Ok sorry, but if you read the article it clearly states it turns this Cg language into a series of OpenGL or DirectX calls.
Please grab a clue, high performance 3d graphics aren't done in assember. Its done in C with OpenGL calls. The OGL calls are quite high level, nothing as simple as 'put a point at x,y on the screen'. Why do I know? Because I know OpenGL perhaps?
I was going to mod people about but I decided to get out the clue stick instead.
You forgot to mention that a CD sample size is 16 bits while the SACD sample size is 1 bit. So in reality there is only 2x as many bits... but because of the peculiar way in which SACD works you dont end up with 2x as much quality.
SACD offers only incremental benefits over CD for consumers. The main attraction is its difficult to copy since SACD is not a PCM format. Instead its a bit stream format, which means all those cool things like DSP volume control and modulation, etc is impossible with SACD.
SACD is just another cash grab, don't buy into it.
I am frankly rather confused at Sun's approach here. Generally people use big big iron for only a few things, one being database servers. Generally you spread the load across many smaller cheaper Intel boxes.
Considering that the database of choice is Oracle (Larry Ellison aside...) and I have heard from numerous people and DBA professionals which say that HPUX+Oracle is the way to go (don't take my word for it, both amazon and yahoo use HPUX for Oracle), where does this leave Solaris?
I guess in the lucrative education market Solaris still has a major presence (my University certainly had a good number of solaris boxen). But with the trend to massively duplicated web services across high end Intel hardware combined with HPUX's strength with Oracle, where does Solaris fit?
Its difficult to muffle/suppress high frequency noises with just a few layers of 'mat'. Besides which, it might not be practical with a notebook, don't you agree?
I agree with the parent poster though, high pitch harddrive whine is annoying and is very difficult to get rid of. Newer drives help, as older bearings wear out as they get older and thus get noiser.
I have a powerbook g4, and it's pretty quiet. The drive isn't very noisy, and the fan doesn't always come on.
When I'm using lots of cpu, the bottom heats up nicely. Then the fan kicks on, the first level of fan isn't very noisy. If I'm listening to music or if there is any ambient noise I can't hear it very well. The second level though sounds like a little hairdrier. Luckly this only really happens when you are using 100% cpu and the computer is on a bed or something.
I have a podium coolpad and it does wonders. It helps keep the fan off during casual use.
But I had this crappy dell notebook once, and it always heated up like a sonfabitch and the fan was _noisy_.
i seem to recall a product that adobe has which makes hybrid pdf files using ocr. Text where possible, graphics elsewhere. You get the benefits of both. Of course the software is expensive.
I wish I had mod points, I'd mod this -1 has no clue.
The ebay software/business logic is highly proprietary and difficult to understand. The story is how IBM sold ebay to use their software which is based on open source technology including apache, linux. Then of course there is java which isnt open source, but "open standard" (ymmv).
Anyways, peer review of complex business logic by people who don't understand it won't help nothing.
So no offense, but who is to say that Amazon isn't a trusted organization? Millions of people trust Amazon to securely store their credit card. Those same customers also trust Amazon not to mismanage their personal information. And to date Amazon has held up their end of the bargon.
The only people who think Amazon isn't trustworthy is because they applied for a patent (which many consider invalid), then used that patent in court. Of course it may well be that Amazon had little choice, there is such thing as 'due dilligence' and shareholder suits after all.
In the end people have voted with their money, and Amazon is on top.
Good call, the canadian equivalent to the TN-1 visa... you dont need points, and they are very easy to get... IF you are in one of the designated professions.
But you can get a TN-1 without a lawyer. Its a cakewalk. I got a TN-1 to move to Seattle, no problem.
But I'm not very keen into it. I wonder if this kind of thing will slip over into the PC world? I somehow doubt it since most hardware companies are interested in selling to the max number of customers (think motherboard mfrs like Asus).
Locked hardware is almost criminal. Unfortunately we're all boned.
hollywood bullshit. With modern switches the phone system doesnt have to "trace" worth shit. It just _knows_ these things. There are limits, but with ANI and ANI2, the phone number comes down the wire with the signaling/setup.
In the past, it used to be that someone had to go actually TRACE the path of the physical switches as they connected the outgoing trunk to the local line. Someone actually had to do this manually physically, which is probably the 3 minute thing, but thats ancient tech. Only backwards places like North Dakota uses that.
Here is a reality check for you... WINE runs win32 programs. I booted up word '97 the other day. WINEX (the transgaming version) runs _Half Life_ almost _PERFECTLY_. Half life is a win32/directx/opengl program in case you haven't seen it before.
So WINE is already there, but you are still working with 4 year old information.
You gotta remember the taliban arent any kind of good guys or in league with any other islamic governments. The Taliban have declared holy wars on iran and pakistan in the past. Both Islamic states. Obviously the Taliban are a bunch of whacko nuts who are mixed up. I mean, Iran, the definition of fundementalist islamic states (except now they are quite moderate... probably why the taliban decared a holy war (you're not fundementalist enough for us)).
But I note that Iran/Pakistan are all ok.
