A good explanation of alpha channels and anti-aliasing, but...
We're talking about the actual display output, not individual bitmaps that it's composed from. Now, I understand why images have alpha channels, but seeing as the final image that is displayed on your monitor is always opaque, what is the point of it having an alpha channel?
I was thinking that the 32 bit option in your display preferences might just refer to the graphics card, that is, you're telling the graphics card to make it's canvas 32 bit, to allow apps to make use of translucency, but the actual data sent to the monitor (via an ADC) is still 24 bit. But that wouldn't make sense, because apps seem to work exactly the same in terms of translucency effects when they're in 24 bit as when they're in 32 bit...
By the way, transparency is always true or false, varying degrees of vision through a material are translucency, or it's inverse, opacity.:)
ECMA Script - This has nothing to do with Java. It's a scripting language, it doesn't even have the same syntax.
Javascript - a name for ECMA Script
Jscript - Microsofts implementation of ECMA Script
Jboss - An application container...
I'm running FreeMind (a Java mind mapping tool) on Windows and Linux, with the same binaries. My colleague is running it on OSX, the same binaries... How is it not portable?
The 32-bit option on your monitor isn't 32 bits of colour, it's 24 bits of colour and 8 bits of alpha. What on earth the alpha is used for I have no idea...
I understand your point, but the truth is that even on subscription sites you'll still get advertising.
It's like TV. I pay a monthly fee for my cable (UK), which includes all the channels I'm interested in, yet I'm still expected to sit through about 20 minutes of adverts an hour. That's unacceptable to me, so I reserver the right to switch channels when the ads come on. Likewise I reserve the right not to view the ads on a site. They still get served (afaik FireFox ad blocking still downloads the image), but I don't want to see them. If I want to buy something then I'll go and look for it, I don't want it forced down my throat all day while I'm trying to go about my business.
To be honest there aren't many commercial sites I couldn't do without. The only sites I'd be really gutted to lose are probably bbc.co.uk, and I pay for that with my TV license fee, and google, whose text ads I have no problem with.
I'm quite happy for the web to be covered by sites like Wikipedia, BBC, etc, and if someone has something to sell, then by all means set up an online shop, but enough with forcing huge epilepsy inducing banners and interstitials down my throat.
Evolution's convoluted mail format meant that I had to upload 5 years worth of mail over IMAP and then download it again, just to switch to another mail client.
I mostly use GAIM, but only because I work on Linux. Excellent as GAIM is, it's not a patch on Trillian. Trillian is one of the few utilities I've splashed out cash for the full version for. It's a great bit of software.
I'm using Fedora Core 2 for my desktop, with Gnome as my desktop environment, and *everything* is atni-aliased properly by default except for one app, xmms, which just looks like a Windows app. Only XP supports anti-aliasing of text, and it's off by default. Some OEMs turn it on before shipping, but most don't.
Let me get this straight, the default theme of a five year old project doesn't look nice to you any more so the completely re-written codebase which is now a very strong set of X libraries and will be a complete desktop environment, is irrelevant?
This is about a preview release of the core libraries going into e17, not the e17 desktop environment (it's moving up from just being a window manager).
You never know, they might have been waiting for this announcement just so they could trump Doom3 by a day! If only I could afford a graphics card to actually run Doom on:/
Let's say we have a million people, say we need to keep 2k of data for each person in memory for most purposes (ie. id, name, image url, 1st level relationships, more would need to be loaded for people currently logged in of course, but they're a minority). You can keep all that information in memory in under 2gig... not exactly out of reach of a company like friendster. you don't have to load all the data about a person into memory for it to be useful for reducing database access for a large number of tasks significantly.
I felt the same, but I saw revolutions at a friends one night, and actually it put reloaded in perspective a bit for me tbh.
The thing for me is that in the 2nd and 3rd parts the matrix stopped being represented as being like the real world, and instead became a complete fantasy world. That was why I hated the 2nd, but I actually started to enjoy it in the 3rd.
The first part is still far and away the best though.
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Completely agree. Although I quite like volume keys.
Ctrl-c/v/x work in Linux too. Well in Gnome at least, and KDE iirc.
Aha! That's the answer I was looking for :)
Thanks.
A good explanation of alpha channels and anti-aliasing, but...
:)
We're talking about the actual display output, not individual bitmaps that it's composed from. Now, I understand why images have alpha channels, but seeing as the final image that is displayed on your monitor is always opaque, what is the point of it having an alpha channel?
I was thinking that the 32 bit option in your display preferences might just refer to the graphics card, that is, you're telling the graphics card to make it's canvas 32 bit, to allow apps to make use of translucency, but the actual data sent to the monitor (via an ADC) is still 24 bit. But that wouldn't make sense, because apps seem to work exactly the same in terms of translucency effects when they're in 24 bit as when they're in 32 bit...
