The final game has been revealed to be just over 16 GB. It was originally going to be 22 GB, but Insomniac cut out the PAL movies because NTSC movies can be "converted on the fly to look really good on PAL TVs". Ted Price also confirmed that there was a strong push to reduce disc size in order to shorten burn times during the testing period. The 16 GB of data for Resistance: Fall of Man has been put onto 25 GB Blu-Ray discs utilised by the PlayStation 3; making it the optimal system for Resistance to be on.
-- From Wikipedia
So already a launch title is almost filling up an entire BluRay disk (if it had included both PAL and NTSC video instead of converting NTSC on the fly). A single Dual Layer DVD wouldn't have been able to hold all of Resistance, and probably 2 wouldn't either (remember a good bit of the data would have to be on both disks!). Odds are as more games are developed for the PS3 more and more will come close to needing Dual Layer BluRay disks (50 GB).
Also your comment about the PS3 not being powerful enough makes ZERO sense (data transfer rate would have been a better argument...)
Playing the movies in Linux for one (the guy that created DeCSS did it for that very reason IIRC). And playing the movie on an iPod or other device is a legit reason (unless you think the person should ALSO buy the movie on DVD to put on the device). Another reason is to be able to make a backup of the movie (can't comment on HD-DVD/BluRay durability, but the durability of some DVDs is HORRIBLE, not to mention it is FAR more convenient to have the movie on your hard drive than floating around who knows where).
Also so you wouldn't have to watch the 10 minute 'COPING MOVIES IS ILLEGAL' or other advertisements at the start of a lot of DVDs (though I don't know if HD-DVD/BluRay have the same things, since I don't own any of the HD movies but figure they do or will).
Don't forget that after an analysis by a professional that Ken Brown hired told him there was ZERO evidence to support his claim that Linus stole code from Minix that he refused to believe her ( http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/brown/codecomparison/ ).
I'm pretty sure I remember reading an article on Slashdot a while back that Google was beginning to run out of space with their current infrastructure (though I think that was several data center announcements ago). Remember that Google pretty much makes their own copy of the internet, as well as having a crap load of data about every single site out there, has to store all the gmail email, all their adsense/adwords data for every customer, and most likely they store all that information in multiple places. Oh yes, can't forget about storing all the videos from youtube/google video, thats probably a LOT of data there, plus its most likely a massive amount of bandwidth as well.
If someone breaks your encryption key, your MAC filtering (no one calls them ACLs except maybe ACs that have no clue) will be useless since they then have at least one allowed MAC (most likely many more). MAC filtering is just to keep someone from accidentally connecting, not to keep someone that has half a clue out.
Yeah! And they should change the main color... maybe to a lightish red... Also maybe something to do with something that sounds like pennies... say... ponies...
Maybe slashdot is gonna do a 'reverse april fools' day, because they know no one will fall for their stuff, they're gonna put stuff that SOUNDS fake (of course they'll probably fall for ones and think they're real and submit it as if it was).
More often people use that in game rather than in the waiting rooms. I only remember a few people actually falling for it though (I don't remember exactly, but I believe it even asked for confirmation first!)
You can do more than just 'be a mounted camera' on the wall, you can still navigate all around inside an area thats 100% 'walled off' with your camera with zero problems (your camera has a limited range though, which is actually quite far). It was obviously intentional because for zones with limited parcel access (i.e. you used the permissions tool rather than thinking prims would block someone) you can't move through the 'unauthorized' wall.
Also if you can drop a scripted object somewhere, you can record everything anyone says within range of it and forward it to a website somewhere else or do whatever else you want with it. Second Life isn't as much a game as a platform.
Firefox's devs think threads suck and don't want to make Firefox thread safe.
Re:I hope they've fixed the memory hogging.
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Except 100 MB isn't normal for most browsers. I've had a Konqueror session open for around 17 days now (visiting lots of web pages in that time), and lets see the memory usage... 65,120 RSS! Thats Konqueror from KDE 3.5.6 on SuSE 10.1. 2 tabs are open right this second in that instance (neither very complex sites right now since I'm reading about printing to the computer's screen by using the VGA controller).
