So many people installed that stupid client. Why not just make people pay for the priviledge of finding ET life? I know many people would. Just sell the client on a cd with an alien doll.
Think about it, they could even give you data sets on the CD so that you don't have to down load them.
Sure, you'd lose some clients, but from what I heard, they have too many people for too little data anyway.
actually they also have the Ruler search for Optimal Golumb Rulers. Yes, they are not as 'cool' as primes, and nowhere near as cool as searching for ET life that we won't be able to find, but it's still neat.
If you installed SETI thinking that you were actually going to HELP find ET, then I've got some land in Florida to sell you.
Exactly, a game developer can write a game and test it in both linux with WineX and in Windows. Thus when the game is done, they know all the limitations and can say that it 'works' in linux as well as in Windows. Even if the don't fully support it in linux, it's still a win.
This is only adding capabilities to the system, this is a good thing.
The advantage of Wine is that a developer could write their game for DirectX and have it work for both Windows, XBOX, and Linux. If WineX was a perfect implementation of the Win32 gaming APIs, then everyone wins!
Linux people can use linux to play games and do work.
Windows people play their games.
Some people will never switch from windows, but those that are on the edge (because of games) could be easily swayed because of projects like this.
If enough people are using linux, then eventuatly people will start to write games for them. It's only a matter of time.
I'm not trying to say that the stupid people are any less stupid just because they were brainwashed into doing it. People should think about what they are getting in to before they do it. People buy houses, cars, etc. Without realizeing the consequences of signing their name on that paper.
That my friend, is what it called not easy. I agree that it's not rocket science, but we are talking about games here. Also, I don't like waiting for patches, having to goto download the new no-cd crack, etc.
Normally to update War3 you: 1. start the game, click play on battle.net. 3. it says that you need updates, click ok. 4. wait for download. 5. download executes, and when done you can click ok. 6. play game as normal.
With the cd cracks, you have to: 1. start game, says that you need updates, click ok. 2. but since you have the crack you have to abort the download. 3. open up explorer, replace the cracked exe with the uncracked one. 4. either download the patch manually, or use the game to update it. 5. after updating it, goto your favorite game cd crack site (gamecopyworld?) 6. assuming that the crack is out already, find it and download it. 7. apply the crack. 8. play game.
Sorry, it doesn't take all of 5 minutes. Especially if the crack hasn't come out yet.
Or if you can then you have to jump through a hoop in order to get it to work.
Like War3, they just released the new version 1.03 or whatever, and without doing anything my version autoupgraded itself when I went to go and play (lose) on battle.net.
If I had the no-cd crack installed, then that wouldn't work. And I couldn't play on bnet.
For single player games, the no-cd is awesome, but for multi-player games on the internet it's a real pain.
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like any other product. it was like this ritual that you must go to in order to be considered to be part of the non-trailer trash society. People go to college not to learn, but to live like a child for a little bit longer. When magazines like PlayBoy and Maxim are regularly publishing articles about which schools are the biggest drinking school you've got to stop and wonder if maybe people don't really take school that seriously.
The only thing about this is that it hurts lower education. A High school education should not be about preparing you for college, it should be about giving you an education that you can use in Real Life. To get a job that is crappy, but it should give you the skills to be able to get any crappy job you want. You can then work your way up from there, or go and get a higher education from college or from a trade school.
You've right, college is not for everyone, but I feel that my generation was the first in which everyone was expected to goto college. No real reason other then to go. Oh, and pay huge amounts of money in order to do it.
I agree that Mozilla is a little bit bigger then IE, but once you have them both running, the difference is small to none. You can't benchmark browsers on the internet because well, the internet is the bottleneck.
Both browsers suffer from: Freezing intermitently
Sometimes when loading pages the browser will stop responding, sometimes it's RAM, sometimes the browsers just stops. Strange redraw
Mozilla draws huge pages (like/.) twice for me and both have problems when pages come in with crazy auto-adjusting tables.
But both are about the same to me. I like mozilla better because I don't have to worry about it auto-installing software for me.
