AMD will drop this "MHZ means nothing" marketing scheme as soon as they release a chip with a faster clock speed than Intel. Remember how keen they were to trumpet the fact that they were the first ones to release a 1Ghz chip?
From the website: The adaptation included disabling memory count-up, banners, and various POST status messages; using the "quick" memory test, which scans only the first word of each 1KB unit of memory during the memory test; and disabling floppy and hard disk seeks during POST.
Disabling the memory count and disk seek are options in most BIOS's. Won't these make *any* mobo boot faster? Can't say I've ever tried.. Win2k still takes two minutes (and what's with the three seperate progress bars?)
SDL is nice, but I'd like to avoid getting a devkit via the grey market. SCEA has a poll going to gauge interest in the PS2. Let's get this thing released! --me
I had figured Nintendo for dead, given the Gamecube's seemingly poor specs. However, w/ 1.1m at launch and a $200 pricepoint, they might just pull it off.
Unless Sony releases ps2 linux in th states, I might just jump ship.
Thanks for the clarification. The only bit question mark that remains is whether Sony is going to attempt to "lock down" linux behind a simple UI, or allow users full access.
I saw these things at E3. Though they had plenty of goons keeping people from looking at the device in detail, you could tell that the hard drive was plugged into the rear expansion bay, and jutted out about an inch from the system. An ethernet cable was hooked up to a port on the back of the HD. Seems pretty clear to me that Sony has more interest in this thing being a content-delivery device, rather than simply a complement to games.
Also of interest: the PS2's were running netscape 4.x on PS2 Linux. All attempts to get to a command prompt were met with hostility:-O
Don't get me wrong. I think learning assembly is a very rewarding experience (I took three semesters of the stuff). However, I don't that the knowledge of the internals that an assembly class gives you is necessarily needed by a computer science major.
Though it can be argued that learning to write tight assembly will make you better at the smaller, procedural sections of object oriented code, I think most people would agree that it won't make you any better at designing a high-level data structure or an object-oriented framework.
On a more humorous note, why not teach students to write Java at the byte-code level -- thus answering both sides of the Java vs. Assembly argument!;-)
That statement appears little more than a troll. Your statement is similar to someone asking "If wood is so great, why are no automotive engines built using it?". Obviously different applications(and I mean "application" in the broad sense) require different tools.
You don't see people asking "If assembly is so great, why are no CGI Scripts written in it". The answer: few people are sadists.
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I still say the way to test out this device is to strap it to a baby, and then wait 10 years. If you still have a baby, then the immortality device works... right? --me
Perhaps MS wants the exclusivity to include their instant messaging service as well. Thats fine by me -- remember when AOL had a proprietary email system that wouldn't communicate with the outside world?
So, does wearing this immortality device stop all aspects of the aging proces? That is, does a person who wears an immortality device ever appear to get older as the days(months, years) pass by?
If the answer is yes, what would a person look like after 200 years? I've seen people that are over 100, and they look the part.
If the answer is no, couldn't we just strap one of these things on a baby and see what happens after, say, ten years? Would it still be a baby? If so, sign me up because I think having an immortal baby would be cool!
Turnabout is fair play. It would just as easy for game publishers to disable gameplay on ASUS cards. All it would take is one Id-sized developer.
At least it would be more effective than this dumbass poll. What response could they possibly expect? Imagine if AOL had an internet poll asking if their users should get usenet access.
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Disabling the memory count and disk seek are options in most BIOS's. Won't these make *any* mobo boot faster? Can't say I've ever tried.. Win2k still takes two minutes (and what's with the three seperate progress bars?)
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... I wanna start *using* stenography! Won't some enterprising Karma Whore throw us a couple links?
Meanwhile, Valve (also a Sierra company), hasn't released anything in over two years and is still going strong? I don't get it.
SDL is nice, but I'd like to avoid getting a devkit via the grey market. SCEA has a poll going to gauge interest in the PS2. Let's get this thing released! --me
Unless Sony releases ps2 linux in th states, I might just jump ship.
Most stupid people can't write even write a virus.
...in x86 assembly
...that infect over 200,000 webservers in under 24 hours.
Mitnick only compromised a handful of systems. I guess this makes him a complete retard?
Well, this "fake" worm hosed my webserver at around 11:00am, and has also spiked Qwest's traffic to the extent of brownouts. So, I'm a believer.
Thanks for the clarification. The only bit question mark that remains is whether Sony is going to attempt to "lock down" linux behind a simple UI, or allow users full access.
Also of interest: the PS2's were running netscape 4.x on PS2 Linux. All attempts to get to a command prompt were met with hostility :-O
Though it can be argued that learning to write tight assembly will make you better at the smaller, procedural sections of object oriented code, I think most people would agree that it won't make you any better at designing a high-level data structure or an object-oriented framework.
On a more humorous note, why not teach students to write Java at the byte-code level -- thus answering both sides of the Java vs. Assembly argument! ;-)
You don't see people asking "If assembly is so great, why are no CGI Scripts written in it". The answer: few people are sadists. --me
What's stopping companies from sharing the entire damn server log? This "web bug" thing is a non-story.
I still say the way to test out this device is to strap it to a baby, and then wait 10 years. If you still have a baby, then the immortality device works... right? --me
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If the answer is yes, what would a person look like after 200 years? I've seen people that are over 100, and they look the part.
If the answer is no, couldn't we just strap one of these things on a baby and see what happens after, say, ten years? Would it still be a baby? If so, sign me up because I think having an immortal baby would be cool!
--me
Turnabout is fair play. It would just as easy for game publishers to disable gameplay on ASUS cards. All it would take is one Id-sized developer. At least it would be more effective than this dumbass poll. What response could they possibly expect? Imagine if AOL had an internet poll asking if their users should get usenet access.