Who likes the new StarTrek anyways ?
I think the stupidest things are those silly looking humans with appliances on their faces.
It's better to see a full body cardboard costume than those cheap masks with wrinkles and horns.
Anything after the original StarTrek seems to be so militarist.. and the technology is trying so hard to be plausible that becomes boring.
Also no outdoor action.. StarTrek is a soap opera with monsters. They even kiss each other ! Ewwwwwwww
Robocup2000 also had a section with simulated robots. The problem though is when trying to simulate a specified existing hardware. There are many real world variables that can make quite a bit of difference: the color and the material of the surfaces can affect the performance of the infrared sensors. And if you start using sonars then there can be a lot of noise to deal with.
Forget the bullshit features !!
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This damned software world is filled with races to features. We are copying MS Windows' enough.
Forget those bullshit features.. make the code smaller not bigger !
Maybe, do some research on how to revolutionize the ComputerHuman interface. Instead of adding crap to your GUI why don't you try to make computers usable to "my grand mother" ?
For TiVO you need real time compression and I'm afraid it won't be as good as those DVD converted into MPEG4.
The format seems very confusing but I think it basically uses Wavelets.. which usually processes big blocks (or the whole image) as one big matrix, no 8x8 decomposition like MPEG 1/2. This sounds like a problem for HW compression.. it's going to need a fairly big memory support and maybe variable pitch cache memory (I think Pentium III can do that already (?)).
In any case, video compression and real-time video compression can be quite different.
My 2 DCTs.
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The most technical data I could find were:
1) It uses Linux
2) "Desktop Backgrounds For Download"
How exciting !!!
I think my mother would like this better than me.
Very sad to hear. Coders should always look out for new challenges. Managment is going to make you so old, fat and lazy and you'll start thinking that you don't need to learn as much anymore. In another 10 years you may as well be just another bungler manager that doesn't quite know what's going on (flame ?).
It's the begin of the end !
Good luck !
Let me start from that... firearms are indeed illegal (if you live outside the USA) and that's because, while you can both use a gun to kill a charging bull or a human, common sense says that most people buy guns to kill humans not bulls.
You need to look at the facts. Who in the world does really use Napster to exchange non-copyrighted material ?
You may say that it doesn't hurt big label's sale and prove anything you want.. but you must admit that it's a common understanding that Napster is used to exchange mostly copyrighted material. When you (not strictly you) do a search on Napster you usually know what you search, right ?..And you know popoular performers better than unknown performers.
The reason why there are actual humans dictating and enforcing laws is because laws need some help from "common sense".
I'm pro-Napster, I still buy the few rare CDs that I like as a support action. I really hope Napster helps to force a change in the music industry.. but I must admit that Napster actual use mostly involves exchange of copyrighted material.
Now if you tell me that Mr.King (from the heights of his throne) lacks of credibility when he tries to seduce insitutions to enforce laws by his not so well recognized "common sense", then I agree on that.
If you don't have a comp. sci. degree you can forget about the H1 visa. But....isn't computer science the field where most skilled workers are self-taught ?
Some countries don't have the bachelor (short) degree so many prefer avoiding university, therefore no H1.
I think at this point would be a good idea to look into Canada, Australia, Japan, etc.
Most countries will still require a bachelor degree or equivalent experience (which varies from country to country (10 years Japan, 12 years USA)) but I suspect no other country's immigration is as troubles as the one in USA.
I'm sitting here preparing some Java source to release under the GPL
Java.. GPL.. problems talks problems, questions, concerns.. ehhhhh.. geez man.. just code !!
Are we coders or politicians ?
Just code !!!
How convenient !
I really respect Mr. Chiariglione as the father of MPEG. I learned about him since a friend of mine worked with him. He's some sort of myth: Italian, graduated in Tokyo as electornic engineer, speaks fluently 7 languages. He's smart enough to know what he's doing.
Maybe he even knows that it's all worthless.. go on.. encrypt as much as you want.. all I need is a SB 16 with a working input line !
A few years ago I read that most of Evans & Sutherland research fruits are not patented because that would simply let the secrets lose and help others (SGI) to copy.
This patenting thing is mostly bullshit: companies patent things to gain value and to have ground to pick up legal fights at any time they wish. Patents are just food for lawyers..
If tomorrow a caveman comes out with his wheel patent we are all screwed and we are going to have to "re-invent the wheel".
The reason why most people here don't like patents it's cause we are coders not bullshit businessmen.
Sorry to disappoint you but I'm afraid that Mr. Doe and his family doesn't even know what MPAA is.. and he won't find out much about it and even less understand about DeCCS anytime soon.. unless you expect the TV news programs to inform him.
