While I am genuinely interested in seeing real, functional communication with a demographic that is typically cut off from being able to communicate with the rest of the world, I am very skeptical that this is going to turn into yet another facilitated communication hoax.
Higher vertex counts in meshes and more objects on screen should be configurable values. I can almost guarantee you that the reasons holding back better lighting and more advanced shaders is the fact that they're not necessarily using the full power of the graphics chip right now.
The rest is all coding. Considering that most games are either going to use the Bethesda FPRPG engine, Unreal, Unity, Source, and the developers aren't likely to be coding an engine from scratch, I don't think hardware design considerations are going to have a huge impact on any of that.
After seeing all the great success of the UN organizations, I can guarantee you that it would be worse if this happened on a global scale instead of a per-country basis. The UN FAO is busy trying to convince people that bugs are a viable and realistic solution to curing global hunger. Do you really want to see what they recommend to deal with something less critical to sustaining human life?
While your argument has merit, I'm going to simply stick to the strategy of buying cars that do not attach a wireless communication device to the same bus that the engine control unit sits on.
You can't do that. Microsoft can, but they would have to remove the secureboot restrictions preventing you from installing a 3rd party OS on the device. I really doubt they're going to suddenly decide that Google's dogfood tastes good, so that will likely never happen.
Fred mirrors my opinion. I have zero interest in anything related to win8, so this caught my interest as a cheap tinker toy to throw ubuntu or fedora on. Guess what? The locked bootloader prevents you from installing anything on it that's not win8. $100 is still too much for a paperweight.
The graphic shows 2 perpendicular waves centered on the transmission axis. I understand he's trying to depict the I and Q components of a signal, but it's just a singular, corkscrew waveform in real life that we cannot easily map from 3D to 2D in most educational graphics on the subject. Some of the fancier radio chains compute the jQ component because the Nyquist frequency of the ADC in the baseband receiver only has to equal the frequency of your baseband instead of 2x the baseband frequency when you're only sampling the I component.
This is just nitpicking, but the wavelengths are HUGE. I understand that it's impossible to depict a wavelength in nanometers without resorting to showing a fuzzy cloud and saying that there's not enough pixels to show the discreet waveforms. tom17 is dead right when he says it would look like light, because all the scattering and reflection and refraction occurs with visible EMF as well as radio.
The particular message is tailored to meet the prejudices of the submitting editor. Old timers have been telling me not to believe everything I read long before internet access became commonplace.
Their changes are public, so you could have looked for yourself to find that change was reverted in October last year after only being alive in the upstream repositories for a whopping 2 months. Please don't repeat hearsay if you aren't going to verify it.
IEEE754 32-bit floating point has been able to handle that level of accuracy without too many problems since the standard was published in 1985, but you can continue arguing about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin all you'd like.
The article says that they use a reference grid of 3x3 squares. That's 0 decimal place accuracy. 4 decimal place accuracy using meters is 0.1 millimeter accuracy.
I'm counting the lowest position of my physical body, so that's the AGL of the soles of my feet. I'm just under 2 meters tall, and that's within error tolerance of most geospatial coordinate systems.
Yes, please, let's resurrect the failed idea of eugenics so that we can find convenient, easy to test for attributes so we can selectively breed for the desirables traits and exterminate the undesirables. We'll finally get it right this time!
Poverty? Crime? Ignorance? Lack of cultural appreciation? Failure to adopt our preferred political ideologies? Those are all genetic traits that an individual couldn't possibly overcome through self-determination, so send 'em to the ovens and keep only the pretty people that share our perfect ideas perfectly. </sarcasm>
Brazil, 1985, directed by Terry Gilliam.
Sam Lowry (played by Jonathan Pryce) has an obnoxious neighbor at work that has monopoly access to the local computer at the office. He proclaims that he's "quite a whiz with computers" when running interference on Sam's attempt to use the terminal despite his obvious incompetence with them.
Unless you go to the trouble of changing your wifi mac address and many other uniquely identifying signatures of your computer and the software it runs, you can very easily be found and tracked inside your starbucks. Considering you probably have a smartphone in your pocket with an always on wifi radio, too, you can probably be very easily tracked all around town all the way back to your house for someone with the resources and determination to do so.
It definitely is. Discounting difference in hardware of their build machine and your build machine and difference in versions of compiler, libraries, etc, it's still a bogus argument. I've had the same compiler on the same machine produce different binaries on two consecutive builds on the same day due to changing memory addresses of values throwing the checksum completely off.
Also, the author needs to install redhat-rpm-config on his system if he's trying to generate stripped binaries with separate debuginfo packages.
I think you've hit the nail on the head. Intelligent people with bad attitudes will always find creative ways to justify their bad attitude as being your fault.
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While I am genuinely interested in seeing real, functional communication with a demographic that is typically cut off from being able to communicate with the rest of the world, I am very skeptical that this is going to turn into yet another facilitated communication hoax.
