Joe Beda had said that Avalon is going to be more of an advanced UI/Visualization toolkit, while Dx will continue to contain all the other serious stuff.
Now, it looks like Avalon can do 3d on it's own and maybe more too -- what's the idea behind this anyway?
Are they trying to get a fresh new API or something? It seems unlikely, since I remember Joe and Scobles saying that they will probably be using Dx for serious graphics and game development. The redundancy seems strange.
From the presentation --
Avalon 3-D are not a replacement for Direct3D You will find Avalon 3-D useful if: - You want to integrate 3-D seamlessly into an Avalon app that also contains 2-D content, controls, etc. - Platform features like Remote Desktop and multimon are high priorities for you - You want to easily add 3-D functionality without quickly without needing to learn how the graphics hardware works
You will find DirectX useful if: - You want access to all of the features provided by the graphics hardware - You want to have full control over how your scene is stored and managed in memory - Plan for interop between Direct3D and Avalon Render Direct3D in a HWND and host within Avalon
So basically it seems to help ease the creation of bells and whistles, more than anything. Weird.
And oh, completely offtopic -- what's the deal with saying, work fine in OOorg -- shouldn't that be works fine with OO? Why the org/.org thingy?
"...safeguard the gene pool of its three million-strong herd."
You mean, safeguard the genepool to stay within Peru. Heh.
Peruvian law bans the exportation of alpacas that win pedigree certificates.
Wow. Safeguard the genepool so that the best stay within my borders. Not to troll, but unless these have been specially bred (say, genetically modified), you are trying to hold onto what nature has bestowed upon you.
And prevent the best from getting out, so that if there is any disease or epidemic, the best will all die out with not too many of them outside my borders.
Sure, you make the extra $38 an hour in exchange for a lifetime of addiction:)
Not to mention the fact that you would have to spend a few hours with bad sleep (am I the only one who's had bad sleep because of amounts of residual caffeine in the blood?).
Is it worth it? Sure seems like it when you are in your 20s or 30s, but am pretty sure that as you get older it's not a worthy tradeoff.
And again, if you drink coffee in limited quantities (like say, not more than a couple of cups a day), you will notice that when you need to stay up, having an extra cup or two really has an effect.
When you are a heavy coffee drinker who cuts back on coffee, the first couple of times you have more than your usual dose of caffeine, it takes you on a real alertness mode.
And the worst part is that the more the coffee you have, the less regular your sleeping habits become. You stop having good sleep, and therefore your waking hours become kinda blurry. At which point, you resort to more caffeine. A vicious circle.
A cup (at most two) a day is just about fine, IMHO.
Have all U.S. ISPs block IP addresses from Asia, if only for a day. I wonder how much spam would get kicked back and crash Asian Networks.
Unfortunately, that would result in much higher losses in terms of lost business and revenue that it's simply not worth even trying.
Stock markets, businesses, international corporations and what not would simply go crazy if that were to happen.
Not to mention the fact that the rest of the world would not really appreciate it -- as if the US needed any more reasons for people to be pissed at them;)
Ofcourse, the NSA could stop spam if they really wanted.
But the point is, they would not, unless they really need to. Maybe if the bad-guys started using spam as a means of communicating or something, they might just piss NSA off enough to do something.
I don't see why you can't hold somebody responsible for the way they market your product.
Because you know that immoral as their means of marketing are, they are quite effective (i.e. spam). You just turn a blind eye until the cops come calling.
At which point, what's to prevent you from saying we were not entirely aware that they were not abiding by the law?
But in a commercial setting things change. If I'm a company that makes Foo Bar, and if I say that I'd asked this marketing company to market Foo for me, and they broke the law, what can the judge do?
When you are just a manufacturer, and your distributors/marketers make a mistake, you cannot be held liable. Not unless they are all the same corporation.
If I hire a man to sell my product and he goes and rapes a girl (or a guy, depending upon his preference), I cannot be held responsible. Would a similar analogy not apply here?
Great idea, but what about spam originating from other countries?
First off, there is no assurance that spammers will adhere to this in the first place - if they are using trojan-ed systems and the like, there is no way you would be track them down.
Sure, some of them may, but if there is any way they can hide behind the anonymity mask, there is no reason they have to adhere to this.
Secondly, most of the spam I receive are not even from the US. Most of the stuff is from Asia or worse, eastern Europe. Do these regulations apply to them, too?
