User: johnjones

ignor it is the safest option

On: Paging Eliza: Patenting IM Bots

just ignor it

why ?

because when they come to inforce it aganist someone big and fall flat on their face

then people claim for damages (-;

its a hell of alot safer to NOT know about patents as a developer than to know this way you can hold your hand up and say I did not know with all honesty

let the law people worry about it

regards

John Jones

no you are

On: The Future of Real-Time Graphics

so if google says its so then it must be true

I am a dyslexic
but since I cant spell I put how I would phonetically spell dyslexic and that would be deltic sorry if you might have to think for that one

yes he was talking about script and so on but the story wasnt about that, it was about rendering power and pixar saying that all the UltraSPARCs they have not being overturned by a graphics card

on top of this its never wise to say never

its like saying that monkeys will never reproduce the works of shakespeare (-;

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john jones

never say never

On: The Future of Real-Time Graphics

why should you not say this because it exposes you as a fool

read what the article says

you already have the film data they are talking about rendering it in real time

on top of this Ive seen show's for kids that arnt very complex in terms of story or creatures(vertex wise) that are completely Computer Generated

so you are a ..... in my eyes

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John Jones

just hope that PS3 has OpenGL 2.0 clean

On: The Future of Real-Time Graphics

I am hopeing that the Playstation 3 has OpenGL 2.0 interface

it does not have to have the legacy stuff that a full OpenGL 2.0 has to have just all the cleaned up interfaces

now that would be cool

reddering stuff on my playstation !

regards

John Jones

yes I know

On: Gobe Productive To Be GPLed

I have written a few hokey papers and I ended up writeing them in vi/emacs then doing the formating on a mac in Quark

lets face it in terms of layout all these editors suck

if you just want to write something then emacs/vi get you there the main problem is makeing something that people who are used to MS word want to use

Open Office does a good job but it needs its Visaul Component Libs (VCL) sorted

this is what you have to hack in order to get native widgets like the aqua interface they had to hack the VCL for aqua so that the widgets would look right rather than just useing a Xlib solution
(that was what all the open Office on MacOS X was all about currently they just use the Xlib interface)

open office needs to convert VCL to aqua and GTK 2 as well as MFC to look right and appeal to the mass's

regards

John Jones

yet to see it

On: PowerPC Goes 64 bit

intel said the Xscale would do 900MHz but all the test chips and produvtion has been 400MHz

so really unless you have benchmarked it (A chip which I havnt seen) you can say that

compare a 400MHz G3 against a 400MHz Xscale and then we can talk

in terms of apps like telephonery and video then the ARM wins because of the DSP extensions in terms of floating point add a VPU and then the ARM is not to shabby

regards

John Jones

it says more than 160 and Altivec=162

On: PowerPC Goes 64 bit

it says more than 160 and altivec has 162

regards

John Jones

actually the 1.2GHz ARM is more intresting

On: PowerPC Goes 64 bit

the fact that PowerPC high end is comeing down to the low end well who whould have that coming .....

the intresting part will be a 1.2GHz ARM part from Samsung useing the Alpha technology
(they say its ARM10 but I think thats wrong and its just ARMv5 complient but that sounds bad in marketing speak so thedy said it was like an ARM10(I think I am not sure) )

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John Jones

uh huh

On: PVRs Down Under?

they come on the same carrier signal so if you can get it then you get sound

is this what some saleman told you ?

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John Jones

wake up

On: Free/Open ACE Servers?

err

why use this stuff when I can offer the CEO's secetry $10k in cash and get any information I want
on top of this you pay for this and you dont know whats inside !

so how do you prove its secure ?

hell you trust software companys more than I ever will
(for this level of stupidness you must pay)

regards

john jones

Re:Major failing of GRACE

On: GRACE Exceeds Expectations!

no the major failing is that you had to type on the keyboard to tell it where the sign for registration was even though it had a bunch of rules for it

basically it was huge and silly

it did nothing well at all apparently

thats what you get for an all digital solution where you program in rules

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John Jones

GCC

On: Will Darwin be Ported to the IBM Power 4?

ok AMD helped SUSE create a GCC backend for x86-64 apple use GCC as the default compiler so thats easy

AMD actually funded ST electronics to do the compiler which does alot better than GCC

in terms of could they move across to a x86-64 technically yes*

*actually they would not do it because backward compatability would be nill and anyone who has done any study of software a backwards compatabilty knows what you should do

so will they move to x86-64 NO
will they move to a 64bit PowerPC ? yes**

** it may not be a Moto part and apple might just buy out motos CPU design licence and use IBM's Fabs like that .10 micron in fishkill

regards

John Jones

Re:Wrong....again

On: GUIs for Everyone

who cares about the desktop market
the whole thing is wrong you stare at a HD display

now interfaces to worry about are

Playstation 3

my phone/PDA/lifemachine

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John Jones

and microsoft will support

On: Linus: Praying for Hammer to Win

oh and microsoft will support 4 64bit archs (-;

