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Early graphics hardware was designed to texture triangles and didn't contain a bunch of highly parallel general purpose units like today's graphics hardware. Since raycasting (and raytracing) and voxels can be done in parallel, voxels are making more sense again. You can make entirely unique terrain without overlapping and blending a bunch of textures using disk streaming methods and some structure (Carmack used a sparse voxel octtree in RAGE [here's a BSD licensed example of a sparse volume octtree).

But as I said in other posts, don't expect fancy lighting and shadows until next gen cards are available (in fact, they maybe are by now, but they're way out of my price range).

Check out the cheap ride in the "dog seat". Good spots reserved for family members.

A very important and related topic is described in Three Felonies a Day

Shade, dark weater, and high lattitude shifts it downward. (Forget about solar in Seattle, for instance.)

Someone ought to tell that to Germany, which has a mean latitude of 51 and plenty of cloudy days, and generates a significant fraction of their power from photovoltaics.

Naw, who am I kidding, everyone knows that the reason Germany is so successful with PV is because they get more sun! Seattle doesn't stand a chance by comparison!

I'm arguing that even if the medieval university was a slightly different place than the modern university, the latter, as found all around the world, is an evolutionary product of the former. That's not to say that sharks can't superficially resemble dolphins. But researchers in the field have had some very strong opinions on this. One could spend a few hours in a library and find a dozen claims like that. (I've had a plan to do just that recently, what with me having interest in the overall history of education and learning, but I have to set aside the time.) You can most certainly disagree, but then you'll have to go to the authors of these copious monographs and not to me.

If the description you're giving, namely

a gathering together of scientists and educators to share ideas, engage in research, and communicate expertise to students with the goal of enabling them to achieve mastery (and in turn teach others), while reflecting on the practices of teaching and learning

should be the sole criterion, than I'd argue that this role had already been amply fulfilled by Mouseion - including the public funding, if I'm not mistaken.

USB issues: http://www.google.com/search?q...

I saw this in my VMware Fusion Pro v7 images after updating them recently. :O

Apple's QA is really bad these days. Companies really need to do better with their QA!

According to Vivendi, (the original) World of Warcraft took 4.5 years to develop and cost $63,000,000 (63M).

I'm assuming Titan had similar production values.

Other people are estimating the same cost.

Since this was a South Australian who made the quote, presumably the term "dollar" refers to an Australian dollars.
I had no idea just how strong or weak the Australian dollar was. After all, if the Australian dollar was worth a million USD greenbacks, then the statement is simply saying that the bills won't rise by a million dollars. So I checked out the price of the Australian dollar to see just how pointless, or not, the statement is.
At the time of this posting, 1 Australian Dollar's worth in American dollars is $0.89 USD.
So since the USD is worth more than the AUD, this means the newer "target will not add" $0.89 USD's worth of cost "to energy prices."
For Americans, the statement turns out to be even more impressive than it sounds.

(This, of course, may be making some assumptions about the relative values of the currencies, which in reality will probably fluctuate over the next 11 years.)

And yet somehow the state of Minnesota (and many other states) manage to define "food" and "clothing" in such a way as to result in zero sales tax being applied to those purchases day after day.

Well, yes, by their definition of "food", "food" is not taxed. It is a tautology. They define food this way:

Food. Groceries for human consumption. Candy, soft drinks, dietary supplements and prepared food are taxable.

So, if your dinner consists of what the common man calls "food", and you run through the drive-through on your way from one minimum-wage job to the next and pick up a Big Mac and a soda, you pay sales tax. That's a swell definition of "food" for someone who doesn't have time to cook his own, and if you need a dietary supplement as part of your diet, you pay taxes on it, too. Grab a candy bar and a bag of chips to go with that can of Coke during a rushed lunch -- sales tax.

Exactly. We don't have a collection problem, we have an outradeous spending problem.

Federal Budget Death & Taxes:
2004
2007
2008
2009
2011
2012

I.e. The government collect more tax dollars from the people than any nation in recorded history, still spend a Trillion dollars more than it has per year - for total spending of $7 Million PER MINUTE and complain that it doesn't have nearly enough money!?!?

Spending money to kill other people is NOT the solution to balance the budget.

Try this (at your own risk of course): https://plus.google.com/downgrade/

You may have to login.

Read everything carefully - there appears to be no Undo and Goggle+'s spiky tentacles can reach far and wide in the Google environs.

Recruiters are idiots. You're going to have to do some coding for free to prove your mettle. Open source projects are always looking for coders if you can't think of anything that you'd like to write. Something like http://code.google.com/p/kerne...

