Well, if you remember Elite 2, it had tons of unique planets and solar system. I remember reading that to generate them, only two integers were used:) So, even if you put more data, procedural approaches could reduce the size of polygons. Ian Carmack? never heard of him. I know of John Carmack though
Yup, there are many other kinds, the ones you find in bioethics comity, the ones you find in retirement houses, and so on.... So many fossils, so little time to find them all.
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I have one at home. And well, let's say i don't use it for email. Again, i suspect that since you focus on the email part you haven't really looked at the flash animation which while midly annoying, shows some very nice potential. While I appreciate the services it can give (weather, traffic, time, stock, messaging through songs, etc......), i am far more excited by the API they plan to make available at some point. So far, they have published a small API not that great, but which allow you to do something with your bunny. As soon as i can program my bunny, i will appreciate it even more:) There are some nice possibilities with this. I can already imagine adding a service for the open source game i am developping, like help we are being attacked on the bunny, if you have one. On their website they are also asking for new ideas. So, instead of talking about an email notified, go watch the animation and try to use your imagination on how you could program that thing.
I think you failed to see the point. I don't see having Ubuntu or Gentoo as being two different platforms. I have clearly in mind Windows. I am basically using the same application that i am using in Linux on Windows, except for games of course and a few very specific tools. I use GAIM (gtk based), Xchat (gtk based too), Open Office, Eclipse and so on... The point is that if you really want, you can get tools that works on all the major environment out there. Actually, you don't necessarily have to wait for your distro to get something, you can compile it yourself and install it. I remember doing just that for an old gnome beta for 1.0.... In the end, you have to wait for Microsoft too and others companies to provide their own flavor of the program. It is an argument that doesn't carry much weight if you think about it. After all, when you are using a distro, you are using a service. Now, if you don't like the service (like not enough bleeding edge), you can always go for a distro like Debian Unstable or Gentoo. Plus most of the time, what they are offering is an easy way to install and to make sure that it won't crash stupidly, it is part of the service that the distro is offering.
As a previous poster pointed out, we have been told again and again, that Linux has been on the path of destruction. While I am a c++ fan, i don't see the advantage of a C++ gui API. Furthermore, while it may seem huge to you, we only have two main GUI API on linux. They are even mostly crossplatform now. Plus you know that by choosing either one of them it will run on your linux box, as both GTK and QT are installed. As for the media framework, i guess you haven't been following it very well, but to my knowledge, we can say we have three major one on Linux: Mplayer, Xine and finally my favorite GStreamer. While initially Gstreamer was Gnome, it is one becoming a major player (pun almost intented) in KDE. Amarok uses it quite well. Furthermore, they have from what i understand an almost functionnal version for Windows, making it crossplatform too. Choice doesn't create chaos. What creates chaos is when you are stupid to make a good choice, and that you are gloating that your choice is valid because you picked it. Choice push to competition. Plus, i would prefer choice, than a single road finishing with a wall at the end. I don't really if Linux beats Windows, or the reverse, as long as I have the choice to work on a consistent platform Linux or Windows. It all adds up to what is better for you.
Wise? well why not? It just shows that either RIAA thinks they can make the best of the worst right now or that they don't expect P2P to disappear. It is just a matter of proportion. Sue enough people, and many will be scared enough to buy tracks online. After all, you can buy a fake cd easily. It is just a matter of balance, shift the balance enough towards the legal download and you are back in business, while still being able to profit from the data of illicit p2P networks. Plus if you have read the article, Big champagne tries to track also legal downloads. But, i suspect it has more to do about offering a complete service about online music.
I am amazed nobody pointed out that we don't know about health risk with RFID. They are not inherently dangerous, but the tag has a propension to move. We don't know if the tag ability to move is not going to cause some problems in the body. While the distance is not that great, it can have some effects. Anyway, I have no intention to get tagged. The advantages are not offsetting the drawbacks and potential abuses of the system.
Because AMD is already contributing to GCC. As one poster previously noted, if gcc had quick support of AMD64, it was because AMD helped to port GCC to their processor. Furthermore, it takes a lot of ressources to create a good optimized compiler, so AMD strategy to help GCC is a very good and vald one.
