I ran the 3DMark test on an 800mhz Athlon in Win2k. It didn't show up.
Really, 4 seconds of CPU time given that I've been up for over 8 days is completely unnoticeable. Ever checked how much Winamp uses by comparison for 'simple' MP3 decoding?
What are you smoking? This is FUD. I am a gamer. I don't even notice the impact of running Norton. I did a quick 3DMark test way back and there was no difference between running it with NAV and without. Well, less than 30 marks on 3DMark 2000, but this easily falls within the standard deviation of repeated runs of 3DMark.
Furthermore, I'll pull the CPU time figures from task manager. This is NAV Corp. edition 8.0 on XP: Cumulative uptime: 201:53:00 (system idle process) rtvscan.exe: 00:00:04 (real time scanning service) vptray.exe: 00:00:01 (virus protection tray applet)
For reference: aim.exe: 00:00:47 (been running less than a day)
Wow, hilarious what the moderations are to this comment when he is so right on the mark. The worst kind of troll is the one that tells the truth that no one wants to hear.
Slashdot serves an odd group of people who like the idea of Linux but the majority of whom don't actually run it (going off a poll here) nor develop for it. In fact, what is very telling, is that I don't know of anyone who takes Slashdot seriously, mostly because of the rampant groupthink, constant "sky is falling" mentality about the world at large, and really skewed viewpoints.
Just keep telling yourselves that Linux is better than all the proprietary alternatives instead of actually trying to innovate with it. Then you have liberty to decry the unwashed masses and remain a niche; which is what you want deep down inside.:)
Microsoft's lifespan only ensures that Slashdot will forever be active and that everyone will forever have something to bitch and cry about. Meanwhile we can have "Linux is heading for the desktops!" articles once every month like we do right now.
In other words, its business like usual! That's what we all want!:)
I am going to submit a new question to Ask Slashdot:
Dear Slashdot. I was watching Lord of the Rings and wondered what the best battle sequence of all time was. I guess Lord of the Rings had some decent ones but I know there are better ones out there. I mean one with tons of people, catapults, elephants, dragons, pirates, ninjas, robots, Jean-Claude Van Damme, and rocket launchers. Additionally, there should be aliens using an alien operating system (that Mac users can communiate with of course). There has to be lots of blood, and additional entrails are much desired.
Haven't you heard the only moral things in life are open source?;)
Outlook vulnerable with view as plain text?
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Outlook and Outlook Express give you the option to view all messages as plain text, which strips the HTML out. Anyone know if that renders them safe to the content, or the content is still interpreted and executed?
A lot of organizations use Outlook in some form or another, so a quick fix like this one could be very beneficial -- if it is a fix.
I asked a question. I didn't imply anything whatsoever. It just doesn't seem like a trojan to me - why do people think anything they download on P2P has to be the legitimate, real thing? That comes with the territory.
The D language offers a nice blend of higher-level languages like C# and Java while keeping more to the notions of C/C++ (you only pay for what you use, generally). It is not suffering from hazy legal issues and doesn't believe it is saving the world. It is still in development but it looks like it is hard to beat for the sweet spot of compability (call C APIs just fine), performance, and dependencies. I dislike their generics syntax, but I can live with it.
This seems like a natural fit for developing desktop applications that don't feel like they're running under a VM, yet they are still garbage collected.
I applaud the Slashdot editors once again in choosing a relevant and timely news story. Never before has a patch been reissued. This is surely a momentous day on the Internet.
Plus we can have a chance to talk about how our favorite operating system would never do such a thing! This IS a great post!
Online gaming seems eerily like life at times. It never seems quite fair, people already have their friend groups, and sometimes it feels like you're late to the party.
Tough. Life isn't fair. What you can do about it is either suck up your pride and accept the fact that you are going to lose, or leave. Skill is the reason people continue to play - they want to be like so-and-so, who is a legendary player everyone looks up to. You take skill differences out, you alienate the loyal customer base. Single player is where you can always be the important superhero who is given as many chances as possible to prove themselves. Online is entirely a different beast and in some games evolves to be something close to a sport. You have to learn your place in online gaming. And it probably isn't at the forefront.