It's called a "strong selector." Yahoo and Google now both want you to "verify" your identity for new accounts. See https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/63950?hl=en

I think you can still sign up phonelessly to whatever Microsoft is calling HoTMaiL nowadays that's where I set up my most recent disposable account.

Because nVidia are scum. HTH.

Isn't Minecraft last week's news?

Not to the millions of people playing every day.

14 million PC sales, and the fairly recent port to xbox sold 10 million more copies.

Not to mention all the physical merchandise: google product search

attribution (naming the author, the license, and so on)

You're wrong, it means something different! (Jokes aside, I don't think that the astronaut definition came from Wikipedia - unless your Google displays something else than my Google does, which happens to be a Wordnet entry.)

Unix sockets are also a standard, established IPC mechanism. Just because you use such a thing doesn't mean that the way you're using it is *sane* or *comprehensible*.

Ted Ts'o (you know, the ext4 guy), speaking to a systemd supporter about debugging a NetworkManager [0] issue:

"
One additional note: Reading through the [Bugzilla] entry, the fact that developers can blithly say things like:

dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest=org.freedesktop.NetworkManager /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.GetPermissions

Is how you should debug things, is a symptom of the problem. Exactly how are you supposed to know that the magic destination is "/org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.GetPermissions"? And you say that editing /etc/rc.d files is opaque?!?
"

via a comment in his "blog" post: https://plus.google.com/+TheodoreTso/posts/4W6rrMMvhWU The post and comment threads are worth a read.

[0] NetworkManager is *also* a (poorly-documented) RedHat project. It wasn't until *very* recently that it grew a CLI that allowed you to fully control the daemon without using the dbus command line tools to squirt hand-crafted messages to NetworkManager.

Not picking a side. But it's kinda funny when you think about it:

* With an Apple device, you get regular updates to iOS, but your phone will continually become slower (planned obsolescence)

* With an Android device, the manufacturer outright abandons updating the phone the moment their next handset is on sale. (Samsung seems to be the worst about this, but, even Google has done it to stock Nexus phones.)

Pick your poison. Slow, or quick. ....then get ready for your next pill.

Umm, no. Nexus devices are supported for 18 months as they specifically say:
https://support.google.com/nex...

I've owned nearly all the Nexus devices and cannot think of one that didn't get an update to the latest OS within that time frame.

I worked at Zedo pretty early on. I did a year there, pretty much exactly year 2000 (now coworkers now know who I am).

I was their C guy, did an apache module for the adserver, and some mild javascript work until they got a better Javascript coder than me. I also helped out a bit in Java and DB work, and most of the Linux/FreeBSD sysadmin for a bit. We were in a small live-work loft in SOMA where I walked through two slums to get to work.

In the beginning, it was about "choice". We had a small on page ad client. At first a Java one, then a Javascript one, with a GUI that let you choose your ad. It was new, different, and a way to try to get people the ads they want and not have to keep huge track of users. (You can check the patent out if you like though I can tell you this was theoretical design and it wasn't built this way). It put the emphasis on the ad, not on the tracking. Ads needed to be designed to be engaging or they'd just be skipped. We kept track of your ad choices, not your pages. It was fun, true startup culture. We were going after the (then) mighty Doubleclick, railing the fact that they stored too much info. I remember tailing the server logs on our first paying gig, cheering as I noticed the URI fragment for the first ad clickthru. We checked the guys IP address, noticed he had an ICQ run webserver on his box, and talked to him over ICQ thanking him for clicking. In hindsight, yeah, that must have freaked him out.

We didn't see Google coming to crush the ad market at all. I had already left but Im sure Google's elephant sized footprints in the market made them radically change their business plan. I didn't talk to them much, and on the web I read stories about intrusive Zedo cookies, heard them called "king of the popunder" and heard stories about "popup blocker blockers". This made me a bit sad, why do all that? But I guess you either do that, or throw in the towel and close up shop. I can't say what I'd do if it was my savings on the line.

As an aside (always a tangent!) I had an 8MM videocamera. Though I filmed some stuff in San Francisco (hey Dave, any news on the video for me?) I always wanted to film us. But I couldn't both work and film. I was actually slightly pissed when Startup.com came out. Hey that was my idea! But you can't objectively film what you're in.

So... Russia Today has "reliable" news about the US government's supposed legal authority to shut down the Internet... and it gets posted in a thread about Russia trying to shut down the Internet.

Where to start... hmm...

