I stopped doing almost every other activity I enjoy (wood working, tabletop gaming, learning the guitar, programming, etc) and frequently only did the minimum of what was required of the stuff that I didn't necessarily enjoy (mowing, balancing my checkbook, fixing the inevitable problems you encounter when you own a house, etc).
Hi, I have read some of the comments you make on this thread, I got really interested as I myself have suffered of a bit of an addiction to a game, it is not a MMORPG it is a flash game: www.tacticsarena.com.
I started playing it while i was on undergrad (about 3 years ago), I was something like 21. Since then I have never stopped playing it. Although I do not by any means play it 16 hours a day, it DOES interfere with my real-life schedule (hence the feel that I can not control it).
Now, I chose to quote your paragraph because, fortunately my real-life has not been too bad. I got a scolarship to make a PhD in the UK (where I live now). And, after one year I met a girl (from my own country) who is my girlfriend now (we live in the same flat). I keep playing this online game, and unfortunately I feel that, at the same time my performance in the PhD is diminishing (as I do not have a hard schedule/time to get to the office, sometimes I spend half morning playing). This is part of another problem, the PhD is just not going as I like, I am in the second year of a 3 year PhD, unfortunately I came directly from undergrad and I do not have a lot of research experience. Also, I do not feel really passionate about the subject of my research (I am doing research in Multy agent systems, but my supervisor is a theoretical person and the focus of my research has cenetered in Logics and economics, which both of them I do not really like, I would like something more technical, I have tought that research is not for me, in fact I am sure after/if I finish I wont be in the "academia").
Anyways, (who would believe that slashdot was this therapeutic uh?), one of the things I have started to do on the weekends is cooking; I found that I really like cooking and since the food in the UK is really bad I try to cook things from my home country (Mexico) each weekend. I find it gratifing.
I think that, game addiction is not a real addiction. Playing a game in an online community is just another way to compensate for the lack of nice things our own lives, I dont think in terms of "real life" and "game life". Take, for example people that sell on ebay, that is their work, they are in a community and spend a lot of time in there. Or even people in slashdot. They have called it internet addiction also.
The key is just to find something more gratifying than the game itself. I believe that, the bad thing about the MMORPG is just what happened to you, it was always a temporal thing, everyone knows that every MMORPG will have an end, and then there is this feeling that the community is virtual and non existent.
One question I wanted to ask you is, why didnt you bothered to know the people in there?, like going out and meet somewhere?. I remember when I used to get into irc in Mexico, people from the channel I went used to meet at some restaurant or bar each weekend. Even the Linux UG I am in the UK meets.
Whoever is spending time online does not have to get the guilty sensation that is wasting his time, who defines what is a waste of time? it is just a matter of perjudice.
What happened to you was that, after you saw no sense in continuing playing you just quit. You had two options, the first one was going to another online game, and the other was doing something else. You made your choice and it is excellent.
s/horny/hairy/ Haha, that is what I tought too, but after I met a french girl and we talked about that I saw that, similarly to the hype that they smell bad, it is just that, hype. As she told me, it is usually the elder the ones that continue with the "traditions", she told me of some time that she met a person from USA who looked under ther arm to see if she had hair, she was so amazed because this guy tought it was true.
Now, the one thing I know for sure is that they are arrogant and very funny (they get offended very easly hahaha), I have a french friend over here, once I told him some comment about how the French language was not as important as English or Spanish and whoa his head almost exploded.
It is not that the terrorists are after you, it is you who are after the so called invented terrorists.
I will tell you a tale, it is about a terrible creature called "El Chupacabras". It usually went out sucking cow's blood in Mexico when an election was going to take place. The people got so concerned about "El chupacabras" that they did not saw the frauds that the government was doing.
On these las elections "El Chupacabras" didnt arise but instead the government arrested and tried to send to prision one ex-president because of the "Tlatelolco massacre". Of course nobody cared about the old fart.
Your terrorists and war against the soooooo far east is in the same lines.
I am a big believer in TV over the web (I watch shows like Digital Life TV and Diggnation every week myself). And I really hope it becomes more normalized (esp. since I only have my apartment complex's crappy cable system to watch).
Mee too, I used to watch ess.tv in shoutcast a year ago, unfortunately about 2 day ago I went the page (I just got wireless internet at home) but it has been taken down by The Industry (that'll be the name of the movie you will see).
Of course I knew that wha they were doing was illegal, and of course I paid $5 for that, there were something like 20 channels, showing only things I liked (simpsons, lost, 24, Invader Zim, familiy guy, etc).
My question is, a lot of those programs were from Fox, and the video quality was a 4 out of 10 but I watched them (it was excellent for the cartoons).
I believe it would be very profitable and achievable if any of the big channels did something similar, just create a subscription service like that with access to different video quality depending on how much you spend!. I would buy if allofWMV became a reality. I would pay a fair price (no, I wont pay $5 to see an episdode of Lost).
