And this is different from the US how?
The Dixie Chicks mentioned their disagreement with the government and their musical careers are over.
It may not be a taboo via government regulations, but if you say something too unpopular, you can get burned just as bad in the US. If not worse.
That's why we're allowed to go to Cuba and buy all the cigars we want while there, eh? The government can put sanctions on countries - we did with Iraq, we have with Cuba... And that generally means that what US citizens do there is very controlled.
Linux / Mac/OS installs (like either of those would run on a four year old Toshiba)
Linux, at least, works on old laptops. I don't know the manufacture date of my old Dell laptop, but the Pentium 3 500mhz was released in 1999, so I'm guessing the mobile version came out in 2000. Which makes it about four years old, maybe a tad bit less. I run a 2.6.6 kernel on a debian machine with a light window manager (fluxbox unstable), and get about 2 hours battery life out of it doing office apps. If I stayed in console, I could get a lot more time out of it.
If you put gnome on it, with a nice shiny interface and easy to use buttons, etc, I'd say linux is the best way to go with this. It'll last the longest, use the least ammount of battery, and if you keep the root password (unless they for some reason have a linux guru, who asks for the root password) after installing everything, they can't delete any system files on accident.
The same does not go for any version of Windows before NT.
The industry moves so fast it's difficult to decide what's historical and what's not
Easy: Keep an eye on pricewatch and/or ebay, and once the shipping is more than the cost of the item, buy buy buy and catalog. It would just be petty cash, and would be decently historic that by the time it was ready for the showroom, it would -be- historic. The only cost for the operation would be staffing and space.
A high school near my home, which a friend of mine used to attend, used some kind of cell phone jammer because of the issues they were having with students answering phones during class time. It was rather annoying when I needed to use my cell phone on their campus at an after school function (awards ceremony).
My experience with the (non-optimized, un-configurable) leaked alpha was that it was very choppy on my p3-800mhz / geforce3 ti200. I'm betting that if some of the eye candy was turned off, it would work fine with my configuration. Granted, I need to upgrade - but alas, education comes first. Gameplay in the leaked alpha, by the way, was decently smooth until a creature came on the screen, and then it got rather choppy. Decently smooth by survival horror standards, not twitchy quake-3 standards.
a Beowulf!
Seriously, if these things hit market before I get enough money to upgrade my computer.. I'm gonna buy one of these to salvage for upgrade parts.
Considering it's basically a computer anyway, I'm guessing this is what's going to happen:
Someone is going to open it up and find out how to connect an optical (or diskette) drive to the machine. Given that they're using a PC CPU, GPU, and the nForce2 motherboard, I'm guessing that's going to be pretty easy. Maybe you wouldn't be able to salvage the games that you're renting from them (indeed, that's what Phantom's game service is touted to be... blockbuster for PC titles), but it's a decently powerful PC for only 200 bucks. And if it ends up looking like the new renderings, it's kinda pretty too.
In fact, the only information anywhere about Dragon Age is what was in the article. That is: It's developed by Bioware, they've cooked up their own game world and system, it's fantasy, and they're showing it at E3.
Personally, I'm intrigued. It's too much to hope that it'd be a throwback to the Baldur's Gate days - especially since the defunct Black Isle was the one who did the content for it. Hopefully the game will be more along the lines of the Witch's Wake minimodule for NWN than the OC.
The people developing the game is NetDevil, who already have one (sorta) successful MMPOG under their belt in Jumpgate. It's only sorta successful because it's only got about 60 players on at peak hours. It's still sorta successful because they haven't shut it down or stopped development on it.
PvP looks like it's limited to arenas where you can complete different missions while pitted against a different team. They mention Capture the Flag in the article. The article says that both Garriot and Long are highly against non-consentual PvP (I wonder how UO got it, then? Maybe they just didn't think it would happen), so I doubt huge sieges or anything of the such will be happening in the game.
Err, there's a wide range of porn in Japan. There is lots of artistic softcore (and even some hardcore) porn out there. Just because there's some porn about rape, and some about tentacle monsters, does not mean it all is.
Everyone here has focused on this technology being applied to the whole body in porn. Only about 3/4 of the time in the really raunchy films are constantly on superclose penetration, and that's all that really needs to be CG'd to become completely safe for the actors and actresses. This AIDs epidemic might actually lead to more artful porn (look at how the Japanese adapted to fierce censorship laws - ignoring bukkake and underground porn, a lot of their porn is more artsy and polished than american porn).
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Even things like news (especially the war coverage) are very polished, glamorized and very unreal.
