The directx 10 versions differ from the old directx in that the 10.x series provide a list of compulsory features. The old APIs had a whole fuckload of capability bits (CAP bits) that allowed a developer to enumerate over huge numbers of supported features, which quite frankly was a massive pain in the ass.
Does this card support PACKED_AND_INVERTED_7BITS_PER_MONKEY_NUT textures? Better check!
You could have a card with dx9 drivers that supported basically nothing more than base 3d operations. It was shit. Now with DX10+ you just have to ask, does this card support DX10, 10.1, 10.2? Even in a few years time there will be just a few discrete levels of features, making it a hell of a lot easier for devs and gamers. So its not like your card is obsolete, it will still be supported, its just easier to see what kind of experience you are going to get out of it. In this case the chaps with their 8800GTs will be getting a DX10 experience. Which they paid for.
Game X: Requires a DX10 card. Recommended a 10.3 card. Easy.
None of this "Requires a modern graphics card, 7800GT or equivalent, see compatibility list, list doesnt guarantee it will work et-fking-cetera."
OK smart guy, so which ones should get it? Hint: Where do the Kurds fit in?
Hint: The UN has a security council for dealing with this sort of thing.
Hint: The US is not the world's sherrif, despite you acting like a bunch of cowboys.
Perhaps they should just stay the fuck out of other peoples affairs, instead of rolling up on peoples doorstep in tanks, yelling "We're gonna free the shit out of youse. YEEHAW".
For $18 I can BUY the movie on DVD, watch it on my big nice TV, in my big quiet living room, and on that environment, pants are optional.
You mean you can put it in and be forced to watch 5 mins of anti-piracy propoganda, and for some kids movies, trailers for other fucking DVDs?
The bit-torrent edition is better again - it is the ONLY place where you can get the movie and watch it with no BS. Well, unless its lesbian porn instead of Transformers, which is still a win in my book. Pants optional.
Course it might be TRANSformers... which may count as a loss. YMMV.
(In all seriousness I rent from the Blockbuster around the corner. $2.50 overnight DVDs. The dont-copy shit pisses me off, but I can live with it.)
My Dad was a paratrooper in the british army, and he was doing some peacekeeping on some small island. They got dropped in to help with a coup that never happened, so they basically sat at their checkpoints and enjoyed the pay.
Some photographer saw one of the soldiers chatting to a kid, yelled out "Hes gonna shoot you, run!"... and started snapping away at the big mean army scaring the kids.
Course this was back in the 70s, so it ended up with an expensive camera reduced to small pieces, one locked up journalist, and put on a plane out about a week later.;)
Microsoft is like the the supplier of the little pink lapel badges. After you change your license all the people on Slashcoat are posting around saying "HAHA! Now Microsoft has to give out full sized raincoats! PWNZORED!"
Bullshit. The bus company (Novell) is fucked. Balls in their court.
The alternative is what we have. Ridiculously minor offenses are legislated in great detail. This means there is no useful course of action available to you.
Like that guy who pressed the pickup button on his handsfree. Probably some cop being an asshole, sure. Bad luck though, mate! If it was just a cop discretionally stretching a "driving without due care" charge, the guy wouldve been let off. The bloody law now has exceptions for that shit now, and his damn fine still stands.
I'm pissed off with this country constantly reducing speed limits. Know why? Because moron drivers think that a 60 sign means they have the right to drive at that speed in fog, on ice, in a bloody parade. Moron judges agree. So instead of having a decent speed limit, with people being charged for driving like a wanker, we get the limit reduced to the lowest common bloody denominator.
You seem to have great faith that a code of law is capable of being written to codify all of human stupidity without including innocent behaviour. Life never works in absolutes. When you take a bunch of hippies pulling some of their black & white facts of what is "fair" and "just" out their collective asses to justify their possession of weed, you end up with a pretty flawed premise to create a justice system on.
Heres another example: AU just had a bloke who was in prison, who wrote some personal erotic stories involving young boys, while in prison. Hes getting charged with production of bloody child porn! Because thats what the law says. Because some bunch of morons decided they needed to go and write down in exact detail what you can do wrong with a pen.... and it looks like they got it wrong, and hes facing the same sentance that some kiddy fiddler shooting dodgy movies would be.