To answer 2 briefly, no a fission reactor won't produce nuclear waste. The point is that you are fusing deuterium and tritium together. The problem about fusion is about to initiate fusion and to keep it going. The current way of initiating fusion is to start a fission reaction which would produce the energy necessary to initiate fusion. In the end, you end up having your reactor being radioactive as a side effect of how you started the fusion. However, new methods are being experimented like using high energy laser and compressed elements. Those methods don't produce any radioactivity. Radioactivity isn't bad in itself, you actually encounter it every day, and please don't go live in some place where you can find natural emission of Argon or in mountains.
For 3, wind, solar, see power are all alternatives. They should be researched in parallels of fusion, if fusion works it will be producing energy in a very clean fashion and in a concentrated space. A lot of people are complaining about wind power because it is ugly and noisy.
For 4, if no one had any fantasies, we wouldn't be so "advanced" (irony).
Furthermore, since you said you work in wind power, maybe you should stop mixing your belief with possible practical public policy. And don't forget, if you don't do research, you don't find anything.
Well, the faultlne is a false problem. If i remember well, the number of earthquake in Japan is way higher than in that area of France. I think the last "major" earthquake in that area was due to that explosion in one factory.
French people complain all the time. Don't forget that going on strike is a French hobby. But regarding hypocrisy, i see any country better here:) It is -I think- called politics and on how to get what you want.
Just a clarification, not just France threatened but the entire European Union. Plus, the japanese got a very nice deal out of thise, sure they are not hosting the reactor but look at the advantages they earned. I don't see Japan as really a loser her.
I am really amazed to read that kind of comments from the poster. We are humanizing those animals so in the end, they can be used as spare parts. In the end, they will get killed. Apart from Animal Rights Activists (whom i respect), why John or Jane Doe should care. We killed (murdered for some people) an incredible high numbers of animal everyday to feed ourselves.
And then the desert, the part about transplating sheep brains in a humain to replace a non functional brain. Unless we made some serious progress in moving "ghosts" (cf "ghost in the shell"), i can't see why this might be considered. A human brain is the result of learning through multiple years, i don't see how we can mimick those physiological reactions, those chemical reactions to create a new functional brain with all the knowledge and personnality of the old one. Not to mention that a brain is very plastic by definition and that it will learn to handle a sheep body. Animal have different level of consciouness and intelligence than us. But they are intelligent beings; hopefully, if such an advance feature was to exist one day, it will create a species less stupid than the humans.
While i find your argument interesting, i would like to point out that France might look as an exception to what you just said. There is no more state religion, and the dominance of the catholic isn't that great. The latest number i have seen is 46% of the french being areligious (agnostic or atheist). The rest are catholic, the truth being that most of them don't go to church, they are catholic because their parents were catholic.
Well Neutral is only useful in automatic shift. European cars mostly use the manual shift. Plus, the problem was that the electronic system was blocking everything. Using the handbrake at speed of 200Km/h isn't going to be very useful.
Well think about the beginning of the human flight. Did people think that some men could have succeeded at all ? I think you are reasoning on what you know and you can see further than what is already existing. Maybe, this will be the future way of flying. I can't tell, but never discard ideas that might look funny at first. Again, i am no rocket scientist (pun intended) and i can't tell whether this will work or not.
More and more people thinks that high technology is much more efficient to win a war. I don't think it is necessarily true. On the contrary, i think that low tech can be much more lethal because of their simplicity. High technology requires people to be trained and efficient, while low tech can be done nearly by everyone, increasing the deadliness and the frequency of those attacks. Again, don't underestimate the use of high technology devices as a simple low tech weapon. For instance, dropping a PC on someone can be deadly:)
Well, I am not exactly answering your question but, i managed to get my Radeon 9500 Pro to work with my Nvidia NForce 2 chipset with 3D Accel. The 9500 Pro is very similar to the 9800 Pro. I use Gentoo, a 2.6.6 kernel, Xorg-X11, and ATI-Drivers 3.9. I know a few people will disagree on using proprietary drivers but again, i have 3D accel working. I am not using any of the Nvidia proprietary drivers to run my system and it is working perfectly well.
Well, pessimism is a very nice value. but again if you really want to be pessimist, you should think about suicide right now.
1 Yes it looks like a right place to dive and jump. Doesn't it occur to you that people might have thought about it when designing a bridge.