I think its obvious here that the US needs to garner support in the worldwide muslim community, dont forget millions of Americans are muslims. If the US can marginalize the Taliban, have all other islamic countries declare them a bunch of psychos, then the world will be a better place.
Good point - the BSA has no authority or business entering private property unless in the company of police exercizing a search warrant - and perhaps not even then.
Are you an american? Holy shit, you don't even know the name of powerful government agencies which oversee such things. You really should go back to school. Even _I_ know that in the USA it is the INS which is responsible for enforcing visa restrictions, although I suspect they probably get help from local law (hired guns).
Also, just a quiz, what exactly is the occasion celebrated on July the 4th?
I'm going to go ahead and remark on your university programme.
Now, this may be biased since I never attended NMT...
From what I hear, the quality of education at the undergraduate level in the US is quite lacking. Even from the ivy league universities it can still be second rate. The graduate programs are good, but unless you're contributing to the university (undergrads dont contribute), you're nothing.
Here at my school, that being UBC, compilers is an optional part of the undergraduate program. If you dont want to take that track, then you don't have to. There are other tracks which expose you to RDBMS, operating system internals, AI, etc. Probably the 4th year courses might be classified as "graduate level" at some american university.
While I haven't attended an american undergrad program, I have heard from many who are familiar with both the American and Canadian undergraduate systems, that without a doubt you recieve a superior education in Canada at the undergraduate level. Its only when you deal with the top American universities's Graduate programs then you see a difference.
The old american standby: "we have superior education" is mislabled from what I can tell.
And yes, I'm a Canadian, just graduated, and I just got hired by large American firm based in Seattle. I won't say who, but heres a hint, they've had a busy stock week. I didnt inquire to deeply into their hiring practices, but I suspect they couldn't find the calibre of intelligence they were looking for. And in my interview process, I wasnt asked buzz-word related questions, mostly problem solving and simple programming problems (simple == write a C function to delete a singly linked list, describe design patterns)
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interestingly enough Mac OS X also uses NTP.
it is unix after all....
Its not the area code, its the _PHONE EXCHANGE_ code. the first 3 digits of a 7 digit number.
ie:
NPA-EEE-XXXX
where EEE is the exchange and the XXXX is the local addressing within the exchange.
Normally exchanges are only cell or only land line, not mixed.
you state "ideas of being borned in to sin, accepting you're not in control of you life, and submitting your life to the will of the Lord"
as a fact.
I require you to prove this as a fact before I will believe it.
Thank you.
Ok sorry, but if you read the article it clearly states it turns this Cg language into a series of OpenGL or DirectX calls.
Please grab a clue, high performance 3d graphics aren't done in assember. Its done in C with OpenGL calls. The OGL calls are quite high level, nothing as simple as 'put a point at x,y on the screen'. Why do I know? Because I know OpenGL perhaps?
I was going to mod people about but I decided to get out the clue stick instead.
You forgot to mention that a CD sample size is 16 bits while the SACD sample size is 1 bit. So in reality there is only 2x as many bits... but because of the peculiar way in which SACD works you dont end up with 2x as much quality.
SACD offers only incremental benefits over CD for consumers. The main attraction is its difficult to copy since SACD is not a PCM format. Instead its a bit stream format, which means all those cool things like DSP volume control and modulation, etc is impossible with SACD.
SACD is just another cash grab, don't buy into it.
I am frankly rather confused at Sun's approach here. Generally people use big big iron for only a few things, one being database servers. Generally you spread the load across many smaller cheaper Intel boxes.
Considering that the database of choice is Oracle (Larry Ellison aside...) and I have heard from numerous people and DBA professionals which say that HPUX+Oracle is the way to go (don't take my word for it, both amazon and yahoo use HPUX for Oracle), where does this leave Solaris?
I guess in the lucrative education market Solaris still has a major presence (my University certainly had a good number of solaris boxen). But with the trend to massively duplicated web services across high end Intel hardware combined with HPUX's strength with Oracle, where does Solaris fit?
I don't have the same experience. When an app gets whacked and uses 100% cpu, when I kill it, the fan turns off within 20 seconds.
Crappaholic dude.
Its difficult to muffle/suppress high frequency noises with just a few layers of 'mat'. Besides which, it might not be practical with a notebook, don't you agree?
I agree with the parent poster though, high pitch harddrive whine is annoying and is very difficult to get rid of. Newer drives help, as older bearings wear out as they get older and thus get noiser.
I have a powerbook g4, and it's pretty quiet. The drive isn't very noisy, and the fan doesn't always come on.
;-)
When I'm using lots of cpu, the bottom heats up nicely. Then the fan kicks on, the first level of fan isn't very noisy. If I'm listening to music or if there is any ambient noise I can't hear it very well. The second level though sounds like a little hairdrier. Luckly this only really happens when you are using 100% cpu and the computer is on a bed or something.
I have a podium coolpad and it does wonders. It helps keep the fan off during casual use.
But I had this crappy dell notebook once, and it always heated up like a sonfabitch and the fan was _noisy_.
Apple notebooks rule
i seem to recall a product that adobe has which makes hybrid pdf files using ocr. Text where possible, graphics elsewhere. You get the benefits of both. Of course the software is expensive.
