I remember (it seems like it was years ago) when wolf3d came out. I spent hours playing it. It was revolutionary, and fascinating. Then Doom. Then Doom 2. Now they all look like repeats. Different weapons, different plot line, but the same game. When can we expect something as revolutionary as wolfinstien was? What do your foresee this game being like, and what technology will be involved?
*sigh* Here we go again. Someone has up and forgotten that there is a place for everything. Let me start off by pointing out that I run both NT 4.0 Workstation, and Linux on SMP machines. All joking, bragging, and heart attacks aside, Linux is *noticeably* faster that NT is for MOST applications. I won't get into any gorey details, but suffice to say, the intresting part of that statement is that NT is running on a dual 233MMX, whilst Linux resides on a dual 166 (thats right, no MMX). So we don't have a journaling FS yet. Yes, thats fairly important. However, to the credit of my Linux boxen (i have 4 of those) I have never lost a scrap of data on any of them, through numerous power outages. I can say the same for NT however. I'd call that just about dead equal. One thing that really rang my bell is the TCO issue. MS needs to figure out that while, yes, nt server on some raging beast of a machine might cost less than SCO openserver on some honking big box, Linux didn't cost several thousand bucks, like SCO versions typically do. Lets address the security issue for a second. If I wanted to create a box that you couldn't get into to use as a firewall/router it wouldn't NT..I can promise you that. Installing SSH on linux, and turning off all other login services, I dare say, would create as near a thing to an impervious-to-hacks box as there is. Ok, yes, we do need to work on fine tuning asignment of privilages a little. Ok alot. Even with sudo, there are things that need to be able to be broken down more thuroughly. Lets talk about productivity and development of apps for a second. When was the last time you downloaded an app for NT that said it worked, and simply didn't? I can tell you right off, this past saturday, I nabbed a copy of audio catalyst. Geuss what? No ASPI access in NT, fat lot of good it does me to be able to rip on an NT machine, when I have a linux box with half the CPU that can rip 4 times as fast. Granted, after pulling about 30 megs of patches, I did get ASPI to work, no thanks to MS. They simply told me there was no way. Enter the set of balls I grew as a Linux newbie attempting to hack kernels: I ripped the win98 aspi dll, and dropped it into NT, threw a little mojo on the registry, and presto. Unfortunatly, since no one will ever read this, and MS doesn't care (they never have IMHO), no one else longing for ASPI access in NT will ever know about it. Any fool can post a patch like this to the linux OS, and geuss what? If it works, it'll get used. So as a last note, since there aren't lists of linux certified professionals anywhere (according to MS), I ask: Where were all of your professionals when I was working on ASPI? Because I can tell you of at least 4 LUG's I can email and get an answer to just about *ANY* support question you can dream up. My point is this: For those who need a reliable OS, and have some idea what to do with a computer when they see one, linux works. If you just want to plunk your fat happy arse into the chair, and go to work, you should probly *NOT* use an operating system designed by narrow minded, self praising gazillionairs. Unfortunatly, until now you haven't had much choice. MS: You've just made your second fatal error. You've prooven to the world that you are biased towards your own product. Both of these operating systems are good. They can both be made to do nearly anything you could desire from an OS. One of them was just developed by much more open-minded friendly people.
The topic says it. Lets see more of these Linux meetings, on a scale that perhaps is not so *huge* that you can't get anything done for the utter MASSES of people. Its like state fairs versus county fairs. Sure you can find a few rides at the state fair that you can't at the county fair, but other than those few, who wants to stand in lines for the other rides, when they are much more accessable at the county fairs. You follow me?
I'd like to think that I'll get some feedback on this one, yall help me out a little here:
1) Lets suppose for second, that I have a web page, completely clean, except that I also have a small collection of tabulature for bass guitar, some of which happens to contain explicit lyrics (the likes of Korn). Will I be forced to rate my whole page based on the content of one song?
2) On a somewhat wider view, do all these "protect the children" organizations not realize that the only reason any of this is an issue is because the net, today, is as overused as a babysitter as TV was 5 years ago? When are these people going to wake up and realize that todays youth are all going to go to hell in a handbag because the PARENTS aren't PARENTS anymore, they scew, they pro?create (is this still a good word for that?) they let some form or other of machine raise the child, and then everyone wonders why the hell things like the shooting in CO happened. Its because children can leave the barrels of a shotgun they've sawed off on thier bed without them being noticed. Lets put the blame where it belongs. Am I out of line here?