From the release (emphasis mine) --
The final rule follows the intention of the CAN-SPAM Act to protect email recipients from unwitting exposure to unwanted sexual images in spam, by requiring this mark to be included both in the subject line of any e-mail message that contains sexually oriented material, and in the electronic equivalent of a "brown paper wrapper" in the body of the message.
What is _any_ really? Is there a way FTC can regulate spam from other countries, or is it just for intra-US spam? If it's just the latter, it isn't much use. On the other hand, if it's not, how on Earth are they going to enforce it?
If too expensive is the reason you do not want to carry a laptop or a PDA, then I strongly suggest you get one of those el-cheapo Palm Vx's off eBay for like $20 or something.
I always carry these around when I go wandering -- they are good companions in the wilderness (read books, take notes etc) and you can read them in the dark too (they come with a back-lit display).
Besides, using them does not make you feel like you are using a computer-ish device, just think of them as nothing more than advanced note-taking tools with alarm clocks and games:)
And oh, if you are the type who hikes/climbs mountains etc., you could hook up a GPS to your Palm to look up directions using something like Cetus GPS - that way you have a GPS tool, alarm clock and a note-taking tool all bundled into one.
I so agree. When I was really young (~10 years) I ripped open an el-cheapo camera and tried building something out of it. Got zapped. That knowledge came in really handy much later when I had access to bigger camera-flashguns;-)
But if you really want to get hurt, stick your hand up any high-voltage EM generator. I've had really bad RF burn marks from my EM lab from these things.
Or, try getting near a Tesla coil wearing wool:) Those things could kill people.
Actually, if you can have any kind of discharge, you can build a primitive coil gun/sten gun.
In my freshman year of EE, we used to build capacitor banks and use them to power our coil guns.
And another thing to do is to use Flyback drivers to discharge and use them to power hi-voltage stuff. Ofcourse, this knowledge came to us much later, but was useful neverthless:)
With a little bit of expertise, you can build a transistor flyback driver in a matter of minutes and do quite a lot of nasty things with it;)
What's with the name of e-bikes? They are bloody mopeds that run on battery.
Or call them scooters that run on battery. The name e-bikes sounds cheesy, and more like a marketing ploy.
Although, that's quite surprising, since one of the site mentions that one of the companies making it (Shenzhen Light Ind. Products I/E Co.) is owned by the govt.
Usually it's the corporations that have the habit of coming up with and using buzzwords, surprised to see a govt. owned company using it:)
Aren't they supposed to be *cough* beyond such things *cough* ?
It most likely could be something like a quote, or a saying or something like that -- a lot of weird inscriptions at various sites across the world have been found to be such statements.
Would be funnier still if it were a prank of some sorts, just someone's trick to drive people up the wall -- a very pissed off grandpa perhaps?:)
Or, it could refer to something like a name. For instance, Egyptologists supposedly saw Imhotep everywhere and were not sure what it meant. For the longest time, he was thought of as a mythological figure and only later established to be a real historical person.
Yeah, I do realize that people can (and will) get offended at just about anything and everything.
It's just that I get pissed when they get mad at me for something I never meant in the first place - intentionally reading between the lines to misinterpret it the way they see it, and not the way I meant it!
So setting the records straight may not really help anyone, but hey it's not like I've not pissed off enough people already;-)
However, I do agree with what you say, it's not worth being nice to everyone!
Thanks & cheers, friend!:)
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The most they'd probably do is get suck on you and itch like crazy.
I did not make a statement on my belief, nor on his - I was merely highlighting his comment on comparing science with religion, that's all. I felt it was a troll, and hence I responded thus.
I'm AI researcher, and an amateur physicist, and I've pondered upon these questions myself. I do not discount the existence of God, nor do I believe in it - am an agnostic, simply because I do not see conclusive evidence eitherway.
I'm quite sorry if my beliefs offended people, but I was merely trying to point out the flaw in his argument - nothing more and nothing less. If you have faith, I'm happy for you because it's something I cannot ever have no matter how hard I try, and I think it's the way some of us are wired.
I will not put down your faith - as long as you don't tell me that I'm wrong and try to put down my faith (science) and how your faith is above mine. I believe in the dictum, to each his own, so please let me believe what I want and I will let you believe what I want.
What crap. Stop trolling. The evidence in science is based on pre-observed behaviour and hypothesis.
