You say that every frame must be read out from main memory. This is true if the shared memory system has 0 memory (caching issues aside), but don't shared memeory systems have at least a single buffer to store at least the last frame? I mean, how much can 3 Meg of RAM cost these days (i.e. 1024 x 728 @ 32 bit)?
I would imagine that the shared memory part comes into play when you have a lot of clipping. But then again if you're buying a shared memory system, I guess the minor advanage of 3 Meg RAM isn't really important to you anyway so why bother making the card more expensive.
Look at it like this, it's just one more reason for embedded developers to switch over to BSD or linux. Assuming you get a Open Source kernel free of any FAT drivers, not only are you saving ~100 in licensing fees for the OS, but also a lump sum of 250k in other 'fees'. This will only help accelerate linux/BSD acceptence in the embedded space and create mor ejobs for us.
(I include BSD because, although it is dying, includes the best licensing terms for businesses)
Can someone explain to me how this isn't like shooting yourself in the foot? Isn't the intent to harm a server with a client-injected script? I keep reading it and it seems like the point is to harm a client with a script submitted by a client - that is - yourself???
It is our information that there are irregularities," said Christopher T. Craig, attorney for the Republicans...."It's about voter integrity," he said.
A republican complaining about voter integrity. Chalk up one more horsemen for the apocolypse...
Two years? In general you should double the estimated time-to-release for IT products.
A colleague of mine once imparted to me some knowledge that was imparted to him from a wise-old research director. Your're on the right track but the time-tested estimate approach is: 'multiply the expected amount of time-to-release by two and take it into the next dimension'
If something is planned to take a day, it will really take 2 weeks.
Therefore an IT project that is expected to take 2 years will really take 4 decades; Longhorn == Windows 2043
Given that your most powerful asset for finding a better job is your contact network, here's why you would want to use this:
Say you meet someone you think can help your career and you exchange business cards (say, oh, i don't know, the CEO of Media Lab Europe). When you get back to the office, maybe you enter his data into your PIM, maybe you don't. In either case the contact loop ends there (more or less).
Now lets say you have Plaxo. Now you have a mechansim that not only keeps you up to date on his contact info (e.g. when he changes jobs), but also puts your info on his radar. When you enter his data into your contacts and he has Plaxo too, you essentially have a 'push' mechanism for getting you info into his contact list.
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I remember it like it was yesterday, er, that is, because it was today.
PHB called me into his office and starts getting down on me for using Hungarian notation in my Java code. One of the guys on team had complained to him about it (that same gimp that always insists on prefixing every java instance variable with a 'this.' suffix). My boss of course, the typical PHB, blows the entire thing way out of preportion starts lecturing me about being culurally sensative (you see, my PHB is ACTUALLY Hungarian). But at this point I still think its about my coding style and hadn't realized that there was any misunderstanding. Figuring since we are wrapping up the Java-based project anyway and will soon be moving to an MFC-specific client-side app I say something to the effect of "Serge, slow down, if you don't like my style I can switch over to reverse polish if Hungarian isn't good enough for you". Well, at this point, he just lost his shit. He starts screaming at me thowing his arms left and right like a George Kostanza 'Koko The Monkey' imitation, screaming in some half-english, half-hungarian mish-mosh. At this point, I notice that people in the office have stopped working and just staring at us (the cubicle space is wide open and his office is against one of the walls with one of those big glass windows.) Then, I notice my buddy Higgins in the back laughing his ass off in the corner behind my boss. At the exact second I see my buddy, I realized my boss's confusion and just totally lost it. I just couldn't help it. I started laughing so hard I was in tears and I had to violently fight the urge to start rolling around the floor in laughter. Needless to say, the 'crazy Hungarian' (one of his many nicknames) was not impressed. He ordered me out of his office, so I just shook my head and laughed it off back to my desk, took an early lunch and didn't come back.
It will be interesting to see what happens tommorow. Worst case scenario, I've got my consulting side-line to hold me over until something better shows up. I also just finished burning a CD with the last dev version that has all sorts of GPL-infringing code. We'll see who has the last laugh in this one, which I guess is me already anyway...
find ms's position confusing. it really is pretty awful technology
yeah, like DCOM. what a joke. It drives me crazy that when I select files on a remote win machine that I have to wait for DCOM overhead to complete before I can copy the selected files to another directory. It drives me absolutly batty! If I have the remote file names, i should be able to paste without being forced to cruise slashdot to pass the time.
