I wonder what those people who exhorted president Bush to cut off funding for embryo research will say when they hit seventy and start forgetting where they live? I'll bet you they run right off to other countries and get their treatments. After all it isn't sinful if the neighbors don't know.
Nonsense. Some of us have higher ethics that don't boil down to "what everyone else thinks." There's something just wrong about mining dead babies for medical treatments. It's somewhere lower that Niven's "corpscicle" raiding, but I'm sure that society will come up with the same morally indifferent excuses if this kind of research continues. I'm appalled by this kind of research. This is just a step below "organlegging."
Is anyone else reminded of the Apple IIGS's GUI system? Man, at least that one has seperate windows. I can't see Apple making its case about UI theft until at least Windows 2.0. I had no idea that it was so pathetic.
Well, UNIX is older than that (1969) and we should all know that it was based on the MULTICS project from before that. My money's on an earlier IBM OS. By your admission though, RSX-11M proceeds VMS (which was later renamed OpenVMS). You know, the chief architects of the WinNT kernel were big VMS designers, so you could argue using that logic that WinNT is the first OS too.
USB wasn't meant at all to originally be used for those kinds of things. It was meant to be a simple replacement for old PS/2 and serial ports. It was good that USB was kept lightweight. It made putting USB controllers on machines a lot cheaper.
I don't see what advantages you tout about USB aren't possessed by Firewire. Firewire devices are hotswapable, and are connected in equally shared long chains -- and Firewire doesn't have the hideous resource sharing issues of USB and USB2.
You see, USB and USB2 are both processor-arbitrated bus schemes. This is yet another insidious move by Intel to keep people dependent on buying faster and faster CPUs, whereas Firewire allows the devices to negotiate intelligently for bandwidth usage. Furthermore, USB2 requires far more intelligent balancing of devices on the chain than before -- eliminating one of the primary USB advantages, simplicity.
The problem is that all USB/USB2 devices get an equal chunk of time. This means that if you have a keyboard, a mouse, a scanner, and a digital camera on the same chain, each one gets 1/4 of the 480 Mb/sec bandwidth. Your keyboard may only need the low-end 1.5 Mb/sec rate, but it gets a full 120 Mb/sec. This means that you have to learn to keep your high-end devices off of the same chain as your low-end devices, or you have to get used to unplugging things when a specific device needs the bandwidth. This also ignores the complexities of USB/USB2's star topology.
With Firewire, it's plug-and-play -- at the expense of more complex driver and hardware controllers. Firewire can even guarantee a dedicated minimum amount of bandwidth. USB2 is an insidious marketing ploy by Intel to destroy Firewire. Since Intel is making it, ignoring the fact that it'll be years since its initial announcment before we see products while Firewire is here and now, it's "inevitable" that it'll replace Firewire. This is a blatant powerplay at the expense of consumers to attempt to make people more reliant on faster Intel chips. It should not be celebrated for "Finally" getting closer to achieving its goal. I hope USB2 dies a flaming death.
You know, that's such an intuitively obvious answer that I feel like slapping myself in the forehead for not having come up with it myself. (smack) Ah, that's better.
Okay, that's enough bragging about a system that is a hell of a lot more powerful than my college of 10,000+ has for the central student server. (What the heck kind of business are you running that needs that kind of horsepower? I used to work customer support for mission-critical e-commerce and healthcare claims system that didn't have a third of that power.)
Anyway, I'll address your questions:
is apple 64 bit yet (essentialk for files over 2GB on the filesystem) ?
Yes and no, in much the same fashion as NT handles 64-bit filesizes without being fully 64-bit compliant. You don't directly use 32-bit sized file pointers in the Mac OS. I believe, though I could be wrong, that the Mac OS does handle this with HFS+.
does it support VxFS or equivalent log filesystems ?
No, not yet anyway, but Apple isn't attacking the market that needs such things.
does it connect via fibre to a RAID array ?
Only with 3rd party expansion cards.
does it have 64 bit PCI slots ?
Yes, if by "it" you mean the G4 series. No, if you mean iMacs and notebooks -- and the Cube.
why should i waste CPU on displaying graphics ?
What kind of site are you running that's choking down 100% CPU usage on a regular basis? Most highly-loaded sites that I'm familiar with could've spared 5% or so average CPU usage for an inactive GUI except for the customers that were running their system far past what it was really designed to take.
what do i care for tools/GUIs etc as applications like webservers etc which are going to run without an interface anyway as a daemon.
