cept instancing, which does help with certain server-wide bottlenecks (see all of eq epics, and it really is unfair when other guilds hold them for months [ragefire])
eq was beaten by its own success. from the hardcore, start from nothing and fight hard for another ding, we're moving to the mario bros "100 lives from jumping on a turtle shell". original eq (and even kunark) was the best game i've ever played because it was hard, you were on-guard all the time, and you really didn't know what was going on. for hardcore gamers, it's the safety that is boring.
getting to L60 in wow was less fun than getting to L5 in fgaydark, mostly because of the atmosphere, and challenge.
hope vanguard does it again, wow is for 12-yr olds.
with you man, khan and undiscovered were killer, but most of the rest ended up with these vague very spiritual or moral opponents which never really made you identify with either side.
khan and undiscovered really brought out the people on both sides and gave you personalities to tie to the "must destroy the galaxy", and if first contact was a little awkward about it at least we knew and understood the enemy anyway.
jesus, the end of 5 involved a mass of energy, who "may or may not have been a god and dies in 10 minutes anyway". that might have been a decent movie if someone had bothered to tie all the plots together instead of just playing connect the dots.
the change in mag-flux is small, enough to slow down ionic particles, but not enough to seriously affect a massive and low-charge probe or ship. so kinda no.
also, the heliopause and termination shock is a very small effect. its a big deal to the solar wind, but to any uncharged object bigger than a small rock its near unnoticable.
a: fox still owns the rights, rebroadcast/syndication is cheap compared to the creative rights.
b: yeah... umm i love adult swim, but they are seriously low-budget, which is really why they rock so hard.
love the idea, but doubt it would happen.
side-note: as someone who loves BT and xvid as much as the next guy, i think futurama deserves a min 9 month amnesty from rips just on account of style. maybe this could be a common route for quality tv if as someone said above, the people who love something a lot, pay for it, and the people who are broke or just think its ok mooch.
imho the problem with the dvd/music industry is they ask too much for things people aren't willing to pay for. imagine $3 for 1-2 star dvd's, all those summer movies that are just barely watchable, but decent for kids or to leave on in the background. not that this doesn't work in their favor too, cause people just end up passing the crap by for the better ones.
a: nice work predicting trends that haven't started yet. kudos on drumming fear for a possible future based on no evidence at all! At 11, how terrorists COULD come into your house, tie you up in nylon, and use you as sock puppets without you knowing!
b: it really irritates me how all these groups are out there yelling for problems that might occur/get much worse and expecting that they be solved now. i should petition congress because my credit card bill next month MAY be higher than expected. is it just me or has the federal govt gotten far more involved in free trade as of late than before? perhaps all the crying and blame lately is a result of politicians in congress abusing powers they were never meant to have. from my understanding of the constitution the congress was meant to have federal jurisdiction over those matters that materially affect the welfare of the country, ie wars, taxation, interstate disputes. dictating the finer points of copywrite enforcement seems the job of an independent judiciary or even bureaucratic agency such as the fcc with limited congressional oversight.
just a thought, but this congress (both sides) is way the hell to influenced by outside interests for my tastes. even bush doesn't go on tv and read mpaa/riaa press releases verbatim.
is the publisher traceable? like is the ip address in the.torrent, cause that might be a bit of a giveaway.
not sure how it'd work otherwise, but this gives each torrent a single responsible party for its uploading. on the plus side they could limit who has access to the download client tables to people who need it and upload valid.
curious, and no im not just using it for legitimate torrents, but i pay for my cable and id rather keep stuff on my file server than a tivo with a crappy interface.
come from a family of md's, made it through 3 years of pre-med before i realized how ball-scraping a lifestyle it was.
doctors tend to come from the most ambitious and driven of us. I knew people growing up who i wouldnt trust to fold my laundry who somehow made it through med school. most people know very little of their own biology, and the above analogy of "take 1 defrag and call me in the morning" about computer geeks seems apt. it takes an awful lot of time and work to do a complete diagnosis of a malady, while a quickie "oh its probably just gas" diagnosis is cheap and easy and can still be billed as a full visit.
your problem above is not just about the insurers keeping information from you, it's about the old turf-war between the all-knowing, almighty doctors, and the insurers who think "well cant he just take a pill for his brain tumor?". Having spoken with MANY doctors they continually blame the insurance companies and lawyers for the red-tape and guidelines and the decreasing standards of treatment, but much of the blame comes from the doctors intransigence and unwillingness to share the responsibility with others.
