Well, this is Britain we're talking about. The ones who'll be doing the most talking will be the chavs. Dare to complain at them, and you'll get your head kicked in, since starting fights is their main form of entertainment (although at least on an airplane you can be reasonably sure that you're not going to get knifed)
This is the point where I come out of the woodwork and promote my obscure but incredibly fun music videogame of choice:) If you enjoyed seeing TTFAF, have a look at the boss songs of beatmania IIDX:
So we can buy TV series, legally download them, and watch on demand, possibly in hi-def, with no ads? Then that's a very nice piece of kit.... so how soon until the marketing weasels figure out a way to make this cram ads down your throat like every other media channel in existence?
A straight int cast would round off the float into an int. The intention of the code here is to manipulate the binary representation of the float instead.
I think it's a quick hack to halve the exponent and linearly extrapolate a new value for the mantissa.
OpenGL will support these, no doubt, but OpenGL is frankly pretty quaint these days.
A modern graphics API is comparatively quite simple, and looks nothing like classical GL. You load shader code into the card, map some of the card's buffers into main memory and then fill then with tables of vertex attributes, or texture data. You'd also set a few state flags and uniform variables. The shader code then interprets those attributes and uniforms in whatever way you like to draw stuff to the screen; the graphics "API" doesn't even handle any rendering anymore, because that all happens completely on-card in the shaders. All the API does is keep shovelling arbitrary data into the graphics card.
Suffice it to say this bears no resembleance to OpenGL, although you could easily implement classical OpenGL as a shader. Any "extensions" that set this sort of thing up will simply rely on OpenGL to set up a rendering context on a window, and then promptly bypass pretty much all of GL itself.
That CUDA thing looks interesting though. If you coupled that with a mechanism to make the graphics card output to a window, you could code up your renderer using the CUDA framework and then pump in some data as before. I can see CUDA (or an industry standardised version of it) replacing OpenGL as a cross-platform rendering API in the future.
...system partition (20GB or so), and a/home partition. If I want to upgrade I just nuke the system ptn. Less issues that way...
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Sorry, but can someone explain to me how this is "impractical"? This is the core functionality of an SCM. What exactly is the point of using an SCM then, you may as well just use a shared network drive.
Do you guys all use ClearCase or something? Even ClearCase, despite being a horrendous pile of shit, can manage branching and merging decently.
"Due to the rising incidence of internet identity theft..." or something along those lines could well work.
Thankfully in the UK we don't have an official primary key for every citizen, yet (although the National Insurance Number is close). Mr Blair's government is trying their damndest to do something about that though, see the National ID card debate (ie everyone says we don't want it and the government eventually managed to force it through anyway).
If you check the hiragana and katakana pages on Wikipedia, Wi used to be a letter in the Japanese syllabiary, but it is now considered obsolete (hira/kata , if Slashdot doesn't mangle my post). In modern Katakana I guess you'd write it as U with a little I under it () Disclaimer: I know fuck all about Japanese, take this all with a grain of salt.
It's quite fitting though: the Wi(i). An obsolete character for a box full of obsolete technology!
I didn't even know that Revolution wasn't its final name until a week or so ago, and my theory was they'll call it the Nintendo GameWand or something, except they'll probably come up with something even more shitty
And my god they did. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot? Please tell me this is a joke. Can you imagine an ad for a game saying "Now available for the Nintendo weewee?"
Only reason I have a modchip is for importing purposes.
A Linux+OpenGL environment for messing around with this sucker wouldn't hurt either. God forbid Sony maybe learned their lesson with the PSP and the bitter fight going on there?
Nobody ever explained to me why Microsoft would inherently give a damn about DRM. As far as I know, it's the content industry that says "chain up people's PCs or we won't release high defenition material at all".
Microsoft's actual anti-piracy efforts have been a token effort at best, especially when you consider that MS actually depends a lot on penetrating developing countries with its pirated software. All other things being equal, I seriously doubt they'd give a shit less about implementing something technically very thorny and that just makes your software a pain in the ass to use.
Only reason X360 and Xbox have copy protection is to ensure developers actually pay licensing fees and don't just release software for their loss-making hardware without paying. It's got very little to do with piracy.
Last I checked, Postgres required a nightly VACUUM operation, otherwise over time the entire db would grind to a crawl. And forget about getting anything done while the db is being VACUUMed, which usually takes quite a while.
This is, to put it lightly, quite a deal breaker. I hope this is no longer the case now, is it?
Check the Wikipedia node on HDCP. The crypto on this thing is a joke. Hardware that strips HDCP from DVI signals is freely sold in contries that aren't corporate oligarchies (which now includes the UK unfortunately =\ ). There might even be a substantial software path involved which renders hardware utterly irrelevant.
