And at $30 a time, this is anything but free. Sure, charge for printing, charge for postage and packaging, charge for technical support, but charging for download as a pdf?
Some good points. Although the 1996
article probably refers to D3D version 2 or 3.
Something that I have little experience with, but
as far as I understand it, it was based on a
bizarre concept of execute buffers (I guess this
is something along the lines of putting all
commands into an array, and calling a function
with the array as a parameter).
D3D v7 is very much different, with some clear
inspiration from OpenGL. To draw a list of
triangles, you just need to call the drawPrimitives
function, with an array of points (plus a few
other parameters). Its still not as simple as
OpenGL. OpenGL is very a very simple Logo like
language. However, its not significantly more
complicated than most other API's (Although
Windows itself seems to have a huge wodge of
horrible legacy stuff)
One small issue with OpenGL is that Microsoft
isn't too fussy about keeping up to date versions
available for Windows. This has the effect
of making Direct3D more feature rich under
Windows at times.
A spike (i.e clipboard stack) would be quite nice too if someone could come up with a decent way of implenting its UI. Occasionally I want to cut/paste something while keeping the existing object in the clipboard.
I guess I was always under the impression that OGL was a superior API, but that Direct3D was simply easier to program for and better supported.
In my (and many other people's) opinion, OpenGL is a much simpler API. It uses a state machine with a fairly simple set of commands (Along th elines of glBegin(); glVertex3f(x1, y1, z1); glVertex3f(x2, y2, z2); glVertex3f(x3, y3, z3); glEnd(); to draw a triangle, whereas D3D insists on you setting up an array of structs containing the parameters (e.g. colour, specular, texturing modes) you want and telling the drawprimitives() function which are used. (I make this sound horrible, but it isn't too bad really). D3D is probably a little more efficient, although clever driver coding can improve performance in OpenGL.
Not on SuSE. The level 5=GUI thing seems to be an ancient Unix thing. I guess SuSE decided that level 2 and 3 were so similar they might as well axe level 3 totally.
Apparently there was a similar lawsuit in England. Not sure how it ended, but since you can still buy the things, I presume the courts decided that video recording for home use was legal.
The following are statistics compiled from the data in the BUGTRAQ Vulnerability Database. The statistics should not be taken to imply that some particular operating system or application is more or less secure than another
one. They are simply a count of how many vulnerabilities associated with each of them is in the database for these year.
Yes, quite probably. And I quite understand Why
Sun feel theatened. But I'm pretty certain that
undercutting the competition is not a monopolistic
practice. (Is it?)
I think Sun are being the bad guys a lot of the
time right now.
Computer Readable. They even _had_ rudimentary OCR back then I think that was their point. They didn't want it to be exported even in print. Not that the actual part of the code that makes it an encryption algorithm would actually be a major problem to type.
I seem to remember the munitions export rules actually talked abut "computer readable". This would have made it illegal to print it on paper if the font used could be scanned and OCR'ed.
Of course, the DMCA was not written so carefully since nobody seemed to think that it might apply to code.
In fact, IMO, the DMCA seems to have been intended primarily to prevent pirate cable and satelite descramblers.
Gulliver had a lot to say about this. Enthusing about how case law over the legal owner of a cow would not relate to who had the greatest right to the cow, but previous case law involving how long the cow had been in possesion of one of the owners, the colour of the cow, and the age of the cow.
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Apparently thy're popular in Asia. The only Asian country I've been to is S. Korea, but I can confirm that they are available there at least (Although they're not as common as VHS).
Some people don't have Windows though. Although very few of these are gamers.
A lot of people buy games, but only play them from time to time.
On the whole, of course you're right. The OS should be the least important part of the computer system for anyone, followed by RAM chip manufacturer and model of case. The refusal to use windows is more down to idealism, and a refusal to support a company like MS.
Wouldn't say it worked like a charm. A success, certainly, but the air cushions caused a bit of a hassle with getting the thing out and there were various minor problems getting the rover to listen.
Of course, all teething troubles. One of the specific aims was to find out if the method worked.
Land directly on the surface using a booster? Haven't you ever played XLander? It's damn near impossible unless you are a mathematical prodigy with unusual dexterity
I'm sure there should be one or two people like that in NASA.
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And at $30 a time, this is anything but free. Sure, charge for printing, charge for postage and packaging, charge for technical support, but charging for download as a pdf?
Some good points. Although the 1996 article probably refers to D3D version 2 or 3. Something that I have little experience with, but as far as I understand it, it was based on a bizarre concept of execute buffers (I guess this is something along the lines of putting all commands into an array, and calling a function with the array as a parameter).
