Chris Peters bought the PBA (Professional Bowlers Association), while Stephanie DeVaan founded a political action committee and Rich Tong founded Ignition Partners, a VC firm
Those were the ones that I felt spent their money foolishly. Personally, I planned to make my money really make a difference, so I invested it in RAMBUS's RDRam, SCO's OpenLinux, and those great people at Maui eXtreem that brought us CherryOS, to just name a few. I also have some money in some really rather secret business, but I can tell you this much... apparently a prince somehow somewhere is being locked captive in a sewer ditch, twelve KM outside of Falusia, Iraq, but he managed to get to a terminal somehow, find me, and ask for some assistance. I stand to make millions by helping this individual simply move his money to a safe place. Now that is smart business.
Soon I will be on TV telling Donald Trump, "YOURE FIRED..... NIGGA!"
When I was using computers in school, in the "IBM Labs" (as opposed to the mac and apple IIe labs), with a bit-o-norton utilities, we could easily hide games in directories hidden by screwing with some fat table entries. This, of course, was only possible, because even with Novell in place, there wasn't a way to lock things down.
With linux, I can imagine this will be completely different... until the kiddo's start watching bugtraq for local root exploits:/
When I am on the crapper, and my wife asks me "What is the IP address of our FTP server?" (or something), it is a lot easier to respond "one nine two dot one six eight dot one dot two ten" then "three eff eff eee colon eff eff eff eff colon zero one zero zero colon eff one zero one colon zero two ten colon aye four eff eff colon eff eee eee three colon nine five six six"
When in Windows, you can't cahnge your IPv6 address like you are familiar with, under network settings->TCP/IP... you have to use some obscure command line tools
If we were willing to takeup changes... even if they mean a more efficient system, why do we still use the same email system?
NAT am wonderful
I don't necessarily want my refigerator and TV to be uniquely identifyable
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH GNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. It appears to have infected CmdrTaco and now the news is being held hostage!!!!!!!!??!?!?!!!!
1) Infect news site and hold "stories" hostage 2) Hold a slashpoll to see if anyone noticed 3)... 4) PROFIT!
Both of those scenes were in the theater version... I remember them distinctly. They are also in the VHS release I have... and the Phillips pressed CD-i VCD. And my wal-mart DVD HAS NO side two.
The only think that got debunked here is your pride. Please drive through.
Sure. The whole part where the monkey comes to Job's house (Job thinks he is CyboMan), then he gets blown to smitherines... that was taken out.
When Job later is all twisted and Evil and he goes and makes the doctors wife go out and start shooting at the men in black, while they blow her to bits.... that part is removed as well.
I learned this crap the hard way. Back when Wal-mart started having their bins-o-DVDs for cheap, in the hillbilly hills of somewheres, I was able to get them for $4 a piece... and while I didnt LOVE everything I bought, the movies were well worth $4 (or so I thought).
Then I started watching them... and noticed DUBBING over some swear words... WHAT THE HELL? Scenes were missing... the same ones that USA or TNT would cut out (In the Lawnmower man, the only GOOD parts were removed). Needless to say, I was SO furious, I too refuse to shop at the place
Translating Jungfrau to "Virgin" was the same mistake made in the old testament translations. Now we have a world of ignorants who believe a woman had a miracle birth without the nookie, simply because there wasnt much effort put into seperating the term "Young Woman" with virgin
Pronounceable acronyms are rediculous (almost as much so as the multitude of worthles acronyms).
I want to MURDER people who say "Sequel" instead of S-Q-L, "Say-Taa" instead of S-A-T-A, and especially "ERRRRRK" instead of I-R-C.
If the acronym was intended to be pronounced, the author would have done something like the SAMBA project, where SMB was the acronym, but they filled in the blanks to actually MAKE it a word.
The boot sector must be loaded from a primary partition, this is true. The bios first looks at the MBR, then the boot sector of Primary Partition 0 on disk 0, and so on...
Now, booting an OS that resides on a non-primary partition requires what is called a two-stage boot loader, and it does exactally what you think it would. Both NTLDR and lilo (among most others) work this way. The boot sector contains JUST ENOUGH code to find the second stage boot loader (reading a file, looking on the root of all partition, whatever), load it, and set the execution point.
Hope this helps
Re:Better graphics = more realistic games right?
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First you got to get a game willing to actually implement some good gut splattering. Hell, even Quake with its not so great graphics by todays standards, would be simply terrific if I could splatter my opponents ass to a wall and write my name in the bloody mess for all too see.
