I had one of those keyboards. Don't laugh-- I needed an external keyboard for my laptop, and the cheapest, but still half decent keyboards came with those silly keys. Never really used them. I remembering configuring the "Shopping" button to bring up Freshmeat.net.
Early versions of Aqua, MacOSX's widget set, were described as lickable because many of the elements resembled jellybeans. A nod to the term eye candy, perhaps?
Since Apple controls its product line, the responsible thing to do would be to make sure that all of their current products supported CoreImage-- essentially, floating point fragment shaders.
I'm not sure if Apple offers a machine that does not. It shouldn't.
The Vista ready program was designed to assure customers that they would be able to buy a computer that Vista would run well on. In the pre-Vista era, Aero was certainly hyped. It's not inconceivable that some poor hapless soles bought new computers in the expectation that they would be able to use Aero, when it came out and were sorely disappointed when they found out that they could not.
Now that Vista has been released, you can demo a prospective purchase in the store, find out that the interface is not as lickable as you were led to expect, and move on. Or you can read reviews, and note the line "Not powerful enough to run Vista". But prior to release, it was all about trust, fine print, and careful research.
Baldur's Gate III is discussed here.It wasn't planned to be a high level campaign.
In the BG series, you could more or less completely control the actions of six characters, one of which was the main character. In Neverwinter Nights, most campaigns limited the player to one henchman, and he or she was largely autonomous, depending on how the module was scripted.
The reference standard for Shader Model 4.0 and next generation operating systems Enabling breakthrough ultra-realistic, real-time visualization applications. Available only on the Quadro FX 3700
Flip through the OpenGL specifications sometime. Ask yourself whether there are any features of OpenGL which are not useful for games.
Examples that have been used to sell Quadro cards in the past include: wireframe antialiasing (as opposed to full screen antialiasing) multiple clip planes two sided lighting.
Come on! Do you play games in wireframe mode?
Yes, you might be able to fool the computer into thinking your GeForce is a Quadro, but, iirc, the quadro devotes a bit more silicon to these features, so the performance hit isn't quite as severe.
On the other hand, the Quadro is designed for precision over speed. If a frame is a bit more complex than usual, your framerate will drop. Not good for games.
No. If you send 12 million emails, you can expect to get one order for $100 pills. To sell a million dollars worth of product, you would have to send 120 billion emails.
None [Subtract $0.00] Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008 (HPCS) [Add $2,410.00] Red Hat Linux - Platform OCS (need to purchase support program) [Included in price]
Operating System installation is extra. And the price is probably dependent on the number of blades used.
Fan noise is subjective, particularly when it comes to sleep. I find that I sleep better without noise. My old ISP also could stay up for days at a time. However, this wasn't reliable, and there was always a chance that it would hang up, interrupting the download.
With chunks, you have to manage them, or write scripts to manage them for you.
A fast connection is a lot more pleasant to work with. I don't have to babysit the connection. I don't have to download 30 chunks, and keep track of 30 md5sums. I don't have to deal with the fact that my ssl session expired after chunk 3, leaving my curl script unable to connect.
It's like having more memory-- less time is spent monitoring top and more time is spent doing actual work or play.
Legal Issues? Pshaw. The university can justify it on educational grounds. After all, 'university' is short for universitas magistrorum et scholarium-- a community of masters and scholars.
I consider "late night bull sessions" to be a small part of my college experience. If most people live off campus or (shudder) commute, there's less chance of that.
When my mother was learning Fortran, she didn't have a personal computer. No one did. She managed. Today, college kids are actually encouraged to bring personal computers to school. Can you believe that? Do you know many punch cards can be bought for the price of one computer? How many typewriter ribbons?
I've had the misfortune of having to reinstall MacOSX 10.5. Updating it to MacOSX 10.5.5 required me to download about a gigabyte. At 768K/sec, it took my computer three or four hours, iirc. It might have been possible to download that using POTS, if my modem didn't reset after 10--12 hours, and if I didn't mind the downtime.
