Of course it is technically possible to do anything in Javascript. But can this technology do any task which is actually complex enough that it wouldn't be easier to just port it manually, at anything like reasonable speed?
The AI in the original Hitman was pretty good in firefights though. They would hide behind cover, firing occasionally, then move into the open and fire continuously when 47 was forced to reload. Not that impressive, but then again that was quite a while ago, and they would work out sensible cover wherever 47 was standing and whatever collection of enemy AI was present. (i.e. it definitely wasn't scripted).
It did bother me, however, that police would automatically join in when unidentified agents with no uniform pulled guns and opened fire on 47 (it seems to happen in all the Hitman games, but take Invitation to a Party from Hitman II as an example).
I've seen some fun glitches though. The best was persuading an AI player with no capitol city to give ALL of his cities in return for a lot of technology.
Not a useful one, but I had an old VW Polo which had an odd electrical bug.
For some reason, taking the key out of the ignition with the indicator lever off centre caused the headlight and tail light on the side indicated at to light up. They appeared not to light up all the way to normal brightness, so unless it was dark, it was easy to indicate to pull over, park, stop the engine, forget the indicator lever and leave the battery to go flat.
Can anyone shed any light on WTF the wiring for that glitch looks like?
Almost certainly via "pirate radio stations". These were ships which would broadcast FM radio from just outside a country's territorial waters, so that they could be heard on land. They'd play music without paying any royalties, play records which were banned from the radio or not released to radio stations, etc., and were just about legal because no one had the power to arrest people in international waters for something as trivial as copyright violation.
So you can see how "piracy" got linked to "copyright infringement" - via actual seagoing music pirates. Surprised no one else pointed it out.
The nice thing about oil cooling is that as it is non-conductive, it doesn't need an elaborate system of pipes and thermal interfaces to components. Most components can just sit in the oil and be cooled by convection (hard drives don't like it, apparently, although presumably it wouldn't be an issue provided they were properly sealed). There was an article on Slashdot about it a while ago, with pics of a caseless computer in a fishtank of mineral oil.
They missed out a pretty good one. Near the start of some Bond movie (possibly Goldeneye?) there is a plane travelling straight down a cliff with it's engines on full power. James Bond jumps after the plane, falls faster than the (more aerodynamic, even ignoring engine force...) aircraft, catches up with it, gets into the cockpit and gains control just in time...
Thank you very much. Much of this article is informative, technical and really, really nerdy. I for one sit through dupes and rubbish like today's meaningless benchmarking of differing minor kernel versions in the hope of reading articles like this.
BTW, does anyone have a good set of benchmarks of the performance of different IO schedulers when running one or two or three IO intensive tasks, when running one intensive and many small tasks, etc.? That would actually help me decide whether to rebuild my kernel with CFQ.
Also, ionice would have made my old machine much more usable when doing backups... Oh well.
The best example of that I have ever seen has got to be the search term "www social services com florida" from the search records AOL released last year.
Presumably, the user assumed that was the correct way to find information about Florida's social services...
And if Windows ceases to be any good for games, what are they going to do? Quite a few will probably stop running pirated versions of Windows and actually pay Microsoft for hardware.
Maybe now that Microsoft has a console, we are supposed to stop gaming on PCs?
Existing/in development Windows games are most easily ported to the Xbox, provided they use DirectX (which most do), so Microsoft doesn't really have much to lose if developers start to write fewer games for Windows.
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Of course it is technically possible to do anything in Javascript. But can this technology do any task which is actually complex enough that it wouldn't be easier to just port it manually, at anything like reasonable speed?
Only come back to find them on? I've actually drained the battery and done a push-start, more than once, because of that bug...
Could you mod me up please?
MEEEE TOOO! PLEASE.
The AI in the original Hitman was pretty good in firefights though. They would hide behind cover, firing occasionally, then move into the open and fire continuously when 47 was forced to reload. Not that impressive, but then again that was quite a while ago, and they would work out sensible cover wherever 47 was standing and whatever collection of enemy AI was present. (i.e. it definitely wasn't scripted).