You could get that kind of performance but you would need special memory for your main CPU, and it would have to be installed in special banks in special quanitys. Remember that RDRAM has to be installed, 2 at a time? at the same size?
It would be much more expensive for this ram and the motherboard. Most people's motherboards cost 1/5 what a new high end video card costs. Also, those high end video cards have a FIXED amount of ram which helps them a lot.
Building a system that is expandable and over the top fast is not cheap.
What usefull stuff can the chipset do for hyperthreading? I'd love to hear some ideas.
How about huge L3 Cache? The problem with hyperthreading is that by definition it is going to cause a larger number of cache misses. Since you are maintaining 2 seperate contexts in one processor. In order to speed that up you are going to need more cache. Faster main ram will help, but won't solve it.
This was already mentioned, but for Hyperthreading it seems to me that it is almost required if you want to get decent performance out of more types of applications. Hyperthreading is supposed to give the largest speed up to a multi-threaded application that processes similar data.
Anti-Sniff? I'm not talking about a device that sits there and taps the bus. I'm talking about a device that uses the same interface as a monitor and says to the computer, "yes, I am a monitor output data to me." However instead of turning the display into a image on an LCD it feeds the data back to the computer. Actually it could do both since once it has the decrypted data, it can then do whatever it wants.
The only way for MS to counter this type of tech is to only let certified hardware run on their operating system. You know, give each device a key and then have it authorize itself with the OS to be activated.
Of course if you send an encrypted picture to a friend then they can just pass it on, but how will DRM solve that? That would require a server that passes out keys to your picture right? Otherwise how would they decrypt it? If they had all the keys to decrypt it they could just pass the keys along with a copy of the encrypted pict.
I agree that MS may not want to actually produce the "MS computer." From a business perspective it doesn't make much sense. However, they do want to totatly control all the software that runs in the MS enviroment. Which would turn all the Dells, Compaqs, etc into the 'MS computer' if there was DRM built into the hardware.
They want to limit the types of programs that you can use. They don't want random programs running, like the kind that can rip/burn cd's/dvds. The DRM OS will restrict that kind of operation. But in making it possiable to restrict that, they are also allowing for complete control of your computer. I guess if you don't mind that kind of control, or you trust them to let you do what you want then it doesn't affect you.
Maybe things will turn around for them, but so far the X-Box has cost them a lot of money and doesn't look like it will break even. They have had to buy all their AAA quality titles (Halo). I still want to get one, but can't spare the money (now, maybe for xmas).
Pulp fiction's stories are not the same as Go. You have the single threaded 'main' story of Jules and Vincent and their day with the briefcase. This story is told non-linearly, the movie starts and ends on this story. Then, interjected into that story, is the story of the Boxer, and the story of the Date of Vincent and Mia. All we know about these 2 stories with relation to time is that the date takes place sometime after the 'main' story. I'm going to guess that night or the next, I forget if Vincent says that the date is that night or not.
The story of the Boxer takes place sometime after the date, but again, it's not sure exactly when. Though it is probably less then a few days after the date.
Go tells the story of multiple people who all start at the same spot and time, but go through different paths to end up in the same spots.
Palladium isn't about jpegs, picts, movies, etc... it's about controlling the types of software that can run on your computer.
If you publish information on a website it becomes 'public' meaning that you want everyone to see it. They don't have the right to copy it and do whatever they want to it, but that doesn't mean that they won't. The only way to stop them is to sue, or as you did, threaten to sue.
You can do all the things that you want to do with pictures now that you will be able to with Palladium. If you don't want everyone seeing your picture, encrypt it and send it to a friend. Don't forget that if they can put it on their screen, then there is a way to copy it. Even if they have to take a picture (with a normal camera) of the screen to do it, since Palladium will probably stop screen shots. Hell, they can probably get a bit for bit copy now since you can output a digital signal to a LCD screen. All you would need is a device that can read the digital signal and copied it, then fed it back to the computer. It wouldn't be THAT hard.
