Did I ever say that it would be possible soon, or worse, possible on x86 hardware? I never made this claim, I was simply saying that emulation of the PS3 in the future is a possibility and if you are going to be a naysayer and claim it's not possible, remember that pretty much every single game console to this day has been emulated (if not perfectly at least to some extent, even the PS2) Anything is possible:-)
Here's an article about Sony possibly using Linux on the PS3. The chances of this happening are good, we all remember how Sony released the Linux kit for the PS2.
While this "simulator" is basically an emulation of the Cell hardware, it won't allow people to run games at full speed. It's more of a developer tool, that allows programmers to start coding for the PS3 when they don't actually have the hardware yet. Still, it is reasonable to believe that emulation of the PS3 will be viable in the future (although not for a long time)
Seriously, why wouldn't they distribute it using a bit torrent?
There are already torrents available for it, but thats not the real reason. Not everyone has bittorrent installed or knows how to use it, so until bittorrent becomes a more widely accepted protocol for downloading, methinks HTTP and FTP will be around for awhile.
Every time I have visited any Flash-enabled website, it automagically asks me if I want to install Flash. I click next, it downloads, the next thing you know I can see flash animations. BTW I'm on Linux as well. It sounds to me like your install of Firefox is messed up somehow, as it isn't blocking your pop-ups either.
Just expressing my relief that IE will hopefully be dead soon...
Considering IE is an extreme threat to the overall security of the Internet, why shouldn't everyone be happy?
Hopefully Diebold will start using Windows Live on their next voting systems, I want to see the latest propaganda and mudslinging about the politician / law I'm voting for!
I understand that his comment is sarcastic, but +3 troll? C'mon, he brings up some good points, this money should be spent on new levees and housing instead of "Free WiFi for all"
Can you imagine how pissed off you would be if you were in New Orleans right now and hear they are giving out free WiFi but your family still has nowhere to sleep for the night?
I completely agree... how are they going to ensure that the wireless system continues to work in the event of disaster when even the levees wouldn't hold up, things that have been designed by engineers. I don't see how a wireless antenna is really gonna stand up to 150mph winds when houses are crumbling to the ground.
You should read the post above yours. This isn't about the "digital divide" or getting information to more people. The whole point is, what good is free WiFi internet when most people don't even have a house to live in. Too me it just seems like an incredible waste of taxpayer's money when it could be spent on rebuilding the destroyed city they live in.
And, when it is malware related, it's because the user has been surfing the Web like some promiscuous whore... clicking any link that comes their way, opening email attachments with abandon, etc.... and I don't blame that on MS, nor should the writer of this biased book.
Hey, I surf the web like a promiscuous whore, freely clicking on any link I come by, EVEN LINKS THAT MIGHT SCARE ME TO CLICK IN WINDOWS. Why, you ask? Because I am running Firefox under Linux... I have no threat of spyware or malware or trojans. Honestly, people shouldn't have to try and be "safe" on the internet. Clicking on a link shouldn't allow a trojan to be installed on your computer, the OS or software should block these things. Your whole rebuttal just proved once more why Windows is inferior to other modern OSes... Even though they've finally fixed the stupid BSODs, they still can't get rid of spyware/viruses because Windows STILL by default runs in admin mode and allows anything and everything to be installed freely! Not to mention the thousands of security holes found in the OS, with new ones being found every day...
Don't really know what else to say. Except Blu-Ray has a failure of a name, and people will naturally migrate to HD-DVD because they already know the acronym "DVD." (People don't like to learn new things!)
I find it funny that the US's challenger to the Earth Simulator came out 3 years later, used almost twice as many processors, and only has a slight performance advantage.
6) Sandia National Laboratories United States Red Storm Cray XT3, 2.0 GHz Cray Inc. #Processors: 10880 Year: 2005 Rmax: 36190 Rpeak: 43520
7) The Earth Simulator Center Japan Earth-Simulator NEC #Processors: 5120 Year: 2002 Rmax: 35860 Rpeak: 40960
I completely agree, my girlfriend recently got a "Siemens" (appropriately titled) cell phone for free from T-Mobile. The phone has a horrible user interface and is incredibly slow when navigating the menus. This may not be true for other higher end phones but the average person's phone isn't even ready to take advantage of 3G even though most claim support for the system.