I don't think IKEA needs to save money on programmers. I think that web development is a big business and very well paid.. everybody wants to jump in and it's a relatively new kind of development where there isn't a solid experience of the field. Every software developer knows that there is no room for perfection when deadlines and money are involved. It's very common to have bugs here and there.. the problem now is that in web development bugs can easly mean security holes.
Eventually web developers will be required to be educated about security issues.. for now.. it's just a risky business for the customers.
If they could reprogram AIBO to the point in which it has an AI for playing soccer then I guess there must be a way (compilers etc) to do it other than the toy software that one can buy to program some moves.
If only it didn't cost 2.5K and it wasn't impossible to find (unless you wander around the streets of Akihabara).
P.S. Italy came in 2nd in the F-2000 league losing to Germany at the penalty kicks sounds almost like a human soccer world cup 8)
Sorry but I'm just too curious to know (no 8) if this kind of misspelling errors only comes from Americans or is common to any English speaking individuals (where English is the mother tongue).
Kill me but give me opinions.
Thanks
They started to go again. But after a few steps the Japanese student suddenly turned, brandished a small black object, and ran roaring at the householder.
Your versions is as biased as the version that you replied to. Your details really make for a perfect defence: the crazy punk kid, the terrified wife, the small black object... Let's just say that the truth must be somewhere in the middle.
Now what would happen to a teenager in Japan who twice made like he was breaking into a Samurai's house, was twice told to leave by the alerted Samurai, who then suddenly roared and charged...
I would say that it really takes a lot of research before one could manage to break into the house of a(n armed) samurai nowdays...
Assuming one could manage to find a samurai and break into his house, he'll have to deal with some heavy dose of aikido and bamboo sticks before forcing the samurai to use his sword.
I think you did a really bad comparison. Comparing the 21st century USA to the 18th century Japan is like chopping the first half of histogram in a comparison chart.
I'm off topic but you were offroad (IMO).
'C' rules !!
Stop wasting time with all those fancy languages with all those problems. Programmers should work on algorithms not languages.
C# is just another bullshit like C++ and Java. ..in my not so humble opinion.
Your problem is that you are left on your own.. you can take your time and it's easy to become lazy without pressure. If possible you should work in a team where each person relies on other people an awaits for some piece of code to be ready. If you don't work in a team, involve other people. Involve friends in your work if possible.. ask for suggestions.. later on they may gain interest and ask you for progresses. That works for me.. yesterday night I was in the office till 2AM (without even touching Quake3 8) just because my colleagues in Japan asked me for a piece of code for an important demo. I achieved more yesterday than the whole previous week. Sad but true !!
Amiga OS at one point started to include the REXX language and many programs where supporting commands sent through communication ports for that AREXX. Well they were called AREXX ports but one didn't really have to use REXX to send commands. In any case I think this could somewhat lead to a similar situation.. where programs will eventually work in harmony because they have a common language (natural language !). Anyhow as far as I remember, when Michael Abrash left id to go back to MS he was working on natural language parsing. I wonder how much he contributed and if he's going to release any interesting results about it.
You can forget those Quake lightmaps for sure 8) I had to make a game that also runned in a window no matter what color depth. At 8 bit, surpisingly, one could tell what was going on. Now I wonder if there is a way to hack the Palm color display to flicker between two 256 color pictures (unless the Dragonball already does it to achieve 256 colors 8). That brings to 65536 combinations ! Still you need more than 16MHz before the OpenGL API call becomes negligible for real-time use.
I really wonder how much of OpenGL has been ported. OpenGL doesn't do any lighting and color modulation unless it's running in hi/true-color, that rules out even the new color Palm (256 colors only). Maybe they emulate non palettized color by choosing a special palette, but at the price of an ugly sight. Also OpenGL transformations are totally based on floating point. That rules out real-time animation too (anyone ever used the floating point emulation library on the Amiga ?). I think this is cool, I wish OpenGL was everywhere, but on a 16MHz Dragonball CPU is not very useful. Hopefully one day we'll all have OpenGL on silicon !
I think many programmers are just actracted by the complexity of the language. They take it as a challenge to understand that crap and waste most of the time trying to use it. Just like Internet age computer hobbists that fill up their Windows system with crap till it folds on itself and then enjoy reformatting and reinstalling everything from scratch. Too much time to waste !! Funny how everyone is raving about Linux these days. Linux which is based on notions and a language born 30 years ago ! UNIX means C and C means UNIX..
256 colors is good enough to make some really nice games. Too bad for the buttons displacement.. but RTS should be fun with pen and infrared communication. Resolution may still be the same but antialiasing is now possible, just in time for the PDF reader.
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Who likes the new StarTrek anyways ?
I think the stupidest things are those silly looking humans with appliances on their faces.
