Linden Labs are making a successor to SL called Project Sansar, and compatibility with VR headsets is a design goal. They claim it will have the most accessible content creation tools ever. This is the number one thing on my wish list.
About time, hopefully they do it better this time. The current rendering engine is very old and outdated compared to what is the cutting edge in the gaming industry year 2015/2016. It's also built on DirectX so no Apple OSX or Linux support. Also lacking a physics engine that can render water, wind, grass, gravity, etc in real time.
I'm one of these that will grab the consumer model of Occulus Rift and build a brand new spanking rig to fit it. I figure Intel, nVidia, AMD and PC hardware vendors will be happy as it will drive hardware sales of new PC gear like crazy. VR will put good use of latest stuff like AVX-512, DDR4, etc.
Flying a drone with VR headset would be awesome, should feel like being superman flying around the city. Better get one of these gas powered ones running on ethanol RC engine that can stay up in the air for hours.
Horror games that will scare the shit out of you. Almost real LSD trips to wreck your brain.;-) Lots of uses in education, medical and mechanical engineering, etc. Social VR applications will be huge, app that allow one to hang out with your friends at a bar or nightclub. Watching 2D movies and TV series would rock, like going to a big screen teater but even better, should provide for a good movie experience as it shields the viewer from distractions. One can watch porn on the airplane, no one would ever know.;-)
Sounds much like a project I was working on a couple of years ago. An distributed filsystem where everyone running a daemon could drop files into a pool (ocean) and the files was moved around as fixed size blocks/chunks. Automatically replicated so there was always 3-4 copies of each block/chunk available on different nodes to maintain full redundancy and resiliency if nodes was disconnected or disappeared.
Yes, and some people host websites at home with decent traffic or sell/rent virtual servers to other people. 1 Gbit doesn't really cope with that.
A friend of mine have a two node OpenStack cluster with around 20-50 machines and containers running, selling IaaS capacity from his home.
If you have a large website or semi-commercial cloud operation it would still be cheaper buying a 10 Gbit connection than hosting the machines externally.
But this is special cases of course, regular Joe's doesn't have much use for it. Some nerds and geeks may have.
10 GbE NIC with standard STP PHY cost around 100 bucks? not very much money and affordable. A four port 10 GbE switch is not so expensive, if you want to run it at home you can.
I'm surprised 2014 motherboards does not have built in 10 GbE as it have been around for a long time now.
Yes, all Linux/Unix admins knows there is a constant stream of security patches coming every week. One will need to swap the whole container out for a small updated binary or shared library. Seams a bit inefficient to me to go through the whole dev-staging-test-deploy pipeline every week or even serval times a week for one or more containers.
Or do you Docker users just skip security updated and leave the holes wide open?
I disagree, people should do what they are good at. It's not the best thing to ask a surgeon to go out on the fields to work as a farmer just to "feed the hungry". Programmers should write programs and Linux/UNIX engineers should design, architect and construct systems.
That the poor people need is knowledge, trade, business and markets. IT can provide this, like auction markets where farmers and shopowners can put bid and ask prices on grains, meats, etc. Where people with useful skills can market their services to those who need the services, mechanics, metalworkers, woodworkers, carpenters, plumbers, construction, trucktransporters, etc. Via IT you can also teach usefull skills to these poor people.
"Where do I change my network settings?" Windows: Control Panel Mac: System Preferences Linux: It depends
The reason Windows and Mac and Android are dominating user devices is because they have standardized a GUI environment, and GUI failure is considered operating system failure.
Duh.. "Linux" is a kernel, no more, no less.
Your answer should be:
Ubuntu: System Preferences Fedora: System Preferences
So your original criticism falls flat. It's as easy to configure the screen resolution or network settings in Ubuntu and Fedora as in MacOS X or Windows.
I disagree, Fortran and C is very good for parallel scientific computations. If you are doing computations you care about speed, and the closer you are to the iron (and the os) the faster it runs and more work you can do in a time unit. You have nice tools like OpenMP, UPC, Cilk and MPI, etc. Posix SHM is the best for local IPC/RPC.
Python may be a nice lang to work with, but it is a slow dog.
Free society produced the most wealth on this planet in the shortest time period, and then it turned into the bread and circuses system that then squandered that wealth and ran into the most debt that any nation has ever had in the history of the world.
Yes, you are correct. Including the bold part. The bold part is always an inevitable outcome for free society.
Free society only works in short term.
That is just not true. It come to be because of corrupt politicians breaking the law/constitution. Income taxes and/or a central bank are illegal according to the constitution. If the constitution is obeyed US would still be a free society.
That's why socialism was invented as the long term answer. That's why 1984 still applies despite it is 28 years past the actual year - totalitarianism is the inevitable future end state.