But of course the greedy companies wont understand this...
frankly im waiting for someone to give me the ability to "Alt Tab" between OSs. i'd love to run linux primary and just alt tab to windows when i need to do MS shit.
Have you tried VMWare (or any other virtualization system)?
MMM yes but no...
There is something interesting in what GP wrote. Of course virtualization exists but I think it would be quite interesting to have some kind of BIOS program that allowed you to change OS whenever you pressed a predetermined key combo.
How to achieve this?, well I think the "hibernation" faccilities of current Operating systems will do the trick. What should happen is that, when you turn on your computer you boot in whatever OS you had, then when you press the supposed ALT+TAB shortcut the BIOS function sends the current system to hibernate (saves RAM to HD file, etc , etc) and boots the second OS. Then, if you press ALT+TAB again the same process will be done but instead of booting the computer will just restore the state from the hibernation file.
It may seem something difficult but I think that will be way cool and unlike virtualization solutions you will not have any performance loss due to the software overhead (I am proposing some kind of software interrput which the guest OSs will call when the user presses the hotkey).
Now that I think of it, please forget what I said, I am going directly to the USPTO:)
HTML/CSS/JavaScript like any technology is getting old. It wasn't designed to really be for applications.
So what? there are like 65534 or more number of sockets out there in the internet. Port 80 has already been taken by HTML/www protocol, which as you state is not designed for "applications".
It really pisses me off that people keeps trying to create such things as a spreadsheet or any other application IN THE BROWSER. It is a WEB BROWSER nothing else, its job is to understand HTML and other niceties to display text.
This is a problem similar to sending huge files through EMAIL. Port 25 was mean just for text EMAIL protocols. Go use port 21 and its respective protocol to send files!
If you need those so called "applications" then create them in an adequate language. If you need networking capabilities just use one of the many networking libraries (you dont have to know a darn shit to use the newer networking libraries in.NET or Java).
If you need that everybody can be able to use your application just make your software available to downlad (a single executable file that does not need to be installed). Maintain the last version in a specific page so everyone can download it.
Why dont we make an extension to some FTP server so we can use it as an online forum?, everyone will be able to enter and leave their messages there (or start a new thread creating a folder!), they could even post images if they upload them with the same name as their post plus a.IMAGE extension.
That is something I liked of British connectors. Almost every mains wall connector comes with a ON/OFF switch, that way you do not have to unplug the device but only turn the switch off.
I remember reading somewhere that one of the main sources of power leaking are the chargers/transformers. For example when people charge their mobile phones they usually just disconnect them from the charger but leave it plugged to the wall. I do not know if new chargers have automatic circuit break but I remember at least with the SNES and other devices that, if you left the transformer plugged it will stay warm even if you were not playing.
The downside with statically link executables is if there is a flaw(e.g. buffer overflow) with a library, you need to recompile&reinstall all the executables that have that library statically linked. Dynamically linked means just need to re-compile the offending library and restart the executable.
For which you will update your application to the newest version containing already the patch uh? nothing too different to what happens now (for example firefox 1.0.0 ~ 1.5 updates). This would be achieved either by making a diff in the last version and current version and distributing an update binary or by distributing the whole new program.
Lol no way you are serious. From the linked link:
It is a project to produce a PCI graphics card with fully specified programming interfaces. This card will be optimised to be fast for current and next generation GUI environments. This means it is mostly designed for 3D operations, specifically those that are used to render GUIs (Graphical User Interfaces). It will accelerate games to varying degrees, but that is not its primary purpose. It is intended to be a well-documented card that can be easily _and reliably_ supported by open source operating systems.
PCI graphics card? whoa will it be able to render polygons?
Will I be able to play Doom 3 with this hardware? Nope, but at the time of this writing, there is no graphics card on the market on which you can play Doom 3 well while using open source drivers. Less demanding games are likely to work however.
So, IF it is really created it will be a very very very aged POS which I am sure I wont be able to obtain out of USA.
*How about PCI Express?*
A PCI Express version will exist. PCI and AGP versions will come first though.
Haha, ok so the card will go top notch using AGP versions...
But, lets not go out of the point I was raising. I was asking for a REAL and AVAILABLE graphics card (I even wrote "top notch").
This Open Graphics project sounds very very VERY similar to indrema noh?.
Thanks for the advice try anyways, I will file this in the vapourware cabinet:)
Talking about packaging mechanism I preffer the way closed source companies do things (like for example Google Picasa or Earth). This is, to link everything statically. Why not? That will warranty your application performance not mattering the libx.y.z.so the user has on its system.
How much space can a statically linked program take? 10MB? 20MB? 30MB? everyone has 10GB of unused space nowadays... At least there should be that option, I will use it in order to avoid the hassle of having to download dependencies and all that shit.
And even on deb based distributions, I have just installed Ubuntu in a PC that does not have internet access. Because of that it is a hell if I want to update or install new software as I have to download and search for dependencies... synaptic help a bit but only if I want to install new software that was in the list as I can not fetch a new list.
