Are you the guy who moderated me down "offtopic" on the announcement of Linux 2.3.48, where I posted a question about a compilation problem I had with it?
3D rendering is an easily parallelisable process. I remember, early Voodoo cards could use 2 Voodoo chips, one would render even lines, the other odd scan lines. There are a few bottlenecks to parallelisation, and mostly it's the texture access, but with cheap memory you should be able to cache that.
And how does it compare to the Voodoo5? It's announced on 3DFX's website but I don't remember seeing any review yet. Anyone knows the status of this baby?
Thank you very much for the multiple MySQL server trick. I've never thought of this, and that's a really useful hack. I'm probably going to use this soon -- in a simplified way: my current MySQL server is currently busy just computing stats and reports, thus slowing the whole process while it could easily be deported to another server. Coool! Thanks A LOT! You've saved me hours of coding on this one. Question: how exactly do you connect the update log to the other database? I can think of several ways.
Indeed. I read the correction and felt defrauded. I trusted the OpenBSD guys bc I knew they were doing a great work... now this is just plain lame. Damn. I have to apologize for what I said earlier.
Having worked for years in the web development industry, I can tell you really simply why sites are like this. It's because clients are DUMB! That's right. If you show them a usable site, they won't actually use it themselves, it's their clients who will use it. They don't understand usability. However, they DO understand big flashy 3D Flash Java sound applets! Especially when the demo site is loaded on a laptop's harddrive which can achieve a megabit/s throughput...
Sure, you could educate the bozos. I've tried to do that in technical meetings. They just look at you funny and eventually they buy the competitor's Java-bloated project. Duh.
Earlier today, Odell Barnes, was killed by the criminal state of Texas, despite the fact that several evidences showed his innocence and the unfairness of his trial.
GW Bush refused to delay the execution despite the intervention of the Pope, the French Prime minister and many others. Great president you're going to have, american people.
Moderate me down if you think this is off-topic, the shame has to be known.
Ever since I started using free software (5 years ago?), I've seen people on the net starting apparently impossible projects. You say to yourself, naah, they'll never make it. FYI: I thought that when I heard about The Gimp for the first time. Imagine my surprise when I installed the RPM 2 years later. I thought that when I heard about WorldForge last year on slashdot. I thought that about opencores -- they have a working chip now. I thought that about Freedows -- hey, they failed.
Overall, you've gotta respect people with grandiose ideas. They are the ones who achieve the greatest things. Or may not. One thing is sure, if you're not slightly megalomaniac, you can't do it, or even understand it.
Yeah, you know what: I expected it to be moderated down. Isn't that crazy? Now I guess that tells you what slashdot is all about: mental masturbation about free software, but not actually working on it.
If this ever works out, just like every patented technology,... is that a commercially viable system to exploit this will be extremely complex, and will probably involved dozens of other patented techniques. The involved companies will enter into licensing agreements, etc... plus it's never going to be the end-all be-all energy source; it will have to compete with fossil fuel and nuclear energy, so they won't be able to force an astronomical price on it.
"The Oil Industry" does'nt mean much. If you're thinking about the likes of Exxon, Total, or Royal Dutch Shell, they're on a heavily competitive market, and they don't own the raw material. They make money off extracting it, transforming it and distributing it, but they BUY the raw material, which belongs to the country where it's extracted. If you want to find a conspirator against it, you'd rather look at OPEP.
The OPEC and oil companies have very VERY different interests. For instance, it's the interest of the OPEC that the production be limited, so as to drive their oil stock to a higher value. Oil companies, OTOH, benefit from a large amount of oil being consumed.
Then, the energy is extremely competitive. There are dozens of HUGE companies competing. If one of them can find a cheap alternative, it will give them a competitive advantage.
You are the paranoid one sir, Afraid of the Fundies asking for a historical document like the Ten Commandments which promote basic rules for civilized behavior to NOT BE BANNED from school walls.
Thou shalt not kill.
BTW, who are the strongest supporters of the death penalty, which has been abandoned by ALL western "christian" nations BUT the USA, if not the fundies?
