'bzflag' portals can be in any direction the level designer wants. They can be vertical (drive into them), horizontal (jump up or down into them), or any angle you like. A 'bzflag' portal is simply a plane equation and a bounding frame. But there is no collision-detection as portal transportation is instantaneous. Having a 'Stargate' tunnel would probably change the dynamics a bit, but maybe it would be just like a secret tunnel.
You can do that with 'bzflag' portals. Take a jump through the portal or with the 'wings' flag. Then you appear at the other end like SG-1 stargate. Spins and backward movement work as well.
The problem with most companies is that their long-term goals will change after several years, which means while you and the company were both going in the same direction when you started, they are now going in a totally different direction than where that sector of the industry as a whole is going (software service companies may want to try a new brand of hardware, try and enter a new non-core market for the perceived profit margins). So you have to change companies, in order to get where you want to go.
In Silicon Valley, it's easy to change jobs - you still keep your rented apartment/bedsit/room, but simply change your commute which can be as simple as changing the Caltrain station stop and shuttle service, or just taking a different off-ramp from the freeway.
"Fish, and plankton, and sea greens, and protein from the sea. It's all here. Ready! Fresh as harvest day!"
Dubai is right on the coast - they just built an island in the shape of a tree from reclaimed land. So they would have no difficulty in growing rice, vegetables or catching fish.
I once tried freezing a complete 2 litre of bottle of water in -20C temperatures. All but a central core of 1.5 inches froze - This gave me a solid ice tube which actually split the bottle itself. There was water in the middle - the pressure from the surrounding ice must have been enough to keep it liquid.
Simple they will just place another warning label beside the warning label: "Danger - sticky sign - the sticky chemicals used to may this sticker sticky may stick to your hands - please wash your hands after handling this sticker."
They don't really have any choice. Scientific visualisation, photorealistic ray-tracing, and supercomputing are both high-profit margin fields for vendors. Intel has to maintain a presence otherwise Nvidia and ATI will just take all their marketshare.
From Intel's viewpoint, GPU's are rapidly becoming like CPU's with multiple floating-point units, so they have to move towards that point in the hope of getting there before Nvidia and ATI.
All I know is that when I worked with mainframes there was no such job classification as "security professional" unless you count the people in charge of guarding the building.
I'd guess if all the terminals were in that building, that would be all the security you would need. For a company with remote terminals all over the country (telecoms with CSS terminals in every exchange), there was still the need for terminals with ID card readers. Then again more damage was caused by lightning strikes and flash floods than by vandalism.
If you have a Linux distribution, there is 'ekiga' which allows you to run video conferencing.
But I've always wondered if there was something simpler that wouldn't need to go through a third party server, and would allow the webcam window to be resized.
People doing development aren't allowed to touch production systems, for example.
If this rule were obeyed in the UK, then we probably wouldn't have contractors downloading personal records of millions of people onto memory sticks and losing them.
That seems standard for creative software companies who are developing in-house applications. The last thing you want is some screwy bug in the application silently corrupting every piece of content because the programmer was sure he had fixed every bug. Normal practise is to have someone else do the testing and approval.
But given the mood in Mexico, any corrupt police officers may just end up having a life-span slightly less than an airline hijacker armed with a box-cutter.
Under pressure from the federal crackdown, some gangs appear to be ratcheting up kidnapping and extortion to make up for shrinking drug profits.
There is no question that kidnappings in Mexico are soaring, particularly in trafficking hot spots along the U.S. border, where criminals have found easy targets among business owners, doctors and other professionals who have prospered in the region.
Last year, 438 Mexicans were reportedly abducted, according to official government statistics. That's a 34% increase over 2006. But it's believed to be just a fraction of the true number.
MEXICO CITY -- When their 14-year-old son was snatched off the street by armed men in early June, the Marti family reportedly did what many wealthy Mexicans do in such a crisis.
It was not to be. Fernando Marti's decomposed, bullet-riddled body was found Friday in the trunk of a stolen Chevy that had been abandoned in a working-class Mexico City neighborhood. For many, Monday's news was equally bad: Authorities said they had arrested at least one city police commander in connection with the crime, and that other cops might be involved.
The world really NEEDS a language (the last low-level language) with the low-level performance of C++/C and with a full, modern library, and modern language features (threading, modern module system (not based on #includes and a crude preprocessor...), optional strong typing system a la Ada with optional runtime-checking etc etc etc.
Modula-2 had some of those features (Definition/Implementation files) built in. Add some thread, timer and mutex class objects, and you had multi-threading support. That was back in the early 1990's. Type checking seems to break down when you want to serialize a complex class object into a single file - then you have to figure out a way to write out floats, integers, shorts, longs out as bytes. Otherwise you are back into string management classes.
It's when you start building complex systems with multiple inheritance chains combined with templates based objects that have their own dynamically allocated/dellocated objects that things can get a bit tricky.
There are little gotchas that aren't intuitive... Example: If you class B which inherits class A, and defines function 'func( int ival )' which has different parameters from function 'func( float fval )' in class A, you have to use the 'using' keyword to make sure you still have the function from class A.
The thing that annoys me with templates is that you have to define all the functions in one big super-blob of code in a single header file rather than in a separate source files. I prefer to see a nice simple clean header file that lists all of the functions that are available, and have all the actual implementation in a separate file.
As many other commenters will point out, there are slightly different implementations for doing different things (reading/writing directories, multi-threading, strings). This means that low-level blocks of code or header files have to be #ifdef'ed
It's no big deal if you are writing a coursework for class on a single system, but when you are writing cross-platform application code on a contract, it's a moronic waste of time, since there are more productive things you could be doing.