My mother was an anesthesiologist, and while she was practicing there was a huge fight about the increase in nurse anesthetists who could do some of her job for 1/4 the pay. Honestly the skill required to put someone to sleep for an outpatient procedure is nothing compared to trauma of thoracic surgery, but the competition between the nurses and the doctors became very intense, to the detriment of the patients.
Moral: Doctors: Get the fuck over it. You are not god, and your job does not require genius level iq. You are flawed and limited like the rest of us, but by not acknowledging those flaws you are hurting your patients in the long run.
so... i could patent logging on to a p2p network, getting the ip's of peers and resolving them into an identity from their isps... then sue them if they tried to do the same?
monolithic in this case also means interface-monolithic. basically all the interfaces are defined as symbols to the linker, and all interfaces are defined c-native.
the micro-kernels are meant to use message passing and more abstracted interfaces, as well as separate address spaces to ensure a bad module does not take down the entire kernel. Think of it like the modules run as only semi-privileged applications, handling their hardware and then giving control back to the micro-kernel which does as little as possible to arbitrate control and schedule between the subsystems and user-mode applications. Drivers are no longer fully privileged, and the entire user-space can be considered a subsystem of the kernel.
it's different, and kinda hard to design for, but i can't wait for hurd to release a linux compat layer.
Ahem... how would I be getting something for nothing? They are broadcasting this for free to my home? That's like saying since band X demands I only listen to their albums on a sony music player at 11:00PM, and I use a panasonic at 10:30 I'm commiting a crime.
Yes, you're right, and shoplifting cigarettes is bad for tobacco companies too... but wait, they compensated store-owners for that didn't they? I wonder why they'd pay store-owners when kids blatently stole cigarettes. Interesting...
3 is true for most people, but for a lot of busier people, setting up a torrent stream is a lot easier and faster than f*ing scheduling your whole GD life around when a show comes on, not counting the commercials and boring/stupid parts. I must've run most of the 3'rd season of enterprise at 5x, just skipping around and seeing if the ship blew up or anything else important for the overall storyline, it just wasnt worth a full viewing.
Jesus i pay 100$ on cable and premium channels and don't watch that much, I'd throw down the same easily just for a better cable that worked like tivo cept the show didn't have to air first (vod style), so number 1 isn't absolute.
And for 2, 60 years ago tv was a crazy luxury only the rich could afford, radio was considered "good enough" for the average folk, with a weekly trip to the movies for variety. These things change, I doubt 10 years from now anyone would bother dealing with a tv set that didn't automatically queue up all the shows that fit your taste and have them ready to watch whenever you felt like it, and could throw up a show you heard about from friends and decided to try out too.
Technology changes, people don't, next decade's "lazy tv" will be different from today's crap, ad nauseum.
Before southpark went big it was thrown around the net in RM format. Everyone loved it, and a lot of its popularity was attributed to that burst of exposure, I know I sure wouldn't have cared because, who has time to check out all the esoteric shit on basic cable? It's sad that as soon as the show was popular enough they cracked down on the sites hosting the rm's.
Seriously, without that exposure theyd just be another gay comedy central abortion nobody heard about, fans went crazy getting them publicity.
$50 at 20:1 odds BSG does the same thing when dvd time comes around.
In other news the bacteria E.Coli is celebrating a glorious million year aniversary as the intestinal parasite of choice when it comes to sudden, explosive diarrhea.
