Mighty impressive that it works at all, even if they're at the seconds-per-frame level of performance. Congratulations ReactOS, that's an awesome milestone.
Wonder if it's running in Direct3D 9 or Direct3D 11. Crysis supports both.
I'm willing to bet it doesn't compete with Windows for high-performance real-time graphics on modern GPUs. Context is everything, there is no 'objective'.
I don't know much about the real-time OS world though. What's the best the FOSS world has to offer on that front?
"Free speech" means that the government can't punish you for what you say.
Apart from, you know, the exceptions. Like copyright, slander, perjury, inciting panic, inciting violence, false advertising, and yes, protected terms.
Humans made an quite general-purpose AI which they then used to produce a highly effective object-recognition AI. The general-purpose AI did not produce a superior version of itself. If they'd managed that, it really would be news, as it would presumably be the start of a cascade, as you say.
Pointer arithmetic isn't a problem, as long as you can identify that the results are still pointers and you can prevent a pointer from one object becoming another kind
Right, as I said.
The C implementation that we've built does that - if a pointer goes out of range, it's an out-of-range pointer to the original object, so you can't dereference it until you bring it back in range, but the GC can still find the object that it refers to.
I don't follow. You mean pointers that point 'intrusively' into members of a struct/elements of an array? I can see that this wouldn't be trivial to deal with - conventional GC'ed languages require the programmer to carry around both the array reference and the index, whereas C has 'intrusive' pointers.
If I'm reading the summary correctly, they've completely failed to account for the fact that most Brits already believe that different drinks have different effects, and so it's self-fulfilling: they're going to report that different drinks have different effects, whether or not it actually has any bearing beyond their own expectations and associations.
you must be able to identify pointers, updates to pointers must be atomic, and pointers must not be materialised from integers
If you want to support pointer-arithmetic and GC in the same context, you could do it by differentiating the GC kind of pointer ('references', if you like) from non-GC pointers, right? Again I think D supports this - you can do malloc/free and implement XOR linked lists, and you can do GC'able objects, in the same process. I think the type system prevents anything too awful from happening, as pointer arithmetic isn't allowed on (GC'ed) references and the two kinds aren't convertible.
pointers are actually relative to a region, so different libraries can have private heaps and pointers into them
Sounds like region-based memory management, in a sense.
Get Google to implement it with Google Pay, and integrate it into Gmail. Other email services could opt-in using secure payment tokens in email headers.
The micropayments should roughly balance... just not for spammers.
Emails which don't include a micropayment can continue to be spam-filtered as usual.
You'd have to be the kind of full-of-your-self "expert on using Internet" to actually think one is better, faster, and the other being "literally unusable".
QFT. None of these browsers are garbage, and it's pure silliness to say any of them are.
(Not you, Edge. You've still got some growing up to do. Put an end to those crashes, for a start.)
Advertising isn't always evil. When it's working right, it informs people of the existence of stuff they'd like. Word-of-mouth would not be an adequate substitute. I imagine the economy would dive pretty rapidly if you categorically banned advertising.
Slashdot Mirror
Do you have something to contribute to the discussion, or not?
Very cool. The game's Vulkan calls just map across to ordinary Vulkan calls in Linux, unlike Direct3D which Wine has to reimplement.
Mighty impressive that it works at all, even if they're at the seconds-per-frame level of performance. Congratulations ReactOS, that's an awesome milestone.
Wonder if it's running in Direct3D 9 or Direct3D 11. Crysis supports both.
objectively the best
I'm willing to bet it doesn't compete with Windows for high-performance real-time graphics on modern GPUs. Context is everything, there is no 'objective'.
I don't know much about the real-time OS world though. What's the best the FOSS world has to offer on that front?
At least Wine does."
What a ridiculous perspective. Reminds me of a gag from The Onion: Oh, sure, if you're going to compare us to first-world countries, we're definitely not going to come out looking so good.
By gad, you're right!