It's better to see a full body cardboard costume than those cheap masks with wrinkles and horns.
Anything after the original StarTrek seems to be so militarist.. and the technology is trying so hard to be plausible that becomes boring.
Also no outdoor action.. StarTrek is a soap opera with monsters. They even kiss each other ! Ewwwwwwww
Robocup2000 also had a section with simulated robots. The problem though is when trying to simulate a specified existing hardware. There are many real world variables that can make quite a bit of difference: the color and the material of the surfaces can affect the performance of the infrared sensors. And if you start using sonars then there can be a lot of noise to deal with.
This damned software world is filled with races to features. We are copying MS Windows' enough.
Forget those bullshit features.. make the code smaller not bigger !
Maybe, do some research on how to revolutionize the ComputerHuman interface. Instead of adding crap to your GUI why don't you try to make computers usable to "my grand mother" ?
FYI, it's "grammar" not "grammer".
For TiVO you need real time compression and I'm afraid it won't be as good as those DVD converted into MPEG4.
The format seems very confusing but I think it basically uses Wavelets.. which usually processes big blocks (or the whole image) as one big matrix, no 8x8 decomposition like MPEG 1/2. This sounds like a problem for HW compression.. it's going to need a fairly big memory support and maybe variable pitch cache memory (I think Pentium III can do that already (?)). In any case, video compression and real-time video compression can be quite different.
My 2 DCTs.
The most technical data I could find were:
1) It uses Linux
2) "Desktop Backgrounds For Download"
How exciting !!!
I think my mother would like this better than me.
Very sad to hear. Coders should always look out for new challenges. Managment is going to make you so old, fat and lazy and you'll start thinking that you don't need to learn as much anymore. In another 10 years you may as well be just another bungler manager that doesn't quite know what's going on (flame ?).
It's the begin of the end !
Good luck !
And don't even get me started on firearms...
..And you know popoular performers better than unknown performers.
Let me start from that... firearms are indeed illegal (if you live outside the USA) and that's because, while you can both use a gun to kill a charging bull or a human, common sense says that most people buy guns to kill humans not bulls.
You need to look at the facts. Who in the world does really use Napster to exchange non-copyrighted material ?
You may say that it doesn't hurt big label's sale and prove anything you want.. but you must admit that it's a common understanding that Napster is used to exchange mostly copyrighted material. When you (not strictly you) do a search on Napster you usually know what you search, right ?
The reason why there are actual humans dictating and enforcing laws is because laws need some help from "common sense".
I'm pro-Napster, I still buy the few rare CDs that I like as a support action. I really hope Napster helps to force a change in the music industry.. but I must admit that Napster actual use mostly involves exchange of copyrighted material.
Now if you tell me that Mr.King (from the heights of his throne) lacks of credibility when he tries to seduce insitutions to enforce laws by his not so well recognized "common sense", then I agree on that.
If you don't have a comp. sci. degree you can forget about the H1 visa. But.. ..isn't computer science the field where most skilled workers are self-taught ?
Some countries don't have the bachelor (short) degree so many prefer avoiding university, therefore no H1.
I think at this point would be a good idea to look into Canada, Australia, Japan, etc.
Most countries will still require a bachelor degree or equivalent experience (which varies from country to country (10 years Japan, 12 years USA)) but I suspect no other country's immigration is as troubles as the one in USA.
I'm sitting here preparing some Java source to release under the GPL
Java.. GPL.. problems talks problems, questions, concerns.. ehhhhh.. geez man.. just code !!
Are we coders or politicians ?
Just code !!!
How convenient !
I really respect Mr. Chiariglione as the father of MPEG. I learned about him since a friend of mine worked with him. He's some sort of myth: Italian, graduated in Tokyo as electornic engineer, speaks fluently 7 languages. He's smart enough to know what he's doing.
Maybe he even knows that it's all worthless.. go on.. encrypt as much as you want.. all I need is a SB 16 with a working input line !
A few years ago I read that most of Evans & Sutherland research fruits are not patented because that would simply let the secrets lose and help others (SGI) to copy.
This patenting thing is mostly bullshit: companies patent things to gain value and to have ground to pick up legal fights at any time they wish. Patents are just food for lawyers..
If tomorrow a caveman comes out with his wheel patent we are all screwed and we are going to have to "re-invent the wheel".
The reason why most people here don't like patents it's cause we are coders not bullshit businessmen.
Thank you.
Sorry to disappoint you but I'm afraid that Mr. Doe and his family doesn't even know what MPAA is.. and he won't find out much about it and even less understand about DeCCS anytime soon.. unless you expect the TV news programs to inform him.
I don't think IKEA needs to save money on programmers. I think that web development is a big business and very well paid.. everybody wants to jump in and it's a relatively new kind of development where there isn't a solid experience of the field.