For comparison I just opened Firefox (2.0 or something, listed in about as "Gecko/20061023 SUSE/2.0-30 Firefox/2.0") and it opened to http://www.opensuse.org/ (default home page, I haven't customized or tweaked FF at all). The memory usage after letting it settle? RSS is 47,420! Lets just hope it doesn't rise too much (for comparison a newly started instance of Konqueror uses 28,888 RSS).
Now lets visit a few sites: Just/.'s front page and we're at 50,460, thats reasonable since/.'s page is much more complex than the opensuse gateway page. Open 4 articles and set it to show all comments (note, I'm not logged in so its not the javascripty version, just the pretty much static HTML) and we're at 62,516 RSS. Lets close all those new tabs and move the original to about:blank... Memory usage is now 61,852 RSS. It went down some, but didn't give back all the memory.
Now lets try the same thing with digg (without restarting Firefox): Just the main page on digg and we're to 62,296 RSS. Lets open the current top 4 articles in new tabs and see what we go to... and now we're to 69,452 RSS, lets close those tabs and move the original to about:blank again... 69,412 RSS.
Lets go back to/. and pretty much repeat the same thing and see how the memory usage goes... Just the main page and we're to 71,096 RSS. Lets open those same 4 articles and set them to -1 comments and see what we end up at... RSS is now up to 71,384, not as big of a rise as the previous time, but it did still go up (looks like maybe it replaced the old pages in cache, which would be a good thing and the slight increase could be explained by new comments).
Now lets go to about:blank then try something a bit different... RSS dropped down to 71,004 which is good. Now the different part, lets load lwn.net in the first tab, and in new tabs linux.com, sourceforge.net, planetkde.org, planet.gnome.org, and planet.mozilla.org. RSS is now to 79,432. Lets close all but the original tab and send that to about:blank. RSS is now to 77,088, it went down again which is good.
Lets try the same thing but another set of sites: original tab is amazon.com, new ones are ebay.com, bbc's site, cnn.com, google news, weather.com and wired news. The results of this one is a bit different than previous times, RSS has risen back to 77,148. Maybe we've hit a limit of how much Firefox is using? Lets close all but the original and go to about:blank again... RSS is now 75,692, dropped even more this time.
Lets go back to digg.com and see what it does... RSS is 75,962, exactly the same. Looks like its recycling some of its own memory (or loading the page entirely from cache). Now to open 4 articles. RSS has risen to 80,540. Lets close those and go to about:blank yet again. RSS is 80,308. Dropped some, but only a tiny amount. Lets go back to Amazon.com and search for 'operating systems design and implementation'. RSS is now 80,480, a slight rise. Now lets open Mr. Tanenbaum's books in a new tab (the 3 top results). RSS is now 80,552. Another tiny rise. Close those tabs and go to about:blank. RSS is now 80,488, a slight drop.
Its nice to see that in my little test the RSS didn't just skyrocket, but Firefox is still using more memory than the instance of Konqueror that has been open for 17 days (and has opened many more websites including lots of slashdot articles using the ajaxy version of the site). In case anyone is wondering: my machine has 1.25 GB of ram, and the total memory usage never passed 50% on my sy
"Acid2 is NOT a standard. Acid is a really poorly written page with many issues or features developers want including error checking in CSS."
The page is MEANT to be 'poorly' written and full of errors. It is meant to check the browsers error handling. Saying Acid2 isn't important is like saying checking for invalid input in your code and failing gracefully isn't important. Also if you prefer standards compliance over 'supporting the junk', you should go with Konqueror, Safari, or Opera (or any of the other KHTML/WebKit based browsers). Gecko only seems standards compliant when you compare it against Trident (Internet Explorer), but when you compare it against the other browsers it is rather depressing.
Re:How do other heavy Java apps perform?
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OpenOffice is not Java 'based'. It does have Java sprinkled all around (like the help system requires Java I believe, and it uses several other languages as well (I think OpenOffice uses at least 11 different languages, counting all compile time as well as run time...).
OpenOffice isn't what you'd call a pleasant experience to hack on (some might blame the closed source roots where it would mostly be the same group of developers for a long period of time that are paid to work on it).
OS X runs on PCs. Despite what the Apple commercials would lead you to believe, The 'Mactels' are pretty much normal PCs (the 'biggest' difference between a Mac computer and a Dell/HP/other-OEM is EFI other than the default OS).
