I mean yeah, the govenment doesn't have the best web masters. They are not always the best people, maybe they just want to get a page or to up to try and stay current with the technology of the time. It's not like the people needed to properly secure a system are cheap. And the government doesn't work FAST so it's not like they can just go and hire these people whenever they need them.
I guess what I'm really tring to say it that you should take what they are saying with a grain of salt. Some reporters are just tring to make the gov look bad.
So what kind of internet box is safe? A box behind a router that only lets acceptions in on one randomly chosen port to a SSH connection where the password to log in is determined by a predetermined seed to a Secure ID card?
Given enough time and pressure, anything is breakable.
The only truely secure information doesn't exist.
(They are dumb quotes, I made them up)
Geeze, just accept it!
Windows > Linux
Just because that's the way it is doen't mean that that's the way it should be. But it's the reality that we live in.
I agree that the text interface was dumb.
But typing the same thing over and over is just like having to click over annd over to find that one spot where they decided to put the trigger point.
The interface isn't as important as pulling the character into the story. Anyone who played (and loved) a text based adventure game felt like they were a part of the story. Like they were intergral to the game. They had a soul and a purpose to existing. Kind of like when you pick up a good book. (Personally I love the R.A. Salvadore series of DnD books) Myst and the other games like it don't have a strong story.
Maybe this isn't the fault of the game genere, maybe the storytellers just aren't that good.
--Quote--
Myst's idea of interactivity involved sparse clicks followed by hours of skull scratching.
And text adventure involved vast amounts of typing followed by hours of skull scratching.
--Q Off--
Both of those generes involve a TON of head scratching. But the difference is that unlike in Myst (or Riven or and Myst-esque game) There is no involvement with the player. It's like you're a body strapped to a pole wandering around a extremely detailed quake 3 map at 2 frames a minute. Text games had a flavor and style to them that drew you in to the story.
But this is not even the worst. What about the death of some great generes like the side scroller? You will never see another game like Super Mario 3 or (Super) Metroid or Alex Kidd or Actraiser (I really loved the action scenes, but the sim scenes were good too).
Games have become more bland and will continue to do so as the technology favors the 3-d game. With every NVidia GeFarce card that people buy, they are saying to developers..."Make us Daikatana.... Make me Quake.... Make some bimbo and let me stare at her ass for hours on end." If you notice, the 3-d card is a really awsome processor, it's probably more powerful then the Pentium or Athlon you've got in your system. but it limits the creativity of the people who program for it by forcing them into the 3-d mold.
Rant off
Rave Off
Hasta,
Steve Toth
it's a stress test so therefore they are tring to crash their servers. Even if you like the game don't bother, cause it will play badly. They want to try and max out their servers . They already crash a lot as it is. I know cause I'm a closed beta tester. If you really love diablo, just wait for the full version to come out. Peace, Steve Toth
Perhaps cause the windows performance is far far better then the linux performance. Thanks to the highly optimised drivers for DirectX and OpenGL on windows? Just maybe.
People who play games on PC have an expectation of the higest performance, and they can't get that with a linux box. The graphics system is just not fast enough yet.
Also, there is no API for linux that is anywhere as good as directX for sound and input.
Wait a sec. How many people out there have NEVER had to patch a game before? How many games have you bought and had to go home only to find out that you had to (or at least should) download a patch to the game? How many of those patches erased your save game files? PC gaming is all about patches so sooner or later you windows people are going to have to patch UT. So the linux people download the patch as the first thing? BFD. Buy the game, it's great. Besides, 3-D is faster under Windows. --Linux can never beat windows because people are dumb.
What were you saying here? I lost you when you decided to repeat yourself again and again. Maybe you should try to make a complete thought before you write there articles, that's what a paragraph is for. A series of sentences that follow each other in thought, which when put together make an idea. Some writers even put these paragraphs together and make essays.
On a completely different note, The Blair Witch Project (BWP) is a movie that only kids can relate to because (surprise, surprise) it's about kids. The generation gap that exists doesn't allow for people older then say 40 to enjoy this movies as much because they had their own movies of this type that can not be replaced by this stilly excuse for originality. Those people haven't had access to the video camcorder all their lives like many 15-25 year olds have (well, for the part of their life that would matter). This age group has used this style of filming to make everything from home videos to films for class to private porns.
