The one part that isn't is the edge of these textures.
I believe you are incorrect. Textures get antialiased, true. This has been going on since the days of Voodoo1. The edges you see are not the edges of textures, rather, the edges of a model (polygons) in relationship to the rest of the scene. Hence the term "Full Scene Anti-Aliasing". Even a shaded mesh rotating on screen would result in "jaggies". At that point it has nothing to do with the textures.
Now, I'm no communist/socialist/marxist, but I'm amazed that no one has mentioned what the root of the problem is. This whole genetic testing issue should be waking a lot of people up. Making peoples health a business (i.e. health insurance) is sick, and the U.S., although I'm glad is not allowing genetic testing, should employ a national healthcare program. I find it morally grotesque that someone will go to the hospital in need, and be turned away because they don't have the money or insurance. Sure, governments have never been as efficient as privitized organizations, and squandering can happen (see Canada), but at least everyone is treated equally.
This is a very good point, and it touches on a much larger issue. Should ISP's be allowed to regulate how we use our connection? IMHO we are just _leasing_ the connection, and as long as we don't participate in illegal activities (sorry, Gnutella != illegal), which should go without saying. If I wanna run a server, fine. That's why @Home limits me to 128Kb on the upstream - it prevents me from running a 1,000 user FTP!
This is like the phone company making sure you don't use your phone to read someone a copyrighted poem (assuming a bad fair use law). Even though reading literature in and of itself is perfectly legal, the phone company bans it "just incase" - plus it takes up too much phone time on their systems ($). People would be outraged if our leased phonelines would be treated the way some ISP's treat our internet connections.
Actually, this makes it more realistic looking, seeing that it's made out of paper and all. This isn't some nice sturdy metal, so not everything will align.
No, we can't stop science, but let's focus on a science that actually benefits people. We have millions of starving people, countries with great social unrest, and economies so bad that even the hardest working can barely put a roof over their head. Cloning, Mars Dirt, etc. is fine, but let's fix our fsck'd up earth!
(Oh crap this goes against general Slashdot opinion I'm now a troll... maybe this will help:) As if all of this isn't bad enough, we can't seem to get rid of this "Windows" virus that keeps plaguing our computers!
One thing people forget when comparing the speed of a windows GUI and Linux WM's is hardware acceleration. Even back in the day of Windows 3.x, hardware manufactures (like Orchid, remember those cards?) built hardware accelerators for windows.
This being said, I think that XFree86 has some (minor?) performance issues when compared to Windows, but if use of hardware acceleration is introduced, at least we can compare the speed on an equal playing field.
To amplify one of your statements, the biggest issue plagging WAP may not even the WAP spec itself, it's the "WAP browsers". You thought coding for Opera,IE,NS,Mozilla, and WebTV was a pain, have any of you tried to code a halfway dynamic WAP application? Talk about workarounds! Different phones and different versions of browsers on the same phone render everything differently or throw errors on valid WML. This increases R&D for companies wanting to develop wireless apps - it's just too much of a pain right now.
Yes, I used to work for a company that AOL couldn't get to, period. Not just email, but everything. We found out later that it was a DNS problem, and a change we made weeks earlier still hadn't updated to all the proxy's. This went on for almost 3 months, when finally AOL's cache was completly flushed. All other ISP's had updated their cache within 24 hours. I was so mad I put up a message on the old IP saying that if you where an AOL customer that you wouldn't be able to access our systems until AOL fixed their problematic architecture... we almost got sued for slander, so I don't suggest that route.
Bottom line - I too talked to (clueless) AOL tech support for hours at a time to no avail. We just had to wait for this wierd caching problem to go away. Problem is, our customers thought it was our problem... they seem to think that we control how they get to the Internet. You just have to educate your customers that you can't control 80% of the process (computer hardware, OS, browser, ISP, backbone/NAP's).
Do you guys have any IDEA how much electricity Holywood, Universal Studios, and all of the other Studio's/Major Amusment parks use over there? Most of their outlets are 220's!
Why is it always "this vs. that"? Who cares if somone makes a better *nix for the desktop. Linux sucks as a home pc (not as a home workstation used by us technically minded folks) unless used in instances like the ThinkNIC machine. MacOS has had some tough times, but this could be a great *nix based OS that typical home users could enjoy. Linux on the server, OS X for the home, where does windows fit in?:)
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Now that SPAMMING is becoming a crime, what happens if someone attempts to frame YOU for the spam... "Mr. Johnson is now facing trial and plea's innocent and claims that the real spammer hacked his email account".
