Check out my demo of this techonology.
Only works in IE under Win32, but since that's 90% of the target audience and ad is presented to, it's good enough
http://www.cosmicrealms.com/rant.html
Apollo 13 was also another great movie that went to IMAX. But they cut out a LARGE number of scenes. I'd have to say about 30 minutes to an hour worth of video was missing from the IMAX version.
I won't see it in IMAX if theres gonna be missing scenes.
Already slashdotted? What kind of future is that?
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Linux Gaming after Loki
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· Score: -1, Offtopic
Geez, it's already dead. Sigh... the slashdot effect strikes again.
This is totally worthless. Do mods just let anything with the words 'PHP' and/or 'MySQL' make it on the website?
The article is less than 2 screen pages long, it's not much more than a code dump, and it's totally hardcoded for a specific and individual database table.
It also only covers Windows installations of PHP and and person who knows that they need to move from one database to another, and what PHP is, is smart enough to do what this author wrote.
I don't diss the author on this, it looks as if he is just new to computers and doesn't know any better. But geez, if this is the crap that we allow on slashdot now, I'm just gonna start submitting articles on 'How cool Google is'
They surveyed the wrong people. I'm betting that 90% of the people they surveyed are just 'normal' people who happen to use a computer all day.
You know, those people who just use word, or Excel or Powerpoint all day.
We slashdotters, we WANT to be in front of the computer, we grew up that way, and as a result, I believe we have a different mental atttitude towards it. I feel a lot of physical 'problems' such as headaches can be avoided by having a positive outlook.
There are a billion sayings to prove this. "If a man is convinced he will die tommorow, he'll probably find a way to do it." "Positive thinking affects health more than modern medicine."
I used to be a big RedHat fan. I used it for every server we were setting up. But quickly it became apparent that it was becoming too comercialized and not geeky enough.
Once I found Gentoo http://www.gentoo.org/ I never looked back.
I never much cared for RPM's anyways. I always installed via source, so much better.
That ISBN didn't work in Amazon.com search. I guess I'll have to write a program to trying many variations until it find some matches.
Re:Why go from 32 to 64? Why not jump to 128?
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PowerPC Goes 64 bit
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· Score: 1
I understand if the technology to create 128bit processors do not exsist. I understand if there is some sort of whacky law preventing it from being made. I understand if going to 128bit will make no difference because of hardware bottlenecks or software incompatibilities.
But if your saying that us humans just simply can't conceive and design a 128bit processor... I don't understand.
Why go from 32 to 64? Why not jump to 128?
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PowerPC Goes 64 bit
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· Score: 1
Why do all these chip manufacturers go from 32 to 64? Why not make a brand new chip at 128?! It would propel that company to the top easily.
I can't fathom how this got a score 5 of interesting. He basicaally disagrees with every point simply because he would have to rewrite his code (which he admit's he's already had to re-write twice in some cases).
Besides, if you had to re-write your code I betcha it become 100 times better and much nicer to look at
Last I checked the solar system is 3D. If they can track, plot and draw a 2D image of the solar system, that seems to me that they have the data on these objects to plot them in 3D.
Let's see... a few days ago an asteroid was discovered that we 'are told' 'may' impact the earth. And now plutonium, 7 kilograms (EXACTLY enough to build a nuclear bomb) is being sent for use to an 'undisclosed agency' ?
Duh, I think we all see what's going on here.
Someone is trying to make chocolate ice cream taste better by using plutonium.
First of all, Sony is famous for putting things into their Playstation 2 console that arguably have never really been used. Come on, how many of you playstation 2 owners (not counting the linux modded ones heh) are actually utilizing their built in firewire or USB ports?
Secondly, to think that even anywhere close to 50% of the owners of the Playstation 3 will even have a net connection is absurd. And of this fantasy 50% how many will be willing to leave it on 24/7 along with their playstation?
Come on, thousands of playstations attached together automatically sharing processing commands? This just SCREAMS out to be hacked (and it will be). I go buy a playstation 3, hook it up to a T3 line so I can service thousands of other playstation 3 players, but this is the trick, I hack mine to INCORRECTY process the requested operations. Let's say they send me some complex collision detection routines to see if a player was shot by a bullet. Well heck yah my PS3 will say! Every time.