Frankly, if you had to sleep in the same room as your computer, wouldn't you be somewhat troubled by the fan noise? My own system, which admittedly is pretty long in the tooth, also has the disconcerting habit of waking up at odd hours, igniting the rather bright display. So, it gets shut down at night. Saves POW and SAN.
No, I can't think why any one would want to operate a microscope remotely, but I can think of instances where a remote colleague might well be interested in looking over the operator's shoulder, so to speak. Since the GP proposed throttling down dorm access, it would probably be in the context of educational demonstrations, possibly prerecorded.
Correct. And for those who are not stealing, they don't need any more than 128 kbit/s line. That's MORE than enough speed for emailing text or accessing websites. Heck, I access websites using a 50k phoneline, and it works just fine. Why a student "needs" (keyword) more than 128k makes no sense to me.
So, when your OS provider decides to push a 300 Megabyte upgrade at you, what do you do?
128K also isn't enough for live video. Youtube extensively buffers at that speed, and the quality suffers quite a bit. Consider microscopy. Often with even the most well prepared samples, the salient details can be difficult to discern from the background. If bandwidth considerations result in extensive artifacts, those small details all but disappear.
This argument is simply a case of "back in my day, we trudged ten miles in the snow, uphill to and from school."
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I had one of those keyboards. Don't laugh-- I needed an external keyboard for my laptop, and the cheapest, but still half decent keyboards came with those silly keys. Never really used them. I remembering configuring the "Shopping" button to bring up Freshmeat.net.
Slashdot desperately needs a LaTeX formatting option.
Early versions of Aqua, MacOSX's widget set, were described as lickable because many of the elements resembled jellybeans. A nod to the term eye candy, perhaps?
Since Apple controls its product line, the responsible thing to do would be to make sure that all of their current products supported CoreImage-- essentially, floating point fragment shaders.
I'm not sure if Apple offers a machine that does not. It shouldn't.
The Vista ready program was designed to assure customers that they would be able to buy a computer that Vista would run well on. In the pre-Vista era, Aero was certainly hyped. It's not inconceivable that some poor hapless soles bought new computers in the expectation that they would be able to use Aero, when it came out and were sorely disappointed when they found out that they could not.
Now that Vista has been released, you can demo a prospective purchase in the store, find out that the interface is not as lickable as you were led to expect, and move on. Or you can read reviews, and note the line "Not powerful enough to run Vista". But prior to release, it was all about trust, fine print, and careful research.
Baldur's Gate III is discussed here.It wasn't planned to be a high level campaign.
In the BG series, you could more or less completely control the actions of six characters, one of which was the main character. In Neverwinter Nights, most campaigns limited the player to one henchman, and he or she was largely autonomous, depending on how the module was scripted.
I am strangely compelled to continue this thread's theme.
That's a pretty good explanation. I would have modded you insightful, but my mouse slipped.
Yea. This card is made for Cad functioning and not shading or any kind of gaming. The card is more for workshops.
Excuse me? Nvidia says
The reference standard for Shader Model 4.0 and next generation operating systems
Enabling breakthrough ultra-realistic, real-time visualization applications.
Available only on the Quadro FX 3700
Flip through the OpenGL specifications sometime. Ask yourself whether there are any features of OpenGL which are not useful for games.
Examples that have been used to sell Quadro cards in the past include:
wireframe antialiasing (as opposed to full screen antialiasing)
multiple clip planes
two sided lighting.
Come on! Do you play games in wireframe mode?
Yes, you might be able to fool the computer into thinking your GeForce is a Quadro, but, iirc, the quadro devotes a bit more silicon to these features, so the performance hit isn't quite as severe.
On the other hand, the Quadro is designed for precision over speed. If a frame is a bit more complex than usual, your framerate will drop. Not good for games.