I'll repeat this again since a lot of people seem to have trouble realizing this: All new Macs that AREN'T running a PowerPC processor are PCs!!! So much for 'Think Different'!
Re:OSX Hacks DO exist (www.osx86project.org)
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It was called 'Darwin'... i.e. all the OpenSource stuff in OS X (pretty much everything BUT OS X's GUI layer is OSS)
Re:Its A "Neat" Academic Exercise
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1. Theres more than 1 Slashdotter, not all of which despise Windows. 2. Who said any of the ReactOS developers are Slashdotters?
Actually that is an acceptable practice. Long as the person disassembles and the writes documentation on what they learned. And a person that was never exposed to the disassembled code creates a different implementation. That method would be clean everywhere, and in some places person A and B being the same would be acceptable as well.
SCO turned over all their IP to UnitedLinux (from when they were Caldera, a popular Linux distribution of its time before the founder was ousted) and Novell (the rights to UNIX that the Santa Cruiz Group had), and possibly other companies. I don't think SCO has any IP that IBM would want...
Loop-aes was deprecated because there were problems with the implementation IIRC (use dm-crypt instead!). Also if you put it in the fstab, that means EVERY SINGLE TIME YOU BOOT you have to be at a keyboard to enter in all the passwords before the system will finish booting (and then you only have protection while your machine is off!)
A GUI to mount/umount a volume would be useful to just setup a little utility with a link say on your desktop so all you'd have to do is click the icon on your desktop/panel/menu then enter the password and it would mount, then just click twice again to unmount. Also you could use the GUI to create the volumes (theres often lots of options in utilities like that, and not everyone wants to check in the man pages every single time they want create a new volume for the perfect parameters).
Also if you use the console you'll leave an on-disk record in your shell's history (which you can edit away, but it will still have been written to the disk, showing that you ran truecrypt and with what options and be possible to recover it).
Don't forget that to load drivers you have to modify files on the system (unless you use an ugly hack, but then the driver may be swapped out which can be Very Bad (TM) in some situations (especially if the key is swapped out!).
An 'order of magnitude' would be 10x, so for his statement to be accurate 'content creators' would have to get 4.5% or less (though he said 'content creators', not artists, which probably get far less since they're not used for marketing purposes, thats what the artist is for).
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You mean pegging the CPU to 100% and forcing the system to be rebooted IS NOT a Denial of Service attack? These are definitely DoS attacks.
So already a launch title is almost filling up an entire BluRay disk (if it had included both PAL and NTSC video instead of converting NTSC on the fly). A single Dual Layer DVD wouldn't have been able to hold all of Resistance, and probably 2 wouldn't either (remember a good bit of the data would have to be on both disks!). Odds are as more games are developed for the PS3 more and more will come close to needing Dual Layer BluRay disks (50 GB).
Also your comment about the PS3 not being powerful enough makes ZERO sense (data transfer rate would have been a better argument...)
Playing the movies in Linux for one (the guy that created DeCSS did it for that very reason IIRC). And playing the movie on an iPod or other device is a legit reason (unless you think the person should ALSO buy the movie on DVD to put on the device). Another reason is to be able to make a backup of the movie (can't comment on HD-DVD/BluRay durability, but the durability of some DVDs is HORRIBLE, not to mention it is FAR more convenient to have the movie on your hard drive than floating around who knows where).
Also so you wouldn't have to watch the 10 minute 'COPING MOVIES IS ILLEGAL' or other advertisements at the start of a lot of DVDs (though I don't know if HD-DVD/BluRay have the same things, since I don't own any of the HD movies but figure they do or will).
Don't forget that after an analysis by a professional that Ken Brown hired told him there was ZERO evidence to support his claim that Linus stole code from Minix that he refused to believe her ( http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/brown/codecomparison/ ).
I'm pretty sure I remember reading an article on Slashdot a while back that Google was beginning to run out of space with their current infrastructure (though I think that was several data center announcements ago). Remember that Google pretty much makes their own copy of the internet, as well as having a crap load of data about every single site out there, has to store all the gmail email, all their adsense/adwords data for every customer, and most likely they store all that information in multiple places. Oh yes, can't forget about storing all the videos from youtube/google video, thats probably a LOT of data there, plus its most likely a massive amount of bandwidth as well.