That's why todays truly mobile processors (look at the crusoe) are faster and cooler than a pentium pro , right?
Smaller processes will not be the end-all be-all of chip design in the future. In order to get to that future, we have to get smaller, faster, and hotter - and then we will design ways for that smaller, faster, and hotter chip to run cooler. Energy efficiency is where the performance will be in 10-20 years, because everyone will do calculations at more or less the same speed.
Except going sideways doesn't gain much ground, except in very specific applications.
And those applications simply aren't on the end user's side. The only way I can see multiple processors becoming the norm is if we move to single-computer multiple-terminal systems in the home. One set top box provides tv and console functionality while wireless terminals around the house provide productivity and internet and other gaming. Higher performance wouldn't mean more triangles or shader power or processing power anymore; higher performance would mean more gaming terminals.
At the risk of getting modded offtopic, I think the trend in CPUs is going to change dramatically soon, much the same way it has with video cards. Except, in a slightly different direction.
Instead of getting faster, the direction they need to be going is getting less expensive to produce, less power requirements, and less heat output.
Well, my community college is one of the flagship colleges chosen to explore curriculum for a high performance computing option. here is our curriculm.
should not review the software that comes with it - it should be focused around what is unique to that distribution. Let me explain a bit more:
There's linux. There's a kernel. Then there's a bunch of other software out there, like openoffice, xmms, eclipse, ad nauseum. Just about every distribution comes with the same basic set of software. Reviews certainly should assess whether it works on all sorts of hardware, whether tricks need to be made for raid to work, and if applications are in spots that make sense (OpenOffice.org under Productivity or somesuch instead of under CoffeeBeans in the KlutterDE menu).
However, the first and foremost item that should be reviewed: what makes this distribution different from the plethora of other distributions, and does this exalted feature work as specified? Gentoo's emerge. Debian's apt-get. Lindows' litigation magnet. To this -day- I do not know what makes RedHat preferable to Mandrake in terms of feature set, and RedHat's main offices are not ten miles from my house. I know that RPMs are a pain in the butt to work with, and that with a few tricks just about any other distribution can use them - so what makes it tick? Every once and a while I hear something float around about it being more stable: compared to a self-built slackware machine? compared to an optimized Gentoo build?
That's what a review should focus on: what (if anything) a distribution can deliver that no other distribution can. And if it can't, tell the reader that it doesn't. That's what I look for in other reviews (will this book actually cover what I need to know? does it provide a unique entertainment value? what makes this game stand out from the other games just like it, and is it good or bad features that make it stand out?), and truly what needs to be covered in distribution reviews. If it's ease of use, I want comparative studies with noobs. If it's stability, I want comparative studies with expert installs of other distributions. If it's package delivering tools, I want it compared. First and foremost do I want features to be compared: because even if they run, if they don't run as good as something else... why should I be running it?
I'm a realtive noob to Linux. Okay, now that that's off my chest:
The first time I tried Linux was Mandrake 7. That was quite some time ago, and there was a large gap between then and my current linux usage - primarily because I couldn't figure crap out. Mainly because I didn't know how to use documentation. It's a little bit different now.
My reintroduction to Linux was by a friend off of irc. He suggested I use Debian. I said 'hey, sure, why not.' I had a spare computer, so I did. Install went off without a hitch, he told me to not install any extra packages with tasksel or anything, and helped me through figuring out apt-get. After that, I was home-free. I loved it. I set up gnome 2.4, learned how to recompile my kernel.
In the High Performance Computing course at school, we use strictly Red Hat machines. I tried to work through the graphical install. I really did. I got frustrated at their hard drive partitioner because it wouldn't let me decide where on the hard drive the partition was going to go (Beginning or end of free space, etc). And then when it prompted me for a root password, it wouldn't let me type anything in (the box was ghosted). I will never use a graphical install again.
Since my reintroduction to linux via debian, I have installed debian on four different machines. Most recently on a cdrom-less laptop with three diskettes. I'm not the smartest guy out there - I go to a community college, I get pretty average grades, and I watch porn like everyone else. If I can figure out the debian installer.. why can't other people?
Most of the menus aren't useful if you aren't running a special type of system that needs special attention. If you don't know what a menu is, look at the documentation. If you don't know what device name your hardware uses, try googling for it before hand (or during if you have a second computer). More recent installers (even the three-diskette one) auto-detected my hardware very accurately. My last install (knoppix-based, for fun) never did get x video acceleration working with the neomagic chipset - but the real debian installer did.
