So you were one of the two people that survived being sniped?
We all lived through it. Seriously, the way things are publicized, presented, and talked about in our culture, we all live through things like this. Sure, your physical distance may have been closer, but that doesn't make it any more real for you than someone else...unless you were at the gas station when some poor fellow's chest exploded, then I would agree with your statement. However, I doubt that.
Besides, the US military trained this man, not some video game.
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"...which is pretty much what bloggin is a substitute for..."
Of course, most dogs don't watch each other licking their genitals, it's "just one of those things." We however enjoy watching (reading) one another doing this.
The best part about this report is that it will hopefully kick some people in the pants and get them to make more, better, and cheaper LCD monitors (anything less than 1600x1200 and I'm not interested). This will in turn mean that there is more competition in the market, meaning lower prices, meaning more people adopting.
Seriously, if I could get a 19" LCD for $200-300 more than a 19" CRT with the same resolution, I'd do it. I know that price point is a long way off, but if you've got lots of companies making the parts, and serious competition, it could happen (closer to their 2006 time frame). Anyway, LCD's are so much easier on the eyes.
One of the few components of the operating system that was not very portable was the Quartz rendering engine, which had previously been written with a lot of optimizations for PowerPC and G4's (CHIP SPECIFIC CODE).
However, now they've switch over to OpenGL, and have just highly optimized the DRIVERS for the G4 and for multiprocessor environments. So, Quartz is written in OpenGL. What does this mean? One of the few VERY chip specific components of the OS is no longer tied down in such a way.
So, sure it's a possibility...and anyone saying that they wont because they make sales off of hardware...Ummm...who says they still wont make proprietary hardware? Just because they use a different CPU doesn't mean that they cannot make use their own board design.
I'm not one to vote either direction, however it seems that they've made it apparent that they want to be able to move quickly in whatever they do.
The Linux community is pretty fickle. Seriously, with the number of licenses, distrobutions, holy-wars, does it surprise anyone that people are getting grumpy? There are just a lot of grumpy people, and seems a lot of them have a passion for Linux.:)
I figured at some point someone's toes would get stepped on.
I completely agree. No one seems to have mentioned it yet, but I'll chime in. Apple has moved their Quartz rendering engine from very CPU specific (highly AltiVec optimized) design, to OpenGL. Now they just make deals with the driver writers to highly optimize these OpenGL drivers for whatever processor they're using. They've managed to not only be able to offload a ton of processing to the GPU, but at the same time move their windowing system to a CPU independant model. At one time Quartz seemed to be the one big piece of the puzzle that would be dificult to move to Intel/AMD/etc, and that no longer seems to be the case.
One thing I've noticed is that when people have been on a project (and usually producing) for a while, they begin to suffer from burnout, especially if you've gone through several change orders, or other modificaitons that manage to require a fair amount of redesign.
Switch people around a bit. If you give them something new, sometimes it offers a breath of fresh air. Of course, if they've never been producing in the first place, then you're still screwed.
If it's really an issue of the work just isn't getting done, talking to your superiors, and several layoffs or threats are probably in order. You could also have a meeting saying, "if this isn't done on time, we're looking at outsourcing the work and laying people off." Even if it isn't true, it will make people understand that dicking around has consequences.
Do they honestly believe that they can attract new users with these sort of policies? Yea! Come check out how fast this is, and all that you can do. (fine print) Just don't do too much of it, cause ya, then we'll make you pay more you mooch!
I'm curious about what sort of limits we're talking about...if it's like 1GB per month, or 100MB or what?
That Microsoft is still trying to bully people, when they're smack dab in the middle of an anti-trust case?
And beyond that, they're attempting to brow beat one of the biggest names in computer games. It's just assinine to do that. They're the last people on earth that they should be attempting to "strong arm." These are the people you PARTNER with to see your game platform thrive.
The press (and Journalism types everywhere for that matter) are going to snort and scream about this one for a while, and they have reason, they seem to be the only ones waiting for major applications.
However, developers (I) on the other hand should be leaping with joy. Seems every time I've talked to someone about doing a port of an application, they want MacOS 9 and X support, and honestly as cool as Carbon can be, I'd rather be using C++ and Cocoa (Obj-C) with all the cool stuff that only MacOS X does.
About time they've done this. Despite some of the speed issues associated with MacOS X, it just doesn't have the baggage that MacOS 9.X and previous had.
I've heard people say that, "not many people have broadband." However, the people buying these systems most often do. I suspect that the percentage of Xbox owners with broadband is much higher than average.