Maybe you don't, but some people might like a less painful interface to those tools. I guess your needs are everyone's needs, though.
what use is that for a server ? its supposed to be dumped in a corner and forgotten about.
That's your opinion. Some people would disagree. It's not like you have to trade off performance for a decent appearance. Look at the Cobalt Qube. Some people have taste. (Heck, some people have shift keys.)
redundant stuff/hot swap raid etc is already standard on all the machines i have including my desktop..you mean apple doesnt have that yet ?
Okay, well that's just weird, because the majority of people don't need to hot-swap the drives in their desktop machine. So, no, Apple doesn't have that yet, as most Macs a desktop systems. I don't think it will be too long before they start entering a more serious server market, like the attempted to in the past with the AIX-based Apple Network Server. Nice machine with all the mid-range server niceties of the day.
methinks you need a desktop and stop trying to wedge a desktop system into server space.
Methinks you should try to understand that your server needs are not everyone else's server needs. You're obviously running some high-end hardware -- one of Sun's top of the line systems -- for special needs. Not everyone needs a god-awful UltraSPARC system like that, and the majority of users would consider your "desktop system" a low- to mid-range server. I've seen large banking and healthcare companies run all their transactions through systems with around %20 of an E4500's power just fine. A good, beefed-up Mac OS X system with the right kind of software support could serve their needs just fine and could do it without the need for the hideous, complex UI experience that funded my support job in the first place.
Now how do you actually get two GUI programs to talk to one another using this XML-based pipe? That's the question. It's not about the backend, it's about how you use a GUI to get two GUI programs to pipe to one another. What do you manipulate? How do you visually show the user that the programs are connected? Etc.
Now for the question that is being asked -- how do you do this in a GUI? We're not talking about the backend stuff, which everyone knows about. We're talking about what do you do with your mouse and icons (or whatever) to graphically create a pipe between two applications. How do you manipulate applications -- in a generic fashion -- to set up a pipe-like construct?
First I think it's strange that AIM switched to Altivec on a RISC chip because, I thought that the point of RISC was to reduce the number of instructions in order to pack more transistors onto the chip and increase performance, but then to ADD more instructions seems counter productive.
Actually, that's a common misconception -- or at least a bit of idealism that is somewhat different from the actual reality of RISC processors. The idea of RISC is to reduce complexity. RISC instruction architectures often have more instructions than many CISC architectures, but the instructions are often orthogonal replications of another instruction on a different data type. The end result is a lot of simplicity in processor design. This is why even the x86 family uses a microcode engine to convert complex and no-longer supported in silicon instructions to RISC-like instructions which are the ones actually executed -- sort of an ironic throwback to the big daddy of all CISC designs, the old 2000 instruction VAX systems.
Altivec is basically a dedicated DSP unit. That's why Motorola loves it. IBM however, doesn't see the need for it in high end servers, which really aren't focused on parallel number crunching. So, they don't add it to the die so that they can ramp up the clock speed. Their current weird approach to increased speed seems to be multiple CPU cores on a single die. Witness the POWER4 chip. 1 GHz clock speed with support for a 500 MHz system bus and 2 CPU cores on a single die. Too bad it's a 64-bit PPC implementation, and thus unsuitable for the 32-bit Mac OS.
Actually, Altivec handles integer math quite nicely. Altivec vectors can consist of the following:
4 32-bit FP numbers
4 32 bit integers
8 16 bit integers
8 16 bit "pixels" (see below)
16 8 bit integers
I believe most if not all operations are orthogonal, meaning that an operation that you can perform on one of the above data types can be expected to be able to be performed on the others as well. The pixel data type is one gears towards video processing. It's a 16 bit number containing 5 bits for each of 3 colors and one alpha bit. The difference is that overflow and underflow is handled by color. If you are adding two pixels together, and there is overflow in one or more of the color values, you don't want wraparound or bits floating over into the next field. You want the color in question to max out.
Your gross generalization of all anime that you don't like -- shows that aren't artsy enough for you -- as being only for obsessed, drooling morons is amazingly offensive. Furthermore, your associated generalization that all people who like such shows are also obsessed, drooling morons is doubly offensive. There's a reason why Japanese find otaku disturbing -- they're not well in the head, especially by Japanese societal definitions.
(BTW, what's wrong with kids stuff anyway? Just because it's for kids doesn't automatically mean that it sucks. You seem to be lacking in a sense of humor.)
