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(shamless plug warning). If you're looking for a multithreaded C++ API for video capture and display (along with hooks for Intel's Image Processing Library or IPL), check out SPU-Toolbox. (http://www.spu-toolbox.org).
Since a large number of signatures prompted the Japanese release, then we have no reason to believe that the same thing can't happen here. So, I urge everyone to go and sign the USA list!
Redundancy (or voting) does not necesessarily imply increased stability. For example, if in a voting system, if the majority of systems happen to be installed wrong, then the majority vote could still result in incorrect behavior, such as attempting to turn your plane upside down as you cross the equator. (Actually happened, see the book "Doing Hard Time.")
While they aren't the best video capture cards out there, there is some Brooktree (bttv) driver support out there for Imagenation's PXC200. I was involved with a project where I helped build six to eight systems based on this card --- but we were unable to make it as solid as we wanted to. This could be however, due to our choice of the other PC/104 devices however (which were EEPD systems, specifially).
First, I see nothing "funny" about this article --- its a serious issue, whether we like it or not. (Perhaps Mr. Malda could point out precisely what is so "amusing" about this trend?) On a side note, the quote from Jon Mandel is *his* prediction that the trend of "Americanized" afternoon anime is about halfway. I had no indication after reading the print version of the article (I assume they are identical) that he implied the "end of anime."
But, besides Eudora 3.x ("Eudora is tired of waiting for the system to respond."), can anyone else think of any really nasty or sarcastic error messages like the Guru Meditation Error?
At the threat of being off topic, my personal favority "nasty" error message of all time is the message "Fucking sun blows me" when I used to try to mount FreeBSD partitions under Linux. I don't know if it's still there or not, but I got some good miliage out of that one.
I could be remiss on this, but didn't NeXT cubes render to the display via Postscript commands? If this is so, then perhaps some component of GNUStep might help? Perhaps someone more deeply involved in OpenStep/GNUStep can comment.
Regardless of hardware or software, collision detection is a difficult problem. It would be nice if it was just a matter of detecting intersecting bounding boxes, but it's not. For instance, suppose two objects are moving towards each other with non-constant velocity (and perhaps non-constant acceleration). In one frame, they might not "collide", but by the next frame, perhaps their bounding boxes will be intersecting. At what point in time should you consider the "collision" to occur? Additionally, if both objects are going fast enough, then in one frame two objects could be about to collide, and in the next frame perhaps they have already "passed through" each other! So, in every frame you have to keep track of trajectories as well as bounding boxes (and I'm sure lots of other things I'm forgetting right now).
Just wanted to shed some light on a problem that seems a lot easier than it really is. Perhaps that's why specialized hardware is in order.
I'm making this post at the risk of having it moderated to "repetitive" but no one seems to have explicitly addressed this before.
Personally, I think the idea of "enforcing" a standard is a strange way to bring up the issue of overall standard conformance / nonconformance. Either something conforms to a standard or it does not. However, this line is (usually) not a clear one, as there almost always exists *some* ambiguity in the way someone describes, understands, or implements a standard. Personally, I found the use of term "enforcement" a bit confusing, but I'm not sure that I have a better word for it either.;)
But, before you even try to ask the question "does product X comply with standard Y" I think one needs to define which sort of compliance / conformity you are addressing. I believe that there are two kinds of compliance. First, there is the compliance to the standard as it is on paper (if there is one!). Second, there is the compliance to the *implicit* standard that evolves from the majority of implementatations of that standard. These can often be very different; and when tyring to ask the question "Does our product/system conform?", one must first address the question of "to what?"
For instance, suppose Standard Y on paper says nothing about the implementation of Feature Z. Yet, suppose a significant majority of products out there support Feature Z. Then, I would consider the paper standard simply "Standard Y", but in some ways, there is an implicit standard that consists of "Standard Y + Feature Z." (Simply because it's out there.) I do *not* mean to imply that this is a Good or Bad Thing (that's a *whole* 'nother can of worms). I simply want to illustrate that standard "conformance" may mean building a system that complies to an implicit, evolved standard, as opposed to a standard by committee.
I wonder how many times this has happened in the past, but people (like me) have just "caved" under the corporate pressure. For instance, a site I did as an undergrad called "Cache for Blockheads" (formerly "Cache for Dummies" (http://www.elan.org/me/collegiatep rojects/cache/) was also threatened by IDG(TM). I wanted to change the name to "Cache for IDG(TM) Lawyers" but was outvoted. We were also considering countersuing, because we figured that the content of our site was so much better than IDG's books, that they should be paying us.;) But, in all seriousness, it was pretty frustrating. Anyone else out there get "threatened" by IDG but kept quiet until now?
I didn't read the article extremely carefully (I already know how to compile a kernel), but was there any mention about copying over the system map? If this isn't done, sometimes the results can be very bad.
This is just plain infuriating. I suppose now, a company will sue you if you send them a letter of complaint as well. Or if you tell your friends not to buy their product for one reason or another. I wonder if this same judge would force a reporter to give up his or her source, just because some big corporation didn't "like" their article. Or, perhaps he'll soon find me in contempt of court, simply because I don't like his decision. "No right to free speech to defame." WTF? I'm sure England felt that same very way after reading the Declaration of Independence.
Now I am totally and utterly depressed. Oops, maybe I shouldn't have said that. I might get sued.
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Federal employees can be chairs of external organizations.
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Try Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates. Linux supported.
What about a puzzle ring? I got my fiancee an engagement ring from this guy.
It's LIPSON not Lipton.
The correct definition of a hyperplane is here.
(shamless plug warning). If you're looking for a multithreaded C++ API for video capture and display (along with hooks for Intel's Image Processing Library or IPL), check out SPU-Toolbox. (http://www.spu-toolbox.org).