3) Back to the adults: If governments don't believe that thier adult subjects can look at a page, and decide if they find it offensive or not, and handle the situation in a mature fashion, then maybe we are in more trouble than we think. Soon we will all be forced to sit in little metal tanks and consume only input that the governments deem acceptable. This has to end right here, does it not?
So lets put the blame where it belongs. Parents don't raise children anymore (my apologies to those of you who do, I know there are still a few of you out there, my neighbor is one of them, God bless you for believing in disciplen an reponceablity), they leave it up to other people, and other things. Parents *should* stick thier heads in the door and smile and say good night, or go to bed to thier children, even when they are in hichschool. Parents should read to young children, not put them in front of the computer unsupervised. I'll ask one more time: Am I out of line? Protect the Children Groups: Do you jobs, and go after the parents, not the public. The world can't raise children, thats a parents job!
All gripes about the poor writing style aside, this comes across as mostly non-sense. He's missed the point of classing: a Class A address has a netmask of 255.0.0.0, that means that if you take 100.x.x.x as a class A address, then 100.2.0.30 is under that, and you can't use 255.255.0.0 and say oh, I have 100.2.0.30 and its on a different network...no, it isn't because its still in the orignal class A subnet.
Now, take the obvious fact, that reguardless of what is done, at some point we will *HAVE* to go to a new ip scheme anyhow. This is simply a poorly planned idea to delay the inevitable. My advice: Everyone start learning IPv6 and how it works, so that 20 years from now when we're doing this again, I don't have to read another article this poorly thought out.
You should be able to get dual Athlon's inside of 8 months, according to a source of mine that wishes to remain un-named:P. In my mind if you're running a decent OS (NT if its set up correctly, or preferable Linux) there is absolutly no reason EVER to buy a single CPU system again. Thats why my next system is going to be a dual Athlon. I personally have always been one to support the underdog, don't ask why.
Sure, this is old hat. But its not been done with morphing code before. Previously it was simply a matter of who found CPU time. Here we have "organisms" that when they react properly, recieve more CPU time, thus giving them an even greater chance to do what they ought to in order to survive. As for the old amino acid in ocean water, we would never live long enough to see what really came of an experiment like that. Sure we can see that amino acids. Imagine leaving that stuff locked up in a lab with the proper conditions for a few million years. Someone could open the place up and find "alien" life right here on earth. Seriously though, anyone care to wager what this and the "intuitive" computer could do for AI?
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I remember (it seems like it was years ago) when wolf3d came out. I spent hours playing it. It was revolutionary, and fascinating. Then Doom. Then Doom 2. Now they all look like repeats. Different weapons, different plot line, but the same game. When can we expect something as revolutionary as wolfinstien was? What do your foresee this game being like, and what technology will be involved?
*sigh* Here we go again. Someone has up and forgotten that there is a place for everything. Let me start off by pointing out that I run both NT 4.0 Workstation, and Linux on SMP machines. All joking, bragging, and heart attacks aside, Linux is *noticeably* faster that NT is for MOST applications. I won't get into any gorey details, but suffice to say, the intresting part of that statement is that NT is running on a dual 233MMX, whilst Linux resides on a dual 166 (thats right, no MMX). So we don't have a journaling FS yet. Yes, thats fairly important. However, to the credit of my Linux boxen (i have 4 of those) I have never lost a scrap of data on any of them, through numerous power outages. I can say the same for NT however. I'd call that just about dead equal. One thing that really rang my bell is the TCO issue. MS needs to figure out that while, yes, nt server on some raging beast of a machine might cost less than SCO openserver on some honking big box, Linux didn't cost several thousand bucks, like SCO versions typically do. Lets address the security issue for a second. If I wanted to create a box that you couldn't get into to use as a firewall/router it wouldn't NT..I can promise you that. Installing SSH on linux, and turning off all other login services, I dare say, would create as near a thing to an impervious-to-hacks box as there is. Ok, yes, we do need to work on fine tuning asignment of privilages a little. Ok alot. Even with sudo, there are things that need to be able to be broken down more thuroughly. Lets talk about productivity and development of apps for a second. When was the last time you downloaded an app for NT that said it worked, and simply didn't? I can tell you right off, this past saturday, I nabbed a copy of audio catalyst. Geuss what? No ASPI access in NT, fat lot of good it does me to be able to rip on an NT machine, when I have a linux box with half the CPU that can rip 4 times as fast. Granted, after pulling about 30 megs of patches, I did get ASPI to work, no thanks to MS. They simply told me there was no way. Enter the set of balls I grew as a Linux newbie attempting to hack kernels: I ripped the win98 aspi dll, and dropped it into NT, threw a little mojo on the registry, and presto. Unfortunatly, since no one will ever read this, and MS doesn't care (they never have IMHO), no one else longing for ASPI access in NT will ever know about it. Any fool can post a patch like this to the linux OS, and geuss what? If it works, it'll get used. So as a last note, since there aren't lists of linux certified professionals anywhere (according to MS), I ask: Where were all of your professionals when I was working on ASPI? Because I can tell you of at least 4 LUG's I can email and get an answer to just about *ANY* support question you can dream up. My point is this: For those who need a reliable OS, and have some idea what to do with a computer when they see one, linux works. If you just want to plunk your fat happy arse into the chair, and go to work, you should probly *NOT* use an operating system designed by narrow minded, self praising gazillionairs. Unfortunatly, until now you haven't had much choice. MS: You've just made your second fatal error. You've prooven to the world that you are biased towards your own product. Both of these operating systems are good. They can both be made to do nearly anything you could desire from an OS. One of them was just developed by much more open-minded friendly people.