And then... I'm polyamorous. What do the 10 commandment have to say on that?
The first porn magazines I ever saw, I found them in the garbage dump. I was throwing stuff away, and found a pile of old Playboy magazines. Shared that with my friends.
Then Canal Plus, a subscription TV network, has been airing hard core porn once a month since its creation, in 1984 (I was 11 at that time). Either a rich kid taped it when the parents were not looking, or stole the cassette from his father (eh, eh). And all the hacker kids had built their own descrambling device.
Then you could buy them at the store anyway. I would'nt do it because I was too shy, but nobody would have said anything anyway.
That's France, though. Not many people give much of a fuck about nudity, except a few nazis and fundys, and some feminists. Never heard of any filtering software debate around here. There's just that big 'pedophilia on the net' meme. That's about it.
When the religious fundys start that kind of ramblings, they get quickly whacked by the "laic" majority, which ranges from the left to a fair part of the right wing. There is a strong antireligious underground in the political scene here. In particular, the Free Masons, to which belong a large number of politicians, are mostly agnostics, unlike any other such groups in the world.
The problem here, in theory, and according to my limited knowledge of constitutional law, is that there isn't much in the constitution preventing a law infriging on freedom of speech to be passed. In practice, though, it's unlikely to happen (I can think of exceptions which beyond the scope of this post and of the topic at hand).
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Are you the guy who moderated me down "offtopic" on the announcement of Linux 2.3.48, where I posted a question about a compilation problem I had with it?
3D rendering is an easily parallelisable process. I remember, early Voodoo cards could use 2 Voodoo chips, one would render even lines, the other odd scan lines. There are a few bottlenecks to parallelisation, and mostly it's the texture access, but with cheap memory you should be able to cache that.
And how does it compare to the Voodoo5? It's announced on 3DFX's website but I don't remember seeing any review yet. Anyone knows the status of this baby?
Thank you very much for the multiple MySQL server trick. I've never thought of this, and that's a really useful hack. I'm probably going to use this soon -- in a simplified way: my current MySQL server is currently busy just computing stats and reports, thus slowing the whole process while it could easily be deported to another server. Coool! Thanks A LOT! You've saved me hours of coding on this one. Question: how exactly do you connect the update log to the other database? I can think of several ways.
Indeed. I read the correction and felt defrauded. I trusted the OpenBSD guys bc I knew they were doing a great work ... now this is just plain lame. Damn. I have to apologize for what I said earlier.
The press release says the switch will operate by producing bubbles, like in inkjet printers?? Duh???
He does'nt need this domain. He just registered it after OpenSSH was released. It's just lame.
Having worked for years in the web development industry, I can tell you really simply why sites are like this. It's because clients are DUMB! That's right. If you show them a usable site, they won't actually use it themselves, it's their clients who will use it. They don't understand usability. However, they DO understand big flashy 3D Flash Java sound applets! Especially when the demo site is loaded on a laptop's harddrive which can achieve a megabit/s throughput ...
Sure, you could educate the bozos. I've tried to do that in technical meetings. They just look at you funny and eventually they buy the competitor's Java-bloated project. Duh.
GW Bush is seen as the most likely future president, isn't he? And that's exactly what I meant.
Earlier today, Odell Barnes, was killed by the criminal state of Texas, despite the fact that several evidences showed his innocence and the unfairness of his trial.
GW Bush refused to delay the execution despite the intervention of the Pope, the French Prime minister and many others. Great president you're going to have, american people.
Moderate me down if you think this is off-topic, the shame has to be known.
Do you have a picture of it? That'd be nice.
Ever since I started using free software (5 years ago?), I've seen people on the net starting apparently impossible projects. You say to yourself, naah, they'll never make it. FYI: I thought that when I heard about The Gimp for the first time. Imagine my surprise when I installed the RPM 2 years later. I thought that when I heard about WorldForge last year on slashdot. I thought that about opencores -- they have a working chip now. I thought that about Freedows -- hey, they failed.