It did bother me, however, that police would automatically join in when unidentified agents with no uniform pulled guns and opened fire on 47 (it seems to happen in all the Hitman games, but take Invitation to a Party from Hitman II as an example).
I've seen some fun glitches though. The best was persuading an AI player with no capitol city to give ALL of his cities in return for a lot of technology.
Not a useful one, but I had an old VW Polo which had an odd electrical bug.
For some reason, taking the key out of the ignition with the indicator lever off centre caused the headlight and tail light on the side indicated at to light up. They appeared not to light up all the way to normal brightness, so unless it was dark, it was easy to indicate to pull over, park, stop the engine, forget the indicator lever and leave the battery to go flat.
Can anyone shed any light on WTF the wiring for that glitch looks like?
According to last week's New Scientist, XDR-TB is not significantly less virulent than normal TB.
I have seen a gold-plated "A/V USB cable". It cost several x £10 more than a normal USB cable.
Almost certainly via "pirate radio stations". These were ships which would broadcast FM radio from just outside a country's territorial waters, so that they could be heard on land. They'd play music without paying any royalties, play records which were banned from the radio or not released to radio stations, etc., and were just about legal because no one had the power to arrest people in international waters for something as trivial as copyright violation.
So you can see how "piracy" got linked to "copyright infringement" - via actual seagoing music pirates. Surprised no one else pointed it out.
The nice thing about oil cooling is that as it is non-conductive, it doesn't need an elaborate system of pipes and thermal interfaces to components. Most components can just sit in the oil and be cooled by convection (hard drives don't like it, apparently, although presumably it wouldn't be an issue provided they were properly sealed). There was an article on Slashdot about it a while ago, with pics of a caseless computer in a fishtank of mineral oil.
They missed out a pretty good one. Near the start of some Bond movie (possibly Goldeneye?) there is a plane travelling straight down a cliff with it's engines on full power. James Bond jumps after the plane, falls faster than the (more aerodynamic, even ignoring engine force...) aircraft, catches up with it, gets into the cockpit and gains control just in time...
The summary gives two different definitions for UAC, which is more than there should be if you aren't making any Doom jokes. Which is correct?
No.
I didn't think that was supposed to happen to universities, especially not just from comments.
Well, as it is Apple, I presume it doesn't allow that sort of config change by default?
Can it? The iPhone doesn't allow third-party stuff, remember?
Does Skype 1.x do this? Does it do it on Linux?
Is it in fact possible for a non-root user to read the BIOS on Linux?
You have said about three things, and totally failed to link any of them together.
cat /boot/vmlinuz >> /dev/dsp
/dev/urandom >> /dev/dsp) later.
/dev/mem >> /dev/dsp can sound much more interesting, depending on what you run.
Starts off doing interesting stuff, then sounds like white noise (cat
As mentioned further up, cat
Thank you very much. Much of this article is informative, technical and really, really nerdy. I for one sit through dupes and rubbish like today's meaningless benchmarking of differing minor kernel versions in the hope of reading articles like this.
BTW, does anyone have a good set of benchmarks of the performance of different IO schedulers when running one or two or three IO intensive tasks, when running one intensive and many small tasks, etc.? That would actually help me decide whether to rebuild my kernel with CFQ.
Also, ionice would have made my old machine much more usable when doing backups... Oh well.
The best example of that I have ever seen has got to be the search term "www social services com florida" from the search records AOL released last year.
Presumably, the user assumed that was the correct way to find information about Florida's social services...
And if Windows ceases to be any good for games, what are they going to do? Quite a few will probably stop running pirated versions of Windows and actually pay Microsoft for hardware.
Maybe now that Microsoft has a console, we are supposed to stop gaming on PCs?
Existing/in development Windows games are most easily ported to the Xbox, provided they use DirectX (which most do), so Microsoft doesn't really have much to lose if developers start to write fewer games for Windows.