The only Anime I want to hear about is stuff that isnt your run of the mill, "otaku" shit. Its obvious that the people running/. have been unable to determine which is which yet. The majority of the rest of the/. reader population doesnt want to hear about it either.
I'm glad your high-and-mighty sense of discriminating taste is shared by all of Slashdot's readers. I must be some sort of deviant. Oh, wait. You've already labeled me as one of them. Get over elitist yourself.
Just do us a favor and find a way in which we dont have to hear about Anime through./. Thanks
It's called your User Preferences page. Learn it, love it. Just click on one pretty little checkbox, and you'll never have to see articles about "borgeous" anime ever again.
As a HUMAN BEING who isn't as gullible as most of the rest of the population.. I must protest to this "Christain" Stuff. It was their crusades that they insisted on going on which set our civilization at least 500 years back from where it should have been. Christians are the cause of the dark ages!!!!!! They should be shot
You'll also note that it was Christians like Newton whose inquiries into the nature of God's creation who set our modern sciences in motion. It was those same crusaders and monks who prompted all the European advances in masonry to create the gorgeous cathedrals of the day. Gregor Mendel, the father of genetics, was a Catholic monk, and the very first widely printed book was the Gutenburg Bible.
Oh, and it was our Christian founding fathers that created the first government based on principles of Free Speech and Freedom of Religion that gives you the right to complain like this without you being shot. You may claim not to be gullible, but you're certainly ignorant of history.
Excuse me, but I'm well entitled to my opinion, and those are some of my favorite series. I agree that not all anime is of the same quality, but you're insulting some of my favorite series. Series like "Tenchi Muyou" and "Ah! Megami-sama" are by far a cut above American direct-to-video stuff such as Disney's Aladdin sequels.
Dont be mistaken and think that every Tarou and Tomoko in Japan watches that crap. Its very much geared towards the large otaku population.
Don't assume that I care anymore about that than the fact that not every Tom and Jane here in America doesn't watch them. I'm no obsessed cos-play going, lyrics copying u½v, but I find a lot of enjoyment in the more light-hearted and comedic shows.
Also, don't assume that the only people who watch such shows are obsessed freaks. The manga and anime businesses are quite large. Besides, would you prefer their live-action sci-fi shows? Blech.
so posting as "Valdrax" removes your anonymity? if you want to stand up for you comments, what is your real name and where do you live?
Point. At least I have some history and some karmic responsibility for my posts, though. I'll take any negative karma that comes my way, but I seriously doubt any will, except as a result of continued off-topic replies like this.
However, I have no desire to open my e-mail account, or my life as a whole, to the pranks of trolls, script-kiddies, and general jerks. This anonymous screenname provides me with all the liability I need to have within the Slashdot community without exposing me to attacks beyond it, and I'll stick by my right to do so. ACs aren't even willing to take that much responsibility for their actions, and I have no sympathy for them.
I stand up for my comments in the context that they are made in. I attach my screenname, but I will give people like you no further option of recourse. The only reason someone would need to contact me beyond these message boards is for personal retribution against imagined offenses. Forget that. God forbid what would happen to someone like "Signal 11" if he gave out personal info.
I thought I just did voice my opinion and without being such a lamer as to resort to heavy profanity. Of course, I wouldn't expect someone who has to post anonymously to understand.
Oh, but watching anime is part of the geek stereotype so/. must cater to it, promote it, and make as much money as they can from it. Hypocrites.
As a computer geek and an anime fan, I must say that there is a great amount of truth to the stereotype. In fact, I'd go so far as to classify 90% of the members of my college's anime club as geeks. I haven't been paying to much attention to the "Star Wars," "Lord of the Rings," and "D&D" movie discussion threads because they don't interest me enough to post, but has there been as much bitch about the existence of the topics there? I don't think there has been.
By the way, what's with this "making money" and "hypocrites" nonsense? I haven't seen a single ad banner for anime yet.
Yes, moderate me down. Get on with it.
I never will understand why people enjoy posting to articles just to annoy the people who care about the topic. If you know you're likely to be moderated down, why post? Go elsewhere and try contributing to a discussion for once.
--------- I'm not just the President of my local anime club, I'm also a client.
Unfortunately, now that Slashdot has added the much-requested Anime category, they feel they have free-reign to post a lot more of it ("hey, if they don't like it, they can always turn it off").