I wish I had mod points, I'd mod this -1 has no clue.
The ebay software/business logic is highly proprietary and difficult to understand. The story is how IBM sold ebay to use their software which is based on open source technology including apache, linux. Then of course there is java which isnt open source, but "open standard" (ymmv).
Anyways, peer review of complex business logic by people who don't understand it won't help nothing.
So no offense, but who is to say that Amazon isn't a trusted organization? Millions of people trust Amazon to securely store their credit card. Those same customers also trust Amazon not to mismanage their personal information. And to date Amazon has held up their end of the bargon.
The only people who think Amazon isn't trustworthy is because they applied for a patent (which many consider invalid), then used that patent in court. Of course it may well be that Amazon had little choice, there is such thing as 'due dilligence' and shareholder suits after all.
In the end people have voted with their money, and Amazon is on top.
Good call, the canadian equivalent to the TN-1 visa... you dont need points, and they are very easy to get... IF you are in one of the designated professions.
But you can get a TN-1 without a lawyer. Its a cakewalk. I got a TN-1 to move to Seattle, no problem.
Not entirely correct, when someone has a truly original thought alarms will go off so that the person can be "re-educated".
But I'm not very keen into it. I wonder if this kind of thing will slip over into the PC world? I somehow doubt it since most hardware companies are interested in selling to the max number of customers (think motherboard mfrs like Asus).
Locked hardware is almost criminal. Unfortunately we're all boned.
did you read the article? it clearly states that the sold links are going to be clearly NOT PART of the actual REAL results.
So how can it be that corporate goons got ahold of Google?
hollywood bullshit. With modern switches the phone system doesnt have to "trace" worth shit. It just _knows_ these things. There are limits, but with ANI and ANI2, the phone number comes down the wire with the signaling/setup.
In the past, it used to be that someone had to go actually TRACE the path of the physical switches as they connected the outgoing trunk to the local line. Someone actually had to do this manually physically, which is probably the 3 minute thing, but thats ancient tech. Only backwards places like North Dakota uses that.
Here is a reality check for you... WINE runs win32 programs. I booted up word '97 the other day. WINEX (the transgaming version) runs _Half Life_ almost _PERFECTLY_. Half life is a win32/directx/opengl program in case you haven't seen it before.
So WINE is already there, but you are still working with 4 year old information.
Give it a shot, its pretty damn cool.
You gotta remember the taliban arent any kind of good guys or in league with any other islamic governments. The Taliban have declared holy wars on iran and pakistan in the past. Both Islamic states. Obviously the Taliban are a bunch of whacko nuts who are mixed up. I mean, Iran, the definition of fundementalist islamic states (except now they are quite moderate... probably why the taliban decared a holy war (you're not fundementalist enough for us)).
But I note that Iran/Pakistan are all ok.
I think its obvious here that the US needs to garner support in the worldwide muslim community, dont forget millions of Americans are muslims. If the US can marginalize the Taliban, have all other islamic countries declare them a bunch of psychos, then the world will be a better place.
actually, you dont really need to have lots of money to have a MOTAS for each day of the week...
all since 5pm PDT tuesday....
good call man! I havent purchased a linux distro for years as well. I think it was debian 2.0 last time or something. "hamm" if i remember correctly.
;-)
with fast bandwidth, purchasing CDs is generally pointless, espeically if you're keeping up on sid
right arm, i'd mod you up if i had points.
Good point - the BSA has no authority or business entering private property unless in the company of police exercizing a search warrant - and perhaps not even then.
Are you an american? Holy shit, you don't even know the name of powerful government agencies which oversee such things. You really should go back to school. Even _I_ know that in the USA it is the INS which is responsible for enforcing visa restrictions, although I suspect they probably get help from local law (hired guns).
Also, just a quiz, what exactly is the occasion celebrated on July the 4th?
*sigh*
I'm going to go ahead and remark on your university programme.
Now, this may be biased since I never attended NMT...
From what I hear, the quality of education at the undergraduate level in the US is quite lacking. Even from the ivy league universities it can still be second rate. The graduate programs are good, but unless you're contributing to the university (undergrads dont contribute), you're nothing.
Here at my school, that being UBC, compilers is an optional part of the undergraduate program. If you dont want to take that track, then you don't have to. There are other tracks which expose you to RDBMS, operating system internals, AI, etc. Probably the 4th year courses might be classified as "graduate level" at some american university.
While I haven't attended an american undergrad program, I have heard from many who are familiar with both the American and Canadian undergraduate systems, that without a doubt you recieve a superior education in Canada at the undergraduate level. Its only when you deal with the top American universities's Graduate programs then you see a difference.
The old american standby: "we have superior education" is mislabled from what I can tell.
And yes, I'm a Canadian, just graduated, and I just got hired by large American firm based in Seattle. I won't say who, but heres a hint, they've had a busy stock week. I didnt inquire to deeply into their hiring practices, but I suspect they couldn't find the calibre of intelligence they were looking for. And in my interview process, I wasnt asked buzz-word related questions, mostly problem solving and simple programming problems (simple == write a C function to delete a singly linked list, describe design patterns)