Why 3d on CPU?
Its sometimes nice to have the ability to fall back on software ( or mabye "chip-hardware" ) rendering.
That option in Q2 was very useful when you had problems.
Then imagine, in the future, you could have hot-swappable AGP, and swap while you were playing Quake 8.. it would just fall back to on-chip rendering.
But really, most technology, when its made isn't specifically designed for most of the stuff its used for.
Since, as someone else mentioned, all the CISC stuff is in microcode, its all good.
I thought SETI wasn't nessicarily looking for a "Hello is anyone out there?" kind of message, they were also hoping for leakage that a highly advanced civilization would put off ( sort of like the Star Trek warp signature thing..)
And as for the ant hill analogy, it doesn't really work.. unless all our scientists are wrong, civilizations aren't as common as ant hills;)
The quality of the videos isn't like that in all cases. Many of those copies are made by the projectionists --
Thus, it may be lower quality, but it isn't a video recorder that has been smuggled in.. I know 60 Minutes has something on this a while ago, but don't assume that what they showed then holds true now.
So unless you or someone else on the net wants to go and prove that the majority of them are like that *now*, please think about it before you post.
While you extremely correct about assembly being much more efficient than C, if you had read the article, what is talked about is web pads, etc., that need something like linux; in any case more than you can fit in 2KB.
In the case of a webpad, I could see linux being very useful. Some of the embedded systems ( which he didn't really go into ) I could see something else working better, but then again, I wasn't sure exactly what he had in mind.
Some distros put the kernel and the System.map in /boot. The kernel make install puts it in / by default. just move it to boot, rerun/sbin/lilo. and reboot.
That economic fact is true; that by lowering prices, in order to keep the same profit you need to increase your sales to keep the same profit.
However, that isn't what the orignial point was.
I believe his point was that the record industries are making enough money -- by decreasing the prices they won't go backrupt, have to fire employees or have anything that negativly effects the company. However the CEOs and other fat cats will have to cut their 10 million dollar salaries by a few million ( I don't know exactly how much they make, if someone could find a link that showed exactly how much I would be in debt!)
I'm not sure about "techo-drive global economic boom", but I've heard "Disneyfied" in other articles.
But thats part of what I enjoy about Katz; I enjoy seeing what words he makes up -- if you can't figure out what they mean you need help. If you're PISSED he is using words like that, well then thats a different thing, but thats not what you posted.
From what I know of a CS degree what is important is not the stupid luser interface -- espeically that of Windows. What a programmer needs to learn is things like semaphores, shared memory.. things like that don't change.
The way it started was that I felt bad, I wasn't sure why. I felt sluggish, and didn't want to get out of bed. I didn't want to face life (sounds like someone depressed, no?)
At that point I was taken to a real licenced Pyschologist. I had a medical examination. All I can guess was at that point it wasn't large enough to notice.
After Prozac and company didn't work, I went to a chiropractor as a final option, after all how many people have TUMORS?... When the chiropracter got fed up after nothing fixed my problem ( some things he did DID help, but some made it worse..) he had a cerebrial-spinal ( guessing again..)CAT scan taken. Whoa! Whats that? I was immediatly taken to a neurologist who had another CAT scan done.
I had brain surgery next week. fun, but don't try it at home kids.
I'm positive that no doctors made a mistake, as I had a type of tumor prevalent among kids/young teens.
But the whole point of this original post was this:
The idea that WAVE has could not only hurt kids that want to be different, but also those that really have problems. I'm afriad if something like WAVE had happened, my parents couldn't have gotten me the help that they did ( eg, the government comes in and says they can't dictate my life because they're obviously bad parents). Would I be dead? Not a question I want to ask. DanteAliegri.
WAVE scares me because what could have happened to me.
First off, one needs to know what my situation was.
April of last year, I was told I had a brain tumor, specifically a Pilocytic Astrocytoma ( horrible spelling, sorry). Because of that tumor, my senior year had been hell, I couldn't get any work done, I'd sit in the bath at 3 am, wondering why my neck hurt. My junior year wasn't as bad. I had been put in the night school, because I wouldn't get out of bed before noon. I dropped out of that also.