If every program was compiled and linked with all the necessary functions statically, it would be a matter of downloading and extracting the binary file (maybe changing the permission to 555). I liked that about Picasa (I installed it without problems in the Ubuntu).
Oh, and another good thing of doing that is that it may not be necessary to have ROOT access to run a program. Just now I am writing this from my university PC with Fedora, I do not have root access hence I can not install and run any new software. If I want to run something new I need to download the tarball and compile it, provided that the required libraries (with the required version) are isntalled, otherwise I am screwed. That is a flaw!
Please someone provide a repository of statically linked open source software. Isnt that possible?, linked for the major distributions...
I have an Eich Pee notebook whit ATI chipset and graphics card. I use Windows XP everyday and usually play from SNES emulated games too full 3D games (Hitman Contracts was the last one). THe best resoulution I can get with the LCD is 1280x1024 and something like 45fps. For me at least the drivers do not suck.
However, I have tried with a hell of a lot different Linux/bsd distributions [freebsd, gentoo, fedora, Mandriva (full powerpack DD illegaly bittorrented version), Ubuntu 6.06, DSL are the ones I remember) and in none of them I have been able to install any half usable drivers.
Yeah, Ati graphic drivers for any Non Windows OS work, I blame Ati for that, they should make, release and mantain drivers for their hardware, without that I just have a nice plastic card accumulating dust in my computer. Now, I am not one of those stallmanists-zealots-advocatus that want to have the source code of the drivers, I am very happy to insert the graphics card companion driver CD and install it.
On a slightly different but related note, I can't remember of anything similar (on any Linux distro) to the steps available on windows that ask you where are your hardware drivers located. Does that exists? is there a way to install some kind of card (like for example if I want to install a specialized medical heart rate data input card) and then I have the Linux drivers in a CD, how the heck do I install it without needing to recompile the kernel or any other esotheric things? (yeah I did installed gentoo you nitpicking slashdotter;)
Which 3D graphics card would you recommend if I wanted to make a top noch "open" gaming machine?. I would like a card whose drivers could exploit all the hardware properties (I remember being unable to use the TV-OUT and TV-IN from an ATI all in wonder-ful-of-shit)
Well, I dont know about that. Usually portable music players are made to carry around. On the other hand, if you go to those "dodgy parts of town" carrying anything valuable (portable or not) if the thieves get you (with a gun in your head) I do not know how many of us will have the guts to give them our £10 casio watch and keep the Ipod in our pocket.
Maybe it is because I have lived in a quite dangerous city (Mexico City) that I am over precautionist (spell?). Fortunately I live in Liverpool which seems very calm (at least in the places and hours I walk). Over Mexico City you could NEVER intend to conceal whatever you got, because that would seem some kind of "lack of respect" for the thieves and you would only win a big bad knife scar or a oversaturation of Lead (Pb) just because of the rage.
What you must do is not to take with you anything valuable when you know you will pass through hose dodgy places.
1. Create some kind of Quality Asurance program where extension developers make sure the extensions are fine (no memory leaks, no corruption of the browser or incompatiliby with other extensions). 2. Then, sign the extensions (have you EVER installed a extension which is SIGNED? without the red letters?). 3. When installing firefox, add, to the install wizzard, some screens where the user can select the functions he wants (but please, do not do it the "open source way", that is showing all of the 12312312 available extensions in a list with unuseful descriptions). 4. Download and install the features at install time. That way the user do not have to re-start the browser after hunting for extensions (that is something that had bothered me since the begginning, why the HECK do I need to restart the browser each time I install a extensions?, I thought that re-start crap was left to the closed source sucky operating systems).
And then, I disagree that everything should be implemented with extensions. I think the browser should be good enough out of the box without anything installed. I always think that a lot of comparisons between memory and speed of IE and Firefox (or even Opera, but hey Opera blows away Firefox in any way) are unfair and FUD because usually the "best results" are with a Firefox without any extensions which has the same usuability (or less) than IE6 SP2 (of course SP2 is by itself some kind of "extension" for the sake of being on slashdot haha).
Opera shines here as it zooms everything. You currently can't get the same out of firefox, even with an extension.
Although I use Firefox everyday and I do not use Opera, I used it some time ago (when it was in version 6 or 7 I think) and one of the things that most amazed me was the ability to zoom in out flash movies. I like that because I play a flash game and sometimes I need to see it bigger. I know the flash player has a zoom feature but I belive it is disabled or it kind of sucks as it zooms a lot. The Opera zoom feature instead zooms everything as it was an image, That is very good behaviour.
And yes I also hate the Firefox zoom behaviour, it really sucks and I try to keep the less "extensions" I can (adblock and foxylicious now) because they tend to fsck firefox.
That is the problem with Firefox, extensions may do great things but they do not have the same standard quality than the main browser, therefore a lot of extensions suck and hence make the browser suck when installed. They generate memory leaks (missusing javascript) or just make the browser unusable (if I disable the copernic agent extension the browser wont start spitting something about no XBL bind found).
