A religion will have its core beliefs open to all, you don't need to pay to find out about them, you don't need to sign away any freedoms to be a member.
Both incorporate brainwashing to some extent. A cult will exist to benefit financially/sexually its leaders, a religion to further itself.
I just wish Scientology wasn't called that, because it smears the good name of Science. It should be called "Cruiseology" or "Hubbardism".
IMO, SQL is not overkill. It can be much more useful and faster than flat files. In addition, there is a strong chance that this small personal project will grow, and then require more tables, and therefore you might as well do it this way from the start to avoid the common issue of extending the wrong solution too far because you don't want to change over to the right solution.
Otherwise just use CSV and be done with it. I bet anyone here, in their language of choice, could write a fairly fully featured CSV based datastore (create/read/update/delete) tool in a few hours, especially if the application just reads it in at start, manipulates the dataset in memory, then writes it out.
For whatever reason, no one has perfected awaking from sleep yet. Never had a single problem on my iBook G4... I suspect it is an Intel / x86 issue with power management. I've never had Windows successfully sleep or hibernate on my work laptop, indeed on battery power it turns itself OFF without warning after 5 minutes, and it's not a battery issue.
Why are people assuming that RISC implies simple instructions?
Altivec is most certainly RISC-like in many ways - the instruction set format isn't complex at all, it's a clean 4 operand ISA. Compare it to SSE1-4 to see what a cock-up is in terms of vector processing. Wikipedia says "AltiVec is a standard part of the new Power ISA v.2.03[1] specification. It was never formally a part of the PowerPC architecture until this specification although it used PowerPC instruction formats and syntax and occupied the opcode space expressly allocated for such purposes" - yeah, it's RISC.
RISC is orthogonal (any instruction can use any of the registers), has only a few instruction set formats with logical arrangements, fixed length instructions (32 bits typically), etc. It's not about having less instructions, it's about having a reduced instruction set complexity.
Atom + Paulsbo is the mobile platform. Paulsbo is the single chip chipset that is for mobile internet devices and the like. It isn't high performance, but hopefully it uses far less than the 22W the 945 chipset uses despite being a 130nm product. Atom + Paulsbo uses a CMOS variant of the Intel bus.
Atom is also designed to be used with normal Intel chipsets. This is one such case. For this, you use the SMT-enabled Diamondville Atom CPU which has a normal version of the Intel bus (at 1066MHz IIRC). Sadly the 945 is an old, power hungry chipset.
This CPU runs on **4 watts!** I'm not sure my cell phone can run on 4 watts in standby. The CPU in your cellphone will run on around 4mW in standby. Yes, milliWatts.
Anyway, this board comes with an old chipset that needs active cooling. That's usually required on chips that typically use over 8W of power. The low power consumption of Atom is meaningless when it is coupled with such an old ugly hog. I think that there are a dozen VIA based mini-ITX boards that would be more suitable candidates for the systems you mention.
Shame that the chipset is so old it requires active cooling. Yes, a high pitched whiny chipset fan, yay! Not.
Seriously, Intel, what is the point of bundling the lovely efficient Atom with the old 945GC + ICH7 chipset? Even the Atom chipset, Paulsbo, is a 130nm creation that probably eats up far more power than Atom itself. Where are the 65nm low power chipsets? AMD's latest integrated chipset is 55nm.
Yeah, I replace my main desktop every 4 years and to be honest I could have stretched that out a couple more years even when I replaced it a year ago. My iBook is 3 years old nearly, and I'll probably wait another year to replace that. Of course I have replaced or added hard drives, keyboards, mice, etc in that time, but they're small costs compared to the PC itself.
I have an ancient 266MHz PII HP Omnibook 4100 with 192MB RAM that I really should do something with. Although I keep on doing that, every year, get it out, stick a new Linux on there (it used to have Gentoo), use it for a few hours, put it back. Might look at Damn Small Linux.
