It will be, just not anytime soon. Don't get caught in the trap of always thinking what is here and now is all there is.
Spend a moment and think on the scale technology has driven forward in the past 200 years. We have gone from living in the dark at night, without climate control, to sending people to the moon and mechanical drones to Mars.
Quantum computing and nanotech are going to hit eventually. If not one of those, then it is likely someone will stumble on something completely missed by the entire mass of humanity and change the world again. Or, of course, we could just all die out due to a disaster at any given moment...
Wow, you actually figured it out? We, the yanks, have known exactly what the point of this was for years.
China is also seeking to militarize space. This would happen with or without the US being around. If the US or China wasn't there to do it, the old Soviet Union would have been happy to fill in the void. I am sure every one of the countries under the label of "axis of evil" would spring at the opportunity to also seek space weaponry if they had the resources. I would also bet a little dictator with death rays from space would have no problem obliterating your skinny, white european hyde. The US, on the other hand, would probably seek free trade agreements and offer humanitarian and military aid if you choose sides with them.
While I disagree with the premise of the current occupation, it is disturbing to see so many people whine about a nation which brought them the very technology they use to complain about it.
Hopefully, next time we won't spend hundreds of billions rebuilding europe, japan and company. Apparently, assisting them in their wars while being a constant source of aid doesn't give one any political tout anymore, so screw it.;-)
I should also point out that the machine has two processors, which Windows XP recognised. I didn't add SMP support into the Linux kernel.
You should also point out whether or not you used the command line switches to actually enable the smp support in the game engine. I think it is off by default and really doesn't do much for performance when on.
I am suprised you guys are getting such results with Linux performing better. Even the project homepage disagrees with this result, as do my personal experiences on a dual boot system.
Then again, Linux always performs better according to slashdot threads.
Why should they? Why bother dealing with people who are going to scream about how terrible you are based on where they are from? Way bring people together.
Windows: 3D Hardware Accelerator Card Required - 100% DirectX® 9.0b compatible 64MB Hardware Accelerated video card and the latest drivers*. English version of Microsoft® Windows® 2000/XP Pentium® IV 1.5 GHz or Athlon® XP 1500+ processor or higher 384MB RAM 8x Speed CD-ROM drive (1200KB/sec sustained transfer rate) and latest drivers 2.2GB of uncompressed free hard disk space (plus 400MB for Windows® swap file) 100% DirectX® 9.0b compatible 16-bit sound card and latest drivers 100% Windows® 2000/XP compatible mouse, keyboard and latest drivers DirectX® 9.0b (included)
Linux: GNU/Linux system, Pentium III, 1Ghz 256Mb RAM Kernel 2.4, 2.6 is recommended glibc 2.2.4 and up 3D card:
NV10 or R200 minimum hardware
OpenGL hardware acceleration
64 MB VRAM sound card, OSS or Alsa, stereo sound and 5.1 are supported with both APIs Alsa version 1.0.6 or above is required
I got both of these from the respective download sites. The only difference being the Linux version is the demo release, which should cause minimal concern since they are going by how well the engine itself runs on the platform.
My system is an AMD XP2100+ 512MB & ATI9700Pro @ 4x AGP. The Windows version runs great, the Linux version runs so-so. It is playable, but not much fun. I think this has more to do with needing to upgrade to something in the FX53 range than being any blame of ethier operating system.
Let's face it, performance isn't nearly as much of an issue as developer support at this point.
ReeprFlame writes "eWeek has reported overhearing Microsoft's plans to finally get into the distributed computing market. Considering that the Windows platform has never had the ability to parallel compute in the past, it leaves great potential to the company's operating system development. From current *nix systems we have today, such a grid proves very useful, especially in the serving arena. However, we are unsure of Microsoft's target for the software. Would it be an addition to home users computers as well as the server versions of Windows? As of now it is unclear, but Microsoft probably will bring this situation to life in the near future since it does hold alot of power for them over other platforms."
I arrived a bit late on the scene to advise you guys, but here goes: If you are going to have a derogatory thread about M$ and how lame they are, um, get your terminology right first!
Parallel =! Distributed Distributed =! Parallel
These are two different things and demonstrates how this board has a tendancy to go off a bit half-cocked over what M$ does and their capabilities.
