It is pretty hard fact that cigarettes and booze are evil as far as health is concerned. However, porn is evil only as much as ideology / morality flags it as evil.
Personally, I would legalise all kinds of drugs, however the advertising should remain limited.
And yes, call me funny, but I just love to pull my stick and can't possibly see how porn could be evil.
The Radio Data System has been around for ages and it allows precisely that: transmitting extra information with normal radio signals... Because it works by putting digital signal into inaudibile frequency, it should do exactly the same, as long as speakers have any response at 20-40Khz.
The sun compiler suite comes with dmake, which does the same on the level of make, rather than cc, but is essentially the same. Definitelly would make beowulf clusters interesting for compilation as well as hard core numerics (no joke intendend).
What does one have to do to modify an XBox to run stuff like this?
Pretty much any working mod chip would do. The only thing you need is to run unsigned applications. This CD is a live linux distribution that boots Linux on Xbox and starts the game executable... Pretty cool!
At my department, it is other way round. There is special document on XP that goes:
Windows XP is beginning to appear on new machines, and is also being
installed on some old systems within the Laboratory. There are some
security issues with Windows XP that are not obvious to inexperienced
users, and there is a Lab policy at present that any Windows XP machine
MUST be installed/configured by someone with a high degree of experience
if it is to be used on the network. For the * Group, we have agreed
with the C* IT-Dept that all Windows XP systems will be installed
or checked by one of us to make sure that the known problems are being
dealt with.
So much about objectivity of various security issues...
Don't use Fortran 90. It's as messy a language as C++, with the significant disadvantage that it has a much smaller user base.
Not only this, it has two more disadvantages:
a) The compilers are unbeliveably crash and bad. And I've tried both Sun and SGI f95 compilers... Sucessfully segfaulted them both within a few days of using them... Funnily enough NAG f95 compiler for linux seems to be quite stable.
b) No GNU f90/f95 compiler. They are making it, but it is not there, yet, and it won't be for a good few years
c) Surprisingly hard to interoperate with f77 or C, becaused modules get funnly pre/suffixes all over the place...
I used to hate fortran, but once you get used to type twice the amount of code you need it's actually quite usefull... It's internal rules allows it to paralelise much better. It has well tested implementations of linear algebra (matrices and crap). Two biggest drawbacks are: a) lack of dynamic memory allocation --- plain shit, nothing you can do about, b) everything is passed by reference - no recursion whatsoever, c) shit i/o handling...
Well, it is good to drink, but espresso is essentially an italian drink and in italy even 8 ounces is a big drink --- the entire point of real espresso is that it is literally tens or so drops of cofee.
I am living in Cambridge (uk, it's already quite bad here) now and I got used to supervise people in coffe shops when they are making my macchiato... It works, but you really need to stand behind them and poke them at the right moment...
Jim and many of his writers are advocates of this kind of promotion, dismissing talk about piracy as paranoia.
Well, regardless of how much I hate DMCA and similar crap, the point is that the book costs a few dollars and it is much nicer to read from a paper form, while a copy an important piece of software costs hundereds and is equally useful, regardless of whether you have the original or a copy.
My point is that book writers can only boost their sales by giving free electronic copies away, while software companies not neccessarily so.
You can really optimize your code to work on low-end machines with a reasonable fps, but this recquire a lot of trickery, precomputing everything, and making difficult design decision what fits where. A good example of such design is Crystal Space
On the other hand, you can keep your code very simple, which makes it easibly extensible and wait for one year if you want to make it work on low-end machines.
How many Americans do you know who have starved to death? Any?
Well, no offence, but when I was born in what used to be a communist country, I couldn't see a *single* homeless / begging person. I still very vividly remember visiting italy at the age of 10 and asking mum what is that person doing sitting on the pavement and trying to tell us something.
Now I live in UK, economically fairly succesful country and there are shitloads of very young homeless beggars.
...American tax money that could have produced amazing feats of exploration was instead delivered foreign dictators who...
Give me a break! Surely, this money was occasionally misused, but considering how much much space exploration costs, we could as well feed some poor people, first.
