"From my reading of history, leaders are guaranteed to make OTHERS die to protect themselves... are you sure you have that right?" History of mankind or the documented history of civilisation? The duration of that didn't change human instict, you know.
When humans lived in groups and wore animal skin, leaders killed everyone that threatend the group. That insured the survival of the group. But before such group were formed, like during the process of forming a group, these leadership characteristics atracted females (and males) because that insured survival.
When females turned to males that were shy and anxious, those groups probably did not survive.
Stressed and axious people are not the typical types that lead. Leaders are more atractive because they are garanteed to protect others from dying in certain dangerous situations.
Evolution theory, bitches.
That doesn't mean that your typical athlete would ever outgrow the brains of who is too stressed to let his/her brain grow that fast.
BTW orgasms where good for about ten thousand brain cells, right? How much brain cells do you think you loose when you bang a soccerball with your head? About the same.
It all means nothing, but it is somewhat a little interesting I guess...
Got a HD5770 too, but I wanted to fuck around with the floss drivers, see what's up, because Evergreen cards without fglrx are still just framebuffers.
Not that you would care... glxgears is just a test to see if the basic 3D rendering works and if you get acceleration.
Better go with C++, which is alround. C with classes is what you need for the Mac. Linux still uses C for the largest part.
Currently the market wants: -Linux sys admins -.Net developpers (Microsoft C# runtime crap that will insta-kill any desire you have to go back into programming after exactly 5 seconds)
Nice discussion with mods voting (not moderating) the people who defend their favorite _theories_.
Just remember that when you're discussing the universe, you have to reference the universe. When you are referencing the universe then you have to keep it in the bounds of what we considder a universe. What we considder a universe is what is both inside logic and what defines logic.
Currently there is some discussion about the correct logic. What can be proven? Unless you have infinity at your disposal and follow math the way we define math; you can't prove anything.
Wehn you can't prove anything and therefore no 'correct' logic then you are both right and wrong.
When you are both right and wrong then one would considder quantum physics theory. When one uses quantum physics then one should also acknowledge that your argumentation can only hold true (no matter of it is right) in _this_ universe. That means that following this the logic of this universe then you cannot arguie about what is not this universe.
When you cannot argue, based on logic, what is not this universe then you can never be right about a big bang.
When you cannot be right about a big bang then you cannot use the big bang in your argumentation. When you cannot use the big bang in your argumentation then you cannot argue the logic it defines.
Well, actualy in the Netherlands (king of all tax-taking countries of the world) if you buy a 'green' car (labeled A (cleanest) to D or E (most polutant) ) then you do not have to pay road taxes and all kinds of other fees.
You can buy a very cheap and ugly car with an A label and then you don't have to pay a lot of extra money, which in turn makes the goverment spend less money to reduce the emissions and thus it's a win-win-win(-win?) situation (car ownerers-car companies-government(-and potentialy the climate for humans and civilisation) ).
"I would have just assumed it would have gotten "rounder" and possibly larger (elastic) due to centrifugal force" It does get round and evens out, but due to gravity the evened out band gets pulled down and the resistans on the 'outward ends' all result on a peanut form.
In case you missed it: Mac OS X 10.5's entire userspace app collection is agressively multi-threaded. Even the e-mail client runs multiple threads. Browsers like Google Chrome and now Firefox are multithreaded. Not to mention the tons of processes that take up lots of time if serialised. Now couple that with the driver for you graphics card that compiles on the fly and runs on the CPU and you might get the picture.
In case nobody does: multiple cores prevents everything from slowing basically everything down. Not to mention the multi-thread potential of eventually stuff like ray tracers and whatnot. But oh well... my clue train needs to be driven to some other place. *choo-choo*
Yeah... Feed the world exactly _ONE_ dinner. How's that supposed to help? "Oh yeah we made sure those poor africans died half a day later than expected" '>_>
What do Windows games have to do with a cross platform graphics library? The question was "How relevant is OpenGL".
Furthermore the last couple of years a lot of big titles were OpenGL. There was also a large chunck of Direct3D games (because Direct3D isn't being used for anything besides games, just to point out how much it sucks) . That was because the Direct3D lib was then better than OpenGL.
I don't hope that I have to point out why OpenGL is killing it.
OpenGL 3.0 was a disaster because it should have been revolutionary but instead it was an extended 2.1 to maintain compatibility with workstation apps (as in graphical workstations).
Today however OpenGL is way ahead of Direct3D. One of its killer features is OpenCL compatibility. GLSL (OpenGL Shading Language) is now at version 4.00 and since OpenGL 3.2 supported geometry shaders.