Like I predicted, however, no one is turning it off. Instead, they're continuing to lower the signal-to-noise ratio of these discussions by bitching at the existance of the articles. Getting a new topic does nothing, just like getting a new topic didn't really reduce the flames on the Katz articles for a long time.
The problem with that is that CmdrTaco has gone on record as saying he tries for 15-20 stories a day. If Anime is using up some of those slots, then we are seeing fewer "normal" news for nerds stories, and personally I think Anime has enough fan sites for the hardcore fans.
<sarcasm> Yeah, it's a shame. I could be missing something I care about like more phony Mac rumors or the latest never-ending distributed.net crypto contest. After all there aren't too many hardcore sites specializing in that. Maybe I'd be missing the latest development in the DeCSS and Napster cases. I mean, they're not covered by other sites. </sarcasm>
Get over yourself. Just because there are other hardcore sites that cover this info doesn't mean it doesn't belong here. I like to think of Slashdot as one-stop shopping for all the news I care about, and that includes anime, as it does for other people.
After all, anime beats hoaxes like the SETI@Home Accelerator card.
I really think Anime has very limited geek appeal.
I think you don't know a damn thing about the hobby if you don't think it's got geek appeal. Go to a convention some time and try not to find a geek. The only way to do so is to stay outside the building on the opposite side from the parking lot and close your eyes, singing "la! la! la! la! no geek appeal here!" Even then, a geek might accidentally stumble onto you and ask what's wrong with you.
Anime is as much a geek hobby as RPGs and FPSs. Just because it doesn't directly relate to computers, doesn't mean it isn't "News for Nerds."
A lot of nerds really like anime, so this is "News for Nerds." Personally, I don't give a rat's ass about crypto, Jon Katz's views, or the latest super-sized hard drive, but you don't see me bitching to get those pulled from the site.
Okay, in Japan, it seems to be a semi-common thing for series to be reinvented every now and then. "Bubblegum Crash," the original "Bubblegum Crisis," and "BGC 2040" are all seperate universes based on the same theme -- of the Knight Sabers crusading against the rogue Boomers of the Genom corporation. While they share the same characters, the plot lines are different, and the looks, attitudes, and motivations of the characters are different.
You can also see this in the original "Tenchi Muyo" OVA, the two TV series, and the 3 movies. All of these can be argued to happen in seperate universes, due to changes from slight inconsistencies to radical reinventions. Similarly, the first El-Hazard OAV series, the second El-Hazard OAV series, and the 2nd TV series can be considered the same universe, while the 1st TV series was a seperate universe in its own right.
This kind of thing happens all the time. Sometimes it's a result of pople going back to make a series more in line with the original manga, like Kia Asamiya's Silent Möbius. Other times it's just a tinkering with the formula like the gorgeous new Sol Bianca OVA. So don't got twisting your brain in a knot trying to figure out how the series all interrelate -- they don't. <grin>
BTW, the original series happened in 2035-2036, I think. However, that doesn't mean the "BGC 2040" is in the same timeline. After all, the characters all look different, they haven't all met each other before the start of the series, and Brian J. Mason is still alive and working for Genom.
Explain something to me. If you don't want to even see the story, why are you posting on it? There are people who would like to discuss this topic without having to filter out the invariably moderated-up posts kvetching about the existance of anime topics.
You don't have to read this if you don't want to, so why are you bothering with it? Why don't you try respecting other people's interest in the subject and move on to whatever you consider to be a "good story."
You see, in Japan, "direct to video" != "sucks on toast" like in America. A lot of the best anime was made as short OVAs, like the original "Tenchi Muyo," "Oh My Goddess!" and the aforementioned "Bubblegum Crisis" series. The rental market is really big in Japan.
Try watching or reading the news before complaining. The judge has issued a preliminary injunction against Napster until the case is resolved. They will be shutting down Friday. Notice the time in the quoted article -- 2:00 was when the hearing was. They may have not yet updated their MOTD, but the injunction has been made.
Why should owning previous aging non-digital media grant you the right to perfect copies of new, cleaner media? I mean, that's like expecting Ford to give you a new car for free because you bought one 6 years ago.
Some of us care far more about extraterrestrial intelligence than crypto.
There are more than enough people interested in it other than you.
Crypto has gotten 2 or more stories per day more often than SETI.
Personally, I consider the distributed.net contest to be a giant waste of time, and I don't even get a good screen saver out of it, but you don't see me wading into an RC5 thread and trolling, do you? If you're not interested, don't read it.