The funny thing is that it is also more stable. Running WoW in Windows would always freeze or lock up randomly, and reinstalling Windows didn't help, new graphics drivers didn't help. Running it under Cedega works fine, although slightly slower. If I had higher end graphics hardware speed wouldn't even be an issue, it's like the difference between 100fps and 80fps... who cares?
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Native: Open a terminal, run a shell script, watch it not quite work because your distro is 2 months newer than the software, manually hack the shell script to work, copy files over, manually create menu entries, download a tarball to update the game with, unpack the tarball, run the updater script, done.
I've never had to manually hack a shell script to make an install work. Copy what files over? Once again, never had to manually create menu entries but if I did it's pretty simple. Downloading a tarball to update is no different than downloading an.exe to update a game in Windows.
Native w/ Package: Find the package, realize you grabbed the wrong one because most people have no clue what the difference between.i386.rpm and.x86-64.rpm is, use a one-click install tool if you're lucky or open a terminal and manually install it if not, realize you aremissing dependencies, install dependencies, done.
Looks as though someone is a bit shaky when it comes to installing packages on his Linux box.
Native w/ Package Search UI: Search through 10,000 poorly organized packages trying to find the right one (if you're lucky it is actually in the repository), install, done.
Once again, looks as though someone is a bit shaky when it comes to installing packages on his Linux box.
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Did I ever say that it would be possible soon, or worse, possible on x86 hardware? I never made this claim, I was simply saying that emulation of the PS3 in the future is a possibility and if you are going to be a naysayer and claim it's not possible, remember that pretty much every single game console to this day has been emulated (if not perfectly at least to some extent, even the PS2) Anything is possible :-)
Here's an article about Sony possibly using Linux on the PS3. The chances of this happening are good, we all remember how Sony released the Linux kit for the PS2.
Yes and no.
While this "simulator" is basically an emulation of the Cell hardware, it won't allow people to run games at full speed. It's more of a developer tool, that allows programmers to start coding for the PS3 when they don't actually have the hardware yet. Still, it is reasonable to believe that emulation of the PS3 will be viable in the future (although not for a long time)
Seriously, why wouldn't they distribute it using a bit torrent?
There are already torrents available for it, but thats not the real reason. Not everyone has bittorrent installed or knows how to use it, so until bittorrent becomes a more widely accepted protocol for downloading, methinks HTTP and FTP will be around for awhile.
Every time I have visited any Flash-enabled website, it automagically asks me if I want to install Flash. I click next, it downloads, the next thing you know I can see flash animations. BTW I'm on Linux as well. It sounds to me like your install of Firefox is messed up somehow, as it isn't blocking your pop-ups either.
I want my download to count. I am going to download it from the release page. I don't think I can say much more.
Ahhh, I never thought about that. Kudos to you, then!
Uhh, first off there is no Firefox 1.1
Second, I run Firefox all the time and haven't had a single pop-up (you need to enable the pop-up blocker!)
Third, Flash is probably the easiest thing to install in Firefox, its a completely automated process.
Fourth, we go back to my second point. Enable the pop-up blocker.
Just expressing my relief that IE will hopefully be dead soon... Considering IE is an extreme threat to the overall security of the Internet, why shouldn't everyone be happy?
And no, I'm not going to download it until it's officially announced. That's my little way of helping to recognize the official launch.
And by doing that you will help overload their servers... Why not be cool and take advantage of this early offer that only us extreme nerds get?
One more nail in IE's coffin.
Hopefully Diebold will start using Windows Live on their next voting systems, I want to see the latest propaganda and mudslinging about the politician / law I'm voting for!
Is there any interantional court? Geneva? US? UN? Japan? we are talking about whole earth...
Closest thing would be the International Court of Justice run by the UN.
...they can only afford to provide single letter domains now?
I understand that his comment is sarcastic, but +3 troll? C'mon, he brings up some good points, this money should be spent on new levees and housing instead of "Free WiFi for all"
Can you imagine how pissed off you would be if you were in New Orleans right now and hear they are giving out free WiFi but your family still has nowhere to sleep for the night?