The topic says it. Lets see more of these Linux meetings, on a scale that perhaps is not so *huge* that you can't get anything done for the utter MASSES of people. Its like state fairs versus county fairs. Sure you can find a few rides at the state fair that you can't at the county fair, but other than those few, who wants to stand in lines for the other rides, when they are much more accessable at the county fairs. You follow me?
I'd like to think that I'll get some feedback on this one, yall help me out a little here:
1) Lets suppose for second, that I have a web page, completely clean, except that I also have a small collection of tabulature for bass guitar, some of which happens to contain explicit lyrics (the likes of Korn). Will I be forced to rate my whole page based on the content of one song?
2) On a somewhat wider view, do all these "protect the children" organizations not realize that the only reason any of this is an issue is because the net, today, is as overused as a babysitter as TV was 5 years ago? When are these people going to wake up and realize that todays youth are all going to go to hell in a handbag because the PARENTS aren't PARENTS anymore, they scew, they pro?create (is this still a good word for that?) they let some form or other of machine raise the child, and then everyone wonders why the hell things like the shooting in CO happened. Its because children can leave the barrels of a shotgun they've sawed off on thier bed without them being noticed. Lets put the blame where it belongs. Am I out of line here?
3) Back to the adults: If governments don't believe that thier adult subjects can look at a page, and decide if they find it offensive or not, and handle the situation in a mature fashion, then maybe we are in more trouble than we think. Soon we will all be forced to sit in little metal tanks and consume only input that the governments deem acceptable. This has to end right here, does it not?
So lets put the blame where it belongs. Parents don't raise children anymore (my apologies to those of you who do, I know there are still a few of you out there, my neighbor is one of them, God bless you for believing in disciplen an reponceablity), they leave it up to other people, and other things. Parents *should* stick thier heads in the door and smile and say good night, or go to bed to thier children, even when they are in hichschool. Parents should read to young children, not put them in front of the computer unsupervised. I'll ask one more time: Am I out of line? Protect the Children Groups: Do you jobs, and go after the parents, not the public. The world can't raise children, thats a parents job!
First lets consider this:
All gripes about the poor writing style aside, this comes across as mostly non-sense. He's missed the point of classing: a Class A address has a netmask of 255.0.0.0, that means that if you take 100.x.x.x as a class A address, then 100.2.0.30 is under that, and you can't use 255.255.0.0 and say oh, I have 100.2.0.30 and its on a different network...no, it isn't because its still in the orignal class A subnet.
Now, take the obvious fact, that reguardless of what is done, at some point we will *HAVE* to go to a new ip scheme anyhow. This is simply a poorly planned idea to delay the inevitable. My advice: Everyone start learning IPv6 and how it works, so that 20 years from now when we're doing this again, I don't have to read another article this poorly thought out.
You should be able to get dual Athlon's inside of 8 months, according to a source of mine that wishes to remain un-named:P. In my mind if you're running a decent OS (NT if its set up correctly, or preferable Linux) there is absolutly no reason EVER to buy a single CPU system again. Thats why my next system is going to be a dual Athlon. I personally have always been one to support the underdog, don't ask why.
Sure, this is old hat. But its not been done with morphing code before. Previously it was simply a matter of who found CPU time. Here we have "organisms" that when they react properly, recieve more CPU time, thus giving them an even greater chance to do what they ought to in order to survive. As for the old amino acid in ocean water, we would never live long enough to see what really came of an experiment like that. Sure we can see that amino acids. Imagine leaving that stuff locked up in a lab with the proper conditions for a few million years. Someone could open the place up and find "alien" life right here on earth. Seriously though, anyone care to wager what this and the "intuitive" computer could do for AI?