Umm, Pentium Pro was phased out in what 96, 97? And you are telling me it has been all over this news site as if it is some new fad I missed out on? It was a damn joke.
Now that they use the Pentium Pro processor instead of the POWER architecture based G3, what else are we gonna call them besides MacBook Pro? As soon as intel gets on the ball and releases its fabled new processor we can call them Apple II's I guess.
Ok, when you said you used it for video work on your laptop I was all like, "wow, it's actually plausible that this guy has a raid array or something hooked up and actually needs the bandwidth." Then you had to go and say, "which was a great way to get projects from my G5 onto my powerbook quickly." There is no way your puny laptop drive is actually taking in input faster than fw400 can spit it out.
Notably you didn't mention supporting windows 3.1. That's because no one does. And eventually that is Microsoft's plan for windows 95, etc. Looking at it in this light I don't see the point you are making. Microsoft has operated this way for decades.
Well, mono still aims at "binary compatibility" but that isn't as hard as what wine is doing because it is with byte code and not machine code. Binary compatibility with byte code is basically effectively as easy as source compatibility. As an aside decompiling bytecode into source is much easier than decompiling machine code into source.
That's the biggest problem with patents, and for whatever reason it is especially the case with software patents. Two or more people independently can come up with the same idea. Look at physics, art, or anything and you see this happening all the time.
It isn't just computers. There is a great chapter in the popular book "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman" that goes into detail of an Experience Richard Feynman had serving on a California textbook selection commission. He was delivered several tons of textbooks to review--what a great system.
From the other end of the spectrum there is a great article, "The Muddle Machine", which details a job writing this tripe.
One thing that is significant is that Turbine recently closed Asheron's Call 2 for good. After seeing where they took AC1 and where AC2 went, I have a strange feeling that most of the people responsible for AC1 don't exist at Turbine anymore.
Do you eat grain? Worse shit than this happens to mice every day in the thresher. Oh you say, "in that case it is necessary, in this case it isn't." Well, humans could simply stop breeding to the point where their numbers were sufficiently low that they could survive without mechanized harvesting (or pesticides, those kill insects which are animals to).
I use computers nonstop. I went to the optometrist and found out I needed glasses badly. He said it was all because of the computer. But here's the thing, it is only one eye that needs them! That eye is terrible and the other is almost perfect. So how can the computer be the cause? It seems like it has to be all genetics.
If that is so true then how come upstart companies don't emerge in the US and overtake the companies that make employees into "exhausted employees on the verge of a psychotic break don't produce well." Perhaps you are wrong entirely--italy for example has in the past mad maximum 6 hour days. Why? Because they were fighting high unemployeement.
First of all you can use multiple chips--say with eight chips you distribute each byte in storage as one bit on each chip, then the speed with which one chip can return a byte turns into the speed with which you can get 8 bytes. Second of all (in response to the 100,000 writes lifetime) there have been filesystems optimized for flash chips for a very long time--hint they don't write files to the same area when they are changed, they propogate new changes in a kind of cyclical manner, approximating the theoretical (number of bits)*100,000 amount of bits that you can write (the realistic number is much less given that writes tend to be in a concentratedly small number of files and there are a lot of files that just hang around unchanged, but as long as there is a decent amount of free space the 100,000 writes is really no limitation with these filesystems). Filesystems like this are used by people running linux on their ipaqs, etc. etc.
So the two main problems solid state storage has vs. harddrives are easily taken care of (throughput and lifetime). They already win out on latency, energy efficiency (particularly since HD's constantly keep spinning whether or not data is currently needed), reliability and noise--the only thing left is and price.
It can edit, but it is all just about tuning for printing. You can't draw any squiggly lines all over the place or anything like that. I think that's all he means.
Because trillian works with Google Talk and the actual Google Talk program doesn't have any ads or anything so they don't care which client you use, they just want you to have that all important gmail account. Err... wait. I think only Trillian Pro supports the Jabber protocol... I don't know what Google is up to, Perhaps they are just trying to not be evil--they know that Google Talk isn't anywhere near ready for primetime (no file transfers, not yet linked with AIM (this is coming), etc., etc.).
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Umm, Pentium Pro was phased out in what 96, 97? And you are telling me it has been all over this news site as if it is some new fad I missed out on? It was a damn joke.
Tracing rays for a simple hits based test is outside the capability of realtime systems? I don't think so.
Now that they use the Pentium Pro processor instead of the POWER architecture based G3, what else are we gonna call them besides MacBook Pro? As soon as intel gets on the ball and releases its fabled new processor we can call them Apple II's I guess.