First of all, the 1934 act was superceded by the 1996 act, which basically said "everything from 1934, but with a bunch of modernization and policy changes". So quoting from the 1934 act, while probably technically correct, doesn't mean much. I'd also bet good money that that wording about "devices capable of emitting electromagnetic radiations" has been amended to include specific types of frequency ranges, device types, or purposes. Otherwise, a crackdown is going to cause problems for anyone in possession of human skin. (Yes, we really glow in the dark. Just not very brightly.) Also, fire, magnets (and thus the Earth itself), and just about everything else in the known universe and beyond. Big fat "good luck with that".

Second of all, you linked to Russia Today in an article thread about how Russia is mulling a crackdown on the Internet. This paints you in a bad light for anyone that isn't paying you to post astroturf like that. And if you're not paid (thus it's not astroturf), then you're a damned fool for giving people that impression.

I'd be interested to know how that was done.

The cryptfs password/lock PIN issue is an open bug reported here.

Ability to socialize with others without having to worry about getting beat up

And we wonder where the internet trolls come from...
I mean, I get it. Parent want their kid to be safe. But when you remove the whole "do this and you will get punched in the face" aspect of social interaction, then certain behaviors fail to get snuffed out.

We've all seen that comic about when little stephan forgets he is not online. There's a kernel of truth to that.
I'm sure it will help socialize them to the facts of the Internet. Like how to deal with trolls, and how to ignore annoying people, and how you can't tell when someone is a dog.
But I imagine it will hurt their real-life socializing skills.

So... new thing comes a long and it's different. Good in some way, bad in others. Or maybe I'm just getting old.

Android security team, eh? Are you the guy who thinks that my phone implicitly trusting the Chinese government, Turktrust, et al is perfectly reasonable, while at the same that constantly complaining about my own personally verified CA is "WorkingAsIntended"?

No.

Android security team, eh? Are you the guy who thinks that my phone implicitly trusting the Chinese government, Turktrust, et al is perfectly reasonable, while at the same that constantly complaining about my own personally verified CA is "WorkingAsIntended"?

Also, I have to say that from my perspective as a security engineer at Google you couldn't be more wrong about Google's concern for user security. Actually, if you look at the company's track record on security technology creation and deployment, I think that point is unarguable.

From my perspective as a WiFi network administrator, for years you've been accepting any old certificate for WPA-Enterprise PEAP authentication and not allowing the users to configure certificate the subject_match option that have been available in the underlying wpa-supplicant software all this time. Nor is there any process for oboarding for using local PKIs for WPA-Enterprise. You don't even lock in the first encountered cert until the wifi profile is deleted as apple does. Despite persistently repeated independently filed starred bug reports about it. So I find that a bit hard to swallow.

Also, I have to say that from my perspective as a security engineer at Google you couldn't be more wrong about Google's concern for user security. Actually, if you look at the company's track record on security technology creation and deployment, I think that point is unarguable.

From my perspective as a WiFi network administrator, for years you've been accepting any old certificate for WPA-Enterprise PEAP authentication and not allowing the users to configure certificate the subject_match option that have been available in the underlying wpa-supplicant software all this time. Nor is there any process for oboarding for using local PKIs for WPA-Enterprise. You don't even lock in the first encountered cert until the wifi profile is deleted as apple does. Despite persistently repeated independently filed starred bug reports about it. So I find that a bit hard to swallow.

Also, I have to say that from my perspective as a security engineer at Google you couldn't be more wrong about Google's concern for user security. Actually, if you look at the company's track record on security technology creation and deployment, I think that point is unarguable.

From my perspective as a WiFi network administrator, for years you've been accepting any old certificate for WPA-Enterprise PEAP authentication and not allowing the users to configure certificate the subject_match option that have been available in the underlying wpa-supplicant software all this time. Nor is there any process for oboarding for using local PKIs for WPA-Enterprise. You don't even lock in the first encountered cert until the wifi profile is deleted as apple does. Despite persistently repeated independently filed starred bug reports about it. So I find that a bit hard to swallow.

See also https://code.google.com/p/andr...

Unfortunately, this is a total show stopper for full device encryption.

Before "terrorism", there was communism. Before communism, there were anarchists who assassinated an American president.

The FBI once called Martin Luther King Jr. "the most dangerous man in America" (and given death threats). Sartre wrote about suicide bombing as terrorism in the 40's (and thought it was going out of style! page 80).

Tyrants in the US government have always used name calling in the name of "national security" to justify whatever inhumanities they wish to commit. "Terrorism" is not new; its use as a boogey man to scare the citizenry into the creation of a surveillance state is.

of which I've to actually see an example

Let me quickly respond to that point too. One recent victim (at least at the lower courts) was this patent: http://www.google.com/patents/.... The district court found the claims to upselling to an online buyer invalid under the Alice case. http://www.law360.com/articles...