And they are just collecting evidence to substantiate their hypothesis.
Religious claims cannot be recreated. A scientific claim can.
Tomorrow if this is disproved, you can throw this out of the window. I'm yet to see any religious figurehead materialize before me -- that still hasn't made any religious believers throw out religion.
Science is based on assumptions, which evolve into hypothesis and are substantiated with evidence. Plain and simple. When another kind of evidence is found, science simply changes it's assumptions and hypothesis to fit the facts.
Besides, whether or not you believe it is entirely upto you. Your soul is not going to hell if you don't. It's just the most plausible thing that might have happened, and in the light of no other explanations, this seems just about right.
And look at the choice of words from the article -- they think, they believe etc. -- they do not say, we are so damn sure that THIS happened.
Have you been to the sun? How do you know it's full of Hydrogen and Helium? It's based on an assumption, that was later on substantiated with evidence (spectra of the sunlight). Have you seen a Black Hole? It was based on an assumption that it's quite likely Black hole exist, and later on they were substantiated with evidence by observation.
This is no different.
Religion merely makes claims, and has no need to substantiate nor prove. Unlike science.
And judging by your comments you know nothing of science.
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Joe Beda had said that Avalon is going to be more of an advanced UI/Visualization toolkit, while Dx will continue to contain all the other serious stuff.
Now, it looks like Avalon can do 3d on it's own and maybe more too -- what's the idea behind this anyway?
Are they trying to get a fresh new API or something? It seems unlikely, since I remember Joe and Scobles saying that they will probably be using Dx for serious graphics and game development. The redundancy seems strange.
From the presentation --
Avalon 3-D are not a replacement for Direct3D
You will find Avalon 3-D useful if:
- You want to integrate 3-D seamlessly into an Avalon app that also contains 2-D content, controls, etc.
- Platform features like Remote Desktop and multimon are high priorities for you
- You want to easily add 3-D functionality without quickly without needing to learn how the graphics hardware works
You will find DirectX useful if:
- You want access to all of the features provided by the graphics hardware
- You want to have full control over how your scene is stored and managed in memory
- Plan for interop between Direct3D and Avalon
Render Direct3D in a HWND and host within Avalon
So basically it seems to help ease the creation of bells and whistles, more than anything. Weird.
And oh, completely offtopic -- what's the deal with saying, work fine in OOorg -- shouldn't that be works fine with OO? Why the org/.org thingy?
Sheesh! The things people do for greed.
"...safeguard the gene pool of its three million-strong herd."
You mean, safeguard the genepool to stay within Peru. Heh.
Peruvian law bans the exportation of alpacas that win pedigree certificates.
Wow. Safeguard the genepool so that the best stay within my borders. Not to troll, but unless these have been specially bred (say, genetically modified), you are trying to hold onto what nature has bestowed upon you.
And prevent the best from getting out, so that if there is any disease or epidemic, the best will all die out with not too many of them outside my borders.
And that is good how?
All it takes for the people smuggling the animals is to take a hand-held scanner and find out the location of the microchip and cut it out.
If it is easy to implant, it would be easy to remove.
Hmm, looks like they are just trying to throw technology at a problem hoping it would work.
Then again, ofcourse, the smugglers maybe quite unaware of this and the more gullible ones may just get caught.
And oh, first post?
At what cost?
:)
Sure, you make the extra $38 an hour in exchange for a lifetime of addiction
Not to mention the fact that you would have to spend a few hours with bad sleep (am I the only one who's had bad sleep because of amounts of residual caffeine in the blood?).
Is it worth it? Sure seems like it when you are in your 20s or 30s, but am pretty sure that as you get older it's not a worthy tradeoff.
My a thought, that's all.
True.
And again, if you drink coffee in limited quantities (like say, not more than a couple of cups a day), you will notice that when you need to stay up, having an extra cup or two really has an effect.
When you are a heavy coffee drinker who cuts back on coffee, the first couple of times you have more than your usual dose of caffeine, it takes you on a real alertness mode.
And the worst part is that the more the coffee you have, the less regular your sleeping habits become. You stop having good sleep, and therefore your waking hours become kinda blurry. At which point, you resort to more caffeine. A vicious circle.
A cup (at most two) a day is just about fine, IMHO.
But all my e-mail asks me to enlarge parts of my anatomy that I didn't know I had.
:-(
You have no idea how embarrassing *that* is.
