 2xx-s naturally cost somewhat more, while the 8xx-s cost a /lot/ more, which is reasonable seeing as only enterprise customers would think of wanting them, and iirc they're still a lot cheaper than Xeon MPs.
AnandTech usually does them in their processor reviews, lemme dig one up.
Here's one, for example.
(Of note, the Athlon FX-51 and -53 are identical to Opteron 148 and 150 processors, respectively. The Athlon 64s are similar as well, difference is they use a different socket, have only single-channel memory controllers, and use unbuffered/unregistered memory.)
Basically, the Hammers are godlike at compilation.
The lowest-rated (at the time; a 2800+ has since been released) A64 3000+ beats the fastest P4 3.4GHz Extreme Edition.
lmao. Try removing a letter from slashdot.org at random. Every one of them exists except for slashot.org :)
The DC2 is obv. the first thing that comes to mind, but I highly doubt that's it, as while it would definitely be surprising, a console takes many years to develop, meaning they'd have to have started on it around the time they decided to focus exclusively on software as a third party -- which makes no sense.
/sweet/ for all the obvious reasons, but Nintendo probably has the least deep pockets of the three, so it's less likely. But I don't think the other two are very probable, either, though, so I guess it'll actually be what they said -- a surprise.
The only other alternatives I can think of are that (a) they're being bought out by someone, or (b) they're becoming a second party to someone (essentially the same thing). A Sega-Nintendo merger would be
The point is that we can't tell whether it will succeed, but if it will, then it will be a huge, and it's hard to emphasize it enough, *HUGE* setback for FOSS. The WWW will have effectively become a propriety Microsoft product. Think about that for a bit.
And the other thing is if Microsoft really wants it to succeed (and they probably do), then they have the resources to just throw money at it until it does, because for them, it's worth it.
Moving to Apple costs hundreds or likely thousands of dollars. Moving to Linux is free.
doesn't currently have it on the iFP-39x model reviewed (a firmware upgrade is planned), but does on the iFP-59x series, as well as all their HDD players and the newer CD players. (Basically, the older players don't have the processor or the flash ROM capacity to be able to use it.)
At least one of them. I've read/skimmed most, and several of them mention how (a) it's actually significantly *cooler* than the 5950 Ultra (the previous high end card); (b) it's not very loud (not silent, but not disturbing either); (c) it only draws 10-30W more than aforementioned 5950 Ultra (this figure varied from review to review).
Though you are right, using it in an SFF wouldn't be a great idea. Can't have everything.
(And several of the sites mention how it worked flawlessly with a 400W PSU, and the 480W is just there to be certain it'll work, as several PSU makers have a tendency to overrate them.)
It's not, and I didn't say that. It's 'merely' the primary human trait exposed where business and economy is concerned.
I guess it's not, and what I said may have been misunderstandable (with respect to the definition of capitalism). At any rate, it *should* be implemented in the way I described, on the simple grounds that it is there for the good of the people (whatever happened to government for the people, by the people?
Legally, yes.
Physically, and in all other respects, no.
Capitalism is a wonderful thing, but some people misunderstand it. It takes advantage of the basic human nature to compete, and makes use of it for the public good. (In this way (as in many others) it is the direct opposite of communism, which failed precisely because it went so counter to human nature.)
Some people take it too far, however. It isn't (supposed to be) some sort of idealistic framework for the superior corporations to ascend and smite their underlings, or even an 'enforcement' of a completely unregulated free-for-all. Idealism has nothing to do with it. It is simply a means towards an end, and nothing more. The end is the public good. The means is taking advantage of human nature, and having companies compete for money, while providing something useful to society in the process. There should be no moral qualms (as in *none*) against manipulating these corporations and playing them against each other, to increase competition, or to otherwise get any or sort of advantage out of them for the good of the public (the only reason I keep using that expression is because I can't for the love of whatever arbitrary higher-level being think of a different one). The principle is to take advantage of human nature to advance the public good: then this is the principle that should be applied, and not that of some sort of irrational 'freedom'. The domain of (uncompromising) freedom should be that of the individual, and not that of the corporation. We aren't, after all, corporations.
it would be expensive. If it were to be done at a scale to have any sort of significance whatsoever, then very, expensive. Which is one of the big problems with software patents in the first place: you have to pay fees which for an individual or small company are nearly insurmountable, and at the same time not even pocket change for large corporations. And then there's paying the lawyers to actually have it enforced.
That's just coincidence, and due to the chipsets and not the boards themselves. The nForce and BX are both solid and stable chipsets. Anything VIA before KT266/333 is complete and utter, worthless, unusable primate feces. That is the explanation for your experiences :)
Here's what the [H]'s website says about it:
He came up with MtG. There was _nothing_ of the sort around back then. His innovation is most certainly comparable to those of the other two.