About the same amount as Open Office thru the generic service which is Windows Prefetch.
Possibly OneNote gets some benefit with shared libraries being loaded if you use the tray icon.
I'd like to think that OO benefits the same from shared libraries such as common controls being loaded, but seems every time I install "open source" (huge generalisation I know) products, its some ugly-ass GTK crap that has to be loaded up:/
The collisions get turned into a set of contact pairs, which get converted into a set of constraints.
Then when the simulation is stepped the great big bloody matrix of constraints needs to be solved, which is hard as hell. This is where a massively parallel vector processor comes in (like what is inside a PPU - or better, another vector processing chip with shiteloads more R&D - the GPU).
Or you could think about the game theory for a minute. If I steal someones television I just cost my countries economy a thousand bucks. Similarily if I punch some guy in the face.
If I upload every damn movie the movie industry releases and stop a thousand people buying a copy, then I've already cost the industry many times a thousand bucks.
These laws are from the original pirates with printing presses destroying the literature industry. Now making copies is more accessible, but the laws still apply.
Tip: Its easier to kill people using modern technology as well. Doesn't mean we consider lowering the penalty.
At about $200AU a TB for new sata drives (with warranty) that means you are going to have to be salvaging ~500 gig of reliable and tested space per hour.
Bugger that off. Dump the lot in salvage for a few k, and buy new kit.
With the US economy tanking and the price of hardware at rock bottom, you'd be crazy to even be considering secondhand gear.
12 of them.... for his 4 bedroom, 2 lounge, kitchen, two bathroom, garage, two toilet and the ensuite? Troll harder.
Renting a movie is hardly a killer app. I can pull up Vista Media Center right now and hit the Bigpond movies menu and rent new releases for $3.95!
Course the shitty Australian episodes are about 6 years behind the US... should look for another provider. You know, with that extensibility thing, being able to pick a different store?
Thats what happens with GPL code. It rampages wildly across you corporate codebase, infecting it with its viral ability and turning your valuable IP in soft mushy hippy code that oozes out of your source control and frys your damn motherboard.
Oh shit, here comes the Flamebait moderation! *ducks*
I remember looking at a similar structure back when I first started playing with openGL. At that time I gave up because despite the optimisations I was making (closing off nodes as "solid" or "empty") I didn't see it ever having enough fidelity to be useful for rendering. Of course this was before I imagined half teraflop graphics cards sucking down 200 watts.
A large benefit I saw in it was collision detection. Applying transforms to distort particular nodes in the tree would also make it easier to perform plastic collisions.
Hmmmm and I was just thinking about octree operations... I had the amusing scenario of accidently hooking half the world off my characters left leg. Recursive Escher level design anyone?
You really think a tiny little turbine is going to be as efficient as a huge one in a powerplant?
Hint: They use a big turbine, and not ten tenth-sized ones for a reason...
Similarily my car has one engine, and not one for each wheel. Same for the tesla roadster. Generally bigger things are more efficient. (Excluding future techs and unobtainium).
So basically they are saying that because the *IAA doesnt have enough evidence to take the suspected infringer to court, that somehow the ISPs should play Team Fucking MAFIAA: World Police and disconnect their users if they are acting suspiciously?
Thats such a stupid idea that we should immediately apply it to shoplifting! After all, the department stores know how much they are losing due to "shrinkage" - we know that equates to X shoplifters - so we just have to go and find suspicious looking people and boot them right the hell out the CBD! Bulge in your pants? One strike! Not holding a reciept for buying shit in the past hour? Two strikes! Window shopping? Three strikes and a boot up the arse!
Theres nothing stopping Microsoft from backporting all of Vistas new features to XP.
In fact theres nothing stopping them backporting the whole lot to Win 95. Sure - it'd be a big upgrade and all, probably replacing everything except notepad.exe - but I have a legit license for 95!
And how do you know that the Reduced functionality mode is actually gone?
I'll check back with my mate Chris.:)
Chris: Fucking Vista! Its gone into reduced functionality mode and says I have a pirated version! Me: Chris, you do have a pirated version. Chris: Well..... fuck.
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Theres a few references to Adobe Flash being downloaded 10 million times on an average tuesday.
Its a gold medal when you are the only one competing.
About the same amount as Open Office thru the generic service which is Windows Prefetch.
Possibly OneNote gets some benefit with shared libraries being loaded if you use the tray icon.
I'd like to think that OO benefits the same from shared libraries such as common controls being loaded, but seems every time I install "open source" (huge generalisation I know) products, its some ugly-ass GTK crap that has to be loaded up :/
Haha. People raising families in "economically depressed" areas don't need an office suite.
Windows comes with Wordpad, Calendar, Windows Mail, etc. If you don't even have $70 then you won't be using spreadsheets for much.
Hell maybe Ferrari should stop ripping off economically disadvantaged people such as myself...
Determining collisions is easy.
The collisions get turned into a set of contact pairs, which get converted into a set of constraints.
Then when the simulation is stepped the great big bloody matrix of constraints needs to be solved, which is hard as hell. This is where a massively parallel vector processor comes in (like what is inside a PPU - or better, another vector processing chip with shiteloads more R&D - the GPU).