Looks like Texas has the strongest protection, where the title 'engineer' (and not only 'professional engineer') is legally protected.
Something something sufficiently smart JIT compiler.
Like making money pretending to be an engineer, those are simply, "illegal."
In the US, 'engineer' is a protected term. Aren't we still talking about the realm of the illegal here?
"Free speech" means that the government can't punish you for what you say.
Apart from, you know, the exceptions. Like copyright, slander, perjury, inciting panic, inciting violence, false advertising, and yes, protected terms.
The Echo and its brethren are not a sudden influx of a listening device that can be hacked.
Yes they are. This remains true whether or not we all already have smartphones.
You seem to be conflating taboo and censorship.
Far less interesting - you found an AC. There's no intelligence of any sort there.
The title is misleading. Perhaps deliberately so.
Humans made an quite general-purpose AI which they then used to produce a highly effective object-recognition AI. The general-purpose AI did not produce a superior version of itself. If they'd managed that, it really would be news, as it would presumably be the start of a cascade, as you say.
Pointer arithmetic isn't a problem, as long as you can identify that the results are still pointers and you can prevent a pointer from one object becoming another kind
Right, as I said.
The C implementation that we've built does that - if a pointer goes out of range, it's an out-of-range pointer to the original object, so you can't dereference it until you bring it back in range, but the GC can still find the object that it refers to.
I don't follow. You mean pointers that point 'intrusively' into members of a struct/elements of an array? I can see that this wouldn't be trivial to deal with - conventional GC'ed languages require the programmer to carry around both the array reference and the index, whereas C has 'intrusive' pointers.
out of the TCB for memory safety
You have me at a disadvantage - 'TCB'?
high functioning end
Well there you have it. You just said it's not benign.
There is nothing 'wrong' with Autism, it is what it is.
Maybe I'm putting too much stock in Wikipedia, but here are the first five words from the article on autism: Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder.
It inhibits a person's ability to thrive in society. That's why it's called a disorder. It's not helping anyone to pretend otherwise.
1. No we don't. Science is good.
2. Sounds to me like the study is garbage.
If I'm reading the summary correctly, they've completely failed to account for the fact that most Brits already believe that different drinks have different effects, and so it's self-fulfilling: they're going to report that different drinks have different effects, whether or not it actually has any bearing beyond their own expectations and associations.
you must be able to identify pointers, updates to pointers must be atomic, and pointers must not be materialised from integers
If you want to support pointer-arithmetic and GC in the same context, you could do it by differentiating the GC kind of pointer ('references', if you like) from non-GC pointers, right? Again I think D supports this - you can do malloc/free and implement XOR linked lists, and you can do GC'able objects, in the same process. I think the type system prevents anything too awful from happening, as pointer arithmetic isn't allowed on (GC'ed) references and the two kinds aren't convertible.
pointers are actually relative to a region, so different libraries can have private heaps and pointers into them
Sounds like region-based memory management, in a sense.
Not so - the sucker birth-rate has been increasing roughly exponentially.
Get Google to implement it with Google Pay, and integrate it into Gmail. Other email services could opt-in using secure payment tokens in email headers.
The micropayments should roughly balance... just not for spammers.
Emails which don't include a micropayment can continue to be spam-filtered as usual.
You'd have to be the kind of full-of-your-self "expert on using Internet" to actually think one is better, faster, and the other being "literally unusable".
QFT. None of these browsers are garbage, and it's pure silliness to say any of them are.
(Not you, Edge. You've still got some growing up to do. Put an end to those crashes, for a start.)
I have a similar opinion: 4G still isn't properly rolled-out yet (even here in London it's hit-and-miss), so why would I care about 5G?
Do not feed the troll.
Advertising isn't always evil. When it's working right, it informs people of the existence of stuff they'd like. Word-of-mouth would not be an adequate substitute. I imagine the economy would dive pretty rapidly if you categorically banned advertising.