After spending a while in China I realised that while China does do the things that makes hippies cry (arrest / imprisonment without a law covering it) I realised its a better system. Here in Australia we're madly scrambling around legislating shit like "You can't smoke with children in a car", "You can't use a mobile phone while driving".
In China the police just fine you for being a dick.
You do something that pisses people off, and you get arrested; again, for being a dick. Last time I was there I was letting off fireworks in public with half the city. The police were standing around (one of them warned that I shouldn't let off a particularily massive rocket by hand - I didnt read the instructions that clearly). The only people that got warned were some kids who were, basically, being dicks.
Enforcement of laws tends to expand to the law available. You'll get people fined for using their phone in a parked car, for example. Some bloke got fined for pressing "pickup" on his handsfree - they had to rush thru an amendment here.
China seems to not bother passing laws for this crap. They just fine you under something roughly appropriate. They also pick a reasonable fine, because theres no legislated penalty for being a dick. People blocking a driveway with a handcart get let off lightly, park your BMW there like a dick and expect a bigger fine.
We need more police discretion, more respect for police, and less fine-grained bloody legislation. Then we can crack down on, or have a War On Dicks.
I also don't have a problem with installing free codecs on the "wrong" OS simply because the EULA has the word "Windows" somewhere in it.
Somebody paid a bunch of programmers to write those codecs to add value to their existing technology stack which they sell for money.
I presume then you dont have a problem with MS using GPL code in their software even though that pesky license says they should GPL the linked shit too? I mean, if its free it should be unconditionally free right?
Stats are against you. The theory goes that when something closed source fucks up, it might not be supported. The good news is when its part of a big company like ms's enterprise platform theyre going to throw money at it until its fixed.
Worst case scenario is a bunch of remote-root bugs come up (if your shit is even external) and you have to switch the queues over to HTTP for a while and reverse proxy them.
Its still not going to make me write my own. Theres just too much shit there!
Theres probably an economic argument that applies equally to closed/open source, that if theres enough of an economic impact of a bug, or missing feature - then it will get fixed. Either it pisses off some hippy enough to get him to make a changeset, or pisses off some company enough to make a changeset. With closed source I imagine theres a pooling of economic leverage to get shit fixed (and if you are really big* MS will happily write patches for win95 for you)
* As in stupid and staggering under bags of diamonds.
certainly think it is likely that OpenMosix presents a lot of interesting technical challenges that any good developer would love to get his hands on, but a complex business system in c#(or java for that matter) present a DIFFERENT kind of interesting technical challenges!
Agreed. Higher level languages let you concentrate on just getting shit done. Obviously more support libraries are better.
Having something like MS Message Queueing is infinitely preferable to writing your own damn messaging system.
That is the theory of open-source. In practice the set of core contributors to a project are its foundation. As these people are leaving it will be extremely difficult to find others with the knowledge and motivation to continue its maintainance.
As with any project requiring something a lot more than a hobbyist the level of expertise required to work on the codebase is rare, and not cheap.
The only real hope is that a company or university using it is happy to pick up the tab and pay someone.
Unfortunately the "everyone can see the source code" line doesnt give any comfort when you are talking specialised things like clustering. I probably know a total of one person with the skill to work on such a system, and last I spoke to him he was contracting at 130 an hour - for comparitively easy (and less stressful).net/c# work.
Ok I know this is slashdot and so my audience is fairly limited, but:
Have you ever been going at it so hard you fell off? Can you see yourself thrusting away and then losing grip on your partners sweat soaked body. Can you imagine the frustration of seeing her slowly drift away just out of reach?
Down on earth we have gravity. In space the only thing that will halt your flying man-juice is some undoubtably important computer a hundred meters away on the other side of the station.
Can you imagine floating gracefully in the middle of the room, hearing your roommate at the door, and the futile (yet hilarious) running in air as you try to retrieve your pants?
Earth: Wet spot on covers. Space: Volume of small droplets.
I think I've said enough. Keep your pants on Armstrong;)
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Good news, in the US, more than 6 speakers is a public performance apparatus!
(Yes this technically does suck for people with 7.1 systems)
The directx 10 versions differ from the old directx in that the 10.x series provide a list of compulsory features. The old APIs had a whole fuckload of capability bits (CAP bits) that allowed a developer to enumerate over huge numbers of supported features, which quite frankly was a massive pain in the ass.