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I wonder what those people who exhorted president Bush to cut off funding for embryo research will say when they hit seventy and start forgetting where they live? I'll bet you they run right off to other countries and get their treatments. After all it isn't sinful if the neighbors don't know. Nonsense. Some of us have higher ethics that don't boil down to "what everyone else thinks." There's something just wrong about mining dead babies for medical treatments. It's somewhere lower that Niven's "corpscicle" raiding, but I'm sure that society will come up with the same morally indifferent excuses if this kind of research continues. I'm appalled by this kind of research. This is just a step below "organlegging."
Is anyone else reminded of the Apple IIGS's GUI system? Man, at least that one has seperate windows. I can't see Apple making its case about UI theft until at least Windows 2.0. I had no idea that it was so pathetic.
Well, UNIX is older than that (1969) and we should all know that it was based on the MULTICS project from before that. My money's on an earlier IBM OS. By your admission though, RSX-11M proceeds VMS (which was later renamed OpenVMS). You know, the chief architects of the WinNT kernel were big VMS designers, so you could argue using that logic that WinNT is the first OS too.
I wish I had my OS class's textbook handy.
USB wasn't meant at all to originally be used for those kinds of things. It was meant to be a simple replacement for old PS/2 and serial ports. It was good that USB was kept lightweight. It made putting USB controllers on machines a lot cheaper.
I don't see what advantages you tout about USB aren't possessed by Firewire. Firewire devices are hotswapable, and are connected in equally shared long chains -- and Firewire doesn't have the hideous resource sharing issues of USB and USB2.
You see, USB and USB2 are both processor-arbitrated bus schemes. This is yet another insidious move by Intel to keep people dependent on buying faster and faster CPUs, whereas Firewire allows the devices to negotiate intelligently for bandwidth usage. Furthermore, USB2 requires far more intelligent balancing of devices on the chain than before -- eliminating one of the primary USB advantages, simplicity.
The problem is that all USB/USB2 devices get an equal chunk of time. This means that if you have a keyboard, a mouse, a scanner, and a digital camera on the same chain, each one gets 1/4 of the 480 Mb/sec bandwidth. Your keyboard may only need the low-end 1.5 Mb/sec rate, but it gets a full 120 Mb/sec. This means that you have to learn to keep your high-end devices off of the same chain as your low-end devices, or you have to get used to unplugging things when a specific device needs the bandwidth. This also ignores the complexities of USB/USB2's star topology.
With Firewire, it's plug-and-play -- at the expense of more complex driver and hardware controllers. Firewire can even guarantee a dedicated minimum amount of bandwidth. USB2 is an insidious marketing ploy by Intel to destroy Firewire. Since Intel is making it, ignoring the fact that it'll be years since its initial announcment before we see products while Firewire is here and now, it's "inevitable" that it'll replace Firewire. This is a blatant powerplay at the expense of consumers to attempt to make people more reliant on faster Intel chips. It should not be celebrated for "Finally" getting closer to achieving its goal. I hope USB2 dies a flaming death.
You know, that's such an intuitively obvious answer that I feel like slapping myself in the forehead for not having come up with it myself. (smack) Ah, that's better.
Okay, that's enough bragging about a system that is a hell of a lot more powerful than my college of 10,000+ has for the central student server. (What the heck kind of business are you running that needs that kind of horsepower? I used to work customer support for mission-critical e-commerce and healthcare claims system that didn't have a third of that power.)
Anyway, I'll address your questions:
is apple 64 bit yet (essentialk for files over 2GB on the filesystem) ?
Yes and no, in much the same fashion as NT handles 64-bit filesizes without being fully 64-bit compliant. You don't directly use 32-bit sized file pointers in the Mac OS. I believe, though I could be wrong, that the Mac OS does handle this with HFS+.
does it support VxFS or equivalent log filesystems ?
No, not yet anyway, but Apple isn't attacking the market that needs such things.
does it connect via fibre to a RAID array ?
Only with 3rd party expansion cards.
does it have 64 bit PCI slots ?
Yes, if by "it" you mean the G4 series. No, if you mean iMacs and notebooks -- and the Cube.
why should i waste CPU on displaying graphics ?
What kind of site are you running that's choking down 100% CPU usage on a regular basis? Most highly-loaded sites that I'm familiar with could've spared 5% or so average CPU usage for an inactive GUI except for the customers that were running their system far past what it was really designed to take.
what do i care for tools/GUIs etc as applications like webservers etc which are going to run without an interface anyway as a daemon.