We've found that with Allaire's JRUN engine, page execution is reasonable on a dual PIII with 256megs of RAM (NT4). We also found it funny that our Allaire Cold Fusion templates could easily out perform our JSP's (sometimes 2:1), but we didn't want to spend the $5K (vs. $1300) on CFEnterprise for the use of CORBA ORBS and EJB's.
holy cow, everytime the word apple is even breathed in passing someone (hundreds of someone's actually) bleat off about the mouse button count.
Because, we (I, at least) use two, sometimes 3 mouse buttons all the time.
Don't get me wrong, if I had the cash for a laptop, this would be the laptop of choice, and yes I'd get a USB mouse. This laptop would be my portable Music/Video studio (Propellerheads REASON + new G4 PB = Portable Music Studio!), but I find it disconcerning that after I pay $3K-$4K I have to spend another $50 to accomodate an engineering flaw.
Evidence for electrical conductivity in DNA molecules has been inconclusive until now.
Inconclusive? Ever since I stuck my hand in a light socket, I KNEW my DNA was conducting a HELL of a lot of electricity!
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Your points are well taken.
I think you hit the nail on the head when you said, "people will do stupid things, regardless". And I agree, let's use those billions of dollars for something better. But, I find it interesting that you are for giving it to the "poor". Trying to fight lazyness with money is almost the same as trying to fight stupidity.
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Now, I'm not talking about 3rd world countries that have people who work 18 hours a day for $4/day... let's send the money there. But the vast majority (there is an exception to every rule, please no reactions) of poor people in the US are lazy - they need help, but when they get help most would rather beg than take up a job. Have you ever offered a homeless person a job in the US? For a decent wage? When you make over $10/hour with a cardboard sign on the street, why get a real job? Give your money to people who really need it, in coutries with bad economies...
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The reason harsh punishments don't work here is because we can't enforce them. Our damn legal system is so full of BS that people know they can get off on a technicality or plea insanity. Everyones insane! You still have to pay the consequences. Capitol punishment does work, when executed properly (no pun intended). But that's a little off topic. I guess the point is, if we actually punished the criminals, instead of spending 5 years thinking about punishing them, we'd be farther ahead.
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Tobacco ban didn't work because of multiple reasons... tobacco shouldn't be banned - just nicotine. We just need a better way of enforcing the ban on substances that ruin innocent peoples lives, like the children who are addicted to crack when they are born, or who grow up with a 50% higher chance of lung cancer.
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Yes, but they don't have an indulgent culture like ours. Sure, weed doesn't hurt every once in a while (although I don't recommend it), but that doesn't mean that it won't screw you up eventually. We can't balance our alchohol, our weed, or our nicotine.
I've seen so many lives ruined by many "levels" of drugs, not just hard drugs. I've also seen businessmen make blatently poor decisions, ruing their company, with everyone going "what happened to him?" Cocaine. It's sad and horrible to see what such things do to people. People are so defensive about weed, only because they like it and it's sooo poppular, which blinds them from the facts IMHO. At the same time, I don't think that it's something that the governemnt should regulate, kuz it's a lot better than nicotine!
It's bad enough that we should spend millions of dollars tracking "weed criminals"... we could be doing a lot more productive things with our money, and let the people who want to make their brain a littler slower do so. But when it comes to super addictive stuff like cocain and nicotine, I say ban it and enforce it, because this indulgent culture can't stay away from it.
I can understand why ebay want's to do this. I've always had good experiences with ebay, but I've gotten emails for "offline" items myself. While I may not blame ebay for getting scammed in an unrelated offline item, the niave may, and it could greatly hurt ebay's reputation - even though they had nothing to do with it.
The only way I can see ebay pulling this off is by hiding all emails except for the highest bidder. If the other bidders have questions for the seller, it would have to go through a web-form that anonymized everything. This, of course, has it's own set of implications.
If you think the ads are annoying, then pay for the content. Banner ads do work - I wouldn't have known about thinkgeek without them! Annoying people more isn't going to work any better. At the same time, google has to maintain those 5,000 linux boxes somehow. The OS may be free but the hardware sure isn't!
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The one part that isn't is the edge of these textures.
I believe you are incorrect. Textures get antialiased, true. This has been going on since the days of Voodoo1. The edges you see are not the edges of textures, rather, the edges of a model (polygons) in relationship to the rest of the scene. Hence the term "Full Scene Anti-Aliasing". Even a shaded mesh rotating on screen would result in "jaggies". At that point it has nothing to do with the textures.
