It doesn't work; although the scene descriptions (3D models) can be relatively small (and then only if the models are themselves efficiently made and described e.g. using NURBS instead of polys), the resources required in the form of texture libraries can be huge; film rendering regularly uses 1-2 GIGAbytes of resources which you'd have to distribute to clients. Much easier to build a render farm with a centralised resource storage & management system, all interconnected with the fastest networking kit you can lay hands on, than to try and do it ad-hoc over the internet. SETI is NOT the be-all-and-end-all solution for distributed processing.
Which shows how much you know! Come to an Aberdeen fixture some day & listen to the opposing fans singing "Sheep shagging bastards, you're all sheep shagging bastards..." and waving inflatable sheep.
Sorta like how your supposed to turn off your cell phone when pumping gasoline. This is based of an urban legend that the electronic feedback of the phone is sufficent to ignite petrol fumes.
Nothing to do with that; the problem is if you drop one and dislodge the battery, the tiny little spark might be enough to ignite the (heavier than air) petrol vapour. Also I believe some pumps talk RF back to the checkout and they don't want you interfering with that information.
Just add another wheel to the Enigma machine Hermann. Those dim-witted English shopkeepers vill never figure it out...
We didn't figure it out; we had to get the Poles to steal one and give it to us. And we relied on pinching code books from captured U boats to crack the naval version of Enigma. As usual, it was human failure (to destroy the code books, to not re-use wheel settings day to day, etc.) that compromised Enigma.
Er, if you try to run a program installer (setup.exe, InstallShield exe, MSI package etc.) that's exactly what happens - you get a dialog saying "Do you want to run this as your user, or as an Administrator?"
<sarcasm>Where did you think KDE stole the idea from?</sarcasm>
AIM is just a piece of crap; badly written software is badly written software, whatever OS it's on.
It will be amusing to see the outcome of this, as the court could order Microsoft to remove the bursting functionality from Windows Media Player, which would render it worthless for streaming video, in addition to a hefty fine.
So has Real Networks paid up, given that (faster-than-real-time streaming) sounds suspiciously similar to a new feature in their latest streaming video products?
I've had that experience with NetGear technical support as well; it resulted in a major waste of my time diagnosing bugs in their crappy Javascript configuration pages. It became quickly apparent that once they'd read off the end of the script, they knew nothing.
I used to recommend NetGear, but their support is piss-poor and the recent NTP screwup has me looking for alternatives.
If windows didn't require a completely separate login to do administrator-level stuff, this problem might go away.
It doesn't. Read up on the "runas" command. Want a root shell?
runas/User:Administrator cmd
About the only thing you can't trivially do is runas explorer (the shell, not the web browser) - you need to kill the running explorer process first, with task manager.
I personally installed this patch on a dozen machines here nearly 3 weeks ago from Windows Update, so it was most definitely available. There has been a report that installing it alongside other patches can result in the fix not being installed correctly, however. I can't say I noticed that happening here.
In Windows you have to use CreateFile() with about 10 parameters, and some of those parameters are mind-boggling structures (like SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES) that must be created and initialized using separate API calls.
Or you can just leave those parameters as NULL, in which case (e.g. SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES) the call inherits the setting from the current process, just like it says in the MSDN. You do read the MSDN, right?
DirectX would be your first stop.
And your last stop, because RIGHT THERE IN THE DX8.1 SDK is code to do what you want:
samples\Multimedia\DirectShow\Capture\AMCap
sam ples\Multimedia\DirectShow\Capture\DVApp
samples\ Multimedia\DirectShow\Capture\PlayCap
It took me about half a day to take this code and write a video capture app which we could hook into our FPGA dev board to demonstrate our product.
Yes, the Windows APIs are bigger and scarier than the equivalent UNIX APIs (where equivalents exist). The wealth of examples and development communities more than makes up for this, IMO.
It is vector without pixels so comparing it to pixel resolutions makes no sense.
Not so, and here's why.
At some point you have to convert from digital numbers to analog signals to generate the signals that deflect the electron beam. If your DACs are only 8 bit resolution, that means you can only produce 256 different voltage levels, effectively limiting you to 256 x 256 addressable places on the screen; end result is jaggy lines. You can do tricks with dithering but at the end of the day, you need the resolution in the DACs. 12 bit DACs gives you 4096 x 4096, which is probably overkill unless you run a HUGE CRT display. The original Asteroids cabinet appeared to be 1024 x 768 resolution, suggesting 10 bit DACs.
Well, as someone who used to work for one of them, and chaired one of the tehcnical working groups, I can tell you that that the HAVi standards are already written and available.
What's this worth? The images on a smart-chip are going to be lower resolution tham your passport image
I just tried this with Photoshop; you can do a 120 DPI colour JPEG in less than 32kB without major loss of quality (that's 35mm x 45mm, roughly the same as the existing photo size). Better compression algorithms can no doubt improve on this. Yes, you'll never get film resolution but past 200 DPI, you'd be hard pressed to tell the difference.
I have already used good quality inkjet prints of such an image (on photo paper) in place of "real" photos for official ID, and it would appear the government can't tell the difference or don't care.
COMMAND.COM is crap, and so is CMD.EXE(essentially COMMAND.COM+DOSKEY).
