C'mon, now, you think us geeks have ever actually been on a football field to know how large it is? We need this measured in something useful -- like, libraries of congress.
"We're trying to make things move in 3D, in a limited environment--that's the challenge."
Good god, could there POSSIBLY be ANY better candidate for this than old demoscene programmers that built 3D raytrace engines from scratch in assembly on 386/33 boxen that ran at 30fps?! That was the first thought that popped into my mind, at least. I imagine that these are probably much more powerful than a 386 anyway. Find some of the old (school|skool) demosceners and set them to work. I bet they'd create some really impressive stuff.
Blech, are you kidding me? Those are the most crash-prone, underpowered, bastardized pieces of crap I've ever had the misfortune of trying to use. From the nearly INFINITE security holes, of which very little was done to fix (the "security hardening" that was supposed to be occurring was a crock of shit), the fact that you simply CAN'T upgrade ANYTHING without breaking it -- wanna get a new version of Perl? TOUGH! IT BREAKS THE FRONTEND! Wanna update that buggy version of PHP? TOO BAD! YOU NEED THESE 500,000,000 DEPENDENCIES THAT WE DIDN'T BOTHER TO PUT ON THE MACHINE! Ugh. Ugh ugh. Not to mention the fact that it's built on Red Hat 6.2, which is how old now..? I mean sure, it's good if you can upgrade things, but with a RaQ, you can't unless Sun releases a special PKG file.
Also, don't forget what happened to 3.5" diskettes when you got the tiniest bit of anything in them. "What? You want the data WHERE? *grinding noise* Error reading data Abort, Retry, Fail?"
Just because there are pictures of POWs on CNN.COM doesn't mean that non-US media companies don't spread less propaganda. As the article also stated, if you had bothered to READ it, is that in the EU and in other Arab nations there are many films of Iraqi civilians that are severly injured as result of the bombings but such films get very little to no airtime here in the United States.
Having those International stations on Digital Cables pays off sometimes.
Sierra is publishing now, not developing, although supposedly their development division was sold and is still in operation by Codemasters. They pretty much got kicked out of their old office in the Sierra foothills... lots of stuff was left behind, including, most likely, source to a lot of their old games, which sucks since many of them run too fast on modern processors. Of course, there are some developing utilities to play them at 'normal' speed, and in some cases with improved graphics. DOSBox, your general purpose DOS game machine. Sarien, for Sierra games using the AGI interpreter, and FreeSCI, for Sierra games using the SCI interpreter. Needless to say, all of these utilities are far from complete.
The irony in this is that the original original mouse (the first prototype) actually had several buttons, IIRC. There was an article on/. linking to video on the demonstration a few months/years ago (time kinda blurs together when it's/.time)... anyone feel like digging up a link?
Eh? I have a TV-WONDER PCI, which isn't exactly an All-in-Wonder, by any means, but I have the MMC7.1 and it allows me to capture to AVI (HuffYUV, although the codec preferences button is always suspiciously broken -- one of the reasons you can't use many codecs with it) on-the-fly, so I'm not quite sure what you're talking about that you can only capture MPEG or RAW YUV.
Please, PLEASE, for the love of $DIETY, put this stuff on CD! First of all, it seems to me that learning is accomplished better with moving graphical aids.. and also, I being a junior in highschool have a bag weighing over 27kg! Give me a fucking laptop with some preloaded software! All of the campuses of our school have wireless hubs EVERYWHERE -- there's no reason to avoid the obvious technological advantage! (But then again why would the board of trustees want to CHANGE anything?...don't mind me. I've got a lot of beefs with my school.
My hope is that AMD is smart enough to realise that once they gain that position they're only holding it by a slim margin or small slip-up. Bad idea to piss off your clientelle.
Curiously, how much would it cost to implement an insanely large L1 cache? Like, 8MB? There's an awful lot of vacant real estate on AMD's CPUs that I think could be used to make some rediculously fast memory.
Not to mention that since Intel has decided to NOT provide reverse-compatibility that AMD is going to start total pwnage in the consumer chipset market.
The whole idea behind x86-64 is that it is compatible with the x86 instruction set -- 32-bit processors. I'll assume they just mean that it was compiled/coded specifically FOR a 64-bit platform, since that would be the LOGICAL conclusion. (Since this is/. though, I figured I'd post this anyway.)
I see lots of links to HDTV cards for over-the-air broadcasts, but how about an HDTV (or even just DTV) card that can display and record digital cable?? I got a Hauppauge WinTV-HD -- the only HDTV card at the time -- and I met with nothing but endless tragedy (including the inability to even tune into the local FOX syndicate without a BSOD). Eventually I sent the $400 piece of crap back. Fine me one!:P
The security would have had to have been REALLY weak for an inexperienced cracker to get in, and somehow I'm doubting that was the case, so... how exactly are they planning on catching the person (or more likely, group) that did this?
Don't you mean propaganda? That is pretty much all television spews these days. "Buy duct tape and plastic and tape all your vents shut in case of a devestating biological attack... but don't panic! By all means, we don't mean to make you PANIC! Why would you PANIC? Just because there's going to be an ANTHRAX attack doesn't mean you should PANIC!"
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"We're trying to make things move in 3D, in a limited environment--that's the challenge."
Good god, could there POSSIBLY be ANY better candidate for this than old demoscene programmers that built 3D raytrace engines from scratch in assembly on 386/33 boxen that ran at 30fps?! That was the first thought that popped into my mind, at least. I imagine that these are probably much more powerful than a 386 anyway. Find some of the old (school|skool) demosceners and set them to work. I bet they'd create some really impressive stuff.
