Add to that you can only develop for the iPhone an a Mac. So Windows, Linux, etc users are SOL unless they buy Apple hardware. Nice business model. The main reason I wont buy Apple, lock in.
Of all the apps they watched how many were mainly a gimmick? A friend of mine downloaded an app that turns the screen into a small keyboard, how useful is that? He has a bunch of other apps he played with once and forgot they are even on his iphone. He mainly uses it for Google maps, the internet browser and a face book app. Other then that they are all mostly useless gimmicks.
I dont know why the author thinks Manhattan is a good place for these towers. Any real estate in most of Manhattan is prime, a 20x100 foot lot can sell for well over a million dollars. Friend of mine works for a big non-profit in the Empire State Building, their rent is 126,000 per month. A bar in the village can pay 10,000-20,000 a month for a space depending on the location (that's why drinks are $8-12 each). Then just add the exorbent property taxes and various permits, licenses and insurances. You are spending a mint just to exist in that location. And then you finally can pay for stuff to actually live or run your business like utilities (gas, electric, steam) and other services and materials. Manhattan is a bad choice for these city farms.
I don't think they will ever really be a viable source of food but there is some promise of them being able to self power themselves and also use sewage as a fertilizer source. If they do use sewage then they need to be located next to wast water plants like the Wards Island plant which processes about 275 million gallons of sewage per day. They could be built in other boroughs of NYC but I doubt they would allow it due to zoning issues. A Skyscraper farm would look ridiculous outside of Manhattan and plenty of residents would have a fit.
This was modded up because....? The grand parent post was an attempt at humor, maybe not the best but what does jotaeleemeese reply have to do with anything? Maybe if jotaeleemeese were able to read he/she would have noticed the grandparent is most likely British not American. Hey jotaeleemeese, you mod yourself up with another account or had a friend mod your post up for you?
Ah! You sir, are very lucky! I wish I lived there now, I love the SISU trucks!
The population of Finland is just over 5.2 million (so says the CIA world fact book). I live in New York City with a population of well over 18 million! Imagine if only 5% of the NYC population (~900,000) bought 100Mbit broadband. The peak traffic that could develop from that many people would be 90 terabits! And thats just one of our large cities in a large spread out country of just over 300 million. The fastest broadband I am currently aware of is Verizon's 50/20 Fios, a fiber to the curb tv/voice/internet system. You get 50 mbps down and 20 up. Problem is it is still very new and not yet deployed city wide as of yet (I am still waiting). Some cable companies are offering 10-30+ Mbps high speed packages and future DOCSIS standards will push that up around 100Mbps.
I suppose you forgot about internet back bone links. Terabit Ethernet should hopefully enable Tier 1 ISP's to provide really fat pipes to ISP's so we can finally get more bandwidth. The bigger the backbones the faster our broadband can be. Well at least that's my fantasy. 100mbit boradband should be cake walk with tubes that fat.
BeOS did have the foundation for a multi-user system including the *nix like rwxrwxrwx file permissions. There was in fact a "root" user that was the default login name, but it want root.
I have to agree with the parent. Why cant Windows be more like Linux in the sense that we can build up the OS to our liking? I realize windows is a huge hodgepodge of code but when Vista is sitting idle it consumes 1.2GB of RAM. And whats with the laundry list of services? And why have they still not moved away from the security nightmare of the default user is admin.
I just recently installed Ubuntu 8.10 from the server CD with no server software on a Pentium 2 400 with 128MB of ram. I then installed Xorg, IceWM (it sucks but user wanted a windows like interface) CUPS and some other important software. I was pleasantly surprised that at idle htop shows only 36MB of ram used and it can comfortably run Firefox 3 and Open Office Writer simultaneously with ease. Its no rocket ship but it does the job. Even on my 512MB P4 desktop at work with Ubuntu 8.04 (built up from a base install and using Fluxbox) the idle memory usage is about 150MB with all sorts of stuff running.