If someone breaks your encryption key, your MAC filtering (no one calls them ACLs except maybe ACs that have no clue) will be useless since they then have at least one allowed MAC (most likely many more). MAC filtering is just to keep someone from accidentally connecting, not to keep someone that has half a clue out.
Yeah! And they should change the main color... maybe to a lightish red... Also maybe something to do with something that sounds like pennies... say... ponies...
OMG PONIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Actually I think CoLinux (http://www.colinux.org/) would be closer...
Effort? You seriously think the /. editors are putting any effort into this? Do you think they EVER put effort into /.?
Maybe slashdot is gonna do a 'reverse april fools' day, because they know no one will fall for their stuff, they're gonna put stuff that SOUNDS fake (of course they'll probably fall for ones and think they're real and submit it as if it was).
More often people use that in game rather than in the waiting rooms. I only remember a few people actually falling for it though (I don't remember exactly, but I believe it even asked for confirmation first!)
You can do more than just 'be a mounted camera' on the wall, you can still navigate all around inside an area thats 100% 'walled off' with your camera with zero problems (your camera has a limited range though, which is actually quite far). It was obviously intentional because for zones with limited parcel access (i.e. you used the permissions tool rather than thinking prims would block someone) you can't move through the 'unauthorized' wall.
Also if you can drop a scripted object somewhere, you can record everything anyone says within range of it and forward it to a website somewhere else or do whatever else you want with it. Second Life isn't as much a game as a platform.
Firefox's devs think threads suck and don't want to make Firefox thread safe.
Except 100 MB isn't normal for most browsers. I've had a Konqueror session open for around 17 days now (visiting lots of web pages in that time), and lets see the memory usage... 65,120 RSS! Thats Konqueror from KDE 3.5.6 on SuSE 10.1. 2 tabs are open right this second in that instance (neither very complex sites right now since I'm reading about printing to the computer's screen by using the VGA controller).
/.'s front page and we're at 50,460, thats reasonable since /.'s page is much more complex than the opensuse gateway page. Open 4 articles and set it to show all comments (note, I'm not logged in so its not the javascripty version, just the pretty much static HTML) and we're at 62,516 RSS. Lets close all those new tabs and move the original to about:blank... Memory usage is now 61,852 RSS. It went down some, but didn't give back all the memory.
/. and pretty much repeat the same thing and see how the memory usage goes... Just the main page and we're to 71,096 RSS. Lets open those same 4 articles and set them to -1 comments and see what we end up at... RSS is now up to 71,384, not as big of a rise as the previous time, but it did still go up (looks like maybe it replaced the old pages in cache, which would be a good thing and the slight increase could be explained by new comments).
For comparison I just opened Firefox (2.0 or something, listed in about as "Gecko/20061023 SUSE/2.0-30 Firefox/2.0") and it opened to http://www.opensuse.org/ (default home page, I haven't customized or tweaked FF at all). The memory usage after letting it settle? RSS is 47,420! Lets just hope it doesn't rise too much (for comparison a newly started instance of Konqueror uses 28,888 RSS).
Now lets visit a few sites: Just
Now lets try the same thing with digg (without restarting Firefox): Just the main page on digg and we're to 62,296 RSS. Lets open the current top 4 articles in new tabs and see what we go to... and now we're to 69,452 RSS, lets close those tabs and move the original to about:blank again... 69,412 RSS.
Lets go back to
Now lets go to about:blank then try something a bit different... RSS dropped down to 71,004 which is good. Now the different part, lets load lwn.net in the first tab, and in new tabs linux.com, sourceforge.net, planetkde.org, planet.gnome.org, and planet.mozilla.org. RSS is now to 79,432. Lets close all but the original tab and send that to about:blank. RSS is now to 77,088, it went down again which is good.
Lets try the same thing but another set of sites: original tab is amazon.com, new ones are ebay.com, bbc's site, cnn.com, google news, weather.com and wired news. The results of this one is a bit different than previous times, RSS has risen back to 77,148. Maybe we've hit a limit of how much Firefox is using? Lets close all but the original and go to about:blank again... RSS is now 75,692, dropped even more this time.