I'm just a freshman community college kid. I don't understand what's so hard about the debian installer... will someone enlighten me with specific problems they've had?
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And this is different from the US how? The Dixie Chicks mentioned their disagreement with the government and their musical careers are over. It may not be a taboo via government regulations, but if you say something too unpopular, you can get burned just as bad in the US. If not worse.
That's why we're allowed to go to Cuba and buy all the cigars we want while there, eh? The government can put sanctions on countries - we did with Iraq, we have with Cuba... And that generally means that what US citizens do there is very controlled.
If you put gnome on it, with a nice shiny interface and easy to use buttons, etc, I'd say linux is the best way to go with this. It'll last the longest, use the least ammount of battery, and if you keep the root password (unless they for some reason have a linux guru, who asks for the root password) after installing everything, they can't delete any system files on accident.
The same does not go for any version of Windows before NT.
Silicon Graphics machines have always been a pleasure to behold. As far back as I've seen pictures of them, anyways :D
It looks like those plastic fisher price cars trendy parents bought their toddlers 12 years ago.
A high school near my home, which a friend of mine used to attend, used some kind of cell phone jammer because of the issues they were having with students answering phones during class time. It was rather annoying when I needed to use my cell phone on their campus at an after school function (awards ceremony).
My experience with the (non-optimized, un-configurable) leaked alpha was that it was very choppy on my p3-800mhz / geforce3 ti200. I'm betting that if some of the eye candy was turned off, it would work fine with my configuration. Granted, I need to upgrade - but alas, education comes first. Gameplay in the leaked alpha, by the way, was decently smooth until a creature came on the screen, and then it got rather choppy. Decently smooth by survival horror standards, not twitchy quake-3 standards.
a Beowulf! Seriously, if these things hit market before I get enough money to upgrade my computer.. I'm gonna buy one of these to salvage for upgrade parts.
When was it ever Linux? As far back as I can remember, it's been XP embedded.
Considering it's basically a computer anyway, I'm guessing this is what's going to happen:
Someone is going to open it up and find out how to connect an optical (or diskette) drive to the machine. Given that they're using a PC CPU, GPU, and the nForce2 motherboard, I'm guessing that's going to be pretty easy. Maybe you wouldn't be able to salvage the games that you're renting from them (indeed, that's what Phantom's game service is touted to be... blockbuster for PC titles), but it's a decently powerful PC for only 200 bucks. And if it ends up looking like the new renderings, it's kinda pretty too.
I'm suprised no one else has commented on the new design depicted in the article. They're definitely digital renderings.
So they missed their first proposed launch date, and have since scrapped their origional design entirely, including the box.
Personally, I think they've already got a valid (as per SCO) business model in suing people and providing On-Demand Console (via JPEGs on news sites).
In fact, the only information anywhere about Dragon Age is what was in the article. That is: It's developed by Bioware, they've cooked up their own game world and system, it's fantasy, and they're showing it at E3.
Personally, I'm intrigued. It's too much to hope that it'd be a throwback to the Baldur's Gate days - especially since the defunct Black Isle was the one who did the content for it. Hopefully the game will be more along the lines of the Witch's Wake minimodule for NWN than the OC.
The people developing the game is NetDevil, who already have one (sorta) successful MMPOG under their belt in Jumpgate. It's only sorta successful because it's only got about 60 players on at peak hours. It's still sorta successful because they haven't shut it down or stopped development on it.
PvP looks like it's limited to arenas where you can complete different missions while pitted against a different team. They mention Capture the Flag in the article. The article says that both Garriot and Long are highly against non-consentual PvP (I wonder how UO got it, then? Maybe they just didn't think it would happen), so I doubt huge sieges or anything of the such will be happening in the game.
Which is the reason you could send in a receipt if you bought a music cd between certain dates, and get money back. Because of price fixing.
Err, there's a wide range of porn in Japan. There is lots of artistic softcore (and even some hardcore) porn out there. Just because there's some porn about rape, and some about tentacle monsters, does not mean it all is.
Everyone here has focused on this technology being applied to the whole body in porn. Only about 3/4 of the time in the really raunchy films are constantly on superclose penetration, and that's all that really needs to be CG'd to become completely safe for the actors and actresses. This AIDs epidemic might actually lead to more artful porn (look at how the Japanese adapted to fierce censorship laws - ignoring bukkake and underground porn, a lot of their porn is more artsy and polished than american porn).
That's why todays truly mobile processors (look at the crusoe) are faster and cooler than a pentium pro , right?