I had been to a psychologist, psychiatrist and a chiropractor. I was given Prozac and a few other drugs, but nothing helped.
Everyone though I was crazy.
What would have happened to me if WAVE was in my school in my Junior year, when I was still in school? I had many signs that would warrant someone turning me in ( hence, why my parents took me to a Psychologist..).
I don't have an answer, but at least I know the question.
DanteAliegri.
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First off, I have to say that the writer on Suck.com is so negative about skins that its a bit hard to see this as anything but a glorified rant against skins/skinnable UIs.
*Please note I am not a UI/GUI programmer, so most of this thinking is from the position of using the apps*
Consistancy among apps is important but I think the reason that there is none is because the computing world hasn't come to an agreement on a best UI. If there was such an agreement, there wouldn't be such a problem. I think THAT is the real problem rather than skins. Skins/Skinnable UIs, especially the ones that seem to remap keys (which is what they bitch about in the fourth paragraph) are more of the search for the best one. From what I've experinced with Skins/Skinnable UIs, I consider them a good thing. I use KDE as my desktop and I routinly browse kde.themes.org for good themes. I'm using Photon, while my brother uses Matrix on his box, and we're both happy. I have no problem using his X, and he has no problem using mine, although they look quite a bit different. The simple fact is that yes there are going to be REALLY bad skins. This author is complaining about skins for ICQ that ruin the UI. There have been skins that ruin the UI of the program since Winamp started the trend ( or someone else, the point remains the same ). Some people use skins because they DO want their DragonBallZ pic over ICQ. Thats part of why skins are so popular. This author cares more about using the program than it looking cool. That is their perogative (sp). I feel that way also. The answer? Don't download and use skins that do that! I'm sure there are PLENTY of skins that look cool and don't ruin the UI. I have one for winamp, Xmms, KDE, so I'm sure there are plenty of them for ICQ. In the extreme that there isn't, you can make your own! If you're not an artist you can contact the author of one of the skins you like and ask them. Thats the point of opensouce -- no only can you do things yourself, you can talk to people that can help you with things.
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Then imagine, in the future, you could have hot-swappable AGP, and swap while you were playing Quake 8.. it would just fall back to on-chip rendering.
But really, most technology, when its made isn't specifically designed for most of the stuff its used for.
Since, as someone else mentioned, all the CISC stuff is in microcode, its all good.
DanteAliegri
I thought SETI wasn't nessicarily looking for a "Hello is anyone out there?" kind of message, they were also hoping for leakage that a highly advanced civilization would put off ( sort of like the Star Trek warp signature thing ..)
;)
And as for the ant hill analogy, it doesn't really work.. unless all our scientists are wrong, civilizations aren't as common as ant hills
The quality of the videos isn't like that in all cases.
Many of those copies are made by the projectionists --
Thus, it may be lower quality, but it isn't a video recorder that has been smuggled in..
I know 60 Minutes has something on this a while ago, but don't assume
that what they showed then holds true now.
So unless you or someone else on the net wants to go and prove that the majority of them are like that *now*, please think about it before you post.
While you extremely correct about assembly being much more efficient than C, if you had read the article, what is talked about is web pads, etc., that need something like linux; in any case more than you can fit in 2KB.
In the case of a webpad, I could see linux being very useful. Some of the embedded systems ( which he didn't really go into ) I could see something else working better, but then again, I wasn't sure exactly what he had in mind.
DanteAliegriIt says that Windows Media Player will play them, but what is used to encode the files? Also.. whats with the calling of it DivX? DanteAliegri.
Some distros put the kernel and the System.map in /sbin/lilo. and reboot.
/boot. The kernel make install puts it in / by default.
just move it to boot, rerun
DanteAliegri [dante@magnus.net]
However, that isn't what the orignial point was.
