Michael Powell was on the tv show Screensavers over at techtv. He stated he didnt want to regulate, and wanted to open services. He made some interesting comments, like how when the FCC didnt regulate what goes on the Internet, all the services, companies and inventions that came out of it. He then started on the free unregulated spectrum they are allowing people to use for Wifi ISPs.
He sounds like hes on the ball for most stuff, was rather impressed he wants the market to grow, and to now cripple it with regulations.
I still don't trust the FCC, but at least it shows he understands the regulation powers of the FCC, and avoiding it. Or maybe he's just not bought by special interests yet.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but since the land is virtual, can't the developers create as much (or as little) open land as they want to? Meaning that everyone in the game could possibly own their own continent, server space allowing?
I ran across a prime piece of land in the game, and snagged it. Then with my next paycheck, I bought the land next to it, more land so I had enough prims. I bumped my plan up 15 bux a month, and have enough cash to setup a store. Already been tempted to sell the land at nice profit, since land is hard to come by. Also I'd like to move to an Adult SIM, my property is in a PG area, but the Adult land is all sold out.
My understanding is each SIM (square piece of land, like a city limits) is a server. And they charge 200 dollars per server, and Lindens just break even. The SIM have ratings, so alot of people want Adult Sim's where you don't have to restrict yourself as much, you dont have to worry about your conversations. They even have a new War Sim where you can be killed and respawn back at your home.
Anyone who telneted to a MOO server back in the 90's, will like secondlife. Its a mix of building and socializing. Rather amazed at the things people are building, and annoyed at some things.
Its the most amazing VR world I've seen, currious as to what it will evolve into.
9800 Pro sells for 220 on newegg, the R420 GPU is has been delivered to other OEM's and ATI is already tapped out and making GPU's. I guess this is the one with the new 3.0 Pixel Shaders.
Yes, but you don't have CounterStrike! Still my favorite PC game. (And some tribes1/2..)
But, also Mac, The Sims, SecondLife, CivIII, AOE2, Dungeon Siege, Diablo2, MOHAA Expansions (Spearhead), Rainbow Six.
And Mac only has AirBurst, great multiplayer game, one of my favorite Mac games. (Guess it won best of Mac World too.)
I havn't tried Halo on my mac, it only has a ATI 9000, waiting 3 months when ATI releases its new GPU and prices drop, should be able to pick up an ATI 9800 pro for around 100 bux. The GPU's should be 2-3x faster (R500?) My ATI 9700 Pro on my XP box is almost acceptable, I wouldn't even try on an ATI 9000. That Halo Speed patch should be out soon, maybe it will be playable. I do like how you can play across Mac/PC versions. I hope more developers do that.
Yeah, but with Netflix, if you don't use it, it's your own fault.
Theres only so many hours in a week, so its my fault if I dont use? How about I dont pay for it, and save the money... And when I want to rent, I goto Hollywood video. Also, it takes 15 minutes to goto the rental place, it takes 2-3 days to get the movies in mail. Now if I could download movies realtime like ppv, then it rental stores would go the same way as music stores.
Theres a difference between netflix and itunes. With netflix you have to wait, iTunes you dont. So really, movie rental places are going to have the same hard time when you can get movies on demand, but for now you can't.
I still rent movies, I go and pick up the movies I want, and most of the time I can get it without problems. Netflix is too much work, and you pay for months you dont use. I sometimes don't rent for 2-3 months, then its 3-4 times in a couple weeks. Depending on my work sechedule. The video store is easier for me. Same with iTunes, I want a song or CD, I just go online and buy it.
I've been buying my music online for over 8 years, and tried netflix, after wanting only new movies, and renting when I want, the movie rental shop was better. Plus theres Scarecrow video in Seattle which has so many movies I havnt seen, its fun to browse and pick new movies. I just don't get that experience with record/cd stores.
Its nice to have/etc/inittab for some workstations, but I could easily configure it in both styles. The only really annoying thing, different directories for startup scripts. I like/etc/init.d, so I have to symlink on some systems, just easier that way.
BSD style seems a little more work, for no more gain.
I like the mix of analog/digital watches. The only digital watch I could find that emulated an analog watch, was a Casio. I bought it in the early 90's. That was a great watch, but I couldn't find a replacement for it, so I went with a nice mix Citizen titanium worldtime watch. And its an echo-drive, never have to replace batteries, its solar. Has the digital date on it, and the normal digital features, and the hands glow in the dark. So yes, analog is still here, but there are lots of enhancements to standard "Analog". Diving, Sailing and Pilot watches are the only ones that come close to the look of both technologies, but are overkill for just a nice digital looking watch.