Seriously, the only, and I mean ONLY good thing about dos was when you programmed for it, it got the hell out of the way and let you at the hardware. Software got full control of the machine at execution, giving great performance (which mattered at the time) and more reliable software. The only downside was a complete lack of library infrastructure for functionality sharing beyond simple io. Well that and the whole "ssh! pretend its a 8Mhz 8088" real-mode limitation.
HP is a crazy HUGE company, with all the follow the script and ass-covering that entails. I can not imagine the effort involved in adding a linux support infrastructure to that mess.
Having gone through the old compaq support chain once for an hour trying to get them to understand (1)the hd crashed and (2)no i could not boot to windows, see reason 1 before i realized life was too short and it was less ridiculous to buy a new hd at compusa, I wonder why of all people they don't outsource support.
With large org's like hp, especially ones focused mostly to the lower end of the market, the support costs are the biggest factor in things like adding linux, so even if they were to adopt they'd prolly try to come up with the linux version of microsoft bob, something safe and controllable, a user sandbox. Selling to other countries also gives them the deniability "No it doesn't run game X, it's just a linux system!" without the inevitable outcry from consumer groups or pissed customers.
Sadly, it wasn't that bad of a company pre-carly, but buying compaq was like drinking a can of ebola virus to get over a bout of herpes.
light sabers. he doesn't get it, they aren't "made of light", they just look like they are. take a 1mK ion source, have it output out of the long end, give the blade a very strong magnetic field that bends that ion stream along the blade but does not touch it. place a weak magnet on the hilt to reabsorb the ions to be charged again.
a. this thing would probably about as hot as the sun, so touching would be double-plus ungood, even on the hilt. the charged ions would repel each other like in the movies, as long as the charge density was high enough.
b. omfg the power needed would be huge to create a blade of any intensity, ion plasma streams have been created in a tokamak, but not for any length of time or intensity, so youd need a serious cryonic ion storage tech, and that would be used up fast, and youd still get an arc-ing effect if it came near anything. think ball-lighting on crack.
c. i doubt you could move it easily, and if it touched a solid object the charge would be dissipated and the blade and other object would explode... a lot.
so the photon blade idea, no, and the gluon idea was pure 100% columbian grade crack from someone who never finished reading that neat book about physics, cause gluons don't really work that way. i'm sure someone could fix the engineering problems i have so far with a little effort.
also, older components tend to use larger signaling thresholds, which makes a big difference considering the mag-flux caused by radiation in space is much higher than on earth. id guess those tapes are also done with a high bias, as platters could be wiped with a decent flare, and fine-process cmos chips could be knocked out completely with a suprisingly small charge. even a small spike in power from a line surging or regulator going bad could take down some hard-disks, while all you have to do is rewind the tape and it's good.
you only need enough cpu power to handle some basic tasks and send the rest down to earth. considering most of the software is in c or assembler a 486 is an awful lot of power for most tasks.
seriously, the free enterprise answer is, if a service isn't being provided because you aren't economically viable, move to a place that is economically viable.
yeah, it's sad, kinda like market failure, but then isn't the market the end-all be-all of human existence to the gop? like riding a train off a cliff cause the rails lead that way.
not anti-capitalism, just that capitalism tends to be anti-human-life in some cases, ala environment and labor conditions.
2 to 3 was insanely slow because of the nature of the changes. 3 is almost a new compiler compared to 2, the fork happened rather far back and was more of a replacement than a rejoin, hence the buggery. 4 seems more like a new framework was added and a lot of the functionality was dropped into that framework, maybe some off-mainline work was merged also, but not on the level of 2-3.
reading tfa and changelog intrigued me. optimisations aside im curious if this will be better able to thread on the new multi-core systems coming out, as tls has been spotty till 3.3 and glibc 2. maybe native xd support coming soon too?
also, the c++ side makes me feel optimistic about ongoing support, which had been a big problem till 3.4.
