So how does Aqua improve on the original Mac interface? By making windows slither across the screen at the cost of several MFLOPS? I have seen a number of examples of Aqua 'at work' and the main difference is they re-arranged the buttons on windows and special effects.
I just thinks it's silly to upgrade the old Mac interface only to add pretty colours. The concept behind display PDF is pretty cool though...
Aqua looks good aesthetically, but I'm not sure if any enhancements were made as to ease of use. The only new thing that I have seen was the pseudo-taskbar thing at the bottom.
Personally I think Enlightenment already provides more than enough eye candy.
In case you hadn't noticed, the whole scientific system of today is based on 'socialism', or more precisely, peer-review. You share your discoveries with everyone else and they criticize and use your ideas. Works well in acadamia, but I don't think it could make anyone rich.
Actually it is very good that the DeCSS people are NOT charging any money! Although this would mean that there would be possible monetary damages, there are many trade secret laws which would more clearly favor the plaintiffs if the defendents were making monetary gains.
For more info on the Trade Secret issue, check out: This link
I'm guessing that vectorizable loops are loops in which one iteration doesn't depend on the previous ones. Thus the tasks that were formerly done one after another could all be done at the same time.
PDF is about as open a standard as you can get. There are a bunch of FREE & OPEN utils for *nix that allow creation of PDFs. Also the complete PDF file format is documented on Adobe's web site.
Remember, postscript was invented by Adobe also, yet it is pretty damn open and standard.
This is exactly the same as the Scientology case. The person who posted the trade secrets to Usenet was liable, but not anyone who downloaded the information or any use later, since it was no longer a trade secret.
The moral of this story: spread the source code as far and wide as possible. The MPAA lawyers have been careful to state that the code has not been widespread.
What's even better is that the other lose from the i820 deal, Rambus is now trying to sue makers of SDRAM. Beautiful. Two companies fuck up and then lash out by sueing everybody in sight who makes successful products.
Evidently you haven't been reading much of the Crusoe propaganda. They don't want anyone to access the native instruction set so that they can change the chip core without having to worry about legacy apps. Imagine a chip that could go from pure CISC to RISC without having to change the apps. In this way the hardware implementation is decoupled from the instruction set interface.
Pretty neat, but I haven't seen any real mention of emulating any architectures other than x86.
What a surprise! Security via concensus doesn't work. Just because you and your buddies decide to repsect a bit in a file, don't be surprised when others don't. And people will still write streaming content to disk, even though you don't want them to ( oh my god he's recording off the radio! ). Without decent encryption there's no hope of restricting access. Even then, if software is involved you just have to give up hope. I can't think of any copy protrection scheme that was effective without being incredibly restrictive.
This and the DVD debacle are only the latest indications that stupidity is still rampant in the marketplace. I know I'm breathing a sigh of relief.
This is obviously a plan for VA to develop 3D workstations. Most likely proprietary. Maya has already been ported to Linux, but it won't be released until there is a true (certified) OpenGL system (at least that's what I read on several web sites).
Why SGI isn't doing this themselves is beyond me, but they're a streaming media company now I guess. Go figure.
I got an early TI-92 (won it actually) and it has served me well over the past 4 years, but it has some major faults in its symbolic manipulation. Indefinite integrals of gaussians don't work at all. Gaussians are of the form: exp( -x^2 ). Although it is relatively easy to figure out the answer myself or look it up in a table it gets annoying when I have to do about 100 of these babies for my quantum problem set. So, can the 89 handle it?
If a company locked its secrets in a box with a cheap lock and distributed one of these boxes with each of its products, would you be liable for opening the box? (ok, that sentence sucks, but hopefully you get the idea)
It seems that the large corporations are doing everything in their power to piss me off.
What amazes me about this whole thing is how amazingly the 'geek' community is dealing with this issue, finally having the critical mass to stand up against corporate abuses. I predict many more suits like this in the area of patents and copyrights in the near future.
Hopefully this will remind us that the power of the corporations are eroding our individual rights, and that this appears to be on the rise in the near future. I'm sounding like Chomsky here...