Does that mean that the ISP will be altering the copyrighted material sent by the websites? Surely this would create an unauthorised derivative work?
ISPs that modify HTML content going over their network are scummy operators. It breaks web pages, it denies revenue to the websites, and is unethical in so many ways.
I think that ARM will be rather more tenacious than this guy thinks. 32nm will not be a miracle thing that somehow magically drops x86 (even Atom) down into a mobile phone friendly CPU in terms of power consumption and size (never mind the supporting chipset). Companies with years of ARM code will not suddenly decide to port to x86 on the off-chance that x86 will get more than a tiny proportion of the mobile phone market.
ARM in a CPU costs under a dollar to license. Those ARM SoCs probably cost under $20 each, and they're tiny and have everything you need on them. Intel would have to provide a dozen Atom variants (in terms of features and size, not clock speeds and number of cores) to even gain the interest of this marketplace. That's why 3 billion ARM based cores are created every year. There's a huge variety of options available in a truly competitive market.
People there have working CPCs, and setups to get disk images from the CPC into a.dsk file on the PC.
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Good system, with the benefit of hindsight.
Of course, at the time, we all thought it was a joke, 'cos we aren't your average consumer. I thought getting rid of the floppy was a good idea though, even at the time. Damn floppy disks.
To be honest, writing a webservice client/server is very quick if you're using Java (using Axis) but I've heard less pleasant things about PHP's support, even in PHP5.
Good luck with the game anyway - stick some screenshots up on the site eh, even if you think your graphics are primitive:)
This is all the provider's fault, because they've raised expectations in the consumers.
What a typical DSL product offers is "download speed bursting to 8mbps shared amongst 20-50 users" depending on the contention ratio. The problem is that the infrastructure can't handle modern internet usage - streaming video, etc, when more than a few people are using it at the same time. In order to provide a fair internet service to the other people who are also using that connection they have to throttle big bandwidth users. This wasn't a problem even a couple of years ago, internet use was mostly bursty, with gaps of inactivity.
Internet service should be sold based upon a minimum guaranteed bit rate, and the burst bit rate. I'd rather go for 256kbps/2mbps than 64kbps/8mbps.
Oddly enough some services never seem to have a problem. Virgin Media Cable in my area is great, even at peak times you can get 250KB/s downloads on their budget 2mbps package. Yet in other areas it apparently sucks Satan's scaly cock.
I really don't mind the idea of reasonable bandwidth caps, as long as they increase by ~25% year on year. 250GB/s is a lot of bandwidth, that's more movies than you can find the time to watch in a month, even in HD. Probably an issue for shared geek hohuseholds though.
Why not provide an application shell for these hobbyist programmers? Or implementing a webservice (SOAP or REST) within the core application server for the functions the programmers are using to add functionality (new zones, characters, objects, etc comparing to your MUD example)? That way the programmers can use what they're used to programming in as well, and all languages have very simple webservice APIs so this is ideal for them. Aside from that, it is very important that client-side online games are purely view-only, and no game logic, etc, occurs there, to reduce the capability for cheating.
Apart from corporate intranets, I can't see any reason for any consumer website to use Active X. Indeed I would assume that the site was malicious in nature.
1) Replaced FPS games on the PC with real-life Airsoft.
2) Take up console gaming, and they wanted to play GTA4 anyway. And it's neat to play games on the large TV instead of the small monitor.
3) No need to upgrade the PC all the time, deal with Windows' mess ups, etc.
4) They pirate less, but as they're older now they have less time to play games anyway, and more disposable money. Guess they're more cynical about many new games as well.
This is just another nail in the coffin of PC games. This is why Apple don't give a toss about games on their system, but appear to be falling over backwards to get iPhone games developed. One has a future market, the other will stay static at best.
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J9 is fine for running multiple Java applications at the same time.
You create a small ".lnk" file that includes your Java command line to run the application, and then stick in in Program Files, or the Start Menu, and it works just like any other application.