Or you could think about the game theory for a minute. If I steal someones television I just cost my countries economy a thousand bucks. Similarily if I punch some guy in the face.
If I upload every damn movie the movie industry releases and stop a thousand people buying a copy, then I've already cost the industry many times a thousand bucks.
These laws are from the original pirates with printing presses destroying the literature industry. Now making copies is more accessible, but the laws still apply.
Tip: Its easier to kill people using modern technology as well. Doesn't mean we consider lowering the penalty.
And how Operas $60M income from selling their browser as a product different to Mozilla's $60M income from their deals with Google?
I'll give you a hint: Mozilla exists to sell product too. Their product is default search for about half the internet.
One that only works on glass and not the bezel ;)
Its not crap. My 5 year old 24 inch LCD has a visible sag in the middle of about a px or so.
Duuuuuuuude...... can I like.... squeeze you out a chocolate log in your kitchen...man?
At about $200AU a TB for new sata drives (with warranty) that means you are going to have to be salvaging ~500 gig of reliable and tested space per hour.
Bugger that off. Dump the lot in salvage for a few k, and buy new kit.
With the US economy tanking and the price of hardware at rock bottom, you'd be crazy to even be considering secondhand gear.
http://www.microsoft.com/heroeshappenhere/
Maybe these heroes? They happen inside curly braces and protect the world from the evils of communism and linux.
Probably the usual deal.
Microsoft to Realtek:
"Heres the driver API!"
Realtek:
"Argh this is hard. Fortunately I'm clever and can use this undocumented function."
(time passes)
Realtek:
"Ack, fuck. What happened to my fucking undocumented function?"
12 of them.... for his 4 bedroom, 2 lounge, kitchen, two bathroom, garage, two toilet and the ensuite? Troll harder.
Renting a movie is hardly a killer app. I can pull up Vista Media Center right now and hit the Bigpond movies menu and rent new releases for $3.95!
Course the shitty Australian episodes are about 6 years behind the US... should look for another provider. You know, with that extensibility thing, being able to pick a different store?
8meg back then was probably a hell of a lot more expensive than the 8 gig you can get now-days for a couple of hundred bucks.
Thats what happens with GPL code. It rampages wildly across you corporate codebase, infecting it with its viral ability and turning your valuable IP in soft mushy hippy code that oozes out of your source control and frys your damn motherboard.
Oh shit, here comes the Flamebait moderation! *ducks*
I remember looking at a similar structure back when I first started playing with openGL. At that time I gave up because despite the optimisations I was making (closing off nodes as "solid" or "empty") I didn't see it ever having enough fidelity to be useful for rendering. Of course this was before I imagined half teraflop graphics cards sucking down 200 watts.
A large benefit I saw in it was collision detection. Applying transforms to distort particular nodes in the tree would also make it easier to perform plastic collisions.
Hmmmm and I was just thinking about octree operations... I had the amusing scenario of accidently hooking half the world off my characters left leg. Recursive Escher level design anyone?
You really think a tiny little turbine is going to be as efficient as a huge one in a powerplant?
Hint: They use a big turbine, and not ten tenth-sized ones for a reason...
Similarily my car has one engine, and not one for each wheel. Same for the tesla roadster. Generally bigger things are more efficient. (Excluding future techs and unobtainium).
Oh stop!
My custom CRM system has a custom field to let me know how many times I have shot the client, and vice-versa.
Wait... what the fuck?
So basically they are saying that because the *IAA doesnt have enough evidence to take the suspected infringer to court, that somehow the ISPs should play Team Fucking MAFIAA: World Police and disconnect their users if they are acting suspiciously?
Thats such a stupid idea that we should immediately apply it to shoplifting! After all, the department stores know how much they are losing due to "shrinkage" - we know that equates to X shoplifters - so we just have to go and find suspicious looking people and boot them right the hell out the CBD! Bulge in your pants? One strike! Not holding a reciept for buying shit in the past hour? Two strikes! Window shopping? Three strikes and a boot up the arse!
It keeps prices down for the real customers...
Clearly indicating that Slashdot is either a breeding ground for terrorists, or a hangout for government shills.
Theres nothing stopping Microsoft from backporting all of Vistas new features to XP.
In fact theres nothing stopping them backporting the whole lot to Win 95. Sure - it'd be a big upgrade and all, probably replacing everything except notepad.exe - but I have a legit license for 95!
I WANT FREE STUFF DAMMIT!
lol!
OH SHIT IM A DIRTY DIRTY PIRATE OF YOUR VALUABLE IP.
Please send $500 so I can expidite the clearance of your settlement to the amount of ONE (1) BILLION DOLLARS.
What a coincidence, so do I. My Passion Statement goes a little like this:
Unf Unf Unf UNNNF UNNFFF UNGGGGGGGG OOOOOAAAHHH YES SLAP IT HARDER.
I'll check back with my mate Chris.
Chris: Fucking Vista! Its gone into reduced functionality mode and says I have a pirated version!
Me: Chris, you do have a pirated version.
Chris: Well..... fuck.