The "Console Optimization" isn't anything special like you make it out to be. More or less, you have a consistant platform. You can do hardware shortcuts to increase speed, without the worry of incompatibilities.
What makes games on the PC for instance require a lot more power is it is NOT the only application running on the machine AND the multitudes of abstraction needed to give a consistant programming interface.
From a developer standpoint, I enjoyed GLIDE a lot more then OpenGL, and multitudes more then Direct3D. I believe it didn't stick, simply because, unlike the other two, it didn't progress much, and Creative made sure it wasn't a general hardware API.
Your application doth NOT need be multithreaded. As a matter of fact, processes are light in most Unixes and clones, so often you will find that applications take advantage of SMP via multiple processes and some sort of IPC mechanism, such as shared memory.
This is one of the sadder things about projects such as OpenSSI and Mosix. Only whole processes can be migrated to another node... not threads.
"There are a lot of great games on the mac... like warcraft 3.................. uh.......... um..... that puzzle game with the apple logo! THATS a great game. I... I beat it, but it's still fun."
"The confusing thing about PC's is you go to the store, and there are just SO MANY games. EVERYWHERE you look! But on the mac... there are just six."
I think the "bitching" stems from the fact that X requires a seemingly unrelated subsystem to be functional.
I could be talking out of my ass here, but I would expect that what one would REALLY want is abstration at the DISPATCHING level... use some mechanism to dispatch the communication between the client and server, then an OS with no need for networking could use X by replacing the implementation with
Sony is notorious for coming up with useful, and often superior technology, while at the same time ignoring the actual markets demands that they are targeting.
I think the point is (This is mere speculation, mind you), when I go to a similarly described IRC channel, and say "Im having problems with X, does anyone have any ideas or some pointer to some documentation", I get the same "RTFM" "google" etc along with the hate. Treating one like an incompotent right off the bat is the mistake.
the beginning of the end. Not that I actually like the game mind you (Id rather play jezzball), but MMORPGs took their que from this beast. May it rest in pieces.
Oracle is slower then hooking up a Tab delimted file as a linked table through an access database. Oracle has never been speedy. Its been about being able to handle the load of millions of transactions a second.
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Chris Peters bought the PBA (Professional Bowlers Association), while Stephanie DeVaan founded a political action committee and Rich Tong founded Ignition Partners, a VC firm
Those were the ones that I felt spent their money foolishly. Personally, I planned to make my money really make a difference, so I invested it in RAMBUS's RDRam, SCO's OpenLinux, and those great people at Maui eXtreem that brought us CherryOS, to just name a few. I also have some money in some really rather secret business, but I can tell you this much... apparently a prince somehow somewhere is being locked captive in a sewer ditch, twelve KM outside of Falusia, Iraq, but he managed to get to a terminal somehow, find me, and ask for some assistance. I stand to make millions by helping this individual simply move his money to a safe place. Now that is smart business.
Soon I will be on TV telling Donald Trump, "YOURE FIRED..... NIGGA!"
When I was using computers in school, in the "IBM Labs" (as opposed to the mac and apple IIe labs), with a bit-o-norton utilities, we could easily hide games in directories hidden by screwing with some fat table entries. This, of course, was only possible, because even with Novell in place, there wasn't a way to lock things down.
:/
With linux, I can imagine this will be completely different... until the kiddo's start watching bugtraq for local root exploits
http://www.gnustep.org/
Problem solved.
Nothing for you to see here. Please move along.
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OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH GNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. It appears to have infected CmdrTaco and now the news is being held hostage!!!!!!!!??!?!?!!!!
1) Infect news site and hold "stories" hostage
2) Hold a slashpoll to see if anyone noticed
3)
4) PROFIT!
Sorry Sancho...
Both of those scenes were in the theater version... I remember them distinctly. They are also in the VHS release I have... and the Phillips pressed CD-i VCD. And my wal-mart DVD HAS NO side two.
The only think that got debunked here is your pride. Please drive through.
Sure. The whole part where the monkey comes to Job's house (Job thinks he is CyboMan), then he gets blown to smitherines... that was taken out.
When Job later is all twisted and Evil and he goes and makes the doctors wife go out and start shooting at the men in black, while they blow her to bits.... that part is removed as well.
kthx
I learned this crap the hard way. Back when Wal-mart started having their bins-o-DVDs for cheap, in the hillbilly hills of somewheres, I was able to get them for $4 a piece... and while I didnt LOVE everything I bought, the movies were well worth $4 (or so I thought).