Now, I'm no communist/socialist/marxist, but I'm amazed that no one has mentioned what the root of the problem is. This whole genetic testing issue should be waking a lot of people up. Making peoples health a business (i.e. health insurance) is sick, and the U.S., although I'm glad is not allowing genetic testing, should employ a national healthcare program. I find it morally grotesque that someone will go to the hospital in need, and be turned away because they don't have the money or insurance. Sure, governments have never been as efficient as privitized organizations, and squandering can happen (see Canada), but at least everyone is treated equally.
This is a very good point, and it touches on a much larger issue. Should ISP's be allowed to regulate how we use our connection? IMHO we are just _leasing_ the connection, and as long as we don't participate in illegal activities (sorry, Gnutella != illegal), which should go without saying. If I wanna run a server, fine. That's why @Home limits me to 128Kb on the upstream - it prevents me from running a 1,000 user FTP!
This is like the phone company making sure you don't use your phone to read someone a copyrighted poem (assuming a bad fair use law). Even though reading literature in and of itself is perfectly legal, the phone company bans it "just incase" - plus it takes up too much phone time on their systems ($). People would be outraged if our leased phonelines would be treated the way some ISP's treat our internet connections.
Actually, this makes it more realistic looking, seeing that it's made out of paper and all. This isn't some nice sturdy metal, so not everything will align.
No, we can't stop science, but let's focus on a science that actually benefits people. We have millions of starving people, countries with great social unrest, and economies so bad that even the hardest working can barely put a roof over their head. Cloning, Mars Dirt, etc. is fine, but let's fix our fsck'd up earth! (Oh crap this goes against general Slashdot opinion I'm now a troll... maybe this will help:) As if all of this isn't bad enough, we can't seem to get rid of this "Windows" virus that keeps plaguing our computers!
Now Apple needs to make a version of the Titanium Powerbook with a removeable "linuxPPC" drive :).
One thing people forget when comparing the speed of a windows GUI and Linux WM's is hardware acceleration. Even back in the day of Windows 3.x, hardware manufactures (like Orchid, remember those cards?) built hardware accelerators for windows.
This being said, I think that XFree86 has some (minor?) performance issues when compared to Windows, but if use of hardware acceleration is introduced, at least we can compare the speed on an equal playing field.
To amplify one of your statements, the biggest issue plagging WAP may not even the WAP spec itself, it's the "WAP browsers". You thought coding for Opera,IE,NS,Mozilla, and WebTV was a pain, have any of you tried to code a halfway dynamic WAP application? Talk about workarounds! Different phones and different versions of browsers on the same phone render everything differently or throw errors on valid WML. This increases R&D for companies wanting to develop wireless apps - it's just too much of a pain right now.
Yes, I used to work for a company that AOL couldn't get to, period. Not just email, but everything. We found out later that it was a DNS problem, and a change we made weeks earlier still hadn't updated to all the proxy's. This went on for almost 3 months, when finally AOL's cache was completly flushed. All other ISP's had updated their cache within 24 hours. I was so mad I put up a message on the old IP saying that if you where an AOL customer that you wouldn't be able to access our systems until AOL fixed their problematic architecture... we almost got sued for slander, so I don't suggest that route.
Bottom line - I too talked to (clueless) AOL tech support for hours at a time to no avail. We just had to wait for this wierd caching problem to go away. Problem is, our customers thought it was our problem... they seem to think that we control how they get to the Internet. You just have to educate your customers that you can't control 80% of the process (computer hardware, OS, browser, ISP, backbone/NAP's).
Do you guys have any IDEA how much electricity Holywood, Universal Studios, and all of the other Studio's/Major Amusment parks use over there? Most of their outlets are 220's!
Why is it always "this vs. that"? Who cares if somone makes a better *nix for the desktop. Linux sucks as a home pc (not as a home workstation used by us technically minded folks) unless used in instances like the ThinkNIC machine. MacOS has had some tough times, but this could be a great *nix based OS that typical home users could enjoy. Linux on the server, OS X for the home, where does windows fit in? :)
Now that SPAMMING is becoming a crime, what happens if someone attempts to frame YOU for the spam... "Mr. Johnson is now facing trial and plea's innocent and claims that the real spammer hacked his email account".
