I think, by any definition I am familiar with, we can safely rule out that particular claim.
Besides, maybe the best hackers in the world never shower, shave once a week, wear 10 year old T-shirts with stains, and (as a consequence maybe) haven't had sex in 5 years, or never at all.
Should we still follow their livestyle blindly ? I don't think so. So it doesn't matter which language the Uberhackers use, who cares if they use Perl, Python or Ruby. I use what I am most familiar and productive in myself.
I'd still rather Play a game I like for 150 hours than a game I like for 20 hours. =)
I disagree. I have a job, I'm home at 7pm, then I have a few hours to do a lot of things.
I installed Diablo II last sunday (old but good), and played it for 6 hours, quit when I moved from act 1 to act 2. Now RPG's are games which require you to have a lot of hours to waste. Assuming I don't have 2x10 hours to waste on it in the weekend, I could play it for on average 1 hour/evening. If it takes 200 hours of treadmilling to build up stats and gather gold/items it would take me more than half a year.
I have played games like Morrowind, Neverwinter Nights etc. occasionally for a few months until I abandoned them, sure I feel I am probably halfway there, but it still doesn't feel good.
On the other hand, I have finished Call of Duty, most games of this kind are considered too short, but that feels a lot better.
There are also games that do not offer a goal and are are not useless when completed. Sports games and racing games are games you can just play for half an hour and keep their value. Playing a few quick races in Colin McRae 4 feels a lot better than playing an RPG for half an hour and gaining 1 level of strength.
If a game promises me 200 hours of gameplay, it is probably a plus for unemployed persons and teenagers/students and a turnoff for people who just don't 200 hours to waste.
They should have named it GeekoBSD, then it would have gotten some attention. Right now it looks just like a useless fork that some guy Ekko did just to boost his ego.
You are right I should have said there is no 'ii' plural. If the 'i' is before the 'us' like radius it becomes radii but that is then radi-i, the i's are together by coincidence, they do not belong together.
Right, the original RTCW (released christmas 2001) sucked in singleplayer. I realised that immediately when I started playing, you start in a corridor, and the doorknobs are just above eye height. What the fuck is that ?? Single player just wasn't any fun, first levels were easy, but when you started fighting the monsters in the church it became an endless reload chore after random deaths. The only good thing was the forest level.
Multiplayer was OK, if you could stand your teammates destroying everything you just repaired as an engineer.
But right after RTCW came Medal of Honor, feb 2002 I recall. And that just blew it away. Better graphics, better gameplay, better multiplayer, proper German speech, a decent storyline, more interesting levels. Plus you could play multiplayer with a warezed copy where RTCW had a cdkey check. Apart from the grenade problem (everyone starts with 5, and especially with 20 players they keep on throwing grenades everywhere) MoH multiplayer has been rock solid for years.
The word 'virii' never existed in Latin.
The plural for 'virus' can be 'viri', but since the plural of 'vir' is also 'viri' even the old Romans avoided 'viri' as plural for 'virus'.
Ending a word with 'ii' is not Latin, it's not common in any language. It's as obnoxious as writing Micro$oft.
Tragic but true. I have a Linux partition for when I want to tinker with stuff, a Windows partition for games (like I'm going to trust it with anything else) and a Mac laptop for actually getting work done...
Don't you just hate people that post on Slashdot just to talk endlessly about themselves and their computers ? I doubt anyone cares how many PC's you have and which OS'es you run on them.
The USA does the same thing, Lockheed Martin converts old Titan missiles for satellite launching purposes. See this story for some pictures.
Michael Moore featured this plant in his movie, calling it a weapons factory that makes weapons of mass destruction. When someone challenged him about this, he said that such a rocket could launch a spy satellite that could be the one that starts a war, so he still thinks it's justified to call satellite-launching rockets "weapons of mass destruction".
Fuck it. I'm going to the cinema with my SO tomorrow, time to get round to buy a laser pointer.
The next minimum-wage spotty cinema attendant who tries to spy on us with night vision goggles is gonna find out what a life with smoking holes where his retinas were is like.