Ok, when you said you used it for video work on your laptop I was all like, "wow, it's actually plausible that this guy has a raid array or something hooked up and actually needs the bandwidth." Then you had to go and say, "which was a great way to get projects from my G5 onto my powerbook quickly." There is no way your puny laptop drive is actually taking in input faster than fw400 can spit it out.
Notably you didn't mention supporting windows 3.1. That's because no one does. And eventually that is Microsoft's plan for windows 95, etc. Looking at it in this light I don't see the point you are making. Microsoft has operated this way for decades.
Well, mono still aims at "binary compatibility" but that isn't as hard as what wine is doing because it is with byte code and not machine code. Binary compatibility with byte code is basically effectively as easy as source compatibility. As an aside decompiling bytecode into source is much easier than decompiling machine code into source.
Ahh, indeed. The license doesn't look great unfortunately =(.
That's the biggest problem with patents, and for whatever reason it is especially the case with software patents. Two or more people independently can come up with the same idea. Look at physics, art, or anything and you see this happening all the time.
Well, one thing that would be nice would be to get python running in the .net VM, as it currently can do with java VMs ("jython").
It isn't just computers. There is a great chapter in the popular book "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman" that goes into detail of an Experience Richard Feynman had serving on a California textbook selection commission. He was delivered several tons of textbooks to review--what a great system.
From the other end of the spectrum there is a great article, "The Muddle Machine", which details a job writing this tripe.
If the 10 line long methods you get only ever get called in that thousand long line method, there is no reason to seperate them out.
One thing that is significant is that Turbine recently closed Asheron's Call 2 for good. After seeing where they took AC1 and where AC2 went, I have a strange feeling that most of the people responsible for AC1 don't exist at Turbine anymore.
This doesn't sound right. The plane of the milky way doesn't coincide with the earths orbital plane (and therefore rotational plane) at all.
Do you eat grain? Worse shit than this happens to mice every day in the thresher. Oh you say, "in that case it is necessary, in this case it isn't." Well, humans could simply stop breeding to the point where their numbers were sufficiently low that they could survive without mechanized harvesting (or pesticides, those kill insects which are animals to).
I use computers nonstop. I went to the optometrist and found out I needed glasses badly. He said it was all because of the computer. But here's the thing, it is only one eye that needs them! That eye is terrible and the other is almost perfect. So how can the computer be the cause? It seems like it has to be all genetics.
"15 minutes for 30 seconds," are you blind (oh how marvelously appropriate for this thread)?
If that is so true then how come upstart companies don't emerge in the US and overtake the companies that make employees into "exhausted employees on the verge of a psychotic break don't produce well." Perhaps you are wrong entirely--italy for example has in the past mad maximum 6 hour days. Why? Because they were fighting high unemployeement.
It would only be a "clean" scale if the monitors did linear scaling, which they don't.
So you have never witnessed a person receiving inheritance?
"Since all games are required to be designed for all resolutions." Which is why the new Project Gotham upsamples from slightly above DVD resolution?
Nothing to laugh at? That's about all it is good for. It is nothing to judge by.
First of all you can use multiple chips--say with eight chips you distribute each byte in storage as one bit on each chip, then the speed with which one chip can return a byte turns into the speed with which you can get 8 bytes. Second of all (in response to the 100,000 writes lifetime) there have been filesystems optimized for flash chips for a very long time--hint they don't write files to the same area when they are changed, they propogate new changes in a kind of cyclical manner, approximating the theoretical (number of bits)*100,000 amount of bits that you can write (the realistic number is much less given that writes tend to be in a concentratedly small number of files and there are a lot of files that just hang around unchanged, but as long as there is a decent amount of free space the 100,000 writes is really no limitation with these filesystems). Filesystems like this are used by people running linux on their ipaqs, etc. etc.
So the two main problems solid state storage has vs. harddrives are easily taken care of (throughput and lifetime). They already win out on latency, energy efficiency (particularly since HD's constantly keep spinning whether or not data is currently needed), reliability and noise--the only thing left is and price.
It can edit, but it is all just about tuning for printing. You can't draw any squiggly lines all over the place or anything like that. I think that's all he means.
The way I get around the phone home nonsense is by setting an invalid proxy in Acrobat's settings.
Because trillian works with Google Talk and the actual Google Talk program doesn't have any ads or anything so they don't care which client you use, they just want you to have that all important gmail account. Err... wait. I think only Trillian Pro supports the Jabber protocol... I don't know what Google is up to, Perhaps they are just trying to not be evil--they know that Google Talk isn't anywhere near ready for primetime (no file transfers, not yet linked with AIM (this is coming), etc., etc.).