Is it just me, or does userfriendly often take stories that were on slashdot and make a not-particularly-funny comic strip out of them? The random strips are always my least favorite.
Is the Geforce 4 MX supported? I know that origionally Carmak wanted to require programable shaders, is that still the case, or did he relent and support the fixed function pipline that the Geforce 4 MX line inherited from the Geforce 2?
I've read that the engine will support older nvidia cards, but the shader will be different for them (not as good looking, many features missing). The best shader path is only used by geforce 3, and anything past geforce 4 mx, along with the radeon 300 series (9600, 9800, etc). Technically this game will "run" on some pretty old hardware. I just wouldn't want to try it.
Is for a different kind of distributed computing client, one that allows you to sign up for different kinds of research programs. For example, you could say "donate half my spare time to aids research, and 1/4 to math reserach, and 1/4 to seti research". Also integrate a method of possible payment for work units completed (and a checking process to remove cheaters) and I think you will have an increase in effeciency in the entire way that we treat computers. Maybe instead of everyone shelling out thousands for top of the line computers whose peak output they only need for 5% of the time, they shell out a lot less for a networked computer that buys time from other people's machines. Clearly this wouldn't work in all applications (particularly those requiring low latency) but with improving network connections I think this is a possible future.
Dont descrimnat! Us PC users can lern vocabularee gud an uther things gud to! Jus cuz us got no fansee buk lernin duznt meen us dum! Maybee them Mac users think they ar betur then us but they ain't! Them dont unnerstan what us has bin threw animore. Us have to grow up with onlee 100000 $ a years had a hard lief! Us maid stong cuz of that! Them liv in soft wile us gets hard!
Or maybe the microbes are like some of those anaerobic heat loving kinds they find in volcanic fissures here on Earth. Maybe the only place where life can survive is the volcanoes?
Well, you could start off with a flexible network that ran whatever you gave people. Then they can sign up for projects that they want to contribute to - start off with free cancer research, aids research, seti research, whatever. Then later on add in new groups they can sign up for that pay. The pay ones get priority of course. You pay per work unit completed, and for each work unit you do it like 3 or 5 or however many times. Diff each of the results. If they are not identical, then resend the packet and flag the client(s) that was different as a possible cheater. Too many cheater points and he is kicked off - and you don't get paid for packets that don't get verified. Clearly the cheater points system would need some work, but people would have no incentive to cheat because if they do, they don't get paid.
One of my friends and I just (today) designed and ordered our systems from NewEgg. We both got Athlon64 3000+, radeon 9800 pro 128, 1 gb ram (from pricewatch), case, hd, dvd burner, and motherboard. About 850$. Right now I think AMD is sitting high on the hog because their processors were faster and cheaper while everyone is upgrading. Also, the xbox version of doom 3 will have coop.
And it isn't silly to upgrade your hardware now to run doom 3 and halflife 2 - if you can run these two games well, then you can probably run any game made in the next 3 years fine. Now is the last minute to upgrade and keep up with current software.
As an IE user, I was going to respond to this with proof that Firefox is just as bad as IE. Then I realized that I have no idea how to use Firefox in place of internet explorer because it appears to be some sort of shipping company. Also, my fingers are tired from writing this post so I'm just going to stop.
you could do something similar by signing the packets as they are sent...it is easier to just encrypt with whatever cipher is in style at the time and check if the packet is valid.
I fail to see the difference between your two suggestions. Just tacking some sort of signature onto a packet (like a session id or something) would not work because it would be in the clear. There is no choice but encryption.
Heh. Don't call it anti-capitalistic, call it post-capitalistic! We're getting rid of the value attached to information. Maybe we'll finally see what's on the other side currency. Slashdot already attempts to address this with karma, but that's basically a stand-in for money. Maybe we'll just move to some sort of fame or notoriety system.
I wonder if it would be possible to write software using a wiki approach. You know, have a web site with the beginning of the program, with clearly defined goals. Each function call or class structure would have its own web site with its own clearly defined goals. Better code would complete the goals with less bugs and / or less run time. I know the bottom line isn't that different from OSS, but I think there would be quite a bit more code reuse, resulting in both better quality code and smaller programs. If you somehow added in some automatic code checking (like submitted code was automatically compiled and then the errors, if any, added to the web site for people to fix), along with output vs desired output checking (output within certain ranges, etc.) Or even keep an old (known to work) function, then compile the new one, automatically compare their outputs for the same inputs, and if they match up for all inputs, replace the old code with new code as the current version. Holy shit I hope I didn't just give away the best idea ever!
"Cheap" nuclear power is a myth, perpetuated by the pseudo-capitalism we have in this country.
And the idea of green energy is impossible - wind and solar take up too much space to be viable. Ireland is converting as much area as possible into wind power and they are going to generate 10%. To have enough solar power to replace all energy needs we would need to cover someplace the size of Colorado with panels, and replace an area the size of New Jersey every year. All hydroelectric is already in use. Nuclear power's big benefit is that there is a huge supply of fuel, and its waste, while hazardous, doesn't go out into the air and into our lungs. Coal puts radioactive material into the air, and oil leads to things like the current fiasco in the mid east. What solution do you propose to this impossible problem?