You are considering inflicting permanent damage on a mere employee, who is just ordered to do his job by a manager ? Who's the real criminal now.
It's quite clear the Celeron is a POS (and I don't mean point of sale). Try to remember this is Slashdot, where the majority of readers understand benchmarks and value.
Nice troll. This is Slashdot, where the majority of readers base their opinion on gut feeling, whether a company is 'cool' or not, and behave like fanboys. They push benchmarks that support their favourite, and ignore those that are not in their favour.
Also, if you say that it's clear that the Celeron is shit, you seem to have formed an opinion already regardless of facts. A $40 CPU can be competitive compared to a recent $200 pentium 4, if you aren't a power user and just want to browse, chat and run Office. Sure, the first Celeron 266 was shit, the 300A and 333 were cool because of their full-speed cache. Coppermine Celerons that could be run at 100 MHz FSB were incredible because of very low price and decent performance. Some Pentium IV based ones were mediocre performers, yes. But if this one burns the Athlon XP 2400+, shouldn't you form a honest benchmarked-based opinion that includes price/performance, instead of denouncing it as 'shit' without arguments ? That just exposes you as an AMD fanboy who will manipulate the facts just to badmouth Intel.
Gold masters are from the era that cdr's were always gold colored. Pirates still refer to pressed discs as 'silvers', to distinguish them from burned cd's.
So no, you cannot melt it, it's just a cdr with the final to-be-duplicated game on it.
I tried to download 70 MB of mp3's as a torrent. It downloaded 70 MB until it reached 99%. Since then it has downloaded 50 MB more, but keeps on 99%. It's been running for over a week now, taunting me with 'time remaining 0 min 45 sec' or similar, but never actually finishing.
Actually I believe it was about OS/370 ?
The main point was that when a team makes a first OS, it'll be small, fast, elegant, essentials-only. When they then make their second OS, it will have all the 'cool' features in it that they scrapped in the first one, and the result will be a bloated, slow, complex and buggy monster.
See this paper by Hugues Hoppe, presented to ACM SIGGRAPH in 1996. It's the same thing. Progressive meshes have been implemented in the D3DX library for years already.
So hang on a second. When Half Life 2 is released and I pay money for it, if I then _share_ my copy of the CD with a friend, is that then stealing? Yes? No? If it were a music CD and not a software CD would it be any different?
So, letting a friend copy a music CD is ok, but we're cool that copying a software CD is theft.
Funny how there's a double-standard there. Geeks get the software thing but view music differently.
Yes that double standard is the license. It's ok to lend a music CD or a game CD to a friend. He may make a copy of it (at least in the Netherlands, if you have the original you may make a copy even if it's someone elses or from the library).
But he can't install the game from the CD copy, that would be an unlicenced and illegal copy on his harddrive.
Also you have the freedom to make a copy, not the right to make a copy. Those things are different. If you have a right, a company cannot stop you or take away your rights. A freedom means that if you can copy it, you can, but if you cannot (because your equipment or software is inadequate), they you're shit out of luck.
Copyright doesn't really protect against making a copy, it's meant to protect authors against unauthorized publications or people claiming they wrote your work.
I remember this game missed the christmas 2001 release date and came out in february 2002. I doubt this is what Linux needs, more quake 3 based games.
After all, games were held back between 1999 and 2002 because of all the quake 3 based games. Only recently have companies released games that were a real step forward graphically, like NOLF2, Far Cry, UT2003/2004, etc.
Amazing, 800 replies, and all of them take the slashdot-modified version of the story for granted.
Look at the patent itself. It says: Time based hardware button for application launch Abstract
A method and system are provided for extending the functionality of application buttons on a limited resource computing device. Alternative application functions are launched based on the length of time an application button is pressed.
First of all, it speaks of a HARDWARE button ! This has NOTHING to do with Windows, mice or an operating system !!
Second, it mentions a limited resource computing device again NOT a PC with Windows !
So get your facts straight and stop pretending this is about Windows or the Mac !