BS. Socialism/Communism is just an idea of madness/insanity born out of a disillusioned persons mind. It was not invented for anything, just a crazy idea.
Some of the longest running economies were not free societies, but long stretches of some form of totalitarianism. They weren't particularly progressive, but they lasted for a long time.
Just look at the various royalties (Imperial House of Japan, House of Windsor, etc). They're figureheads these days, but they still get special treatment. You don't see many private businesses in free society last that long.
They are a product of feudalism and monarchy long before there even existed private business in today's sense. These are family structures and clans/tribes, which is the oldest human organisational form going back to stone age. Special treatment of certain groups or people are a bad thing and should be shunned. The same goes for the idiotic celebrity worship today.
That's why the world moved to Corporatocracy. Corporations get to be like the old dynasties of the past that lasts forever and ever
It's completely rational that people are shunning free society.
That is mostly due to special treatment from the state and the judicial system. This is not a good thing, it's a bad thing. There is a name for this, the merge of the state and corporations, the name is "fascism".
People (mostly the rich, but also people on welfare) want to stop progressing for a while and enjoy themselves.
So people generally want to and just slack off and stop developing and inventing to progress the human civilization? that's BS, it is coded into our genes to be exploratory, creative and progress.
That is nice, but I like the idea of vertical farming, a good solution for countries in the northern hemisphere where you can't grow anything outdoors between October to May. With vertical gardens you can grow inside hangars or even in standard size containers during cold period.
It's even possible to update/upgrade on-the-fly while the program is running. This is not a problem for client application as it's no issue to shutdown Open Office or Firefox to update, but a server program busy serving hundreds of clients that depend up on it.
With Shared Libraries in C/C++ and classes, etc in other languages one can create a architecture design of empty skeleton to hold all code as individual loadable modules that can be loaded/unloaded anytime. So you can load v2 of a module, tell the app switch over to use the new module and then unload the old v1.
Yes, in order to create a separate network they would have to either purchase black fiber and buy and install and operate their own equipment or lease dedicated MPLS/Lambada channels from existing global network operators (Sprint, etc). All financed by sales of domain names? smells very fishy to me *laugh*.
Well, I wish them good luck with their task anyhow.;)
And what value does that provide to Cray and other supercomp/cluster builders? they dont have any use of graphics/encryption/compression stuff put into the generic processors they use to build their supercomputers, they want only Floating Point Operations and nothing else.
Do you rememeber that VP (Vänster Partiet) was formerly named VPK (Vänster Partiet Kommunisterna) and have always been in support of the Sovjet Union and Castros Cuba. I would not say they are pro-market as they are against privately owned schools, hospitals, healthcare and childcare.
It's not like all these people put on ice are childless, there will be alot of descendents around checking up on how their fathers, grandfathers, and grandgrandfathers money are doing.
Seems alot of the old dogs go into system and program architecture and design, more high-level and ofcouse higher pay.
Programing is really low-wage work and programmers are often treated as that by most employes. With the exception of mainframe programmers which there is a shortage of people with this narrow competency. Mainframe programmers (and admins) easily make six digits salaries working at major banks or insurance companies.
Then computers get powerful enough to be able recreate themself without human intervention you get a self-going feedback loop. Computer generation 1 designs and creates generation 2 which is a better version of itself, generation 2 designs and creates generation 3 and so on.. each generation being more powerful than the one prior to it (more flops = smarter AI), this cycle can go on as long as there are energy available to feed it with..
If we will get AI with true consciousness one can only guess, but if the above is possible and we thus gain access to "infinite processing power", I think not totaly impossible with AI.
Yes we call all dismiss Ray Kurzweil as a chuckoo, clown, lunatic or what you would like to call his. But the true thing is that processing power is accelerating, it have been in an exponential slope ever since the transistor was invented.
So basicly there are three outcomes:
1. processing power contiunes to accelerate in an exponential slope, sooner or later leading to a point in time where the slope gone vertical, INFINITE COMPUTING POWER
2. processing power stops increasing exponentical and enters an linear slope, the death of Moores Law.
3. processing power hits the brickwall, a point is reached at which processors can not get faster.
I dont see point 1 as something impossible. Today we have dual core processors, tomorrow we will have quad-core processors, why not a million cores? a billion cores? imagine a processor with 1 trillion cores.. and on and on..
Yes, hosting torrent files are regarded as linking (meta data, pointer/reference) by Swedish law. There was a trial recently about html hyper linking (href="..") to commecial content and it was deemed as legal by the court. I dont know how the new IP law will affect this, if a meta data reference will still be legal or not.
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Linden Labs are making a successor to SL called Project Sansar, and compatibility with VR headsets is a design goal. They claim it will have the most accessible content creation tools ever. This is the number one thing on my wish list.