What is even sadder, those speaking seriously of problems with Windows 95 (BSoD) having anything remotely to do with enterprise level systems today. Being an old-timer BSD and Linux user, I can safely say I've seen a share of pings of death and other BS with every OS. Sometimes, it becomes time to just let all that childish BS go, ya know? Implement what businesses need and works.
If you get serious about apple displays, they are releasing the 30" cinema display in August for around $3k. Hopefully, this action will cause the 23" displays to drop a couple of hundred.
The cost of LCD still amazes me. I don't buy the cost vs failure in manufacture rates. But at least it isn't as bad as DLP rear projection tvs that are 42" costing a grand less than 50" since the only parts that are changed are the forward screen and housing. The lamp, dlp processors, color wheel, power are all the same. This leaves you paying $1000 for about 5 lbs of plastic which required no precise or expensive manufacture process.
At that price, I would much prefer a 23" apple cinema display. At least it is letterbox and allows, and trust me, horizontal real estate is much easier to look at than vertical.
seriously, I feel for the camera men who had to sit through an hour of Call For Help with that schmuck. In his post at the end of the article he says that he is still on TV. I wonder if it is on cooking show, or if he is one of those telethon phone people who are in the background... it couldn't be on any program that is technology releated
Don't you feel so much better now that you have filled us all in on your opinions of Leo? I sure do.
After about 5 years, the "floaties" are still there, and will be there for ever.
The floaters aren't caused by laser exposure. Floaters are known to form as a result of the breakdown of macular fluid in your eye, which occurs over many years. It is most likely you never noticed these before you were zapped and actively checked your sight for problems.
Or you're new to the internet, where posting ontopic responses to articles is not considered "complaining" but is actually the whole point of a discussion forum. Maybe you should become an edumacaded liberal?
I see I left myself open to some asinine attempts at insults when I responded with a logical solution to, what appeared to be, a trivial issue.
My apologies your laptop has a bad battery. Mine runs for a couple of hours with these features off. It really isn't a big deal, also, if you get yourself a gig of RAM. The CPU slowdown seems tripled if you are having to scoop up bits of a fragmented swap file at 1/2 speed.
What if I came by and spotted your family heirloom dinner table, told you I recognized it as a very fancy piece of furniture and that I'd pay you $40,000? (Lets assume that you have no job, and therefore need the money more than you need the table.) Then it turns out it was actually the table George Washington ate from, and that I knew it at the time, and that its actually worth several million dollars?
WTF does this have to do with: "Here's $40k/year, now come up with something that will make me millions?" -- If he had invented it in his spare time, off company property, not using company resources at all, then I could see the debate. Rigth now, this just sounds like more/. self-victimization where the little guy is always right and the big company is always wrong.
He was contracted to do what he did and got paid for that. Perhaps once you guys get jobs and move out of your parents basements, you will understand the business world a bit better.
This is kind of like if one of the doctors involved with research of a cancer drug came out nearing the end of the patent life of said drug saying "I made this all by myself!", when it was, in reality, a collective of many doctors.
Once purduephotog gets off his soap box, we will need to remind him of the parent post. There is nothing "Insightful" about repeating the first post.
One must ask himself: If I cared so much, why don't I do something to make a change? Write a congressman, get into local politics, take up a career in law? Anything? No, I think I will karma whore by mentioning Mitnik on/.;)
To file a patent you need a lawyer, which costs money, then you need more money to defend your patent. A patent in North America costs about 20K USD,
This number is wrong. It typically costs about $400 for a lawyer to review things, the application is under a hundred dollars. You should be able to get the whole process done for under a grand if it isn't something complicated.
Why do you kids mark this crap as insightful? Even if it did cost $20k for a patent, then um, that is still not a lot of money. Not on the scale that separates rich from poor. Poor people can still afford $20k if they really want to. I am speaking for US citizens only due to the minimum wage.
There are cases every day where a little guy defends himself from a big guy in regards to patents, but I guess since you get all your news from/. you didn't know that.
What is this with you clones? At least be unique in your misinformation.
Oh, and yes, it does cost money to defend a patent. Why are you assuming you'll have to defend it right out of the gate? If the patent was worth having, then defending it should be no problem. It should be generating you enough revenue to do so or it shouldn't be patented.