2 Hitting a pylon with a plane is harder to hit a tower. Now regarding a bomb, i am pretty sure that when there will be terrorists alerts it will be one of the first place to be checked. Not to sound too optimistic, but i think we got some lessons from what happened 9/11
3 ah my favorite. Comparing the Maginot line to this bridge is really a clueless comment. The Maginot line was a military line that was supposed to stop the germans from invading. It was really stupid and useless. Had the germans attacked that way, they would have been stopped. But, again in general world armies are not reputed to be smart. This bridge was built to remove the bottleneck at Millau. I can tell you from having taken that road that Millau is really hell, pollution, getting stuck, and so on. There are some economical reasons behind this bridge as you can save from 1 to 2 hours on your trip by taking it. And as you probably know, time is money. Plus replace the bridge in the context of the highway being built crossing the Massif Central.Overall, it will allow when completed to shave several hours of trip to go south of France, and cataluna for example. The whole thing makes economical sense:)
Now Murphy says that there is a disaster in the waiting:)
Don't confuse education and intelligence. There are lot of people who are extremely good at their job, while they don't have the education for this job. Some people can't afford to study a long time, and well, sometimes, you have to make choices for many reasons and dropping school while you could continue, is not necessarily easy to explain. It is difficult to say this person is dumb because he has only a BA. Again don't confuse education and intelligence. But again, neither education nor intelligence is preventing people from having no ethic:)
Well, while i agree with most of the point made, there are simple steps to prevent worms. At my parent's home, there is a Linux box doing NAT, so, in the box, the windows box on the local network are protected from any worms. They end up having enough time to download all the necessary patches from Windows Update. Recently, I reinstalled my windows XP. But before reformatting, the first thing i did was to burn a firewall like zone alarm. I then install my box without being connected the internet, and proceed to install the firewall. It is only then that i download the patches. Else, it would be just plain nightmare.
Well, talking about buying american products is not something completely accurate. Do I buy an american products when i buy IBM or Coca cola ? The answer is far from simple when you think about it. Don't forget that for examples Coca Cola exports very little. They use local factories to produce the soft drink. Same thing for IBM, they have factories all over Europe. So when you buy an american product, you are not just giving money to the US, but also to those european countries who host those factories. Nothing is as simple as black and white.
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More details can be found here. More people are needed to help map Haiti. Help on destroyed building would actually be extremely helpful
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Haiti
Well, if you remember Elite 2, it had tons of unique planets and solar system. I remember reading that to generate them, only two integers were used :)
So, even if you put more data, procedural approaches could reduce the size of polygons.
Ian Carmack? never heard of him. I know of John Carmack though
Yup, there are many other kinds, the ones you find in bioethics comity, the ones you find in retirement houses, and so on.... So many fossils, so little time to find them all.
I have one at home. And well, let's say i don't use it for email. Again, i suspect that since you focus on the email part you haven't really looked at the flash animation which while midly annoying, shows some very nice potential. :) There are some nice possibilities with this. I can already imagine adding a service for the open source game i am developping, like help we are being attacked on the bunny, if you have one.
While I appreciate the services it can give (weather, traffic, time, stock, messaging through songs, etc......), i am far more excited by the API they plan to make available at some point. So far, they have published a small API not that great, but which allow you to do something with your bunny.
As soon as i can program my bunny, i will appreciate it even more
On their website they are also asking for new ideas. So, instead of talking about an email notified, go watch the animation and try to use your imagination on how you could program that thing.
I think you failed to see the point. I don't see having Ubuntu or Gentoo as being two different platforms.
I have clearly in mind Windows.
I am basically using the same application that i am using in Linux on Windows, except for games of course and a few very specific tools.
I use GAIM (gtk based), Xchat (gtk based too), Open Office, Eclipse and so on...
The point is that if you really want, you can get tools that works on all the major environment out there.
Actually, you don't necessarily have to wait for your distro to get something, you can compile it yourself and install it. I remember doing just that for an old gnome beta for 1.0.... In the end, you have to wait for Microsoft too and others companies to provide their own flavor of the program.
It is an argument that doesn't carry much weight if you think about it. After all, when you are using a distro, you are using a service. Now, if you don't like the service (like not enough bleeding edge), you can always go for a distro like Debian Unstable or Gentoo. Plus most of the time, what they are offering is an easy way to install and to make sure that it won't crash stupidly, it is part of the service that the distro is offering.
As a previous poster pointed out, we have been told again and again, that Linux has been on the path of destruction.
While I am a c++ fan, i don't see the advantage of a C++ gui API. Furthermore, while it may seem huge to you, we only have two main GUI API on linux. They are even mostly crossplatform now. Plus you know that by choosing either one of them it will run on your linux box, as both GTK and QT are installed.