So, I would say the article is wrong about digital watchs. They can display analog type faces, my first casio back in the 90's did. Most high end watchs are just a combinination of both.
and it certainly doesn't portray accurately the worst things in army: waiting.. waiting.. waiting.. shitty food.. waiting.. shitty camp food.. waiting..
Been playing AA since it first came out, and when there was no servers for the first 3 days, major slashdotting on the game servers. It has come along way, many military departments, and outfits added. The gfx are decent, the levels are nice and designed like real life landscapes. The game has a good sense of game play, attack/defend, or rescue/defend hostage/aid workers.. Nothing really overtly political in the game, other than the enemy looks like the region you are in, which make sense, Russia, Africa, etc.
But if you reference this game and Iraq, Iraq is a Police Action. Different styles of combat, this game doesnt show whats its like to patrol borders, do house to house searches, or night incursions into an enemy city. Maybe they need to add those scenarios. - Just, kicking back listening to Country Joe and the Fish...
If it counts for anything, most of my area is powered by a nuclear plant... It hasn't really been abandoned, judging by the electric bill I'm continually served with.
All are old and outdated power plants, with no new plans for any new plants to be built. Shame, it was killed due to people passing zoning laws, nobody wants a nuclear plant next door...
Just look at the power needs during the last few year and the whole Enron scandal. There is a need thats not being fulfilled, the DOE said by 2010 we would need new plants turned, and to make that date, we need to start building them by 2003. (last year!)
So saftey is a big concern, our government has been showing piss poor management in many areas, Nanotech will be no exemption.
Really depends on the cable, even on a KVM if you have cheap cables you can have ghosting. A good SVGA cable will run around 25 bux, a cheap VGA will run about 7. Theres a reason you use quality connections.
But if you are talking DSUB vs DVI on LCD, you could easily tell the difference. But on my nice Sony 22 inch monitor, the picture is far better that a 19inch NEC LCD.
You really need to see an LCD/Monitor in action, plus higher end LCD's have 3 connections, 2 DVI and 1 DSUB, which really rocks if you dont want to pass video through a KVM and distort the picture.
There are lots of forums for developers and mod designers. You should try those message boards, where they hang out even irc.
Its amazing how many people start out making mods, or levels for games can turn that into a job. Lots of people are recruiting for mod help, try to see if you can assist in making a level or 2.
BTW, The havok engine seems to be getting lots of attention, and Havok2 should be on par with the Halflife2 engine. Might check into that, and get a leg up on skill. Seems most games come with or have an SDK to download. Begging people to design levels and mod's.
I know many people waiting for HL2 to get BACK into level design. It will be the defacto engine for quiet some time.
I just enable the quick launch bar, and put it below the task bar. This way you have a large enough bar for all your shortcuts or shortcut folders.
Or you could load blackbox for windows, and use bbkeys to launch programs. Nice thing about bbkeys, is you can use windowmaker style maximize vert and horizontal apps, very nice. And bbstyles are standard, just download off freshmeat and install.
I'm a tribes player that moved to CS because Tribes1 finally started to die off. With disc shooting you had to lead, its part of the whole game.
Moving to CS, the whole "instant shot" does make some sense, they add recoil and reload time, which other games dont.
HL2 engine is made for modifications, even if they dont port CS, you cant copyright the Idea of CS. But if theres any legal action, expect mods to be named COPS, or SWAT, or Police Force, etc.. It will be interesting.
He is right about X not being slow. The problem is the perception thats X is slow. X is what is visual to the user, users either blame KDE/Gnome or X.
Take a pre-emptive low latency linux kernel and run X on it, its like night and day, its smooth, fast, which proves its not X but the kernel.
Windows cheats and loads the gui extremely fast, but if you watch your hardrive light, and tool tray, you will noticed things are still being loaded in the background. The system is busy for a few more seconds. You can load an application, and it waits till after the services start.
So, X seems slow compared to other OS's. 1. Long delays to get into KDE/Gnome, and actually use the system. 2. Slow response on user input. 3. Multitasking, switching apps pause the system. 4. Loading directories in ICON/Image view takes longer than windows. 5. Lindows has everything running as Root for a speed boost.
I predict we will see pre-emptive, low lantency kernels as standard on Mandrake and Suse. Preemptive kernels are now standard on 2.6.x (well, if you check the box). And even more pre-linking to help boot time.