Also, the issue of backward compatability? It's cool, but if you're going to make a new gaming system, don't worry about the old stuff. If the gaming world has taught people anything it's, "don't worry, I'll buy anything just to play that." How many people have bought new graphics cards because of ONE game?
Sure, a developer would love to see their PS2 games run on the PS?, but would they rather do more with their new titles? You betcha. Game developers love their work, and seeing it fully realized is a better feeling than knowing that it is more compatable, but you had to sacrifice the vision of the game. Remember, we're not making a word processor here.
The main issue is the Internet Explorer still runs off of the "Classic Event Model" where it constantly polls for new events. The newer Carbon event model supports those old methods, because EVERYONE used them in the old system. Think how much CPU that takes when all those old programs (even though they are "carbon compliant") are constantly jumping up and down asking if they've gotten an event.
The new "Carbon Event Model" allows you to associate events with handlers, and when an event fires that you'd like to pay attention to, your call-back gets fired. Much more effecient.
The cocoa event model is even more robust.
The problem lies in that programers were able to compile a "carbon compliant" application, without moving to these new event models. THIS IS GOOD. Imagine how PISSED off a developer was if they were told, "Yea, you have to move all your event code over to this new system, cause it's better." No. A developer would rather have a product up and running on OS X natively, and then move over.
Anyway, it's not that Apple has "buggered" up the system someway, the applications have exploited the API's that Apple has made available, but it was a necissary evil.
BDE was one of the (many) hard hit.COM's that saw their stock go from ~$15.00 to it's current state of roughly 50 cents.
They are looking for a new revenue source, and they know now that selling ads for their web based animation movies isn't going to cut it. What better than an audience that for the most part is going to be completely unaware that they are suddenly a part of this (not everyone reads Slashdot).
What will the average user do? Ignore the ads. If the software bothers them, they they MIGHT delete it, but chances are that the AVERAGE user doesn't care, and BDE is completely aware of this fact. Honestly BDE has found a newly discovered resource, and they're going to use it. BECAUSE they want to make money off all those people sharing files. Honestly, probably not a bad idea. Share and share alike?:)
How many dorm-room based students will suddenly become a part of this network? Just think about the number of AIM clients running in the dorms, and you've got a good guess.
The average user doesn't really care about ads, or even processing, provided it doesn't interfere with the functionality of the computer.
This guy was absolutely full of remarks that if any self respecting woman heard would want to shove back down his thoat.
Like: don't rape, because you wouldn't want to be raped. Most people don't have any trouble following that one.
The United States is a RAPE PRONE society. "Most" people may not have this problem, but it's still epidemic because of the social impression that men are supposed to be dominant and agressive, which this article supports. More than too many of my close female friends have been victim of this sort of activity. I've been a part of Rape Awareness coalition, and it IS F*CKING EPIDEMIC.
Take a look at: RAINN: It's amazing just how bad it is.
Prudes jump right from this one to "never have casual sex"
Let's just use inflamatory language here. Yea, so if a girl wont screw you on the first date she must be a prude. Language like this leads to "dominant male" attitudes towads women.
Articles like this are interesting, becuase I think it's important for "geeks" to become more social than they often seem to be now. Social does not equal sex. Sex can become something that happens when you're social, and his points to be safe and thoughtful are great. However it's still full of all the old sexist stereotypes that I would hope the more intelligent (?) readers of Slashdot would be able to pick up.
Too bad the new administration has already made it clear that the environment is not a real priority. Gore was planning (like I'm planning to get my homework done at some point) to help move along the hybrid car market. Too freakin late now though.
All I have to say is that mouse aiming is a thing of the past! Screw this keyboard and mouse crap!
Hell, Bust-a-groove with something like that!
So can the monkey move the arm without moving? Or can it think about moving it's arm and have the arm move? If you've gotta do calisthenics to get the robot to move, however, if I can just think about doing something...
> but neither of them will be landed near the
> place where the evidence of liquid water was
> found recently.
This is because the window for rover landing locations is only like 14.5 degrees off the 0 degree. The rovers need power, and they get the most there. So, we do the best we can.
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Isn't this the same business model that IBM used in the days of yore?
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
- Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943
The old rulers of IBM figured that they would just rent out their computer time to do those big jobs of the rest of the world.
Seems like this is an old idea, not a new one.
-C
So you were one of the two people that survived being sniped?
We all lived through it. Seriously, the way things are publicized, presented, and talked about in our culture, we all live through things like this. Sure, your physical distance may have been closer, but that doesn't make it any more real for you than someone else...unless you were at the gas station when some poor fellow's chest exploded, then I would agree with your statement. However, I doubt that.
Besides, the US military trained this man, not some video game.