About time, hopefully they do it better this time. The current rendering engine is very old and outdated compared to what is the cutting edge in the gaming industry year 2015/2016. It's also built on DirectX so no Apple OSX or Linux support. Also lacking a physics engine that can render water, wind, grass, gravity, etc in real time.
I'm one of these that will grab the consumer model of Occulus Rift and build a brand new spanking rig to fit it. I figure Intel, nVidia, AMD and PC hardware vendors will be happy as it will drive hardware sales of new PC gear like crazy. VR will put good use of latest stuff like AVX-512, DDR4, etc.
Flying a drone with VR headset would be awesome, should feel like being superman flying around the city. Better get one of these gas powered ones running on ethanol RC engine that can stay up in the air for hours.
Horror games that will scare the shit out of you. Almost real LSD trips to wreck your brain. ;-) ;-)
Lots of uses in education, medical and mechanical engineering, etc. Social VR applications will be huge, app that allow one to hang out with your friends at a bar or nightclub. Watching 2D movies and TV series would rock, like going to a big screen teater but even better, should provide for a good movie experience as it shields the viewer from distractions. One can watch porn on the airplane, no one would ever know.
Sounds much like a project I was working on a couple of years ago. An distributed filsystem where everyone running a daemon could drop files into a pool (ocean) and the files was moved around as fixed size blocks/chunks. Automatically replicated so there was always 3-4 copies of each block/chunk available on different nodes to maintain full redundancy and resiliency if nodes was disconnected or disappeared.
Yes, and some people host websites at home with decent traffic or sell/rent virtual servers to other people. 1 Gbit doesn't really cope with that.
A friend of mine have a two node OpenStack cluster with around 20-50 machines and containers running, selling IaaS capacity from his home.
If you have a large website or semi-commercial cloud operation it would still be cheaper buying a 10 Gbit connection than hosting the machines externally.
But this is special cases of course, regular Joe's doesn't have much use for it. Some nerds and geeks may have.
10 GbE NIC with standard STP PHY cost around 100 bucks? not very much money and affordable. A four port 10 GbE switch is not so expensive, if you want to run it at home you can.
I'm surprised 2014 motherboards does not have built in 10 GbE as it have been around for a long time now.
Yes, all Linux/Unix admins knows there is a constant stream of security patches coming every week. One will need to swap the whole container out for a small updated binary or shared library. Seams a bit inefficient to me to go through the whole dev-staging-test-deploy pipeline every week or even serval times a week for one or more containers.
Or do you Docker users just skip security updated and leave the holes wide open?
Thanks, but no thanks, I prefer listening to /dev/urandom ..
If you distribute a movie as a kernel module, how would MPAA treat it? is it OK to do as it is software and not media.
I disagree, people should do what they are good at. It's not the best thing to ask a surgeon to go out on the fields to work as a farmer just to "feed the hungry". Programmers should write programs and Linux/UNIX engineers should design, architect and construct systems.
That the poor people need is knowledge, trade, business and markets. IT can provide this, like auction markets where farmers and shopowners can put bid and ask prices on grains, meats, etc. Where people with useful skills can market their services to those who need the services, mechanics, metalworkers, woodworkers, carpenters, plumbers, construction, trucktransporters, etc. Via IT you can also teach usefull skills to these poor people.
"Where do I change my network settings?"
Windows: Control Panel
Mac: System Preferences
Linux: It depends
The reason Windows and Mac and Android are dominating user devices is because they have standardized a GUI environment, and GUI failure is considered operating system failure.
Duh.. "Linux" is a kernel, no more, no less.
Your answer should be:
Ubuntu: System Preferences
Fedora: System Preferences
So your original criticism falls flat. It's as easy to configure the screen resolution or network settings in Ubuntu and Fedora as in MacOS X or Windows.
I disagree, Fortran and C is very good for parallel scientific computations. If you are doing computations you care about speed, and the closer you are to the iron (and the os) the faster it runs and more work you can do in a time unit. You have nice tools like OpenMP, UPC, Cilk and MPI, etc. Posix SHM is the best for local IPC/RPC.
Python may be a nice lang to work with, but it is a slow dog.
Free society produced the most wealth on this planet in the shortest time period, and then it turned into the bread and circuses system that then squandered that wealth and ran into the most debt that any nation has ever had in the history of the world.
Yes, you are correct. Including the bold part. The bold part is always an inevitable outcome for free society.
Free society only works in short term.
That is just not true. It come to be because of corrupt politicians breaking the law/constitution. Income taxes and/or a central bank are illegal according to the constitution. If the constitution is obeyed US would still be a free society.
That's why socialism was invented as the long term answer. That's why 1984 still applies despite it is 28 years past the actual year - totalitarianism is the inevitable future end state.