BSD has the same issues. Apple's X server does seem faster than both Linux & BSD. I'm only running window maker on it, so its not an exact match, but task switching and running gimp does seem more reponsive.
Could the answer be the mach kernel osx uses? Maybe we need a new suite of benchmarks for user interaction. (os+X+wm/etc). - I code in my SecondLife
People that actually fall for this bullshit don't deserve to have a bank account in the first place. Do you honestly think the feds are gonna contact you via email to tell you that you're violating the patriot act? Go get an education.
Lots of elderly women who outlive thiner husbands, have to deal with the finances for the first time. These people make a great targets, they are computer illiterate. They where given a computer to communicate with their family, and dont know about all the email scams. And with the new homeland security daily threat levels, it confuses them.
I have been using a discount card for awhile, there is no reason not to pick a store and stick with them and enjoy the savings. With a family of 6+ the food savings alone is a few hundred a year. The only information I gave them was my address and phone number, already things that people can lookup, google search, or buy.
What privacy issues are you guys talking about? Them calling you? Out of all the phone calls I get, one telling me about problem with a product I bought doest seem to be a privacy issue. It seems damn responsible. As long as they dont sell my information to a 3rd party, or contact me by phone for stupid reasons, all power to them.
Sounds like a lot of over-reacting to me.
BTW, Whats annoying is the extra coupons I get when they hand me my receipt, pepsi if I buy coke, and Coke if I buy pepsi. I normally buy whatever diet is on sale.
Use the money and buy more rechargeable batteries for the Walkie Talkies. Using batteries as an excuse to go VoIP, which also uses batteries, doesn't make sense.
If interference is the real issue, look into low frequency radios with a 5 watt range.
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Michael Powell was on the tv show Screensavers over at techtv. He stated he didnt want to regulate, and wanted to open services. He made some interesting comments, like how when the FCC didnt regulate what goes on the Internet, all the services, companies and inventions that came out of it. He then started on the free unregulated spectrum they are allowing people to use for Wifi ISPs.
He sounds like hes on the ball for most stuff, was rather impressed he wants the market to grow, and to now cripple it with regulations.
I still don't trust the FCC, but at least it shows he understands the regulation powers of the FCC, and avoiding it. Or maybe he's just not bought by special interests yet.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but since the land is virtual, can't the developers create as much (or as little) open land as they want to? Meaning that everyone in the game could possibly own their own continent, server space allowing?
I ran across a prime piece of land in the game, and snagged it. Then with my next paycheck, I bought the land next to it, more land so I had enough prims. I bumped my plan up 15 bux a month, and have enough cash to setup a store. Already been tempted to sell the land at nice profit, since land is hard to come by. Also I'd like to move to an Adult SIM, my property is in a PG area, but the Adult land is all sold out.
My understanding is each SIM (square piece of land, like a city limits) is a server. And they charge 200 dollars per server, and Lindens just break even. The SIM have ratings, so alot of people want Adult Sim's where you don't have to restrict yourself as much, you dont have to worry about your conversations. They even have a new War Sim where you can be killed and respawn back at your home.
Anyone who telneted to a MOO server back in the 90's, will like secondlife. Its a mix of building and socializing. Rather amazed at the things people are building, and annoyed at some things.
Its the most amazing VR world I've seen, currious as to what it will evolve into.
Pasted the wrong link the second time.
http://endian.net/details.asp?ItemNo=3906
9800 Pro sells for 220 on newegg, the R420 GPU is has been delivered to other OEM's and ATI is already tapped out and making GPU's. I guess this is the one with the new 3.0 Pixel Shaders.
Check around for prices, newegg/pricewatch/etc.
Yes, but you don't have CounterStrike! Still my favorite PC game. (And some tribes1/2..)
But, also Mac, The Sims, SecondLife, CivIII, AOE2, Dungeon Siege, Diablo2, MOHAA Expansions (Spearhead), Rainbow Six.
And Mac only has AirBurst, great multiplayer game, one of my favorite Mac games. (Guess it won best of Mac World too.)
I havn't tried Halo on my mac, it only has a ATI 9000, waiting 3 months when ATI releases its new GPU and prices drop, should be able to pick up an ATI 9800 pro for around 100 bux. The GPU's should be 2-3x faster (R500?) My ATI 9700 Pro on my XP box is almost acceptable, I wouldn't even try on an ATI 9000. That Halo Speed patch should be out soon, maybe it will be playable. I do like how you can play across Mac/PC versions. I hope more developers do that.
Yeah, but with Netflix, if you don't use it, it's your own fault.