Does it seem strange that a "history" of 3D FPS not include games like "Wolfenstien" or even earlier?
Since a large number of signatures prompted the Japanese release, then we have no reason to believe that the same thing can't happen here. So, I urge everyone to go and sign the USA list!
Redundancy (or voting) does not necesessarily imply increased stability. For example, if in a voting system, if the majority of systems happen to be installed wrong, then the majority vote could still result in incorrect behavior, such as attempting to turn your plane upside down as you cross the equator. (Actually happened, see the book "Doing Hard Time.")
How do you feel about the claims that C# is simply Microsoft's answer to Java? As a programmer, why should I choose C# over Java or C++?
While they aren't the best video capture cards out there, there is some Brooktree (bttv) driver support out there for Imagenation's PXC200. I was involved with a project where I helped build six to eight systems based on this card --- but we were unable to make it as solid as we wanted to. This could be however, due to our choice of the other PC/104 devices however (which were EEPD systems, specifially).
Embedded systems programmers do a *lot* of assembly.
First, I see nothing "funny" about this article --- its a serious issue, whether we like it or not. (Perhaps Mr. Malda could point out precisely what is so "amusing" about this trend?) On a side note, the quote from Jon Mandel is *his* prediction that the trend of "Americanized" afternoon anime is about halfway. I had no indication after reading the print version of the article (I assume they are identical) that he implied the "end of anime."
Just my two cents.
If I remember correctly, the professional organizations ACM or IEEE may offer health insurance policies.
But, besides Eudora 3.x ("Eudora is tired of waiting for the system to respond."), can anyone else think of any really nasty or sarcastic error messages like the Guru Meditation Error?
At the threat of being off topic, my personal favority "nasty" error message of all time is the message "Fucking sun blows me" when I used to try to mount FreeBSD partitions under Linux. I don't know if it's still there or not, but I got some good miliage out of that one.
I could be remiss on this, but didn't NeXT cubes render to the display via Postscript commands? If this is so, then perhaps some component of GNUStep might help? Perhaps someone more deeply involved in OpenStep/GNUStep can comment.
Regardless of hardware or software, collision detection is a difficult problem. It would be nice if it was just a matter of detecting intersecting bounding boxes, but it's not. For instance, suppose two objects are moving towards each other with non-constant velocity (and perhaps non-constant acceleration). In one frame, they might not "collide", but by the next frame, perhaps their bounding boxes will be intersecting. At what point in time should you consider the "collision" to occur? Additionally, if both objects are going fast enough, then in one frame two objects could be about to collide, and in the next frame perhaps they have already "passed through" each other! So, in every frame you have to keep track of trajectories as well as bounding boxes (and I'm sure lots of other things I'm forgetting right now).
Just wanted to shed some light on a problem that seems a lot easier than it really is. Perhaps that's why specialized hardware is in order.
I'm making this post at the risk of having it moderated to "repetitive" but no one seems to have explicitly addressed this before.
;)
Personally, I think the idea of "enforcing" a standard is a strange way to bring up the issue of overall standard conformance / nonconformance. Either something conforms to a standard or it does not. However, this line is (usually) not a clear one, as there almost always exists *some* ambiguity in the way someone describes, understands, or implements a standard. Personally, I found the use of term "enforcement" a bit confusing, but I'm not sure that I have a better word for it either.
But, before you even try to ask the question "does product X comply with standard Y" I think one needs to define which sort of compliance / conformity you are addressing. I believe that there are two kinds of compliance. First, there is the compliance to the standard as it is on paper (if there is one!). Second, there is the compliance to the *implicit* standard that evolves from the majority of implementatations of that standard. These can often be very different; and when tyring to ask the question "Does our product/system conform?", one must first address the question of "to what?"
For instance, suppose Standard Y on paper says nothing about the implementation of Feature Z. Yet, suppose a significant majority of products out there support Feature Z. Then, I would consider the paper standard simply "Standard Y", but in some ways, there is an implicit standard that consists of "Standard Y + Feature Z." (Simply because it's out there.) I do *not* mean to imply that this is a Good or Bad Thing (that's a *whole* 'nother can of worms). I simply want to illustrate that standard "conformance" may mean building a system that complies to an implicit, evolved standard, as opposed to a standard by committee.
It's not about all operating systems, but A Quarter Century of Unix is all about, well, a quater centruy of Unix. ;) (ISBN: 0201547775)
I wonder how many times this has happened in the past, but people (like me) have just "caved" under the corporate pressure. For instance, a site I did as an undergrad called "Cache for Blockheads" (formerly "Cache for Dummies" (http://www.elan.org/me/collegiatep rojects/cache/) was also threatened by IDG(TM). I wanted to change the name to "Cache for IDG(TM) Lawyers" but was outvoted. We were also considering countersuing, because we figured that the content of our site was so much better than IDG's books, that they should be paying us. ;) But, in all seriousness, it was pretty frustrating. Anyone else out there get "threatened" by IDG but kept quiet until now?
I didn't read the article extremely carefully (I already know how to compile a kernel), but was there any mention about copying over the system map? If this isn't done, sometimes the results can be very bad.
Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball (TM).
This is just plain infuriating. I suppose now, a company will sue you if you send them a letter of complaint as well. Or if you tell your friends not to buy their product for one reason or another. I wonder if this same judge would force a reporter to give up his or her source, just because some big corporation didn't "like" their article. Or, perhaps he'll soon find me in contempt of court, simply because I don't like his decision. "No right to free speech to defame." WTF? I'm sure England felt that same very way after reading the Declaration of Independence.
Now I am totally and utterly depressed. Oops, maybe I shouldn't have said that. I might get sued.