I wonder if screens with this technology could be folded at the seams?
If so, IBM should take the idea of their Thinkpad folding keyboard and apply it to displays. I'd like to see a laptop screen that folds out to > 17" inches.
The only other way I can see to make laptop screens bigger is to increase the length and width past the "notebook" size, which makes the laptop less portable.
If you just created a piece of code and want to test it out, just break main, call my_func(100, "foo") and examine the result. A big time saver on large projects where setting up the conditions to test a piece of code is tedious.
The first world was the United States, the western European nations, and their allies. The second world was the communist USSR, the eastern European nations, and their allies. The third world was the African and Asian nations that were neutral.
These might be nice, but it would much really cool to have newsreaders properly thread the articles. I think most newsreaders do threading on the References header, so of course it should support that.
The catch is you have to run an advertising bar. Worse, the advertising bar has a "health" meter that slowly decreases unless you interact with the ad bar. Run out of health, get disconnected.
Look at the dearth of inovation we've seen in the browser software area as soon as everyone realized that there was no money to be made there.
The mozilla browser project is full of innovations, such as XUL (the cross platform UI in XML), XPCOM (cross-platform common object model), RDF, full standards compliance, etc. MS is busy working on the 5.5 release of MSIE that will probably raise the bar once again. Finally, Opera is still making money selling their lean, mean, utilitarian browser.
So where is this so called dearth of browser innovation?
Actually, the widgets are mostly "mozilla" widgets now, not gtk widgets. Basically, mozilla does the widgets itself for cross-platform compatibility and maximum flexibility. Gtk is still needed, although more and more of the code shared between gtk, qt, and motif is being moved into a generic X11 directory. At one point, mozilla could be built on X without any toolkit, although I'm not sure this is the case anymore.
The article points out that, if current patterns continue, Linux users will out number Windows user very soon. And more importantly, the network effect will become an advantage to Linux and a hinderance to MS.
An important implication is that Microsoft's strategy of embracing and extending will no longer be viable. Without the network effect to make MS proprietary protocols de facto standards, people simply won't adopt non-standard and non-interoperable software from MS. And most importantly, all the existing proprietary extentions will become a giant liability!
Perhaps this is why Microsoft has at least given lip service to openess, with HTML/XML file formats and the supposed standards complience of IE6.
A nice little hack that embeds a do/while loop somewhat non-inituitively in a switch statement. A true C hack. Although the stated purpose was to force the compiler to generate efficient assembly code, I think the assembly would have been more straight forward and clear.
Here are some general resources that might help you get started:
The OpenGL standard is an open API for doing graphics, 3D and animation in particular. On Linux there is a free implementation called Mesa (software only and 3D accelerated). The OpenGL Programming Guide, published by Addison-Wesley for SGI is a good starting point. Its also not a bad introduction to the ideas behind 3D programming, and of course libraries that conform to OpenGL are widely available to start playing with.
Also, don't overlook Foley, Van Dam, Feiner, Hughes, Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice. It is considered the "definitive" guide on computer graphics. It is much more than just 3D graphics and animation. It really covers just about everything on the subject. It's not really a practical guide though, it is more of a introduction to principles. It's a little dated (1990, 2nd ed 1992), especially by your criterion.
Finally, the Graphics Gems books and Siggraph publications showcase a lot of specialized, cutting edge techniques. The Siggraph videos are pretty mind blowing.
Animation and 3D are big topics; once you've looked over some general resources, you'll have to pin down your project more.
It serves to demonstrate to you that counter productive political forces in the United States are holding back important technologies. Watch as the rest of the world embraces MP3 and strong crypto meanwhile American companies, restricted by powerful special interests, fall behind.
I am a big fan of Blizzard games; particularly Starcraft, and Diablo to a lesser extent. I find it frusterating, though, that as one of the most successful computer game company ever, they have spurned Linux so far.
Many of the up and coming big games are slated to come out for Linux. The all-at-once PC/Mac/Linux release is starting to appear with Quake III and Baldurs Gate II. Even if the primary publisher doesn't do a port, Loki Games is filling the gaps with third party ports.
And still no Blizzard games. I hope it is being planned, and the company is just being characteristically tight lipped about it. My hopes are pinned on D2 for Linux, I've already given up on Age of Kings....