This demonstrates just how clueless you are. COMMAND.COM is a 16-bit DOS emulation shell, running in a VDM (virtual DOS machine). CMD.EXE is a real 32-bit console process which happens to accept most of the same commands as DOS (although it extends the syntax considerably). You can do much the same things as traditional UNIX shells, e.g.
for/f %I in (*.txt) do somecommand.exe %I > outdir\%~nI.foo
which runs somecommand on all txt files, writing the results to a directory called outdir and renaming the resulting files to have a.foo extension.
It's not as flexible as UNIX shells, but it's fine for a lot of tasks, and if you really can't live without bash, install cygwin and all your precious UNIX utilities are there, including a reasonably good (and unbeatably cheap) X server. That way you get the best of all worlds; I've made it our standard install for developers - Windows XP + cygwin + CVSNT
Sorry, you're wrong. Centrigrade doesn't actually mean anything more than "a scale with 100 graduations". It says nothing about where you start from, and how big a unit is.
You're thinking of Celsius, which IS an absolute scale with 0 at the freezing point of water.
Well, it's not helped by POS software like Iomega's IoWare, which appears to install a kernel-mode service, JUST to change the removeable drive icon.
Adobe are guilty of this as well, they ship DLLs which render thumbnails of PS and Illustrator images into the icon; it's always THOSE icons that break first.
Quick fix used to be to delete C:\WinNT\ShellIconCache.
Is this going to work with cheap installations which are already using the extra pairs in Cat5? RS sell a splitter / combiner which (as a last resort) lets you use the "spare" pairs in an existing 10/100 base-T run to run a parallel 10/100 base-T connection.
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Nothing to do with that; the problem is if you drop one and dislodge the battery, the tiny little spark might be enough to ignite the (heavier than air) petrol vapour. Also I believe some pumps talk RF back to the checkout and they don't want you interfering with that information.
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We didn't figure it out; we had to get the Poles to steal one and give it to us. And we relied on pinching code books from captured U boats to crack the naval version of Enigma. As usual, it was human failure (to destroy the code books, to not re-use wheel settings day to day, etc.) that compromised Enigma.
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<sarcasm>Where did you think KDE stole the idea from?</sarcasm>
AIM is just a piece of crap; badly written software is badly written software, whatever OS it's on.
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So has Real Networks paid up, given that (faster-than-real-time streaming) sounds suspiciously similar to a new feature in their latest streaming video products?
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I used to recommend NetGear, but their support is piss-poor and the recent NTP screwup has me looking for alternatives.
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It doesn't. Read up on the "runas" command. Want a root shell?
runas /User:Administrator cmd
About the only thing you can't trivially do is runas explorer (the shell, not the web browser) - you need to kill the running explorer process first, with task manager.
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Where did you find Debian packages for RC1?
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Or you can just leave those parameters as NULL, in which case (e.g. SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES) the call inherits the setting from the current process, just like it says in the MSDN. You do read the MSDN, right?
DirectX would be your first stop.
And your last stop, because RIGHT THERE IN THE DX8.1 SDK is code to do what you want:
It took me about half a day to take this code and write a video capture app which we could hook into our FPGA dev board to demonstrate our product.
Yes, the Windows APIs are bigger and scarier than the equivalent UNIX APIs (where equivalents exist). The wealth of examples and development communities more than makes up for this, IMO.
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Not so, and here's why.
At some point you have to convert from digital numbers to analog signals to generate the signals that deflect the electron beam. If your DACs are only 8 bit resolution, that means you can only produce 256 different voltage levels, effectively limiting you to 256 x 256 addressable places on the screen; end result is jaggy lines. You can do tricks with dithering but at the end of the day, you need the resolution in the DACs. 12 bit DACs gives you 4096 x 4096, which is probably overkill unless you run a HUGE CRT display. The original Asteroids cabinet appeared to be 1024 x 768 resolution, suggesting 10 bit DACs.
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Insightful, huh?
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I just tried this with Photoshop; you can do a 120 DPI colour JPEG in less than 32kB without major loss of quality (that's 35mm x 45mm, roughly the same as the existing photo size). Better compression algorithms can no doubt improve on this. Yes, you'll never get film resolution but past 200 DPI, you'd be hard pressed to tell the difference.
I have already used good quality inkjet prints of such an image (on photo paper) in place of "real" photos for official ID, and it would appear the government can't tell the difference or don't care.
Jon.
This demonstrates just how clueless you are. COMMAND.COM is a 16-bit DOS emulation shell, running in a VDM (virtual DOS machine). CMD.EXE is a real 32-bit console process which happens to accept most of the same commands as DOS (although it extends the syntax considerably). You can do much the same things as traditional UNIX shells, e.g.
for /f %I in (*.txt) do somecommand.exe %I > outdir\%~nI.foo
which runs somecommand on all txt files, writing the results to a directory called outdir and renaming the resulting files to have a .foo extension.
It's not as flexible as UNIX shells, but it's fine for a lot of tasks, and if you really can't live without bash, install cygwin and all your precious UNIX utilities are there, including a reasonably good (and unbeatably cheap) X server. That way you get the best of all worlds; I've made it our standard install for developers - Windows XP + cygwin + CVSNT
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You're thinking of Celsius, which IS an absolute scale with 0 at the freezing point of water.
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Adobe are guilty of this as well, they ship DLLs which render thumbnails of PS and Illustrator images into the icon; it's always THOSE icons that break first.
Quick fix used to be to delete C:\WinNT\ShellIconCache.
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OILRIG is easier for most people to remember; Oxidation Is Loss, Reduction Is Gain (of electrons)
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I can smell burning...
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