Not that I will be watching BD-ROMs/HD-DVDs anyway because I'm opposed to this horse shit on principle, whether or not it can be cracked.
I do support the right of a movie or music company to be paid for every copy of their work out there, with the caveat that they're willing to sell to me. That's why I legally rent DVDs and don't buy much music because it's mostly overpriced garbage. Ideally I wouldn't even watch DVDs. The hell if I'm going to be treated like a criminal by default though. Just say no to smoking the HDCP crack...
There are those who would utterly abolish copyright. To be honest I'm almost in agreement with them. The balance has swung over to absolutely ridiculous extremes.
* Music: Music has existed since the dawn of civilisation. Those who enjoy music enough will continue to produce it whether or not people will pay them handsomely for their efforts. If they no longer make more money in a day than a surgeon in the emergency room makes in a whole year, well, somehow I find it hard to feel sorry for them.
* Software: Some software needs can be met with open source software. More specialist "unsexy" software will again continue to be needed. Whoever needs it enough can enter into a contract with someone to develop it, under as strict a set of safety standards as is necessary for things like aircraft and nuclear reactors if needs be. Isn't the vast majority of all software written for internal use? If this software gives you a critical edge over a competitor it can be protected as a trade secret instead.
* Books: Same as music, even moreso. Anyone with a word processor can potentially be an author, although if you look at the volume of utter drivel on say fanfiction.net it might become a bit hard to sort the wheat from the chaff for a while. Again, better to have geniunely good material float to the top than have the usual pop crap pushed down everyone's throats because it's a lazy man's substitute for taste.
* News: Tricky. "the blogosphere" these days is mostly about juvenile navelgazing, and I personally would certainly not rely on it. Still, if News Corp et all fell into the dust, if something big caught on fire I imagine many people would be giving consistent reports of the fact within minutes online, as opposed to front page articles of who's fucking who in the celebrity world as we usually have (although we wouldn't see quite so many celebrities in the first place; see above).
* Cinema: There are lower barriers to entry these days thanks to powerful commonplace audio/video hardware and the obscene computing power of a medium-sized pile of desktop PC's these days. Still, this could be tricky. You would need some sort of wealthy societies to bankroll massive cinematic productions. You wouldn't get too many projects like Lord of the Rings springing up because a bunch of people down the pub with 1000 of their highly qualified mates decided it might be fun to set up tons of production equipment and render farms down in New Zealand for a laugh...
On balance though I'm having trouble seeing the benefit of copyright other than the fact that it makes a small group of people with an arguably marginal contribution to society disproportionately rich. Considering the recent abuses of the copyright lobby (DMCA and such) we do seem to be making some ridiculous "tradeoffs" as of late.
where does my bluetooth card go? Not everybody has built in bluetooth, and I'm sure as hell not having a dongle that can snap off and has to be disconnected every time I pack up my laptop. End result is PCMCIA bluetooth, and I've only got one slot for that.
Still, damn if it isn't an interesting idea. Maybe this will appeal to the powerbook crowd.
A custom CPU like that is for all intents and purposes unbreakable (well unless you happen to have equipment for opening up your particular CPU and poking around in it). Damn. I don't know of many modding crews with scanning tunnelling microscopes...
A friend of mine once suggested a rather low tech but interesting anti modding solution: drip epoxy all over the pins for the BIOS and CPU. If you can't make a physical connection to the chips...
Probably a fair bit. We all start out female in the very earliest stages of development, though the presence of a Y chromosone causes the production of TDF (testes determining factor I think) which makes the whole shebang turn inside out and grow into the familiar cock and balls
As for this regenerating mouse I'll take it with a cubic metre of NaCl for now thanks. I don't see how on earth this magical regeneration system can work without the body drowning in tumours almost immediately. Remember these mice are just over a year old.
They probably got some sort of improved technology for growing liver cells in culture or something and some idiot journalist sensationalized the fuck out of it as usual. Don't we see some "revolutionary breakthrough" in the treatment of cancer or AIDS every other week?
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Well, this is Britain we're talking about. The ones who'll be doing the most talking will be the chavs. Dare to complain at them, and you'll get your head kicked in, since starting fights is their main form of entertainment (although at least on an airplane you can be reasonably sure that you're not going to get knifed)
Damn. Well put.
I'm posting here so that I'll have a link back to this in the years to come.
This is the point where I come out of the woodwork and promote my obscure but incredibly fun music videogame of choice :) If you enjoyed seeing TTFAF, have a look at the boss songs of beatmania IIDX:
Human Sequencer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLJTZJ2Sevk&feature=related
Nageki no Ki: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tf3r7gatAiA&NR=1
Not nearly as long as TTFAF, but 2000 notes in 2 minutes is quite a thing to behold.