The real problem is that this 'protocol' (Ahem, system of begging) is for STREET performers. Not for the average american writer, artist, etc. This is not how they make money. This system does not reward the artist/programmer that makes something really popular. For example, if you write a program that is insanley useful and hard to write, to the public, and heavily undercharge for it, thinking that such a program would be only useful to a few. When in reality it's useful to many people. This system doesn't reward your had work. This is unfair to the artist. Instead of rewarding hard work, it rewards reputation. What if someone promises a work that is undeliverable? What about support of that product. If somebody writes a program that works, but only 40% of the time, what good is it? Do we have to pay a ransom to have this (or another, since I assume that the source would be realeased) programmer fixes our beloved application. Although I admit, these things happen in the system we already use, the current system rewards people who write popular, and useful programs more.
Sounds to me like he was saying (at the end) that good old BSD is for those HARDCORE mofos that like to do everything by hand and know the system inside and out. Well that's great if your time is not worth much. For those of us who would like to be able to do simple things like install a network card without having to rewrite the drivers or recompile anything. Then go and add the IRQ/DMAs into the config file by hand. Well us "weirdos" like systems like linux, and the weaker of us even like Win NT & 98. Cause they work and are easier. Besides, BSD has it's own faults. Just as linux does.
More ram? That would not gain much in terms of performance. If you study cache design, and virtual memory performance in relation to cache, the size of the cache doesn't matter past a certain threshold. Most hard drives today have at most a meg of cache, in relation to their size 19 gig divided by one meg is an one thousand to one ratio of storage to cache. These drives that have massive caches don't perform much better then the drives that have an 128k cache. What I think is going to have to happen to the next generation of physical (long term) storage is for it to move away from the hard disk mechanism. Some leap in the technology, be it hologram or whatnot, will lead the way and speed up computers. Until then, RAID arrays and larger main memorys will have to do.
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I mean yeah, the govenment doesn't have the best web masters. They are not always the best people, maybe they just want to get a page or to up to try and stay current with the technology of the time. It's not like the people needed to properly secure a system are cheap. And the government doesn't work FAST so it's not like they can just go and hire these people whenever they need them.
I guess what I'm really tring to say it that you should take what they are saying with a grain of salt. Some reporters are just tring to make the gov look bad.
So what kind of internet box is safe? A box behind a router that only lets acceptions in on one randomly chosen port to a SSH connection where the password to log in is determined by a predetermined seed to a Secure ID card? Given enough time and pressure, anything is breakable. The only truely secure information doesn't exist. (They are dumb quotes, I made them up)
I think the title explains it all.
Dude, get a real OS.
Geeze, just accept it! Windows > Linux Just because that's the way it is doen't mean that that's the way it should be. But it's the reality that we live in.
Hey man Parappa rocks!
"M I X the flour into the bowl"
"In the rain or in the snow, I got that funky flow, but now I really got to go!"
"The toilet over there will bring your luck"
"What? I gotta believe!"
I agree that the text interface was dumb. But typing the same thing over and over is just like having to click over annd over to find that one spot where they decided to put the trigger point. The interface isn't as important as pulling the character into the story. Anyone who played (and loved) a text based adventure game felt like they were a part of the story. Like they were intergral to the game. They had a soul and a purpose to existing. Kind of like when you pick up a good book. (Personally I love the R.A. Salvadore series of DnD books) Myst and the other games like it don't have a strong story. Maybe this isn't the fault of the game genere, maybe the storytellers just aren't that good.
