But let's get back to the magic '256'. I could hardly believe my ears when I was finally told what the '256' stands for. NVIDIA adds the 32-bit deep color, the 24-bit deep Z-buffer and the 8-bit stencil buffer of each rendering pipeline and multiplies it with 4, for each pipeline, which indeed ads up to 256. So far about the fantasy of marketing people, they are a very special breed indeed.
Guess what the second Icelandic TV station was named. Go on, guess!
"Channel 2"
The next time somebody started another channel, they had a public naming competition. Guess who won the big prize. Yeah, you guessed it: the guy who suggested
It's not necessary for Bill to be unhappy about the measures taken in order for them to be effective. It's possible that a solution exists that makes everyone happy in the long run.
Hey, I make a living creating software. I'm not against the concept of government sponsored protection of innovative things to reward the innovator and encourage further innovation. I dream of getting a great idea, implementing it, selling it with precisely that protection, and becoming filthy stinking rich. (Who here doesn't?)
However, this particular "technology" isn't worth protection. It's not innovative. It's obvious.
The next thing you know, somebody's going to patent putting the checkout counters in a department store near the exit. --
Hmm. Are you saying your Netscape back button take you to the right place on the page you're returning to? Always? If so, I'd like to know precisely what version you're using because I'm tired of the open-in-new-window style I've had to adopt to get around this annoying and long-standing bug. --
Try this: Use the KP_[8456] for moving, KP_[123] with a three state modifier to switch weapons ("best weapon" aliases may be handy sometimes, but why limit yourself like that when you can pick precisely the weapon you want?). KP_DEL and KP_ENTER are for crouching and jumping, the mouse looks, Mouse1 fires and the remaining mouse buttons can be the weapon switching modifiers and FOV control.
Yes, that's right, I'm actually talking about the LEFT hand on the keypad, the RIGHT one on the mouse (I know sliding the keyboard a foot to the left is hard idea to come up with for some people).
Neither hand needs to leave its station at any time for aim, motion, weapon selection or FOV control. That's the way I like it and if any of you W A S D punks have a problem with that, I'd be happy to sort it out on a Q3A or Q2 server. --
...when a someone who would take that into effect when selecting an OS for an important server has any part in selecting an OS for an important server. --
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It's the wrong place to ask about things that aren't really PERL-specific, such as CGI programming and sockets. --
What do you need so many keys for?
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What on earth are you doing, moving your hand off the keypad? --
I'd like to hear if other slashdotters agree with the following opinion of mine:
"Troll" should be removed from the moderation system.
Usually when a moderation makes me mad, it's a "troll" where one person has spoken an unpopular opinion and the only way you can know if they are sincere or trolling is by mindreading. I tend to assume they're sincere. Others often assume the opposite. Some of them are moderators. Usually the only people caught in the troll are moderators! (resulting in a large thread of "Moderator on crack!" posts)
This is one particular area where the moderation system does more harm than good, I think. --
A VMware VM is like a bare-bones box with one well supported NIC, one no frills video card and one soundblaster. I'm guessing W2K would run just as well on a real box that had only those components.
Then again, there could be something I'm not thinking of. --
Hmm. It appears your cursor was in the wrong window when you started your typing exercise. You should look at the screen instead of the keyboard to prevent such mixups. --
OpenBSD has a reputation for being very secure. Is that due to kernel design, or more to the way the whole distribution and its packages are configured on top of that?
Perhaps someone actually *in* the OpenBSD community can explain further, but I understand that thorough security audits are what this reputation is based on. --
I want DVD-quality MPEG2 over IP, damnit! (Yes, I know the occasional lucky bastard should be able to get 8 Meg downloads over ADSL but generally, 1.5 is all you get)
Will MPEG4 come to the rescue or will another line type? --
Unfortunately what you say is true. What I'm wondering is whether the same ISP will later turn around and use the common carrier argument when somebody sues them over their users' content.
I'm also wondering if there's an ISP out there that can guarantee me they won't respond to such suggestions from authorities. And where can I buy software instead of licensing it under terms that include "EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, INCLUDING THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE"?
I'd love to wake up smiling--full of the joys of spring And hear on CNN that Elvis lives again And that John's back with the Beatles and they're goin' out on tour I'll be the first in line for tickets--gotta see that show for sure
(The blockquoted part is not my IP, it's from a Shania Twain song) --
I'm not a US citizen and am not very familiar with the rules governing the operation of organisations such as the NSA, but I would not have thought that other people's patents mattered to the NSA. I find it highly improbable that the NSA would let a patent stop it from using whatever technology it desired without licensing it from the patent holder. I also find it highly improbable that anyone could fault them for it. I even find it rather improbable that anyone who would sue them for patent infringement would ever learn that they were infringing on his patent. They are the national security agency after all.
Am I wrong?
If not, and the NSA doesn't need patents to protect its right to use the techgnology, then the question stands (slightly altered): Why does the NSA care about other people patenting their technology? --
My gut feeling estimate is that to be "believable" a machine of this design would have to have a diameter of about ten meters. Big and expensive, but perhaps doable.
We trust our eyes better than the inner ears. It's only when we're deprived of visual input that we begin to consider the signals from our built-in accelerometers.