D3D v7 is very much different, with some clear inspiration from OpenGL. To draw a list of triangles, you just need to call the drawPrimitives function, with an array of points (plus a few other parameters). Its still not as simple as OpenGL. OpenGL is very a very simple Logo like language. However, its not significantly more complicated than most other API's (Although Windows itself seems to have a huge wodge of horrible legacy stuff)
One small issue with OpenGL is that Microsoft isn't too fussy about keeping up to date versions available for Windows. This has the effect of making Direct3D more feature rich under Windows at times.
Most likely mp3 will remain. Vorbis claims to be very good though. I could see it being integrated into a compressed video format at some point.
A spike (i.e clipboard stack) would be quite nice too if someone could come up with a decent way of implenting its UI. Occasionally I want to cut/paste something while keeping the existing object in the clipboard.
I guess I was always under the impression that OGL was a superior API, but that Direct3D was simply easier to program for and better supported.
In my (and many other people's) opinion, OpenGL is a much simpler API. It uses a state machine with a fairly simple set of commands (Along th elines of
glBegin();
glVertex3f(x1, y1, z1);
glVertex3f(x2, y2, z2);
glVertex3f(x3, y3, z3);
glEnd();
to draw a triangle, whereas D3D insists on you setting up an array of structs containing the parameters (e.g. colour, specular, texturing modes) you want and telling the drawprimitives() function which are used. (I make this sound horrible, but it isn't too bad really). D3D is probably a little more efficient, although clever driver coding can improve performance in OpenGL.
Not on SuSE. The level 5=GUI thing seems to be an ancient Unix thing. I guess SuSE decided that level 2 and 3 were so similar they might as well axe level 3 totally.
Apparently there was a similar lawsuit in England. Not sure how it ended, but since you can still buy the things, I presume the courts decided that video recording for home use was legal.
1152x864 was probably used because its the highest convenient resolution thats a multiple of 32, and fits in 1 megabyte in 8 bit modes.
Ah, Autosummarize. I hope you paid for the licence for that (twice)
Yes, quite probably. And I quite understand Why Sun feel theatened. But I'm pretty certain that undercutting the competition is not a monopolistic practice. (Is it?)
I think Sun are being the bad guys a lot of the time right now.
Its not like Sun are competing in the market that MS Really dominates - The home PC OS market.
Solaris is still a totally viable alternative to NT in the server market. If MS get too pushy, a company can change over wuite easily.
Can't beat reading slashdot in black on a black background. Shame the links aren't in black.
Lets face it. Moody's a troll. Streetlawyer, osm and Shoeboy would do well to learn off this guy.
Curiously, he didn't seem to link to bugtraq anywhere for us to check his assertions. (Actually, unless I missed it, neither did slashdot)
Anyway, I reckon his next articles going to be about the christian immorality of Linux.
DeCSS -- If kids from Norway can do it, why can't Americans? :)
Because of the DMCA, UCITA, and the MPAA of course.
Computer Readable. They even _had_ rudimentary OCR back then I think that was their point. They didn't want it to be exported even in print. Not that the actual part of the code that makes it an encryption algorithm would actually be a major problem to type.
Anyone see how awful copyleft's website is in Lynx?
Just seems odd considering the disproportionate number of lynx users likely to go there.
I seem to remember the munitions export rules actually talked abut "computer readable". This would have made it illegal to print it on paper if the font used could be scanned and OCR'ed.
Of course, the DMCA was not written so carefully since nobody seemed to think that it might apply to code.
In fact, IMO, the DMCA seems to have been intended primarily to prevent pirate cable and satelite descramblers.
Gulliver had a lot to say about this. Enthusing about how case law over the legal owner of a cow would not relate to who had the greatest right to the cow, but previous case law involving how long the cow had been in possesion of one of the owners, the colour of the cow, and the age of the cow.
Apparently thy're popular in Asia. The only Asian country I've been to is S. Korea, but I can confirm that they are available there at least (Although they're not as common as VHS).
Some people don't have Windows though. Although very few of these are gamers.
A lot of people buy games, but only play them from time to time.
On the whole, of course you're right. The OS should be the least important part of the computer system for anyone, followed by RAM chip manufacturer and model of case. The refusal to use windows is more down to idealism, and a refusal to support a company like MS.
I often hum Beatles tunes. Should I pay Paul McCartney (or is it Michael Jackson?) for this, or should I be paying the RIAA?
No its not. Failure to gain is not a loss.
Wouldn't say it worked like a charm. A success, certainly, but the air cushions caused a bit of a hassle with getting the thing out and there were various minor problems getting the rover to listen.
Of course, all teething troubles. One of the specific aims was to find out if the method worked.
Land directly on the surface using a booster? Haven't you ever played XLander? It's damn near impossible unless you are a mathematical prodigy with unusual dexterity
I'm sure there should be one or two people like that in NASA.