Now is it relevant? Are you kidding me? In this day and age of all these platforms it is _THE_ library. Direct3D is only viable on Micrsoft platforms.
Android, Playstation3, Mac OS X, iOS, Linux, Windows. They all have OpenGL support and thus anyone is now porting, if they haven't already and newcommers all use OpenGL. In fact all the CAD apps have been using OpenGL solely! All the big players and studios are using OpenGL now.
Now the real question is; What is Microsofts next move to stay in the game?
zero bars: no signal full bars: max signal in between: percentages
The signal on my phone is pretty consistent. Some areas 1 to none and switching to GSM. Some areas full strength sometimes. But always constant values.
I can tell this by simply seeing a bar falling. The further I travel the more bars are falling. Sometimes I see a bar increase. That said this m8800 has better signals then iPhone 3Gs and HTC Legend and hero's with the same providers. I can tell by the YouTube vid streaming. I'm walking from pub to pub at night with friend and I am the last one left who can play a song without stuttering.
That sais enough. Apple is still not making anywhere near acceptable PHONES. Maybe good MDA's but when it comes to calling it simply doesn't work that well. So fuck your bar story.
You could simply use it as a desktop. Linux has grown leaps and leaps and leaps forward and in many ways ahead of the Mac as a desktop, so read on.
KDE SC 4.5 (about to be released in a few days/weeks) is leaps ahead of the Mac OS X 10.5 GUI. The only catch is that it is not minimalistic. If you want minimalism you have to pick Gnome with Gnome DO and set it to act like a docky. Put a Mac OS X wallpaper in place and install a Mac OS X theme. However KDE has focussed on more minimalism since KDE4 without sacrificing features.
There is a KDE application for video editing that is unparalleled: Kdenlive: http://www.kdenlive.org/ It slaughters Sony Vegas in functionality and is free of charge too. It may not be stable enough yet (version 0.7) so it might be a little bit of a bumpy ride at first.
There is also a kick-ass music management application: AmaroK: http://amarok.kde.org/ It is compatible with iPods that are not of the latest generation (USB encryption crap)
KDE SC's default webbrowser is Konqueror, which, since KDE SC 4.5 also has WebKit support. Google's Chrome is now also runnable on Linux. If you don't like the Google privacy stuff than search for the Iron browser (they took the Chrome's source code and stripped it from any call home functionality)
Office work isn't Linux' best aspect, so you could install OpenOffice.org. It is however the best Office Suit available for the PPC. It doesn't look all that good if your distro of choice hasn't supplied their own KDE4 integration into it.
Now there are a lot of distributions, so what should you pick? The best and most stable KDE4 distro I have ever tried is Fedora. The default download option is with Gnone so search for a PPC KDE version. Because Fedora core is not using anything that is even remotely patented, you have to go to the RPMFusion website to add Adobe's Flash, MP3 and QuickTime codecs and whatnot: http://rpmfusion.org/RPM%20Fusion
You can see pick your download here: http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/Fedora/12/ The Problem I am seeing here is that the current version of Fedora is 13 and the latest PPC64 builds are for Fedora 12. This leads to a little outdated software (1 year).
Yeah I watched the press converence on YouTube so I tried it out with mu own phone; a Samsung m8800.
I was in an area with weak signal strength. Usualy the GSM coverage is always full bars. It's the 3G that's often falling to 1 bar.
Anyway in that area my internet connection often drops like a brick (getting about 56k speed). So I grabbed the phone in any rediculous way I possibly could and then with both hands. Even then it dropped a staggeting 1 bar and then I had 2-3 left.
Apple simply needs to admit they screwed up. Period.
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"From my reading of history, leaders are guaranteed to make OTHERS die to protect themselves... are you sure you have that right?"
History of mankind or the documented history of civilisation? The duration of that didn't change human instict, you know.
When humans lived in groups and wore animal skin, leaders killed everyone that threatend the group. That insured the survival of the group. But before such group were formed, like during the process of forming a group, these leadership characteristics atracted females (and males) because that insured survival.
When females turned to males that were shy and anxious, those groups probably did not survive.
You'll find out that when you've read this sentence that all of this was exactly my point.
Stressed and axious people are not the typical types that lead. Leaders are more atractive because they are garanteed to protect others from dying in certain dangerous situations.
Evolution theory, bitches.
That doesn't mean that your typical athlete would ever outgrow the brains of who is too stressed to let his/her brain grow that fast.