THere are hundreds if not thousands of extensions, I guess 90% of them have serious bugs, the only people that maintain them are the creators. That can NOT compete against the hight cohesion and functionality of a fine planed browser as Opera.
But then again, I use firefox, One of the main reasons I believe is because I got used to it while Opera was non free (I highly dislike ads, thats why I block EVERY ONE[even lord googles ones] with adblock).
Yah, I would try to run Ubuntu in my notebook but the day I tried to install it (version 6.06) it did not recognized my wireless network card and other things from my notebook (like graphics card). It seems the Ati chipsets are not very well supported.
On the other hand, I know it may be possible to make it work by hacking here and there but I really do not have the time (and the mood) to do that, and hey, WinXP is working like a charm here, I love that I can turn off virtual memory and use my 2 GB of memory.
I've found Process Explorer and Registry Explorer to be great tools
After I read your comment I immidiatly googled for Registry Explorer sysinternals download in Google to see if I could run it (i have never heard about a sysinternals registry exploring tool), it was just after the first 10 seconds of looking at the search results for the download link that I remembered that I am using Fedora Core 4 hence it was not going to be *really* useful for me =o).
Anyway, I have WinXP in my Notebook and have replaced the task manager with Process Explorer, I like the pskill tools (I couldnt make pslist work for some strange reason). I love sysinternal utilities and loved mark's blog/research about Sony rootkit.
Unfortunately, like it or not he will move with more caution when commenting now that he is part of Microsoft, but hey I would not hesitate if my company was bought by such a big company. I just hope that Mr. Rusinovich makes MS a better place:)
Oh and by the way, the city of campeche has a history of fighting against Pirates. I just tought this comment would go with current poll (and who does not likes pirates:))
Oh, and nobody is paying me for posting all this, haha.
Yah, I would welcome this, I remember a lot of times when I was in Mexico that, it was just after me and some friends knew that the people were from Canada or Europe that we wanted to be real friends.
Of course, this was not difficult were I lived as, usually people from USA get stuck in Cancun or Los Cabos were they find all their beloved touristic heaven. It is only European (and sometimes Canadian) tourism the one we (in Mexico) call "tourism with culture" that gets a bit away from Cancun to see the Mayan ruins or Campeche fortresses/history and all the incredible historical and natural wonders that are the real marvels of Mexico.
Of course the Estadounidenses dont know that because they are happy drinking Tequila and dancing until they fall in their expensive (not a lot for them of course) hotels and "Planet Hollywod" and "Hard Rock Cafe" (I have always wondered *why* do they bother to travel to Cancun if they are going to get into the same places they have in the USA).
And, as I lived in Campeche, the blonds that arrived there were usually Europeans or Canadians (although CAnadians were more often found in La Paz which is close to Los Cabos, but without all the "touristic" commercialization)
I have a legitimate question. What site can you visit to get the rootkit or discuss information about it?, When I was in university I usually went to neworder.box.sk to all my hacker/cracker needs, also the russian password crackers sites and crackstore to name a few.
There was also fravia and other nice pages where you cold get that information but now I am not "on the song" anymore, can anyone enlighten me please?
Somebody will still have to go through the entire game and add granularity to each wall, floor, and animated characters in the game which mathematics can not auto-magically generate with accuracy enough to come close to paralleling the randomness & beautify of reality.
Oh no, you are wrong there. There is a way to automagically generate with enough accuaracy the randomness & beautifulness of reality, the only thing that is still lacking is processing power. There is a book by Stephen Wolfram (the guy who invented Mathematica) call "A New Kind of Science" (yep I've read the thousand pages beast) where he proposes that complex systems are just combinations of simple elements and simple rules. I research complex systems for a living and I agree with him in that point.
The point is that using techniques as fractals and procdural generation you CAN combine simple elements to create complex patterns, this can be applied to "behaviour patterns", "visual patterns", "sound patterns" (Holophonic sound generator) etc.
Of course what you need to do that is processing power. However, as a lot of people said, you would only do it once. Imagine if the "installation" of the game was a process of benchmarking your PC and calculating the level of deatil that the system should use to calculate the game elements. Then, as you played the game would just calculate the elements (graphical, sound, behaviour, etc) as you needed them and would add them to the resource directory to be used again.
That way, if I used my P3-1GHz computer I would be able to play Halo4 with simple billboard characters while you would be able to see your PS2-LIKE-TOY-STORY-BUT-REALTIME graphics with your 5Ghz-nVidioso98000-ePCIexpressUltra and 9000000000000GB of ram.
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I stopped doing almost every other activity I enjoy (wood working, tabletop gaming, learning the guitar, programming, etc) and frequently only did the minimum of what was required of the stuff that I didn't necessarily enjoy (mowing, balancing my checkbook, fixing the inevitable problems you encounter when you own a house, etc).