Maybe you don't, but some people might like a less painful interface to those tools. I guess your needs are everyone's needs, though.
what use is that for a server ? its supposed to be dumped in a corner and forgotten about.
That's your opinion. Some people would disagree. It's not like you have to trade off performance for a decent appearance. Look at the Cobalt Qube. Some people have taste. (Heck, some people have shift keys.)
redundant stuff/hot swap raid etc is already standard on all the machines i have including my desktop..you mean apple doesnt have that yet ?
Okay, well that's just weird, because the majority of people don't need to hot-swap the drives in their desktop machine. So, no, Apple doesn't have that yet, as most Macs a desktop systems. I don't think it will be too long before they start entering a more serious server market, like the attempted to in the past with the AIX-based Apple Network Server. Nice machine with all the mid-range server niceties of the day.
methinks you need a desktop and stop trying to wedge a desktop system into server space.
Methinks you should try to understand that your server needs are not everyone else's server needs. You're obviously running some high-end hardware -- one of Sun's top of the line systems -- for special needs. Not everyone needs a god-awful UltraSPARC system like that, and the majority of users would consider your "desktop system" a low- to mid-range server. I've seen large banking and healthcare companies run all their transactions through systems with around %20 of an E4500's power just fine. A good, beefed-up Mac OS X system with the right kind of software support could serve their needs just fine and could do it without the need for the hideous, complex UI experience that funded my support job in the first place.
Okay, great. You use XML.
Now how do you actually get two GUI programs to talk to one another using this XML-based pipe? That's the question. It's not about the backend, it's about how you use a GUI to get two GUI programs to pipe to one another. What do you manipulate? How do you visually show the user that the programs are connected? Etc.
That's nice.
Now for the question that is being asked -- how do you do this in a GUI? We're not talking about the backend stuff, which everyone knows about. We're talking about what do you do with your mouse and icons (or whatever) to graphically create a pipe between two applications. How do you manipulate applications -- in a generic fashion -- to set up a pipe-like construct?
First I think it's strange that AIM switched to Altivec on a RISC chip because, I thought that the point of RISC was to reduce the number of instructions in order to pack more transistors onto the chip and increase performance, but then to ADD more instructions seems counter productive. Actually, that's a common misconception -- or at least a bit of idealism that is somewhat different from the actual reality of RISC processors. The idea of RISC is to reduce complexity. RISC instruction architectures often have more instructions than many CISC architectures, but the instructions are often orthogonal replications of another instruction on a different data type. The end result is a lot of simplicity in processor design. This is why even the x86 family uses a microcode engine to convert complex and no-longer supported in silicon instructions to RISC-like instructions which are the ones actually executed -- sort of an ironic throwback to the big daddy of all CISC designs, the old 2000 instruction VAX systems. Altivec is basically a dedicated DSP unit. That's why Motorola loves it. IBM however, doesn't see the need for it in high end servers, which really aren't focused on parallel number crunching. So, they don't add it to the die so that they can ramp up the clock speed. Their current weird approach to increased speed seems to be multiple CPU cores on a single die. Witness the POWER4 chip. 1 GHz clock speed with support for a 500 MHz system bus and 2 CPU cores on a single die. Too bad it's a 64-bit PPC implementation, and thus unsuitable for the 32-bit Mac OS.
Actually, Altivec handles integer math quite nicely. Altivec vectors can consist of the following:
4 32-bit FP numbers
4 32 bit integers
8 16 bit integers
8 16 bit "pixels" (see below)
16 8 bit integers
I believe most if not all operations are orthogonal, meaning that an operation that you can perform on one of the above data types can be expected to be able to be performed on the others as well. The pixel data type is one gears towards video processing. It's a 16 bit number containing 5 bits for each of 3 colors and one alpha bit. The difference is that overflow and underflow is handled by color. If you are adding two pixels together, and there is overflow in one or more of the color values, you don't want wraparound or bits floating over into the next field. You want the color in question to max out.
Altivec is not really FP biased at all.
Hmm.. So stealing is okay, but stealing for a profit isn't?
Your gross generalization of all anime that you don't like -- shows that aren't artsy enough for you -- as being only for obsessed, drooling morons is amazingly offensive. Furthermore, your associated generalization that all people who like such shows are also obsessed, drooling morons is doubly offensive. There's a reason why Japanese find otaku disturbing -- they're not well in the head, especially by Japanese societal definitions.