So we can buy TV series, legally download them, and watch on demand, possibly in hi-def, with no ads? Then that's a very nice piece of kit. ... so how soon until the marketing weasels figure out a way to make this cram ads down your throat like every other media channel in existence?
Oh but come on, they couldn't let you print without leaving that oh-so-lucrative product placement in there
Jesus christ. Why does absolute sewage like this get posted?? It's about five paragraphs per page and three or so screens' worth of useless garbage.
A straight int cast would round off the float into an int. The intention of the code here is to manipulate the binary representation of the float instead.
I think it's a quick hack to halve the exponent and linearly extrapolate a new value for the mantissa.
OpenGL will support these, no doubt, but OpenGL is frankly pretty quaint these days.
A modern graphics API is comparatively quite simple, and looks nothing like classical GL. You load shader code into the card, map some of the card's buffers into main memory and then fill then with tables of vertex attributes, or texture data. You'd also set a few state flags and uniform variables. The shader code then interprets those attributes and uniforms in whatever way you like to draw stuff to the screen; the graphics "API" doesn't even handle any rendering anymore, because that all happens completely on-card in the shaders. All the API does is keep shovelling arbitrary data into the graphics card.
Suffice it to say this bears no resembleance to OpenGL, although you could easily implement classical OpenGL as a shader. Any "extensions" that set this sort of thing up will simply rely on OpenGL to set up a rendering context on a window, and then promptly bypass pretty much all of GL itself.
That CUDA thing looks interesting though. If you coupled that with a mechanism to make the graphics card output to a window, you could code up your renderer using the CUDA framework and then pump in some data as before. I can see CUDA (or an industry standardised version of it) replacing OpenGL as a cross-platform rendering API in the future.
How do you turn your computer off? Seriously? If you select Log Out, the closest you can get is Hibernation.
After a while, I figured out that selecting "Enable actions menu" in the Login Screen administrative app enables these logout options.
Obviously.
I hope that's just a broken default that I got from my install when it was in beta, because that is really stupid otherwise.
...system partition (20GB or so), and a /home partition. If I want to upgrade I just nuke the system ptn. Less issues that way...
Sorry, but can someone explain to me how this is "impractical"? This is the core functionality of an SCM. What exactly is the point of using an SCM then, you may as well just use a shared network drive.
Do you guys all use ClearCase or something? Even ClearCase, despite being a horrendous pile of shit, can manage branching and merging decently.
It's my birthday today :)
Well, would _you_ want to be ruled by someone stupider than you?
Ah, wait nevermind, you're probably from the US... (sorry, I know it's not your fault)
"Due to the rising incidence of internet identity theft..." or something along those lines could well work.
Thankfully in the UK we don't have an official primary key for every citizen, yet (although the National Insurance Number is close). Mr Blair's government is trying their damndest to do something about that though, see the National ID card debate (ie everyone says we don't want it and the government eventually managed to force it through anyway).
If you check the hiragana and katakana pages on Wikipedia, Wi used to be a letter in the Japanese syllabiary, but it is now considered obsolete (hira /kata , if Slashdot doesn't mangle my post). In modern Katakana I guess you'd write it as U with a little I under it () Disclaimer: I know fuck all about Japanese, take this all with a grain of salt.
It's quite fitting though: the Wi(i). An obsolete character for a box full of obsolete technology!
WHAT
I didn't even know that Revolution wasn't its final name until a week or so ago, and my theory was they'll call it the Nintendo GameWand or something, except they'll probably come up with something even more shitty
And my god they did. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot? Please tell me this is a joke. Can you imagine an ad for a game saying "Now available for the Nintendo weewee?"
Words fail me..
Only reason I have a modchip is for importing purposes.
A Linux+OpenGL environment for messing around with this sucker wouldn't hurt either. God forbid Sony maybe learned their lesson with the PSP and the bitter fight going on there?
HURR
Nobody ever explained to me why Microsoft would inherently give a damn about DRM. As far as I know, it's the content industry that says "chain up people's PCs or we won't release high defenition material at all".
Microsoft's actual anti-piracy efforts have been a token effort at best, especially when you consider that MS actually depends a lot on penetrating developing countries with its pirated software. All other things being equal, I seriously doubt they'd give a shit less about implementing something technically very thorny and that just makes your software a pain in the ass to use.
Only reason X360 and Xbox have copy protection is to ensure developers actually pay licensing fees and don't just release software for their loss-making hardware without paying. It's got very little to do with piracy.
Last I checked, Postgres required a nightly VACUUM operation, otherwise over time the entire db would grind to a crawl. And forget about getting anything done while the db is being VACUUMed, which usually takes quite a while.
