The goons that laid down the pipes can't possibly hold the content holders or content creators hostage. Moreover the infrastructure as a whole has not been built by Comcast only, many parties has been involved including the government (the backbones, leases etc.). The guy who controls the last mile cannot take ransom for certain content, that is precisely what the NET NEUTRALITY is all about - to prevent this from happening.
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Typical, a programmer is taking a stab at the biology topic and the tone is very decisive. Next time at least act as an informed observer, using in some low-key phrases, words like "perhaps" or "maybe" when taking outside of your field. Thank you very much.
Why is this rated insightful ?? Full of the usual crap like "Fed printing money". Why are you people even bother posting if you have no idea what are you writing about. Myth-Busters should do an episode for you about how money works, Feds issuing dept money and why and how this really works.. etc.
He probably meant GLUI that is distributed along with most OpenGL packages. You get your usual TextEdit, SpinBox, ListBox etc. directly in OpenGL, the interface is clean and dumbed down enough, plus you get the benefit of close to the GL-API implementation.
Most iPad apps we use are polished, nice, robust and way better then the clumsy apps on the desktop. There is no way for us to go back to the desktop. Apart from some content creation I see frighteningly little use for the desktop. I auctioned off nearly all household laptops and desktops, partly because I fear they will depreciate way faster now when more and more people discover the iPad.
There is huge lack of basic dev. support = no killer apps. Carmack tweeted last week that Rage for WP7 is unlikely due to the lack of C++, which is the language pretty much every AAA title or pro-app is coded these days, that means no good apps are coming to the platform or these get delayed. So much for the Steve "tripple developers" Ballmer dev. support promises.
We are now entering a transition period when the masses are starting to migrate to low-spec tablet computers from the PCs. The iPads, the new wave of Android tablets and such.. There is no need for the old PC-format packaged computer, the average joe consumer is quicky realizing that fact. The games that need gigs of memory, are CPU/GPU hungry, draw lot of power and require these 3D engines might not be such a hot genre to dive in and develop for right now.
One of the goals of the "registry" was to effectively hide configuration settings from the user. Things like program-trial expiration checkpoints can easily be hidden in the vastness of the registry, this would be very difficult to do with plain text files.
That is still way overpowered, you really need very little to run things at speed, look at the true old skool 8-bit computers - ZX Spectrum for example clocked at 3.5MHz and had only 48KB or RAM. There was a game called "Elite" that managed to squeeze vector 3D into it, entire galaxy with countless of star systems, trading simulation, AI for 3D space dog-fighting, asteroid drilling and other interesting things.. all coded directly in CPU machine code for the best efficiency.
Are you implying that the CentOS is just a copycat distro? What is their motivation or business model? Could somebody elaborate for people that know nothing about this?
If you want performance then you have better options, some of the IEEE standard languages for example and that is what pros like Ebay or Google are using anyway, not Java. Plus you buy yourself some freedom from the corporate control like this.
Americans.. here in Europe, I pay 20% sales tax everytime I shop at Kaufland, Spar, Lild etc. and again I pay income taxes about 30% (and they say it will be worse this year as government is short of money), not to mention all the other crazy taxes here like the heavy gasoline tax.
Take a stab at Microsoft for daring to bundle anything, but what about Apple ? The Safari browser for example is not optional here in EU as it should be.
Ironically, this is not because of the Flash technology itself - as many here might believe, the Flash plug-in binary is incredibly well optimized and does many things so well that would otherwise require GPU-like acceleration. The problem here is that the Adobe editing software allows those non-tech educated "artist" (who create that graphics) to do such a mess with the resources, clogged rendering pipeline and a total misuse of every feature imaginable. They have absolutely no clue what is going on technologically underneath their creations and it shows.
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The goons that laid down the pipes can't possibly hold the content holders or content creators hostage. Moreover the infrastructure as a whole has not been built by Comcast only, many parties has been involved including the government (the backbones, leases etc.). The guy who controls the last mile cannot take ransom for certain content, that is precisely what the NET NEUTRALITY is all about - to prevent this from happening.
Typical, a programmer is taking a stab at the biology topic and the tone is very decisive. Next time at least act as an informed observer, using in some low-key phrases, words like "perhaps" or "maybe" when taking outside of your field. Thank you very much.