As for the media framework, i guess you haven't been following it very well, but to my knowledge, we can say we have three major one on Linux: Mplayer, Xine and finally my favorite GStreamer. While initially Gstreamer was Gnome, it is one becoming a major player (pun almost intented) in KDE. Amarok uses it quite well. Furthermore, they have from what i understand an almost functionnal version for Windows, making it crossplatform too.
Choice doesn't create chaos. What creates chaos is when you are stupid to make a good choice, and that you are gloating that your choice is valid because you picked it. Choice push to competition. Plus, i would prefer choice, than a single road finishing with a wall at the end.
I don't really if Linux beats Windows, or the reverse, as long as I have the choice to work on a consistent platform Linux or Windows. It all adds up to what is better for you.
Wise? well why not? It just shows that either RIAA thinks they can make the best of the worst right now or that they don't expect P2P to disappear.
It is just a matter of proportion. Sue enough people, and many will be scared enough to buy tracks online.
After all, you can buy a fake cd easily. It is just a matter of balance, shift the balance enough towards the legal download and you are back in business, while still being able to profit from the data of illicit p2P networks.
Plus if you have read the article, Big champagne tries to track also legal downloads. But, i suspect it has more to do about offering a complete service about online music.
I am amazed nobody pointed out that we don't know about health risk with RFID. They are not inherently dangerous, but the tag has a propension to move.
We don't know if the tag ability to move is not going to cause some problems in the body. While the distance is not that great, it can have some effects.
Anyway, I have no intention to get tagged. The advantages are not offsetting the drawbacks and potential abuses of the system.
Because AMD is already contributing to GCC. As one poster previously noted, if gcc had quick support of AMD64, it was because AMD helped to port GCC to their processor.
Furthermore, it takes a lot of ressources to create a good optimized compiler, so AMD strategy to help GCC is a very good and vald one.
To answer 2 briefly, no a fission reactor won't produce nuclear waste. The point is that you are fusing deuterium and tritium together.
The problem about fusion is about to initiate fusion and to keep it going. The current way of initiating fusion is to start a fission reaction which would produce the energy necessary to initiate fusion.
In the end, you end up having your reactor being radioactive as a side effect of how you started the fusion.
However, new methods are being experimented like using high energy laser and compressed elements. Those methods don't produce any radioactivity.
Radioactivity isn't bad in itself, you actually encounter it every day, and please don't go live in some place where you can find natural emission of Argon or in mountains.
For 3, wind, solar, see power are all alternatives. They should be researched in parallels of fusion, if fusion works it will be producing energy in a very clean fashion and in a concentrated space. A lot of people are complaining about wind power because it is ugly and noisy.
For 4, if no one had any fantasies, we wouldn't be so "advanced" (irony).
Furthermore, since you said you work in wind power, maybe you should stop mixing your belief with possible practical public policy.
And don't forget, if you don't do research, you don't find anything.
Well, the faultlne is a false problem. If i remember well, the number of earthquake in Japan is way higher than in that area of France.
I think the last "major" earthquake in that area was due to that explosion in one factory.
French people complain all the time. Don't forget that going on strike is a French hobby. :) It is -I think- called politics and on how to get what you want.
But regarding hypocrisy, i see any country better here
Just a clarification, not just France threatened but the entire European Union.
Plus, the japanese got a very nice deal out of thise, sure they are not hosting the reactor but look at the advantages they earned. I don't see Japan as really a loser her.
I am really amazed to read that kind of comments from the poster. We are humanizing those animals so in the end, they can be used as spare parts. In the end, they will get killed. Apart from Animal Rights Activists (whom i respect), why John or Jane Doe should care. We killed (murdered for some people) an incredible high numbers of animal everyday to feed ourselves.
And then the desert, the part about transplating sheep brains in a humain to replace a non functional brain. Unless we made some serious progress in moving "ghosts" (cf "ghost in the shell"), i can't see why this might be considered. A human brain is the result of learning through multiple years, i don't see how we can mimick those physiological reactions, those chemical reactions to create a new functional brain with all the knowledge and personnality of the old one. Not to mention that a brain is very plastic by definition and that it will learn to handle a sheep body.
Animal have different level of consciouness and intelligence than us. But they are intelligent beings; hopefully, if such an advance feature was to exist one day, it will create a species less stupid than the humans.