I completely agree... how are they going to ensure that the wireless system continues to work in the event of disaster when even the levees wouldn't hold up, things that have been designed by engineers. I don't see how a wireless antenna is really gonna stand up to 150mph winds when houses are crumbling to the ground.
You should read the post above yours. This isn't about the "digital divide" or getting information to more people. The whole point is, what good is free WiFi internet when most people don't even have a house to live in. Too me it just seems like an incredible waste of taxpayer's money when it could be spent on rebuilding the destroyed city they live in.
I honestly hope this isn't their only solution for hurricanes / floods in the future.
And, when it is malware related, it's because the user has been surfing the Web like some promiscuous whore... clicking any link that comes their way, opening email attachments with abandon, etc.... and I don't blame that on MS, nor should the writer of this biased book.
Hey, I surf the web like a promiscuous whore, freely clicking on any link I come by, EVEN LINKS THAT MIGHT SCARE ME TO CLICK IN WINDOWS. Why, you ask? Because I am running Firefox under Linux... I have no threat of spyware or malware or trojans. Honestly, people shouldn't have to try and be "safe" on the internet. Clicking on a link shouldn't allow a trojan to be installed on your computer, the OS or software should block these things. Your whole rebuttal just proved once more why Windows is inferior to other modern OSes... Even though they've finally fixed the stupid BSODs, they still can't get rid of spyware/viruses because Windows STILL by default runs in admin mode and allows anything and everything to be installed freely! Not to mention the thousands of security holes found in the OS, with new ones being found every day...
I'm wondering if BluBlocker Technology is going to protect us from the rootkits???
Don't really know what else to say. Except Blu-Ray has a failure of a name, and people will naturally migrate to HD-DVD because they already know the acronym "DVD." (People don't like to learn new things!)
I find it funny that the US's challenger to the Earth Simulator came out 3 years later, used almost twice as many processors, and only has a slight performance advantage.
6) Sandia National Laboratories
United States Red Storm Cray XT3, 2.0 GHz
Cray Inc. #Processors: 10880 Year: 2005 Rmax: 36190 Rpeak: 43520
7) The Earth Simulator Center
Japan Earth-Simulator
NEC #Processors: 5120 Year: 2002 Rmax: 35860 Rpeak: 40960
I completely agree, my girlfriend recently got a "Siemens" (appropriately titled) cell phone for free from T-Mobile. The phone has a horrible user interface and is incredibly slow when navigating the menus. This may not be true for other higher end phones but the average person's phone isn't even ready to take advantage of 3G even though most claim support for the system.
Kinda odd... I can ping transgaming.com with a steady 70ms ping... yet still can't connect to the website...
The funny thing is that it is also more stable. Running WoW in Windows would always freeze or lock up randomly, and reinstalling Windows didn't help, new graphics drivers didn't help. Running it under Cedega works fine, although slightly slower. If I had higher end graphics hardware speed wouldn't even be an issue, it's like the difference between 100fps and 80fps... who cares?
Native: Open a terminal, run a shell script, watch it not quite work because your distro is 2 months newer than the software, manually hack the shell script to work, copy files over, manually create menu entries, download a tarball to update the game with, unpack the tarball, run the updater script, done.
.exe to update a game in Windows.
.i386.rpm and .x86-64.rpm is, use a one-click install tool if you're lucky or open a terminal and manually install it if not, realize you aremissing dependencies, install dependencies, done.
I've never had to manually hack a shell script to make an install work. Copy what files over? Once again, never had to manually create menu entries but if I did it's pretty simple. Downloading a tarball to update is no different than downloading an
Native w/ Package: Find the package, realize you grabbed the wrong one because most people have no clue what the difference between
Looks as though someone is a bit shaky when it comes to installing packages on his Linux box.
Native w/ Package Search UI: Search through 10,000 poorly organized packages trying to find the right one (if you're lucky it is actually in the repository), install, done.
Once again, looks as though someone is a bit shaky when it comes to installing packages on his Linux box.