Does this card support PACKED_AND_INVERTED_7BITS_PER_MONKEY_NUT textures? Better check!
You could have a card with dx9 drivers that supported basically nothing more than base 3d operations. It was shit. Now with DX10+ you just have to ask, does this card support DX10, 10.1, 10.2? Even in a few years time there will be just a few discrete levels of features, making it a hell of a lot easier for devs and gamers. So its not like your card is obsolete, it will still be supported, its just easier to see what kind of experience you are going to get out of it. In this case the chaps with their 8800GTs will be getting a DX10 experience. Which they paid for.
Game X: Requires a DX10 card. Recommended a 10.3 card. Easy.
None of this "Requires a modern graphics card, 7800GT or equivalent, see compatibility list, list doesnt guarantee it will work et-fking-cetera."
After the satay I ate last night, I suggest that Peanuts in My Arse, is more than just a hypothesis.
I'm not levitating, but as the GP suggested, I might need more peanuts.
Hint: The UN has a security council for dealing with this sort of thing.
Hint: The US is not the world's sherrif, despite you acting like a bunch of cowboys.
Perhaps they should just stay the fuck out of other peoples affairs, instead of rolling up on peoples doorstep in tanks, yelling "We're gonna free the shit out of youse. YEEHAW".
You mean you can put it in and be forced to watch 5 mins of anti-piracy propoganda, and for some kids movies, trailers for other fucking DVDs?
The bit-torrent edition is better again - it is the ONLY place where you can get the movie and watch it with no BS. Well, unless its lesbian porn instead of Transformers, which is still a win in my book. Pants optional.
Course it might be TRANSformers... which may count as a loss. YMMV.
(In all seriousness I rent from the Blockbuster around the corner. $2.50 overnight DVDs. The dont-copy shit pisses me off, but I can live with it.)
You are right. Musicians throughout history were poor.
Funnily enough, its their country and they want it back. Asstard.
My Dad was a paratrooper in the british army, and he was doing some peacekeeping on some small island. They got dropped in to help with a coup that never happened, so they basically sat at their checkpoints and enjoyed the pay.
;)
Some photographer saw one of the soldiers chatting to a kid, yelled out "Hes gonna shoot you, run!"... and started snapping away at the big mean army scaring the kids.
Course this was back in the 70s, so it ended up with an expensive camera reduced to small pieces, one locked up journalist, and put on a plane out about a week later.
Actually prostitution has been legalized.
Thank you, I'll be here all night.
Yeah when I was 8 I tuned into to dad's spreadsheets on the old Amstrad 1512 using an old TV. That earned me a lecture about privacy.
:P
If only we'd seen the potential in this I'd be a world famous hacker
Mod parent +5 Ownage Against Pedantry now! :P
Nobody said you deserved them.
too long didnt read. buses are cars too.
actually i did read, and you are correct.
Microsoft is like the the supplier of the little pink lapel badges. After you change your license all the people on Slashcoat are posting around saying "HAHA! Now Microsoft has to give out full sized raincoats! PWNZORED!"
Bullshit. The bus company (Novell) is fucked. Balls in their court.
libavcodec
;)
Probably the most wretched hive of scum and villany....
Depends on the wavelength of light you are looking at. Might be 100% in the visible range, but bugger all in UV-B.
Shooting at a parachutist in the air is exactly the kind of un-manly action I'd expect from you savages.
Moron.
The alternative is what we have. Ridiculously minor offenses are legislated in great detail. This means there is no useful course of action available to you.
Like that guy who pressed the pickup button on his handsfree. Probably some cop being an asshole, sure. Bad luck though, mate! If it was just a cop discretionally stretching a "driving without due care" charge, the guy wouldve been let off. The bloody law now has exceptions for that shit now, and his damn fine still stands.
I'm pissed off with this country constantly reducing speed limits. Know why? Because moron drivers think that a 60 sign means they have the right to drive at that speed in fog, on ice, in a bloody parade. Moron judges agree. So instead of having a decent speed limit, with people being charged for driving like a wanker, we get the limit reduced to the lowest common bloody denominator.
You seem to have great faith that a code of law is capable of being written to codify all of human stupidity without including innocent behaviour. Life never works in absolutes. When you take a bunch of hippies pulling some of their black & white facts of what is "fair" and "just" out their collective asses to justify their possession of weed, you end up with a pretty flawed premise to create a justice system on.