/. have been unable to determine which is which yet. The majority of the rest of the /. reader population doesnt want to hear about it either.
./. Thanks
(BTW, what's wrong with kids stuff anyway? Just because it's for kids doesn't automatically mean that it sucks. You seem to be lacking in a sense of humor.)
The only Anime I want to hear about is stuff that isnt your run of the mill, "otaku" shit. Its obvious that the people running
I'm glad your high-and-mighty sense of discriminating taste is shared by all of Slashdot's readers. I must be some sort of deviant. Oh, wait. You've already labeled me as one of them. Get over elitist yourself.
Just do us a favor and find a way in which we dont have to hear about Anime through
It's called your User Preferences page. Learn it, love it. Just click on one pretty little checkbox, and you'll never have to see articles about "borgeous" anime ever again.
As a HUMAN BEING who isn't as gullible as most of the rest of the population.. I must protest to this "Christain" Stuff. It was their crusades that they insisted on going on which set our civilization at least 500 years back from where it should have been. Christians are the cause of the dark ages!!!!!! They should be shot
You'll also note that it was Christians like Newton whose inquiries into the nature of God's creation who set our modern sciences in motion. It was those same crusaders and monks who prompted all the European advances in masonry to create the gorgeous cathedrals of the day. Gregor Mendel, the father of genetics, was a Catholic monk, and the very first widely printed book was the Gutenburg Bible.
Oh, and it was our Christian founding fathers that created the first government based on principles of Free Speech and Freedom of Religion that gives you the right to complain like this without you being shot. You may claim not to be gullible, but you're certainly ignorant of history.
Excuse me, but I'm well entitled to my opinion, and those are some of my favorite series. I agree that not all anime is of the same quality, but you're insulting some of my favorite series. Series like "Tenchi Muyou" and "Ah! Megami-sama" are by far a cut above American direct-to-video stuff such as Disney's Aladdin sequels.
Dont be mistaken and think that every Tarou and Tomoko in Japan watches that crap. Its very much geared towards the large otaku population.
Don't assume that I care anymore about that than the fact that not every Tom and Jane here in America doesn't watch them. I'm no obsessed cos-play going, lyrics copying u½v, but I find a lot of enjoyment in the more light-hearted and comedic shows.
Also, don't assume that the only people who watch such shows are obsessed freaks. The manga and anime businesses are quite large. Besides, would you prefer their live-action sci-fi shows? Blech.
so posting as "Valdrax" removes your anonymity? if you want to stand up for you comments, what is your real name and where do you live?
Point. At least I have some history and some karmic responsibility for my posts, though. I'll take any negative karma that comes my way, but I seriously doubt any will, except as a result of continued off-topic replies like this.
However, I have no desire to open my e-mail account, or my life as a whole, to the pranks of trolls, script-kiddies, and general jerks. This anonymous screenname provides me with all the liability I need to have within the Slashdot community without exposing me to attacks beyond it, and I'll stick by my right to do so. ACs aren't even willing to take that much responsibility for their actions, and I have no sympathy for them.
I stand up for my comments in the context that they are made in. I attach my screenname, but I will give people like you no further option of recourse. The only reason someone would need to contact me beyond these message boards is for personal retribution against imagined offenses. Forget that. God forbid what would happen to someone like "Signal 11" if he gave out personal info.
I thought I just did voice my opinion and without being such a lamer as to resort to heavy profanity. Of course, I wouldn't expect someone who has to post anonymously to understand.
BTW, here's a nickel. Get a shift key.
Oh, but watching anime is part of the geek stereotype so /. must cater to it, promote it, and make as much money as they can from it. Hypocrites.
As a computer geek and an anime fan, I must say that there is a great amount of truth to the stereotype. In fact, I'd go so far as to classify 90% of the members of my college's anime club as geeks. I haven't been paying to much attention to the "Star Wars," "Lord of the Rings," and "D&D" movie discussion threads because they don't interest me enough to post, but has there been as much bitch about the existence of the topics there? I don't think there has been.
By the way, what's with this "making money" and "hypocrites" nonsense? I haven't seen a single ad banner for anime yet.
Yes, moderate me down. Get on with it.
I never will understand why people enjoy posting to articles just to annoy the people who care about the topic. If you know you're likely to be moderated down, why post? Go elsewhere and try contributing to a discussion for once.
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I'm not just the President of my local anime club, I'm also a client.
Unfortunately, now that Slashdot has added the much-requested Anime category, they feel they have free-reign to post a lot more of it ("hey, if they don't like it, they can always turn it off").