The people who cracked the encryption aren't the ones who should be blamed. All they did is point out the problems that already existed. And of course, the only value is punitive, to discourage others from posting the code, which as the original poster pointed out, is futile. The "jinni" is out.
If anyone should be blamed, it is:
(1) Xing. They didn't encrypt their key, as they should have.
(2) The designers of the DVD encryption scheme. They made a huge mistake in allowing one comprimised key to reveal other keys. Now it is impossible to just lock out the Xing key.
If you want fast execution on your orders, you have to pay for it. Thats the downside of using a discount brokerage. For fast execution, try a day trading brokerage like Datek.
I remember the original NeXT hardware had a general purpose DSP included. Unfortunately, nobody really knew how to program it or what to with it. I hope some Linux hackers figure it out.
Mozilla is going to die if it doesnt get finished VERY soon.
Mozilla won't die as long as there are people interested in it. Nobody can kill it off.
Don't discount Mozillas importance even though it is pre-alpha. Even now, Mozilla is dictating MS's direction with IE; they've announced the next version will be more standards compliant.
As for Opera, go ahead and use it. I'm sure it is a fine product. But just remember, you are at the mercy of one company to implement improvements; whereas anyone can improve Mozilla. And note that any large company could kill off Opera by buying it up.
I think you are missing the point of milestones. Milestones measure the distance you have travelled. Mozilla has hit the M10 milestone. It has not hit the M11 milestone. Calling the nightly build M11 before it actually hits the milestone is somewhat counter-intuitive.
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I wonder if screens with this technology could be folded at the seams?
If so, IBM should take the idea of their Thinkpad folding keyboard and apply it to displays. I'd like to see a laptop screen that folds out to > 17" inches.
The only other way I can see to make laptop screens bigger is to increase the length and width past the "notebook" size, which makes the laptop less portable.
gdb can be useful for testing, too.
If you just created a piece of code and want to test it out, just break main, call my_func(100, "foo") and examine the result. A big time saver on large projects where setting up the conditions to test a piece of code is tedious.
These terms date from the cold war era.
The first world was the United States, the western European nations, and their allies. The second world was the communist USSR, the eastern European nations, and their allies. The third world was the African and Asian nations that were neutral.
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These might be nice, but it would much really cool to have newsreaders properly thread the articles. I think most newsreaders do threading on the References header, so of course it should support that.
The catch is you have to run an advertising bar. Worse, the advertising bar has a "health" meter that slowly decreases unless you interact with the ad bar. Run out of health, get disconnected.
Look at the dearth of inovation we've seen in the browser software area as soon as everyone realized that there was no money to be made there.
The mozilla browser project is full of innovations, such as XUL (the cross platform UI in XML), XPCOM (cross-platform common object model), RDF, full standards compliance, etc. MS is busy working on the 5.5 release of MSIE that will probably raise the bar once again. Finally, Opera is still making money selling their lean, mean, utilitarian browser.
So where is this so called dearth of browser innovation?
Smithers, massage my brain...
They might. Especially if it *is* open as a relay.
You can check if it is by telnetting to mail-abuse.org; it's not foolproof, but it detects the most obvious problems.
Actually, the widgets are mostly "mozilla" widgets now, not gtk widgets. Basically, mozilla does the widgets itself for cross-platform compatibility and maximum flexibility. Gtk is still needed, although more and more of the code shared between gtk, qt, and motif is being moved into a generic X11 directory. At one point, mozilla could be built on X without any toolkit, although I'm not sure this is the case anymore.
Andrew
Do a make -i.
Yeesh.
For NT lusers, you can turn capslock into control with the following registry modification (save below into foo.reg and double click):
n trol\Keyboard Layout] 0 ,3a,00,00,00,00,00
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Co
"Scancode Map"=hex:00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,02,00,00,00,1d,0
Here is a device built for that purpose: Link
The article points out that, if current patterns continue, Linux users will out number Windows user very soon. And more importantly, the network effect will become an advantage to Linux and a hinderance to MS.
