I should clarify, I meant "healthy FUD" in terms of Nintendo, not the users. It's still FUD and I think all FUD is evil, but they're asserting a bit of control to remind everyone that it's meant to be a platform, and that they aren't in the business of selling Linux boxes or something that becomes associated with "safe and easy to pirate". I still respect them for maintaining quality above all and warning users with the hack installed that they don't have to upgrade.
You know, I don't think Nintendo were really serious about "blocking homebrew on the Wii once and for all" with this update. From what I've read the system files were datestamped months ago, implying rigorous testing and a philosophy above all of not bricking any wiis even where the exploit was installed. Given that effort, I don't think they could have been stupid enough to think they were permanently closing anything.
I think it's just a token effort to say they disapprove of doing things the non-Nintendo way (a fair enough position if you're proud of your product), and maintaining a healthy level of FUD about third-party code that isn't based on any official API for the wii.
This is an example to keep in mind when people bandy about the argument that "war is necessary because everything we know and love comes from military spending", and that without the military there'd be zero progress in any unrelated industry.
It's OK - I believe IBM has got this technology in AIX 6, so Microsoft can spread all the patent FUD they want, if they get sue-happy they'll have to take on a corporation with good experience slapping patent trolls down.
If you're really asking that question honestly, the answer is simple - artificial meat can be made more cheaply than animal meat.
When you have large factories producing the stuff, you can turn plant matter or whatever into meat without the whole digestive system, without producing all the other tissues in an animal, and without all the energy required for living.
If you can cheaply produce a food so energy- and nutrient-dense as meat, that's a big step to solving your first problem, world hunger. Cut that down, and it'll have direct effects on world disease, and follow-on effects on war.
Hey, now that's not a bad idea you're onto. Consider: - In a tense situation, bad guys are relatively unlikely to shoot human cops - Police may want the most flexibility/control over a situation - Throw in some targets that harass the stressed bad guys but, if shot, don't hurt cops - Use gunfire as "direct threat" justification for moving in and blowing 'em away
If I can make something with 79 electrons, 79 protons and 79 neutrons out of my basement we will have a real crisis on our hands.
1. Develop technology to reach far away rocks (ie. a frickin' Mars Rover).
2. Learn more about doing stuff with far away rocks (ie. continue funding Mars Rovers).
3. Find a far away rock loaded with platinum, or as in your example, gold. The frickin' asteroid belt a bit past Mars is a good place to look.
4. Using über knowledge of far-away rock manipulation, transport megatonnes of platinum or gold to Earth.
5. Financial chaos!!
6. ???
7. Profit!
I don't get the comments that say RTS games require a mouse, but FPSes are good with the Metroid3-style controls - the wiimote is a POINTER, so how can it not be used for RTSes? You even get 2 more independent axes in the nunchuck for map rotation/panning, as well the motion sensitivity if you can think of a way to control your game with it. A turn-based strategy game like Civ IV would make a great proof of concept/experiment for the idea.
Exactly - one of the cool things I've been using recently on Linux is the cluster management built into dvd::rip, a frontend for transcode - on a many-cpu system you can do the same thing to chunk up audio/video processing. I always think it a bit naive when PC hardware reviewers review quad-core CPUs or 8-core systems against their fewer-core counterparts, and throw in processing tests that can be easily parallelised but aren't.
Hmm, it appears the lolcatoms are upgrading my brain, and haven't got around to restoring the distinction between HTML and square-bracketed forum code:/
IBM lets you purchase CPUs in such a way that you don't have them forever, especially with their newer stuff. I'm sure they'd like to sell you all the hardware you need for your current peak requirements, but competition has made them a bit friendlier than that.
As for the failed hardware bit, it all happens automagically and dynamically when the system's running - presumably after an OS crash, but you don't (directly) pay for hardware that doesn't work.
I don't see it happening with other vendors for personal computing though.
Actual software quality aside, I'd hope Microsoft is using its experience with OSes to implement this sudden shutdown has a suspend-to-disk type operation (or suspend to RAM if all else fails) - many games aren't designed around constant save points, and if these things are going to throw away hours of hard-earned work, I can see tons more kids going postal in the future:/
Also, I find placeholder code to be difficult to read, and difficult to comment to make it easier to read. Fair enough, so obviously the CPU improvement you'd get from caching compiled statements isn't worth it? I don't know much about the internals of mysql, but I've seen one or two badly-written apps peg their DB servers' CPUs just compiling bazillions of queries, where placeholders would solve the problem.
I'm running Beryl on Ubunty Feisty, and I had the same annoyance as well (waiting a few hundred milliseconds for window movement to quiesce).
Solution: turn off wobbly windows, keep the cube and the excellent "expose" features, and have the UI speedup associated with offloading texture painting to graphics hardware.
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"Making cool" is extremely power-intensive when you want to go down to those temperatures.
So you "make cool" some hydrogen in a very efficient factory, and pour it on the power lines...
I should clarify, I meant "healthy FUD" in terms of Nintendo, not the users. It's still FUD and I think all FUD is evil, but they're asserting a bit of control to remind everyone that it's meant to be a platform, and that they aren't in the business of selling Linux boxes or something that becomes associated with "safe and easy to pirate". I still respect them for maintaining quality above all and warning users with the hack installed that they don't have to upgrade.