AMD -> x86-64
Intel -> IA64
?
?

to quote http://www

so what would it be surley not Alha as thats end of life and not PA-RISC

that leaves MIPS PowerPC and ?

regards

john jones

GDB is BIG and old valgrind help's

On: Valgrind 1.0.0 Released

I Had to debug GDB and Valgrind helped me find memory leaks in this and gdbTK

GDB is pretty icky so thats a ugly program for you it also managed to debug my ARM/MIPS sim which is small

overall I give it 5 stars

regards

john jones

this rocks run your desktop apps

On: Valgrind 1.0.0 Released

Valgrind rocks

companys should employ this man (he did work for MS research labs here in cambridge ;-)

I found bugs in GDB because of valgrind so hey debug a debugger .....

also lanch your GNOME or KDE app and report those memory leaks

also has Bzip2 on the CV

respect

regards

John Jones

p.s. Julian I owe you a beer contact me at work

actually yes

On: Additional Security in the Linux Kernel?

the major problem today is people useing tools

to this end you can use a mac
(big endian so defeats alot of stack smashing targeted at x86)

use bsd
(THE network stack -problems in MS TCP/IP stack have been solved years ago in BSD)

and dont run any silly daemons

http://www.

does a nice job of sorting out things config wise where most problems live

regards

John Jones

OpenGL 2.0 shader

On: NVIDIA Cg Compiler Technology to be Open Source

so are they looking to get this into OpenGL 2.0 ?

there was some debate on which was better 3DLabs or this as well as an ATI solution

anyone know more ?

but whatever happens Thank you
after all the chip business needs a reason to sell more chips and graphics is a big one the faster people can use the new features the more games/apps need powerfull chips

regards

john jones

GCC and borland

On: Borland Releases Kylix 3.0 for Delphi and C++

ok borland have been shipping their CPP compiler for a while on linux (nothing new)

what this release does I would think is link aganst the CLX to do the GUI stuff

and add their CPP IDE (which is actually visual and drag and drop unlike microsofts which is just a text editor but they call it visual...)

now if they where useing STANDARD CPP why should using GCC be impossible (I suspect they have a few broken things in terms of standard support just like gcc has a few broken things) and the fact that CPP changes every meeting does not help but it would be nice if they said what gcc would require to do this
(I am not talking about opening up CLX just linking your code with it useing gnu tools)

borland selling in effect libs and a IDE would be a good thing IMHO

regards

john jones

you should know how it works

On: Using CDDB to Fill ID3 Information in Existing MP3s?

this whole thread should be

"I have no clue but leached my music "

CDDB works by doing a simple lookup of the CD's ID (burned in ) and then querys the CDDB database for what it thinks should the track names and other info

this is done on the track NUMBER and CD ID if you dont have these then CDDB is going to be pretty useless

regards

john jones

strange how cobalt uses XFS

On: XFS on a Web Server?

if you buy a cun Cobalt RAQ then the FS they use is XFS

hey if its good for Cobalt/SUN then its good for me

regards

john jones

p.s. cobalt used to ship MIPS as well but because they had so much hassle then switched to x86

x86-64 out before AMD

On: Transmeta Lays off 40% of its Workers

yes I think that they could have done or have done it

really this is software and the only thing that would limit them is some stupid restriction in the hardware (which they have not made) this means that the transmeta laptop now with a rom update is a 64bit machine (-;

the only reason they have not done it is that they dont want to steal AMD's thunder

if transmeta get their system working like a SOC and all you have to do is wire up the Phy of a net/USB/LCD/ideHD then I think they will really take off

vendors are sick to death with chipsets and chips they just want a nice x86 System On a Chip

regards

john jones

not many components -why so hard ?

On: PDA and Subnotebook Killer?

there is not all that much to think about

transmeta SOC
RAM
hard disk
LCD
battery

so in terms of board layout its nowhere near as had to do a motherboard

the real thing is the battery life and screen because large screen needs more batterys and personally I could not live under 1024/768 if I had to run normal windows

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john jones

isync = syncML

On: Apple Reveals Mac OS X 10.2, 17" iMac, Windows iPod

how are they doing the syncing of calender and contacts with phones ?

regards

john jones

not a troll

On: Software Engineering at Microsoft

show stopper from

when has been recomending books on the subject a troll (and it was done by someone with unlimted .... )