Perhaps you should try a game that rewards twitch a little less and doesn't penalize death quite as much. I am loyal to Tribes in that you can be a highly effective player even if you have average fragging skills. I know an older woman who doesn't even shoot people much, but she enjoys turreting quite a bit, to the point that it seriously disrupts the enemy offense. Tribes rewards being in the right place at the right time and helping the team while still leaving room for individuals to distinguish themselves.
Also, consider joining a team, or forming one. Public servers will drain the life out of you in any game unless you can manage to not ever take them seriously -- which it sounds like you cannot.
Anyone know of ways to shave off the already low pricetag? I'm trying to make good use of my tax return, and you have to get a decent number of accessories for the GC it seems like.
Maybe my consoles don't come with advocacy handbooks but I'm of the opinion that if you truly believe one console is better than all the otheres for every person then you are, at best, deluded, and at worst, an idiot. Maybe I am too skeptical of consoles but they have never swayed me to the point of being a free, yet inarticulate advertisement for it. If I had to buy a console right now (I don't own any) I'd buy the GC in a heartbeat.
Either way, the Internet would be a much better place if every 12-year-old with a nickname ending in 3 digits and having to do with Dragon Ball Z didn't feel a need to jump on sites like Neowin and respond to any console game-related article with "XBOX RULEZ!" and then attach some shiny smiley face to it.
The advocates for consoles/operating systems do the most damage to them in my mind, more than the actual product. You start wondering if any well-adjusted people actually use the product. Thus I'd have to rate the majority of pro/anti-console sentiment as simply the inane banter that makes the Internet go round. The real question is, why do people keep eating it up?
You can tell that people don't want to accept personal accountability when they start trying to tell you that it isn't "really" pirating or it isn't "really" wrong. Suck it up and accept what you're doing. Don't hide behind some weak-ass excuse for a justification that you made up when posting on Slashdot. Some kid in class tried to tell me that MP3s were originally 24 hour trials and then you had to delete them. Yeah, I'm sure people back then actually did that, too.:)
Ooooh, whats that? Thats the sound of my karma dropping rapidly because I don't support rampant copying. Oh well. Anything's better than the Slashbot groupthink that dominates these threads.
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I ran the 3DMark test on an 800mhz Athlon in Win2k. It didn't show up.
Really, 4 seconds of CPU time given that I've been up for over 8 days is completely unnoticeable. Ever checked how much Winamp uses by comparison for 'simple' MP3 decoding?
What are you smoking? This is FUD. I am a gamer. I don't even notice the impact of running Norton. I did a quick 3DMark test way back and there was no difference between running it with NAV and without. Well, less than 30 marks on 3DMark 2000, but this easily falls within the standard deviation of repeated runs of 3DMark.
Furthermore, I'll pull the CPU time figures from task manager. This is NAV Corp. edition 8.0 on XP:
Cumulative uptime: 201:53:00 (system idle process)
rtvscan.exe: 00:00:04 (real time scanning service)
vptray.exe: 00:00:01 (virus protection tray applet)
For reference:
aim.exe: 00:00:47 (been running less than a day)
Wow, hilarious what the moderations are to this comment when he is so right on the mark. The worst kind of troll is the one that tells the truth that no one wants to hear.
Slashdot serves an odd group of people who like the idea of Linux but the majority of whom don't actually run it (going off a poll here) nor develop for it. In fact, what is very telling, is that I don't know of anyone who takes Slashdot seriously, mostly because of the rampant groupthink, constant "sky is falling" mentality about the world at large, and really skewed viewpoints.
Just keep telling yourselves that Linux is better than all the proprietary alternatives instead of actually trying to innovate with it. Then you have liberty to decry the unwashed masses and remain a niche; which is what you want deep down inside. :)
Microsoft's lifespan only ensures that Slashdot will forever be active and that everyone will forever have something to bitch and cry about. Meanwhile we can have "Linux is heading for the desktops!" articles once every month like we do right now.
:)
In other words, its business like usual! That's what we all want!
Great point.
Badgers install Linux on YOU!
Care to enumerate what Java has contributed to programming? I am genuinely interested.