I'm not saying the system is flawless, but you make it sound so terrible. Out of the people I know, three hold patents. None are rich, and they were easily obtained. Since they have the patents, nobody challenges them. Hmm. Funny that.
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, QUIT BEING STUPID THO.. It isn't as bad as you want it to be.
If you bothered to read the quoted text, you would see I was speaking directly to vacuum_tuber. He is one of the many whiney twits on here who bring these double standards, not only to the forums, but to the front page.
You are not a question wrapped inside an enigma. The Internet has made you stupid. Go outside now before it is too late.
Why are you guys touting X10 products? Do the Internet a favor and quit supporting sites which do such nasty popup and spam based advertising.
Anyway, I must agree it would have been much easier to actually do the project than to go to all the trouble of lying. Just make sure to never do business with him.
"I apologize to those people who may be angry with me, but hopefully most will see the humor in the whole situation... and realize that my attempt to bring joy and a smile to people's faces was successful," he said.
Right. I see after reading the previous thread the author was ready to pump us full of technical information and carry on as if this were some grand creation. This "joke" seemed to want to give us the idea the original prankster was a sharp gadget guy right up until getting caught so I don't buy it. This cat needs his head checked for Attention-Whore Syndrome (AWS).
The now-defunct Lycos anti-spamsite screen saver, MakeLoveNotSpam, was extremely well received despite the whines and hand wringing from the no-one-should-ever-actively-defend-themselves crowd
Yeah, um, right. Say the same thing in regards to the RIAA trying to prevent music piracy and you'll hear endless howls from the/. crowd about how hacking/DDoS is illegal and should be a punishable crime.
If you want anyone to remotely take you seriously, you will have to first drop the double-standard.
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How is that going to cost effective?
It will be, just not anytime soon. Don't get caught in the trap of always thinking what is here and now is all there is.
Spend a moment and think on the scale technology has driven forward in the past 200 years. We have gone from living in the dark at night, without climate control, to sending people to the moon and mechanical drones to Mars.
Quantum computing and nanotech are going to hit eventually. If not one of those, then it is likely someone will stumble on something completely missed by the entire mass of humanity and change the world again. Or, of course, we could just all die out due to a disaster at any given moment...
Wow, you actually figured it out? We, the yanks, have known exactly what the point of this was for years.
;-)
China is also seeking to militarize space. This would happen with or without the US being around. If the US or China wasn't there to do it, the old Soviet Union would have been happy to fill in the void. I am sure every one of the countries under the label of "axis of evil" would spring at the opportunity to also seek space weaponry if they had the resources. I would also bet a little dictator with death rays from space would have no problem obliterating your skinny, white european hyde. The US, on the other hand, would probably seek free trade agreements and offer humanitarian and military aid if you choose sides with them.
While I disagree with the premise of the current occupation, it is disturbing to see so many people whine about a nation which brought them the very technology they use to complain about it.
Hopefully, next time we won't spend hundreds of billions rebuilding europe, japan and company. Apparently, assisting them in their wars while being a constant source of aid doesn't give one any political tout anymore, so screw it.
I should also point out that the machine has two processors, which Windows XP recognised. I didn't add SMP support into the Linux kernel.
You should also point out whether or not you used the command line switches to actually enable the smp support in the game engine. I think it is off by default and really doesn't do much for performance when on.
I am suprised you guys are getting such results with Linux performing better. Even the project homepage disagrees with this result, as do my personal experiences on a dual boot system.
Then again, Linux always performs better according to slashdot threads.
Why should they? Why bother dealing with people who are going to scream about how terrible you are based on where they are from? Way bring people together.
Windows:
3D Hardware Accelerator Card Required - 100% DirectX® 9.0b compatible 64MB Hardware Accelerated video card and the latest drivers*.