Obviously the site is a console site, with no real knowledge of which PC games raised the bar graphically. Their examples are games that were not spectacular, or games nobody heard of. When talking about effective use of lighting and dark areas in games one should at least mention Doom.
When talking about water effects, Morrowind was one of the first games to offer real looking water (at the time, now it looks too oily and a bit oldfashioned). A game like Aquanox was the first to really use shaders (and was offered for free with many dx8 cards), although it was boring.
Unfortunately games have stood still for a few years because of the popularity of the Q3 engine. From 1999 till 2003 the best games were made using modified Quake 3 arena engines, and even though the games were great (Elite force, soldier of fortune 2, medal of honor, call of duty) they did tend to look alike. In the meantime cards were getting faster and had more features, but because of OpenGL most games just used them as really fast TNT cards. Hardware T&L was a great invention but nobody really noticed.
Um... HUH?? The K6-2 and especially later the K6-3 ran RINGS around the same speed Pentium and P-II chips of the day?! What the heck are you talking about?!
Well maybe the K6-2 450 did, but by then super 7 boards like the Asus P5A-B were already disappearing from stores. And it wasn't overclock friendly, a 450 would more often fail than succeed to run at 500. The K6-3 was better, but even more on the edge, and was just too expensive.
Sure, the K6-2+ was a whole lot better, but it was way too late, and much too rare. It was nearly impossible to buy one of those.
Don't forget that mp3 is a standard that's approx. 10 years old, mpeg-1 layer 3.
I'm surprised that people still make claims like '128 kbit will always sound like crap' etc. while those too-broad claims apply only to mp3.
Superior encodings like ogg, wma, aac will encode at 64 kbit/s with the same results as 128 kbit/s mp3, FM radio quality. It's not cd quality and nobody will expect that.
At 128 kbit/s they will encode to almost-cd quality and you'd have to be an audiophile (if you're giving a real opinion based on facts) or a slashdotter (just making claims out of thin air to boast or to support your hidden agenda favourite 'cool' product) to claim otherwise.
Theregister is notoriously unreliable because they usually post unverified rumors. Sometimes they claim X, then a week later the opposite of X, then when the company releases any news, whether it's X or not X, they will boast about predicting it right by pointing to the right guess, while deleting the other one.
They are probably surprised that people still use it, despite its lackluster color support hacks (mirc-specific), old protocols that refuses to change (allowing wonderful things to enhance your chat experience like floods, nickfloods, people intentionally splitting the network to gain 'ops', an unusable channel list, and a screen full of mode changes), and slow nat-unfriendly filetransfers.
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I think, by any definition I am familiar with, we can safely rule out that particular claim. Besides, maybe the best hackers in the world never shower, shave once a week, wear 10 year old T-shirts with stains, and (as a consequence maybe) haven't had sex in 5 years, or never at all.
Should we still follow their livestyle blindly ? I don't think so. So it doesn't matter which language the Uberhackers use, who cares if they use Perl, Python or Ruby. I use what I am most familiar and productive in myself.
I disagree. I have a job, I'm home at 7pm, then I have a few hours to do a lot of things.
I installed Diablo II last sunday (old but good), and played it for 6 hours, quit when I moved from act 1 to act 2. Now RPG's are games which require you to have a lot of hours to waste. Assuming I don't have 2x10 hours to waste on it in the weekend, I could play it for on average 1 hour/evening. If it takes 200 hours of treadmilling to build up stats and gather gold/items it would take me more than half a year.
I have played games like Morrowind, Neverwinter Nights etc. occasionally for a few months until I abandoned them, sure I feel I am probably halfway there, but it still doesn't feel good.
On the other hand, I have finished Call of Duty, most games of this kind are considered too short, but that feels a lot better.
There are also games that do not offer a goal and are are not useless when completed. Sports games and racing games are games you can just play for half an hour and keep their value. Playing a few quick races in Colin McRae 4 feels a lot better than playing an RPG for half an hour and gaining 1 level of strength.