And then he goes onto property, owning a land on Mars; that is simply sickening, do we really have to carry on capitalism in space? There is so much fucking space there we really should find a better solution.
WineX cannot in principle achieve the performance of windows under directX, simply beacuse every direct X call must be translated into one or many open-gl calls (instead of being processed directly by the driver)
It would be interesting to add direct-x functionality in the existing NVidia drivers (altough unlikely)
Surely, a company that provides vital services for so many businesses has a lot of customers (by virtue of providing vital services to many businesses). So how can they go banckrupt?
Can't they just raise prices if they cannot operate at the current levels? If their services are vital, people will pay (or switch to another carrier, but this is another matter)
(ok, i don't understand economy very well, but could someone please explain it?)
UK had these cameras for years now. Funnily enough, they mostly don't have any film inside and just scare you by flashing at you.
I've been told that, if you can prove, that it has been positioned where it would bring the country a lot of money, but wouldn't save lives, you can get rid of it
There are many ways around it. You can simply wrap your number plates in shiny plastic, so the flash would bounce off them, or you can buy more sophisticad devices that flash back at the camera.
Well, at least you can try accessing them and for the first time enjoy seeing your little mozilla / earth / N spinning indefinitelly.
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Well, rebooting is MUCH more that just recovering the memory content!!
We could easily dump the memory contents onto the hard drive straigh away and we are not doing it (except in laptops, but even there it doesn't always work) This is because rebooting reinitializes various devices and takes care of the time jump (i.e. crons, anacrons, etc). The more complicated your system is the less likely it is that you are going to survive without booting.
Also, computers are now 1000 times faster than 10 years ago and they take much more time to boot (DOS did it in seconds on 286).
No, don't! Plenty of scams are based on selling faithfully and nicelly tens of 1$ items so that everyone belives you when you try to sell a 1000$ item.
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Cigarettes and booze are evil; porn is not.
It is pretty hard fact that cigarettes and booze are evil as far as health is concerned. However, porn is evil only as much as ideology / morality flags it as evil.
Personally, I would legalise all kinds of drugs, however the advertising should remain limited.
And yes, call me funny, but I just love to pull my stick and can't possibly see how porn could be evil.
The Radio Data System has been around for ages and it allows precisely that: transmitting extra information with normal radio signals... Because it works by putting digital signal into inaudibile frequency, it should do exactly the same, as long as speakers have any response at 20-40Khz.
Yes, their performance server is so good and fast that it has been slashdotted withing minutes of posting the artice...
The sun compiler suite comes with dmake, which does the same on the level of make, rather than cc, but is essentially the same.
Definitelly would make beowulf clusters interesting for compilation as well as hard core numerics (no joke intendend).
What does one have to do to modify an XBox to run stuff like this?
Pretty much any working mod chip would do. The only thing you need is to run unsigned applications. This CD is a live linux distribution that boots Linux on Xbox and starts the game executable... Pretty cool!
So much about objectivity of various security issues...
Not only this, it has two more disadvantages:
a) The compilers are unbeliveably crash and bad. And I've tried both Sun and SGI f95 compilers... Sucessfully segfaulted them both within a few days of using them... Funnily enough NAG f95 compiler for linux seems to be quite stable.
b) No GNU f90/f95 compiler. They are making it, but it is not there, yet, and it won't be for a good few years
c) Surprisingly hard to interoperate with f77 or C, becaused modules get funnly pre/suffixes all over the place...
I used to hate fortran, but once you get used to type twice the amount of code you need it's actually quite usefull... It's internal rules allows it to paralelise much better. It has well tested implementations of linear algebra (matrices and crap). Two biggest drawbacks are: a) lack of dynamic memory allocation --- plain shit, nothing you can do about, b) everything is passed by reference - no recursion whatsoever, c) shit i/o handling...
Well, it is good to drink, but espresso is essentially an italian drink and in italy even 8 ounces is a big drink --- the entire point of real espresso is that it is literally tens or so drops of cofee.