The only software that should require gobs of RAM are games and media software. Sloppy programming is to blame for the bloat of today's software and an OS requiring at least 2GB of ram is disgusting. The OS should be small and compact and do its job. Let the applications determine the users minimum CPU and memory requirements.
A friend of mine is currently serving in Iraq, he is a Marine. His friends all think My Space is a proper "email" service and he is forced to wait upward of ten minutes for a single page to load.
For the author of the article, if you plan to do personal internet stuff go with what ever is indigenous like cell phones.
Well the strafe jump is a problem of design, not inherent of the game engine. Those variables can be adjusted and you can remove the ability to move about as if you were playing TF2.
Also player collision should be implemented so people cant run through each other. Bots can be used to simulate the other people so you don't need the whole school to simultaneously join a single server. Players that jump through fire should "die" in a non violent manner such as instantly turning into a spectator. Then display a message across the screen explaining that the player must behave as they would in an actual emergency. That or just "invisible wall" off the fire so they cant touch or jump through it. The former is probably better, forcing the player to behave properly is more realistic. If people wont take the drill seriously the best thing to do is make a rule stating they will not receive their grades until they pass a fire drill simulation. If a person fails because they fuck around just kick them off and tell them to come back another day. This will let them cool off and give them time to think about how not acting like a jack ass will let them graduate. Not easy to enforce but maybe it can be made fun, punishment doesn't always work. Rewarding players might be better, maybe a free whatever for passing the first time would better entice the player to behave. And not some piece of crap like a pen or mug but food (free meal(s) at the cafeteria) or money off books etc.
I have always thought games would make much better simulators than the blocky unrealistic simulators used in industry. Game engines have come a long way and today can accurately simulate, lighting, physics, vehicles, and various terrain. Plus they have WYSIWYG map editors and even dev tools to customize the game to your liking. Hell why not start a simulation company and partner with a game studio to develop accurate simulators.
I am surprised the top studios don't have a special in house group that takes their tech and modifies it for application specific simulations. A game like Crysis modified for combat training would be excellent for training ground forces such as combat infantry, armored divisions and convoy training. And how hard would it be to take the preexisting textures and models and just re skin them or change a few to make it a US Army or Marines simulator?
X86-64 is an open standard. Who is to say they could not jump in with an X86 cpu? Yes it does sound far fetched but VIA does have CPU tech but very poor video. Maybe a Future Nvidia/VIA mash up is what they need. Would be nice to have some decent embedded competition.
An all in one CPU/GPU chip could house a dual core N-VIA processor, memory controller, GPU core with a standard IO interconnect and a compact south bridge for the SATA/Ethernet/Sound/USB etc. Not very memory bandwidth oriented but none the less perfect for compact PC's and portables.
The vanilla run on everything kernels are quite big but they include support for all types of CPU's (for that architecture of course), hardware and even debugging stuff. Ever custom compile a kernel for your running system eliminating all but the drivers you need? It becomes very small. I cant remember the last time I did but I remember it was under 10MB but I could be wrong. The Core boot team has trimmed down the kernel to fit inside a 2MB bios chip with tiny X and busy box to boot into a GUI with X terminal. Now that is small.
Have you ever seen a cats tongue and teeth or rabbit teeth? I don't want those any where near my privates. And how does a furry shave? I don't want cat/rabbit hair in my mouth. The eight breasts might be difficult to design lingerie for. Ok I think I have to take a shower now.
That's what I was thinking. This is news to a degree but to call it a first is a bold and unsupported claim. What radio tech did they use that is so unique? What band, what encoding, etc did they use? They mention it is in fact amateur radio but not HAM. That could be anything.
A little more detail would actually make the article more news worthy for/. Not just "ZOMG they made a l337 radioz and talked to space men." Details please, we aren't retarded.
However, the name Vista is now such a disaster that they had to change the name.