"...which is pretty much what bloggin is a substitute for..."
Of course, most dogs don't watch each other licking their genitals, it's "just one of those things." We however enjoy watching (reading) one another doing this.
The best part about this report is that it will hopefully kick some people in the pants and get them to make more, better, and cheaper LCD monitors (anything less than 1600x1200 and I'm not interested). This will in turn mean that there is more competition in the market, meaning lower prices, meaning more people adopting.
Seriously, if I could get a 19" LCD for $200-300 more than a 19" CRT with the same resolution, I'd do it. I know that price point is a long way off, but if you've got lots of companies making the parts, and serious competition, it could happen (closer to their 2006 time frame). Anyway, LCD's are so much easier on the eyes.
Just a thought...
They must be on crack. There are many different places looking at these sorts of things:
c hn ology__and_Society_Studies/
http://dir.yahoo.com/Social_Science/Science__Te
Seriously...most places that do cultural analysis of science are also looking at the effects of the internet.
One of the few components of the operating system that was not very portable was the Quartz rendering engine, which had previously been written with a lot of optimizations for PowerPC and G4's (CHIP SPECIFIC CODE).
However, now they've switch over to OpenGL, and have just highly optimized the DRIVERS for the G4 and for multiprocessor environments. So, Quartz is written in OpenGL. What does this mean? One of the few VERY chip specific components of the OS is no longer tied down in such a way.
So, sure it's a possibility...and anyone saying that they wont because they make sales off of hardware...Ummm...who says they still wont make proprietary hardware? Just because they use a different CPU doesn't mean that they cannot make use their own board design.
I'm not one to vote either direction, however it seems that they've made it apparent that they want to be able to move quickly in whatever they do.
The Linux community is pretty fickle. Seriously, with the number of licenses, distrobutions, holy-wars, does it surprise anyone that people are getting grumpy? There are just a lot of grumpy people, and seems a lot of them have a passion for Linux. :)
I figured at some point someone's toes would get stepped on.
Our companies are supposed to train us? What a sweet concept!
I always just have someone throw a book at me (if I'm lucky).
I completely agree. No one seems to have mentioned it yet, but I'll chime in. Apple has moved their Quartz rendering engine from very CPU specific (highly AltiVec optimized) design, to OpenGL. Now they just make deals with the driver writers to highly optimize these OpenGL drivers for whatever processor they're using. They've managed to not only be able to offload a ton of processing to the GPU, but at the same time move their windowing system to a CPU independant model. At one time Quartz seemed to be the one big piece of the puzzle that would be dificult to move to Intel/AMD/etc, and that no longer seems to be the case.
One thing I've noticed is that when people have been on a project (and usually producing) for a while, they begin to suffer from burnout, especially if you've gone through several change orders, or other modificaitons that manage to require a fair amount of redesign.
Switch people around a bit. If you give them something new, sometimes it offers a breath of fresh air. Of course, if they've never been producing in the first place, then you're still screwed.
If it's really an issue of the work just isn't getting done, talking to your superiors, and several layoffs or threats are probably in order. You could also have a meeting saying, "if this isn't done on time, we're looking at outsourcing the work and laying people off." Even if it isn't true, it will make people understand that dicking around has consequences.
Do they honestly believe that they can attract new users with these sort of policies? Yea! Come check out how fast this is, and all that you can do. (fine print) Just don't do too much of it, cause ya, then we'll make you pay more you mooch!
I'm curious about what sort of limits we're talking about...if it's like 1GB per month, or 100MB or what?
That Microsoft is still trying to bully people, when they're smack dab in the middle of an anti-trust case?
And beyond that, they're attempting to brow beat one of the biggest names in computer games. It's just assinine to do that. They're the last people on earth that they should be attempting to "strong arm." These are the people you PARTNER with to see your game platform thrive.
The press (and Journalism types everywhere for that matter) are going to snort and scream about this one for a while, and they have reason, they seem to be the only ones waiting for major applications.
However, developers (I) on the other hand should be leaping with joy. Seems every time I've talked to someone about doing a port of an application, they want MacOS 9 and X support, and honestly as cool as Carbon can be, I'd rather be using C++ and Cocoa (Obj-C) with all the cool stuff that only MacOS X does.
About time they've done this. Despite some of the speed issues associated with MacOS X, it just doesn't have the baggage that MacOS 9.X and previous had.
`Bout dang time.
I've heard people say that, "not many people have broadband." However, the people buying these systems most often do. I suspect that the percentage of Xbox owners with broadband is much higher than average.