Note to self: don't by anything DVD related. Encourage all of my friends to stay away from the technology. VCD2.0 is looking better all the time.
Completely offtopic, but the content of the HTML is independent of the type of server generating it. Thus a Java servlet engine can generate content suitable for any HTML browser.
Jesus...these complaints are almost as bad as the ones about the millenium not starting until next year. Hollywood fucks up lots of things, it just so happens that you know about computers so you can see how wrong it is. Remember that movies are meant as ENTERTAINMENT. Personally I have no interest in seeing someone using vi (or Emacs) on the big screen.
That being said the best protrayal of copmuters in film that I remember is Real Genius. Besides Hackers of course.
Favorite Ted Turner quote: When asked what he would say to the Pope, Turner responded "Want to see a Polish mine detector?" - while pointing at his foot.
Perhaps now the US space program doesn't have any height restrictions, but on the original capsule missions all the astronauts were purposely under 6 feet tall.
Here's a technical report on the the great work HP has done on moving Linux to IA-64: http://www.hpl.hp.com/techr eports/1999/HPL-1999-83.html I submitted this submitted this to/. a while ago but was smacked down by the lame ass editors. The stories have been of unbelievably low quality the last few months.
In Chinese (well, Cantonese) the word for 4 is 'say', which sounds the same as the word for die. Not sure about 9 though. 8 sounds like money and is suppose to bring good fortune, so you can stop wondering about Chinese restaurants named after strange numbers.
I too have read/. for quite a while. I may be hallucinating, but it seems to me that the stupid ass commentary has increased since the Andover buyout and Roblimo came aboard. It use to just be CmdrTaco saying that he wanted some overpriced toy, now everyone is throwing in their two cents and sounding stupid. I'm wondering if Andover told them to stir things up a bit. Of course if they really wanted to stir thngs up they could just bring Sengan back.
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So how does Aqua improve on the original Mac interface? By making windows slither across the screen at the cost of several MFLOPS? I have seen a number of examples of Aqua 'at work' and the main difference is they re-arranged the buttons on windows and special effects.
I just thinks it's silly to upgrade the old Mac interface only to add pretty colours. The concept behind display PDF is pretty cool though...
Aqua looks good aesthetically, but I'm not sure if any enhancements were made as to ease of use. The only new thing that I have seen was the pseudo-taskbar thing at the bottom.
Personally I think Enlightenment already provides more than enough eye candy.
Yeah, I hope he posts an article and then disables commenting. That would be really great...
In case you hadn't noticed, the whole scientific system of today is based on 'socialism', or more precisely, peer-review. You share your discoveries with everyone else and they criticize and use your ideas. Works well in acadamia, but I don't think it could make anyone rich.
Actually it is very good that the DeCSS people are NOT charging any money! Although this would mean that there would be possible monetary damages, there are many trade secret laws which would more clearly favor the plaintiffs if the defendents were making monetary gains.
For more info on the Trade Secret issue, check out:
This link
I'm guessing that vectorizable loops are loops in which one iteration doesn't depend on the previous ones. Thus the tasks that were formerly done one after another could all be done at the same time.
PDF is about as open a standard as you can get. There are a bunch of FREE & OPEN utils for *nix that allow creation of PDFs. Also the complete PDF file format is documented on Adobe's web site.
Remember, postscript was invented by Adobe also, yet it is pretty damn open and standard.
This is exactly the same as the Scientology case. The person who posted the trade secrets to Usenet was liable, but not anyone who downloaded the information or any use later, since it was no longer a trade secret.
The moral of this story: spread the source code as far and wide as possible. The MPAA lawyers have been careful to state that the code has not been widespread.
What's even better is that the other lose from the i820 deal, Rambus is now trying to sue makers of SDRAM. Beautiful. Two companies fuck up and then lash out by sueing everybody in sight who makes successful products.
Were'nt patents suppose to increase innovation?
Evidently you haven't been reading much of the Crusoe propaganda. They don't want anyone to access the native instruction set so that they can change the chip core without having to worry about legacy apps. Imagine a chip that could go from pure CISC to RISC without having to change the apps. In this way the hardware implementation is decoupled from the instruction set interface.