Theres only so many hours in a week, so its my fault if I dont use? How about I dont pay for it, and save the money... And when I want to rent, I goto Hollywood video. Also, it takes 15 minutes to goto the rental place, it takes 2-3 days to get the movies in mail. Now if I could download movies realtime like ppv, then it rental stores would go the same way as music stores.
Theres a difference between netflix and itunes. With netflix you have to wait, iTunes you dont. So really, movie rental places are going to have the same hard time when you can get movies on demand, but for now you can't.
I still rent movies, I go and pick up the movies I want, and most of the time I can get it without problems. Netflix is too much work, and you pay for months you dont use. I sometimes don't rent for 2-3 months, then its 3-4 times in a couple weeks. Depending on my work sechedule. The video store is easier for me. Same with iTunes, I want a song or CD, I just go online and buy it.
I've been buying my music online for over 8 years, and tried netflix, after wanting only new movies, and renting when I want, the movie rental shop was better. Plus theres Scarecrow video in Seattle which has so many movies I havnt seen, its fun to browse and pick new movies. I just don't get that experience with record/cd stores.
Its nice to have /etc/inittab for some workstations, but I could easily configure it in both styles. The only really annoying thing, different directories for startup scripts. I like /etc/init.d, so I have to symlink on some systems, just easier that way.
BSD style seems a little more work, for no more gain.
I like the mix of analog/digital watches. The only digital watch I could find that emulated an analog watch, was a Casio. I bought it in the early 90's. That was a great watch, but I couldn't find a replacement for it, so I went with a nice mix Citizen titanium worldtime watch. And its an echo-drive, never have to replace batteries, its solar. Has the digital date on it, and the normal digital features, and the hands glow in the dark. So yes, analog is still here, but there are lots of enhancements to standard "Analog". Diving, Sailing and Pilot watches are the only ones that come close to the look of both technologies, but are overkill for just a nice digital looking watch.
So, I would say the article is wrong about digital watchs. They can display analog type faces, my first casio back in the 90's did. Most high end watchs are just a combinination of both.
and it certainly doesn't portray accurately the worst things in army: waiting.. waiting.. waiting.. shitty food.. waiting.. shitty camp food.. waiting..
Campers suck.
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Proud Camper, Campers Suck, Campers Suck
Been playing AA since it first came out, and when there was no servers for the first 3 days, major slashdotting on the game servers. It has come along way, many military departments, and outfits added. The gfx are decent, the levels are nice and designed like real life landscapes. The game has a good sense of game play, attack/defend, or rescue/defend hostage/aid workers.. Nothing really overtly political in the game, other than the enemy looks like the region you are in, which make sense, Russia, Africa, etc.
But if you reference this game and Iraq, Iraq is a Police Action. Different styles of combat, this game doesnt show whats its like to patrol borders, do house to house searches, or night incursions into an enemy city. Maybe they need to add those scenarios.
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Just, kicking back listening to Country Joe and the Fish...
If it counts for anything, most of my area is powered by a nuclear plant... It hasn't really been abandoned, judging by the electric bill I'm continually served with.
All are old and outdated power plants, with no new plans for any new plants to be built. Shame, it was killed due to people passing zoning laws, nobody wants a nuclear plant next door...
Just look at the power needs during the last few year and the whole Enron scandal. There is a need thats not being fulfilled, the DOE said by 2010 we would need new plants turned, and to make that date, we need to start building them by 2003. (last year!)
So saftey is a big concern, our government has been showing piss poor management in many areas, Nanotech will be no exemption.
It might break wget, but HTTRACK will get around that.
I would use PHP and log users and their IP's. And only allow so many files per user. You do want return traffic?
And as others have said, use bittorrent.
Really depends on the cable, even on a KVM if you have cheap cables you can have ghosting. A good SVGA cable will run around 25 bux, a cheap VGA will run about 7. Theres a reason you use quality connections.
But if you are talking DSUB vs DVI on LCD, you could easily tell the difference. But on my nice Sony 22 inch monitor, the picture is far better that a 19inch NEC LCD.
You really need to see an LCD/Monitor in action, plus higher end LCD's have 3 connections, 2 DVI and 1 DSUB, which really rocks if you dont want to pass video through a KVM and distort the picture.
lol, Ya, Guess the Havok2 engine would be on par with HL2 engine, it IS the halflife2 engine.
There are lots of forums for developers and mod designers. You should try those message boards, where they hang out even irc.
Its amazing how many people start out making mods, or levels for games can turn that into a job. Lots of people are recruiting for mod help, try to see if you can assist in making a level or 2.
