You are most certainly in the 18 percent. You lied to tech support about your configuration, and yet you expect them to pinpoint your problem? How the hell are they supposed to know about problems with your router if you don't tell them that you are using one?
Moral of the story? Retards shouldn't be allowed to call tech support.
A soul is what makes us human and different from animals.
Are you sure that animals don't have souls? They sure do have personalities, and those personalities have to come from somewhere. And don't give me a load of garbage like instinct or surounding environement. These answers are too easy and leave too much unexplained.
This year the Oregon election was all mail in ballots. Yes, it is still paper only - but the availability really increased. Our voter turnout this year was 84% (the highest ever since the Nixon - Kennedy election). With the mail in elections, you have the same possibility of harasment - but I have not heard of any problems with this election.
This increased turnout helps in several ways. Using the old system, the two biggest groups who would turn out and vote were 1) seniors and 2) parents. That's why you always heard about special interest groups benifiting kids and old people - THEY WERE THE ONLY PEOPLE VOTING! Why pander to the 20 to early 30 year olds if they aren't going to get off their lazy butts and vote?
But with 84% returns, it spreads the vote out across the entire age range. We had great coverage from every canidate because they knew that the vote was going to be different here.
I've got a theory as to why it turned into the keys.
Bear with me. This poor insect finally reallized that he would never be the same again. Think of the thoughts going through its mind: "These giant alien monsters PULLED OFF MY LEGS! Now I am all wired up like some kind of freak from the Matrix sequel. Wait - is that a bat! I can end it all now! Goodbye cruel world!"
Anybody remember what movies were like in the 50's? A few easily offended people decided they didn't want anybody to see anything naughty at the picture show, and so the movie industry had to put up with a couple of decades of official censorship by people whose self-appointed duty was protecting the morals of our innocent children. Let's hope it takes them a little less than 20 years to realize they're making the same mistake..
And is it any better now? Sure, more things get through but do you really think that what you are watching at the theater is the full vision of what the director had in his mind? Nope, the movie is cut and modified until it can get a rating low enough to be put on the shelfs at Blockbuster.
I don't know what processor controlled the first "programmable missle controller chip", but it probably wasn't the 4004. The 4004 was developed for a Japanese company called Busicom. It was the first microprocessor from Intel, and was designed to control a desktop calculator. I don't know if it was ever used for military purposes, but that is not what it was designed for.
Coding nativly would be SLOWER then using the morphing layer. You also don't get the benifit of the optimaztion.
Yes, but a good compiler will generate fully optimal code to begin with. A compiler that targets the Transmeta core Instruction Set should give you better code than the two level translation scheme.
But that's neither here nor there. Transmeta will not want people to code to the native Instruction Set because it will undermine their flexibility with the underlying hardware. Right now, the major benefit of the two level translation scheme is that the hardware architecture can be updated and improved while presenting the same programing model to application developers. This will allow Transmeta to aggresively experiment with the hardware architecture while maintaining software compatibility. This is very very cool!
Yea, but the problem with that is, for every game you buy, you pay around 40-50$. Expansions, like 20. Lesse, 60$ per person. Now, lesse you have 15 people at work. That's $900. Now, that database at work cost several thousands of dollars.
Big deal. I work in the ASIC industry, and the tools that I use every day cost hundereds of thousands of dollars to license. A program is priced to make money. If there is a lot of demand for the program (games) then it can be priced lower because more people will buy it. If the demand is lower (operating systems and data bases don't sell as much as games) then the prices becomes higher. If the demand is very low (engineering tools, scientific research programs, etc.) then the price will be very high just to recoup the cost of development.
For those of you who aren't sure what an HDL is... HDL stands for Hardware Description Language. They are used by engineers to simulate a computer chips (and other ICs) before they are created. Used mainly for testing to see if what they designed truly does what they want it to do. Very neat. You can simulate an entirely different computer architecture using an HDL.