I believe his point was that the record industries are making enough money -- by decreasing the prices they won't go backrupt, have to fire employees or have anything that negativly effects the company. However the CEOs and other fat cats will have to cut their 10 million dollar salaries by a few million ( I don't know exactly how much they make, if someone could find a link that showed exactly how much I would be in debt!)
But thats part of what I enjoy about Katz; I enjoy seeing what words he makes up -- if you can't figure out what they mean you need help. If you're PISSED he is using words like that, well then thats a different thing, but thats not what you posted.
A MSCS ( wtf this is, I'm not sure ) is not a CS.
From what I know of a CS degree what is important is not the stupid luser interface -- espeically that of Windows. What a programmer needs to learn is things like semaphores, shared memory .. things like that don't change.
DanteAliegri
At that point I was taken to a real licenced Pyschologist. I had a medical examination. All I can guess was at that point it wasn't large enough to notice.
After Prozac and company didn't work, I went to a chiropractor as a final option, after all how many people have TUMORS? ... When the chiropracter got fed up after nothing fixed my problem ( some things he did DID help, but some made it worse..) he had a cerebrial-spinal ( guessing again..)CAT scan taken. Whoa! Whats that? I was immediatly taken to a neurologist who had another CAT scan done.
I had brain surgery next week. fun, but don't try it at home kids.
I'm positive that no doctors made a mistake, as I had a type of tumor prevalent among kids/young teens.
But the whole point of this original post was this:
The idea that WAVE has could not only hurt kids that want to be different, but also those that really have problems. I'm afriad if something like WAVE had happened, my parents couldn't have gotten me the help that they did ( eg, the government comes in and says they can't dictate my life because they're obviously bad parents). Would I be dead? Not a question I want to ask. DanteAliegri.
First off, one needs to know what my situation was.
April of last year, I was told I had a brain tumor, specifically a Pilocytic Astrocytoma ( horrible spelling, sorry). Because of that tumor, my senior year had been hell, I couldn't get any work done, I'd sit in the bath at 3 am, wondering why my neck hurt. My junior year wasn't as bad. I had been put in the night school, because I wouldn't get out of bed before noon. I dropped out of that also.
I had been to a psychologist, psychiatrist and a chiropractor. I was given Prozac and a few other drugs, but nothing helped.
Everyone though I was crazy.
What would have happened to me if WAVE was in my school in my Junior year, when I was still in school? I had many signs that would warrant someone turning me in ( hence, why my parents took me to a Psychologist..).
I don't have an answer, but at least I know the question.
DanteAliegri.
*Please note I am not a UI/GUI programmer, so most of this thinking is from the position of using the apps*
Consistancy among apps is important but I think the reason that there is none is because the computing world hasn't come to an agreement on a best UI. If there was such an agreement, there wouldn't be such a problem. I think THAT is the real problem rather than skins. Skins/Skinnable UIs, especially the ones that seem to remap keys (which is what they bitch about in the fourth paragraph) are more of the search for the best one. From what I've experinced with Skins/Skinnable UIs, I consider them a good thing. I use KDE as my desktop and I routinly browse kde.themes.org for good themes. I'm using Photon, while my brother uses Matrix on his box, and we're both happy. I have no problem using his X, and he has no problem using mine, although they look quite a bit different. The simple fact is that yes there are going to be REALLY bad skins. This author is complaining about skins for ICQ that ruin the UI. There have been skins that ruin the UI of the program since Winamp started the trend ( or someone else, the point remains the same ). Some people use skins because they DO want their DragonBallZ pic over ICQ. Thats part of why skins are so popular. This author cares more about using the program than it looking cool. That is their perogative (sp). I feel that way also. The answer? Don't download and use skins that do that! I'm sure there are PLENTY of skins that look cool and don't ruin the UI. I have one for winamp, Xmms, KDE, so I'm sure there are plenty of them for ICQ. In the extreme that there isn't, you can make your own! If you're not an artist you can contact the author of one of the skins you like and ask them. Thats the point of opensouce -- no only can you do things yourself, you can talk to people that can help you with things.