Since I first saw the stories about Microsoft and OpenGL recently, I've been wondering how this is going to play out. Microsoft's whole DirectX thing has largely been targeted/used by games, but what about the other markets that us OpenGL. My specific interest is in the 3-D CAD market. In this particular market, the software vendors and hardware vendors have been exclusively using OpenGL for a number of reasons:
1) Multiple platform support, (most CAD systems run on unix or started on Unix)
2) OpenGL existed long before DirectX
I'm sure there's other reasons, but I wonder if the CAD vendors and other vendors are going to consider DirectX in the future, especially with so many vendors shifting more focus towrads Windows in the last couple of years. What about other markets that use OpenGL extensively?
Can you believe that since Microsoft owns some of the patents that went into OpenGL, they can *gasp* make life difficult for implementers of OpenGL?! Boy it's a good thing we have those lawyers to keep us straight.
This may have something to do with the pdf format or the pdf format and MS Word. I've noticed the same kind of bloat here at work with pdf's created from word documents. For example:
Responding to criticisms that such research could lead to bioterrorists engineering new lethal viruses, the scientists behind the experiment said that only a few people had the knowledge to make it happen.
and then the rest of the article is filled with stuff like this?!
To construct the virus, the researchers say they followed a recipe they downloaded from the internet and used gene sequences from a mail-order supplier.
According to researcher Jeronimo Cello, the polio virus assembled in the laboratory is one of the simplest known viruses. "It was very easy to do," he said.
"We've known this could be done. We've known it was just a matter of time before it was done," he said.
I was there for a few months this past spring. It's true, Seoul is *very* connected. People are crazy over there, spending 8+ hours a day/night playing games. Diablo 2 is particularly popular over there. Man.. so many wasted hours I had over there. It's a different culture, not as many people own their own pc's, you go to an internet cafe instead. It's definitely different.
I'm so sick of people who slam NASA for not being useful and a waste of money. The same people who enjoy their CNN/HBO/. If it wasn't for NASA's research many of the things we take for granted wouldn't be possible.
As for $30 billion, how much of that was to take up slack for the other countries that were supposed to contribute and haven't or have only contributed a small portion of the funding originally promised?
As for the mars mission comment, weren't some of the stated goals of the International Space Station to be a platform for studying the long term effects of weightlessness on the human body and to perhaps provide a jumping off point for missions to mars and beyond?
So when he gets pulled over do they call the RIAA for not purchasing his music in each format he plays it in?
Policeman into radio: Uh dispatch.. we need a tow truck, code napster.
MP3 owner: What did I do officer?
Policeman: Just wait here a minute, the nice folks at the RIAA are here to help.
"It's the same reason that people join gangs," said Allan Doody, the Customs Service investigator who led the DrinkorDie investigation...
Um.. yeah, script kiddies trading software like baseball cards is exactly like joining a gang so you won't get beat up on the way to school. I just love when the government/media feels the need to subtly add words that make things sound more evil than they really are.
I love all the recent (well, last couple of years) banter about software pirates in the mainstream media. My favorite quotes are something along the lines of.. "software pirates cost us $x.x billion last year. When they are actually referring to people that haven't paid for the "illegal" copies of the software. I thought pirates were the people "selling" and gaining "profit" from "illegal" copies. How does putting a copy up on an ftp site relate to making a profit?
The company I work for is helping with the mechanical design of this box. The story that I was told was that the company's focus is on the ZapMedia (Media Stream? Internet Portal? Physical Media?). When I heard the term ZapMedia, I assumed it referred to the physical media, in hindsight, perhaps that's not the case at all. It will be out shortly, though I'm not clued in on all the details since I'm not working on that particular project.
Slashdot Mirror
Since I first saw the stories about Microsoft and OpenGL recently, I've been wondering how this is going to play out. Microsoft's whole DirectX thing has largely been targeted/used by games, but what about the other markets that us OpenGL. My specific interest is in the 3-D CAD market. In this particular market, the software vendors and hardware vendors have been exclusively using OpenGL for a number of reasons:
1) Multiple platform support, (most CAD systems run on unix or started on Unix)
2) OpenGL existed long before DirectX
I'm sure there's other reasons, but I wonder if the CAD vendors and other vendors are going to consider DirectX in the future, especially with so many vendors shifting more focus towrads Windows in the last couple of years. What about other markets that use OpenGL extensively?