Heres another example: AU just had a bloke who was in prison, who wrote some personal erotic stories involving young boys, while in prison. Hes getting charged with production of bloody child porn! Because thats what the law says. Because some bunch of morons decided they needed to go and write down in exact detail what you can do wrong with a pen.... and it looks like they got it wrong, and hes facing the same sentance that some kiddy fiddler shooting dodgy movies would be.
After spending a while in China I realised that while China does do the things that makes hippies cry (arrest / imprisonment without a law covering it) I realised its a better system. Here in Australia we're madly scrambling around legislating shit like "You can't smoke with children in a car", "You can't use a mobile phone while driving".
In China the police just fine you for being a dick.
You do something that pisses people off, and you get arrested; again, for being a dick. Last time I was there I was letting off fireworks in public with half the city. The police were standing around (one of them warned that I shouldn't let off a particularily massive rocket by hand - I didnt read the instructions that clearly). The only people that got warned were some kids who were, basically, being dicks.
Enforcement of laws tends to expand to the law available. You'll get people fined for using their phone in a parked car, for example. Some bloke got fined for pressing "pickup" on his handsfree - they had to rush thru an amendment here.
China seems to not bother passing laws for this crap. They just fine you under something roughly appropriate. They also pick a reasonable fine, because theres no legislated penalty for being a dick. People blocking a driveway with a handcart get let off lightly, park your BMW there like a dick and expect a bigger fine.
We need more police discretion, more respect for police, and less fine-grained bloody legislation. Then we can crack down on, or have a War On Dicks.
Somebody paid a bunch of programmers to write those codecs to add value to their existing technology stack which they sell for money.
I presume then you dont have a problem with MS using GPL code in their software even though that pesky license says they should GPL the linked shit too? I mean, if its free it should be unconditionally free right?
Stats are against you. The theory goes that when something closed source fucks up, it might not be supported. The good news is when its part of a big company like ms's enterprise platform theyre going to throw money at it until its fixed.
Worst case scenario is a bunch of remote-root bugs come up (if your shit is even external) and you have to switch the queues over to HTTP for a while and reverse proxy them.
Its still not going to make me write my own. Theres just too much shit there!
Theres probably an economic argument that applies equally to closed/open source, that if theres enough of an economic impact of a bug, or missing feature - then it will get fixed. Either it pisses off some hippy enough to get him to make a changeset, or pisses off some company enough to make a changeset. With closed source I imagine theres a pooling of economic leverage to get shit fixed (and if you are really big* MS will happily write patches for win95 for you)
* As in stupid and staggering under bags of diamonds.
I watched Right of Fist the other night.
IIRC it starred Blackzilla and Tawnee Stone...
Agreed. Higher level languages let you concentrate on just getting shit done. Obviously more support libraries are better.
Having something like MS Message Queueing is infinitely preferable to writing your own damn messaging system.
That is the theory of open-source. In practice the set of core contributors to a project are its foundation. As these people are leaving it will be extremely difficult to find others with the knowledge and motivation to continue its maintainance.
.net/c# work.
As with any project requiring something a lot more than a hobbyist the level of expertise required to work on the codebase is rare, and not cheap.
The only real hope is that a company or university using it is happy to pick up the tab and pay someone.
Unfortunately the "everyone can see the source code" line doesnt give any comfort when you are talking specialised things like clustering. I probably know a total of one person with the skill to work on such a system, and last I spoke to him he was contracting at 130 an hour - for comparitively easy (and less stressful)
Ok I know this is slashdot and so my audience is fairly limited, but:
;)
Have you ever been going at it so hard you fell off? Can you see yourself thrusting away and then losing grip on your partners sweat soaked body. Can you imagine the frustration of seeing her slowly drift away just out of reach?
Down on earth we have gravity. In space the only thing that will halt your flying man-juice is some undoubtably important computer a hundred meters away on the other side of the station.
Can you imagine floating gracefully in the middle of the room, hearing your roommate at the door, and the futile (yet hilarious) running in air as you try to retrieve your pants?
Earth: Wet spot on covers.
Space: Volume of small droplets.
I think I've said enough. Keep your pants on Armstrong
Mod parent: +5 Hippy Ownage