And does sony think game makers will create games that 'may' work 'if' you happen to have enough playstation 3's hooked together?
I can just see the warnings on the PS3 games, "Warning, this game will only work correctly if you are able to find at least 450 other playstation 3's to connect to."
This idea is nice, but it can't even come close to being a reality until much later. What if my playstation 3 breaks down? Am I allowd to sue my next door neighbor for taxing it too much at 3AM while playing Baldur's Gate 7?
This whole idea might work in 2080 whem hopefully we'll have almost every home on the net 24/7 with some good broadband, but until then, if sony try's to actually tout this as the main feature of the console then Microsoft will easily be able to trump them with Xbox 2.
We have also learned several details that online game fans might be interested in -- Mac OS X EverQuest players will not be able to play against (or with) the PC players of the game, due to server incompatibilities.
Uh, am I the only programmer here that thinks that's about the most absurd thing I've ever heard?
The only incompatibilties that could possiblity exist is if they changed the protocol. Server's just don't say "Icky, I Think this network connection is coming from a non-windows box, I better not work right with it".
It will be interesting to see what happens once some clever people hackersquest.org end up reverse engineering the protocol on the MacOS version and see how much it differs from the Windows version.
"By now, he/she has surely developed something newer/fresher, because it's no longer possible to make a profit from the 5 year old software."
Uhm... what industry do you live in? Haven't you ever actually looked at Oracle? They are still (arguably) making money off of 10+ year old software.
However I don't imagine Oracle can survive much longer with the extreme costs of their software. Even though I believe many corporations still believe in paying huge sums of money for something they can get for free, simply to have someone to blame if it goes wrong.
This is sooo not new news. Watch any science space TV show about mars or the planets that has been produced in the last two years+ and you will see that we've known this for a long time.
Even better... the first 'Webhuman' You can go to a web page and through a CGI script control a human with these things. Not just 'Watch him dance'... but 'Make him dance'
Slashdot Mirror
Who the heck approved this story to be posted?
ARe the mods really so lazy and uninterested in slashdot they just approve anything?
Geez. My respect for slashdot mods just went WAY down.
Is there any (legal) remedies that we as (US) citizens can take to punish verisgn?
I think he means 'pay for slashdot'
Your promoting recoding into C, making it closed source and then SELLING it for profit?
What kind of geek are you?
Check out my demo of this techonology. Only works in IE under Win32, but since that's 90% of the target audience and ad is presented to, it's good enough http://www.cosmicrealms.com/rant.html
Apollo 13 was also another great movie that went to IMAX.
But they cut out a LARGE number of scenes.
I'd have to say about 30 minutes to an hour worth of video was missing from the IMAX version.
I won't see it in IMAX if theres gonna be missing scenes.
Geez, it's already dead. Sigh... the slashdot effect strikes again.
This is totally worthless.
Do mods just let anything with the words 'PHP' and/or 'MySQL' make it on the website?
The article is less than 2 screen pages long, it's not much more than a code dump, and it's totally hardcoded for a specific and individual database table.
It also only covers Windows installations of PHP and and person who knows that they need to move from one database to another, and what PHP is, is smart enough to do what this author wrote.
I don't diss the author on this, it looks as if he is just new to computers and doesn't know any better.
But geez, if this is the crap that we allow on slashdot now, I'm just gonna start submitting articles on 'How cool Google is'
What do you expect from REST?
Something that's failproof?
Simply the best!
Go with a webhoster that speciliazes in PostgreSQL web hosting!
http://www.pghoster.com/
What's incredible is that Linux is being used to CREATE all these movies, yet it's still not legally allowed to VIEW them.
Funny eh?
They surveyed the wrong people.
I'm betting that 90% of the people they surveyed are just 'normal' people who happen to use a computer all day.
You know, those people who just use word, or Excel or Powerpoint all day.
We slashdotters, we WANT to be in front of the computer, we grew up that way, and as a result, I believe we have a different mental atttitude towards it.
I feel a lot of physical 'problems' such as headaches can be avoided by having a positive outlook.
There are a billion sayings to prove this.
"If a man is convinced he will die tommorow, he'll probably find a way to do it."
"Positive thinking affects health more than modern medicine."
Blah blah blah.
does the dining room table have a built in ethernet hub?
I used to be a big RedHat fan.