Why is this rated insightful ?? Full of the usual crap like "Fed printing money". Why are you people even bother posting if you have no idea what are you writing about. Myth-Busters should do an episode for you about how money works, Feds issuing dept money and why and how this really works.. etc.
He probably meant GLUI that is distributed along with most OpenGL packages. You get your usual TextEdit, SpinBox, ListBox etc. directly in OpenGL, the interface is clean and dumbed down enough, plus you get the benefit of close to the GL-API implementation.
Most iPad apps we use are polished, nice, robust and way better then the clumsy apps on the desktop. There is no way for us to go back to the desktop. Apart from some content creation I see frighteningly little use for the desktop. I auctioned off nearly all household laptops and desktops, partly because I fear they will depreciate way faster now when more and more people discover the iPad.
There is huge lack of basic dev. support = no killer apps. Carmack tweeted last week that Rage for WP7 is unlikely due to the lack of C++, which is the language pretty much every AAA title or pro-app is coded these days, that means no good apps are coming to the platform or these get delayed. So much for the Steve "tripple developers" Ballmer dev. support promises.
We are now entering a transition period when the masses are starting to migrate to low-spec tablet computers from the PCs. The iPads, the new wave of Android tablets and such.. There is no need for the old PC-format packaged computer, the average joe consumer is quicky realizing that fact. The games that need gigs of memory, are CPU/GPU hungry, draw lot of power and require these 3D engines might not be such a hot genre to dive in and develop for right now.
drop VGA, DVI, HDMI, DisplayPort, FireWire 400, FireWire 800, USB 3 and only use two types of ports
iPad dropped even the USB port, just Wi-Fi everything. Cables and ports are so last century for the Q guy from Cupertino.
One of the goals of the "registry" was to effectively hide configuration settings from the user. Things like program-trial expiration checkpoints can easily be hidden in the vastness of the registry, this would be very difficult to do with plain text files.
Ok, they are probably not selling you out to advertisers right of the bat.
Now how do they intend to generate money to cover the huge server expenses ? Am I missing something ?
No source, citations or references given on the FA, just the usual "Sponsored Links" and the McAfee threat director's 'insight'..
.co.uk
.co.jp
.co.nz
are already in use as a company designator so why not ? but what about the collision with the Colombia state domain ?
That is still way overpowered, you really need very little to run things at speed, look at the true old skool 8-bit computers - ZX Spectrum for example clocked at 3.5MHz and had only 48KB or RAM. There was a game called "Elite" that managed to squeeze vector 3D into it, entire galaxy with countless of star systems, trading simulation, AI for 3D space dog-fighting, asteroid drilling and other interesting things.. all coded directly in CPU machine code for the best efficiency.
http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0001601
Thanks for the info.
..to prevent teeth related issues altogether.
Are you implying that the CentOS is just a copycat distro? What is their motivation or business model? Could somebody elaborate for people that know nothing about this?
how much progress has been made with graphics cards
Yep, these are now about 10x as power hungry as they use to be..
@manufacturers contributing drivers to the kernel
OK, why then Linux doesn't provide the same driver interface as Windows? I believe similar goal has that ReactOS Windows clone.
Exactly, that was my point, thanks for elaborating.. I also like your bottom line motto.
... people buying.. who are already trapped into Oracle/Sun...
And this is children why Java, Obj-C, C# and other 'corporate' languages exist in the first place.
If you want performance then you have better options, some of the IEEE standard languages for example and that is what pros like Ebay or Google are using anyway, not Java. Plus you buy yourself some freedom from the corporate control like this.
Americans.. here in Europe, I pay 20% sales tax everytime I shop at Kaufland, Spar, Lild etc. and again I pay income taxes about 30% (and they say it will be worse this year as government is short of money), not to mention all the other crazy taxes here like the heavy gasoline tax.
"The banks are untrustworthy"
Big banks to have insecure apps? And you are expecting that? For me it is a shocker.
Take a stab at Microsoft for daring to bundle anything, but what about Apple ? The Safari browser for example is not optional here in EU as it should be.
Ironically, this is not because of the Flash technology itself - as many here might believe, the Flash plug-in binary is incredibly well optimized and does many things so well that would otherwise require GPU-like acceleration. The problem here is that the Adobe editing software allows those non-tech educated "artist" (who create that graphics) to do such a mess with the resources, clogged rendering pipeline and a total misuse of every feature imaginable. They have absolutely no clue what is going on technologically underneath their creations and it shows.