Technically, one could easily argue that the District Court found the claims to be invalid under 35 USC 103 over an electronic device in view of Official Notice that "suggesting an additional good or service... based on certain information obtained about the customer and the initial purchase" is known in the art because "shrewd sales representatives have long made their living off of this basic practice" and it therefore is "purely conventional steps that are well-understood, routine, and previously known to the industry". Certainly, nothing in the decision points to it being abstract - rather, the judge repeatedly states that it is known.

In fact, one could argue that if something is routinely done, it's not abstract at all. It's just not new.

of which I've to actually see an example

Let me quickly respond to that point too. One recent victim (at least at the lower courts) was this patent: http://www.google.com/patents/.... The district court found the claims to upselling to an online buyer invalid under the Alice case. http://www.law360.com/articles...

Basically anything with f... acid ... off the menu.

And you drink soft drinks? They're about as acidic as you can get without being vinegar or lime/lemon juice.

Apple has locked it down? So what? How is that any different from the last several years where competitors have had NFC and payment support?

When the ISIS Association initially locked down NFC, it only locked down access to the NFC secure element. In other words, third party developers were still able to use NFC for other purposes, than making payment applications with it. In that sense, Apple is far more paranoid and repressive than ISIS itself.

As a user, I personally couldn't care less about the latest power struggle between big players. I just like to be able to read my Clipper card with it. And I just like to pair with my speakers/my headset, or my friends devices, without having to even think about it (or without being forced to buy NFC Bluetooth speakers at twice the price because they an exclusive deal with Apple).

Except that's the energy that goes on top of the stack, for immediate consumption, while fructose gets converted to fat which is moved to the end of the queue.

Also, glucose goes as glycogen into muscles, blood, brain...
Fructose goes into fat, waiting for you to use up the stored up glucose OR to produce some sperm, which uses fructose.
Hmm... Maybe Dr. Shukan Tokuho wasn't completely wrong?

not a fan of chrome, but google has you covered here for offline gmail https://support.google.com/mai... (for chrome only)

Your claims that systemD is well engineered are a little eye-raising. We're talking about a replacement for the init system here, and you say the main feature is logind. That's not really part of what I expect Init to do......

logind isn't a feature with "systemd" (the daemon), but with systemd (the project). "logind" is a consumer of the systemd-daemon's internal API however. That means you can use cgroups and other kernel and systemd features in user sessions. This is how eg. secure root-less X.org is possible with systemd.

I think many peoples idea what init is, have been clouded by the fact that traditional Linux init systems were so primitive. Certified Unix'en like Solaris and Mac OSX have abandoned crude Linux like init systems years ago.

Booting and initialization of a system is quite complex on modern OS's, so doing it by modules that aren't coordinated and aren't developed with the other modules in mind, really limits what the OS can do. Having modules like systemd's, that are designed to talk to each other, all other processes and the kernel, and is developed in a coherent manner, really can remove some old limits on how Linux works. Basic things like conferring "namespaces" and "capabilities" from the kernel to a service, just by adding a simple keyword in the service config file, shows the potential. But multi-seat computing, stateless booting and "zero config" boots are either realized already or being worked upon. With kdbus in the kernel, secure OS containers from basically unmodified Linux distros, will become a reality.

I also think it is good, that systemd now will reduce Linux fragmentation at some level at least, and freeing distro maintainers and developers from a lot of non-fun work like maintaining and debugging init-scripts, while making cross distro collaboration on e.g. extra hardened "Unit" files (service configs) possible.

Here is a youtube video where Lennart Poettering talks about why systemd goes beyond a simple init system:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

In any case, in a few months, I'll have time to read the systemD source code, and I will have a better idea if it's well designed or not.

I strongly recommend reading as many relevant sections from this site:
http://www.freedesktop.org/wik...

There are also some design documents (like this old one about the journal)
https://docs.google.com/docume...

And of course more youtube talks from Fosdem etc:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I've been a sysadmin for 20 years, and I've seen systems break in lots of interesting ways. What I want is a log mechanism which is as simple as possible so that it as least has a chance of giving me the info I need even if the rest of the system is in the process of going to hell.