Every software developer knows that there is no room for perfection when deadlines and money are involved. It's very common to have bugs here and there.. the problem now is that in web development bugs can easly mean security holes.
Eventually web developers will be required to be educated about security issues.. for now.. it's just a risky business for the customers.
If they could reprogram AIBO to the point in which it has an AI for playing soccer then I guess there must be a way (compilers etc) to do it other than the toy software that one can buy to program some moves.
If only it didn't cost 2.5K and it wasn't impossible to find (unless you wander around the streets of Akihabara).
P.S. Italy came in 2nd in the F-2000 league losing to Germany at the penalty kicks sounds almost like a human soccer world cup 8)
devices, but know one seemed to be interested
Sorry but I'm just too curious to know (no 8) if this kind of misspelling errors only comes from Americans or is common to any English speaking individuals (where English is the mother tongue).
Kill me but give me opinions.
Thanks
They started to go again. But after a few steps the Japanese student suddenly turned, brandished a small black object, and ran roaring at the householder.
Your versions is as biased as the version that you replied to. Your details really make for a perfect defence: the crazy punk kid, the terrified wife, the small black object... Let's just say that the truth must be somewhere in the middle.
Now what would happen to a teenager in Japan who twice made like he was breaking into a Samurai's house, was twice told to leave by the alerted Samurai, who then suddenly roared and charged...
I would say that it really takes a lot of research before one could manage to break into the house of a(n armed) samurai nowdays...
Assuming one could manage to find a samurai and break into his house, he'll have to deal with some heavy dose of aikido and bamboo sticks before forcing the samurai to use his sword.
I think you did a really bad comparison. Comparing the 21st century USA to the 18th century Japan is like chopping the first half of histogram in a comparison chart.
I'm off topic but you were offroad (IMO).
ciaox
'C' rules !!
..in my not so humble opinion.
Stop wasting time with all those fancy languages with all those problems. Programmers should work on algorithms not languages.
C# is just another bullshit like C++ and Java.
Your problem is that you are left on your own.. you can take your time and it's easy to become lazy without pressure.
If possible you should work in a team where each person relies on other people an awaits for some piece of code to be ready. If you don't work in a team, involve other people. Involve friends in your work if possible.. ask for suggestions.. later on they may gain interest and ask you for progresses.
That works for me.. yesterday night I was in the office till 2AM (without even touching Quake3 8) just because my colleagues in Japan asked me for a piece of code for an important demo.
I achieved more yesterday than the whole previous week.
Sad but true !!
Amiga OS at one point started to include the REXX language and many programs where supporting commands sent through communication ports for that AREXX. Well they were called AREXX ports but one didn't really have to use REXX to send commands.
In any case I think this could somewhat lead to a similar situation.. where programs will eventually work in harmony because they have a common language (natural language !).
Anyhow as far as I remember, when Michael Abrash left id to go back to MS he was working on natural language parsing. I wonder how much he contributed and if he's going to release any interesting results about it.
That was Chinese actually ! ciaox
You can forget those Quake lightmaps for sure 8)
I had to make a game that also runned in a window no matter what color depth. At 8 bit, surpisingly, one could tell what was going on.
Now I wonder if there is a way to hack the Palm color display to flicker between two 256 color pictures (unless the Dragonball already does it to achieve 256 colors 8). That brings to 65536 combinations !
Still you need more than 16MHz before the OpenGL API call becomes negligible for real-time use.
bau
I really wonder how much of OpenGL has been ported.
OpenGL doesn't do any lighting and color modulation unless it's running in hi/true-color, that rules out even the new color Palm (256 colors only). Maybe they emulate non palettized color by choosing a special palette, but at the price of an ugly sight. Also OpenGL transformations are totally based on floating point. That rules out real-time animation too (anyone ever used the floating point emulation library on the Amiga ?).
I think this is cool, I wish OpenGL was everywhere, but on a 16MHz Dragonball CPU is not very useful.
Hopefully one day we'll all have OpenGL on silicon !
I think many programmers are just actracted by the complexity of the language. They take it as a challenge to understand that crap and waste most of the time trying to use it. Just like Internet age computer hobbists that fill up their Windows system with crap till it folds on itself and then enjoy reformatting and reinstalling everything from scratch. Too much time to waste !!
Funny how everyone is raving about Linux these days. Linux which is based on notions and a language born 30 years ago !
UNIX means C and C means UNIX..
I will not be assimilated !
256 colors is good enough to make some really nice games. Too bad for the buttons displacement.. but RTS should be fun with pen and infrared communication.
Resolution may still be the same but antialiasing is now possible, just in time for the PDF reader.
Color is good !