Then I started watching them... and noticed DUBBING over some swear words... WHAT THE HELL? Scenes were missing... the same ones that USA or TNT would cut out (In the Lawnmower man, the only GOOD parts were removed). Needless to say, I was SO furious, I too refuse to shop at the place
Translating Jungfrau to "Virgin" was the same mistake made in the old testament translations. Now we have a world of ignorants who believe a woman had a miracle birth without the nookie, simply because there wasnt much effort put into seperating the term "Young Woman" with virgin
Pronounceable acronyms are rediculous (almost as much so as the multitude of worthles acronyms).
I want to MURDER people who say "Sequel" instead of S-Q-L, "Say-Taa" instead of S-A-T-A, and especially "ERRRRRK" instead of I-R-C.
If the acronym was intended to be pronounced, the author would have done something like the SAMBA project, where SMB was the acronym, but they filled in the blanks to actually MAKE it a word.
The boot sector must be loaded from a primary partition, this is true. The bios first looks at the MBR, then the boot sector of Primary Partition 0 on disk 0, and so on...
Now, booting an OS that resides on a non-primary partition requires what is called a two-stage boot loader, and it does exactally what you think it would. Both NTLDR and lilo (among most others) work this way. The boot sector contains JUST ENOUGH code to find the second stage boot loader (reading a file, looking on the root of all partition, whatever), load it, and set the execution point.
Hope this helps
First you got to get a game willing to actually implement some good gut splattering. Hell, even Quake with its not so great graphics by todays standards, would be simply terrific if I could splatter my opponents ass to a wall and write my name in the bloody mess for all too see.
The "Console Optimization" isn't anything special like you make it out to be. More or less, you have a consistant platform. You can do hardware shortcuts to increase speed, without the worry of incompatibilities.
What makes games on the PC for instance require a lot more power is it is NOT the only application running on the machine AND the multitudes of abstraction needed to give a consistant programming interface.
Hey, dont KNOCK GLIDE.
From a developer standpoint, I enjoyed GLIDE a lot more then OpenGL, and multitudes more then Direct3D. I believe it didn't stick, simply because, unlike the other two, it didn't progress much, and Creative made sure it wasn't a general hardware API.
Your application doth NOT need be multithreaded. As a matter of fact, processes are light in most Unixes and clones, so often you will find that applications take advantage of SMP via multiple processes and some sort of IPC mechanism, such as shared memory.
This is one of the sadder things about projects such as OpenSSI and Mosix. Only whole processes can be migrated to another node... not threads.
...what would happen if these class of people would be better off putting this kind of effort into getting laid
I hate replying to myself, but for the people who didn't get it:
http://www.unknowngeek.com/files/macgamer.mov
"There are a lot of great games on the mac... like warcraft 3.................. uh .......... um..... that puzzle game with the apple logo! THATS a great game. I... I beat it, but it's still fun."
"The confusing thing about PC's is you go to the store, and there are just SO MANY games. EVERYWHERE you look! But on the mac... there are just six."
One of the greatest advantages of "911" is that my two year old daughter, can call it without trouble. We hear stories like that occasionally.
Now imagine the effectiveness of 911 when you have to also teach the concept of area codes.
I think the "bitching" stems from the fact that X requires a seemingly unrelated subsystem to be functional.
I could be talking out of my ass here, but I would expect that what one would REALLY want is abstration at the DISPATCHING level... use some mechanism to dispatch the communication between the client and server, then an OS with no need for networking could use X by replacing the implementation with
Sony is notorious for coming up with useful, and often superior technology, while at the same time ignoring the actual markets demands that they are targeting.
See betamax and minidiscs
I think the point is (This is mere speculation, mind you), when I go to a similarly described IRC channel, and say "Im having problems with X, does anyone have any ideas or some pointer to some documentation", I get the same "RTFM" "google" etc along with the hate. Treating one like an incompotent right off the bat is the mistake.
The same way that a Hamburger is made of ham...
the beginning of the end. Not that I actually like the game mind you (Id rather play jezzball), but MMORPGs took their que from this beast. May it rest in pieces.
Apples to rocks my friend.
Oracle is slower then hooking up a Tab delimted file as a linked table through an access database. Oracle has never been speedy. Its been about being able to handle the load of millions of transactions a second.