Lets go back to digg.com and see what it does... RSS is 75,962, exactly the same. Looks like its recycling some of its own memory (or loading the page entirely from cache). Now to open 4 articles. RSS has risen to 80,540. Lets close those and go to about:blank yet again. RSS is 80,308. Dropped some, but only a tiny amount. Lets go back to Amazon.com and search for 'operating systems design and implementation'. RSS is now 80,480, a slight rise. Now lets open Mr. Tanenbaum's books in a new tab (the 3 top results). RSS is now 80,552. Another tiny rise. Close those tabs and go to about:blank. RSS is now 80,488, a slight drop.
Its nice to see that in my little test the RSS didn't just skyrocket, but Firefox is still using more memory than the instance of Konqueror that has been open for 17 days (and has opened many more websites including lots of slashdot articles using the ajaxy version of the site). In case anyone is wondering: my machine has 1.25 GB of ram, and the total memory usage never passed 50% on my sy
"Acid2 is NOT a standard. Acid is a really poorly written page with many issues or features developers want including error checking in CSS."
The page is MEANT to be 'poorly' written and full of errors. It is meant to check the browsers error handling. Saying Acid2 isn't important is like saying checking for invalid input in your code and failing gracefully isn't important. Also if you prefer standards compliance over 'supporting the junk', you should go with Konqueror, Safari, or Opera (or any of the other KHTML/WebKit based browsers). Gecko only seems standards compliant when you compare it against Trident (Internet Explorer), but when you compare it against the other browsers it is rather depressing.
OpenOffice is not Java 'based'. It does have Java sprinkled all around (like the help system requires Java I believe, and it uses several other languages as well (I think OpenOffice uses at least 11 different languages, counting all compile time as well as run time...).
OpenOffice isn't what you'd call a pleasant experience to hack on (some might blame the closed source roots where it would mostly be the same group of developers for a long period of time that are paid to work on it).
OS X runs on PCs. Despite what the Apple commercials would lead you to believe, The 'Mactels' are pretty much normal PCs (the 'biggest' difference between a Mac computer and a Dell/HP/other-OEM is EFI other than the default OS).
I'll repeat this again since a lot of people seem to have trouble realizing this: All new Macs that AREN'T running a PowerPC processor are PCs!!! So much for 'Think Different'!
It was called 'Darwin'... i.e. all the OpenSource stuff in OS X (pretty much everything BUT OS X's GUI layer is OSS)
1. Theres more than 1 Slashdotter, not all of which despise Windows.
2. Who said any of the ReactOS developers are Slashdotters?
Actually that is an acceptable practice. Long as the person disassembles and the writes documentation on what they learned. And a person that was never exposed to the disassembled code creates a different implementation. That method would be clean everywhere, and in some places person A and B being the same would be acceptable as well.
SCO turned over all their IP to UnitedLinux (from when they were Caldera, a popular Linux distribution of its time before the founder was ousted) and Novell (the rights to UNIX that the Santa Cruiz Group had), and possibly other companies. I don't think SCO has any IP that IBM would want...
Loop-aes was deprecated because there were problems with the implementation IIRC (use dm-crypt instead!). Also if you put it in the fstab, that means EVERY SINGLE TIME YOU BOOT you have to be at a keyboard to enter in all the passwords before the system will finish booting (and then you only have protection while your machine is off!)
A GUI to mount/umount a volume would be useful to just setup a little utility with a link say on your desktop so all you'd have to do is click the icon on your desktop/panel/menu then enter the password and it would mount, then just click twice again to unmount. Also you could use the GUI to create the volumes (theres often lots of options in utilities like that, and not everyone wants to check in the man pages every single time they want create a new volume for the perfect parameters).
Also if you use the console you'll leave an on-disk record in your shell's history (which you can edit away, but it will still have been written to the disk, showing that you ran truecrypt and with what options and be possible to recover it).
Don't forget that to load drivers you have to modify files on the system (unless you use an ugly hack, but then the driver may be swapped out which can be Very Bad (TM) in some situations (especially if the key is swapped out!).
Or, just remember your password. It really isn't that hard to do!
You could always use something like jack the ripper to try and brute force your password. You'd still have to produce your own dictionary file though.
An 'order of magnitude' would be 10x, so for his statement to be accurate 'content creators' would have to get 4.5% or less (though he said 'content creators', not artists, which probably get far less since they're not used for marketing purposes, thats what the artist is for).