English version of Microsoft® Windows® 2000/XP
Pentium® IV 1.5 GHz or Athlon® XP 1500+ processor or higher
384MB RAM
8x Speed CD-ROM drive (1200KB/sec sustained transfer rate) and latest drivers
2.2GB of uncompressed free hard disk space (plus 400MB for Windows® swap file)
100% DirectX® 9.0b compatible 16-bit sound card and latest drivers
100% Windows® 2000/XP compatible mouse, keyboard and latest drivers
DirectX® 9.0b (included)
Linux:
GNU/Linux system,
Pentium III, 1Ghz
256Mb RAM
Kernel 2.4, 2.6 is recommended
glibc 2.2.4 and up
3D card:
NV10 or R200 minimum hardware
OpenGL hardware acceleration
64 MB VRAM
sound card, OSS or Alsa, stereo sound and 5.1 are supported with both APIs
Alsa version 1.0.6 or above is required
I got both of these from the respective download sites. The only difference being the Linux version is the demo release, which should cause minimal concern since they are going by how well the engine itself runs on the platform.
My system is an AMD XP2100+ 512MB & ATI9700Pro @ 4x AGP. The Windows version runs great, the Linux version runs so-so. It is playable, but not much fun. I think this has more to do with needing to upgrade to something in the FX53 range than being any blame of ethier operating system.
Let's face it, performance isn't nearly as much of an issue as developer support at this point.
ReeprFlame writes "eWeek has reported overhearing Microsoft's plans to finally get into the distributed computing market. Considering that the Windows platform has never had the ability to parallel compute in the past, it leaves great potential to the company's operating system development. From current *nix systems we have today, such a grid proves very useful, especially in the serving arena. However, we are unsure of Microsoft's target for the software. Would it be an addition to home users computers as well as the server versions of Windows? As of now it is unclear, but Microsoft probably will bring this situation to life in the near future since it does hold alot of power for them over other platforms."
I arrived a bit late on the scene to advise you guys, but here goes: If you are going to have a derogatory thread about M$ and how lame they are, um, get your terminology right first!
Parallel =! Distributed
Distributed =! Parallel
These are two different things and demonstrates how this board has a tendancy to go off a bit half-cocked over what M$ does and their capabilities.
What is even sadder, those speaking seriously of problems with Windows 95 (BSoD) having anything remotely to do with enterprise level systems today. Being an old-timer BSD and Linux user, I can safely say I've seen a share of pings of death and other BS with every OS. Sometimes, it becomes time to just let all that childish BS go, ya know? Implement what businesses need and works.
If you get serious about apple displays, they are releasing the 30" cinema display in August for around $3k. Hopefully, this action will cause the 23" displays to drop a couple of hundred.
The cost of LCD still amazes me. I don't buy the cost vs failure in manufacture rates. But at least it isn't as bad as DLP rear projection tvs that are 42" costing a grand less than 50" since the only parts that are changed are the forward screen and housing. The lamp, dlp processors, color wheel, power are all the same. This leaves you paying $1000 for about 5 lbs of plastic which required no precise or expensive manufacture process.
The bastards are milking us.
At that price, I would much prefer a 23" apple cinema display. At least it is letterbox and allows, and trust me, horizontal real estate is much easier to look at than vertical.
seriously, I feel for the camera men who had to sit through an hour of Call For Help with that schmuck. In his post at the end of the article he says that he is still on TV. I wonder if it is on cooking show, or if he is one of those telethon phone people who are in the background... it couldn't be on any program that is technology releated
Don't you feel so much better now that you have filled us all in on your opinions of Leo? I sure do.
If a person can own something, then why can't a group of people?
;)
Why redefine what boils down to natural social interactions? Leave it alone and learn to fight in the current system..
After about 5 years, the "floaties" are still there, and will be there for ever.
The floaters aren't caused by laser exposure. Floaters are known to form as a result of the breakdown of macular fluid in your eye, which occurs over many years. It is most likely you never noticed these before you were zapped and actively checked your sight for problems.
I, too, have floaters. They suck.
Or you're new to the internet, where posting ontopic responses to articles is not considered "complaining" but is actually the whole point of a discussion forum. Maybe you should become an edumacaded liberal?
I see I left myself open to some asinine attempts at insults when I responded with a logical solution to, what appeared to be, a trivial issue.
My apologies your laptop has a bad battery. Mine runs for a couple of hours with these features off. It really isn't a big deal, also, if you get yourself a gig of RAM. The CPU slowdown seems tripled if you are having to scoop up bits of a fragmented swap file at 1/2 speed.
Anyway, quit complaining already.
Then turn it off in the BIOS and quit complaining?