Maybe they don't want you to use them, but there they are. Updated hourly, I think. Some anonymous, some not.
I dunno if I'd want that, there would be an awful lot of shit to clean up...
Blech, are you kidding me? Those are the most crash-prone, underpowered, bastardized pieces of crap I've ever had the misfortune of trying to use. From the nearly INFINITE security holes, of which very little was done to fix (the "security hardening" that was supposed to be occurring was a crock of shit), the fact that you simply CAN'T upgrade ANYTHING without breaking it -- wanna get a new version of Perl? TOUGH! IT BREAKS THE FRONTEND! Wanna update that buggy version of PHP? TOO BAD! YOU NEED THESE 500,000,000 DEPENDENCIES THAT WE DIDN'T BOTHER TO PUT ON THE MACHINE! Ugh. Ugh ugh. Not to mention the fact that it's built on Red Hat 6.2, which is how old now..? I mean sure, it's good if you can upgrade things, but with a RaQ, you can't unless Sun releases a special PKG file.
Also, don't forget what happened to 3.5" diskettes when you got the tiniest bit of anything in them. "What? You want the data WHERE? *grinding noise* Error reading data
Abort, Retry, Fail?"
Just because there are pictures of POWs on CNN.COM doesn't mean that non-US media companies don't spread less propaganda. As the article also stated, if you had bothered to READ it, is that in the EU and in other Arab nations there are many films of Iraqi civilians that are severly injured as result of the bombings but such films get very little to no airtime here in the United States.
Having those International stations on Digital Cables pays off sometimes.
Sierra is publishing now, not developing, although supposedly their development division was sold and is still in operation by Codemasters. They pretty much got kicked out of their old office in the Sierra foothills... lots of stuff was left behind, including, most likely, source to a lot of their old games, which sucks since many of them run too fast on modern processors. Of course, there are some developing utilities to play them at 'normal' speed, and in some cases with improved graphics.
DOSBox, your general purpose DOS game machine.
Sarien, for Sierra games using the AGI interpreter, and
FreeSCI, for Sierra games using the SCI interpreter.
Needless to say, all of these utilities are far from complete.
Anyway, there you go.
The irony in this is that the original original mouse (the first prototype) actually had several buttons, IIRC. There was an article on /. linking to video on the demonstration a few months/years ago (time kinda blurs together when it's /.time)... anyone feel like digging up a link?
this is hilarious. at least, I *hope* the AC was trying to poke fun at patriotism in this country.
Eh? I have a TV-WONDER PCI, which isn't exactly an All-in-Wonder, by any means, but I have the MMC7.1 and it allows me to capture to AVI (HuffYUV, although the codec preferences button is always suspiciously broken -- one of the reasons you can't use many codecs with it) on-the-fly, so I'm not quite sure what you're talking about that you can only capture MPEG or RAW YUV.
Please, PLEASE, for the love of $DIETY, put this stuff on CD! First of all, it seems to me that learning is accomplished better with moving graphical aids.. and also, I being a junior in highschool have a bag weighing over 27kg! Give me a fucking laptop with some preloaded software! All of the campuses of our school have wireless hubs EVERYWHERE -- there's no reason to avoid the obvious technological advantage! (But then again why would the board of trustees want to CHANGE anything? ...don't mind me. I've got a lot of beefs with my school.
Where the hell are you getting YOUR conversion rates? The current rate is ~$1.56 per £1. That's $17,171,085.77.
Just hope that this technology doesn't allow the government to access this kind of data or you'll be in lots of trouble with the IRS.
Just program the route into onboard memory. Calculate for changes in speed, and you're done.
Not white what DARPA wants though, I'm certain.
My hope is that AMD is smart enough to realise that once they gain that position they're only holding it by a slim margin or small slip-up. Bad idea to piss off your clientelle.
Curiously, how much would it cost to implement an insanely large L1 cache? Like, 8MB? There's an awful lot of vacant real estate on AMD's CPUs that I think could be used to make some rediculously fast memory.
Not to mention that since Intel has decided to NOT provide reverse-compatibility that AMD is going to start total pwnage in the consumer chipset market.
Hah, my bad. But, I'm hoping people get the gist.
The whole idea behind x86-64 is that it is compatible with the x86 instruction set -- 32-bit processors. I'll assume they just mean that it was compiled/coded specifically FOR a 64-bit platform, since that would be the LOGICAL conclusion. (Since this is /. though, I figured I'd post this anyway.)
From http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/m_mm/mr_content.html:
"WMAP has determined, within the limits of instrument error, that the universe is flat."
Hmm...
Honestly, I've often thought that the Universe was in a donut shape. However, the question still remains: what the hell's outside of it?
I was going to include this in the story, except that the Freeloader stuff is riddled with ads and is rather stripped down.
I see lots of links to HDTV cards for over-the-air broadcasts, but how about an HDTV (or even just DTV) card that can display and record digital cable?? I got a Hauppauge WinTV-HD -- the only HDTV card at the time -- and I met with nothing but endless tragedy (including the inability to even tune into the local FOX syndicate without a BSOD). Eventually I sent the $400 piece of crap back. Fine me one! :P
The security would have had to have been REALLY weak for an inexperienced cracker to get in, and somehow I'm doubting that was the case, so... how exactly are they planning on catching the person (or more likely, group) that did this?
Don't you mean propaganda? That is pretty much all television spews these days. "Buy duct tape and plastic and tape all your vents shut in case of a devestating biological attack... but don't panic! By all means, we don't mean to make you PANIC! Why would you PANIC? Just because there's going to be an ANTHRAX attack doesn't mean you should PANIC!"