We've found that with Allaire's JRUN engine, page execution is reasonable on a dual PIII with 256megs of RAM (NT4). We also found it funny that our Allaire Cold Fusion templates could easily out perform our JSP's (sometimes 2:1), but we didn't want to spend the $5K (vs. $1300) on CFEnterprise for the use of CORBA ORBS and EJB's.
Typical Apple Ego... too big to humbly admit that their one button "more efficient" concept was holyer than thou sinful multi-button concept.
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holy cow, everytime the word apple is even breathed in passing someone (hundreds of someone's actually) bleat off about the mouse button count.
Because, we (I, at least) use two, sometimes 3 mouse buttons all the time.
Don't get me wrong, if I had the cash for a laptop, this would be the laptop of choice, and yes I'd get a USB mouse. This laptop would be my portable Music/Video studio (Propellerheads REASON + new G4 PB = Portable Music Studio!), but I find it disconcerning that after I pay $3K-$4K I have to spend another $50 to accomodate an engineering flaw.
Evidence for electrical conductivity in DNA molecules has been inconclusive until now.
Inconclusive? Ever since I stuck my hand in a light socket, I KNEW my DNA was conducting a HELL of a lot of electricity!
Your points are well taken.
I think you hit the nail on the head when you said, "people will do stupid things, regardless". And I agree, let's use those billions of dollars for something better. But, I find it interesting that you are for giving it to the "poor". Trying to fight lazyness with money is almost the same as trying to fight stupidity.
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Now, I'm not talking about 3rd world countries that have people who work 18 hours a day for $4/day... let's send the money there. But the vast majority (there is an exception to every rule, please no reactions) of poor people in the US are lazy - they need help, but when they get help most would rather beg than take up a job. Have you ever offered a homeless person a job in the US? For a decent wage? When you make over $10/hour with a cardboard sign on the street, why get a real job? Give your money to people who really need it, in coutries with bad economies...
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The reason harsh punishments don't work here is because we can't enforce them. Our damn legal system is so full of BS that people know they can get off on a technicality or plea insanity. Everyones insane! You still have to pay the consequences. Capitol punishment does work, when executed properly (no pun intended). But that's a little off topic. I guess the point is, if we actually punished the criminals, instead of spending 5 years thinking about punishing them, we'd be farther ahead.
Tobacco ban didn't work because of multiple reasons... tobacco shouldn't be banned - just nicotine. We just need a better way of enforcing the ban on substances that ruin innocent peoples lives, like the children who are addicted to crack when they are born, or who grow up with a 50% higher chance of lung cancer.
Yes, but they don't have an indulgent culture like ours. Sure, weed doesn't hurt every once in a while (although I don't recommend it), but that doesn't mean that it won't screw you up eventually. We can't balance our alchohol, our weed, or our nicotine. I've seen so many lives ruined by many "levels" of drugs, not just hard drugs. I've also seen businessmen make blatently poor decisions, ruing their company, with everyone going "what happened to him?" Cocaine. It's sad and horrible to see what such things do to people. People are so defensive about weed, only because they like it and it's sooo poppular, which blinds them from the facts IMHO. At the same time, I don't think that it's something that the governemnt should regulate, kuz it's a lot better than nicotine! It's bad enough that we should spend millions of dollars tracking "weed criminals"... we could be doing a lot more productive things with our money, and let the people who want to make their brain a littler slower do so. But when it comes to super addictive stuff like cocain and nicotine, I say ban it and enforce it, because this indulgent culture can't stay away from it.
I can understand why ebay want's to do this. I've always had good experiences with ebay, but I've gotten emails for "offline" items myself. While I may not blame ebay for getting scammed in an unrelated offline item, the niave may, and it could greatly hurt ebay's reputation - even though they had nothing to do with it.
The only way I can see ebay pulling this off is by hiding all emails except for the highest bidder. If the other bidders have questions for the seller, it would have to go through a web-form that anonymized everything. This, of course, has it's own set of implications.
This is nowhere as bad as IBM's patent on BROWSER DETECTION! http://www.delphion.com/details?pn=US06167441__
Well... duh they will get rid of their Oracle guys... probably quicker then 5 years since everyone is upgrading to SQL2000.
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If you think the ads are annoying, then pay for the content. Banner ads do work - I wouldn't have known about thinkgeek without them! Annoying people more isn't going to work any better. At the same time, google has to maintain those 5,000 linux boxes somehow. The OS may be free but the hardware sure isn't!