Point is, no matter what you do to stop people from seeing your private data, there is a way to get it, so use the methods that we ALREADY have rather then sugesting that we need to buy all new hardware to protect our pictures from the nasty, nasty internet. Look at the X-Box if you want to see what Palladium is all about, MS wants to make the MS computer, which is fine if they still offered a normal OS that everyone could use.
If they continue down this path, then everyone will be using Linux/*BSD on normal PCs, while other people follow MS to the X-Box PC. Of course, Sony wants to beat MS to the punch and get all the home users on their Playstation Computer.
personally I like the old school installer. I don't know what's wrong with you youngins! Don't you know the landing zone area on your hard drives?:P Seriously though, it doesn't matter what the install Looks like as much as how many times you have to press return and enter information. Windows is almost automated, you still have to press return (and enter the damn key). But debian 3.0 was like 30-40 steps. If they get it down to 1 min, then it will be easy to install. Just make a disc that is autoinstall, no questions, just install the thing. All you have to do is restart the thing when it is done.
You are so right, except that I would place the Cheapness before the good enough part. People bought pcs before apples because they were cheaper. Go back in time to 1988, a couple of years after the first mac, and you will realise that Macs could do much, much more then an average PC, were much 'easier' to use (especially by todays standards) and were just better machines. The difference was that the PC was much cheaper thanks to the clones.
there is already a usb system for connecting 2 pcs together, and it works fine. The major limitation of usb is the cable length. Ethernet goes 100m while usb only goes like 20 feet. So it would work for like a pc to laptop or 2 pcs in the same room.
Maybe the reason that we have such crappy software is because companies don't hire people who know their stuff.
Education is not overrated, IMO. Education is not about memorizing facts and figures, it's about learning how to learn. You have to do that on your own in college, they just say 'learn this'. Then you have to figure out how to learn it and reproduce what the teacher wants on the homework and eventuatly a test.
Also, 'being smart' is possiably one of the hardest things to determine about a person. If you can detect intelligence then you are a might gifted person. Most of the time it's very hard to tell if someone is faking it. Some people just don't come off as being really smart, but will solve anything you tell them to. Interviewing someone for 'smarts' is really hard. Some people don't work well under extreme pressure, some do. Those that do tend to be percieved as 'smarter' during the normal interviewing process. While a much smarter person that gets flustered in a position like that may be percieved as being less capable, even if under normal working conditions they can perform much better.
Also, it's nice to have people that don't totatly rely on the internet (or any book) for knowledge. If you are always checking the internet for the 'right' way to do something, then what about when you are in a meeting with a client and you can't access the internet. Just BS it and pray?
Today, the home/office user has little need for a 64-bit CPU, that can address 64-bits and process 64-bit data types in a single op. Sometime in the future, that maybe the case, but as of yet, the application has not been written that requires such capability. If you want it, go and buy it. However I suspect that you are like most people and have a PC, and don't require processes that can address more then 2GB of space. Course you may also run large DBs or scientific calculations, I don't know. In that case you probably already have a 64-bit computer, right?
Please tell me that you are on the forefront of technology! With comments like that you imply that everyone would actually use all that power if they had it. Let's face facts, the only people who are using their new PCs to their fullest are the people who are playing the newest games. Everyone else is using a small fraction of last years computers. 64-bit computing will be required someday, but not until games require it. For all 'normal' tasks, you don't need it. Believe it or not, but 32-bit processors can handle 64-bit numbers. Strange but true! They can handle almost any size data types, it just gets slower to actually do math on them. And for pushing pixels around, 32-bits is a very good comprimise.
I said that there was no GREAT demand for 64-bit chips. In that some people use them and are fine with them. However, most people find that it just isn't needed. Even people who are crunching numbers find that it isn't always needed to do a job.
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So many people installed that stupid client. Why not just make people pay for the priviledge of finding ET life? I know many people would. Just sell the client on a cd with an alien doll.
Think about it, they could even give you data sets on the CD so that you don't have to down load them.