In my case it's because we moved into the offices only a few months ago, and the building is also quite old and potentially listed.
Any modern office building would have A/C of course. Typically this would be set up so that the A/C unit would work in winter, but fail in the summer, or you'd be working in a small sub-zero patch of the office all year round.
Hey, I have a desk looking out of a window. This is apparently the office dream, to get an office or cubicle with a window.
The sun is shining through and the heat is getting absorbed by the monitors, which make noises as they expand. I burned my hand almost yesterday when I left my mouse sitting in the sunlight.
In addition, the screens are really hard to read when the light is shining through onto the desk.
And it's an open plan office room (4 people), so I can't rearrange.
If I pull the blind down, it just makes it worse, because the blind is white, it just acts as a giant back light. Yay.
No air conditioning either, because it's the UK. However I suspect that we'll demand that soon.
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Java + SWT + IBM's J9 JVM.
Perfect Windows Mobile development platform.
And free ($6 for J9). Of course you'll need to have end users installing J9 as well which is a downside. But SWT does make the applications look Windows Mobile native, and adds in some great widgets for small screened devices like the ExpandBar. J9 is also pretty much a full Java implementation, so you aren't limited to J2ME.
This sort of thing would enable hobbyist C# or VB users to quickly get web-driven applications up and running. NO. NO. NO.
What is so hard for these developers to actually program things properly? Web server - stick your implementation there. Web browser - stick your view here.
Don't fucking mess around with embedding the former into the latter via Active X components. This way is evil.
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How much does a new motherboard that has slots for 4 GiB of RAM cost? Hmm, $75 - $125? And CPUs are dirt cheap too now.
But ignoring that, KDE4 will run on a system with 512MB RAM, and my PC 5 years ago had that. 1GB of RAM, even old DDR 1, won't cost much if you need to upgrade.
If you're on an older machine still, maybe you should change job or something.
I was hoping the new Eee (with the 8.9" screen) was going to do this for me, but the resolution is still a touch shy (1024x600, when 600 tall is still a little short). Surely a 168 pixels could be effectively nullified by the mobile device having a tighter GUI (less padding and margins between elements, slightly smaller font, etc - should be a theme setting rather than an application setting so it only needs to be done once) and making any taskbar like element auto-hide and/or stick it on the side. Of course that's not much use if you're remote desktopping... although the EeePC 900's multi-touch like trackpad will help with scrolling content in a convenient manner.
As long as the EeePC's terminal application supports the 6x13 font I'm happy. 1024x600 = 170x46 characters.
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A religion will have its core beliefs open to all, you don't need to pay to find out about them, you don't need to sign away any freedoms to be a member.
Both incorporate brainwashing to some extent. A cult will exist to benefit financially/sexually its leaders, a religion to further itself.
I just wish Scientology wasn't called that, because it smears the good name of Science. It should be called "Cruiseology" or "Hubbardism".
Otherwise just use CSV and be done with it. I bet anyone here, in their language of choice, could write a fairly fully featured CSV based datastore (create/read/update/delete) tool in a few hours, especially if the application just reads it in at start, manipulates the dataset in memory, then writes it out.
Why are people assuming that RISC implies simple instructions?
Altivec is most certainly RISC-like in many ways - the instruction set format isn't complex at all, it's a clean 4 operand ISA. Compare it to SSE1-4 to see what a cock-up is in terms of vector processing. Wikipedia says "AltiVec is a standard part of the new Power ISA v.2.03[1] specification. It was never formally a part of the PowerPC architecture until this specification although it used PowerPC instruction formats and syntax and occupied the opcode space expressly allocated for such purposes" - yeah, it's RISC.
RISC is orthogonal (any instruction can use any of the registers), has only a few instruction set formats with logical arrangements, fixed length instructions (32 bits typically), etc. It's not about having less instructions, it's about having a reduced instruction set complexity.
Atom is a CPU.