Democrat (n): Some one who thinks you are too stupid to make decisions for your self, so the government should make them for you by taxing the living shite out of everyone and creating a vast gigantic pig such that Americans will need to suckle at the teat in order to survive.
Nice thought, but let's recap some of the programs/actions endoursed by the President that is supposedly against big gov'ment:
Dept. Homeland Securtiy - A HUGE addition to both goverment power and bloat.
No Child Left Behind - A program that PAYS parents (with your tax money) to join the PTA.
Supports Sen. Rick Santorium, the guy who thinks its OK for the goverment to regulate what people do in their own bedroom.
$5 billion bailout and $10 billion loan for airlines via the Air Transportation Safety and System Stabilization Act.
Yeah, its the democrats (read Liberals) that are all about increasing big government...
People who try to inject God's will into the US government are most often arrogant, naive, and ignorant Christians who think their rules are superior to any others (again violating the First Amendment).
Yeah, and they are the same morons that organize events like this one
I guess I have to raise my hand. I did played Sims Online the last two days becuase I got a free 2 week trial from PCGamer magazine. Man, is that the LAMEST game ever. By the end of the first hour I had resigned myself to going from house to house asking people what I have to do to win.
It also appeares that others agree with me because there never really seem to be very many people online at any one time.
One things for sure tho, I WOULD BE PISSED, if I had paid retail for that game.
The difference with this standard and bard code is that bar codes only encode a product type: A Can of B&M Baked Beans
This new standard will provide additional address space for Supply Chain type data: Can of #80000000000 of B&M baked beans from plant #54232 crossing over distribution centers #2345345 and #4534556
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4.) Search "" tag, the line reads something like that: ABCDEF01
ABCDEF01? Thats the same combination I have on my luggage!
All the way down ...to what?
To the back of another turtle...Wash, rinse, repeat.
You say that every frame must be read out from main memory. This is true if the shared memory system has 0 memory (caching issues aside), but don't shared memeory systems have at least a single buffer to store at least the last frame? I mean, how much can 3 Meg of RAM cost these days (i.e. 1024 x 728 @ 32 bit)?
I would imagine that the shared memory part comes into play when you have a lot of clipping. But then again if you're buying a shared memory system, I guess the minor advanage of 3 Meg RAM isn't really important to you anyway so why bother making the card more expensive.
Becuase in Norway, "if at first you don't succeed, try, try again" ;)
Look at it like this, it's just one more reason for embedded developers to switch over to BSD or linux. Assuming you get a Open Source kernel free of any FAT drivers, not only are you saving ~100 in licensing fees for the OS, but also a lump sum of 250k in other 'fees'. This will only help accelerate linux/BSD acceptence in the embedded space and create mor ejobs for us.
(I include BSD because, although it is dying, includes the best licensing terms for businesses)
3 words for you: Heisenberg Uncertainty Priciple
Can someone explain to me how this isn't like shooting yourself in the foot? Isn't the intent to harm a server with a client-injected script? I keep reading it and it seems like the point is to harm a client with a script submitted by a client - that is - yourself???
It is our information that there are irregularities," said Christopher T. Craig, attorney for the Republicans...."It's about voter integrity," he said.
A republican complaining about voter integrity. Chalk up one more horsemen for the apocolypse...
Two years? In general you should double the estimated time-to-release for IT products.
A colleague of mine once imparted to me some knowledge that was imparted to him from a wise-old research director. Your're on the right track but the time-tested estimate approach is: 'multiply the expected amount of time-to-release by two and take it into the next dimension'
If something is planned to take a day, it will really take 2 weeks.
Therefore an IT project that is expected to take 2 years will really take 4 decades; Longhorn == Windows 2043
Q.E.D.
"It's called Napster because Sean stole it from me while I was sleeping"
Given that your most powerful asset for finding a better job is your contact network, here's why you would want to use this:
Say you meet someone you think can help your career and you exchange business cards (say, oh, i don't know, the CEO of Media Lab Europe). When you get back to the office, maybe you enter his data into your PIM, maybe you don't. In either case the contact loop ends there (more or less).
Now lets say you have Plaxo. Now you have a mechansim that not only keeps you up to date on his contact info (e.g. when he changes jobs), but also puts your info on his radar. When you enter his data into your contacts and he has Plaxo too, you essentially have a 'push' mechanism for getting you info into his contact list.
Yeah, let's hold their internet hostage till the bastards do as we say... And if that doesn't work, let's bomb the idiots!
Or equally as silly, let's stop buying French cheese and wine; And, above all, stop buying French's mustard!