Sure, you'd lose some clients, but from what I heard, they have too many people for too little data anyway.
actually they also have the Ruler search for Optimal Golumb Rulers. Yes, they are not as 'cool' as primes, and nowhere near as cool as searching for ET life that we won't be able to find, but it's still neat.
If you installed SETI thinking that you were actually going to HELP find ET, then I've got some land in Florida to sell you.
Exactly, a game developer can write a game and test it in both linux with WineX and in Windows. Thus when the game is done, they know all the limitations and can say that it 'works' in linux as well as in Windows. Even if the don't fully support it in linux, it's still a win.
This is only adding capabilities to the system, this is a good thing.
The advantage of Wine is that a developer could write their game for DirectX and have it work for both Windows, XBOX, and Linux. If WineX was a perfect implementation of the Win32 gaming APIs, then everyone wins!
Linux people can use linux to play games and do work.
Windows people play their games.
Some people will never switch from windows, but those that are on the edge (because of games) could be easily swayed because of projects like this.
If enough people are using linux, then eventuatly people will start to write games for them. It's only a matter of time.
I'm not trying to say that the stupid people are any less stupid just because they were brainwashed into doing it.
People should think about what they are getting in to before they do it. People buy houses, cars, etc. Without realizeing the consequences of signing their name on that paper.
Right, that's soooooo easy.
That my friend, is what it called not easy. I agree that it's not rocket science, but we are talking about games here. Also, I don't like waiting for patches, having to goto download the new no-cd crack, etc.
Normally to update War3 you:
1. start the game, click play on battle.net.
3. it says that you need updates, click ok.
4. wait for download.
5. download executes, and when done you can click ok.
6. play game as normal.
With the cd cracks, you have to:
1. start game, says that you need updates, click ok.
2. but since you have the crack you have to abort the download.
3. open up explorer, replace the cracked exe with the uncracked one.
4. either download the patch manually, or use the game to update it.
5. after updating it, goto your favorite game cd crack site (gamecopyworld?)
6. assuming that the crack is out already, find it and download it.
7. apply the crack.
8. play game.
Sorry, it doesn't take all of 5 minutes. Especially if the crack hasn't come out yet.
then you can't upgrade it when they patch it.
Or if you can then you have to jump through a hoop in order to get it to work.
Like War3, they just released the new version 1.03 or whatever, and without doing anything my version autoupgraded itself when I went to go and play (lose) on battle.net.
If I had the no-cd crack installed, then that wouldn't work. And I couldn't play on bnet.
For single player games, the no-cd is awesome, but for multi-player games on the internet it's a real pain.
like any other product. it was like this ritual that you must go to in order to be considered to be part of the non-trailer trash society. People go to college not to learn, but to live like a child for a little bit longer. When magazines like PlayBoy and Maxim are regularly publishing articles about which schools are the biggest drinking school you've got to stop and wonder if maybe people don't really take school that seriously.
The only thing about this is that it hurts lower education. A High school education should not be about preparing you for college, it should be about giving you an education that you can use in Real Life. To get a job that is crappy, but it should give you the skills to be able to get any crappy job you want. You can then work your way up from there, or go and get a higher education from college or from a trade school.
You've right, college is not for everyone, but I feel that my generation was the first in which everyone was expected to goto college. No real reason other then to go. Oh, and pay huge amounts of money in order to do it.
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or are you serious?
maybe you just don't get out enough and try it on many different computers, on my 933mhz (256MB ram) work machine both are instant. on either browser.
Maybe it's something else in your machine.
BTW, I have something like 100-200 bookmarks. So don't try to say that it's because I have no bookmarks.
I agree that Mozilla is a little bit bigger then IE, but once you have them both running, the difference is small to none. You can't benchmark browsers on the internet because well, the internet is the bottleneck.
/.) twice for me and both have problems when pages come in with crazy auto-adjusting tables.
Both browsers suffer from:
Freezing intermitently
Sometimes when loading pages the browser will stop responding, sometimes it's RAM, sometimes the browsers just stops.