Atom + Paulsbo is the mobile platform. Paulsbo is the single chip chipset that is for mobile internet devices and the like. It isn't high performance, but hopefully it uses far less than the 22W the 945 chipset uses despite being a 130nm product. Atom + Paulsbo uses a CMOS variant of the Intel bus.
Atom is also designed to be used with normal Intel chipsets. This is one such case. For this, you use the SMT-enabled Diamondville Atom CPU which has a normal version of the Intel bus (at 1066MHz IIRC). Sadly the 945 is an old, power hungry chipset.
Anyway, this board comes with an old chipset that needs active cooling. That's usually required on chips that typically use over 8W of power. The low power consumption of Atom is meaningless when it is coupled with such an old ugly hog. I think that there are a dozen VIA based mini-ITX boards that would be more suitable candidates for the systems you mention.
Yeah, the Atom is passively cooled.
Shame that the chipset is so old it requires active cooling. Yes, a high pitched whiny chipset fan, yay! Not.
Seriously, Intel, what is the point of bundling the lovely efficient Atom with the old 945GC + ICH7 chipset? Even the Atom chipset, Paulsbo, is a 130nm creation that probably eats up far more power than Atom itself. Where are the 65nm low power chipsets? AMD's latest integrated chipset is 55nm.
Yeah, I replace my main desktop every 4 years and to be honest I could have stretched that out a couple more years even when I replaced it a year ago. My iBook is 3 years old nearly, and I'll probably wait another year to replace that. Of course I have replaced or added hard drives, keyboards, mice, etc in that time, but they're small costs compared to the PC itself.
I have an ancient 266MHz PII HP Omnibook 4100 with 192MB RAM that I really should do something with. Although I keep on doing that, every year, get it out, stick a new Linux on there (it used to have Gentoo), use it for a few hours, put it back. Might look at Damn Small Linux.
Does that mean that the ISP will be altering the copyrighted material sent by the websites? Surely this would create an unauthorised derivative work?
ISPs that modify HTML content going over their network are scummy operators. It breaks web pages, it denies revenue to the websites, and is unethical in so many ways.
I think that ARM will be rather more tenacious than this guy thinks. 32nm will not be a miracle thing that somehow magically drops x86 (even Atom) down into a mobile phone friendly CPU in terms of power consumption and size (never mind the supporting chipset). Companies with years of ARM code will not suddenly decide to port to x86 on the off-chance that x86 will get more than a tiny proportion of the mobile phone market.
ARM in a CPU costs under a dollar to license. Those ARM SoCs probably cost under $20 each, and they're tiny and have everything you need on them. Intel would have to provide a dozen Atom variants (in terms of features and size, not clock speeds and number of cores) to even gain the interest of this marketplace. That's why 3 billion ARM based cores are created every year. There's a huge variety of options available in a truly competitive market.
Ask about on Usenet - comp.sys.amstrad.8bit, and on CPCZone http://www.cpczone.net/ and look on the CPC Wiki http://www.cpcwiki.com/index.php/Main_Page.
.dsk file on the PC.
People there have working CPCs, and setups to get disk images from the CPC into a
Good system, with the benefit of hindsight.
Of course, at the time, we all thought it was a joke, 'cos we aren't your average consumer. I thought getting rid of the floppy was a good idea though, even at the time. Damn floppy disks.
Looks nice and insulated! Also you can burrow down and pretend to be away if the boss walks by!
Yeah, time's the killer.
:)
To be honest, writing a webservice client/server is very quick if you're using Java (using Axis) but I've heard less pleasant things about PHP's support, even in PHP5.
Good luck with the game anyway - stick some screenshots up on the site eh, even if you think your graphics are primitive
This is all the provider's fault, because they've raised expectations in the consumers.