No. If you send 12 million emails, you can expect to get one order for $100 pills. To sell a million dollars worth of product, you would have to send 120 billion emails.
That's a broad construal.
c) Disempower the country. Any means of accumulating private wealth, and thus power, will be eroded. You'll see increased capital gains.
So, you'd prefer capital losses?
Think before you type.
Colin Baker != Tom Baker.
thanks. Perhaps some will say that he overanalyzes art, but I found it very interesting.
SIgh... Use your mod points.
The Adler wanted a world class projector system--and the Universarium IX projects a image so detailed that audience members could benefit from binoculars
It's only an absurd notion if you have no binoculars at hand.
Operating System
None [Subtract $0.00]
Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008 (HPCS) [Add $2,410.00]
Red Hat Linux - Platform OCS (need to purchase support program) [Included in price]
Operating System installation is extra. And the price is probably dependent on the number of blades used.
MacOSX 10.5.5 Combo update
Fan noise is subjective, particularly when it comes to sleep. I find that I sleep better without noise. My old ISP also could stay up for days at a time. However, this wasn't reliable, and there was always a chance that it would hang up, interrupting the download.
With chunks, you have to manage them, or write scripts to manage them for you.
A fast connection is a lot more pleasant to work with. I don't have to babysit the connection. I don't have to download 30 chunks, and keep track of 30 md5sums. I don't have to deal with the fact that my ssl session expired after chunk 3, leaving my curl script unable to connect.
It's like having more memory-- less time is spent monitoring top and more time is spent doing actual work or play.
And I sleep better too.
Legal Issues? Pshaw. The university can justify it on educational grounds. After all, 'university' is short for universitas magistrorum et scholarium-- a community of masters and scholars.
I consider "late night bull sessions" to be a small part of my college experience. If most people live off campus or (shudder) commute, there's less chance of that.
When my mother was learning Fortran, she didn't have a personal computer. No one did. She managed. Today, college kids are actually encouraged to bring personal computers to school. Can you believe that? Do you know many punch cards can be bought for the price of one computer? How many typewriter ribbons?
I've had the misfortune of having to reinstall MacOSX 10.5. Updating it to MacOSX 10.5.5 required me to download about a gigabyte. At 768K/sec, it took my computer three or four hours, iirc. It might have been possible to download that using POTS, if my modem didn't reset after 10--12 hours, and if I didn't mind the downtime.
Frankly, if you had to sleep in the same room as your computer, wouldn't you be somewhat troubled by the fan noise? My own system, which admittedly is pretty long in the tooth, also has the disconcerting habit of waking up at odd hours, igniting the rather bright display. So, it gets shut down at night. Saves POW and SAN.
No, I can't think why any one would want to operate a microscope remotely, but I can think of instances where a remote colleague might well be interested in looking over the operator's shoulder, so to speak. Since the GP proposed throttling down dorm access, it would probably be in the context of educational demonstrations, possibly prerecorded.
Correct. And for those who are not stealing, they don't need any more than 128 kbit/s line. That's MORE than enough speed for emailing text or accessing websites. Heck, I access websites using a 50k phoneline, and it works just fine. Why a student "needs" (keyword) more than 128k makes no sense to me.
So, when your OS provider decides to push a 300 Megabyte upgrade at you, what do you do?
128K also isn't enough for live video. Youtube extensively buffers at that speed, and the quality suffers quite a bit. Consider microscopy. Often with even the most well prepared samples, the salient details can be difficult to discern from the background. If bandwidth considerations result in extensive artifacts, those small details all but disappear.
This argument is simply a case of "back in my day, we trudged ten miles in the snow, uphill to and from school."
I feel remiss in not pointing out Lawrence Sirovich "A pattern analysis of the second Rehnquist U.S. Supreme Court" PNAS June 24, 2003 vol. 100 no. 13 7432-7437.
Would you like to work for ABC? Is that your childhood dream?