Hi, I have read some of the comments you make on this thread, I got really interested as I myself have suffered of a bit of an addiction to a game, it is not a MMORPG it is a flash game: www.tacticsarena.com.
I started playing it while i was on undergrad (about 3 years ago), I was something like 21. Since then I have never stopped playing it. Although I do not by any means play it 16 hours a day, it DOES interfere with my real-life schedule (hence the feel that I can not control it).
Now, I chose to quote your paragraph because, fortunately my real-life has not been too bad. I got a scolarship to make a PhD in the UK (where I live now). And, after one year I met a girl (from my own country) who is my girlfriend now (we live in the same flat). I keep playing this online game, and unfortunately I feel that, at the same time my performance in the PhD is diminishing (as I do not have a hard schedule/time to get to the office, sometimes I spend half morning playing). This is part of another problem, the PhD is just not going as I like, I am in the second year of a 3 year PhD, unfortunately I came directly from undergrad and I do not have a lot of research experience. Also, I do not feel really passionate about the subject of my research (I am doing research in Multy agent systems, but my supervisor is a theoretical person and the focus of my research has cenetered in Logics and economics, which both of them I do not really like, I would like something more technical, I have tought that research is not for me, in fact I am sure after/if I finish I wont be in the "academia").
Anyways, (who would believe that slashdot was this therapeutic uh?), one of the things I have started to do on the weekends is cooking; I found that I really like cooking and since the food in the UK is really bad I try to cook things from my home country (Mexico) each weekend. I find it gratifing.
I think that, game addiction is not a real addiction. Playing a game in an online community is just another way to compensate for the lack of nice things our own lives, I dont think in terms of "real life" and "game life". Take, for example people that sell on ebay, that is their work, they are in a community and spend a lot of time in there. Or even people in slashdot. They have called it internet addiction also.
The key is just to find something more gratifying than the game itself. I believe that, the bad thing about
the MMORPG is just what happened to you, it was always a temporal thing, everyone knows that every MMORPG will have an end, and then there is this feeling that the community is virtual and non existent.
One question I wanted to ask you is, why didnt you bothered to know the people in there?, like going out and meet somewhere?. I remember when I used to get into irc in Mexico, people from the channel I went used to meet at some restaurant or bar each weekend. Even the Linux UG I am in the UK meets.
Whoever is spending time online does not have to get the guilty sensation that is wasting his time, who defines what is a waste of time? it is just a matter of perjudice.
What happened to you was that, after you saw no sense in continuing playing you just quit. You had two options, the first one was going to another online game, and the other was doing something else. You made your choice and it is excellent.
s/horny/hairy/
Haha, that is what I tought too, but after I met a french girl and we talked about that I saw that, similarly to the hype that they smell bad, it is just that, hype. As she told me, it is usually the elder the ones that continue with the "traditions", she told me of some time that she met a person from USA who looked under ther arm to see if she had hair, she was so amazed because this guy tought it was true.
Now, the one thing I know for sure is that they are arrogant and very funny (they get offended very easly hahaha), I have a french friend over here, once I told him some comment about how the French language was not as important as English or Spanish and whoa his head almost exploded.
It is not that the terrorists are after you, it is you who are after the so called invented terrorists.
I will tell you a tale, it is about a terrible creature called "El Chupacabras". It usually went out sucking cow's blood in Mexico when an election was going to take place. The people got so concerned about "El chupacabras" that they did not saw the frauds that the government was doing.
On these las elections "El Chupacabras" didnt arise but instead the government arrested and tried to send to prision one ex-president because of the "Tlatelolco massacre". Of course nobody cared about the old fart.
Your terrorists and war against the soooooo far east is in the same lines.
Well, here in UK they screw the people with £29.99 a month (US$55.2288 aprox) for 8 MB/s,
UK services plain suck, they are oh so expensive...
but French women are horny and very good
No, I refuse to think that is a digg title, the Digg story title reads something like:
OMG_HOW_GOOGLE_KICKZ_AT_T_LABS_AZZ_!!!1
I am a big believer in TV over the web (I watch shows like Digital Life TV and Diggnation every week myself). And I really hope it becomes more normalized (esp. since I only have my apartment complex's crappy cable system to watch).
Mee too, I used to watch ess.tv in shoutcast a year ago, unfortunately about 2 day ago I went the page (I just got wireless internet at home) but it has been taken down by The Industry (that'll be the name of the movie you will see).
Of course I knew that wha they were doing was illegal, and of course I paid $5 for that, there were something like 20 channels, showing only things I liked (simpsons, lost, 24, Invader Zim, familiy guy, etc).
My question is, a lot of those programs were from Fox, and the video quality was a 4 out of 10 but I watched them (it was excellent for the cartoons).
I believe it would be very profitable and achievable if any of the big channels did something similar, just create a subscription service like that with access to different video quality depending on how much you spend!. I would buy if allofWMV became a reality. I would pay a fair price (no, I wont pay $5 to see an episdode of Lost).
But of course the greedy companies wont understand this...
