Hereby I let it be known that I apologize most humbly to the British Columbia Automobile Association! May they always find shady roads and a gallon of gas on their voyages through beautiful Canada!
Face it, (almost all) games are written for here and now. Who would really buy a 2 year old game? So it just doesn't matter if OpenGL leaves more options for the future, as far as games are concerned.
Ok, so I'll have to throw some more authority into this... I'm German, and I tell you that there is no German word Schnorkel. There is a word Schnörkel, thich is entirely unrelated. The German work for snorkel is indeed Schnorchel.
Oh my god, VIA is releasing a chipset that might help to bring our overpriced Intel systems a little bit closer to AMD! We can't let that pass, let's slap those suckers silly! If you want Intel, we'll make you pay...
Frankly, I am surprised that 8.2% percent of all open source programmers are female. For example, a quick look thru/usr/src/linux/MAINTAINERS seemed to show that 2 of about 200 official linux maintainers are female (give or take 1 in case I interpreted some names wrong). Don't get me wrong... I think it would be great if there were a lot more female hackers. It just doesn't seem to be the case.
And Scandinavia is the birthplace of opensource? Sure, Linux originated in Finland, but free software (free as in beer and speech) had been around much longer. So what is considered to be the first opensource project?
I'm really just curious. Any references or links (like to the poll at UIUC) would be great.
More cars with less miles-per-gallon gives you more CO2, which drives the greenhouse effect. Not that complicated, huh? Should be simple enough even for George W:-)
What do version numbers really mean, anyway? They're mostly a nice too for marketing these days. I think Slackware actually skipped one mayor version (was it 6?) once to make fun of this.
The question that you've got to ask yourself is: what do you expect from screenshots? As far as 2D goes, the screenshots will all look the same anyway, really. In 3D, any card will usually render whatever the current Direct3D revision specifies, or it has new and unique and (largely) unsupported features, for which you'll find enough screenshots on the card manufacturers website. So, I guess that screenshots just don't give you all that much real information.
Doesn't he realize that if he were not up there, "listening to opera music and taking pictures out the window," there would have been room for an additional cosmonaut, who could have done dozens of hours of work himself?
Don't you realize that his $20M actually paid the whole trip, so due to him, 2 cosmonauts were up there and could do dozens of hours of work!?
Just to get this straight for the records: That was a school in Germany. Members of the species homo nerdus germanus are not known to feed excessively on donuts, not are they usually fat, hence they're only very loosely related to the home nerdus americanus.
Of course it multiplies it by four... just add
the digits in 64 and those in 32 and subtract them. Makes 4, right? oops, 5 you say? Nah, all increments really come in powers of 2, so it must be 4. And since performance can't simply increase by 4, it must be factor 4. That's it!
...rulez! I've been to TG95 in Stavanger/Norway. Had an intro running in the PC 64k compo. Cheers to all who I met there, and especially to my ol' buddies from Valhalla and Technomancer!
Now this really shows your complete and utter ignorance! All version numbers grow without bounds. Only TeX convertex against Pi and Metafont against e. Moron!;-)
I've been browsing the patent database at delphion, and I'm amazed. Most of the patents are for obvious extensions of existing concepts or rather trivial implementation details.
The more I think about this, the more I believe that the true purpose of the patents is to "protect" the (US) economy from competition, by allowing US companies to sue everyone who even farts in a similar way as they do.
Imagine the Russians would have filed a patent for "an apparatus that transports a human into earth orbit and back", i.e. Gagarin's rocket. Does anyone believe that this could have stopped the US space program? Or how about an "apparatus that transports humans and payload, using a combustion engine", i.e. Daimler's car.
The list of truly innovative inventions that could never reach the degree of patent protection that most of the IT bullshit these days receives is long.
The intention of this blurb is simply to point out that the true reason for the current patent-nonsense is not what the patent office or politicians try to make us believe. It is simply about preventing competition for the US industry.
If you want to mount ftp sites, you might want to take a look at the hurd. It may not be quite ready for prime time, but who knows, perhaps some of its ideas might make it into more mainstream OSs, like Linux. They have their "translators" that will allow you to do cool stuff like mounting remote ftp servers, IIRC.
Besides that, I would agree that file managers are not particularly useful for command line users. Once you get familiar with your shell and all those cool utilities that you have on Un*x, you just don't even think about switching to a GUI with all its inherent limitations.
Some posts have claimed that many file manager GUIs suck because they're not designed the right way. Well, consider this: in any given amount of time, you can enter much more information with 10 fingers (if you're good at it), then with a mouse. That's why there will probably never be a replacement for the command line, at least for the so-called power users.
Your first claim, If Pi is infinite, then it has enough digits for us to find any imaginable number contained in it might be intuitive, but AFAIK there is no proof for it.
When you're talking about finding numbers in it, you should obviously limit yourself to finite strings of digits. It's obvious that you'll never find 1.7 sinde of Pi. It's also evident that you won't find an infinite string of 1s and an infinite string of 2s at the same time.