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cept instancing, which does help with certain server-wide bottlenecks (see all of eq epics, and it really is unfair when other guilds hold them for months [ragefire])
eq was beaten by its own success. from the hardcore, start from nothing and fight hard for another ding, we're moving to the mario bros "100 lives from jumping on a turtle shell". original eq (and even kunark) was the best game i've ever played because it was hard, you were on-guard all the time, and you really didn't know what was going on. for hardcore gamers, it's the safety that is boring.
getting to L60 in wow was less fun than getting to L5 in fgaydark, mostly because of the atmosphere, and challenge.
hope vanguard does it again, wow is for 12-yr olds.
with you man, khan and undiscovered were killer, but most of the rest ended up with these vague very spiritual or moral opponents which never really made you identify with either side.
khan and undiscovered really brought out the people on both sides and gave you personalities to tie to the "must destroy the galaxy", and if first contact was a little awkward about it at least we knew and understood the enemy anyway.
jesus, the end of 5 involved a mass of energy, who "may or may not have been a god and dies in 10 minutes anyway". that might have been a decent movie if someone had bothered to tie all the plots together instead of just playing connect the dots.
the change in mag-flux is small, enough to slow down ionic particles, but not enough to seriously affect a massive and low-charge probe or ship. so kinda no.
also, the heliopause and termination shock is a very small effect. its a big deal to the solar wind, but to any uncharged object bigger than a small rock its near unnoticable.
a: fox still owns the rights, rebroadcast/syndication is cheap compared to the creative rights.
b: yeah... umm i love adult swim, but they are seriously low-budget, which is really why they rock so hard.
love the idea, but doubt it would happen.
side-note:
as someone who loves BT and xvid as much as the next guy, i think futurama deserves a min 9 month amnesty from rips just on account of style. maybe this could be a common route for quality tv if as someone said above, the people who love something a lot, pay for it, and the people who are broke or just think its ok mooch.
imho the problem with the dvd/music industry is they ask too much for things people aren't willing to pay for. imagine $3 for 1-2 star dvd's, all those summer movies that are just barely watchable, but decent for kids or to leave on in the background. not that this doesn't work in their favor too, cause people just end up passing the crap by for the better ones.
just a thought(s)
they willing to trade back?
a: nice work predicting trends that haven't started yet. kudos on drumming fear for a possible future based on no evidence at all! At 11, how terrorists COULD come into your house, tie you up in nylon, and use you as sock puppets without you knowing!
b: it really irritates me how all these groups are out there yelling for problems that might occur/get much worse and expecting that they be solved now. i should petition congress because my credit card bill next month MAY be higher than expected. is it just me or has the federal govt gotten far more involved in free trade as of late than before? perhaps all the crying and blame lately is a result of politicians in congress abusing powers they were never meant to have. from my understanding of the constitution the congress was meant to have federal jurisdiction over those matters that materially affect the welfare of the country, ie wars, taxation, interstate disputes. dictating the finer points of copywrite enforcement seems the job of an independent judiciary or even bureaucratic agency such as the fcc with limited congressional oversight.
just a thought, but this congress (both sides) is way the hell to influenced by outside interests for my tastes. even bush doesn't go on tv and read mpaa/riaa press releases verbatim.
is the publisher traceable? like is the ip address in the .torrent, cause that might be a bit of a giveaway.
not sure how it'd work otherwise, but this gives each torrent a single responsible party for its uploading. on the plus side they could limit who has access to the download client tables to people who need it and upload valid.
curious, and no im not just using it for legitimate torrents, but i pay for my cable and id rather keep stuff on my file server than a tivo with a crappy interface.
come from a family of md's, made it through 3 years of pre-med before i realized how ball-scraping a lifestyle it was.
doctors tend to come from the most ambitious and driven of us. I knew people growing up who i wouldnt trust to fold my laundry who somehow made it through med school. most people know very little of their own biology, and the above analogy of "take 1 defrag and call me in the morning" about computer geeks seems apt. it takes an awful lot of time and work to do a complete diagnosis of a malady, while a quickie "oh its probably just gas" diagnosis is cheap and easy and can still be billed as a full visit.
your problem above is not just about the insurers keeping information from you, it's about the old turf-war between the all-knowing, almighty doctors, and the insurers who think "well cant he just take a pill for his brain tumor?". Having spoken with MANY doctors they continually blame the insurance companies and lawyers for the red-tape and guidelines and the decreasing standards of treatment, but much of the blame comes from the doctors intransigence and unwillingness to share the responsibility with others.