By the way, transparency is always true or false, varying degrees of vision through a material are translucency, or it's inverse, opacity.
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You have no idea do you?
Java - Yes, this is Java
ECMA Script - This has nothing to do with Java. It's a scripting language, it doesn't even have the same syntax.
Javascript - a name for ECMA Script
Jscript - Microsofts implementation of ECMA Script
Jboss - An application container...
I'm running FreeMind (a Java mind mapping tool) on Windows and Linux, with the same binaries. My colleague is running it on OSX, the same binaries... How is it not portable?
So can you make xcalc run on your HP calculator?
Idiot.
The 32-bit option on your monitor isn't 32 bits of colour, it's 24 bits of colour and 8 bits of alpha. What on earth the alpha is used for I have no idea...
I understand your point, but the truth is that even on subscription sites you'll still get advertising.
It's like TV. I pay a monthly fee for my cable (UK), which includes all the channels I'm interested in, yet I'm still expected to sit through about 20 minutes of adverts an hour. That's unacceptable to me, so I reserver the right to switch channels when the ads come on. Likewise I reserve the right not to view the ads on a site. They still get served (afaik FireFox ad blocking still downloads the image), but I don't want to see them. If I want to buy something then I'll go and look for it, I don't want it forced down my throat all day while I'm trying to go about my business.
To be honest there aren't many commercial sites I couldn't do without. The only sites I'd be really gutted to lose are probably bbc.co.uk, and I pay for that with my TV license fee, and google, whose text ads I have no problem with.
I'm quite happy for the web to be covered by sites like Wikipedia, BBC, etc, and if someone has something to sell, then by all means set up an online shop, but enough with forcing huge epilepsy inducing banners and interstitials down my throat.
Open-Xchange is due to be open sourced this month..
Amen.
Evolution's convoluted mail format meant that I had to upload 5 years worth of mail over IMAP and then download it again, just to switch to another mail client.
Rubbish.
I mostly use GAIM, but only because I work on Linux. Excellent as GAIM is, it's not a patch on Trillian. Trillian is one of the few utilities I've splashed out cash for the full version for. It's a great bit of software.
I'm sorry but you're at least a year out of date.
I'm using Fedora Core 2 for my desktop, with Gnome as my desktop environment, and *everything* is atni-aliased properly by default except for one app, xmms, which just looks like a Windows app. Only XP supports anti-aliasing of text, and it's off by default. Some OEMs turn it on before shipping, but most don't.
http://slight.overtops.org/tmp/Screenshot.png
Let me get this straight, the default theme of a five year old project doesn't look nice to you any more so the completely re-written codebase which is now a very strong set of X libraries and will be a complete desktop environment, is irrelevant?
Idiot..
This is about a preview release of the core libraries going into e17, not the e17 desktop environment (it's moving up from just being a window manager).
Seeing as there's no actual running code yet, don't you think that's a bit hasty?
The Atari ST has very low MIDI latency. Also, the OS is on firmare, so you don't have to boot off floppy.
That was written by SpashDamage
You never know, they might have been waiting for this announcement just so they could trump Doom3 by a day! :/
If only I could afford a graphics card to actually run Doom on
Oh good, I'll go and download SP2 then... What's that? It's been delayed to mid-August? Oh dear!
apt for redhat/fedora uses RPM packages, and includes deps resolution. same for yum
Have you seen the South Park episode about Spielberg and Lucas 'improving' their films? It's excellent, recommended.
not very.. when you follow the example link he posted..
8 28 .html
http://www.enjoy.co.uk/prodv/foam-disc-shooter/
i think by shoot he meant fire the cd, not fire at the cd. or am i completely misunderstanding you?
Let's say we have a million people, say we need to keep 2k of data for each person in memory for most purposes (ie. id, name, image url, 1st level relationships, more would need to be loaded for people currently logged in of course, but they're a minority). You can keep all that information in memory in under 2gig... not exactly out of reach of a company like friendster. you don't have to load all the data about a person into memory for it to be useful for reducing database access for a large number of tasks significantly.
I felt the same, but I saw revolutions at a friends one night, and actually it put reloaded in perspective a bit for me tbh.
The thing for me is that in the 2nd and 3rd parts the matrix stopped being represented as being like the real world, and instead became a complete fantasy world. That was why I hated the 2nd, but I actually started to enjoy it in the 3rd.
The first part is still far and away the best though.
Well if it's Wi-Fi protected by WEP then you can probably root Jenny for a good time...
There are almost always significantly more reads from a system like this than writes.
How many times is your second degree network likely to change within a 10 minute session?