And charge you for a full OS when service packs are free. They know that the bad Vista PR lost them allot of sales. So what better of an idea then to release Vista with a service pack like upgrade and rename it to charge you for a "new" OS. Its a rip off.
You are pretty much forced to pay for a whole new OS which is just contains patches and bug fixes. I run vista 64 ultimate now on my gaming system. Works fine save for the debacle nVidia SLI is. I am not in the least bit interested in paying for a service pack upgrade, I got Vista for free but it is a paid for legit copy that was passed on to me.
Who is to say he is an American? I also like how you were modded +1 interesting and +1 underrated for such a lousy cheap shot. You are either jealous of America or have some bottled up anger in you that needs to be addressed. You also have most likely never been to India.
That's because I'm a machine at the end of a multi-million year design process, optimized to live on a wide variety of biomass, in a wide variety of terrains, that is capable of reproducing myself and building semi-autonomous tools.
So your saying you are a satanic puppy Transformer? Yikes.
And add to that the problem of heating the interior. From what I know the electric motors do produce waste heat for the cabin but is it enough to heat in very cold climates? I remember reading/watching something about how electric cars will have to be built with smaller windows, double pain insulating glass and extra cabin insulation. This will keep them warm in the winter and prevent the AC from draining the batteries in the summer. If they need to add a resistance heater to keep the car warmer, efficiency becomes a real factor in the design process.
Its not AMD's decision to say whether or not Coreboot is used in place of AMI/Award/Phoenix/etc but motherboard makers themselves. Coreboot has to be stable and fully support all the chipsets, CPU's, hardware and operating systems attached to that board. And on top of that it has to have a full tool kit to enable the maker to easily customize the bios for their exact board configuration.
But I will add that I too have been eagerly awaiting a free open source BIOS that will ship on mainstream boards. Problems can be fixed by the community instead of waiting for BIOS/board makers to issue patches (and we all know how long that can take). Fun part is I have seen Coreboot running TinyX and Busybox in a 2MB bios flash chip. Would be nice to have a bios that can run memtest86 right out of the box to ensure the memory is working without the need for boot devices. And it could be even better if they give you disk check utilities, ghosting tools and even user addable utilities right on the bios. It could allow extra space so you could install clustering node software so you remove the need for a boot device and OS. It could even run software right off a disk or flash drive instead of installing to the flash chip keeping the flash chip write protected. Hell even grub or another boot loader can be right on the bios instead of the disk.
Why is this being passed again? How many "evil camera phone predators" are there? How many reported cases of camera phone peeping are known? Is it such a problem that time has to be wasted passing a stupid law like this?
Camera phone quality is (in some cases) lacking whereas digital cameras have excellent quality and can be set to mute the click sound. Will digital cameras be required to have a mandatory tone next?
Argh! Why do they pen these brain dead laws? They can not and will not stop determined individuals.
Yea instead of giving everyone grenades they just made a class dedicated to spamming the shit out the map (Demo Man). KA-BOOM!
I cant wait for the updates. I definitely want to see them bring back the "hunted" play mode and also give us more than one hunted map. I used to play hunted allot but the map was boring after a while and community made escort maps were terribly un-balanced or plain sucked. I also want to see the new game mode they are coming out with, I really like the addition of the payload maps like goldrush.
I really wish they would introduce an automatic team balancer to prevent team stacking. One thing that annoys me is when you join one of your favorite servers and find you can only join a team full of newbies and bad players. Meanwhile the other team has three to five top players that have scores triple of your top players. It discourages people and they leave. It might be bad for clans who want to play together so make it a option. Real professional clans should know better then to team stack because it discourages the other team and players leave ruining the game. But there are plenty of clans who think they are all hot shit and don't give a damn. Plenty of times I have kindly asked clans to split up and help my team and wind up getting cursed out.
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Apparently Linux devices was running their site on this thing and it melted to the wall.