While i find your argument interesting, i would like to point out that France might look as an exception to what you just said. There is no more state religion, and the dominance of the catholic isn't that great.
The latest number i have seen is 46% of the french being areligious (agnostic or atheist). The rest are catholic, the truth being that most of them don't go to church, they are catholic because their parents were catholic.
Actually if you want to be accurate, saturday is Friday Reloaded and Sunday Friday Extended Edition Director's cut !
Well Neutral is only useful in automatic shift. European cars mostly use the manual shift. Plus, the problem was that the electronic system was blocking everything.
Using the handbrake at speed of 200Km/h isn't going to be very useful.
Well think about the beginning of the human flight. Did people think that some men could have succeeded at all ?
I think you are reasoning on what you know and you can see further than what is already existing. Maybe, this will be the future way of flying. I can't tell, but never discard ideas that might look funny at first.
Again, i am no rocket scientist (pun intended) and i can't tell whether this will work or not.
Pelops
More and more people thinks that high technology is much more efficient to win a war. I don't think it is necessarily true. :)
On the contrary, i think that low tech can be much more lethal because of their simplicity. High technology requires people to be trained and efficient, while low tech can be done nearly by everyone, increasing the deadliness and the frequency of those attacks.
Again, don't underestimate the use of high technology devices as a simple low tech weapon. For instance, dropping a PC on someone can be deadly
Pelops
You could go check on the gentoo database application to see if there is any AMD64 flag
Well, I am not exactly answering your question but, i managed to get my Radeon 9500 Pro to work with my Nvidia NForce 2 chipset with 3D Accel.
The 9500 Pro is very similar to the 9800 Pro.
I use Gentoo, a 2.6.6 kernel, Xorg-X11, and ATI-Drivers 3.9. I know a few people will disagree on using proprietary drivers but again, i have 3D accel working.
I am not using any of the Nvidia proprietary drivers to run my system and it is working perfectly well.
Well, pessimism is a very nice value. but again if you really want to be pessimist, you should think about suicide right now.
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1 Yes it looks like a right place to dive and jump. Doesn't it occur to you that people might have thought about it when designing a bridge.
2 Hitting a pylon with a plane is harder to hit a tower. Now regarding a bomb, i am pretty sure that when there will be terrorists alerts it will be one of the first place to be checked. Not to sound too optimistic, but i think we got some lessons from what happened 9/11
3 ah my favorite. Comparing the Maginot line to this bridge is really a clueless comment. The Maginot line was a military line that was supposed to stop the germans from invading. It was really stupid and useless. Had the germans attacked that way, they would have been stopped. But, again in general world armies are not reputed to be smart.
This bridge was built to remove the bottleneck at Millau. I can tell you from having taken that road that Millau is really hell, pollution, getting stuck, and so on. There are some economical reasons behind this bridge as you can save from 1 to 2 hours on your trip by taking it. And as you probably know, time is money. Plus replace the bridge in the context of the highway being built crossing the Massif Central.Overall, it will allow when completed to shave several hours of trip to go south of France, and cataluna for example. The whole thing makes economical sense
Now Murphy says that there is a disaster in the waiting
Don't confuse education and intelligence. There are lot of people who are extremely good at their job, while they don't have the education for this job. Some people can't afford to study a long time, and well, sometimes, you have to make choices for many reasons and dropping school while you could continue, is not necessarily easy to explain. It is difficult to say this person is dumb because he has only a BA. :)
Again don't confuse education and intelligence. But again, neither education nor intelligence is preventing people from having no ethic
Well, while i agree with most of the point made, there are simple steps to prevent worms.
At my parent's home, there is a Linux box doing NAT, so, in the box, the windows box on the local network are protected from any worms. They end up having enough time to download all the necessary patches from Windows Update.
Recently, I reinstalled my windows XP. But before reformatting, the first thing i did was to burn a firewall like zone alarm. I then install my box without being connected the internet, and proceed to install the firewall. It is only then that i download the patches.
Else, it would be just plain nightmare.
Well, talking about buying american products is not something completely accurate.
Do I buy an american products when i buy IBM or Coca cola ? The answer is far from simple when you think about it.
Don't forget that for examples Coca Cola exports very little. They use local factories to produce the soft drink. Same thing for IBM, they have factories all over Europe.
So when you buy an american product, you are not just giving money to the US, but also to those european countries who host those factories.
Nothing is as simple as black and white.