I used it for every server we were setting up.
But quickly it became apparent that it was becoming too comercialized and not geeky enough.
Once I found Gentoo http://www.gentoo.org/ I never looked back.
I never much cared for RPM's anyways. I always installed via source, so much better.
That ISBN didn't work in Amazon.com search.
I guess I'll have to write a program to trying many variations until it find some matches.
I understand if the technology to create 128bit processors do not exsist.
I understand if there is some sort of whacky law preventing it from being made.
I understand if going to 128bit will make no difference because of hardware bottlenecks or software incompatibilities.
But if your saying that us humans just simply can't conceive and design a 128bit processor...
I don't understand.
Why do all these chip manufacturers go from 32 to 64?
Why not make a brand new chip at 128?!
It would propel that company to the top easily.
I can't fathom how this got a score 5 of interesting.
He basicaally disagrees with every point simply because he would have to rewrite his code (which he admit's he's already had to re-write twice in some cases).
Besides, if you had to re-write your code I betcha it become 100 times better and much nicer to look at
Last I checked the solar system is 3D.
If they can track, plot and draw a 2D image of the solar system, that seems to me that they have the data on these objects to plot them in 3D.
Why didn't they create a 3D representation?
Let's see... a few days ago an asteroid was discovered that we 'are told' 'may' impact the earth.
And now plutonium, 7 kilograms (EXACTLY enough to build a nuclear bomb) is being sent for use to an 'undisclosed agency' ?
Duh, I think we all see what's going on here.
Someone is trying to make chocolate ice cream taste better by using plutonium.
This is absurd.
First of all, Sony is famous for putting things into their Playstation 2 console that arguably have never really been used. Come on, how many of you playstation 2 owners (not counting the linux modded ones heh) are actually utilizing their built in firewire or USB ports?
Secondly, to think that even anywhere close to 50% of the owners of the Playstation 3 will even have a net connection is absurd. And of this fantasy 50% how many will be willing to leave it on 24/7 along with their playstation?
Come on, thousands of playstations attached together automatically sharing processing commands? This just SCREAMS out to be hacked (and it will be).
I go buy a playstation 3, hook it up to a T3 line so I can service thousands of other playstation 3 players, but this is the trick, I hack mine to INCORRECTY process the requested operations. Let's say they send me some complex collision detection routines to see if a player was shot by a bullet. Well heck yah my PS3 will say! Every time.
And does sony think game makers will create games that 'may' work 'if' you happen to have enough playstation 3's hooked together?
I can just see the warnings on the PS3 games, "Warning, this game will only work correctly if you are able to find at least 450 other playstation 3's to connect to."
This idea is nice, but it can't even come close to being a reality until much later.
What if my playstation 3 breaks down? Am I allowd to sue my next door neighbor for taxing it too much at 3AM while playing Baldur's Gate 7?
This whole idea might work in 2080 whem hopefully we'll have almost every home on the net 24/7 with some good broadband, but until then, if sony try's to actually tout this as the main feature of the console then Microsoft will easily be able to trump them with Xbox 2.
insidemacgames.com
An interesting blurb in that article:
Uh, am I the only programmer here that thinks that's about the most absurd thing I've ever heard?
The only incompatibilties that could possiblity exist is if they changed the protocol.
Server's just don't say "Icky, I Think this network connection is coming from a non-windows box, I better not work right with it".
It will be interesting to see what happens once some clever people hackersquest.org end up reverse engineering the protocol on the MacOS version and see how much it differs from the Windows version.
"By now, he/she has surely developed something newer/fresher, because it's no longer possible to make a profit from the 5 year old software."
Uhm... what industry do you live in?
Haven't you ever actually looked at Oracle?
They are still (arguably) making money off of 10+ year old software.
However I don't imagine Oracle can survive much longer with the extreme costs of their software.
Even though I believe many corporations still believe in paying huge sums of money for something they can get for free, simply to have someone to blame if it goes wrong.
Anyways, I'm rambling...
This is sooo not new news.
Watch any science space TV show about mars or the planets that has been produced in the last two years+ and you will see that we've known this for a long time.
I can't believe this made slashdot... sigh.
Even better... the first 'Webhuman' You can go to a web page and through a CGI script control a human with these things. Not just 'Watch him dance'... but 'Make him dance'