Add to that you can only develop for the iPhone an a Mac. So Windows, Linux, etc users are SOL unless they buy Apple hardware. Nice business model. The main reason I wont buy Apple, lock in.
Of all the apps they watched how many were mainly a gimmick? A friend of mine downloaded an app that turns the screen into a small keyboard, how useful is that? He has a bunch of other apps he played with once and forgot they are even on his iphone. He mainly uses it for Google maps, the internet browser and a face book app. Other then that they are all mostly useless gimmicks.
I dont know why the author thinks Manhattan is a good place for these towers. Any real estate in most of Manhattan is prime, a 20x100 foot lot can sell for well over a million dollars. Friend of mine works for a big non-profit in the Empire State Building, their rent is 126,000 per month. A bar in the village can pay 10,000-20,000 a month for a space depending on the location (that's why drinks are $8-12 each). Then just add the exorbent property taxes and various permits, licenses and insurances. You are spending a mint just to exist in that location. And then you finally can pay for stuff to actually live or run your business like utilities (gas, electric, steam) and other services and materials. Manhattan is a bad choice for these city farms.
I don't think they will ever really be a viable source of food but there is some promise of them being able to self power themselves and also use sewage as a fertilizer source. If they do use sewage then they need to be located next to wast water plants like the Wards Island plant which processes about 275 million gallons of sewage per day. They could be built in other boroughs of NYC but I doubt they would allow it due to zoning issues. A Skyscraper farm would look ridiculous outside of Manhattan and plenty of residents would have a fit.
This was modded up because....? The grand parent post was an attempt at humor, maybe not the best but what does jotaeleemeese reply have to do with anything? Maybe if jotaeleemeese were able to read he/she would have noticed the grandparent is most likely British not American. Hey jotaeleemeese, you mod yourself up with another account or had a friend mod your post up for you?
Ah! You sir, are very lucky! I wish I lived there now, I love the SISU trucks!
The population of Finland is just over 5.2 million (so says the CIA world fact book). I live in New York City with a population of well over 18 million! Imagine if only 5% of the NYC population (~900,000) bought 100Mbit broadband. The peak traffic that could develop from that many people would be 90 terabits! And thats just one of our large cities in a large spread out country of just over 300 million. The fastest broadband I am currently aware of is Verizon's 50/20 Fios, a fiber to the curb tv/voice/internet system. You get 50 mbps down and 20 up. Problem is it is still very new and not yet deployed city wide as of yet (I am still waiting). Some cable companies are offering 10-30+ Mbps high speed packages and future DOCSIS standards will push that up around 100Mbps.
I suppose you forgot about internet back bone links. Terabit Ethernet should hopefully enable Tier 1 ISP's to provide really fat pipes to ISP's so we can finally get more bandwidth. The bigger the backbones the faster our broadband can be. Well at least that's my fantasy. 100mbit boradband should be cake walk with tubes that fat.
BeOS did have the foundation for a multi-user system including the *nix like rwxrwxrwx file permissions. There was in fact a "root" user that was the default login name, but it want root.
I have to agree with the parent. Why cant Windows be more like Linux in the sense that we can build up the OS to our liking? I realize windows is a huge hodgepodge of code but when Vista is sitting idle it consumes 1.2GB of RAM. And whats with the laundry list of services? And why have they still not moved away from the security nightmare of the default user is admin.
I just recently installed Ubuntu 8.10 from the server CD with no server software on a Pentium 2 400 with 128MB of ram. I then installed Xorg, IceWM (it sucks but user wanted a windows like interface) CUPS and some other important software. I was pleasantly surprised that at idle htop shows only 36MB of ram used and it can comfortably run Firefox 3 and Open Office Writer simultaneously with ease. Its no rocket ship but it does the job. Even on my 512MB P4 desktop at work with Ubuntu 8.04 (built up from a base install and using Fluxbox) the idle memory usage is about 150MB with all sorts of stuff running.