This is, to put it lightly, quite a deal breaker. I hope this is no longer the case now, is it?
Check the Wikipedia node on HDCP. The crypto on this thing is a joke. Hardware that strips HDCP from DVI signals is freely sold in contries that aren't corporate oligarchies (which now includes the UK unfortunately =\ ). There might even be a substantial software path involved which renders hardware utterly irrelevant.
Not that I will be watching BD-ROMs/HD-DVDs anyway because I'm opposed to this horse shit on principle, whether or not it can be cracked.
I do support the right of a movie or music company to be paid for every copy of their work out there, with the caveat that they're willing to sell to me. That's why I legally rent DVDs and don't buy much music because it's mostly overpriced garbage. Ideally I wouldn't even watch DVDs. The hell if I'm going to be treated like a criminal by default though. Just say no to smoking the HDCP crack...
So Steve Jobs pulls this stunt too, what about minimum wage laws? :} (seriously)
There are those who would utterly abolish copyright. To be honest I'm almost in agreement with them. The balance has swung over to absolutely ridiculous extremes.
* Music: Music has existed since the dawn of civilisation. Those who enjoy music enough will continue to produce it whether or not people will pay them handsomely for their efforts. If they no longer make more money in a day than a surgeon in the emergency room makes in a whole year, well, somehow I find it hard to feel sorry for them.
* Software: Some software needs can be met with open source software. More specialist "unsexy" software will again continue to be needed. Whoever needs it enough can enter into a contract with someone to develop it, under as strict a set of safety standards as is necessary for things like aircraft and nuclear reactors if needs be. Isn't the vast majority of all software written for internal use? If this software gives you a critical edge over a competitor it can be protected as a trade secret instead.
* Books: Same as music, even moreso. Anyone with a word processor can potentially be an author, although if you look at the volume of utter drivel on say fanfiction.net it might become a bit hard to sort the wheat from the chaff for a while. Again, better to have geniunely good material float to the top than have the usual pop crap pushed down everyone's throats because it's a lazy man's substitute for taste.
* News: Tricky. "the blogosphere" these days is mostly about juvenile navelgazing, and I personally would certainly not rely on it. Still, if News Corp et all fell into the dust, if something big caught on fire I imagine many people would be giving consistent reports of the fact within minutes online, as opposed to front page articles of who's fucking who in the celebrity world as we usually have (although we wouldn't see quite so many celebrities in the first place; see above).
* Cinema: There are lower barriers to entry these days thanks to powerful commonplace audio/video hardware and the obscene computing power of a medium-sized pile of desktop PC's these days. Still, this could be tricky. You would need some sort of wealthy societies to bankroll massive cinematic productions. You wouldn't get too many projects like Lord of the Rings springing up because a bunch of people down the pub with 1000 of their highly qualified mates decided it might be fun to set up tons of production equipment and render farms down in New Zealand for a laugh...
On balance though I'm having trouble seeing the benefit of copyright other than the fact that it makes a small group of people with an arguably marginal contribution to society disproportionately rich. Considering the recent abuses of the copyright lobby (DMCA and such) we do seem to be making some ridiculous "tradeoffs" as of late.
where does my bluetooth card go? Not everybody has built in bluetooth, and I'm sure as hell not having a dongle that can snap off and has to be disconnected every time I pack up my laptop. End result is PCMCIA bluetooth, and I've only got one slot for that.
Still, damn if it isn't an interesting idea. Maybe this will appeal to the powerbook crowd.
A custom CPU like that is for all intents and purposes unbreakable (well unless you happen to have equipment for opening up your particular CPU and poking around in it). Damn. I don't know of many modding crews with scanning tunnelling microscopes...
A friend of mine once suggested a rather low tech but interesting anti modding solution: drip epoxy all over the pins for the BIOS and CPU. If you can't make a physical connection to the chips...
if Edinburgh's anything to go by. South Bridge facilities burned down in 2002, the new Informatics Forum will apparently be online by 2007/2008ish.
:|
And it's that fire I've got to thank for having to study out here in the boonies instead of where everyone else is near George Square
Probably a fair bit. We all start out female in the very earliest stages of development, though the presence of a Y chromosone causes the production of TDF (testes determining factor I think) which makes the whole shebang turn inside out and grow into the familiar cock and balls
As for this regenerating mouse I'll take it with a cubic metre of NaCl for now thanks. I don't see how on earth this magical regeneration system can work without the body drowning in tumours almost immediately. Remember these mice are just over a year old.
They probably got some sort of improved technology for growing liver cells in culture or something and some idiot journalist sensationalized the fuck out of it as usual. Don't we see some "revolutionary breakthrough" in the treatment of cancer or AIDS every other week?