Probably never. Even if the resolution was adequate (which it isn't) and you could somehow extrapolate street level views from aerial photography (you can't) there are still the issues of photo retouching and missing information for stacked spaces. Unless the plane could somehow magically photography the entire city at predetermined times of day and days of the year so that all of the images were lit identically and cast shadows in the same direction/length there would be an astronomical amount of work needed to retouch the source data for continuity. On top of lighting and shadows you'd have to remove all representations of people and cars, etc.. from the source data. Assuming you could get all of that done there's still the problem of missing data from stacked surfaces; tunnels, elevated trains, subways, overpasses, building interiors, etc... None of those spaces can be represented via extrapolated aerial photographs.
With the amount of dataset rework / additional work that would be necessary to create an artistically pleasing & competitive game with such data it will be a long long time before you see it even coming close to being more cost effective than hand creating a world to fit a game's specific needs.
The Amiga design was, essentially, dedicated chips for dedicated tasks. The CPU was a Motorola 68XXX chip. Agnus handled RAM access requests from the CPU and the other custom chips. Denise handled video operations. Paula handled audio. This cpu + coprocessor setup is roughly analogous to a modern X86 PC with a CPU, northbridge chip, GPU, and dedicated audio chip. At the time the Amiga's design was revolutionary because PCs and Macs were using a single CPU to handle all operations. Both Macs and PCs have come a long way since then. 'Modern' PCs have had the "Amiga design" since about the time the AGP bus became prevalent.
nVidia's CUDA framework for performing general purpose operations on a GPU is something totally different. I don't think the Amiga custom chips could be repurposed in such a fashion.
Religious blinkers...hah. I don't code. I'm as much an end user as you'll ever find. That doesn't change that fact that the OP is out of place for complaining about something as trivially simple as a library dependency. He's the religious zealot, wanting as few KB of data on his oddly configured machine as possible. He expects others to bow to his machine and his desires when it should be the other way around. Don't look a gift horse in the mouth, and all that.
No, I didn't miss the point. Whether or not IM has a GUI front end is irrelevant. The developers are free to do with it what they want. If you can get a free ball peen hammer but you really need a claw hammer you don't take the ball peen hammer and then complain that it doesn't suit your needs. You either make do without the free hammer or find a way to make it work. The same holds true here. IM (supposedly) needs libgnome. Big deal. Either be thankful for IM, install libgnome, and be done with it or modify IM to suit your needs. Complaining is about the only thing you shouldn't do.
It annoys me when I install programs like ImageMagick and they require libgnome. Why?
Because the software developers can do what they want with their code. If you don't like the dependencies then branch ImageMagik and make a version that fits your needs.
Given that that the article, in the sentences directly preceding the one you quoted, mention the author was attempting to push the custom firmware onto the boxes it's not hard to infer that he was attempting to do this to boxes that hadn't received their firmware yet.
I'm happy you found drugs that work for you. I'm unhappy that you could care less about either the topic at hand or that your drugs are ending up in my drinking water.
It better be good, since Håkon Wium Lie, Chief Technical Officer of Opera Software, worked together with Bert Bos to develop the CSS standard.
I'm not sure how many actually knows this. *shrug*
You do realize that the majority of the time spent between when the captain turns off the seatbelt sign and the time you get off of the airplane is spent waiting for the jetway to be positioned correctly, right? Even if they let you run to the door with your no-bag buddies you wouldn't be able to leave much sooner than you do now. I've never been on a plane that hasn't emptied in mere minutes after the door has opened. Most of those flights I've still stood and waited for 5+ minutes for the door to be opened, though.
The Star Trek method makes perfect sense. Roddenberry & Co. didn't have the budget for establishing shots with shuttle craft and planetary atmospheric flight. They needed something that would be cheap to produce, not eat up lots of show time, and would have a good "wow" factor.
You talk as if you think there is some sort of vetting process involved. Other than asking "Do you have enough money to rent space?" I doubt convention organizers care one way or the other what people are trying to show.
* WTF is DUNDI? I'm only being half sarcastic. Is it something a majority of users even know of, let alone want or need?
* See #1 Why do I care about VOIP/email via SRV records as a home user?
* There are a ton of third party phones and routers with Skype embedded into them.
* Skype phones are price competitive with other cordless handsets. I don't see your point as a valid argument. I'd pay just about as much for a regular cordless handset and then extra $ for a dedicated router if I wanted to use Vonage, et. al.
* I can't choose a different outbound provider for my local POTS or my cellphone. If it sucks I'm stuck.
* I've had a SkypeIn number for area codes in; central Virginia, Outside of Wash. D.C., a small town in New Jersey, and a town in central Illinois. I've never not been able to get a local area code # for a location I need.
To the end user the proprietary protocols mean piss-all. If they can pick up a VOIP phone and call a device that has a POTS number associated with it nothing else matters. The Gizmo Project is an interesting idea. Maybe someday I'll see a Gizmo capable phone next to the Skype phones in my local Best Buy, Circuit City, or Radio Shack. Given that it's been around for 3-4 years and hasn't achieved that level of penetration points more to it being "doomed" as opposed to Skype.
DIVX wasn't enhanced DVD. For the most part DIVX releases had LESS content on them then their DVD equivalents. DIVX was touted as a disposable format. You'd buy a disc for cheap, and then have to have your DIVX player phone home to Circuit City to authorize it. Then you were allowed to play the disc for a predetermined time (24 hrs, 48 hrs, etc...). After that the disc would become unusable. Circuit City thought they could kill Blockbuster with the idea of not having to drive back to the store to return the disc. Never mind that you still had to drive somewhere to buy another crippled DIVX disc to watch.
That asinine idea, coupled with the fact that you could only purchase DIVX players at Circuit City was what killed that format. It was just a stupid idea from front to back.