BS. Socialism/Communism is just an idea of madness/insanity born out of a disillusioned persons mind. It was not invented for anything, just a crazy idea.
Some of the longest running economies were not free societies, but long stretches of some form of totalitarianism. They weren't particularly progressive, but they lasted for a long time.
Just look at the various royalties (Imperial House of Japan, House of Windsor, etc). They're figureheads these days, but they still get special treatment. You don't see many private businesses in free society last that long.
They are a product of feudalism and monarchy long before there even existed private business in today's sense. These are family structures and clans/tribes, which is the oldest human organisational form going back to stone age. Special treatment of certain groups or people are a bad thing and should be shunned. The same goes for the idiotic celebrity worship today.
That's why the world moved to Corporatocracy. Corporations get to be like the old dynasties of the past that lasts forever and ever
It's completely rational that people are shunning free society.
That is mostly due to special treatment from the state and the judicial system. This is not a good thing, it's a bad thing. There is a name for this, the merge of the state and corporations, the name is "fascism".
People (mostly the rich, but also people on welfare) want to stop progressing for a while and enjoy themselves.
So people generally want to and just slack off and stop developing and inventing to progress the human civilization? that's BS, it is coded into our genes to be exploratory, creative and progress.
That is nice, but I like the idea of vertical farming, a good solution for countries in the northern hemisphere where you can't grow anything outdoors between October to May. With vertical gardens you can grow inside hangars or even in standard size containers during cold period.
It's even possible to update/upgrade on-the-fly while the program is running. This is not a problem for client application as it's no issue to shutdown Open Office or Firefox to update, but a server program busy serving hundreds of clients that depend up on it.
With Shared Libraries in C/C++ and classes, etc in other languages one can create a architecture design of empty skeleton to hold all code as individual loadable modules that can be loaded/unloaded anytime. So you can load v2 of a module, tell the app switch over to use the new module and then unload the old v1.
Correction, it should be "GMPLS/Lambda".
Yes, in order to create a separate network they would have to either purchase black fiber and buy and install and operate their own equipment or lease dedicated MPLS/Lambada channels from existing global network operators (Sprint, etc). All financed by sales of domain names? smells very fishy to me *laugh*.
;)
Well, I wish them good luck with their task anyhow.
And what value does that provide to Cray and other supercomp/cluster builders? they dont have any use of graphics/encryption/compression stuff put into the generic processors they use to build their supercomputers, they want only Floating Point Operations and nothing else.
Agree, I've read that the median income in US is ~ $46,000
Do you rememeber that VP (Vänster Partiet) was formerly named VPK (Vänster Partiet Kommunisterna) and have always been in support of the Sovjet Union and Castros Cuba. I would not say they are pro-market as they are against privately owned schools, hospitals, healthcare and childcare.
It's not like all these people put on ice are childless, there will be alot of descendents around checking up on how their fathers, grandfathers, and grandgrandfathers money are doing.
Seems alot of the old dogs go into system and program architecture and design, more high-level and ofcouse higher pay.
Programing is really low-wage work and programmers are often treated as that by most employes. With the exception of mainframe programmers which there is a shortage of people with this narrow competency. Mainframe programmers (and admins) easily make six digits salaries working at major banks or insurance companies.
Uh, so thieves are angry that other thieves are stealing their lot? how funny..
Then computers get powerful enough to be able recreate themself without human intervention you get a self-going feedback loop. Computer generation 1 designs and creates generation 2 which is a better version of itself, generation 2 designs and creates generation 3 and so on.. each generation being more powerful than the one prior to it (more flops = smarter AI), this cycle can go on as long as there are energy available to feed it with..
If we will get AI with true consciousness one can only guess, but if the above is possible and we thus gain access to "infinite processing power", I think not totaly impossible with AI.
Yes we call all dismiss Ray Kurzweil as a chuckoo, clown, lunatic or what you would like to call his. But the true thing is that processing power is accelerating, it have been in an exponential slope ever since the transistor was invented.
So basicly there are three outcomes:
1. processing power contiunes to accelerate in an exponential slope, sooner or later leading to a point in time where the slope gone vertical, INFINITE COMPUTING POWER
2. processing power stops increasing exponentical and enters an linear slope, the death of Moores Law.
3. processing power hits the brickwall, a point is reached at which processors can not get faster.
I dont see point 1 as something impossible. Today we have dual core processors, tomorrow we will have quad-core processors, why not a million cores? a billion cores? imagine a processor with 1 trillion cores.. and on and on..
Just out of curiosity, what version of Globus Toolkit are you using for TeraGrid?
Yes, hosting torrent files are regarded as linking (meta data, pointer/reference) by Swedish law. There was a trial recently about html hyper linking (href="..") to commecial content and it was deemed as legal by the court. I dont know how the new IP law will affect this, if a meta data reference will still be legal or not.