Another interesting fact you should keep in mind is that buildings can not be "pulled" or demolished by explosive within mere hours. It can't be done in one sunny afternoon, it takes at least a week of careful planning and preparation.
Great post! Very interesting.
Personally I find it fascinating to see the lengths that some Americans will go to in order to explain away one simple fact - that a bunch of Arabs put together a terrorist outrage right under your noses. And weren't even very clever about hiding it. But it didn't matter due to the incredible ineptitude and complacency of your security services.
And I'm sorry to nitpick such a great post, but have you realised that you forgot to blame the Jews? What sort of conspiracy theorist are you?
The Playstation 3 [wikipedia.org] is reported to harness 2 TFLOPS [wikipedia.org].
That's why the games released for the PS3 are decades ahead of anything else in existence. I've heard of people seeing the PS3 running a game and literally dropping dead on the spot of future shock. It doesn't matter if it's only using 3% of its power, it's still a quantum leap relative to everything else in existence because of those 2 TFLOPS. Sorry, I seem to be talking bollocks.
The other 1.8TFLOPS runs on the nVidia G70 GPU.
Right. And two of AMDs unreleased, next generation cards can only manage 1 TFLOP between them. So realistically we have two possibilites :
a) AMD are massively understating the potential performance of the R600 for marketing reasons. b) Sony are massively overstating the potential of the G70 in the PS3 for marketing reasons.
So children, which do we think is more likely? And please only raise your hand if you're not too busy posting on Slashdot to use any logic or reason in your arguments.
That would make sense if we were all MS shareholders and they were out of money for advertising. Otherwise it's just giving free PR to a company that doesn't even know you exist.
Would you be comfortable reading a pro-Halliburton or pro-Pfizer website written by somebody who isn't even being paid to shill for them? I'd run a mile on the assumption that that person is clearly fucking insane.
Um... if the problem arose during the attempt to INSTALL Win9x, that's not Windows; it's a bug in that family of AMD CPUs.
No, it was because of a timing loop in Windows that ran too fast on the K6-2 300 and above causing a crash. If by "bug" you mean "ran certain instructions faster than MS allowe for" then you're correct. Otherwise, wrong.
Linux wouldn't install on the affected CPUs either. Something about the 32bitness being broken, I forget the details.
Yeah, apparently they were released with only 31 bits. AMD had to send out the 32nd bit by post to all affected customers.
I've run numerous different versions of Linux on the same K6-2 300 that Win95 crashed on, so unless you can provide some evidence I'm going to assume you're talking bollocks.
...that the software emulation will allow to scale the PS2-games to 720p high def resolution.
So, the current PS3 with hardware support for PS2 games plus all the extra power of the Cell isn't enough to allow you to play old games at 720p, but removing the hardware assistance will magically enable this?
Maybe it didn't mention this because the journalists aren't fucking deluded?
It doesn't mention that Sony want's to bring the backward compatbility to an level almost as high as the hardware emulation in the US/Japan PS3 is too.
Sony would probably also like their customers to submit to anal rape whilst wearing an "I Love DRM" T-Shirt, but I can't see that happening either.
Software emulation of XBox games on the 360 is a fucking mess from what I hear. I challenge you to explain how Sony will succeed where MS failed without saying anything retarded.
That depends on who your neighbor is: a pimple faced, socially awkard, teenager that spends his spare time turning toasters into Linux boxen or a grandmother who can't seem to access voice mail on her new "modular" telephone? Considering that encryption is AES 128, it may be compromised by one of the two types of neighbors.
If you replaced "pimply Linux geek" with "respected crypto analyst with large amounts of computing resources at his disposal", you'd still be just as wrong.
Did you confuse AES128 with 56bit DES or something?
If you do have an example of someone breaking AES128, don't post it - publish it.
The story does say that he embedded his trojan program into "several usenet groups used by pedophiles"
I didn't realise there was an alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.pedohilia these days. More likely he spammed the whole alt.binaries.pictures.* hierarchy with his shit. I don't know where you got the idea that Usenet groups were generally on-topic either. I'm guessing you just don't know what the fuck you're talking about.