Linux/MacOS loosing advantages
I hope their are not, from the pictures of the goatse guy I have seen loosing advantage seems to be pretty painful
frankly im waiting for someone to give me the ability to "Alt Tab" between OSs. i'd love to run linux primary and just alt tab to windows when i need to do MS shit.
:)
Have you tried VMWare (or any other virtualization system)?
MMM yes but no...
There is something interesting in what GP wrote. Of course virtualization exists but I think it would be quite interesting to have some kind of BIOS program that allowed you to change OS whenever you pressed a predetermined key combo.
How to achieve this?, well I think the "hibernation" faccilities of current Operating systems will do the trick. What should happen is that, when you turn on your computer you boot in whatever OS you had, then when you press the supposed ALT+TAB shortcut the BIOS function sends the current system to hibernate (saves RAM to HD file, etc , etc) and boots the second OS. Then, if you press ALT+TAB again the same process will be done but instead of booting the computer will just restore the state from the hibernation file.
It may seem something difficult but I think that will be way cool and unlike virtualization solutions you will not have any performance loss due to the software overhead (I am proposing some kind of software interrput which the guest OSs will call when the user presses the hotkey).
Now that I think of it, please forget what I said, I am going directly to the USPTO
HTML/CSS/JavaScript like any technology is getting old. It wasn't designed to really be for applications.
.NET or Java).
.IMAGE extension.
So what? there are like 65534 or more number of sockets out there in the internet. Port 80 has already been taken by HTML/www protocol, which as you state is not designed for "applications".
It really pisses me off that people keeps trying to create such things as a spreadsheet or any other application IN THE BROWSER. It is a WEB BROWSER nothing else, its job is to understand HTML and other niceties to display text.
This is a problem similar to sending huge files through EMAIL. Port 25 was mean just for text EMAIL protocols. Go use port 21 and its respective protocol to send files!
If you need those so called "applications" then create them in an adequate language. If you need networking capabilities just use one of the many networking libraries (you dont have to know a darn shit to use the newer networking libraries in
If you need that everybody can be able to use your application just make your software available to downlad (a single executable file that does not need to be installed). Maintain the last version in a specific page so everyone can download it.
Why dont we make an extension to some FTP server so we can use it as an online forum?, everyone will be able to enter and leave their messages there (or start a new thread creating a folder!), they could even post images if they upload them with the same name as their post plus a
That is something I liked of British connectors. Almost every mains wall connector comes with a ON/OFF switch, that way you do not have to unplug the device but only turn the switch off.
I remember reading somewhere that one of the main sources of power leaking are the chargers/transformers. For example when people charge their mobile phones they usually just disconnect them from the charger but leave it plugged to the wall. I do not know if new chargers have automatic circuit break but I remember at least with the SNES and other devices that, if you left the transformer plugged it will stay warm even if you were not playing.
omg-i-want-one
OMG Robot ponnies!
I for one welcome our new Robot Professor Overlords!
(sorry, I am not good for this)
The downside with statically link executables is if there is a flaw(e.g. buffer overflow) with a library, you need to recompile&reinstall all the executables that have that library statically linked. Dynamically linked means just need to re-compile the offending library and restart the executable.
For which you will update your application to the newest version containing already the patch uh? nothing too different to what happens now (for example firefox 1.0.0 ~ 1.5 updates). This would be achieved either by making a diff in the last version and current version and distributing an update binary or by distributing the whole new program.
thanks for the RPM flags tho.
Lol no way you are serious.
:)
From the linked link:
It is a project to produce a PCI graphics card with fully specified programming interfaces. This card will be optimised to be fast for current and next generation GUI environments. This means it is mostly designed for 3D operations, specifically those that are used to render GUIs (Graphical User Interfaces). It will accelerate games to varying degrees, but that is not its primary purpose. It is intended to be a well-documented card that can be easily _and reliably_ supported by open source operating systems.
PCI graphics card? whoa will it be able to render polygons?
Will I be able to play Doom 3 with this hardware?
Nope, but at the time of this writing, there is no graphics card on the market on which you can play Doom 3 well while using open source drivers. Less demanding games are likely to work however.
So, IF it is really created it will be a very very very aged POS which I am sure I wont be able to obtain out of USA.
*How about PCI Express?*
A PCI Express version will exist. PCI and AGP versions will come first though.
Haha, ok so the card will go top notch using AGP versions...
But, lets not go out of the point I was raising. I was asking for a REAL and AVAILABLE graphics card (I even wrote "top notch").
This Open Graphics project sounds very very VERY similar to indrema noh?.
Thanks for the advice try anyways, I will file this in the vapourware cabinet
Talking about packaging mechanism I preffer the way closed source companies do things (like for example Google Picasa or Earth). This is, to link everything statically. Why not? That will warranty your application performance not mattering the libx.y.z.so the user has on its system.
How much space can a statically linked program take? 10MB? 20MB? 30MB? everyone has 10GB of unused space nowadays...