HDLs are used for more than just simulation. They are also used to synthesize logic into gates. They are mainly used in ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) developement. The typical design flow of an ASIC is as follows:
1) Define Specs. 2) Develop an HDL model and a simulation model. 3) Verify the HDL model by simulation (using the ModelTech tool described in the article) and compare to the simulation model. If there are any mismatches, regress to step two. 4) Synthesize HDL into a gate level netlist. 5) Verify the gate level netlist against the simulation model (almost like step 3). 6) Begin the physical design (Place and Route, creating timing convergence, etc.)
As you can see, HDLs are used during the complete design process. A quality simulator is just one step in this process, but is very important to the design flow.
The Open Source model works only for apps that are commonly used. Things like operating systems, text editers, compilers, etc. Things that everyone needs on their PC.
I work in the ASIC industry. I use EDA (Electronic Design Automation) software every day from companies like Synopsys and Cadence. The licenses for these tools are very very expensive (I'm talking > $100k in some cases). The reason that these licenses are so expensive is because they are needed for a very narrow application - designing ASICs. Not everyone needs to do that, so not everyone needs a copy of the software. The EDA companies must recoupe their investment in the software develpement, so the prices are very high.
I don't see EDA companies (or any other speacialized company) distributing source. It is just not possible. If they where using a licenseing modle like GPL, then the software would have to be free (as in beer) and they would have no way to recoupe costs (and the support model would not work in this case. I very rarely go to Synopsys for support. I normally use newgroups, in house experts, or web searches before going to them).
What incentive do they have to make you a special offer?
I attended a smaller state funded school in Oregon. While there, I was involved in the Student Government and I know a little bit about where their funding comes from.
The state mandates that each school must meet an enrolement gole. If this goal is not met, then the funding for that school is reduced. While I was in the Student Government, it was a big deal to try and raise the enrolement figures because we really needed the state funding.
I think that a service like this CAN work. It depends on how desperate the school really is. If they are in dire need to increase enrolement, then they will be letting in people who really don't have any buisness being in college. When they drop out their Sophmore year, then they'll be right back where they started.
The main reason that hardware is more reliable in my opinion is that the testing is much more stringent in hardware designs than in software designs.
The reason for this is hardware is expensive. There is a real cost associated with a piece of hardware, someone somewhere had to have built it. Software on the other hand is relatively free. Sure you have development, marketing, and distribution costs, but no more than any hardware design. But once the design is done, you can ship as many copies as you can sell for almost nothing. You can't do that for hardware.
In addition to this, you can't ship a patch to hardware (well you can sometimes, but it normally isn't very easy). If there is something wrong with a hardware design, it normally has to be recalled (if the hardware company is willing to take responsibility for the bad parts). This is much more expensive. Look at the Pentium bug. Ultimately it was a very smart stratagy for Intel to recall the bad parts, but you know that it cost them an arm and a leg.
Wow, you sure have come a long way from a company that is just trying to protect it's good name. Would you say the same thing if Microsoft decided to distribute a free linux distribution based on Red Hat (or any other dist.) and call it Microsoft Linux?
The original NES did just fine. There was no way to pirate during its heyday and it was huge.
Pirates do play a role in the gaming industry. Of course they do. Just by using the products they have effected the industry.
Have they had a good effect on the industry. Of course not. They are a drag on the gaming industry. The companies that distribute the games have to police the market and add copyright protection to their work. This only serves to raise the end price of the game because of all of the resources spent on trying to thwart these dumbass pirates.
I have heard a lot of people try to use the argument that because it is software, then it doesn't really harm the developer if I steal the game. They still have the source code, right? This is the stupidest argument that I have ever heard. It sounds like you are just trying to justify stealing. That is all it really is - STEALING.
I have shown in my previous post how pirates harm the programmer by harming the company that he works for.
Now don't get me wrong. I don't think that all copyright laws are good. I see no reason why you can't use ROMs of older, now horribly out of date, systems like the NES. Nintendo doesn't make any money on the NES anymore, so I do think that people should be able to enjoy those older games. I am very strongly against people who copy CURRENT games that are still generating revenue for people.