This may not be the only place he hid the thing to be downloaded, the story's unclear there, but I think that could be considered "reasonable search and seizure"
I think you could be considered fucking retarded. I don't feel the need to explain my opinion either.
The "news story" is a bit light on content and heavy on hagiography
Well done. You learnt how to use dictionary.com. That totally changes my opinion of you.
A typical put-down article. Maybe the author couldn't get his own Wii and is angry, or he's being paid by MS and/or Sony. Or maybe he's just really a bit slow.
Ah, the old accusation of being paid to put down the competitor's system. How often does this come up?
Let's try and put it to rest once and for all. Look, I know it's difficult to believe that people would go out of their way to promote a games system made by one of three massive corporations without being paid to do it. It seems insane that someone would do their advertising for them and gain absolutely nothing in return doesn't it? And why would anyone want to shill for MS or Sony?
But I'm afraid the harsh reality is that they do. Now, many of them are just children and can be partially excused. After all, children are very excitable and tend to pledge allegiance to anything going. See Lord of the Flies for a good example (that's a book by the way, not a computer game).
But as your user number shows, many of them are fully grown adults. It is deeply disturbing to realise that millions of adults have lives so fucking meaningless that their choice of games system becomes a major facet of their personality. But it does happen all the time - and no money is involved at all.
I do hope this explanation puts your mind at rest. My greatest fear is that one day the factions will become so bitter and withdrawn from society that there will be an actual violent conflict between them. Just imagine the horror of massive groups of Wii, PS3 and 360 fanboys killing and maiming each other on the battlefield. Perhaps we could call it the LOLocaust.
nothing sucks bigger and harder than string theory
Poster's scientific qualifications - Bought a copy of New Scientist once. Quite liked some of the pictures.
Are you saying that because you have gained a detailed understanding of string theory and found it flawed or because you've seen other people saying it and would like to be accepted as one of the gang?
Personally, I'm not educated enough to have come to any kind of opinion about string theory that I would dare to argue in public. However, I am realistic enough to suspect that every single scientist involved in string theory is more intelligent and objective than some frustrated little prick shouting glib lines from the peanut gallery.
Finally, since this will get modded down anyway and you seem to lose it in a most amusing manner whenever you perceive someone to be attacking Apple, I will close by saying that Steve Jobs is a cocksucker.
Happens with software, happens with music and it will be happening more with movies.
Yes, it's always happened with software. That's why no new commercial software has been produced since 1983 and Bill Gates had to eat his own wife to avoid starvation.
I don't own one of these devices so I cannot test this for sure, but instead of blindly forwarding everything to a "default host" (I presume this is like "DMZ mode" on other routers), has anyone tried forwarding requisite ports?
That is very unlikely to help. Generally these problems are caused by a faulty IPSEC Passthrough feature on the router which decides it's going to mangle your packets even when they're encapsulated (encapsulated IPSEC traffic should not require assistance).
Often the only way to disable the passthrough helper is to disable NAT altogether by putting the router into DMZ mode.
You can forward as many ports as you like, the router's broken NAT helper will still mangle your IPSEC traffic.
But if you really want to try it, UDP 500 and UDP 4500 would be a good start if your client uses the standard NAT-T ports. Which it probably fucking won't.
The natural beauty of semi-naked or even naked woman body is very poetic, and could extinguish hard porno, brutality, sadism.
Hi, I'm reality. Just wondered if you fancied meeting up at some point in the future?
PS. Had a quick look at your blog (I also enjoy watching car crashes). Generally very dull, but I noticed you mentioned the old chestnut about us only using 3% of our brains (actually I think it's supposed to be 10%). Do you have any idea how much energy our brains use? How could natural selection have produced something so spectacularly inefficient? Or how could an intelligent designer have produced something so stupid? Why not try applying a little bit of independent thought before parroting misquoted lines from ancient experiments?