Pretty neat, but I haven't seen any real mention of emulating any architectures other than x86.
What a surprise! Security via concensus doesn't work. Just because you and your buddies decide to repsect a bit in a file, don't be surprised when others don't. And people will still write streaming content to disk, even though you don't want them to ( oh my god he's recording off the radio! ). Without decent encryption there's no hope of restricting access. Even then, if software is involved you just have to give up hope. I can't think of any copy protrection scheme that was effective without being incredibly restrictive.
This and the DVD debacle are only the latest indications that stupidity is still rampant in the marketplace. I know I'm breathing a sigh of relief.
This is obviously a plan for VA to develop 3D workstations. Most likely proprietary. Maya has already been ported to Linux, but it won't be released until there is a true (certified) OpenGL system (at least that's what I read on several web sites).
Why SGI isn't doing this themselves is beyond me, but they're a streaming media company now I guess. Go figure.
I got an early TI-92 (won it actually) and it has served me well over the past 4 years, but it has some major faults in its symbolic manipulation. Indefinite integrals of gaussians don't work at all. Gaussians are of the form: exp( -x^2 ). Although it is relatively easy to figure out the answer myself or look it up in a table it gets annoying when I have to do about 100 of these babies for my quantum problem set. So, can the 89 handle it?
I think most copies of Redhat conform to the ISO-9660 standard.
If a company locked its secrets in a box with a cheap lock and distributed one of these boxes with each of its products, would you be liable for opening the box? (ok, that sentence sucks, but hopefully you get the idea)
It seems that the large corporations are doing everything in their power to piss me off.
What amazes me about this whole thing is how amazingly the 'geek' community is dealing with this issue, finally having the critical mass to stand up against corporate abuses. I predict many more suits like this in the area of patents and copyrights in the near future.
Hopefully this will remind us that the power of the corporations are eroding our individual rights, and that this appears to be on the rise in the near future. I'm sounding like Chomsky here...
Note to self: don't by anything DVD related. Encourage all of my friends to stay away from the technology. VCD2.0 is looking better all the time.
Completely offtopic, but the content of the HTML is independent of the type of server generating it. Thus a Java servlet engine can generate content suitable for any HTML browser.
Jesus...these complaints are almost as bad as the ones about the millenium not starting until next year. Hollywood fucks up lots of things, it just so happens that you know about computers so you can see how wrong it is. Remember that movies are meant as ENTERTAINMENT. Personally I have no interest in seeing someone using vi (or Emacs) on the big screen.
That being said the best protrayal of copmuters in film that I remember is Real Genius. Besides Hackers of course.
Favorite Ted Turner quote:
When asked what he would say to the Pope, Turner responded
"Want to see a Polish mine detector?" - while pointing at his foot.
Got this from Esquire magazine.
How did this man get so rich?
Perhaps now the US space program doesn't have any height restrictions, but on the original capsule missions all the astronauts were purposely under 6 feet tall.
"Buy him out boys!"
Another quote from that Simpsons episode. Very amusing.
Here's a technical report on the the great work HP has done on moving Linux to IA-64: http://www.hpl.hp.com/techr eports/1999/HPL-1999-83.html /. a while ago but was smacked down by the lame ass editors. The stories have been of unbelievably low quality the last few months.
I submitted this submitted this to
You need to look in the .inf files that were provided by the OEM. They should be in /windows/ or in /windows/system
In Chinese (well, Cantonese) the word for 4 is 'say', which sounds the same as the word for die. Not sure about 9 though. 8 sounds like money and is suppose to bring good fortune, so you can stop wondering about Chinese restaurants named after strange numbers.
I think Hindus like numbers ending in 1.
I too have read /. for quite a while. I may be hallucinating, but it seems to me that the stupid ass commentary has increased since the Andover buyout and Roblimo came aboard. It use to just be CmdrTaco saying that he wanted some overpriced toy, now everyone is throwing in their two cents and sounding stupid. I'm wondering if Andover told them to stir things up a bit. Of course if they really wanted to stir thngs up they could just bring Sengan back.