An important implication is that Microsoft's strategy of embracing and extending will no longer be viable. Without the network effect to make MS proprietary protocols de facto standards, people simply won't adopt non-standard and non-interoperable software from MS. And most importantly, all the existing proprietary extentions will become a giant liability!
Perhaps this is why Microsoft has at least given lip service to openess, with HTML/XML file formats and the supposed standards complience of IE6.
Duff's Device
A nice little hack that embeds a do/while loop somewhat non-inituitively in a switch statement. A true C hack. Although the stated purpose was to force the compiler to generate efficient assembly code, I think the assembly would have been more straight forward and clear.
Here are some general resources that might help you get started:
The OpenGL standard is an open API for doing graphics, 3D and animation in particular. On Linux there is a free implementation called Mesa (software only and 3D accelerated). The OpenGL Programming Guide, published by Addison-Wesley for SGI is a good starting point. Its also not a bad introduction to the ideas behind 3D programming, and of course libraries that conform to OpenGL are widely available to start playing with.
Also, don't overlook Foley, Van Dam, Feiner, Hughes, Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice. It is considered the "definitive" guide on computer graphics. It is much more than just 3D graphics and animation. It really covers just about everything on the subject. It's not really a practical guide though, it is more of a introduction to principles. It's a little dated (1990, 2nd ed 1992), especially by your criterion.
Finally, the Graphics Gems books and Siggraph publications showcase a lot of specialized, cutting edge techniques. The Siggraph videos are pretty mind blowing.
Animation and 3D are big topics; once you've looked over some general resources, you'll have to pin down your project more.
Good luck.
It serves to demonstrate to you that counter productive political forces in the United States are holding back important technologies. Watch as the rest of the world embraces MP3 and strong crypto meanwhile American companies, restricted by powerful special interests, fall behind.
I am a big fan of Blizzard games; particularly Starcraft, and Diablo to a lesser extent. I find it frusterating, though, that as one of the most successful computer game company ever, they have spurned Linux so far.
Many of the up and coming big games are slated to come out for Linux. The all-at-once PC/Mac/Linux release is starting to appear with Quake III and Baldurs Gate II. Even if the primary publisher doesn't do a port, Loki Games is filling the gaps with third party ports.
And still no Blizzard games. I hope it is being planned, and the company is just being characteristically tight lipped about it. My hopes are pinned on D2 for Linux, I've already given up on Age of Kings....
The people who cracked the encryption aren't the ones who should be blamed. All they did is point out the problems that already existed. And of course, the only value is punitive, to discourage others from posting the code, which as the original poster pointed out, is futile. The "jinni" is out.
If anyone should be blamed, it is:
(1) Xing. They didn't encrypt their key, as they should have.
(2) The designers of the DVD encryption scheme. They made a huge mistake in allowing one comprimised key to reveal other keys. Now it is impossible to just lock out the Xing key.
If you want fast execution on your orders, you have to pay for it. Thats the downside of using a discount brokerage. For fast execution, try a day trading brokerage like Datek.
Wow sounds cool.
I remember the original NeXT hardware had a general purpose DSP included. Unfortunately, nobody really knew how to program it or what to with it. I hope some Linux hackers figure it out.
Is it just me, or do they have a black web page with black writing. A little low contrast, no? Or perhaps its just my browser.
And do they have a larger version of their logo somewhere? I couldn't even distinguish the little green guy as a penguin.
Mozilla is going to die if it doesnt get finished VERY soon.
Mozilla won't die as long as there are people interested in it. Nobody can kill it off.
Don't discount Mozillas importance even though it is pre-alpha. Even now, Mozilla is dictating MS's direction with IE; they've announced the next version will be more standards compliant.
As for Opera, go ahead and use it. I'm sure it is a fine product. But just remember, you are at the mercy of one company to implement improvements; whereas anyone can improve Mozilla. And note that any large company could kill off Opera by buying it up.
I think you are missing the point of milestones. Milestones measure the distance you have travelled. Mozilla has hit the M10 milestone. It has not hit the M11 milestone. Calling the nightly build M11 before it actually hits the milestone is somewhat counter-intuitive.
Here is the Motorola press release: Link
Motorola's Dragonball page: Link
Some other gooey CVS frontends:
wincvs (windows)
maccvs (mac)
pharmacy (gnome/UNIX)