BTW, The havok engine seems to be getting lots of attention, and Havok2 should be on par with the Halflife2 engine. Might check into that, and get a leg up on skill. Seems most games come with or have an SDK to download. Begging people to design levels and mod's.
I know many people waiting for HL2 to get BACK into level design. It will be the defacto engine for quiet some time.
I just enable the quick launch bar, and put it below the task bar. This way you have a large enough bar for all your shortcuts or shortcut folders.
Or you could load blackbox for windows, and use bbkeys to launch programs. Nice thing about bbkeys, is you can use windowmaker style maximize vert and horizontal apps, very nice. And bbstyles are standard, just download off freshmeat and install.
I'm a tribes player that moved to CS because Tribes1 finally started to die off. With disc shooting you had to lead, its part of the whole game.
Moving to CS, the whole "instant shot" does make some sense, they add recoil and reload time, which other games dont.
HL2 engine is made for modifications, even if they dont port CS, you cant copyright the Idea of CS. But if theres any legal action, expect mods to be named COPS, or SWAT, or Police Force, etc.. It will be interesting.
Steam removed support for bots, killing single player version of CS. (steam has CS 1.6) I kept classic CS(1.5) installed for Bot support.
I'm pretty happy with steam in general, but I think they are keeping bots out (single player) to make people buy Condition Zero.
But I suspect that will change when HL2 comes out, and people port CS to it, with real bot internal Bot support.
And X is NOT slow.
He is right about X not being slow. The problem is the perception thats X is slow. X is what is visual to the user, users either blame KDE/Gnome or X.
Take a pre-emptive low latency linux kernel and run X on it, its like night and day, its smooth, fast, which proves its not X but the kernel.
Windows cheats and loads the gui extremely fast, but if you watch your hardrive light, and tool tray, you will noticed things are still being loaded in the background. The system is busy for a few more seconds. You can load an application, and it waits till after the services start.
So, X seems slow compared to other OS's.
1. Long delays to get into KDE/Gnome, and actually use the system.
2. Slow response on user input.
3. Multitasking, switching apps pause the system.
4. Loading directories in ICON/Image view takes longer than windows.
5. Lindows has everything running as Root for a speed boost.
I predict we will see pre-emptive, low lantency kernels as standard on Mandrake and Suse. Preemptive kernels are now standard on 2.6.x (well, if you check the box). And even more pre-linking to help boot time.
BSD has the same issues. Apple's X server does seem faster than both Linux & BSD. I'm only running window maker on it, so its not an exact match, but task switching and running gimp does seem more reponsive.
Could the answer be the mach kernel osx uses? Maybe we need a new suite of benchmarks for user interaction. (os+X+wm/etc).
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I code in my SecondLife
People that actually fall for this bullshit don't deserve to have a bank account in the first place. Do you honestly think the feds are gonna contact you via email to tell you that you're violating the patriot act? Go get an education.
Lots of elderly women who outlive thiner husbands, have to deal with the finances for the first time. These people make a great targets, they are computer illiterate. They where given a computer to communicate with their family, and dont know about all the email scams. And with the new homeland security daily threat levels, it confuses them.
Do a little research before you blame the victim.
I have been using a discount card for awhile, there is no reason not to pick a store and stick with them and enjoy the savings. With a family of 6+ the food savings alone is a few hundred a year. The only information I gave them was my address and phone number, already things that people can lookup, google search, or buy.
What privacy issues are you guys talking about? Them calling you? Out of all the phone calls I get, one telling me about problem with a product I bought doest seem to be a privacy issue. It seems damn responsible. As long as they dont sell my information to a 3rd party, or contact me by phone for stupid reasons, all power to them.
Sounds like a lot of over-reacting to me.
BTW, Whats annoying is the extra coupons I get when they hand me my receipt, pepsi if I buy coke, and Coke if I buy pepsi. I normally buy whatever diet is on sale.
Use the money and buy more rechargeable batteries for the Walkie Talkies. Using batteries as an excuse to go VoIP, which also uses batteries, doesn't make sense.
If interference is the real issue, look into low frequency radios with a 5 watt range.
Sounds like someone wants a project.
Wonder why we don't see a Slashdot poll for "Presidential Candidates".
Just hope they leave off "Cowboy Neal" on this one.
Lucky in stream ripper you can use offsets, for tricky stations.
Also the new patched version (check the forums) supports http authentication.
I also burn the tracks in order of ripped, so if its ever off by a few seconds of metadata, it still plays back without the annoying changes.