What I don't want is an unnecessarily (you aren't even able to explain the advantages, actually some of your "advantages" are disadvantages like the corruption detection) complex system which will take ages to debug, IF it will ever be - most software is already too complex and too fast moving to be ever debugged sufficiently. It violates the KISS principle. And the advantage of Linux over Windows used to be the KISS principle...

systemd's logging facilities are superior to old syslog in several ways. Fx. systemd and journald lives in initramfs while the system is booting, so it can collect logging info from before the root fs is even mounted. Since systemd actually have knowledge about mount points and files systems, it can also delay to the very last moment the things needed for journald to write to the log.

There is also kernel guarantee that the daemons/pid's/programs that appear in the log are the real ones since systemd have total control and supervision of all processes. So if "lp0: printer on fire" appears in the log, you will know whether it is a prank or a real message.

The structure and index makes it possible to store lots of interesting meta-data, like monotonic time-stamps, GUI, PID, command line, marks from where every boot started and ended ("journalctl -b -p err" shows all loglevel "error" messages generated last boot only). Using monotonic timestamps to compare two boot sequences on perhaps two similar machines, is quite interesting and very easy to do.

It also allows for multi-language log support, supplementary help files that can explain what the error message means, suggest how to solve the problem, etc.

Here is a list of fields in the journal. Because of the index, the journal have real time knowledge about what is written in the fields, so there is tab completion and extremely powerful sorting available:
http://www.freedesktop.org/sof...

If you care about logging with systemd, take a look a the original design document behind journal
https://docs.google.com/docume...
Notice how simplicity is design goal number 1.

If you intend to remain (a paid) Linux sysadmin in the future now where all major distro are starting to convert to systemd, you should really study systemd's journal.
It is much easier to "get" the power of a indexed and structured log file by trying it, than describing it. Fedora 20/CentOS 7 are reasonable choices to learn it on.

check out systemd's "nspawn" too: OS containers really are the future.

Like this? http://www.google.com/imgres?i... Sorry, no chest hair.

We made it that way so you can get future mod updates. There is an Asset store in the works, and you'll get access to any future revisions should you purchase (or be given) a paid mod. We plan to give out free content to early adopters, so it is a good idea to be in there, even if you need to create a new gmail account for it.

You can get the latest version here without logging in anywhere: (shhh don't tell anyone)
  https://drive.google.com/file/...

I have been in a few jobs where the managers were verbally and/or emotionally abusive. In both cases I left ASAP.

THIS. Life's too short to put up with loser companies.

That being said, one needs a financial cushion of 6 months-ish. The easiest way to do that is to skim off 10% from every paycheck, no matter what.

Remember, you canâ"and should!â"evaluate the company you work for, daily. If they "fail the interview" (i.e., it is more hassle to work there than to find another job) then it is time to Let Them Go.

If they are just going to sit on it

They aren't. And if there exists a DOS emulator for Android/iOS, you can play your Steam copies on Android/iOS, as Steam is just using DOSBox.

Android Dos Box Emu's & Mangers exist. https://play.google.com/store/...

Holy crap. First I've heard of Cortana. Googled it.. Is that for real??? It looks like Seven of Nine got fucked by Bob and this is the offspring. I can already see the protests from middle America. "Electronic boobies from Satan are sending us to Hell". How could anybody think that's a good idea?

Why haven't you sued their infringing asses, then? For fuck's sake, you should own Google now with all of their horrible violations of your intellectual property. Hosted right there on google.com itself.

P.S. => This may also interest you

Why haven't you sued their infringing asses, then? For fuck's sake, you should own Google now with all of their horrible violations of your intellectual property. Hosted right there on google.com itself.

P.S. => This may also interest you

Only one? Really? You've been living under a rock it seems.

https://www.google.com/?q=java...

We're in a whole-stockmarket bubble. There's not many good places to run.

Stock analyst Bartholomew Simpson has an idea: "Eat my shorts." If you think the market is at or near the top of a bubble, try a short ETF so that the coming bear market will work for you.

The solution is not to cancel your Comcast service (assuming you live in the United States in many of the places with no legitimate competition).

The solution is to record your phone calls (when legal). For Android, my dad uses https://play.google.com/store/...

Then post your calls online (instead of transcripts).

Lastly, and this is the important part: call your local utility regulation board.

Don't forget: you are not the customer, the utility regulation board is the customer, you are just the one paying.

Windows 64Bit: Stable version 37 is currently available as an opt-in:
https://www.google.com/chrome/...

IPv6 traffic is increasing exponentially and we are already up to 4.42% ( http://www.google.com/intl/en/... ) . My money is IPv6 is the majority of all traffic by the end of 2018 and likely during 2017.

Do Indian businessmen wear clothes of European origin in design, or do American and European businessmen wear clothes of Indian origin in design? That's piece of superstrate culture right there.