It doesn't take that much horsepower, but it uses gfx card horsepower (and certain features only available in later graphics cards) to drive the UI to leave the CPU available for time to process other taks. This fact has nothing to do with requiring a beast of a graphics card; it's rather about requiring a few specific features of it.
Why does the desktop requre more graphics calculations than a modern video game?
Aero Glass simply offloads the CPU while being able to throw some fancier graphics at the user. As long as your gfx card would have LDDM drivers it should be fine, and the requirements isn't exactly rendering X+ triangels per second for this, but to support a few modern features. It has nothing to do with requiring extreme graphics card speeds really.
Yes, and then it's all a different matter, especially if it's for non-Google ad purposes. I don't mind them searching such content in order to determine which ads to display, like I don't worry about Gmail's such feature "reading" my mail. As long as it's an algorith, I don't see the problem. If they extract and sell information about you, there's problems ahead, but until then, what's the problem?
To take an MS comparison; they've released applications in the past that silently "phone home" to them without offering clear options on how to disable it, or even what their application is doing when needing to do it. Don't you see the difference? We already know what Google does and what that feature does; it's clearly documented and optional, no network scanning needed.
So I suppose that's why BioWare suddenly removed the red cross from the healing kits in an early patch to Neverwinter Nights? Here's one mod that restores them among other things.
Not until there are affordable BD-ROM writers for the masses, so shouldn't be inflating this introductory price for that reason. I also have to wonder if, without a tenfold increase in bandwidth the coming few years, people will be as willing to download about a tenfold increase in size for these discs. People still don't even want to spend the dough and time to download 9 GB discs, but usually stick with 4 GB, so there's no search for top quality and content there among pirates (yes, usually more than audio tracks are ripped + compressed further). Heck even XviD rips are insanely popular at their often 2x0.7 GB sizes. Not sure how many will just go ahead like nothing happened with ~20-50 GB on still common DSL connections, possibly capped, and it takes many to start seriously affecting movie sales revenues in large. It will surely happen, but I wonder on what scale, as that's the question one need to answer to tell if it'll actually seriously affect prices.
Well, these are still by far the most of this billion sized group. That's why we aren't having an all out world war about this.;-) Muslims are everywhere, and clearly most aren't going violent about this. But as usual, a few extremists can make a lot of people look bad.
There's ClamWin (SourceForge page), although I'm unsure of its detection rates and how it compares to other free (but only as in beer) alternatives like AVG, Avast!, and AntiVir.
How many micro-black holes have we measured in a lab?
None.
I agree about the string theory being, well, just a theory at this stage, but this isn't a sign they aren't there, it's just because we haven't had equipment good enough to experiment at this tiny scale before.
This statement is similar to how one today can say "how many Earth's have we seen? Not many, it's mostly Jupiter's out there". Of course, that's right, but it doesn't actually mean anything, as we haven't had good equipment to detect Earth-sized exoplanets in the first place.
CERN's Large Hadron Collider, that will look for this according to the article, will be operational in 2007.
Wikipedia link rendering was broken in Opera 9 TP1, maybe that's what you're thinking of. And in this TP2 release, both Gmail and Google Local is working better than ever in Opera for me. Even the back button works now.:-)
Something that's not mentioned is the new UI for the "content blocker". Click somewhere on a page and select "Content blocker..." from the context menu, then all HTML elements on the page is faded besides those that are blockable and you can click on to block/unblock (it's a toggle). If you want more flexibility, you can, while in that "blocker" mode, click on the "Details" button on the toolbar to customize the wildcard matching as you wish. When you're done, just click OK and the matching elements will be blocked.
I find it an easy to use implementation of an ad blocker, and with many users actually having liked Opera but used Firefox due to its ad blocking functionality with Adblock (among the most popular Firefox extensions there is), this should maybe make Opera more interesting again.
Granted, it's not as feature rich as Adblock, but with an easy "click to block" implementation, basic wildcard matching (not sure of regular expressions), and Flash support, I think it's actually enough for most users. It sure is for me anyway.:-)
I know you will all correct me if I'm wrong, but if you don't have the.pls as a trigger for Winamp as a plugin, you're not vulnerable. Just set your browser to do something else with.pls (like offer to download). Or trash the file type association or set it for something other than Winamp.
Since it doesn't support modern skins, I would suspect that it's probably just a rehash of 2.9x
Basically, besides a ton of bug fixes and feature improvements, yes.