--Quote-- Myst's idea of interactivity involved sparse clicks followed by hours of skull scratching. And text adventure involved vast amounts of typing followed by hours of skull scratching. --Q Off-- Both of those generes involve a TON of head scratching. But the difference is that unlike in Myst (or Riven or and Myst-esque game) There is no involvement with the player. It's like you're a body strapped to a pole wandering around a extremely detailed quake 3 map at 2 frames a minute. Text games had a flavor and style to them that drew you in to the story. But this is not even the worst. What about the death of some great generes like the side scroller? You will never see another game like Super Mario 3 or (Super) Metroid or Alex Kidd or Actraiser (I really loved the action scenes, but the sim scenes were good too). Games have become more bland and will continue to do so as the technology favors the 3-d game. With every NVidia GeFarce card that people buy, they are saying to developers..."Make us Daikatana.... Make me Quake.... Make some bimbo and let me stare at her ass for hours on end." If you notice, the 3-d card is a really awsome processor, it's probably more powerful then the Pentium or Athlon you've got in your system. but it limits the creativity of the people who program for it by forcing them into the 3-d mold. Rant off Rave Off Hasta, Steve Toth
it's a stress test so therefore they are tring to crash their servers. Even if you like the game don't bother, cause it will play badly. They want to try and max out their servers . They already crash a lot as it is. I know cause I'm a closed beta tester. If you really love diablo, just wait for the full version to come out. Peace, Steve Toth
Perhaps cause the windows performance is far far better then the linux performance. Thanks to the highly optimised drivers for DirectX and OpenGL on windows? Just maybe.
People who play games on PC have an expectation of the higest performance, and they can't get that with a linux box. The graphics system is just not fast enough yet.
Also, there is no API for linux that is anywhere as good as directX for sound and input.
Wait a sec. How many people out there have NEVER had to patch a game before? How many games have you bought and had to go home only to find out that you had to (or at least should) download a patch to the game? How many of those patches erased your save game files? PC gaming is all about patches so sooner or later you windows people are going to have to patch UT. So the linux people download the patch as the first thing? BFD. Buy the game, it's great. Besides, 3-D is faster under Windows. --Linux can never beat windows because people are dumb.
That is of course if the Nintendo system isn't delayed..... They have a history of delaying. It's a battle of mindshare. Between Sega and Sony.
What were you saying here? I lost you when you decided to repeat yourself again and again. Maybe you should try to make a complete thought before you write there articles, that's what a paragraph is for. A series of sentences that follow each other in thought, which when put together make an idea. Some writers even put these paragraphs together and make essays.
On a completely different note, The Blair Witch Project (BWP) is a movie that only kids can relate to because (surprise, surprise) it's about kids. The generation gap that exists doesn't allow for people older then say 40 to enjoy this movies as much because they had their own movies of this type that can not be replaced by this stilly excuse for originality. Those people haven't had access to the video camcorder all their lives like many 15-25 year olds have (well, for the part of their life that would matter). This age group has used this style of filming to make everything from home videos to films for class to private porns.
The real problem is that this 'protocol' (Ahem, system of begging) is for STREET performers. Not for the average american writer, artist, etc. This is not how they make money. This system does not reward the artist/programmer that makes something really popular. For example, if you write a program that is insanley useful and hard to write, to the public, and heavily undercharge for it, thinking that such a program would be only useful to a few. When in reality it's useful to many people. This system doesn't reward your had work. This is unfair to the artist. Instead of rewarding hard work, it rewards reputation. What if someone promises a work that is undeliverable? What about support of that product. If somebody writes a program that works, but only 40% of the time, what good is it? Do we have to pay a ransom to have this (or another, since I assume that the source would be realeased) programmer fixes our beloved application. Although I admit, these things happen in the system we already use, the current system rewards people who write popular, and useful programs more.
Sounds to me like he was saying (at the end) that good old BSD is for those HARDCORE mofos that like to do everything by hand and know the system inside and out. Well that's great if your time is not worth much. For those of us who would like to be able to do simple things like install a network card without having to rewrite the drivers or recompile anything. Then go and add the IRQ/DMAs into the config file by hand. Well us "weirdos" like systems like linux, and the weaker of us even like Win NT & 98. Cause they work and are easier. Besides, BSD has it's own faults. Just as linux does.
Believe it or not, light and therefore electricity (since electricity moves slower then light) also has a finite speed.
More ram? That would not gain much in terms of performance. If you study cache design, and virtual memory performance in relation to cache, the size of the cache doesn't matter past a certain threshold. Most hard drives today have at most a meg of cache, in relation to their size 19 gig divided by one meg is an one thousand to one ratio of storage to cache. These drives that have massive caches don't perform much better then the drives that have an 128k cache. What I think is going to have to happen to the next generation of physical (long term) storage is for it to move away from the hard disk mechanism. Some leap in the technology, be it hologram or whatnot, will lead the way and speed up computers. Until then, RAID arrays and larger main memorys will have to do.