Got you beat bro.
I remember it like it was yesterday, er, that is, because it was today.
PHB called me into his office and starts getting down on me for using Hungarian notation in my Java code. One of the guys on team had complained to him about it (that same gimp that always insists on prefixing every java instance variable with a 'this.' suffix). My boss of course, the typical PHB, blows the entire thing way out of preportion starts lecturing me about being culurally sensative (you see, my PHB is ACTUALLY Hungarian). But at this point I still think its about my coding style and hadn't realized that there was any misunderstanding. Figuring since we are wrapping up the Java-based project anyway and will soon be moving to an MFC-specific client-side app I say something to the effect of "Serge, slow down, if you don't like my style I can switch over to reverse polish if Hungarian isn't good enough for you". Well, at this point, he just lost his shit. He starts screaming at me thowing his arms left and right like a George Kostanza 'Koko The Monkey' imitation, screaming in some half-english, half-hungarian mish-mosh. At this point, I notice that people in the office have stopped working and just staring at us (the cubicle space is wide open and his office is against one of the walls with one of those big glass windows.) Then, I notice my buddy Higgins in the back laughing his ass off in the corner behind my boss. At the exact second I see my buddy, I realized my boss's confusion and just totally lost it. I just couldn't help it. I started laughing so hard I was in tears and I had to violently fight the urge to start rolling around the floor in laughter. Needless to say, the 'crazy Hungarian' (one of his many nicknames) was not impressed. He ordered me out of his office, so I just shook my head and laughed it off back to my desk, took an early lunch and didn't come back.
It will be interesting to see what happens tommorow. Worst case scenario, I've got my consulting side-line to hold me over until something better shows up. I also just finished burning a CD with the last dev version that has all sorts of GPL-infringing code. We'll see who has the last laugh in this one, which I guess is me already anyway...
I'm guessing you're not paranoid because you're not married or you don't have a long term girlfriend.
It sounds like the only reason you should be paranoid is if you're married AND have a long-term girlfriend...
find ms's position confusing. it really is pretty awful technology
yeah, like DCOM. what a joke. It drives me crazy that when I select files on a remote win machine that I have to wait for DCOM overhead to complete before I can copy the selected files to another directory. It drives me absolutly batty! If I have the remote file names, i should be able to paste without being forced to cruise slashdot to pass the time.
Assuming a perfect vacuum, naturally
You forgot about the frictionless pond!
Do I need to worry about being charged for man slaughter if i set this up and grandpa's pace maker stops?
>Next on the list of plantiffs -- the Bicycle Playing Card Company.
or better yet, how about bowling. Bowling made 'em do it.
I'm sorry Professor Trip. All that did for me when I was in your class was make me consider an English Degree.
Democrat (n): Some one who thinks you are too stupid to make decisions for your self, so the government should make them for you by taxing the living shite out of everyone and creating a vast gigantic pig such that Americans will need to suckle at the teat in order to survive.
Nice thought, but let's recap some of the programs/actions endoursed by the President that is supposedly against big gov'ment:
Dept. Homeland Securtiy - A HUGE addition to both goverment power and bloat.
No Child Left Behind - A program that PAYS parents (with your tax money) to join the PTA.
Supports Sen. Rick Santorium, the guy who thinks its OK for the goverment to regulate what people do in their own bedroom.
$5 billion bailout and $10 billion loan for airlines via the Air Transportation Safety and System Stabilization Act.
Yeah, its the democrats (read Liberals) that are all about increasing big government...
People who try to inject God's will into the US government are most often arrogant, naive, and ignorant Christians who think their rules are superior to any others (again violating the First Amendment).
Yeah, and they are the same morons that organize events like this one
You don't prohibit freedoms for law abiding citizens because it will be near impossible to prosecute law breakers. It's unamerican.
Enter the PATRIOT Act.....
I guess I have to raise my hand. I did played Sims Online the last two days becuase I got a free 2 week trial from PCGamer magazine. Man, is that the LAMEST game ever. By the end of the first hour I had resigned myself to going from house to house asking people what I have to do to win.
It also appeares that others agree with me because there never really seem to be very many people online at any one time.
One things for sure tho, I WOULD BE PISSED, if I had paid retail for that game.
The difference with this standard and bard code is that bar codes only encode a product type: A Can of B&M Baked Beans
This new standard will provide additional address space for Supply Chain type data: Can of #80000000000 of B&M baked beans from plant #54232 crossing over distribution centers #2345345 and #4534556