Also, the issue of backward compatability? It's cool, but if you're going to make a new gaming system, don't worry about the old stuff. If the gaming world has taught people anything it's, "don't worry, I'll buy anything just to play that." How many people have bought new graphics cards because of ONE game?
Sure, a developer would love to see their PS2 games run on the PS?, but would they rather do more with their new titles? You betcha. Game developers love their work, and seeing it fully realized is a better feeling than knowing that it is more compatable, but you had to sacrifice the vision of the game. Remember, we're not making a word processor here.
Cheers.
The main issue is the Internet Explorer still runs off of the "Classic Event Model" where it constantly polls for new events. The newer Carbon event model supports those old methods, because EVERYONE used them in the old system. Think how much CPU that takes when all those old programs (even though they are "carbon compliant") are constantly jumping up and down asking if they've gotten an event.
o n/ CarbonPortingTools/carbonportingtools.html
The new "Carbon Event Model" allows you to associate events with handlers, and when an event fires that you'd like to pay attention to, your call-back gets fired. Much more effecient.
The cocoa event model is even more robust.
The problem lies in that programers were able to compile a "carbon compliant" application, without moving to these new event models. THIS IS GOOD. Imagine how PISSED off a developer was if they were told, "Yea, you have to move all your event code over to this new system, cause it's better." No. A developer would rather have a product up and running on OS X natively, and then move over.
Anyway, it's not that Apple has "buggered" up the system someway, the applications have exploited the API's that Apple has made available, but it was a necissary evil.
http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/Carb
Has information about the carbon event model, and high performance computing.
Take a look at BDE's stock history.
.COM's that saw their stock go from ~$15.00 to it's current state of roughly 50 cents.
:)
BDE was one of the (many) hard hit
They are looking for a new revenue source, and they know now that selling ads for their web based animation movies isn't going to cut it. What better than an audience that for the most part is going to be completely unaware that they are suddenly a part of this (not everyone reads Slashdot).
What will the average user do? Ignore the ads. If the software bothers them, they they MIGHT delete it, but chances are that the AVERAGE user doesn't care, and BDE is completely aware of this fact. Honestly BDE has found a newly discovered resource, and they're going to use it. BECAUSE they want to make money off all those people sharing files. Honestly, probably not a bad idea. Share and share alike?
How many dorm-room based students will suddenly become a part of this network? Just think about the number of AIM clients running in the dorms, and you've got a good guess.
The average user doesn't really care about ads, or even processing, provided it doesn't interfere with the functionality of the computer.
Cheers.
Novel thought, paying for games.
C-out
Like: don't rape, because you wouldn't want to be raped. Most people don't have any trouble following that one.
The United States is a RAPE PRONE society. "Most" people may not have this problem, but it's still epidemic because of the social impression that men are supposed to be dominant and agressive, which this article supports. More than too many of my close female friends have been victim of this sort of activity. I've been a part of Rape Awareness coalition, and it IS F*CKING EPIDEMIC.
Take a look at: RAINN: It's amazing just how bad it is.
Prudes jump right from this one to "never have casual sex"
Let's just use inflamatory language here. Yea, so if a girl wont screw you on the first date she must be a prude. Language like this leads to "dominant male" attitudes towads women.
Articles like this are interesting, becuase I think it's important for "geeks" to become more social than they often seem to be now. Social does not equal sex. Sex can become something that happens when you're social, and his points to be safe and thoughtful are great. However it's still full of all the old sexist stereotypes that I would hope the more intelligent (?) readers of Slashdot would be able to pick up.
C-out
Consider the source...MSNBC.
As I said, might be totally valid, however one must also consider that MS probably has a bonus for every article bashing a competative OS.
C - OUT
GIMP has already been ported.
Too bad the new administration has already made it clear that the environment is not a real priority. Gore was planning (like I'm planning to get my homework done at some point) to help move along the hybrid car market. Too freakin late now though.
All I have to say is that mouse aiming is a thing of the past! Screw this keyboard and mouse crap!
Hell, Bust-a-groove with something like that!
So can the monkey move the arm without moving? Or can it think about moving it's arm and have the arm move? If you've gotta do calisthenics to get the robot to move, however, if I can just think about doing something...
I think about doing homework all the time...
C
> but neither of them will be landed near the
> place where the evidence of liquid water was
> found recently.
This is because the window for rover landing locations is only like 14.5 degrees off the 0 degree. The rovers need power, and they get the most there. So, we do the best we can.
Casey
> Does this mean we're going to break up the RIAA while we're at it?
Pretty Please?
More power to em...wish it wasn't Di$ney though. Though the name alone, says why it's Di$ney.
C