Like I predicted, however, no one is turning it off. Instead, they're continuing to lower the signal-to-noise ratio of these discussions by bitching at the existance of the articles. Getting a new topic does nothing, just like getting a new topic didn't really reduce the flames on the Katz articles for a long time.
The problem with that is that CmdrTaco has gone on record as saying he tries for 15-20 stories a day. If Anime is using up some of those slots, then we are seeing fewer "normal" news for nerds stories, and personally I think Anime has enough fan sites for the hardcore fans.
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Yeah, it's a shame. I could be missing something I care about like more phony Mac rumors or the latest never-ending distributed.net crypto contest. After all there aren't too many hardcore sites specializing in that. Maybe I'd be missing the latest development in the DeCSS and Napster cases. I mean, they're not covered by other sites.
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Get over yourself. Just because there are other hardcore sites that cover this info doesn't mean it doesn't belong here. I like to think of Slashdot as one-stop shopping for all the news I care about, and that includes anime, as it does for other people.
After all, anime beats hoaxes like the SETI@Home Accelerator card.
I really think Anime has very limited geek appeal.
I think you don't know a damn thing about the hobby if you don't think it's got geek appeal. Go to a convention some time and try not to find a geek. The only way to do so is to stay outside the building on the opposite side from the parking lot and close your eyes, singing "la! la! la! la! no geek appeal here!" Even then, a geek might accidentally stumble onto you and ask what's wrong with you.
Anime is as much a geek hobby as RPGs and FPSs. Just because it doesn't directly relate to computers, doesn't mean it isn't "News for Nerds."
A lot of nerds really like anime, so this is "News for Nerds." Personally, I don't give a rat's ass about crypto, Jon Katz's views, or the latest super-sized hard drive, but you don't see me bitching to get those pulled from the site.
Get over it.
Okay, in Japan, it seems to be a semi-common thing for series to be reinvented every now and then. "Bubblegum Crash," the original "Bubblegum Crisis," and "BGC 2040" are all seperate universes based on the same theme -- of the Knight Sabers crusading against the rogue Boomers of the Genom corporation. While they share the same characters, the plot lines are different, and the looks, attitudes, and motivations of the characters are different.
You can also see this in the original "Tenchi Muyo" OVA, the two TV series, and the 3 movies. All of these can be argued to happen in seperate universes, due to changes from slight inconsistencies to radical reinventions. Similarly, the first El-Hazard OAV series, the second El-Hazard OAV series, and the 2nd TV series can be considered the same universe, while the 1st TV series was a seperate universe in its own right.
This kind of thing happens all the time. Sometimes it's a result of pople going back to make a series more in line with the original manga, like Kia Asamiya's Silent Möbius. Other times it's just a tinkering with the formula like the gorgeous new Sol Bianca OVA. So don't got twisting your brain in a knot trying to figure out how the series all interrelate -- they don't. <grin>
BTW, the original series happened in 2035-2036, I think. However, that doesn't mean the "BGC 2040" is in the same timeline. After all, the characters all look different, they haven't all met each other before the start of the series, and Brian J. Mason is still alive and working for Genom.
Explain something to me. If you don't want to even see the story, why are you posting on it? There are people who would like to discuss this topic without having to filter out the invariably moderated-up posts kvetching about the existance of anime topics.
You don't have to read this if you don't want to, so why are you bothering with it? Why don't you try respecting other people's interest in the subject and move on to whatever you consider to be a "good story."
You see, in Japan, "direct to video" != "sucks on toast" like in America. A lot of the best anime was made as short OVAs, like the original "Tenchi Muyo," "Oh My Goddess!" and the aforementioned "Bubblegum Crisis" series. The rental market is really big in Japan.
Try watching or reading the news before complaining. The judge has issued a preliminary injunction against Napster until the case is resolved. They will be shutting down Friday. Notice the time in the quoted article -- 2:00 was when the hearing was. They may have not yet updated their MOTD, but the injunction has been made.
Turn on CNN's Headline News if you have it.
Why should owning previous aging non-digital media grant you the right to perfect copies of new, cleaner media? I mean, that's like expecting Ford to give you a new car for free because you bought one 6 years ago.
Personally, I consider the distributed.net contest to be a giant waste of time, and I don't even get a good screen saver out of it, but you don't see me wading into an RC5 thread and trolling, do you? If you're not interested, don't read it.