Apart from that, it is known that Pi does not terminate and is indeed transcendental.
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Hereby I let it be known that I apologize most humbly to the British Columbia Automobile Association! May they always find shady roads and a gallon of gas on their voyages through beautiful Canada!
If an organization calls itself ??AA, it's gonna take away you freedom... MPAA, RIAA, FTAA... makes you wonder what comes next :-)
Face it, (almost all) games are written for here and now. Who would really buy a 2 year old game? So it just doesn't matter if OpenGL leaves more options for the future, as far as games are concerned.
Ok, so I'll have to throw some more authority into this... I'm German, and I tell you that there is no German word Schnorkel. There is a word Schnörkel, thich is entirely unrelated. The German work for snorkel is indeed Schnorchel.
schnorkel? Make that either Schnorchel or snorkel :-)
Oh my god, VIA is releasing a chipset that might help to bring our overpriced Intel systems a little bit closer to AMD! We can't let that pass, let's slap those suckers silly! If you want Intel, we'll make you pay...
And Scandinavia is the birthplace of opensource? Sure, Linux originated in Finland, but free software (free as in beer and speech) had been around much longer. So what is considered to be the first opensource project?
I'm really just curious. Any references or links (like to the poll at UIUC) would be great.
-Tobi
More cars with less miles-per-gallon gives you more CO2, which drives the greenhouse effect. Not that complicated, huh? Should be simple enough even for George W :-)
Science students huh? I kinda doubt that... read the hitchhikers guide again on who built that fellow...
Ach ja, das waren noch Zeiten!
What do version numbers really mean, anyway? They're mostly a nice too for marketing these days. I think Slackware actually skipped one mayor version (was it 6?) once to make fun of this.
Germany declared war on the Soviet Union, and 40 million people died in the course of if. Countless more suffered. Shouldn't this be remembered today?
The question that you've got to ask yourself is: what do you expect from screenshots? As far as 2D goes, the screenshots will all look the same anyway, really. In 3D, any card will usually render whatever the current Direct3D revision specifies, or it has new and unique and (largely) unsupported features, for which you'll find enough screenshots on the card manufacturers website. So, I guess that screenshots just don't give you all that much real information.
Don't you realize that his $20M actually paid the whole trip, so due to him, 2 cosmonauts were up there and could do dozens of hours of work!?
Just to get this straight for the records: That was a school in Germany. Members of the species homo nerdus germanus are not known to feed excessively on donuts, not are they usually fat, hence they're only very loosely related to the home nerdus americanus.
Of course it multiplies it by four... just add the digits in 64 and those in 32 and subtract them. Makes 4, right? oops, 5 you say? Nah, all increments really come in powers of 2, so it must be 4. And since performance can't simply increase by 4, it must be factor 4. That's it!
xToto
Now this really shows your complete and utter ignorance! All version numbers grow without bounds. Only TeX convertex against Pi and Metafont against e. Moron! ;-)
The more I think about this, the more I believe that the true purpose of the patents is to "protect" the (US) economy from competition, by allowing US companies to sue everyone who even farts in a similar way as they do.
Imagine the Russians would have filed a patent for "an apparatus that transports a human into earth orbit and back", i.e. Gagarin's rocket. Does anyone believe that this could have stopped the US space program? Or how about an "apparatus that transports humans and payload, using a combustion engine", i.e. Daimler's car.
The list of truly innovative inventions that could never reach the degree of patent protection that most of the IT bullshit these days receives is long.
The intention of this blurb is simply to point out that the true reason for the current patent-nonsense is not what the patent office or politicians try to make us believe. It is simply about preventing competition for the US industry.
In der einzigen Diskussion, bei der man heute noch live Deutsches Wasser trinken kann!
If you had bothered to actually look at the article, you'd realize that it was written by Germans ;-)
Besides that, I would agree that file managers are not particularly useful for command line users. Once you get familiar with your shell and all those cool utilities that you have on Un*x, you just don't even think about switching to a GUI with all its inherent limitations.
Some posts have claimed that many file manager GUIs suck because they're not designed the right way. Well, consider this: in any given amount of time, you can enter much more information with 10 fingers (if you're good at it), then with a mouse. That's why there will probably never be a replacement for the command line, at least for the so-called power users.
Boy, you're so naive!
When you're talking about finding numbers in it, you should obviously limit yourself to finite strings of digits. It's obvious that you'll never find 1.7 sinde of Pi. It's also evident that you won't find an infinite string of 1s and an infinite string of 2s at the same time.
Apart from that, it is known that Pi does not terminate and is indeed transcendental.
string() : size(0), ptr(new char[1]) { ptr[0] = '\0'; }
and the first if in the assignment operator should better be
if (ptr != chrs)
Just 2c from a seasonsed professional with utter lack of humor.