Overall, you've gotta respect people with grandiose ideas. They are the ones who achieve the greatest things. Or may not. One thing is sure, if you're not slightly megalomaniac, you can't do it, or even understand it.
... that is very obvious and necessary in your opinion, but is hardly ever or has never been implemented, or is implemented poorly?
And what's the biggest sin you see in most applications?
Of course I patched it to 2.3.47 first ... the patch applied cleanly. Thank you for assuming my stupidity ...
Yeah, you know what: I expected it to be moderated down. Isn't that crazy? Now I guess that tells you what slashdot is all about: mental masturbation about free software, but not actually working on it.
I pasted the wrong line. It failed with
In file included from ac97_codec.c:31:n ux/ac97_codec.h:135: parse error before `u16'
/home/nico/src/linux/include/li
... and dozens of lines of error.
I'm sorry to interrupt your troll fest, and I guess I'll be moderated down for not mentioning grits or statues, but ..
The compile of 2.3.48 fails with ac97_codec.c:103: warning: `mixer_defaults' defined but not used
I patched it up from 2.3.46. Any idea what if could be? I don't want to bother the l-k list if it's a trivial problem.
If this ever works out, just like every patented technology, ... is that a commercially viable system to exploit this will be extremely complex, and will probably involved dozens of other patented techniques. The involved companies will enter into licensing agreements, etc ... plus it's never going to be the end-all be-all energy source; it will have to compete with fossil fuel and nuclear energy, so they won't be able to force an astronomical price on it.
And americans could start by driving smaller cars, that would save a good billion liters of oil a year.
"The Oil Industry" does'nt mean much. If you're thinking about the likes of Exxon, Total, or Royal Dutch Shell, they're on a heavily competitive market, and they don't own the raw material. They make money off extracting it, transforming it and distributing it, but they BUY the raw material, which belongs to the country where it's extracted. If you want to find a conspirator against it, you'd rather look at OPEP.
The OPEC and oil companies have very VERY different interests. For instance, it's the interest of the OPEC that the production be limited, so as to drive their oil stock to a higher value. Oil companies, OTOH, benefit from a large amount of oil being consumed.
Then, the energy is extremely competitive. There are dozens of HUGE companies competing. If one of them can find a cheap alternative, it will give them a competitive advantage.
Storage problems are being addressed, and it's been shown that hydrogen does not easily explode.
You are the paranoid one sir, Afraid of the Fundies asking for a historical document like the Ten Commandments which promote basic rules for civilized behavior to NOT BE BANNED from school walls.
Thou shalt not kill.
BTW, who are the strongest supporters of the death penalty, which has been abandoned by ALL western "christian" nations BUT the USA, if not the fundies?
And then ... I'm polyamorous. What do the 10 commandment have to say on that?
The first porn magazines I ever saw, I found them in the garbage dump. I was throwing stuff away, and found a pile of old Playboy magazines. Shared that with my friends.
Then Canal Plus, a subscription TV network, has been airing hard core porn once a month since its creation, in 1984 (I was 11 at that time). Either a rich kid taped it when the parents were not looking, or stole the cassette from his father (eh, eh). And all the hacker kids had built their own descrambling device.
Then you could buy them at the store anyway. I would'nt do it because I was too shy, but nobody would have said anything anyway.
That's France, though. Not many people give much of a fuck about nudity, except a few nazis and fundys, and some feminists. Never heard of any filtering software debate around here. There's just that big 'pedophilia on the net' meme. That's about it.
When the religious fundys start that kind of ramblings, they get quickly whacked by the "laic" majority, which ranges from the left to a fair part of the right wing. There is a strong antireligious underground in the political scene here. In particular, the Free Masons, to which belong a large number of politicians, are mostly agnostics, unlike any other such groups in the world.
The problem here, in theory, and according to my limited knowledge of constitutional law, is that there isn't much in the constitution preventing a law infriging on freedom of speech to be passed. In practice, though, it's unlikely to happen (I can think of exceptions which beyond the scope of this post and of the topic at hand).
It's a bit hard to swallow.