First they tell me I have a small one, then they tell me to grow breasts.
Have all U.S. ISPs block IP addresses from Asia, if only for a day. I wonder how much spam would get kicked back and crash Asian Networks.
;)
Unfortunately, that would result in much higher losses in terms of lost business and revenue that it's simply not worth even trying.
Stock markets, businesses, international corporations and what not would simply go crazy if that were to happen.
Not to mention the fact that the rest of the world would not really appreciate it -- as if the US needed any more reasons for people to be pissed at them
Ofcourse, the NSA could stop spam if they really wanted.
But the point is, they would not, unless they really need to. Maybe if the bad-guys started using spam as a means of communicating or something, they might just piss NSA off enough to do something.
Ah, dream on.
I don't see why you can't hold somebody responsible for the way they market your product.
Because you know that immoral as their means of marketing are, they are quite effective (i.e. spam). You just turn a blind eye until the cops come calling.
At which point, what's to prevent you from saying we were not entirely aware that they were not abiding by the law?
But in a commercial setting things change. If I'm a company that makes Foo Bar, and if I say that I'd asked this marketing company to market Foo for me, and they broke the law, what can the judge do?
When you are just a manufacturer, and your distributors/marketers make a mistake, you cannot be held liable. Not unless they are all the same corporation.
If I hire a man to sell my product and he goes and rapes a girl (or a guy, depending upon his preference), I cannot be held responsible. Would a similar analogy not apply here?
Sure, but the point is most porn spam is asking you to visit site foo-bar or something like that. Or maybe buy a product from some place.
;)
And anyway, the sites that the spammers link to can always plead ignorance. *shrug*
Hey, I asked these spammers to help me out, but they did not stick to the rules. Don't blame us.
And maybe this will see even spam being outsourced
Great idea, but what about spam originating from other countries?
First off, there is no assurance that spammers will adhere to this in the first place - if they are using trojan-ed systems and the like, there is no way you would be track them down.
Sure, some of them may, but if there is any way they can hide behind the anonymity mask, there is no reason they have to adhere to this.
Secondly, most of the spam I receive are not even from the US. Most of the stuff is from Asia or worse, eastern Europe. Do these regulations apply to them, too?
From the release (emphasis mine) --
The final rule follows the intention of the CAN-SPAM Act to protect email recipients from unwitting exposure to unwanted sexual images in spam, by requiring this mark to be included both in the subject line of any e-mail message that contains sexually oriented material, and in the electronic equivalent of a "brown paper wrapper" in the body of the message.
What is _any_ really? Is there a way FTC can regulate spam from other countries, or is it just for intra-US spam? If it's just the latter, it isn't much use. On the other hand, if it's not, how on Earth are they going to enforce it?
Two words - Natalie Portman.
;)
Natalie Portman fighting on lava (hot, sweaty) against the evil sith-warriors, trying to save Anakin.
Imagine!
There ought to be an evil invisible femme-fatale Jedi too, if possible. And we can have a good ole' cat fight over lava.
*gulp*
Hot grits, baby! Now *that* would save the movie. Trust me!
Not if you stayed up from the previous night ;-)
Three words --
;-)
Santa Claus Operations
My room-mate has Linux installed on his IPaq and carries that around, with a small portable keyboard.
Here's a how-to on installing Linux on an IPaq and here's the keyboard for it.
I hear that there are also IR versions of these things that've come out, but I've not seen one yet.
If too expensive is the reason you do not want to carry a laptop or a PDA, then I strongly suggest you get one of those el-cheapo Palm Vx's off eBay for like $20 or something.
:)
You can also get a foldable portable palm keyboard for less than $5.
It's really portable and quite comfortable to type in too.
I always carry these around when I go wandering -- they are good companions in the wilderness (read books, take notes etc) and you can read them in the dark too (they come with a back-lit display).
Besides, using them does not make you feel like you are using a computer-ish device, just think of them as nothing more than advanced note-taking tools with alarm clocks and games
And oh, if you are the type who hikes/climbs mountains etc., you could hook up a GPS to your Palm to look up directions using something like Cetus GPS - that way you have a GPS tool, alarm clock and a note-taking tool all bundled into one.
I so agree. When I was really young (~10 years) I ripped open an el-cheapo camera and tried building something out of it. Got zapped. That knowledge came in really handy much later when I had access to bigger camera-flashguns ;-)
:) Those things could kill people.