The only software that should require gobs of RAM are games and media software. Sloppy programming is to blame for the bloat of today's software and an OS requiring at least 2GB of ram is disgusting. The OS should be small and compact and do its job. Let the applications determine the users minimum CPU and memory requirements.
A friend of mine is currently serving in Iraq, he is a Marine. His friends all think My Space is a proper "email" service and he is forced to wait upward of ten minutes for a single page to load.
For the author of the article, if you plan to do personal internet stuff go with what ever is indigenous like cell phones.
Well the strafe jump is a problem of design, not inherent of the game engine. Those variables can be adjusted and you can remove the ability to move about as if you were playing TF2.
Also player collision should be implemented so people cant run through each other. Bots can be used to simulate the other people so you don't need the whole school to simultaneously join a single server. Players that jump through fire should "die" in a non violent manner such as instantly turning into a spectator. Then display a message across the screen explaining that the player must behave as they would in an actual emergency. That or just "invisible wall" off the fire so they cant touch or jump through it. The former is probably better, forcing the player to behave properly is more realistic. If people wont take the drill seriously the best thing to do is make a rule stating they will not receive their grades until they pass a fire drill simulation. If a person fails because they fuck around just kick them off and tell them to come back another day. This will let them cool off and give them time to think about how not acting like a jack ass will let them graduate. Not easy to enforce but maybe it can be made fun, punishment doesn't always work. Rewarding players might be better, maybe a free whatever for passing the first time would better entice the player to behave. And not some piece of crap like a pen or mug but food (free meal(s) at the cafeteria) or money off books etc.
I have always thought games would make much better simulators than the blocky unrealistic simulators used in industry. Game engines have come a long way and today can accurately simulate, lighting, physics, vehicles, and various terrain. Plus they have WYSIWYG map editors and even dev tools to customize the game to your liking. Hell why not start a simulation company and partner with a game studio to develop accurate simulators.
I am surprised the top studios don't have a special in house group that takes their tech and modifies it for application specific simulations. A game like Crysis modified for combat training would be excellent for training ground forces such as combat infantry, armored divisions and convoy training. And how hard would it be to take the preexisting textures and models and just re skin them or change a few to make it a US Army or Marines simulator?
X86-64 is an open standard. Who is to say they could not jump in with an X86 cpu? Yes it does sound far fetched but VIA does have CPU tech but very poor video. Maybe a Future Nvidia/VIA mash up is what they need. Would be nice to have some decent embedded competition.
An all in one CPU/GPU chip could house a dual core N-VIA processor, memory controller, GPU core with a standard IO interconnect and a compact south bridge for the SATA/Ethernet/Sound/USB etc. Not very memory bandwidth oriented but none the less perfect for compact PC's and portables.
The vanilla run on everything kernels are quite big but they include support for all types of CPU's (for that architecture of course), hardware and even debugging stuff. Ever custom compile a kernel for your running system eliminating all but the drivers you need? It becomes very small. I cant remember the last time I did but I remember it was under 10MB but I could be wrong. The Core boot team has trimmed down the kernel to fit inside a 2MB bios chip with tiny X and busy box to boot into a GUI with X terminal. Now that is small.
Have you ever seen a cats tongue and teeth or rabbit teeth? I don't want those any where near my privates. And how does a furry shave? I don't want cat/rabbit hair in my mouth. The eight breasts might be difficult to design lingerie for. Ok I think I have to take a shower now.
That's what I was thinking. This is news to a degree but to call it a first is a bold and unsupported claim. What radio tech did they use that is so unique? What band, what encoding, etc did they use? They mention it is in fact amateur radio but not HAM. That could be anything.
A little more detail would actually make the article more news worthy for /. Not just "ZOMG they made a l337 radioz and talked to space men." Details please, we aren't retarded.
The hacks are the ones selling dope, cellphones, cigarettes, etc. Why would they let a person under their control make money?
Well no Arabs live there so we can just walk in and take it.
However, the name Vista is now such a disaster that they had to change the name.