Smaller processes will not be the end-all be-all of chip design in the future. In order to get to that future, we have to get smaller, faster, and hotter - and then we will design ways for that smaller, faster, and hotter chip to run cooler. Energy efficiency is where the performance will be in 10-20 years, because everyone will do calculations at more or less the same speed.
Except going sideways doesn't gain much ground, except in very specific applications.
And those applications simply aren't on the end user's side. The only way I can see multiple processors becoming the norm is if we move to single-computer multiple-terminal systems in the home. One set top box provides tv and console functionality while wireless terminals around the house provide productivity and internet and other gaming. Higher performance wouldn't mean more triangles or shader power or processing power anymore; higher performance would mean more gaming terminals.
At the risk of getting modded offtopic, I think the trend in CPUs is going to change dramatically soon, much the same way it has with video cards. Except, in a slightly different direction. Instead of getting faster, the direction they need to be going is getting less expensive to produce, less power requirements, and less heat output.
Well, my community college is one of the flagship colleges chosen to explore curriculum for a high performance computing option. here is our curriculm.
should not review the software that comes with it - it should be focused around what is unique to that distribution. Let me explain a bit more:
There's linux. There's a kernel. Then there's a bunch of other software out there, like openoffice, xmms, eclipse, ad nauseum. Just about every distribution comes with the same basic set of software. Reviews certainly should assess whether it works on all sorts of hardware, whether tricks need to be made for raid to work, and if applications are in spots that make sense (OpenOffice.org under Productivity or somesuch instead of under CoffeeBeans in the KlutterDE menu).
However, the first and foremost item that should be reviewed: what makes this distribution different from the plethora of other distributions, and does this exalted feature work as specified? Gentoo's emerge. Debian's apt-get. Lindows' litigation magnet. To this -day- I do not know what makes RedHat preferable to Mandrake in terms of feature set, and RedHat's main offices are not ten miles from my house. I know that RPMs are a pain in the butt to work with, and that with a few tricks just about any other distribution can use them - so what makes it tick? Every once and a while I hear something float around about it being more stable: compared to a self-built slackware machine? compared to an optimized Gentoo build?
That's what a review should focus on: what (if anything) a distribution can deliver that no other distribution can. And if it can't, tell the reader that it doesn't. That's what I look for in other reviews (will this book actually cover what I need to know? does it provide a unique entertainment value? what makes this game stand out from the other games just like it, and is it good or bad features that make it stand out?), and truly what needs to be covered in distribution reviews. If it's ease of use, I want comparative studies with noobs. If it's stability, I want comparative studies with expert installs of other distributions. If it's package delivering tools, I want it compared. First and foremost do I want features to be compared: because even if they run, if they don't run as good as something else... why should I be running it?
I'm a realtive noob to Linux. Okay, now that that's off my chest:
The first time I tried Linux was Mandrake 7. That was quite some time ago, and there was a large gap between then and my current linux usage - primarily because I couldn't figure crap out. Mainly because I didn't know how to use documentation. It's a little bit different now.
My reintroduction to Linux was by a friend off of irc. He suggested I use Debian. I said 'hey, sure, why not.' I had a spare computer, so I did. Install went off without a hitch, he told me to not install any extra packages with tasksel or anything, and helped me through figuring out apt-get. After that, I was home-free. I loved it. I set up gnome 2.4, learned how to recompile my kernel.
In the High Performance Computing course at school, we use strictly Red Hat machines. I tried to work through the graphical install. I really did. I got frustrated at their hard drive partitioner because it wouldn't let me decide where on the hard drive the partition was going to go (Beginning or end of free space, etc). And then when it prompted me for a root password, it wouldn't let me type anything in (the box was ghosted). I will never use a graphical install again.
Since my reintroduction to linux via debian, I have installed debian on four different machines. Most recently on a cdrom-less laptop with three diskettes. I'm not the smartest guy out there - I go to a community college, I get pretty average grades, and I watch porn like everyone else. If I can figure out the debian installer.. why can't other people?
Most of the menus aren't useful if you aren't running a special type of system that needs special attention. If you don't know what a menu is, look at the documentation. If you don't know what device name your hardware uses, try googling for it before hand (or during if you have a second computer). More recent installers (even the three-diskette one) auto-detected my hardware very accurately. My last install (knoppix-based, for fun) never did get x video acceleration working with the neomagic chipset - but the real debian installer did.
I'm just a freshman community college kid. I don't understand what's so hard about the debian installer... will someone enlighten me with specific problems they've had?