What a typical DSL product offers is "download speed bursting to 8mbps shared amongst 20-50 users" depending on the contention ratio. The problem is that the infrastructure can't handle modern internet usage - streaming video, etc, when more than a few people are using it at the same time. In order to provide a fair internet service to the other people who are also using that connection they have to throttle big bandwidth users. This wasn't a problem even a couple of years ago, internet use was mostly bursty, with gaps of inactivity.
Internet service should be sold based upon a minimum guaranteed bit rate, and the burst bit rate. I'd rather go for 256kbps/2mbps than 64kbps/8mbps.
Oddly enough some services never seem to have a problem. Virgin Media Cable in my area is great, even at peak times you can get 250KB/s downloads on their budget 2mbps package. Yet in other areas it apparently sucks Satan's scaly cock.
I really don't mind the idea of reasonable bandwidth caps, as long as they increase by ~25% year on year. 250GB/s is a lot of bandwidth, that's more movies than you can find the time to watch in a month, even in HD. Probably an issue for shared geek hohuseholds though.
Why not provide an application shell for these hobbyist programmers? Or implementing a webservice (SOAP or REST) within the core application server for the functions the programmers are using to add functionality (new zones, characters, objects, etc comparing to your MUD example)? That way the programmers can use what they're used to programming in as well, and all languages have very simple webservice APIs so this is ideal for them. Aside from that, it is very important that client-side online games are purely view-only, and no game logic, etc, occurs there, to reduce the capability for cheating.
Apart from corporate intranets, I can't see any reason for any consumer website to use Active X. Indeed I would assume that the site was malicious in nature.
People I know have done the following:
1) Replaced FPS games on the PC with real-life Airsoft.
2) Take up console gaming, and they wanted to play GTA4 anyway. And it's neat to play games on the large TV instead of the small monitor.
3) No need to upgrade the PC all the time, deal with Windows' mess ups, etc.
4) They pirate less, but as they're older now they have less time to play games anyway, and more disposable money. Guess they're more cynical about many new games as well.
This is just another nail in the coffin of PC games. This is why Apple don't give a toss about games on their system, but appear to be falling over backwards to get iPhone games developed. One has a future market, the other will stay static at best.
J9 is fine for running multiple Java applications at the same time.
You create a small ".lnk" file that includes your Java command line to run the application, and then stick in in Program Files, or the Start Menu, and it works just like any other application.
In my case it's because we moved into the offices only a few months ago, and the building is also quite old and potentially listed.
Any modern office building would have A/C of course. Typically this would be set up so that the A/C unit would work in winter, but fail in the summer, or you'd be working in a small sub-zero patch of the office all year round.
Hey, I have a desk looking out of a window. This is apparently the office dream, to get an office or cubicle with a window.
The sun is shining through and the heat is getting absorbed by the monitors, which make noises as they expand. I burned my hand almost yesterday when I left my mouse sitting in the sunlight.
In addition, the screens are really hard to read when the light is shining through onto the desk.
And it's an open plan office room (4 people), so I can't rearrange.
If I pull the blind down, it just makes it worse, because the blind is white, it just acts as a giant back light. Yay.
No air conditioning either, because it's the UK. However I suspect that we'll demand that soon.
Java + SWT + IBM's J9 JVM.
Perfect Windows Mobile development platform.
And free ($6 for J9). Of course you'll need to have end users installing J9 as well which is a downside. But SWT does make the applications look Windows Mobile native, and adds in some great widgets for small screened devices like the ExpandBar. J9 is also pretty much a full Java implementation, so you aren't limited to J2ME.
What is so hard for these developers to actually program things properly? Web server - stick your implementation there. Web browser - stick your view here.
Don't fucking mess around with embedding the former into the latter via Active X components. This way is evil.
But ignoring that, KDE4 will run on a system with 512MB RAM, and my PC 5 years ago had that. 1GB of RAM, even old DDR 1, won't cost much if you need to upgrade.
If you're on an older machine still, maybe you should change job or something.
As long as the EeePC's terminal application supports the 6x13 font I'm happy. 1024x600 = 170x46 characters.