People who mod playstations just so they can play the latest games really are a drag on the software industry. Do you really need to play that game so bad that you would actually STEAL it?
Not every programmer gets reimbursed by salary alone.
Have you ever heard of STOCK OPTIONS, PROFIT SHARING, etc.??
You are just a drag on the entire industry. You steal things that you don't need. Unless you start jonesing when you can't play the latest game you have absolutly no need to take this.
I'll tell you what. Why don't you try going out and mowing a few lawns this summer to PAY for those games. Oh wait. You can't do that. That would require you to get off of your lazy/fat/cheap ass and do some real work.
What if Microsoft told Dell, Compaq, Gateway, etc. that if they have a Linux option on their machines, that they'll yank the Windows license for the entire company. Would that be okay with you too? This analagy makes no sense. Now if Windows said that they would double the price of its license if Linux was used, then it would make more sence. And this probably happens a lot more than you think, and not just at Microsoft.
Just because the host name doesn't contain one of the "seven dirty words" doesn't mean that the content of the site won't contain "unsuitable content" (whatever the hell that is).
Luke wasn't a Jedi yet. He didn't complete his training and become a true Jedi until the last episode (after learning the truth about Vadar at the end of episode V).
If you read the article, you would see that the most popular portable MP3 player (Rio) WILL adopt this standard. Don't know why, but that's what the article said.
Let's hope they cover Linux, Mac, Be, etc. as viable game development and deployment platforms instead of just TV consoles and Win9x. Otherwise they could be churning out degrees not worth the paper they're written on;-) Please, console games kick ass. Granted, there are some games that PCs are better at, but my Sony Playstation has a huge game selection, is very very stable, and I can get games for $20 or less that I like to play.
Compare this with a PC system, were to play the latest and greatest games you have to have so many megabytes of memory, that brand spankin' new 3D video card, a CPU that runs at a minimum of so many MHz, etc. To keep a PC current is very expensive, while I haven't "upgraded" my Playstation since I bought it!
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You are most certainly in the 18 percent. You lied to tech support about your configuration, and yet you expect them to pinpoint your problem? How the hell are they supposed to know about problems with your router if you don't tell them that you are using one?
Moral of the story? Retards shouldn't be allowed to call tech support.
A soul is what makes us human and different from animals.
Are you sure that animals don't have souls? They sure do have personalities, and those personalities have to come from somewhere. And don't give me a load of garbage like instinct or surounding environement. These answers are too easy and leave too much unexplained.
3) Sentience is equivalent to a 'soul'.
Sorry buddy, step three is an pretty big leap for me. I don't think very many people truely know what a soul means to even themselves.
This year the Oregon election was all mail in ballots. Yes, it is still paper only - but the availability really increased. Our voter turnout this year was 84% (the highest ever since the Nixon - Kennedy election). With the mail in elections, you have the same possibility of harasment - but I have not heard of any problems with this election.
This increased turnout helps in several ways. Using the old system, the two biggest groups who would turn out and vote were 1) seniors and 2) parents. That's why you always heard about special interest groups benifiting kids and old people - THEY WERE THE ONLY PEOPLE VOTING! Why pander to the 20 to early 30 year olds if they aren't going to get off their lazy butts and vote?
But with 84% returns, it spreads the vote out across the entire age range. We had great coverage from every canidate because they knew that the vote was going to be different here.
I've got a theory as to why it turned into the keys. Bear with me. This poor insect finally reallized that he would never be the same again. Think of the thoughts going through its mind: "These giant alien monsters PULLED OFF MY LEGS! Now I am all wired up like some kind of freak from the Matrix sequel. Wait - is that a bat! I can end it all now! Goodbye cruel world!"
And is it any better now? Sure, more things get through but do you really think that what you are watching at the theater is the full vision of what the director had in his mind? Nope, the movie is cut and modified until it can get a rating low enough to be put on the shelfs at Blockbuster.