One of the main reasons you hear so many developers bitching about working on the 360. And why so many 360 games end up using fake marketing shots to hide the AA/jaggy problems that plagued actual in game 360 graphics.
Hi, welcome to Slashdot!
I see you managed to make your first post okay, despite the posting interface being different from the PS3Fanboy forums you're used to.
I think you're going to settle in very well here. Many posters on Slashdot are also teenage virgins obsessed with other people's choice of game system.
But I know how you feel! It really makes my blood boil when I see someone recommending a different system to the one my mummy bought me for Christmas. One day I'm going to steal the pistol out of my dad's underwear draw and teach them all a lesson!
My experience with iPod on Windows has been: plug it in, and it works as advertised.
Same here, except it always starts this awful looking application that runs like molasses and tries to get me to purchase DRM'd music at every opportunity. It is very good at deleting stuff off my iPod just because I moved the original file though.
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Another interesting fact you should keep in mind is that buildings can not be "pulled" or
demolished by explosive within mere hours. It can't be done in one sunny afternoon, it takes
at least a week of careful planning and preparation.
Great post! Very interesting.
Personally I find it fascinating to see the lengths that some Americans will go to in order to explain away one simple fact - that a bunch of Arabs put together a terrorist outrage right under your noses. And weren't even very clever about hiding it. But it didn't matter due to the incredible ineptitude and complacency of your security services.
And I'm sorry to nitpick such a great post, but have you realised that you forgot to blame the Jews? What sort of conspiracy theorist are you?
The Playstation 3 [wikipedia.org] is reported to harness 2 TFLOPS [wikipedia.org].
That's why the games released for the PS3 are decades ahead of anything else in existence. I've heard of people seeing the PS3 running a game and literally dropping dead on the spot of future shock. It doesn't matter if it's only using 3% of its power, it's still a quantum leap relative to everything else in existence because of those 2 TFLOPS. Sorry, I seem to be talking bollocks.
The other 1.8TFLOPS runs on the nVidia G70 GPU.
Right. And two of AMDs unreleased, next generation cards can only manage 1 TFLOP between them. So realistically we have two possibilites :
a) AMD are massively understating the potential performance of the R600 for marketing reasons.
b) Sony are massively overstating the potential of the G70 in the PS3 for marketing reasons.
So children, which do we think is more likely? And please only raise your hand if you're not too busy posting on Slashdot to use any logic or reason in your arguments.
But Gimp is not a substitute for Photoshop as far as professional users are concerned.
I'm struggling to reconcile your implication that you are a professional with your username.
I would wager that you are as much a professional photographer as I am a professional ballet dancer.
Professional whiney Internet bitch with nothing original to troll about, I'll give you.
Nobody is interested in hearing how comfortable or well designed your Apple branded handcuffs are.
Bask in ruminations of what would happen if Apple bought AMD.
Apple would go bust and a million Mac zealots would cry out in agony?
I admit it's an attractive vision, but sadly unlikely.
Slashdot is very pro-Linux
What else is it going to be? Pro-Microsoft? Why?
That would make sense if we were all MS shareholders and they were out of money for advertising. Otherwise it's just giving free PR to a company that doesn't even know you exist.
Would you be comfortable reading a pro-Halliburton or pro-Pfizer website written by somebody who isn't even being paid to shill for them? I'd run a mile on the assumption that that person is clearly fucking insane.
I assume you must disagree.
Um... if the problem arose during the attempt to INSTALL Win9x, that's not Windows; it's a bug in that family of AMD CPUs.
No, it was because of a timing loop in Windows that ran too fast on the K6-2 300 and above causing a crash. If by "bug" you mean "ran certain instructions faster than MS allowe for" then you're correct. Otherwise, wrong.
Linux wouldn't install on the affected CPUs either. Something about the 32bitness being broken, I forget the details.
Yeah, apparently they were released with only 31 bits. AMD had to send out the 32nd bit by post to all affected customers.
I've run numerous different versions of Linux on the same K6-2 300 that Win95 crashed on, so unless you can provide some evidence I'm going to assume you're talking bollocks.