If a game promises me 200 hours of gameplay, it is probably a plus for unemployed persons and teenagers/students and a turnoff for people who just don't 200 hours to waste.
They should have named it GeekoBSD, then it would have gotten some attention. Right now it looks just like a useless fork that some guy Ekko did just to boost his ego.
You are right I should have said there is no 'ii' plural. If the 'i' is before the 'us' like radius it becomes radii but that is then radi-i, the i's are together by coincidence, they do not belong together.
Multiplayer was OK, if you could stand your teammates destroying everything you just repaired as an engineer.
But right after RTCW came Medal of Honor, feb 2002 I recall. And that just blew it away. Better graphics, better gameplay, better multiplayer, proper German speech, a decent storyline, more interesting levels. Plus you could play multiplayer with a warezed copy where RTCW had a cdkey check. Apart from the grenade problem (everyone starts with 5, and especially with 20 players they keep on throwing grenades everywhere) MoH multiplayer has been rock solid for years.
The word 'virii' never existed in Latin. The plural for 'virus' can be 'viri', but since the plural of 'vir' is also 'viri' even the old Romans avoided 'viri' as plural for 'virus'. Ending a word with 'ii' is not Latin, it's not common in any language. It's as obnoxious as writing Micro$oft.
Don't you just hate people that post on Slashdot just to talk endlessly about themselves and their computers ? I doubt anyone cares how many PC's you have and which OS'es you run on them.
The USA does the same thing, Lockheed Martin converts old Titan missiles for satellite launching purposes. See this story for some pictures.
Michael Moore featured this plant in his movie, calling it a weapons factory that makes weapons of mass destruction. When someone challenged him about this, he said that such a rocket could launch a spy satellite that could be the one that starts a war, so he still thinks it's justified to call satellite-launching rockets "weapons of mass destruction".
The next minimum-wage spotty cinema attendant who tries to spy on us with night vision goggles is gonna find out what a life with smoking holes where his retinas were is like.
You are considering inflicting permanent damage on a mere employee, who is just ordered to do his job by a manager ? Who's the real criminal now.
Nice troll. This is Slashdot, where the majority of readers base their opinion on gut feeling, whether a company is 'cool' or not, and behave like fanboys. They push benchmarks that support their favourite, and ignore those that are not in their favour.
Also, if you say that it's clear that the Celeron is shit, you seem to have formed an opinion already regardless of facts. A $40 CPU can be competitive compared to a recent $200 pentium 4, if you aren't a power user and just want to browse, chat and run Office. Sure, the first Celeron 266 was shit, the 300A and 333 were cool because of their full-speed cache. Coppermine Celerons that could be run at 100 MHz FSB were incredible because of very low price and decent performance. Some Pentium IV based ones were mediocre performers, yes. But if this one burns the Athlon XP 2400+, shouldn't you form a honest benchmarked-based opinion that includes price/performance, instead of denouncing it as 'shit' without arguments ? That just exposes you as an AMD fanboy who will manipulate the facts just to badmouth Intel.
Gold masters are from the era that cdr's were always gold colored. Pirates still refer to pressed discs as 'silvers', to distinguish them from burned cd's.
So no, you cannot melt it, it's just a cdr with the final to-be-duplicated game on it.
I tried to download 70 MB of mp3's as a torrent. It downloaded 70 MB until it reached 99%. Since then it has downloaded 50 MB more, but keeps on 99%. It's been running for over a week now, taunting me with 'time remaining 0 min 45 sec' or similar, but never actually finishing.
Actually I believe it was about OS/370 ? The main point was that when a team makes a first OS, it'll be small, fast, elegant, essentials-only. When they then make their second OS, it will have all the 'cool' features in it that they scrapped in the first one, and the result will be a bloated, slow, complex and buggy monster.
See this paper by Hugues Hoppe, presented to ACM SIGGRAPH in 1996. It's the same thing. Progressive meshes have been implemented in the D3DX library for years already.
So, letting a friend copy a music CD is ok, but we're cool that copying a software CD is theft.
Funny how there's a double-standard there. Geeks get the software thing but view music differently.