BTW orgasms where good for about ten thousand brain cells, right? How much brain cells do you think you loose when you bang a soccerball with your head? About the same.
It all means nothing, but it is somewhat a little interesting I guess...
Onboard HD3300 (r600) with mesa classic driver.
Unaltered windows size. KMS.
Got a HD5770 too, but I wanted to fuck around with the floss drivers, see what's up, because Evergreen cards without fglrx are still just framebuffers.
Not that you would care... glxgears is just a test to see if the basic 3D rendering works and if you get acceleration.
$ glxgears
5791 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1158.177 FPS
7120 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1423.968 FPS
6801 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1360.132 FPS
7110 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1421.871 FPS
Nope. No meltdown. Totally BS...
Nope, nope and partialy. So no.
Better go with C++, which is alround. C with classes is what you need for the Mac. Linux still uses C for the largest part.
Currently the market wants:
-Linux sys admins
-.Net developpers (Microsoft C# runtime crap that will insta-kill any desire you have to go back into programming after exactly 5 seconds)
Nice discussion with mods voting (not moderating) the people who defend their favorite _theories_.
Just remember that when you're discussing the universe, you have to reference the universe. When you are referencing the universe then you have to keep it in the bounds of what we considder a universe. What we considder a universe is what is both inside logic and what defines logic.
Currently there is some discussion about the correct logic. What can be proven? Unless you have infinity at your disposal and follow math the way we define math; you can't prove anything.
Wehn you can't prove anything and therefore no 'correct' logic then you are both right and wrong.
When you are both right and wrong then one would considder quantum physics theory. When one uses quantum physics then one should also acknowledge that your argumentation can only hold true (no matter of it is right) in _this_ universe. That means that following this the logic of this universe then you cannot arguie about what is not this universe.
When you cannot argue, based on logic, what is not this universe then you can never be right about a big bang.
When you cannot be right about a big bang then you cannot use the big bang in your argumentation. When you cannot use the big bang in your argumentation then you cannot argue the logic it defines.
Which means you are always wrong. GAME OVER.
Or you could simply read this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Game:_Penetrating_the_Secret_Society_of_Pickup_Artists
Well, actualy in the Netherlands (king of all tax-taking countries of the world) if you buy a 'green' car (labeled A (cleanest) to D or E (most polutant) ) then you do not have to pay road taxes and all kinds of other fees.
You can buy a very cheap and ugly car with an A label and then you don't have to pay a lot of extra money, which in turn makes the goverment spend less money to reduce the emissions and thus it's a win-win-win(-win?) situation (car ownerers-car companies-government(-and potentialy the climate for humans and civilisation) ).
"I would have just assumed it would have gotten "rounder" and possibly larger (elastic) due to centrifugal force"
It does get round and evens out, but due to gravity the evened out band gets pulled down and the resistans on the 'outward ends' all result on a peanut form.
Geez that was mind-bloooooowwwwwiiiiiing.......
So how's the LHC doing?
Probably the advanced mode where a lot more features are enabled that are not 'user friendly' enough.
Yes. Gnome is about to get Gnome 3 but that will not be comming even remotely close to KDE SC 4.5.
However just the shell is not entirely true. Gnome also gets Gtk 3 and semantic desktop search.
Still a joke though...
You must be using Windows ;P
In case you missed it:
Mac OS X 10.5's entire userspace app collection is agressively multi-threaded. Even the e-mail client runs multiple threads. Browsers like Google Chrome and now Firefox are multithreaded. Not to mention the tons of processes that take up lots of time if serialised. Now couple that with the driver for you graphics card that compiles on the fly and runs on the CPU and you might get the picture.
In case nobody does: multiple cores prevents everything from slowing basically everything down. Not to mention the multi-thread potential of eventually stuff like ray tracers and whatnot. But oh well... my clue train needs to be driven to some other place. *choo-choo*
BTW which idiots modded that guy insightful? -_-
Yeah... Feed the world exactly _ONE_ dinner. How's that supposed to help? "Oh yeah we made sure those poor africans died half a day later than expected" '>_>
Those hydrons are supposed to be served Ice Cold (TM), mister.
What do Windows games have to do with a cross platform graphics library? The question was "How relevant is OpenGL".
Furthermore the last couple of years a lot of big titles were OpenGL. There was also a large chunck of Direct3D games (because Direct3D isn't being used for anything besides games, just to point out how much it sucks) . That was because the Direct3D lib was then better than OpenGL.
I don't hope that I have to point out why OpenGL is killing it.
