NCIX is ok, but they are _slow_ and really suck at packaging. I've found all manner of weird stuff in boxes from NCIX.. rolls of tape, pages from random printer manuals, other customers order forms! Half the time the box is way too big and it seems like they just shove whatever bits of foam, bubble wrap, paper, and those air pocket things they have laying around (I recently received a box that contain all of those in a big box containing a smaller box containing a server shelf.. which was laying at the bottom of the box!
I love NCIX but I gotta admit I usually buy consumer stuff from them rather than industrial-grade like server shelves. The one time I had a problem with them, they screwed up the quantity of some 120mm cooling fans I ordered, and when I phoned them it was pretty obvious that they were swamped because of the Sandy Bridge replacement fiasco (my company was having fulfillment trouble from Dell during the same period).
And at the same time, "modest performance cost" is probably negligable at this point.
Agreed. The wikipedia article linked from this story illustrates that the industry hasn't stood still and there have been developments by nVidia and others for alternative methods. If we're lucky the new Doom 3 source will have a better algorithm than the retail version.
I sent John Carmack an email about this back in April 2009:
Hi John,
I believe you've said publicly that you are planning a GPL release of the Doom 3 source code, but I remember around the time the game was launched you had Creative holding a patent on the shadows algorithm, and you assuaged them by including support for EAX. Is that still causing problems?
-Dave
When we release the code (no date set), anyone that uses it would potentially be infringing. There are workarounds at a modest performance cost.
John Carmack
It sounds like id's lawyers are asking him to implement one of the workarounds he mentioned before he makes the public release.
Want to know what's wrong with the eBook market? Just check out this page; $15 for a poorly scanned version of a book that was written more than 40 years ago
I tried....:
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i honestly tried to grasp the logic set forth in the article but all i can see is "wahhhh we don't like the itunes model".
if you don't want to get swallowed by itunes like the music industry did, create your own digital storefront. you never will because this implies actually building something rather than sitting back and letting the royalty checks flow in, you lazy, litigious, delusional assholes
clamwin antivirus is devastatingly inferior to microsoft security essentials. google "clamwin userinit.exe" to read about clamwin's false positives leaving computers inoperable back in 2009
Despite the Slashdot headline, from reading the article all I can tell is that nastygrams were sent by both parties and it hasn't entered the courts yet. I'd like to see a judge get involved, to be honest.
Microsoft and Gates' vision of tablet computing back then was a full desktop operating system with a stylus and handwriting recognition.
Steve Jobs pointed out in 2003 that even done very, very well, handwriting recognition still sucks.
The iPhone, a mini tablet released in 2007, had an operating system built ground up with a touch interface (no stylus), and when it came to text input it popped up an on-screen keyboard (no handwriting recognition).
The article closes with Jobs acknowledging that tablets would be good for reading articles (I saw a project on hack-a-day where someone built an iPad bracket into their kitchen so they could read recipes), and joking that tablets are a niche market.
Microsoft's tablet efforts in 2003 were worse than niche market, they were failures. Apple blew the market wide open by not following the same path.
The minor political movement surrounding your incarceration would likely not happen today. Hacking has become a state-sponsored activity, with China attacking Google and America/Israel attacking Iran.
Do you think your life would be a lot different if you were born 10 years later?
recent news reports are describing a sinister technology being developed by a company named "flingo"
next up, an impressive implementation for automated human euthanization has been patented by boobytoo, a new startup out of silicon valley
BTW, I have also heard a lecture in my uni 15 years ago from a guy that was trying to develop the system to also determine general mood of the person by the way they typed. Not sure how far that went.
Watson's success in Jeopardy has me wondering if we ever see a limit to machine learning.
Cell phones have so many sensors on board - camera, location, microphone. I know the last Batman film touched on this but if those sensors were all switched on and listening, a data centre would know when we were relaxing, when we were at work, when we were at the club, when we were making love, when we were screaming at someone.
Feed the computer a pattern of sensor data from murders and manslaughters, and the machines would be able to warn the police as the confrontation was happening.
Disclaimer: I'm Canadian but I own an iPhone, not a Blackberry.
I saw the clip previously and didn't even know what he was talking about, and just thought it was exceptionally bad manners to walk out of a BBC interview.
Now that I know that the question was about allowing foreign governments spy on foreign citizens, I find his response even more rude.
Answer the damn question, man. If you are ashamed of what your company is doing then maybe you should find another job.
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NCIX is ok, but they are _slow_ and really suck at packaging. I've found all manner of weird stuff in boxes from NCIX.. rolls of tape, pages from random printer manuals, other customers order forms! Half the time the box is way too big and it seems like they just shove whatever bits of foam, bubble wrap, paper, and those air pocket things they have laying around (I recently received a box that contain all of those in a big box containing a smaller box containing a server shelf.. which was laying at the bottom of the box!