Yes that double standard is the license. It's ok to lend a music CD or a game CD to a friend. He may make a copy of it (at least in the Netherlands, if you have the original you may make a copy even if it's someone elses or from the library).
But he can't install the game from the CD copy, that would be an unlicenced and illegal copy on his harddrive.
Also you have the freedom to make a copy, not the right to make a copy. Those things are different. If you have a right, a company cannot stop you or take away your rights. A freedom means that if you can copy it, you can, but if you cannot (because your equipment or software is inadequate), they you're shit out of luck.
Copyright doesn't really protect against making a copy, it's meant to protect authors against unauthorized publications or people claiming they wrote your work.
I remember this game missed the christmas 2001 release date and came out in february 2002. I doubt this is what Linux needs, more quake 3 based games.
After all, games were held back between 1999 and 2002 because of all the quake 3 based games. Only recently have companies released games that were a real step forward graphically, like NOLF2, Far Cry, UT2003/2004, etc.
Look at the patent itself. It says:
Time based hardware button for application launch
Abstract
A method and system are provided for extending the functionality of application buttons on a limited resource computing device. Alternative application functions are launched based on the length of time an application button is pressed.
First of all, it speaks of a HARDWARE button ! This has NOTHING to do with Windows, mice or an operating system !!
Second, it mentions a limited resource computing device again NOT a PC with Windows !
So get your facts straight and stop pretending this is about Windows or the Mac !
Obviously the site is a console site, with no real knowledge of which PC games raised the bar graphically. Their examples are games that were not spectacular, or games nobody heard of. When talking about effective use of lighting and dark areas in games one should at least mention Doom. When talking about water effects, Morrowind was one of the first games to offer real looking water (at the time, now it looks too oily and a bit oldfashioned). A game like Aquanox was the first to really use shaders (and was offered for free with many dx8 cards), although it was boring. Unfortunately games have stood still for a few years because of the popularity of the Q3 engine. From 1999 till 2003 the best games were made using modified Quake 3 arena engines, and even though the games were great (Elite force, soldier of fortune 2, medal of honor, call of duty) they did tend to look alike. In the meantime cards were getting faster and had more features, but because of OpenGL most games just used them as really fast TNT cards. Hardware T&L was a great invention but nobody really noticed.
Well maybe the K6-2 450 did, but by then super 7 boards like the Asus P5A-B were already disappearing from stores. And it wasn't overclock friendly, a 450 would more often fail than succeed to run at 500. The K6-3 was better, but even more on the edge, and was just too expensive. Sure, the K6-2+ was a whole lot better, but it was way too late, and much too rare. It was nearly impossible to buy one of those.
I have used turkish lira last year yes. But they also take euro easily, in the tourist places at least.
Right. What's an italian lira ? It doesn't exist ! If a country or continent repaired a broken thing it's unfair to refer to it like it still exists.
I'm surprised that people still make claims like '128 kbit will always sound like crap' etc. while those too-broad claims apply only to mp3.
Superior encodings like ogg, wma, aac will encode at 64 kbit/s with the same results as 128 kbit/s mp3, FM radio quality. It's not cd quality and nobody will expect that.
At 128 kbit/s they will encode to almost-cd quality and you'd have to be an audiophile (if you're giving a real opinion based on facts) or a slashdotter (just making claims out of thin air to boast or to support your hidden agenda favourite 'cool' product) to claim otherwise.
Theregister is notoriously unreliable because they usually post unverified rumors. Sometimes they claim X, then a week later the opposite of X, then when the company releases any news, whether it's X or not X, they will boast about predicting it right by pointing to the right guess, while deleting the other one.
They are probably surprised that people still use it, despite its lackluster color support hacks (mirc-specific), old protocols that refuses to change (allowing wonderful things to enhance your chat experience like floods, nickfloods, people intentionally splitting the network to gain 'ops', an unusable channel list, and a screen full of mode changes), and slow nat-unfriendly filetransfers.
I've seen several articles at www.gamedev.net that said someone did this and it worked.