I recommend the latest Lite version for those that "just want WA 2", if not only to get fixes and improvements. As one can see from the size, it's far from bloated too.
The problem is that you can improve ranking (or at least search engine results) on Google by making your site better structured, easier to index, easier to read, and things like that. Content more accessible to the search engine, put simply. Things Google like to see from your site. Or by less friendly means.
If they had consultants at work here and expected the former, I don't see how BMW.de are automatically the bad guys.
This is something I haven't been able to confirm myself, but I know someone who said among the best times to do something criminal would be during the Superbowl, outside the Superbowl. Eye witnesses at a minimum as so many is inside/there watching, and possibly even police forces being somewhat fewer, especially in the vicinity.
Research I've seen also seem to agree on that you don't just feel worse for no good when being a pessimist, but that there's effects beyond the psychological as well. It's often believed that optimists are both psychologically and physiologically healthier, although that link above indeed speaks of some possibly negative effects from optimism as well, and this science is probably still quite hotly debated.
Anyway, I can very well see the purely evolutionary reasons for negative effects from pessimism and unhappiness -- simply that happy and optimistic people should reasonably be those that are doing well (otherwise they wouldn't be happy), and hence those that should be able to spread their genes better. For such a reason alone, I can believe that e.g. something that at first sight feels completely unrelated, such as the immune system, can be hurt from an overly pessimistic mind.
Something else I've been observing is that pessimism is often prevalent among geeks, and I have to wonder why a little.:-) Sexual tensions? Haha. Pessimists often prefer calling themselves "realists" anyway, and I'm sure many geeks would defend themselves with that, especially because there's abundances of geeks who feel they're on top of things in all their geekdom, turning them into those "know it all" pessimistic doomsday types we see all over the web forums, often lurking in DRM discussions.:-) Heck, I'm fully aware of I'm having a streak of that too in some cases.;-)
Remember COM+, ActiveX, etc.? Every 3-4 years Microsoft comes out with their latest interfaces, buzzwords, etc. In a few years MS will be moving from Visual Fred to Visual Jake, and everybody will be doing backflips to migrate their legacy code.
Yep, I agree about this, but also this:
A lot of shops still have VB6 sitting around because of the large number of difficult-to-port applications.
MS technologies and their communities tend to linger for quite a while due to the company size. For better and worse, to the developers. And when I'm talking about "dying" stuff, I'm talking about dying communities, not the inventing company moving on. For that reason I'm not really saying the Amiga is dead even now, as there's still a lot of enthusiasts around. I'm usually not claiming the Pentium 3 is dead the day Intel went to Pentium 4, and so on. But sure, it depends on how you look at it. But community-wise, I believe.NET will be around for a number of years still, and not "dying" today. (heck, MS is even actively supporting it today more than ever, so it's a great exaggeration)
But I agree with what you're saying that MS is moving on in a kind of annoying fashion these days. Especially incompatibility is a pretty big problem, with.NET being largely incompatible with regular C++ development, and the upcoming WinFX API being largely incompatible with even more things, like UI development (XAML vs regular resource files).
No, I think it's only true there was some internal confusion in the beginning, not as the grandparent says they have "yet" to know what it is. As the concept has matured, they're pretty clear about what it is. A software web strategy / platform to aid in development of web services. In other words, pretty much a competitor to Ruby on Rails as for rapid application development when it comes to modern kinds of network-aware applications, but also usable for other things.
Are we talking ASP.Net? Are we talking SQL Server 2005 c# stored procedures gurus? Are we talking J# Nhibernate & Nant wizards? Could we possibly be talking about.NET Portable CLR professionals designing VOIP applications for Windows Mobile 2005?
Hmm, I have a feeling it's really talking about just that --.NET developers. In general. Could be why they get such a large demand of them, in case they're summarizing the demand in general.
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I for one welcome our new bilingual gaming ove... Hey wait a minute, I'm a trilingual gaming geek! :-o
This earth shattering revelation will truly shake religions and politics alike throughout the world.
I'm stunned.
Important stories like these is what make Slashdot so great.
It doesn't take that much horsepower, but it uses gfx card horsepower (and certain features only available in later graphics cards) to drive the UI to leave the CPU available for time to process other taks. This fact has nothing to do with requiring a beast of a graphics card; it's rather about requiring a few specific features of it.