...that the software emulation will allow to scale the PS2-games to 720p high def resolution.
So, the current PS3 with hardware support for PS2 games plus all the extra power of the Cell isn't enough to allow you to play old games at 720p, but removing the hardware assistance will magically enable this?
Maybe it didn't mention this because the journalists aren't fucking deluded?
It doesn't mention that Sony want's to bring the backward compatbility to an level almost
as high as the hardware emulation in the US/Japan PS3 is too.
Sony would probably also like their customers to submit to anal rape whilst wearing an "I Love DRM" T-Shirt, but I can't see that happening either.
Software emulation of XBox games on the 360 is a fucking mess from what I hear. I challenge you to explain how Sony will succeed where MS failed without saying anything retarded.
Get 1gb of Ram, try ebay, watch as the system suddenly speeds up.
What? You need to fit 1GB of RAM and then access EBay to speed up your PC?
That's a very strange issue. I suggest you submit a bug report.
That depends on who your neighbor is: a pimple faced, socially awkard, teenager that spends his spare time turning toasters into Linux boxen or a grandmother who can't seem to access voice mail on her new "modular" telephone? Considering that encryption is AES 128, it may be compromised by one of the two types of neighbors.
If you replaced "pimply Linux geek" with "respected crypto analyst with large amounts of computing resources at his disposal", you'd still be just as wrong.
Did you confuse AES128 with 56bit DES or something?
If you do have an example of someone breaking AES128, don't post it - publish it.
The story does say that he embedded his trojan program into "several usenet groups used by pedophiles"
I didn't realise there was an alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.pedohilia these days. More likely he spammed the whole alt.binaries.pictures.* hierarchy with his shit. I don't know where you got the idea that Usenet groups were generally on-topic either. I'm guessing you just don't know what the fuck you're talking about.
This may not be the only place he hid the thing to be downloaded, the story's unclear there, but I think that could be considered "reasonable search and seizure"
I think you could be considered fucking retarded. I don't feel the need to explain my opinion either.
The "news story" is a bit light on content and heavy on hagiography
Well done. You learnt how to use dictionary.com. That totally changes my opinion of you.
Is 6.5GB of virtual memory too much to ask?
If you're really asking for 6.5GB of virtual memory you are almost certainly retarded.
Now, I am serious, what is wrong with the harddrives I choose that kills them so quickly?
See above.
I've been looking at RAID 5, but two things still trouble me, the price and the performance hit.
If you have a 6.5GB swap file your choice of RAID is probably the least of your performance worries.
A typical put-down article. Maybe the author couldn't get his own Wii and is angry, or he's being paid by MS and/or Sony. Or maybe he's just really a bit slow.
Ah, the old accusation of being paid to put down the competitor's system. How often does this come up?
Let's try and put it to rest once and for all. Look, I know it's difficult to believe that people would go out of their way to promote a games system made by one of three massive corporations without being paid to do it. It seems insane that someone would do their advertising for them and gain absolutely nothing in return doesn't it? And why would anyone want to shill for MS or Sony?
But I'm afraid the harsh reality is that they do. Now, many of them are just children and can be partially excused. After all, children are very excitable and tend to pledge allegiance to anything going. See Lord of the Flies for a good example (that's a book by the way, not a computer game).
But as your user number shows, many of them are fully grown adults. It is deeply disturbing to realise that millions of adults have lives so fucking meaningless that their choice of games system becomes a major facet of their personality. But it does happen all the time - and no money is involved at all.
I do hope this explanation puts your mind at rest. My greatest fear is that one day the factions will become so bitter and withdrawn from society that there will be an actual violent conflict between them. Just imagine the horror of massive groups of Wii, PS3 and 360 fanboys killing and maiming each other on the battlefield. Perhaps we could call it the LOLocaust.
16 qubits isn't a heck of a lot of quantum parellelism
256 parallel universes should be enough for anybody.
Is this going to improve my 3d graphics accelerators?