I love NCIX but I gotta admit I usually buy consumer stuff from them rather than industrial-grade like server shelves. The one time I had a problem with them, they screwed up the quantity of some 120mm cooling fans I ordered, and when I phoned them it was pretty obvious that they were swamped because of the Sandy Bridge replacement fiasco (my company was having fulfillment trouble from Dell during the same period).
And at the same time, "modest performance cost" is probably negligable at this point.
Agreed. The wikipedia article linked from this story illustrates that the industry hasn't stood still and there have been developments by nVidia and others for alternative methods. If we're lucky the new Doom 3 source will have a better algorithm than the retail version.
I sent John Carmack an email about this back in April 2009:
Hi John,
I believe you've said publicly that you are planning a GPL release of the Doom 3 source code, but I remember around the time the game was launched you had Creative holding a patent on the shadows algorithm, and you assuaged them by including support for EAX. Is that still causing problems?
-Dave
When we release the code (no date set), anyone that uses it would potentially be infringing. There are workarounds at a modest performance cost.
John Carmack
It sounds like id's lawyers are asking him to implement one of the workarounds he mentioned before he makes the public release.
I tried....:
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Canada
No good deed goes unpunished
i honestly tried to grasp the logic set forth in the article but all i can see is "wahhhh we don't like the itunes model". if you don't want to get swallowed by itunes like the music industry did, create your own digital storefront. you never will because this implies actually building something rather than sitting back and letting the royalty checks flow in, you lazy, litigious, delusional assholes
this is definitely what mozilla needs rather than a stable release cycle and MSI packages for enterprise
Someone in a previous article mentioned that Cringely predicted these events back in February:
http://www.cringely.com/2011/02/why-leo-apotheker-will-be-fired-from-hewlett-packard/
He said "Meg can knock back brewskies as well as any man and will probably fill those CEO shoes even better than Apotheker."
She will probably put the reins on the death spiral that Apotheker only accelerated.
Because there is no link to TFA to R :(
clamwin antivirus is devastatingly inferior to microsoft security essentials. google "clamwin userinit.exe" to read about clamwin's false positives leaving computers inoperable back in 2009
Quite right. This is the exact reason I pipe my customer's information to /dev/null
write once.. run on three platforms
Despite the Slashdot headline, from reading the article all I can tell is that nastygrams were sent by both parties and it hasn't entered the courts yet. I'd like to see a judge get involved, to be honest.
Microsoft and Gates' vision of tablet computing back then was a full desktop operating system with a stylus and handwriting recognition.
Steve Jobs pointed out in 2003 that even done very, very well, handwriting recognition still sucks.
The iPhone, a mini tablet released in 2007, had an operating system built ground up with a touch interface (no stylus), and when it came to text input it popped up an on-screen keyboard (no handwriting recognition).
The article closes with Jobs acknowledging that tablets would be good for reading articles (I saw a project on hack-a-day where someone built an iPad bracket into their kitchen so they could read recipes), and joking that tablets are a niche market.
Microsoft's tablet efforts in 2003 were worse than niche market, they were failures. Apple blew the market wide open by not following the same path.
The minor political movement surrounding your incarceration would likely not happen today. Hacking has become a state-sponsored activity, with China attacking Google and America/Israel attacking Iran.
Do you think your life would be a lot different if you were born 10 years later?
recent news reports are describing a sinister technology being developed by a company named "flingo" next up, an impressive implementation for automated human euthanization has been patented by boobytoo, a new startup out of silicon valley
Luckily Microsoft have once again innovated, and started to fight this monopoly by monitoring how their customers interact with Google
Inciting a riot is a crime on the level of shouting fire in a crowded theatre
I just looked at AFS on Wikipedia and it looks very interesting.
What implementation of AFS do you use, server side and client side?
Do you have any books or documentation online you could recommend?
but unity still sucks
iPhones run ARM compiled apps and Apple laughs all the way to the bank...
Watson's success in Jeopardy has me wondering if we ever see a limit to machine learning. Cell phones have so many sensors on board - camera, location, microphone. I know the last Batman film touched on this but if those sensors were all switched on and listening, a data centre would know when we were relaxing, when we were at work, when we were at the club, when we were making love, when we were screaming at someone. Feed the computer a pattern of sensor data from murders and manslaughters, and the machines would be able to warn the police as the confrontation was happening.
Did Slashdot's fortune thing at the bottom of the page just totally wig out?
Up here in Canada the local hip hop station has been playing a song called "swaggberry" talking about how if you don't have a BBM pin, where you bin?
It's an awful song and it's so obviously bought and paid for
Disclaimer: I'm Canadian but I own an iPhone, not a Blackberry. I saw the clip previously and didn't even know what he was talking about, and just thought it was exceptionally bad manners to walk out of a BBC interview. Now that I know that the question was about allowing foreign governments spy on foreign citizens, I find his response even more rude. Answer the damn question, man. If you are ashamed of what your company is doing then maybe you should find another job.