Strange redraw
Mozilla draws huge pages (like
But both are about the same to me. I like mozilla better because I don't have to worry about it auto-installing software for me.
You could get that kind of performance but you would need special memory for your main CPU, and it would have to be installed in special banks in special quanitys. Remember that RDRAM has to be installed, 2 at a time? at the same size?
It would be much more expensive for this ram and the motherboard. Most people's motherboards cost 1/5 what a new high end video card costs. Also, those high end video cards have a FIXED amount of ram which helps them a lot.
Building a system that is expandable and over the top fast is not cheap.
What usefull stuff can the chipset do for hyperthreading? I'd love to hear some ideas.
How about huge L3 Cache? The problem with hyperthreading is that by definition it is going to cause a larger number of cache misses. Since you are maintaining 2 seperate contexts in one processor. In order to speed that up you are going to need more cache. Faster main ram will help, but won't solve it.
This was already mentioned, but for Hyperthreading it seems to me that it is almost required if you want to get decent performance out of more types of applications. Hyperthreading is supposed to give the largest speed up to a multi-threaded application that processes similar data.
see exceptions at war.
Anti-Sniff? I'm not talking about a device that sits there and taps the bus. I'm talking about a device that uses the same interface as a monitor and says to the computer, "yes, I am a monitor output data to me." However instead of turning the display into a image on an LCD it feeds the data back to the computer. Actually it could do both since once it has the decrypted data, it can then do whatever it wants.
The only way for MS to counter this type of tech is to only let certified hardware run on their operating system. You know, give each device a key and then have it authorize itself with the OS to be activated.
Of course if you send an encrypted picture to a friend then they can just pass it on, but how will DRM solve that? That would require a server that passes out keys to your picture right? Otherwise how would they decrypt it? If they had all the keys to decrypt it they could just pass the keys along with a copy of the encrypted pict.
I agree that MS may not want to actually produce the "MS computer." From a business perspective it doesn't make much sense. However, they do want to totatly control all the software that runs in the MS enviroment. Which would turn all the Dells, Compaqs, etc into the 'MS computer' if there was DRM built into the hardware.
They want to limit the types of programs that you can use. They don't want random programs running, like the kind that can rip/burn cd's/dvds. The DRM OS will restrict that kind of operation. But in making it possiable to restrict that, they are also allowing for complete control of your computer. I guess if you don't mind that kind of control, or you trust them to let you do what you want then it doesn't affect you.
Maybe things will turn around for them, but so far the X-Box has cost them a lot of money and doesn't look like it will break even. They have had to buy all their AAA quality titles (Halo). I still want to get one, but can't spare the money (now, maybe for xmas).
Pulp fiction's stories are not the same as Go.
You have the single threaded 'main' story of Jules and Vincent and their day with the briefcase. This story is told non-linearly, the movie starts and ends on this story.
Then, interjected into that story, is the story of the Boxer, and the story of the Date of Vincent and Mia. All we know about these 2 stories with relation to time is that the date takes place sometime after the 'main' story. I'm going to guess that night or the next, I forget if Vincent says that the date is that night or not.
The story of the Boxer takes place sometime after the date, but again, it's not sure exactly when. Though it is probably less then a few days after the date.
Go tells the story of multiple people who all start at the same spot and time, but go through different paths to end up in the same spots.
Palladium isn't about jpegs, picts, movies, etc... it's about controlling the types of software that can run on your computer.
If you publish information on a website it becomes 'public' meaning that you want everyone to see it. They don't have the right to copy it and do whatever they want to it, but that doesn't mean that they won't. The only way to stop them is to sue, or as you did, threaten to sue.
You can do all the things that you want to do with pictures now that you will be able to with Palladium. If you don't want everyone seeing your picture, encrypt it and send it to a friend.
Don't forget that if they can put it on their screen, then there is a way to copy it. Even if they have to take a picture (with a normal camera) of the screen to do it, since Palladium will probably stop screen shots. Hell, they can probably get a bit for bit copy now since you can output a digital signal to a LCD screen. All you would need is a device that can read the digital signal and copied it, then fed it back to the computer. It wouldn't be THAT hard.
Point is, no matter what you do to stop people from seeing your private data, there is a way to get it, so use the methods that we ALREADY have rather then sugesting that we need to buy all new hardware to protect our pictures from the nasty, nasty internet. Look at the X-Box if you want to see what Palladium is all about, MS wants to make the MS computer, which is fine if they still offered a normal OS that everyone could use.
If they continue down this path, then everyone will be using Linux/*BSD on normal PCs, while other people follow MS to the X-Box PC. Of course, Sony wants to beat MS to the punch and get all the home users on their Playstation Computer.
personally I like the old school installer. :P
I don't know what's wrong with you youngins!
Don't you know the landing zone area on your hard drives?
Seriously though, it doesn't matter what the install Looks like as much as how many times you have to press return and enter information. Windows is almost automated, you still have to press return (and enter the damn key). But debian 3.0 was like 30-40 steps. If they get it down to 1 min, then it will be easy to install.
Just make a disc that is autoinstall, no questions, just install the thing. All you have to do is restart the thing when it is done.
You are so right, except that I would place the Cheapness before the good enough part. People bought pcs before apples because they were cheaper. Go back in time to 1988, a couple of years after the first mac, and you will realise that Macs could do much, much more then an average PC, were much 'easier' to use (especially by todays standards) and were just better machines. The difference was that the PC was much cheaper thanks to the clones.
Good salespeople are smart, just as a good shopper is. Intelligence isn't just being able to deduce 1 + 1 = 2, it's much more then that.
there is already a usb system for connecting 2 pcs together, and it works fine. The major limitation of usb is the cable length. Ethernet goes 100m while usb only goes like 20 feet. So it would work for like a pc to laptop or 2 pcs in the same room.
Maybe the reason that we have such crappy software is because companies don't hire people who know their stuff.
Education is not overrated, IMO. Education is not about memorizing facts and figures, it's about learning how to learn. You have to do that on your own in college, they just say 'learn this'. Then you have to figure out how to learn it and reproduce what the teacher wants on the homework and eventuatly a test.
Also, 'being smart' is possiably one of the hardest things to determine about a person. If you can detect intelligence then you are a might gifted person. Most of the time it's very hard to tell if someone is faking it. Some people just don't come off as being really smart, but will solve anything you tell them to. Interviewing someone for 'smarts' is really hard.
Some people don't work well under extreme pressure, some do. Those that do tend to be percieved as 'smarter' during the normal interviewing process. While a much smarter person that gets flustered in a position like that may be percieved as being less capable, even if under normal working conditions they can perform much better.
Also, it's nice to have people that don't totatly rely on the internet (or any book) for knowledge. If you are always checking the internet for the 'right' way to do something, then what about when you are in a meeting with a client and you can't access the internet. Just BS it and pray?
Because you have no point.
Today, the home/office user has little need for a 64-bit CPU, that can address 64-bits and process 64-bit data types in a single op. Sometime in the future, that maybe the case, but as of yet, the application has not been written that requires such capability. If you want it, go and buy it. However I suspect that you are like most people and have a PC, and don't require processes that can address more then 2GB of space.
Course you may also run large DBs or scientific calculations, I don't know. In that case you probably already have a 64-bit computer, right?
Please tell me that you are on the forefront of technology! With comments like that you imply that everyone would actually use all that power if they had it. Let's face facts, the only people who are using their new PCs to their fullest are the people who are playing the newest games.
Everyone else is using a small fraction of last years computers.
64-bit computing will be required someday, but not until games require it. For all 'normal' tasks, you don't need it.
Believe it or not, but 32-bit processors can handle 64-bit numbers. Strange but true! They can handle almost any size data types, it just gets slower to actually do math on them. And for pushing pixels around, 32-bits is a very good comprimise.
I said that there was no GREAT demand for 64-bit chips. In that some people use them and are fine with them. However, most people find that it just isn't needed. Even people who are crunching numbers find that it isn't always needed to do a job.