What if I came by and spotted your family heirloom dinner table, told you I recognized it as a very fancy piece of furniture and that I'd pay you $40,000? (Lets assume that you have no job, and therefore need the money more than you need the table.) Then it turns out it was actually the table George Washington ate from, and that I knew it at the time, and that its actually worth several million dollars?
WTF does this have to do with: "Here's $40k/year, now come up with something that will make me millions?" -- If he had invented it in his spare time, off company property, not using company resources at all, then I could see the debate. Rigth now, this just sounds like more
He was contracted to do what he did and got paid for that. Perhaps once you guys get jobs and move out of your parents basements, you will understand the business world a bit better.
This is kind of like if one of the doctors involved with research of a cancer drug came out nearing the end of the patent life of said drug saying "I made this all by myself!", when it was, in reality, a collective of many doctors.
Just how naive are you? Or how much of a troll?
What a brilliant insight.
Once purduephotog gets off his soap box, we will need to remind him of the parent post. There is nothing "Insightful" about repeating the first post.
/. ;)
One must ask himself: If I cared so much, why don't I do something to make a change? Write a congressman, get into local politics, take up a career in law? Anything? No, I think I will karma whore by mentioning Mitnik on
I have shined myself in the eyes countless times with a laser pointer and the visual artifacts never last more than 15-20 seconds.
And no, I have had no loss of vision as a result. This only goes for the "pocket" class of laser, not those funky green or commercial ones.
To file a patent you need a lawyer, which costs money, then you need more money to defend your patent. A patent in North America costs about 20K USD,
/. you didn't know that.
This number is wrong. It typically costs about $400 for a lawyer to review things, the application is under a hundred dollars. You should be able to get the whole process done for under a grand if it isn't something complicated.
Why do you kids mark this crap as insightful? Even if it did cost $20k for a patent, then um, that is still not a lot of money. Not on the scale that separates rich from poor. Poor people can still afford $20k if they really want to. I am speaking for US citizens only due to the minimum wage.
There are cases every day where a little guy defends himself from a big guy in regards to patents, but I guess since you get all your news from
What is this with you clones? At least be unique in your misinformation.
Oh, and yes, it does cost money to defend a patent. Why are you assuming you'll have to defend it right out of the gate? If the patent was worth having, then defending it should be no problem. It should be generating you enough revenue to do so or it shouldn't be patented.
I'm not saying the system is flawless, but you make it sound so terrible. Out of the people I know, three hold patents. None are rich, and they were easily obtained. Since they have the patents, nobody challenges them. Hmm. Funny that.
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, QUIT BEING STUPID THO.. It isn't as bad as you want it to be.
Personally, I'll stick to ebay and normal classified ads. This whole site looks shakey, like half the ads are spammers and classified trolls.
700,000 user accounts all controlled by one mind
If you bothered to read the quoted text, you would see I was speaking directly to vacuum_tuber. He is one of the many whiney twits on here who bring these double standards, not only to the forums, but to the front page.
You are not a question wrapped inside an enigma. The Internet has made you stupid. Go outside now before it is too late.
Why are you guys touting X10 products? Do the Internet a favor and quit supporting sites which do such nasty popup and spam based advertising.
Anyway, I must agree it would have been much easier to actually do the project than to go to all the trouble of lying. Just make sure to never do business with him.
"I apologize to those people who may be angry with me, but hopefully most will see the humor in the whole situation ... and realize that my attempt to bring joy and a smile to people's faces was successful," he said.
Right. I see after reading the previous thread the author was ready to pump us full of technical information and carry on as if this were some grand creation. This "joke" seemed to want to give us the idea the original prankster was a sharp gadget guy right up until getting caught so I don't buy it. This cat needs his head checked for Attention-Whore Syndrome (AWS).
The now-defunct Lycos anti-spamsite screen saver, MakeLoveNotSpam, was extremely well received despite the whines and hand wringing from the no-one-should-ever-actively-defend-themselves crowd
/. crowd about how hacking/DDoS is illegal and should be a punishable crime.
Yeah, um, right. Say the same thing in regards to the RIAA trying to prevent music piracy and you'll hear endless howls from the
If you want anyone to remotely take you seriously, you will have to first drop the double-standard.
On what logical basis did you come to that conclusion?
I blame this headline on a failed american educational system.
Oh hush up you stuffy old AC.