An interesting experiment was performed once. I read this when I was a kid and I can't find anything about it on the web so I can't guarantee its correctness, but the experiment went like this:
People were made to sit down on a chair (more like a bar stool really) in what appeared to be an ordinary room. Then the lights went out and, over a fairly long period, the whole room was tilted abut 45 degrees along the person's front-back axis. When the lights came on, they saw the strange attitute of the wall relatve to themselves, and quickly adjusted their attitude to compensate. Hopefully no-one was injured.
I've also read about people using light to paint an artificial horizon on the walls of ships in order to combat seasickness. In searching for references to that on the web, I came across the artificial-horizon glassess (patent pending), which do the same thing in a different way.
What this tells us is that you're probably wrong about having to accomodate the inner ear in a system like this in order to make it believable. It also tells us you may be right about the nausea thing. --
Sanity was specifically talking about install scripts. He showed a solid understanding of the UNIX security model and the behaviour of UNIX/Linux users.
I cannot read Sanity's mind and cannot tell you his intentions. However, everything he said is true and the attack he envisions possible, plausible and devastating. --
I think it's very sad that this post was marked down as flamebait. I'm using my this messsage, with my +1 bonus to bring attention to it. Please click the parent link of this message if your threshold is 1 or higher. --
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"Channel 2"
The next time somebody started another channel, they had a public naming competition. Guess who won the big prize. Yeah, you guessed it: the guy who suggested
"Channel 3"
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Sorry, I'm feeling optimistic today.
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Hopefully, one day, not all PowerPC's will be Macs.
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However, this particular "technology" isn't worth protection. It's not innovative. It's obvious.
The next thing you know, somebody's going to patent putting the checkout counters in a department store near the exit.
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Hmm. Are you saying your Netscape back button take you to the right place on the page you're returning to? Always? If so, I'd like to know precisely what version you're using because I'm tired of the open-in-new-window style I've had to adopt to get around this annoying and long-standing bug.
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Try this: Use the KP_[8456] for moving, KP_[123] with a three state modifier to switch weapons ("best weapon" aliases may be handy sometimes, but why limit yourself like that when you can pick precisely the weapon you want?). KP_DEL and KP_ENTER are for crouching and jumping, the mouse looks, Mouse1 fires and the remaining mouse buttons can be the weapon switching modifiers and FOV control.
Yes, that's right, I'm actually talking about the LEFT hand on the keypad, the RIGHT one on the mouse (I know sliding the keyboard a foot to the left is hard idea to come up with for some people).
Neither hand needs to leave its station at any time for aim, motion, weapon selection or FOV control. That's the way I like it and if any of you W A S D punks have a problem with that, I'd be happy to sort it out on a Q3A or Q2 server.
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...when a someone who would take that into effect when selecting an OS for an important server has any part in selecting an OS for an important server.
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It's the wrong place to ask about things that aren't really PERL-specific, such as CGI programming and sockets.
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What on earth are you doing, moving your hand off the keypad?
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Possibly, a permanent messageboard about Slashdot would serve to reduce the clutter in the news section.
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Well, I was always pretty sure there were no external forces acting on the universe :-)
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What's the least expensive you've found?
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It wasn't intended as a troll. Works pretty well as one, though.
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Unless you're some kind of an Überhacker, you don't need a DVD-RW to hold six hours of programming. Clueless journalists!
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"Troll" should be removed from the moderation system.
Usually when a moderation makes me mad, it's a "troll" where one person has spoken an unpopular opinion and the only way you can know if they are sincere or trolling is by mindreading. I tend to assume they're sincere. Others often assume the opposite. Some of them are moderators. Usually the only people caught in the troll are moderators! (resulting in a large thread of "Moderator on crack!" posts)
This is one particular area where the moderation system does more harm than good, I think.
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Then again, there could be something I'm not thinking of.
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Hmm. It appears your cursor was in the wrong window when you started your typing exercise. You should look at the screen instead of the keyboard to prevent such mixups.
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Will MPEG4 come to the rescue or will another line type?
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I'm also wondering if there's an ISP out there that can guarantee me they won't respond to such suggestions from authorities. And where can I buy software instead of licensing it under terms that include "EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, INCLUDING THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE"?
(The blockquoted part is not my IP, it's from a Shania Twain song)--
Am I wrong?
If not, and the NSA doesn't need patents to protect its right to use the techgnology, then the question stands (slightly altered): Why does the NSA care about other people patenting their technology?
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An interesting experiment was performed once. I read this when I was a kid and I can't find anything about it on the web so I can't guarantee its correctness, but the experiment went like this:
People were made to sit down on a chair (more like a bar stool really) in what appeared to be an ordinary room. Then the lights went out and, over a fairly long period, the whole room was tilted abut 45 degrees along the person's front-back axis. When the lights came on, they saw the strange attitute of the wall relatve to themselves, and quickly adjusted their attitude to compensate. Hopefully no-one was injured.
I've also read about people using light to paint an artificial horizon on the walls of ships in order to combat seasickness. In searching for references to that on the web, I came across the artificial-horizon glassess (patent pending), which do the same thing in a different way.
What this tells us is that you're probably wrong about having to accomodate the inner ear in a system like this in order to make it believable. It also tells us you may be right about the nausea thing.
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I cannot read Sanity's mind and cannot tell you his intentions. However, everything he said is true and the attack he envisions possible, plausible and devastating.
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I think it's very sad that this post was marked down as flamebait. I'm using my this messsage, with my +1 bonus to bring attention to it. Please click the parent link of this message if your threshold is 1 or higher.
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