But if you really want to get hurt, stick your hand up any high-voltage EM generator. I've had really bad RF burn marks from my EM lab from these things.
Or, try getting near a Tesla coil wearing wool
Actually, if you can have any kind of discharge, you can build a primitive coil gun/sten gun.
:)
;)
In my freshman year of EE, we used to build capacitor banks and use them to power our coil guns.
And another thing to do is to use Flyback drivers to discharge and use them to power hi-voltage stuff. Ofcourse, this knowledge came to us much later, but was useful neverthless
With a little bit of expertise, you can build a transistor flyback driver in a matter of minutes and do quite a lot of nasty things with it
What's with the name of e-bikes? They are bloody mopeds that run on battery.
:)
Or call them scooters that run on battery. The name e-bikes sounds cheesy, and more like a marketing ploy.
Although, that's quite surprising, since one of the site mentions that one of the companies making it (Shenzhen Light Ind. Products I/E Co.) is owned by the govt.
Usually it's the corporations that have the habit of coming up with and using buzzwords, surprised to see a govt. owned company using it
Aren't they supposed to be *cough* beyond such things *cough* ?
Nice language at the site.
Breakes:
Yes! Hit them hard enough and they just might.
It most likely could be something like a quote, or a saying or something like that -- a lot of weird inscriptions at various sites across the world have been found to be such statements.
:)
Would be funnier still if it were a prank of some sorts, just someone's trick to drive people up the wall -- a very pissed off grandpa perhaps?
Or, it could refer to something like a name. For instance, Egyptologists supposedly saw Imhotep everywhere and were not sure what it meant. For the longest time, he was thought of as a mythological figure and only later established to be a real historical person.
But as you said, it most likely is nothing.
Thanks, shadowbearer! :)
;-)
:)
Yeah, I do realize that people can (and will) get offended at just about anything and everything.
It's just that I get pissed when they get mad at me for something I never meant in the first place - intentionally reading between the lines to misinterpret it the way they see it, and not the way I meant it!
So setting the records straight may not really help anyone, but hey it's not like I've not pissed off enough people already
However, I do agree with what you say, it's not worth being nice to everyone!
Thanks & cheers, friend!
The most they'd probably do is get suck on you and itch like crazy.
;-)
And that is not bad how?
I did not make a statement on my belief, nor on his - I was merely highlighting his comment on comparing science with religion, that's all. I felt it was a troll, and hence I responded thus.
I'm AI researcher, and an amateur physicist, and I've pondered upon these questions myself. I do not discount the existence of God, nor do I believe in it - am an agnostic, simply because I do not see conclusive evidence eitherway.
I'm quite sorry if my beliefs offended people, but I was merely trying to point out the flaw in his argument - nothing more and nothing less. If you have faith, I'm happy for you because it's something I cannot ever have no matter how hard I try, and I think it's the way some of us are wired.
I will not put down your faith - as long as you don't tell me that I'm wrong and try to put down my faith (science) and how your faith is above mine. I believe in the dictum, to each his own, so please let me believe what I want and I will let you believe what I want.
What crap. Stop trolling. The evidence in science is based on pre-observed behaviour and hypothesis.
And they are just collecting evidence to substantiate their hypothesis.
Religious claims cannot be recreated. A scientific claim can.
Tomorrow if this is disproved, you can throw this out of the window. I'm yet to see any religious figurehead materialize before me -- that still hasn't made any religious believers throw out religion.
Science is based on assumptions, which evolve into hypothesis and are substantiated with evidence. Plain and simple. When another kind of evidence is found, science simply changes it's assumptions and hypothesis to fit the facts.
Besides, whether or not you believe it is entirely upto you. Your soul is not going to hell if you don't. It's just the most plausible thing that might have happened, and in the light of no other explanations, this seems just about right.
And look at the choice of words from the article -- they think, they believe etc. -- they do not say, we are so damn sure that THIS happened.
Have you been to the sun? How do you know it's full of Hydrogen and Helium? It's based on an assumption, that was later on substantiated with evidence (spectra of the sunlight). Have you seen a Black Hole? It was based on an assumption that it's quite likely Black hole exist, and later on they were substantiated with evidence by observation.
This is no different.
Religion merely makes claims, and has no need to substantiate nor prove. Unlike science.
And judging by your comments you know nothing of science.