No, but watching you being bombarded by relativistic subatomic particles would be much funnier than reading your comments.
Whether the cell processor is more efficient or newer, or better design to allow for airflow
What do you think they're going to do? Drill holes in the fucking substrate to let the air through?
nothing sucks bigger and harder than string theory
Poster's scientific qualifications - Bought a copy of New Scientist once. Quite liked some of the pictures.
Are you saying that because you have gained a detailed understanding of string theory and found it flawed or because you've seen other people saying it and would like to be accepted as one of the gang?
Personally, I'm not educated enough to have come to any kind of opinion about string theory that I would dare to argue in public. However, I am realistic enough to suspect that every single scientist involved in string theory is more intelligent and objective than some frustrated little prick shouting glib lines from the peanut gallery.
Finally, since this will get modded down anyway and you seem to lose it in a most amusing manner whenever you perceive someone to be attacking Apple, I will close by saying that Steve Jobs is a cocksucker.
Happens with software, happens with music and it will be happening more with movies.
Yes, it's always happened with software. That's why no new commercial software has been produced since 1983 and Bill Gates had to eat his own wife to avoid starvation.
I don't own one of these devices so I cannot test this for sure, but instead of blindly forwarding everything to a "default host" (I presume this is like "DMZ mode" on other routers), has anyone tried forwarding requisite ports?
That is very unlikely to help. Generally these problems are caused by a faulty IPSEC Passthrough feature on the router which decides it's going to mangle your packets even when they're encapsulated (encapsulated IPSEC traffic should not require assistance).
Often the only way to disable the passthrough helper is to disable NAT altogether by putting the router into DMZ mode.
You can forward as many ports as you like, the router's broken NAT helper will still mangle your IPSEC traffic.
But if you really want to try it, UDP 500 and UDP 4500 would be a good start if your client uses the standard NAT-T ports. Which it probably fucking won't.
The natural beauty of semi-naked or even naked woman body is very poetic, and could extinguish hard porno, brutality, sadism.
Hi, I'm reality. Just wondered if you fancied meeting up at some point in the future?
PS. Had a quick look at your blog (I also enjoy watching car crashes). Generally very dull, but I noticed you mentioned the old chestnut about us only using 3% of our brains (actually I think it's supposed to be 10%). Do you have any idea how much energy our brains use? How could natural selection have produced something so spectacularly inefficient? Or how could an intelligent designer have produced something so stupid? Why not try applying a little bit of independent thought before parroting misquoted lines from ancient experiments?
Didn't Sony already claim that this is not true?
If they did, then I believe them.
How cynical would I be if I didn't?
One of the main reasons you hear so many developers bitching about working on the 360. And why so many 360 games end up using fake marketing shots to hide the AA/jaggy problems that plagued actual in game 360 graphics.
Hi, welcome to Slashdot!
I see you managed to make your first post okay, despite the posting interface being different from the PS3Fanboy forums you're used to.
I think you're going to settle in very well here. Many posters on Slashdot are also teenage virgins obsessed with other people's choice of game system.
But I know how you feel! It really makes my blood boil when I see someone recommending a different system to the one my mummy bought me for Christmas. One day I'm going to steal the pistol out of my dad's underwear draw and teach them all a lesson!
Uh, no. My TV only goes to 720p and the Wii only supports 480p (I do have the optional component cables).
Why would you want high res graphics on your Wii anyway?
I thought that crappy looking games were more fun? That's what all the fanboys say and I can't think of any reason why they would lie about it.
If you turn down the colour control on your TV so that everything's monochrome, do the games get better? I assume they do.
im talking the whole backbone was using solaris machine(s) to route the internet traffic
Why do I have visions of a whole load of Ultra 5s daisy chained together with short lengths of Coax?
My experience with iPod on Windows has been: plug it in, and it works as advertised.
Same here, except it always starts this awful looking application that runs like molasses and tries to get me to purchase DRM'd music at every opportunity. It is very good at deleting stuff off my iPod just because I moved the original file though.
Other than that, it works fine.