I don't know what processor controlled the first "programmable missle controller chip", but it probably wasn't the 4004. The 4004 was developed for a Japanese company called Busicom. It was the first microprocessor from Intel, and was designed to control a desktop calculator. I don't know if it was ever used for military purposes, but that is not what it was designed for.
Coding nativly would be SLOWER then using the morphing layer. You also don't get the benifit of the optimaztion.
Yes, but a good compiler will generate fully optimal code to begin with. A compiler that targets the Transmeta core Instruction Set should give you better code than the two level translation scheme.
But that's neither here nor there. Transmeta will not want people to code to the native Instruction Set because it will undermine their flexibility with the underlying hardware. Right now, the major benefit of the two level translation scheme is that the hardware architecture can be updated and improved while presenting the same programing model to application developers. This will allow Transmeta to aggresively experiment with the hardware architecture while maintaining software compatibility. This is very very cool!
Yea, but the problem with that is, for every game you buy, you pay around 40-50$. Expansions, like 20. Lesse, 60$ per person. Now, lesse you have 15 people at work. That's $900. Now, that database at work cost several thousands of dollars.
Big deal. I work in the ASIC industry, and the tools that I use every day cost hundereds of thousands of dollars to license. A program is priced to make money. If there is a lot of demand for the program (games) then it can be priced lower because more people will buy it. If the demand is lower (operating systems and data bases don't sell as much as games) then the prices becomes higher. If the demand is very low (engineering tools, scientific research programs, etc.) then the price will be very high just to recoup the cost of development.
I must have had this same model (I don't remember the model number) but I also had a Packard Bell 486 and I also had to rip out my modem.
For those of you who aren't sure what an HDL is...
HDL stands for Hardware Description Language. They are used by engineers to simulate a computer chips (and other ICs) before they are created. Used mainly for testing to see if what they designed truly does what they want it to do. Very neat. You can simulate an entirely different computer architecture using an HDL.
HDLs are used for more than just simulation. They are also used to synthesize logic into gates. They are mainly used in ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) developement. The typical design flow of an ASIC is as follows:
1) Define Specs.
2) Develop an HDL model and a simulation model.
3) Verify the HDL model by simulation (using the ModelTech tool described in the article) and compare to the simulation model. If there are any mismatches, regress to step two.
4) Synthesize HDL into a gate level netlist.
5) Verify the gate level netlist against the simulation model (almost like step 3).
6) Begin the physical design (Place and Route, creating timing convergence, etc.)
As you can see, HDLs are used during the complete design process. A quality simulator is just one step in this process, but is very important to the design flow.
The Open Source model works only for apps that are commonly used. Things like operating systems, text editers, compilers, etc. Things that everyone needs on their PC.
I work in the ASIC industry. I use EDA (Electronic Design Automation) software every day from companies like Synopsys and Cadence. The licenses for these tools are very very expensive (I'm talking > $100k in some cases). The reason that these licenses are so expensive is because they are needed for a very narrow application - designing ASICs. Not everyone needs to do that, so not everyone needs a copy of the software. The EDA companies must recoupe their investment in the software develpement, so the prices are very high.
I don't see EDA companies (or any other speacialized company) distributing source. It is just not possible. If they where using a licenseing modle like GPL, then the software would have to be free (as in beer) and they would have no way to recoupe costs (and the support model would not work in this case. I very rarely go to Synopsys for support. I normally use newgroups, in house experts, or web searches before going to them).
What incentive do they have to make you a special offer?
I attended a smaller state funded school in Oregon. While there, I was involved in the Student Government and I know a little bit about where their funding comes from.
The state mandates that each school must meet an enrolement gole. If this goal is not met, then the funding for that school is reduced. While I was in the Student Government, it was a big deal to try and raise the enrolement figures because we really needed the state funding.
I think that a service like this CAN work. It depends on how desperate the school really is. If they are in dire need to increase enrolement, then they will be letting in people who really don't have any buisness being in college. When they drop out their Sophmore year, then they'll be right back where they started.