You forgot the author's email address always ends in @aol.com. :)
I am going to submit a new question to Ask Slashdot:
Dear Slashdot. I was watching Lord of the Rings and wondered what the best battle sequence of all time was. I guess Lord of the Rings had some decent ones but I know there are better ones out there. I mean one with tons of people, catapults, elephants, dragons, pirates, ninjas, robots, Jean-Claude Van Damme, and rocket launchers. Additionally, there should be aliens using an alien operating system (that Mac users can communiate with of course). There has to be lots of blood, and additional entrails are much desired.
Haven't you heard the only moral things in life are open source? ;)
Outlook and Outlook Express give you the option to view all messages as plain text, which strips the HTML out. Anyone know if that renders them safe to the content, or the content is still interpreted and executed?
A lot of organizations use Outlook in some form or another, so a quick fix like this one could be very beneficial -- if it is a fix.
Except PSP or the Gimp simply cannot touch Photoshop for even moderately demanding users. Photoshop is CHEAP as professional-grade software.
I asked a question. I didn't imply anything whatsoever. It just doesn't seem like a trojan to me - why do people think anything they download on P2P has to be the legitimate, real thing? That comes with the territory.
So because people executed a program that was mislabeled, it is now electronic trespassing?
Give me a break.
This seems like a natural fit for developing desktop applications that don't feel like they're running under a VM, yet they are still garbage collected.
I applaud the Slashdot editors once again in choosing a relevant and timely news story. Never before has a patch been reissued. This is surely a momentous day on the Internet.
Plus we can have a chance to talk about how our favorite operating system would never do such a thing! This IS a great post!
Online gaming seems eerily like life at times. It never seems quite fair, people already have their friend groups, and sometimes it feels like you're late to the party.
Tough. Life isn't fair. What you can do about it is either suck up your pride and accept the fact that you are going to lose, or leave. Skill is the reason people continue to play - they want to be like so-and-so, who is a legendary player everyone looks up to. You take skill differences out, you alienate the loyal customer base. Single player is where you can always be the important superhero who is given as many chances as possible to prove themselves. Online is entirely a different beast and in some games evolves to be something close to a sport. You have to learn your place in online gaming. And it probably isn't at the forefront.
Perhaps you should try a game that rewards twitch a little less and doesn't penalize death quite as much. I am loyal to Tribes in that you can be a highly effective player even if you have average fragging skills. I know an older woman who doesn't even shoot people much, but she enjoys turreting quite a bit, to the point that it seriously disrupts the enemy offense. Tribes rewards being in the right place at the right time and helping the team while still leaving room for individuals to distinguish themselves.
Also, consider joining a team, or forming one. Public servers will drain the life out of you in any game unless you can manage to not ever take them seriously -- which it sounds like you cannot.
Someone want to forward this to the guys at SF? I'd like to know what became of their, "we'll add subversion once it matures enough" claim.
Anyone know of ways to shave off the already low pricetag? I'm trying to make good use of my tax return, and you have to get a decent number of accessories for the GC it seems like.
F-Zero is very awesome though.
Why is this tripe moderated insightful? Because it bashes MS and has some absurd theory in it?
Either way, the Internet would be a much better place if every 12-year-old with a nickname ending in 3 digits and having to do with Dragon Ball Z didn't feel a need to jump on sites like Neowin and respond to any console game-related article with "XBOX RULEZ!" and then attach some shiny smiley face to it.
The advocates for consoles/operating systems do the most damage to them in my mind, more than the actual product. You start wondering if any well-adjusted people actually use the product. Thus I'd have to rate the majority of pro/anti-console sentiment as simply the inane banter that makes the Internet go round. The real question is, why do people keep eating it up?
You can tell that people don't want to accept personal accountability when they start trying to tell you that it isn't "really" pirating or it isn't "really" wrong. Suck it up and accept what you're doing. Don't hide behind some weak-ass excuse for a justification that you made up when posting on Slashdot. Some kid in class tried to tell me that MP3s were originally 24 hour trials and then you had to delete them. Yeah, I'm sure people back then actually did that, too. :)
Ooooh, whats that? Thats the sound of my karma dropping rapidly because I don't support rampant copying. Oh well. Anything's better than the Slashbot groupthink that dominates these threads.
That would teleport them to a real business plan? Yeah, I'm mean. :)