My mother was an anesthesiologist, and while she was practicing there was a huge fight about the increase in nurse anesthetists who could do some of her job for 1/4 the pay. Honestly the skill required to put someone to sleep for an outpatient procedure is nothing compared to trauma of thoracic surgery, but the competition between the nurses and the doctors became very intense, to the detriment of the patients.
Moral:
Doctors: Get the fuck over it. You are not god, and your job does not require genius level iq. You are flawed and limited like the rest of us, but by not acknowledging those flaws you are hurting your patients in the long run.
so... i could patent logging on to a p2p network, getting the ip's of peers and resolving them into an identity from their isps... then sue them if they tried to do the same?
i like this idea, lemme get a pen!
monolithic in this case also means interface-monolithic.
basically all the interfaces are defined as symbols to the linker, and all interfaces are defined c-native.
the micro-kernels are meant to use message passing and more abstracted interfaces, as well as separate address spaces to ensure a bad module does not take down the entire kernel. Think of it like the modules run as only semi-privileged applications, handling their hardware and then giving control back to the micro-kernel which does as little as possible to arbitrate control and schedule between the subsystems and user-mode applications. Drivers are no longer fully privileged, and the entire user-space can be considered a subsystem of the kernel.
it's different, and kinda hard to design for, but i can't wait for hurd to release a linux compat layer.
Bernie... dude I still have some of your work... I owe you a beer.
Seriously, me and my friends owe you thanks for all the Southpark and for starting this whole net video whosifudge.
I doff my hat to you sir.
Ahem... how would I be getting something for nothing? They are broadcasting this for free to my home? That's like saying since band X demands I only listen to their albums on a sony music player at 11:00PM, and I use a panasonic at 10:30 I'm commiting a crime.
Yes, you're right, and shoplifting cigarettes is bad for tobacco companies too... but wait, they compensated store-owners for that didn't they? I wonder why they'd pay store-owners when kids blatently stole cigarettes. Interesting...
3 is true for most people, but for a lot of busier people, setting up a torrent stream is a lot easier and faster than f*ing scheduling your whole GD life around when a show comes on, not counting the commercials and boring/stupid parts. I must've run most of the 3'rd season of enterprise at 5x, just skipping around and seeing if the ship blew up or anything else important for the overall storyline, it just wasnt worth a full viewing.
Jesus i pay 100$ on cable and premium channels and don't watch that much, I'd throw down the same easily just for a better cable that worked like tivo cept the show didn't have to air first (vod style), so number 1 isn't absolute.
And for 2, 60 years ago tv was a crazy luxury only the rich could afford, radio was considered "good enough" for the average folk, with a weekly trip to the movies for variety. These things change, I doubt 10 years from now anyone would bother dealing with a tv set that didn't automatically queue up all the shows that fit your taste and have them ready to watch whenever you felt like it, and could throw up a show you heard about from friends and decided to try out too.
Technology changes, people don't, next decade's "lazy tv" will be different from today's crap, ad nauseum.
Before southpark went big it was thrown around the net in RM format. Everyone loved it, and a lot of its popularity was attributed to that burst of exposure, I know I sure wouldn't have cared because, who has time to check out all the esoteric shit on basic cable? It's sad that as soon as the show was popular enough they cracked down on the sites hosting the rm's.
Seriously, without that exposure theyd just be another gay comedy central abortion nobody heard about, fans went crazy getting them publicity.
$50 at 20:1 odds BSG does the same thing when dvd time comes around.
In other news the bacteria E.Coli is celebrating a glorious million year aniversary as the intestinal parasite of choice when it comes to sudden, explosive diarrhea.