The main reason that hardware is more reliable in my opinion is that the testing is much more stringent in hardware designs than in software designs.
The reason for this is hardware is expensive. There is a real cost associated with a piece of hardware, someone somewhere had to have built it. Software on the other hand is relatively free. Sure you have development, marketing, and distribution costs, but no more than any hardware design. But once the design is done, you can ship as many copies as you can sell for almost nothing. You can't do that for hardware.
In addition to this, you can't ship a patch to hardware (well you can sometimes, but it normally isn't very easy). If there is something wrong with a hardware design, it normally has to be recalled (if the hardware company is willing to take responsibility for the bad parts). This is much more expensive. Look at the Pentium bug. Ultimately it was a very smart stratagy for Intel to recall the bad parts, but you know that it cost them an arm and a leg.
Wow, you sure have come a long way from a company that is just trying to protect it's good name. Would you say the same thing if Microsoft decided to distribute a free linux distribution based on Red Hat (or any other dist.) and call it Microsoft Linux?
So do a little research before buying a game.
There are many ways to find out if you are going to like a game. Here are a few LETIGITIMATE ways:
1) Game review internet sites.
2) Downloaded demos.
3) Rent a game first to try it.
4) Gaming magazines.
The original NES did just fine. There was no way to pirate during its heyday and it was huge.
Pirates do play a role in the gaming industry. Of course they do. Just by using the products they have effected the industry.
Have they had a good effect on the industry. Of course not. They are a drag on the gaming industry. The companies that distribute the games have to police the market and add copyright protection to their work. This only serves to raise the end price of the game because of all of the resources spent on trying to thwart these dumbass pirates.
I have heard a lot of people try to use the argument that because it is software, then it doesn't really harm the developer if I steal the game. They still have the source code, right? This is the stupidest argument that I have ever heard. It sounds like you are just trying to justify stealing. That is all it really is - STEALING.
I have shown in my previous post how pirates harm the programmer by harming the company that he works for.
Now don't get me wrong. I don't think that all copyright laws are good. I see no reason why you can't use ROMs of older, now horribly out of date, systems like the NES. Nintendo doesn't make any money on the NES anymore, so I do think that people should be able to enjoy those older games. I am very strongly against people who copy CURRENT games that are still generating revenue for people.
People who mod playstations just so they can play the latest games really are a drag on the software industry. Do you really need to play that game so bad that you would actually STEAL it?
You don't really think that the author of the original post was serious?
Not every programmer gets reimbursed by salary alone.
Have you ever heard of STOCK OPTIONS, PROFIT SHARING, etc.??
You are just a drag on the entire industry. You steal things that you don't need. Unless you start jonesing when you can't play the latest game you have absolutly no need to take this.
I'll tell you what. Why don't you try going out and mowing a few lawns this summer to PAY for those games. Oh wait. You can't do that. That would require you to get off of your lazy/fat/cheap ass and do some real work.
Ingrate.
What if Microsoft told Dell, Compaq, Gateway, etc. that if they have a Linux option on their machines, that they'll yank the Windows license for the entire company. Would that be okay with you too? This analagy makes no sense. Now if Windows said that they would double the price of its license if Linux was used, then it would make more sence. And this probably happens a lot more than you think, and not just at Microsoft.
Just because the host name doesn't contain one of the "seven dirty words" doesn't mean that the content of the site won't contain "unsuitable content" (whatever the hell that is).
Luke wasn't a Jedi yet. He didn't complete his training and become a true Jedi until the last episode (after learning the truth about Vadar at the end of episode V).
If you read the article, you would see that the most popular portable MP3 player (Rio) WILL adopt this standard. Don't know why, but that's what the article said.
Compare this with a PC system, were to play the latest and greatest games you have to have so many megabytes of memory, that brand spankin' new 3D video card, a CPU that runs at a minimum of so many MHz, etc. To keep a PC current is very expensive, while I haven't "upgraded" my Playstation since I bought it!
You are in a maze of twisty messages all alike.
Good god man. Do you know how long I was stuck in that stupid maze!