While true that this point has always been made, it is only recently other platforms are breaking through.
Welcome to todays world ;)
Absolutely true and not flamebait: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenGL#Longs_Peak_and_OpenGL_3.0_controversy
OpenGL 3.0 was a disaster because it should have been revolutionary but instead it was an extended 2.1 to maintain compatibility with workstation apps (as in graphical workstations).
Today however OpenGL is way ahead of Direct3D. One of its killer features is OpenCL compatibility. GLSL (OpenGL Shading Language) is now at version 4.00 and since OpenGL 3.2 supported geometry shaders.
Now is it relevant? Are you kidding me? In this day and age of all these platforms it is _THE_ library. Direct3D is only viable on Micrsoft platforms.
Android, Playstation3, Mac OS X, iOS, Linux, Windows. They all have OpenGL support and thus anyone is now porting, if they haven't already and newcommers all use OpenGL. In fact all the CAD apps have been using OpenGL solely! All the big players and studios are using OpenGL now.
Now the real question is; What is Microsofts next move to stay in the game?
AMD was faster with OpenGL 4.0, but lol.
Ever heared of SDL?
ROFL xD Mod parent funny!
zero bars: no signal
full bars: max signal
in between: percentages
The signal on my phone is pretty consistent. Some areas 1 to none and switching to GSM. Some areas full strength sometimes. But always constant values.
I can tell this by simply seeing a bar falling. The further I travel the more bars are falling. Sometimes I see a bar increase. That said this m8800 has better signals then iPhone 3Gs and HTC Legend and hero's with the same providers. I can tell by the YouTube vid streaming. I'm walking from pub to pub at night with friend and I am the last one left who can play a song without stuttering.
That sais enough. Apple is still not making anywhere near acceptable PHONES. Maybe good MDA's but when it comes to calling it simply doesn't work that well. So fuck your bar story.
You could simply use it as a desktop. Linux has grown leaps and leaps and leaps forward and in many ways ahead of the Mac as a desktop, so read on.
KDE SC 4.5 (about to be released in a few days/weeks) is leaps ahead of the Mac OS X 10.5 GUI. The only catch is that it is not minimalistic. If you want minimalism you have to pick Gnome with Gnome DO and set it to act like a docky. Put a Mac OS X wallpaper in place and install a Mac OS X theme. However KDE has focussed on more minimalism since KDE4 without sacrificing features.
There is a KDE application for video editing that is unparalleled: Kdenlive: http://www.kdenlive.org/
It slaughters Sony Vegas in functionality and is free of charge too. It may not be stable enough yet (version 0.7) so it might be a little bit of a bumpy ride at first.
There is also a kick-ass music management application: AmaroK: http://amarok.kde.org/
It is compatible with iPods that are not of the latest generation (USB encryption crap)
KDE SC's default webbrowser is Konqueror, which, since KDE SC 4.5 also has WebKit support.
Google's Chrome is now also runnable on Linux.
If you don't like the Google privacy stuff than search for the Iron browser (they took the Chrome's source code and stripped it from any call home functionality)
For managing photo's, use DigiKam: http://www.digikam.org/
Personal information management: KDE PIM
For personal finance: http://kmymoney2.sourceforge.net/index-home.html
Office work isn't Linux' best aspect, so you could install OpenOffice.org. It is however the best Office Suit available for the PPC. It doesn't look all that good if your distro of choice hasn't supplied their own KDE4 integration into it.
Now there are a lot of distributions, so what should you pick?
The best and most stable KDE4 distro I have ever tried is Fedora. The default download option is with Gnone so search for a PPC KDE version. Because Fedora core is not using anything that is even remotely patented, you have to go to the RPMFusion website to add Adobe's Flash, MP3 and QuickTime codecs and whatnot: http://rpmfusion.org/RPM%20Fusion
You can see pick your download here: http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/Fedora/12/
The Problem I am seeing here is that the current version of Fedora is 13 and the latest PPC64 builds are for Fedora 12. This leads to a little outdated software (1 year).
Yeah I watched the press converence on YouTube so I tried it out with mu own phone; a Samsung m8800.
I was in an area with weak signal strength. Usualy the GSM coverage is always full bars. It's the 3G that's often falling to 1 bar.
Anyway in that area my internet connection often drops like a brick (getting about 56k speed). So I grabbed the phone in any rediculous way I possibly could and then with both hands. Even then it dropped a staggeting 1 bar and then I had 2-3 left.
Apple simply needs to admit they screwed up. Period.