And you've just created the need for a "sub-kernel" which would do your actual work. We're talking more complexity. More bugs. Less performance. Less security. You haven't made the kernel smaller, you've just pulled a part of it out because you think it'd be cool to hold its beating heart in your hand while it still runs.
That's why there are two rovers. Maybe one will eventually be destroyed by a storm, but both, when they're on opposite sides of the planet, is unlikely within their lifetimes.
Maybe the US is doing nothing because it isn't their job to fix everyone else's problems. You'd like to have American soldiers die to save some people in Sudan? Their job is to protect the United States citizens, not protect Sudanese. Before someone responds "WHAT ABOUT IRAQ??" I think the US shouldn't have done anything there either. Not in the job description. A better question is why hasn't the UN deployed more of their own forces there.
Allow me to perform a concise analysis for you. Hmm... the benefits are that DDoS's have some trouble knocking you offline. What are the costs? Much higher IT costs. Also, the total number of holes in your security will be higher. Just keeping track of all windows security fixes is hard. Imagine doing that for windows, solaris, linux, osx, and bsd. On 100 different hardware setups. Some things are going to go unpatched. You're giving hackers / crackers more opportunities, not more problems.
The only thing he could be possibly talking about (and it is a stretch) is that some car manufacturers go on a two or three year cycle. Design a whole new car one year, refine it the next year, maybe refine it again, repeat. That's why you don't go with the first of a new series, always wait a year for them to get the bugs out. But yeah, he's probably just an idiot.
I have a post from a few weeks ago that is almost exactly the same as this. I'm not saying you copied me, instead I'm saying I've been there, brand spankin new Fedora Core installed. After awhile I ended up with all kinds of package problems. Can't install this, wrong version of that. I don't think Fedora Core is stable enough or mainstream enough to have wide support of its bleeding edgeness. So on Friday, I decided enough was enough, and installed gentoo. Yes, emerge kde took over 2 days to finish, but at least I don't have to deal with the poor package management that FC2 has.:( Maybe I was just using it wrong, but there is no easy way to find which repositories are correct. Gentoo sets that all up right off.
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Is it just me, or does userfriendly often take stories that were on slashdot and make a not-particularly-funny comic strip out of them? The random strips are always my least favorite.
Ha! Your stoners will never have less brain activity than my training buddy, an Idaho potato!
Is the Geforce 4 MX supported? I know that origionally Carmak wanted to require programable shaders, is that still the case, or did he relent and support the fixed function pipline that the Geforce 4 MX line inherited from the Geforce 2?
I've read that the engine will support older nvidia cards, but the shader will be different for them (not as good looking, many features missing). The best shader path is only used by geforce 3, and anything past geforce 4 mx, along with the radeon 300 series (9600, 9800, etc). Technically this game will "run" on some pretty old hardware. I just wouldn't want to try it.
Is for a different kind of distributed computing client, one that allows you to sign up for different kinds of research programs. For example, you could say "donate half my spare time to aids research, and 1/4 to math reserach, and 1/4 to seti research". Also integrate a method of possible payment for work units completed (and a checking process to remove cheaters) and I think you will have an increase in effeciency in the entire way that we treat computers. Maybe instead of everyone shelling out thousands for top of the line computers whose peak output they only need for 5% of the time, they shell out a lot less for a networked computer that buys time from other people's machines. Clearly this wouldn't work in all applications (particularly those requiring low latency) but with improving network connections I think this is a possible future.
Dont descrimnat! Us PC users can lern vocabularee gud an uther things gud to! Jus cuz us got no fansee buk lernin duznt meen us dum! Maybee them Mac users think they ar betur then us but they ain't! Them dont unnerstan what us has bin threw animore. Us have to grow up with onlee 100000 $ a years had a hard lief! Us maid stong cuz of that! Them liv in soft wile us gets hard!
Or maybe the microbes are like some of those anaerobic heat loving kinds they find in volcanic fissures here on Earth. Maybe the only place where life can survive is the volcanoes?
Well, you could start off with a flexible network that ran whatever you gave people. Then they can sign up for projects that they want to contribute to - start off with free cancer research, aids research, seti research, whatever. Then later on add in new groups they can sign up for that pay. The pay ones get priority of course. You pay per work unit completed, and for each work unit you do it like 3 or 5 or however many times. Diff each of the results. If they are not identical, then resend the packet and flag the client(s) that was different as a possible cheater. Too many cheater points and he is kicked off - and you don't get paid for packets that don't get verified. Clearly the cheater points system would need some work, but people would have no incentive to cheat because if they do, they don't get paid.
One of my friends and I just (today) designed and ordered our systems from NewEgg. We both got Athlon64 3000+, radeon 9800 pro 128, 1 gb ram (from pricewatch), case, hd, dvd burner, and motherboard. About 850$. Right now I think AMD is sitting high on the hog because their processors were faster and cheaper while everyone is upgrading. Also, the xbox version of doom 3 will have coop.
And it isn't silly to upgrade your hardware now to run doom 3 and halflife 2 - if you can run these two games well, then you can probably run any game made in the next 3 years fine. Now is the last minute to upgrade and keep up with current software.
Geez, you could make 2x2 matrixes of anything and make it sound like you're accomplishing something.
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Therefore God exists, respond!
I search google with the option -mozilla enabled because I am not using mozilla, and I want to speed up my searches. Its the first hit!!
As an IE user, I was going to respond to this with proof that Firefox is just as bad as IE. Then I realized that I have no idea how to use Firefox in place of internet explorer because it appears to be some sort of shipping company. Also, my fingers are tired from writing this post so I'm just going to stop.
you could do something similar by signing the packets as they are sent...it is easier to just encrypt with whatever cipher is in style at the time and check if the packet is valid.
I fail to see the difference between your two suggestions. Just tacking some sort of signature onto a packet (like a session id or something) would not work because it would be in the clear. There is no choice but encryption.
Heh. Don't call it anti-capitalistic, call it post-capitalistic! We're getting rid of the value attached to information. Maybe we'll finally see what's on the other side currency. Slashdot already attempts to address this with karma, but that's basically a stand-in for money. Maybe we'll just move to some sort of fame or notoriety system.
I don't know what vector it will take, but I think wiki is going to be the next big thing.
I wonder if it would be possible to write software using a wiki approach. You know, have a web site with the beginning of the program, with clearly defined goals. Each function call or class structure would have its own web site with its own clearly defined goals. Better code would complete the goals with less bugs and / or less run time. I know the bottom line isn't that different from OSS, but I think there would be quite a bit more code reuse, resulting in both better quality code and smaller programs. If you somehow added in some automatic code checking (like submitted code was automatically compiled and then the errors, if any, added to the web site for people to fix), along with output vs desired output checking (output within certain ranges, etc.) Or even keep an old (known to work) function, then compile the new one, automatically compare their outputs for the same inputs, and if they match up for all inputs, replace the old code with new code as the current version. Holy shit I hope I didn't just give away the best idea ever!
"Cheap" nuclear power is a myth, perpetuated by the pseudo-capitalism we have in this country.
And the idea of green energy is impossible - wind and solar take up too much space to be viable. Ireland is converting as much area as possible into wind power and they are going to generate 10%. To have enough solar power to replace all energy needs we would need to cover someplace the size of Colorado with panels, and replace an area the size of New Jersey every year. All hydroelectric is already in use. Nuclear power's big benefit is that there is a huge supply of fuel, and its waste, while hazardous, doesn't go out into the air and into our lungs. Coal puts radioactive material into the air, and oil leads to things like the current fiasco in the mid east. What solution do you propose to this impossible problem?
Somehow that sounds familiar...
wait! I remember now!... Nope, lost it.
All kidding aside, compare the Xindi in Enterprise to both terrorism and the United States.
And you've just created the need for a "sub-kernel" which would do your actual work. We're talking more complexity. More bugs. Less performance. Less security. You haven't made the kernel smaller, you've just pulled a part of it out because you think it'd be cool to hold its beating heart in your hand while it still runs.
That's why there are two rovers. Maybe one will eventually be destroyed by a storm, but both, when they're on opposite sides of the planet, is unlikely within their lifetimes.
Maybe the US is doing nothing because it isn't their job to fix everyone else's problems. You'd like to have American soldiers die to save some people in Sudan? Their job is to protect the United States citizens, not protect Sudanese. Before someone responds "WHAT ABOUT IRAQ??" I think the US shouldn't have done anything there either. Not in the job description. A better question is why hasn't the UN deployed more of their own forces there.
Ernest Hemingway called. He wants his writing style back.
Allow me to perform a concise analysis for you. Hmm... the benefits are that DDoS's have some trouble knocking you offline. What are the costs? Much higher IT costs. Also, the total number of holes in your security will be higher. Just keeping track of all windows security fixes is hard. Imagine doing that for windows, solaris, linux, osx, and bsd. On 100 different hardware setups. Some things are going to go unpatched. You're giving hackers / crackers more opportunities, not more problems.
Only on slashdot would this be rated informative. Who exactly has the trademark on Nazi?
The only thing he could be possibly talking about (and it is a stretch) is that some car manufacturers go on a two or three year cycle. Design a whole new car one year, refine it the next year, maybe refine it again, repeat. That's why you don't go with the first of a new series, always wait a year for them to get the bugs out. But yeah, he's probably just an idiot.
I have a post from a few weeks ago that is almost exactly the same as this. I'm not saying you copied me, instead I'm saying I've been there, brand spankin new Fedora Core installed. After awhile I ended up with all kinds of package problems. Can't install this, wrong version of that. I don't think Fedora Core is stable enough or mainstream enough to have wide support of its bleeding edgeness. So on Friday, I decided enough was enough, and installed gentoo. Yes, emerge kde took over 2 days to finish, but at least I don't have to deal with the poor package management that FC2 has. :( Maybe I was just using it wrong, but there is no easy way to find which repositories are correct. Gentoo sets that all up right off.