Why does the desktop requre more graphics calculations than a modern video game?
Aero Glass simply offloads the CPU while being able to throw some fancier graphics at the user. As long as your gfx card would have LDDM drivers it should be fine, and the requirements isn't exactly rendering X+ triangels per second for this, but to support a few modern features. It has nothing to do with requiring extreme graphics card speeds really.
but if they CAN at some point they WILL
Yes, and then it's all a different matter, especially if it's for non-Google ad purposes. I don't mind them searching such content in order to determine which ads to display, like I don't worry about Gmail's such feature "reading" my mail. As long as it's an algorith, I don't see the problem. If they extract and sell information about you, there's problems ahead, but until then, what's the problem?
To take an MS comparison; they've released applications in the past that silently "phone home" to them without offering clear options on how to disable it, or even what their application is doing when needing to do it. Don't you see the difference? We already know what Google does and what that feature does; it's clearly documented and optional, no network scanning needed.
So I suppose that's why BioWare suddenly removed the red cross from the healing kits in an early patch to Neverwinter Nights?
Here's one mod that restores them among other things.
Not until there are affordable BD-ROM writers for the masses, so shouldn't be inflating this introductory price for that reason. I also have to wonder if, without a tenfold increase in bandwidth the coming few years, people will be as willing to download about a tenfold increase in size for these discs. People still don't even want to spend the dough and time to download 9 GB discs, but usually stick with 4 GB, so there's no search for top quality and content there among pirates (yes, usually more than audio tracks are ripped + compressed further). Heck even XviD rips are insanely popular at their often 2x0.7 GB sizes. Not sure how many will just go ahead like nothing happened with ~20-50 GB on still common DSL connections, possibly capped, and it takes many to start seriously affecting movie sales revenues in large. It will surely happen, but I wonder on what scale, as that's the question one need to answer to tell if it'll actually seriously affect prices.
Where are the "peaceful" muslims?
;-) Muslims are everywhere, and clearly most aren't going violent about this. But as usual, a few extremists can make a lot of people look bad.
Well, these are still by far the most of this billion sized group. That's why we aren't having an all out world war about this.
There's ClamWin (SourceForge page), although I'm unsure of its detection rates and how it compares to other free (but only as in beer) alternatives like AVG, Avast!, and AntiVir.
Yeah, follow this guy's advice and register right now!
How many micro-black holes have we measured in a lab?
None.
I agree about the string theory being, well, just a theory at this stage, but this isn't a sign they aren't there, it's just because we haven't had equipment good enough to experiment at this tiny scale before.
This statement is similar to how one today can say "how many Earth's have we seen? Not many, it's mostly Jupiter's out there". Of course, that's right, but it doesn't actually mean anything, as we haven't had good equipment to detect Earth-sized exoplanets in the first place.
CERN's Large Hadron Collider, that will look for this according to the article, will be operational in 2007.
Wikipedia link rendering was broken in Opera 9 TP1, maybe that's what you're thinking of. And in this TP2 release, both Gmail and Google Local is working better than ever in Opera for me. Even the back button works now. :-)
Something that's not mentioned is the new UI for the "content blocker". Click somewhere on a page and select "Content blocker..." from the context menu, then all HTML elements on the page is faded besides those that are blockable and you can click on to block/unblock (it's a toggle). If you want more flexibility, you can, while in that "blocker" mode, click on the "Details" button on the toolbar to customize the wildcard matching as you wish. When you're done, just click OK and the matching elements will be blocked.
:-)
I find it an easy to use implementation of an ad blocker, and with many users actually having liked Opera but used Firefox due to its ad blocking functionality with Adblock (among the most popular Firefox extensions there is), this should maybe make Opera more interesting again.
Granted, it's not as feature rich as Adblock, but with an easy "click to block" implementation, basic wildcard matching (not sure of regular expressions), and Flash support, I think it's actually enough for most users. It sure is for me anyway.
If Google is having no bandwidth fees to use their network and just need "to ride on with nothing but cheap servers", Google sure is a lucky bunch.
I'd really like Verizon to explain to me how this abuse with not paying to the network providers can go on?
Are some Creative Commons licenses worth using, even if others aren't?
Yes, I think so.
You pick the kind of license you prefer, and what suits your work.
And that was the point with different kinds of CC licenses.
Maybe it's just imagination, but I thought I've been reading these kind of stories on Slashdot since the dawn of time.