Higher vertex counts in meshes and more objects on screen should be configurable values. I can almost guarantee you that the reasons holding back better lighting and more advanced shaders is the fact that they're not necessarily using the full power of the graphics chip right now. The rest is all coding. Considering that most games are either going to use the Bethesda FPRPG engine, Unreal, Unity, Source, and the developers aren't likely to be coding an engine from scratch, I don't think hardware design considerations are going to have a huge impact on any of that.
Saddam's armies had custom Soviet T-72 Lion tanks. Last I checked, Russia was responsible for that, not the US.
After seeing all the great success of the UN organizations, I can guarantee you that it would be worse if this happened on a global scale instead of a per-country basis. The UN FAO is busy trying to convince people that bugs are a viable and realistic solution to curing global hunger. Do you really want to see what they recommend to deal with something less critical to sustaining human life?
Bugger patties?
While your argument has merit, I'm going to simply stick to the strategy of buying cars that do not attach a wireless communication device to the same bus that the engine control unit sits on.
You can't do that. Microsoft can, but they would have to remove the secureboot restrictions preventing you from installing a 3rd party OS on the device. I really doubt they're going to suddenly decide that Google's dogfood tastes good, so that will likely never happen.
Fred mirrors my opinion. I have zero interest in anything related to win8, so this caught my interest as a cheap tinker toy to throw ubuntu or fedora on. Guess what? The locked bootloader prevents you from installing anything on it that's not win8. $100 is still too much for a paperweight.
The graphic shows 2 perpendicular waves centered on the transmission axis. I understand he's trying to depict the I and Q components of a signal, but it's just a singular, corkscrew waveform in real life that we cannot easily map from 3D to 2D in most educational graphics on the subject. Some of the fancier radio chains compute the jQ component because the Nyquist frequency of the ADC in the baseband receiver only has to equal the frequency of your baseband instead of 2x the baseband frequency when you're only sampling the I component.
This is just nitpicking, but the wavelengths are HUGE. I understand that it's impossible to depict a wavelength in nanometers without resorting to showing a fuzzy cloud and saying that there's not enough pixels to show the discreet waveforms. tom17 is dead right when he says it would look like light, because all the scattering and reflection and refraction occurs with visible EMF as well as radio.
The particular message is tailored to meet the prejudices of the submitting editor. Old timers have been telling me not to believe everything I read long before internet access became commonplace.
Their changes are public, so you could have looked for yourself to find that change was reverted in October last year after only being alive in the upstream repositories for a whopping 2 months. Please don't repeat hearsay if you aren't going to verify it.
IEEE754 32-bit floating point has been able to handle that level of accuracy without too many problems since the standard was published in 1985, but you can continue arguing about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin all you'd like.
The article says that they use a reference grid of 3x3 squares. That's 0 decimal place accuracy. 4 decimal place accuracy using meters is 0.1 millimeter accuracy.
I'm counting the lowest position of my physical body, so that's the AGL of the soles of my feet. I'm just under 2 meters tall, and that's within error tolerance of most geospatial coordinate systems.
Lattitude, longitude, altitude above ground level.
33.755, -84.39, 0 in my case.
Yes, please, let's resurrect the failed idea of eugenics so that we can find convenient, easy to test for attributes so we can selectively breed for the desirables traits and exterminate the undesirables. We'll finally get it right this time!
Poverty? Crime? Ignorance? Lack of cultural appreciation? Failure to adopt our preferred political ideologies? Those are all genetic traits that an individual couldn't possibly overcome through self-determination, so send 'em to the ovens and keep only the pretty people that share our perfect ideas perfectly. </sarcasm>
You just described Unity3d. Too bad Javascript is a steaming pile.
Brazil, 1985, directed by Terry Gilliam. Sam Lowry (played by Jonathan Pryce) has an obnoxious neighbor at work that has monopoly access to the local computer at the office. He proclaims that he's "quite a whiz with computers" when running interference on Sam's attempt to use the terminal despite his obvious incompetence with them.
Stories like this bring the phrase "rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic" to mind.
I listened to an OpenBSD release song once. I will never make that mistake again.
Unless you go to the trouble of changing your wifi mac address and many other uniquely identifying signatures of your computer and the software it runs, you can very easily be found and tracked inside your starbucks. Considering you probably have a smartphone in your pocket with an always on wifi radio, too, you can probably be very easily tracked all around town all the way back to your house for someone with the resources and determination to do so.
Yes, and you cannot run AT&T SYSIII unix on any modern hardware. I fail to see your problem.
It definitely is. Discounting difference in hardware of their build machine and your build machine and difference in versions of compiler, libraries, etc, it's still a bogus argument. I've had the same compiler on the same machine produce different binaries on two consecutive builds on the same day due to changing memory addresses of values throwing the checksum completely off.
Also, the author needs to install redhat-rpm-config on his system if he's trying to generate stripped binaries with separate debuginfo packages.
I think you've hit the nail on the head. Intelligent people with bad attitudes will always find creative ways to justify their bad attitude as being your fault.
For the tldr; crowd: You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink.