Maybe somebody can just start a distributed.net project that creates "friendly" DDoS attacks to test for things like that. A Sysadmin could just call up whatever company organizes it, and somehow verify his identity, then unleash a metric buttload of requests to his server...
No, they're ending it...not selling it to anyone or spinning it off. The calculator arm could never really stand on its own; even TI has a huge business outside of calculators that dwarfs their calc business.
The 48's keys are standard hard plastic, as far as I know. The 49's keys are sort of a soft rubber. It felt really weird using it at first. Now I've gotten used to the rubber keys, though I'd still rather have more traditional ones.
the software contained inside it is infected with the virus I infected the software contained inside the DVD with.
Now there's a redundant mouthful, though I would have said "...with which I infected...", and perhaps "contained on" or contained by"...not sure which preposition is best in that case:)
About your.sig...just FYI, it's Schroedinger (Actually Schrödinger, but the 'o' with umlaut is commonly transliterated as 'oe'). Also, for Erwin to have killed the cat, he would have had to open the box, already collapsing the wave function. Still, I like the idea:)
I just know somebody is going to say, "open source it, we'll port it!" or something like that. But think about it - if you were a company like Maxis, would you give away the source code to your best-selling game that you've put millions into (and received that much as well)?
This is an excellent point. If a respectable company (like Loki often did) comes to a game developer and wants to port the game, with the intent that much of the revenue will still go to the original company, the game company will most likely give up their code, but just to Loki under an NDA or heavy license/IP restrictions. Giving the source to every person who buys the game is a surefire way to increase piracy many-fold. What they could do, is to provide a certain amount of the code, or a demo that uses many of the same functions of the real game, and say "Make this run natively under Linux, and we'll give you (not everybody) more of the code to work with, if you're interested.
Win98 and WinME were just bug fixes and added "features" onto 95. WinXP is actually coming off of the NT Kernel, and isn't a successor (code-base-wise) to 95.
But can't your read/write/execute anything to the D drive that you can to the C drive? I don't see this helping anything except virii/h4x0rz editing stuff in the c:\windows folder.
Certain tests, like 3DMark and other packages, pretty much bypass the drivers, and are purely a measure of theoretical hardware performance, not real-world performance. There are certainly some hooks to the low-level instructions in the drivers, but they're specific enough that they prevent driver optimizations from having too much impact on the results.
As a result, a card with bad drivers may score really high on 3DMark, but then do poorly in real-world applications. Similarly, a card that scores lower on 3DMark, but has more mature drivers, could do significantly better in real world situations.
To some degree, it will merely be important to have good compilers written for the 64 bit processors. If programs are written in a fairly popular high-level language, a simple recompile ought to bring a decent amount of optimization for 64 bit processors.
It's pretty obvious, like when my cable modem kept screwing up because of shitty infrastructure, he told me to reboot my machine (Linux). I told him to hold on, went to take a piss, and then came back and said "OK, all rebooted, still doesn't work":)
Heh...maybe he was doing the same thing. "I know it's not the problem, but man, I really need some coffee. I can tell this guy to reboot, and then be back in 2 minutes before his machine starts up. That way my supervisors think I'm on call, I get paid, and I get my coffee."
That's why general reviewers look at more than just one statistic for one setting for one game. Most well-respected hardware sites will have pages and pages of benchmarks showing frame-rates in demos for multiple games that use differing engines and technologies. In addition, they will have theoretical tests that deal more directly with the hardware and bypass the drivers.
From what I've heard so far, at least in this case, ATI's Radeon 8500 has the best image quality of any card these days, even in Quake 3 with whatever voodoo they do. I understand and agree with what you're saying, but I don't think that it applies in this case.
I don't know that having the broadband routers will actually help, per se. I suppose that it may be less crackable than an open computer, but it's really out of the scope of this particular type of attack. There's not much to gain from screwing up routing to/from one user/IP address, which is for the most part all you could do by getting into a broadband router. The targets are more high profile, high load routers like those that carry the load for large bandwidth providers, and people with large chunks of IP space.
Need money? Auction off unused low UIDs on Ebay or something. That way people can support/. and get something they feel is useful out of it. Maybe you can re-do the first 100-UIDs on a "who pays us the most" basis, so someone who donates lots of money can get UID 1:)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but last I heard, Hitler is dead. In addition, his party lost control of Germany, much less most of Europe, quite some time ago.
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Just wait for the next-generation combination of the two... spork()! Then we'll really be livin' large.
Ahh...duct tape...fixes everything except ducts (pipes? :)
Maybe somebody can just start a distributed.net project that creates "friendly" DDoS attacks to test for things like that. A Sysadmin could just call up whatever company organizes it, and somehow verify his identity, then unleash a metric buttload of requests to his server...
No, they're ending it...not selling it to anyone or spinning it off. The calculator arm could never really stand on its own; even TI has a huge business outside of calculators that dwarfs their calc business.
The 48's keys are standard hard plastic, as far as I know. The 49's keys are sort of a soft rubber. It felt really weird using it at first. Now I've gotten used to the rubber keys, though I'd still rather have more traditional ones.
the software contained inside it is infected with the virus I infected the software contained inside the DVD with.
:)
Now there's a redundant mouthful, though I would have said "...with which I infected...", and perhaps "contained on" or contained by"...not sure which preposition is best in that case
Exactly. Although I suppose something like Amazon could be run on NT servers, I wouldn't like to see the code or the machine power necessary to do it.
About your .sig...just FYI, it's Schroedinger (Actually Schrödinger, but the 'o' with umlaut is commonly transliterated as 'oe'). Also, for Erwin to have killed the cat, he would have had to open the box, already collapsing the wave function. Still, I like the idea :)
but...but...640K ought to be enough for anyone!
Hmm. I'd be glad to take that Athlon off of your hands, if it's just gathering dust :) A nice upgrade to my low-end PII.
I just know somebody is going to say, "open source it, we'll port it!" or something like that. But think about it - if you were a company like Maxis, would you give away the source code to your best-selling game that you've put millions into (and received that much as well)?
This is an excellent point. If a respectable company (like Loki often did) comes to a game developer and wants to port the game, with the intent that much of the revenue will still go to the original company, the game company will most likely give up their code, but just to Loki under an NDA or heavy license/IP restrictions. Giving the source to every person who buys the game is a surefire way to increase piracy many-fold. What they could do, is to provide a certain amount of the code, or a demo that uses many of the same functions of the real game, and say "Make this run natively under Linux, and we'll give you (not everybody) more of the code to work with, if you're interested.
Win98 and WinME were just bug fixes and added "features" onto 95. WinXP is actually coming off of the NT Kernel, and isn't a successor (code-base-wise) to 95.
Or a heart...
But can't your read/write/execute anything to the D drive that you can to the C drive? I don't see this helping anything except virii/h4x0rz editing stuff in the c:\windows folder.
That could be good for embedded systems, actually. Little web tablets running Mozilla.
Certain tests, like 3DMark and other packages, pretty much bypass the drivers, and are purely a measure of theoretical hardware performance, not real-world performance. There are certainly some hooks to the low-level instructions in the drivers, but they're specific enough that they prevent driver optimizations from having too much impact on the results.
As a result, a card with bad drivers may score really high on 3DMark, but then do poorly in real-world applications. Similarly, a card that scores lower on 3DMark, but has more mature drivers, could do significantly better in real world situations.
To some degree, it will merely be important to have good compilers written for the 64 bit processors. If programs are written in a fairly popular high-level language, a simple recompile ought to bring a decent amount of optimization for 64 bit processors.
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It's pretty obvious, like when my cable modem kept screwing up because of shitty infrastructure, he told me to reboot my machine (Linux). I told him to hold on, went to take a piss, and then came back and said "OK, all rebooted, still doesn't work" :)
Heh...maybe he was doing the same thing. "I know it's not the problem, but man, I really need some coffee. I can tell this guy to reboot, and then be back in 2 minutes before his machine starts up. That way my supervisors think I'm on call, I get paid, and I get my coffee."
Unfortunate that this is seen as a victory in today's world...wasting 7 minutes on hold each call.
That's why general reviewers look at more than just one statistic for one setting for one game. Most well-respected hardware sites will have pages and pages of benchmarks showing frame-rates in demos for multiple games that use differing engines and technologies. In addition, they will have theoretical tests that deal more directly with the hardware and bypass the drivers.
From what I've heard so far, at least in this case, ATI's Radeon 8500 has the best image quality of any card these days, even in Quake 3 with whatever voodoo they do. I understand and agree with what you're saying, but I don't think that it applies in this case.
I don't know that having the broadband routers will actually help, per se. I suppose that it may be less crackable than an open computer, but it's really out of the scope of this particular type of attack. There's not much to gain from screwing up routing to/from one user/IP address, which is for the most part all you could do by getting into a broadband router. The targets are more high profile, high load routers like those that carry the load for large bandwidth providers, and people with large chunks of IP space.
Nobody ever accused a browser's box of being a modern word processor.
Need money? Auction off unused low UIDs on Ebay or something. That way people can support /. and get something they feel is useful out of it. Maybe you can re-do the first 100-UIDs on a "who pays us the most" basis, so someone who donates lots of money can get UID 1 :)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but last I heard, Hitler is dead. In addition, his party lost control of Germany, much less most of Europe, quite some time ago.