You know, I don't think Nintendo were really serious about "blocking homebrew on the Wii once and for all" with this update. From what I've read the system files were datestamped months ago, implying rigorous testing and a philosophy above all of not bricking any wiis even where the exploit was installed. Given that effort, I don't think they could have been stupid enough to think they were permanently closing anything. I think it's just a token effort to say they disapprove of doing things the non-Nintendo way (a fair enough position if you're proud of your product), and maintaining a healthy level of FUD about third-party code that isn't based on any official API for the wii.
This is an example to keep in mind when people bandy about the argument that "war is necessary because everything we know and love comes from military spending", and that without the military there'd be zero progress in any unrelated industry.
Of course, ET'll be using transport-layer encryption we've never seen, so it'll just look like random noise and we'll dismiss aliens again :)
Yes, but if you have anything from Universe/Multiverse it'll still need to access the Internet: http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/upgrading
It's OK - I believe IBM has got this technology in AIX 6, so Microsoft can spread all the patent FUD they want, if they get sue-happy they'll have to take on a corporation with good experience slapping patent trolls down.
If you're really asking that question honestly, the answer is simple - artificial meat can be made more cheaply than animal meat.
When you have large factories producing the stuff, you can turn plant matter or whatever into meat without the whole digestive system, without producing all the other tissues in an animal, and without all the energy required for living.
If you can cheaply produce a food so energy- and nutrient-dense as meat, that's a big step to solving your first problem, world hunger. Cut that down, and it'll have direct effects on world disease, and follow-on effects on war.
Hey, now that's not a bad idea you're onto. Consider:
- In a tense situation, bad guys are relatively unlikely to shoot human cops
- Police may want the most flexibility/control over a situation
- Throw in some targets that harass the stressed bad guys but, if shot, don't hurt cops
- Use gunfire as "direct threat" justification for moving in and blowing 'em away
1. Develop technology to reach far away rocks (ie. a frickin' Mars Rover).
2. Learn more about doing stuff with far away rocks (ie. continue funding Mars Rovers).
3. Find a far away rock loaded with platinum, or as in your example, gold. The frickin' asteroid belt a bit past Mars is a good place to look.
4. Using über knowledge of far-away rock manipulation, transport megatonnes of platinum or gold to Earth.
5. Financial chaos!!
6. ???
7. Profit!
I thought Novell were MS-friendly these days? Does this mean I can run OpenSUSE now?
I don't get the comments that say RTS games require a mouse, but FPSes are good with the Metroid3-style controls - the wiimote is a POINTER, so how can it not be used for RTSes? You even get 2 more independent axes in the nunchuck for map rotation/panning, as well the motion sensitivity if you can think of a way to control your game with it. A turn-based strategy game like Civ IV would make a great proof of concept/experiment for the idea.
Exactly - one of the cool things I've been using recently on Linux is the cluster management built into dvd::rip, a frontend for transcode - on a many-cpu system you can do the same thing to chunk up audio/video processing. I always think it a bit naive when PC hardware reviewers review quad-core CPUs or 8-core systems against their fewer-core counterparts, and throw in processing tests that can be easily parallelised but aren't.
Hmm, it appears the lolcatoms are upgrading my brain, and haven't got around to restoring the distinction between HTML and square-bracketed forum code :/
...and even [i]THAT[/i] didn't work (cf. Atlantis)
IBM lets you purchase CPUs in such a way that you don't have them forever, especially with their newer stuff. I'm sure they'd like to sell you all the hardware you need for your current peak requirements, but competition has made them a bit friendlier than that.
As for the failed hardware bit, it all happens automagically and dynamically when the system's running - presumably after an OS crash, but you don't (directly) pay for hardware that doesn't work.
I don't see it happening with other vendors for personal computing though.
...unfortunately Apple doesn't have an "OSX sid" that you can track for free if you want this stuff :)
What!? This license is meant for software that runs on Tomcat, not Tomcat itself. It's meant for Livejournal and Slashdot, not PHP and Perl.
Isn't plasma hot? ie:
1. Shoot radar-guided missile
2. Shoot heat-seeking missile
3. ???
4. Kaboom!
Actual software quality aside, I'd hope Microsoft is using its experience with OSes to implement this sudden shutdown has a suspend-to-disk type operation (or suspend to RAM if all else fails) - many games aren't designed around constant save points, and if these things are going to throw away hours of hard-earned work, I can see tons more kids going postal in the future :/
I'd rather have a 300-digit uid that was the multiple of two large primes
Twah? The scandal bit is where they then discuss things such as using DoS attacks on third-party computers to achieve their aims.
Exactly - Vista is hurting them because it's a relatively crap OS, and they want to make it even worse!?
I'm running Beryl on Ubunty Feisty, and I had the same annoyance as well (waiting a few hundred milliseconds for window movement to quiesce).
Solution: turn off wobbly windows, keep the cube and the excellent "expose" features, and have the UI speedup associated with offloading texture painting to graphics hardware.