I know you will all correct me if I'm wrong, but if you don't have the .pls as a trigger for Winamp as a plugin, you're not vulnerable. Just set your browser to do something else with .pls (like offer to download). Or trash the file type association or set it for something other than Winamp.
Or upgrade your Winamp to 5.13.
Since it doesn't support modern skins, I would suspect that it's probably just a rehash of 2.9x
Basically, besides a ton of bug fixes and feature improvements, yes.
I recommend the latest Lite version for those that "just want WA 2", if not only to get fixes and improvements. As one can see from the size, it's far from bloated too.
Nothing for you to see here. Please move along.
The problem is that you can improve ranking (or at least search engine results) on Google by making your site better structured, easier to index, easier to read, and things like that. Content more accessible to the search engine, put simply. Things Google like to see from your site. Or by less friendly means.
If they had consultants at work here and expected the former, I don't see how BMW.de are automatically the bad guys.
This is something I haven't been able to confirm myself, but I know someone who said among the best times to do something criminal would be during the Superbowl, outside the Superbowl. Eye witnesses at a minimum as so many is inside/there watching, and possibly even police forces being somewhat fewer, especially in the vicinity.
Research I've seen also seem to agree on that you don't just feel worse for no good when being a pessimist, but that there's effects beyond the psychological as well. It's often believed that optimists are both psychologically and physiologically healthier, although that link above indeed speaks of some possibly negative effects from optimism as well, and this science is probably still quite hotly debated.
:-) Sexual tensions? Haha. Pessimists often prefer calling themselves "realists" anyway, and I'm sure many geeks would defend themselves with that, especially because there's abundances of geeks who feel they're on top of things in all their geekdom, turning them into those "know it all" pessimistic doomsday types we see all over the web forums, often lurking in DRM discussions. :-) Heck, I'm fully aware of I'm having a streak of that too in some cases. ;-)
Anyway, I can very well see the purely evolutionary reasons for negative effects from pessimism and unhappiness -- simply that happy and optimistic people should reasonably be those that are doing well (otherwise they wouldn't be happy), and hence those that should be able to spread their genes better. For such a reason alone, I can believe that e.g. something that at first sight feels completely unrelated, such as the immune system, can be hurt from an overly pessimistic mind.
Something else I've been observing is that pessimism is often prevalent among geeks, and I have to wonder why a little.
Remember COM+, ActiveX, etc.? Every 3-4 years Microsoft comes out with their latest interfaces, buzzwords, etc. In a few years MS will be moving from Visual Fred to Visual Jake, and everybody will be doing backflips to migrate their legacy code.
.NET will be around for a number of years still, and not "dying" today. (heck, MS is even actively supporting it today more than ever, so it's a great exaggeration)
.NET being largely incompatible with regular C++ development, and the upcoming WinFX API being largely incompatible with even more things, like UI development (XAML vs regular resource files).
Yep, I agree about this, but also this:
A lot of shops still have VB6 sitting around because of the large number of difficult-to-port applications.
MS technologies and their communities tend to linger for quite a while due to the company size. For better and worse, to the developers. And when I'm talking about "dying" stuff, I'm talking about dying communities, not the inventing company moving on. For that reason I'm not really saying the Amiga is dead even now, as there's still a lot of enthusiasts around. I'm usually not claiming the Pentium 3 is dead the day Intel went to Pentium 4, and so on. But sure, it depends on how you look at it. But community-wise, I believe
But I agree with what you're saying that MS is moving on in a kind of annoying fashion these days. Especially incompatibility is a pretty big problem, with
How true.
No, I think it's only true there was some internal confusion in the beginning, not as the grandparent says they have "yet" to know what it is. As the concept has matured, they're pretty clear about what it is. A software web strategy / platform to aid in development of web services. In other words, pretty much a competitor to Ruby on Rails as for rapid application development when it comes to modern kinds of network-aware applications, but also usable for other things.
Windows and/or
What list/article were you looking at?
Are we talking ASP.Net? Are we talking SQL Server 2005 c# stored procedures gurus? Are we talking J# Nhibernate & Nant wizards? Could we possibly be talking about .NET Portable CLR professionals designing VOIP applications for Windows Mobile 2005?
.NET developers. In general.
Hmm, I have a feeling it's really talking about just that --
Could be why they get such a large demand of them, in case they're summarizing the demand in general.