I am living in Cambridge (uk, it's already quite bad here) now and I got used to supervise people in coffe shops when they are making my macchiato... It works, but you really need to stand behind them and poke them at the right moment...
Well, regardless of how much I hate DMCA and similar crap, the point is that the book costs a few dollars and it is much nicer to read from a paper form, while a copy an important piece of software costs hundereds and is equally useful, regardless of whether you have the original or a copy.
My point is that book writers can only boost their sales by giving free electronic copies away, while software companies not neccessarily so.
Yes, but what I am missing is some combination of the two. I want to be able to type
cat picture.jpg
and i want my shell to display that picture for me (in the shell window, just scrolling down).
This idea could be expanded vastly!
Well, it can be advantageous.
You can really optimize your code to work on low-end machines with a reasonable fps, but this recquire a lot of trickery, precomputing everything, and making difficult design decision what fits where. A good example of such design is Crystal Space
On the other hand, you can keep your code very simple, which makes it easibly extensible and wait for one year if you want to make it work on low-end machines.
does exactly this (for free)
Well, just a comparable Geforce 4 costs about that amount of money....
And belive me, they are doing it for fun, not economy.
Well, the problem is that they can always hack their client to do whatever they want. They can lie about their hashes.
If you lived in UK, the places are
CCL computers - not much choice, but very cheap and sell reliable stuff
dabs - shit loads of choice, occasionally slightly more expensive than ccl, but don't charge post on large orders.
quiet pc - the only UK store to make your pc silent. quite expensive
There are plenty other ones, but I haven't never found a better offer.
How many Americans do you know who have starved to death? Any?
Well, no offence, but when I was born in what used to be a communist country, I couldn't see a *single* homeless / begging person. I still very vividly remember visiting italy at the age of 10 and asking mum what is that person doing sitting on the pavement and trying to tell us something.
Now I live in UK, economically fairly succesful country and there are shitloads of very young homeless beggars.
...American tax money that could have produced amazing feats of exploration was instead delivered foreign dictators who...
Give me a break! Surely, this money was occasionally misused, but considering how much much space exploration costs, we could as well feed some poor people, first.
And then he goes onto property, owning a land on Mars; that is simply sickening, do we really have to carry on capitalism in space? There is so much fucking space there we really should find a better solution.
WineX cannot in principle achieve the performance of windows under directX, simply beacuse every direct X call must be translated into one or many open-gl calls (instead of being processed directly by the driver)
It would be interesting to add direct-x functionality in the existing NVidia drivers (altough unlikely)
Surely, a company that provides vital services for so many businesses has a lot of customers (by virtue of providing vital services to many businesses). So how can they go banckrupt?
Can't they just raise prices if they cannot operate at the current levels? If their services are vital, people will pay (or switch to another carrier, but this is another matter)
(ok, i don't understand economy very well, but could someone please explain it?)
UK had these cameras for years now. Funnily enough, they mostly don't have any film inside and just scare you by flashing at you.
I've been told that, if you can prove, that it has been positioned where it would bring the country a lot of money, but wouldn't save lives, you can get rid of it
There are many ways around it. You can simply wrap your number plates in shiny plastic, so the flash would bounce off them, or you can buy more sophisticad devices that flash back at the camera.
Well, at least you can try accessing them and for the first time enjoy seeing your little mozilla / earth / N spinning indefinitelly.
Well, rebooting is MUCH more that just recovering the memory content!!
We could easily dump the memory contents onto the hard drive straigh away and we are not doing it (except in laptops, but even there it doesn't always work) This is because rebooting reinitializes various devices and takes care of the time jump (i.e. crons, anacrons, etc). The more complicated your system is the less likely it is that you are going to survive without booting.
Also, computers are now 1000 times faster than 10 years ago and they take much more time to boot (DOS did it in seconds on 286).
No, don't! Plenty of scams are based on selling faithfully and nicelly tens of 1$ items so that everyone belives you when you try to sell a 1000$ item.
Shit, how ugly CowboyNeal is!
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