At least there should be that option, I will use it in order to avoid the hassle of having to download dependencies and all that shit.
And even on deb based distributions, I have just installed Ubuntu in a PC that does not have internet access. Because of that it is a hell if I want to update or install new software as I have to download and search for dependencies... synaptic help a bit but only if I want to install new software that was in the list as I can not fetch a new list.
If every program was compiled and linked with all the necessary functions statically, it would be a matter of downloading and extracting the binary file (maybe changing the permission to 555). I liked that about Picasa (I installed it without problems in the Ubuntu).
Oh, and another good thing of doing that is that it may not be necessary to have ROOT access to run a program. Just now I am writing this from my university PC with Fedora, I do not have root access hence I can not install and run any new software. If I want to run something new I need to download the tarball and compile it, provided that the required libraries (with the required version) are isntalled, otherwise I am screwed. That is a flaw!
Please someone provide a repository of statically linked open source software. Isnt that possible?, linked for the major distributions...
I have an Eich Pee notebook whit ATI chipset and graphics card. I use Windows XP everyday and usually play from SNES emulated games too full 3D games (Hitman Contracts was the last one). THe best resoulution I can get with the LCD is 1280x1024 and something like 45fps. For me at least the drivers do not suck.
;)
However, I have tried with a hell of a lot different Linux/bsd distributions [freebsd, gentoo, fedora, Mandriva (full powerpack DD illegaly bittorrented version), Ubuntu 6.06, DSL are the ones I remember) and in none of them I have been able to install any half usable drivers.
Yeah, Ati graphic drivers for any Non Windows OS work, I blame Ati for that, they should make, release and mantain drivers for their hardware, without that I just have a nice plastic card accumulating dust in my computer. Now, I am not one of those stallmanists-zealots-advocatus that want to have the source code of the drivers, I am very happy to insert the graphics card companion driver CD and install it.
On a slightly different but related note, I can't remember of anything similar (on any Linux distro) to the steps available on windows that ask you where are your hardware drivers located. Does that exists? is there a way to install some kind of card (like for example if I want to install a specialized medical heart rate data input card) and then I have the Linux drivers in a CD, how the heck do I install it without needing to recompile the kernel or any other esotheric things? (yeah I did installed gentoo you nitpicking slashdotter
Which 3D graphics card would you recommend if I wanted to make a top noch "open" gaming machine?. I would like a card whose drivers could exploit all the hardware properties (I remember being unable to use the TV-OUT and TV-IN from an ATI all in wonder-ful-of-shit)
Well, I dont know about that. Usually portable music players are made to carry around. On the other hand, if you go to those "dodgy parts of town" carrying anything valuable (portable or not) if the thieves get you (with a gun in your head) I do not know how many of us will have the guts to give them our £10 casio watch and keep the Ipod in our pocket.
Maybe it is because I have lived in a quite dangerous city (Mexico City) that I am over precautionist (spell?). Fortunately I live in Liverpool which seems very calm (at least in the places and hours I walk). Over Mexico City you could NEVER intend to conceal whatever you got, because that would seem some kind of "lack of respect" for the thieves and you would only win a big bad knife scar or a oversaturation of Lead (Pb) just because of the rage.
What you must do is not to take with you anything valuable when you know you will pass through hose dodgy places.
I think what mozilla should do is:
1. Create some kind of Quality Asurance program where extension developers make sure the extensions are fine (no memory leaks, no corruption of the browser or incompatiliby with other extensions).
2. Then, sign the extensions (have you EVER installed a extension which is SIGNED? without the red letters?).
3. When installing firefox, add, to the install wizzard, some screens where the user can select the functions he wants (but please,
do not do it the "open source way", that is showing all of the 12312312 available extensions in a list with unuseful descriptions).
4. Download and install the features at install time. That way the user do not have to re-start the browser after hunting for extensions (that is something that had bothered me since the begginning, why the HECK do I need to restart the browser each time I install a extensions?, I thought that re-start crap was left to the closed source sucky operating systems).
And then, I disagree that everything should be implemented with extensions. I think the browser should be good enough out of the box without anything installed. I always think that a lot of comparisons between memory and speed of IE and Firefox (or even Opera, but hey Opera blows away Firefox in any way) are unfair and FUD because usually the "best results" are with a Firefox without any extensions which has the same usuability (or less) than IE6 SP2 (of course SP2 is by itself some kind of "extension" for the sake of being on slashdot haha).
Opera shines here as it zooms everything. You currently can't get the same out of firefox, even with an extension.
Although I use Firefox everyday and I do not use Opera, I used it some time ago (when it was in version 6 or 7 I think) and one of the things that most amazed me was the ability to zoom in out flash movies. I like that because I play a flash game and sometimes I need to see it bigger. I know the flash player has a zoom feature but I belive it is disabled or it kind of sucks as it zooms a lot. The Opera zoom feature instead zooms everything as it was an image, That is very good behaviour.