Can you believe that since Microsoft owns some of the patents that went into OpenGL, they can *gasp* make life difficult for implementers of OpenGL?! Boy it's a good thing we have those lawyers to keep us straight.
That's why it's called rocket "science". If it were rocket "engineering" the success rate would be much higher.
I've found that once I stopped checking my email, I stopped getting spam.
Now, why haven't I heard from my girlfriend while she's been away at school.
This may have something to do with the pdf format or the pdf format and MS Word. I've noticed the same kind of bloat here at work with pdf's created from word documents. For example:
word-test.doc - 966 KB
word-test.pdf - 1,646 KB
Isn't it interesting that the mirror link indicated in the slashdot article is to a site called davesipaq.com?
It looks like they took that dial interface from the ipod and shrunk it and stuck it in the middle of the typical palm buttons.
So this is where all the Back Street boys/n-sync/Brittany Spears music is coming from.
Now let's see which is more sexy... Brittany or a Ukelelie playing lego robot...
hrmmm dilemmas dilemmas.
Ok, wtf, from the article we have these snippets:
Responding to criticisms that such research could lead to bioterrorists engineering new lethal viruses, the scientists behind the experiment said that only a few people had the knowledge to make it happen.
and then the rest of the article is filled with stuff like this?!
To construct the virus, the researchers say they followed a recipe they downloaded from the internet and used gene sequences from a mail-order supplier.
According to researcher Jeronimo Cello, the polio virus assembled in the laboratory is one of the simplest known viruses. "It was very easy to do," he said.
"We've known this could be done. We've known it was just a matter of time before it was done," he said.
Why shouldn't we be worried?
I was there for a few months this past spring. It's true, Seoul is *very* connected. People are crazy over there, spending 8+ hours a day/night playing games. Diablo 2 is particularly popular over there. Man.. so many wasted hours I had over there. It's a different culture, not as many people own their own pc's, you go to an internet cafe instead. It's definitely different.
I'm so sick of people who slam NASA for not being useful and a waste of money. The same people who enjoy their CNN/HBO/. If it wasn't for NASA's research many of the things we take for granted wouldn't be possible. As for $30 billion, how much of that was to take up slack for the other countries that were supposed to contribute and haven't or have only contributed a small portion of the funding originally promised? As for the mars mission comment, weren't some of the stated goals of the International Space Station to be a platform for studying the long term effects of weightlessness on the human body and to perhaps provide a jumping off point for missions to mars and beyond?
So when he gets pulled over do they call the RIAA for not purchasing his music in each format he plays it in? Policeman into radio: Uh dispatch.. we need a tow truck, code napster. MP3 owner: What did I do officer? Policeman: Just wait here a minute, the nice folks at the RIAA are here to help.
I thought the typos and bad grammer were were the easter eggs on slashdot.
Here's a nice quote from the article:
"It's the same reason that people join gangs," said Allan Doody, the Customs Service investigator who led the DrinkorDie investigation...
Um.. yeah, script kiddies trading software like baseball cards is exactly like joining a gang so you won't get beat up on the way to school. I just love when the government/media feels the need to subtly add words that make things sound more evil than they really are.
I love all the recent (well, last couple of years) banter about software pirates in the mainstream media. My favorite quotes are something along the lines of.. "software pirates cost us $x.x billion last year. When they are actually referring to people that haven't paid for the "illegal" copies of the software. I thought pirates were the people "selling" and gaining "profit" from "illegal" copies. How does putting a copy up on an ftp site relate to making a profit?
Isn't this the same company that released a Celion Deion CD that would crash some Macs?
Here are some other useful books on the subjects:
Learning XML - also an O'Reilly book
Perl in a nutshell - a good starter book on perl
Here's the original article at newscientist.com that the Reuters story is referring to: http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns999 92528
Silicon Valley has more info, check it out:
b us iness/columnists/3612625.htm
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/
Is it really a better index, if they have more default IIS homepages indexed?
The company I work for is helping with the mechanical design of this box. The story that I was told was that the company's focus is on the ZapMedia (Media Stream? Internet Portal? Physical Media?). When I heard the term ZapMedia, I assumed it referred to the physical media, in hindsight, perhaps that's not the case at all. It will be out shortly, though I'm not clued in on all the details since I'm not working on that particular project.