Seriously, the only, and I mean ONLY good thing about dos was when you programmed for it, it got the hell out of the way and let you at the hardware. Software got full control of the machine at execution, giving great performance (which mattered at the time) and more reliable software. The only downside was a complete lack of library infrastructure for functionality sharing beyond simple io. Well that and the whole "ssh! pretend its a 8Mhz 8088" real-mode limitation.
I can believe that.
HP is a crazy HUGE company, with all the follow the script and ass-covering that entails. I can not imagine the effort involved in adding a linux support infrastructure to that mess.
Having gone through the old compaq support chain once for an hour trying to get them to understand (1)the hd crashed and (2)no i could not boot to windows, see reason 1 before i realized life was too short and it was less ridiculous to buy a new hd at compusa, I wonder why of all people they don't outsource support.
With large org's like hp, especially ones focused mostly to the lower end of the market, the support costs are the biggest factor in things like adding linux, so even if they were to adopt they'd prolly try to come up with the linux version of microsoft bob, something safe and controllable, a user sandbox. Selling to other countries also gives them the deniability "No it doesn't run game X, it's just a linux system!" without the inevitable outcry from consumer groups or pissed customers.
Sadly, it wasn't that bad of a company pre-carly, but buying compaq was like drinking a can of ebola virus to get over a bout of herpes.
light sabers.
he doesn't get it, they aren't "made of light", they just look like they are. take a 1mK ion source, have it output out of the long end, give the blade a very strong magnetic field that bends that ion stream along the blade but does not touch it. place a weak magnet on the hilt to reabsorb the ions to be charged again.
a. this thing would probably about as hot as the sun, so touching would be double-plus ungood, even on the hilt. the charged ions would repel each other like in the movies, as long as the charge density was high enough.
b. omfg the power needed would be huge to create a blade of any intensity, ion plasma streams have been created in a tokamak, but not for any length of time or intensity, so youd need a serious cryonic ion storage tech, and that would be used up fast, and youd still get an arc-ing effect if it came near anything. think ball-lighting on crack.
c. i doubt you could move it easily, and if it touched a solid object the charge would be dissipated and the blade and other object would explode... a lot.
so the photon blade idea, no, and the gluon idea was pure 100% columbian grade crack from someone who never finished reading that neat book about physics, cause gluons don't really work that way. i'm sure someone could fix the engineering problems i have so far with a little effort.
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yeah, that was the remerge between the 2 forks, or as obi-wan put it "before the dark times".
also, older components tend to use larger signaling thresholds, which makes a big difference considering the mag-flux caused by radiation in space is much higher than on earth. id guess those tapes are also done with a high bias, as platters could be wiped with a decent flare, and fine-process cmos chips could be knocked out completely with a suprisingly small charge. even a small spike in power from a line surging or regulator going bad could take down some hard-disks, while all you have to do is rewind the tape and it's good.
you only need enough cpu power to handle some basic tasks and send the rest down to earth. considering most of the software is in c or assembler a 486 is an awful lot of power for most tasks.
move!
seriously, the free enterprise answer is, if a service isn't being provided because you aren't economically viable, move to a place that is economically viable.
yeah, it's sad, kinda like market failure, but then isn't the market the end-all be-all of human existence to the gop? like riding a train off a cliff cause the rails lead that way.
not anti-capitalism, just that capitalism tends to be anti-human-life in some cases, ala environment and labor conditions.
think you mean gcl. it's not as integrated as gcj or g77 but it doesn't have to be because it's not the full toolchain.
2 to 3 was insanely slow because of the nature of the changes. 3 is almost a new compiler compared to 2, the fork happened rather far back and was more of a replacement than a rejoin, hence the buggery. 4 seems more like a new framework was added and a lot of the functionality was dropped into that framework, maybe some off-mainline work was merged also, but not on the level of 2-3.
my guess at least.
reading tfa and changelog intrigued me. optimisations aside im curious if this will be better able to thread on the new multi-core systems coming out, as tls has been spotty till 3.3 and glibc 2. maybe native xd support coming soon too?
also, the c++ side makes me feel optimistic about ongoing support, which had been a big problem till 3.4.
yes im x86/64 centric.