And yes I also hate the Firefox zoom behaviour, it really sucks and I try to keep the less "extensions" I can (adblock and foxylicious now) because they tend to fsck firefox.
That is the problem with Firefox, extensions may do great things but they do not have the same standard quality than the main browser, therefore a lot of extensions suck and hence make the browser suck when installed. They generate memory leaks (missusing javascript) or just make the browser unusable (if I disable the copernic agent extension the browser wont start spitting something about no XBL bind found).
THere are hundreds if not thousands of extensions, I guess 90% of them have serious bugs, the only people that maintain them are the creators. That can NOT compete against the hight cohesion and functionality of a fine planed browser as Opera.
But then again, I use firefox, One of the main reasons I believe is because I got used to it while Opera was non free (I highly dislike ads, thats why I block EVERY ONE[even lord googles ones] with adblock).
Yah, I would try to run Ubuntu in my notebook but the day I tried to install it (version 6.06) it did not recognized my wireless network card and other things from my notebook (like graphics card). It seems the Ati chipsets are not very well supported.
On the other hand, I know it may be possible to make it work by hacking here and there but I really do not have the time (and the mood) to do that, and hey, WinXP is working like a charm here, I love that I can turn off virtual memory and use my 2 GB of memory.
Hahaha
:)
I've found Process Explorer and Registry Explorer to be great tools
After I read your comment I immidiatly googled for Registry Explorer sysinternals download in Google to see if I could run it (i have never heard about a sysinternals registry exploring tool), it was just after the first 10 seconds of looking at the search results for the download link that I remembered that I am using Fedora Core 4 hence it was not going to be *really* useful for me =o).
Anyway, I have WinXP in my Notebook and have replaced the task manager with Process Explorer, I like the pskill tools (I couldnt make pslist work for some strange reason). I love sysinternal utilities and loved mark's blog/research about Sony rootkit.
Unfortunately, like it or not he will move with more caution when commenting now that he is part of Microsoft, but hey I would not hesitate if my company was bought by such a big company. I just hope that Mr. Rusinovich makes MS a better place
Oh and by the way, the city of campeche has a history of fighting against Pirates. I just tought this comment would go with current poll (and who does not likes pirates :))
Oh, and nobody is paying me for posting all this, haha.
Yah, I would welcome this, I remember a lot of times when I was in Mexico that, it was just after me and some friends knew that the people were from Canada or Europe that we wanted to be real friends.
Of course, this was not difficult were I lived as, usually people from USA get stuck in Cancun or Los Cabos were they find all their beloved touristic heaven. It is only European (and sometimes Canadian) tourism the one we (in Mexico) call "tourism with culture" that gets a bit away from Cancun to see the Mayan ruins or Campeche fortresses/history and all the incredible historical and natural wonders that are the real marvels of Mexico.
Of course the Estadounidenses dont know that because they are happy drinking Tequila and dancing until they fall in their expensive (not a lot for them of course) hotels and "Planet Hollywod" and "Hard Rock Cafe" (I have always wondered *why* do they bother to travel to Cancun if they are going to get into the same places they have in the USA).
And, as I lived in Campeche, the blonds that arrived there were usually Europeans or Canadians (although CAnadians were more often found in La Paz which is close to Los Cabos, but without all the "touristic" commercialization)
I have a legitimate question. What site can you visit to get the rootkit or discuss information about it?, When I was in university I usually went to neworder.box.sk to all my hacker/cracker needs, also the russian password crackers sites and crackstore to name a few.
There was also fravia and other nice pages where you cold get that information but now I am not "on the song" anymore, can anyone enlighten me please?
Somebody will still have to go through the entire game and add granularity to each wall, floor, and animated characters in the game which mathematics can not auto-magically generate with accuracy enough to come close to paralleling the randomness & beautify of reality.
Oh no, you are wrong there. There is a way to automagically generate with enough accuaracy the randomness & beautifulness of reality, the only thing that is still lacking is processing power. There is a book by Stephen Wolfram (the guy who invented Mathematica) call "A New Kind of Science" (yep I've read the thousand pages beast) where he proposes that complex systems are just combinations of simple elements and simple rules. I research complex systems for a living and I agree with him in that point.
The point is that using techniques as fractals and procdural generation you CAN combine simple elements to create complex patterns, this can be applied to "behaviour patterns", "visual patterns", "sound patterns" (Holophonic sound generator) etc.
Of course what you need to do that is processing power. However, as a lot of people said, you would only do it once. Imagine if the "installation" of the game was a process of benchmarking your PC and calculating the level of deatil that the system should use to calculate the game elements. Then, as you played the game would just calculate the elements (graphical, sound, behaviour, etc) as you needed them and would add them to the resource directory to be used again.
That way, if I used my P3-1GHz computer I would be able to play Halo4 with simple billboard characters while you would be able to see your PS2-LIKE-TOY-STORY-BUT-REALTIME graphics with your 5Ghz-nVidioso98000-ePCIexpressUltra and 9000000000000GB of ram.