Yeah, a whole 7 hrs and 33 minutes after the event. Well, more like 7 hrs and 27 minutes since there was a six minute pause during the show. Wow, Slashdot posters/moderators are the worst for having to, you know, sleep!
Gah, way to want to reset the clock by 10-12 years. PDF was developed because shuffling PostScript files around was tedious and error prone. The files are large, they don't contain fonts, and since they are plaintext the cr/cr-lf/lf line end issue can affect the file on different OS's, etc... The publishing industry labored under PostScript for far too long. The first P in PDF stands for Portable for a reason. It's a far more portable format than *.ps.
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With the amount of dataset rework / additional work that would be necessary to create an artistically pleasing & competitive game with such data it will be a long long time before you see it even coming close to being more cost effective than hand creating a world to fit a game's specific needs.
nVidia's CUDA framework for performing general purpose operations on a GPU is something totally different. I don't think the Amiga custom chips could be repurposed in such a fashion.
Exactly when did Hussein bomb us?
Religious blinkers...hah. I don't code. I'm as much an end user as you'll ever find. That doesn't change that fact that the OP is out of place for complaining about something as trivially simple as a library dependency. He's the religious zealot, wanting as few KB of data on his oddly configured machine as possible. He expects others to bow to his machine and his desires when it should be the other way around. Don't look a gift horse in the mouth, and all that.
No, I didn't miss the point. Whether or not IM has a GUI front end is irrelevant. The developers are free to do with it what they want. If you can get a free ball peen hammer but you really need a claw hammer you don't take the ball peen hammer and then complain that it doesn't suit your needs. You either make do without the free hammer or find a way to make it work. The same holds true here. IM (supposedly) needs libgnome. Big deal. Either be thankful for IM, install libgnome, and be done with it or modify IM to suit your needs. Complaining is about the only thing you shouldn't do.
Because the software developers can do what they want with their code. If you don't like the dependencies then branch ImageMagik and make a version that fits your needs.
Given that that the article, in the sentences directly preceding the one you quoted, mention the author was attempting to push the custom firmware onto the boxes it's not hard to infer that he was attempting to do this to boxes that hadn't received their firmware yet.
X3000 is an ATi part. It's a daughter board with a GPU and dedicated RAM, not an integrated solution.
I'm happy you found drugs that work for you. I'm unhappy that you could care less about either the topic at hand or that your drugs are ending up in my drinking water.
About one more than actually care, to be honest.
How much more complicated than "shut down computer, open case, install card, close case, reboot computer, install drivers" was it?
You do realize that the majority of the time spent between when the captain turns off the seatbelt sign and the time you get off of the airplane is spent waiting for the jetway to be positioned correctly, right? Even if they let you run to the door with your no-bag buddies you wouldn't be able to leave much sooner than you do now. I've never been on a plane that hasn't emptied in mere minutes after the door has opened. Most of those flights I've still stood and waited for 5+ minutes for the door to be opened, though.
Because they usually start serving the drinks in first class immediately after you sit down.
The Star Trek method makes perfect sense. Roddenberry & Co. didn't have the budget for establishing shots with shuttle craft and planetary atmospheric flight. They needed something that would be cheap to produce, not eat up lots of show time, and would have a good "wow" factor.
You talk as if you think there is some sort of vetting process involved. Other than asking "Do you have enough money to rent space?" I doubt convention organizers care one way or the other what people are trying to show.
OMG! People have to pay for phone service? When did this injustice start?
* See #1 Why do I care about VOIP/email via SRV records as a home user?
* There are a ton of third party phones and routers with Skype embedded into them.
* Skype phones are price competitive with other cordless handsets. I don't see your point as a valid argument. I'd pay just about as much for a regular cordless handset and then extra $ for a dedicated router if I wanted to use Vonage, et. al.
* I can't choose a different outbound provider for my local POTS or my cellphone. If it sucks I'm stuck.
* I've had a SkypeIn number for area codes in; central Virginia, Outside of Wash. D.C., a small town in New Jersey, and a town in central Illinois. I've never not been able to get a local area code # for a location I need.
To the end user the proprietary protocols mean piss-all. If they can pick up a VOIP phone and call a device that has a POTS number associated with it nothing else matters. The Gizmo Project is an interesting idea. Maybe someday I'll see a Gizmo capable phone next to the Skype phones in my local Best Buy, Circuit City, or Radio Shack. Given that it's been around for 3-4 years and hasn't achieved that level of penetration points more to it being "doomed" as opposed to Skype.
If he ate babies there wouldn't be a market for his Classmate PC.
Except the worldwide telephone network and most any/all cell carriers. If it has a phone number you can reach it via Skype.
That asinine idea, coupled with the fact that you could only purchase DIVX players at Circuit City was what killed that format. It was just a stupid idea from front to back.
Yours is a very naive statement. Please do not ever put yourself, or let yourself be put, into a position where you oversee software development.
Yeah, a whole 7 hrs and 33 minutes after the event. Well, more like 7 hrs and 27 minutes since there was a six minute pause during the show. Wow, Slashdot posters/moderators are the worst for having to, you know, sleep!
Gah, way to want to reset the clock by 10-12 years. PDF was developed because shuffling PostScript files around was tedious and error prone. The files are large, they don't contain fonts, and since they are plaintext the cr/cr-lf/lf line end issue can affect the file on different OS's, etc... The publishing industry labored under PostScript for far too long. The first P in PDF stands for Portable for a reason. It's a far more portable format than *.ps.
Scientists aren't allowed to just make conjecture about things like artists and writers can. They have to prove it.
It's "fairly easy" to setup TrueCrypt on any OS that it supports. There's nothing magical about Ubuntu 7.10 that makes it easier.