And charge you for a full OS when service packs are free. They know that the bad Vista PR lost them allot of sales. So what better of an idea then to release Vista with a service pack like upgrade and rename it to charge you for a "new" OS. Its a rip off.
You are pretty much forced to pay for a whole new OS which is just contains patches and bug fixes. I run vista 64 ultimate now on my gaming system. Works fine save for the debacle nVidia SLI is. I am not in the least bit interested in paying for a service pack upgrade, I got Vista for free but it is a paid for legit copy that was passed on to me.
Who is to say he is an American? I also like how you were modded +1 interesting and +1 underrated for such a lousy cheap shot. You are either jealous of America or have some bottled up anger in you that needs to be addressed. You also have most likely never been to India.
They will be, OpenCL was developed by Apple. Would not make sense to have one and not the other.
That's because I'm a machine at the end of a multi-million year design process, optimized to live on a wide variety of biomass, in a wide variety of terrains, that is capable of reproducing myself and building semi-autonomous tools.
So your saying you are a satanic puppy Transformer? Yikes.
And add to that the problem of heating the interior. From what I know the electric motors do produce waste heat for the cabin but is it enough to heat in very cold climates? I remember reading/watching something about how electric cars will have to be built with smaller windows, double pain insulating glass and extra cabin insulation. This will keep them warm in the winter and prevent the AC from draining the batteries in the summer. If they need to add a resistance heater to keep the car warmer, efficiency becomes a real factor in the design process.
Its not AMD's decision to say whether or not Coreboot is used in place of AMI/Award/Phoenix/etc but motherboard makers themselves. Coreboot has to be stable and fully support all the chipsets, CPU's, hardware and operating systems attached to that board. And on top of that it has to have a full tool kit to enable the maker to easily customize the bios for their exact board configuration.
But I will add that I too have been eagerly awaiting a free open source BIOS that will ship on mainstream boards. Problems can be fixed by the community instead of waiting for BIOS/board makers to issue patches (and we all know how long that can take). Fun part is I have seen Coreboot running TinyX and Busybox in a 2MB bios flash chip. Would be nice to have a bios that can run memtest86 right out of the box to ensure the memory is working without the need for boot devices. And it could be even better if they give you disk check utilities, ghosting tools and even user addable utilities right on the bios. It could allow extra space so you could install clustering node software so you remove the need for a boot device and OS. It could even run software right off a disk or flash drive instead of installing to the flash chip keeping the flash chip write protected. Hell even grub or another boot loader can be right on the bios instead of the disk.
Why is this being passed again? How many "evil camera phone predators" are there? How many reported cases of camera phone peeping are known? Is it such a problem that time has to be wasted passing a stupid law like this?
Camera phone quality is (in some cases) lacking whereas digital cameras have excellent quality and can be set to mute the click sound. Will digital cameras be required to have a mandatory tone next?
Argh! Why do they pen these brain dead laws? They can not and will not stop determined individuals.
Yea instead of giving everyone grenades they just made a class dedicated to spamming the shit out the map (Demo Man). KA-BOOM!
I cant wait for the updates. I definitely want to see them bring back the "hunted" play mode and also give us more than one hunted map. I used to play hunted allot but the map was boring after a while and community made escort maps were terribly un-balanced or plain sucked. I also want to see the new game mode they are coming out with, I really like the addition of the payload maps like goldrush.
I really wish they would introduce an automatic team balancer to prevent team stacking. One thing that annoys me is when you join one of your favorite servers and find you can only join a team full of newbies and bad players. Meanwhile the other team has three to five top players that have scores triple of your top players. It discourages people and they leave. It might be bad for clans who want to play together so make it a option. Real professional clans should know better then to team stack because it discourages the other team and players leave ruining the game. But there are plenty of clans who think they are all hot shit and don't give a damn. Plenty of times I have kindly asked clans to split up and help my team and wind up getting cursed out.