Nvidia and ATI already make stream processors - these are RISC type chips with read/write instructions, conditional branching along with floating point calculations. Even Intel chips have built in compilers which convert old 8086 instructions into the internal instruction set used by their superscalar processors. It looks like all the companies are evolving to multi-thread/multi-core general purpose processors with cores chained together to form vector processors. Neither Nvidia or ATI can really ignore Intel's Larrabee - in the end we will probably end up with PC's with both Larrabee processors and 3D graphics cards.
Each company might be able to copyright their instruction sets, patent a particular optimisation technique, and require NDA's to be signed for their development kit, but the only way forward will be cross-licensing. A good example is the history of 3Dfx vs Nvidia lawsuit - the litigation basically bankrupted 3Dfx.
Worse - it's like having a little guy who sits outside your front door all day, follows you into town, insists on opening and reading every newspaper, book, magazine, letter, circular and piece of junk mail that you read, then follows you back home again.
It may be coincidence but just recently I was shopping for T-shirts online, visited a website called 'over50', and the next day, I received junk mail for life insurance for the over 50's. I'm currently doing experiments where I visit my own university home page from my home PC, then check to see if the IP addresses match, or whether I receive a visit from a Phorm server.
Before the days of the Internet, my undergraduate university made a deal with the local bookstore - in return for the university making a course textbook a "mandatory purchase", the local bookstore would give a "10% academic discount" on those titles. The university even gave the bookstore a student list so they could check out who qualified for the discount and who had made the purchase.
Otherwise, lecturers just made overhead projection slides and gave out course handouts (with the strange exception of database theory lecturers).
The problem was that save to disk wouldn't just have to save the system RAM, it would also have to save the video card state (resolution settings and framebuffer are easy, overlays, texture memory, graphics context state, texture objects, shader programs, everything ). Standby mode was hopeless on my last laptop - if an 3D graphics application was running, the system would hibernate as normal, but after wake-up, there would just be a blank screen with a little blinking cursor at the top left.
I don't believe Microsoft is sleeping - they were woken up by the development of the OLPC project. But their problem was that Windows needs so much memory to run. A Linux system could run under 1 Gigabyte of memory, Microsoft wanted at least 2 Gigabytes.
That has woken up the PC manufacturers who now have to compete against PDA's, Blackberry's , smart mobile phones and Eee-PC's. For most people, managing E-mail and surfing the web for You-tube videos is all they want from a PC. All that requires is some multi-language support and audio/video codecs. Hard drives and graphics chips are small enough already - the only problem seems to be the memory usage of Windows and the desktop.
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'bzflag' portals can be in any direction the level designer wants. They can be vertical (drive into them), horizontal (jump up or down into them), or any angle you like. A 'bzflag' portal is simply a plane equation and a bounding frame. But there is no collision-detection as portal transportation is instantaneous. Having a 'Stargate' tunnel would probably change the dynamics a bit, but maybe it would be just like a secret tunnel.
You can do that with 'bzflag' portals. Take a jump through the portal or with the 'wings' flag. Then you appear at the other end like SG-1 stargate. Spins and backward movement work as well.
The problem with most companies is that their long-term goals will change after several years, which means while you and the company were both going in the same direction when you started, they are now going in a totally different direction than where that sector of the industry as a whole is going (software service companies may want to try a new brand of hardware, try and enter a new non-core market for the perceived profit margins). So you have to change companies, in order to get where you want to go.
In Silicon Valley, it's easy to change jobs - you still keep your rented apartment/bedsit/room, but simply change your commute which can be as simple as changing the Caltrain station stop and shuttle service, or just taking a different off-ramp from the freeway.
As Box would say:
"Fish, and plankton, and sea greens, and protein from the sea. It's all here. Ready! Fresh as harvest day!"
Dubai is right on the coast - they just built an island in the shape of a tree from reclaimed land. So they would have no difficulty in growing rice, vegetables or catching fish.
I once tried freezing a complete 2 litre of bottle of water in -20C temperatures. All but a central core of 1.5 inches froze - This gave me a solid ice tube which actually split the bottle itself. There was water in the middle - the pressure from the surrounding ice must have been enough to keep it liquid.
Simple they will just place another warning label beside the warning label: "Danger - sticky sign - the sticky chemicals used to may this sticker sticky may stick to your hands - please wash your hands after handling this sticker."
They don't really have any choice. Scientific visualisation, photorealistic ray-tracing, and supercomputing are both high-profit margin fields for vendors. Intel has to maintain a presence otherwise Nvidia and ATI will just take all their marketshare.
From Intel's viewpoint, GPU's are rapidly becoming like CPU's with multiple floating-point units, so they have to move towards that point in the hope of getting there before Nvidia and ATI.
All I know is that when I worked with mainframes there was no such job classification as "security professional" unless you count the people in charge of guarding the building.
I'd guess if all the terminals were in that building, that would be all the security you would need. For a company with remote terminals all over the country (telecoms with CSS terminals in every exchange), there was still the need for terminals with ID card readers. Then again more damage was caused by lightning strikes and flash floods than by vandalism.
If you have a Linux distribution, there is 'ekiga' which allows you to run video conferencing.
But I've always wondered if there was something simpler that wouldn't need to go through a third party server, and would allow the webcam window to be resized.
People doing development aren't allowed to touch production systems, for example.
If this rule were obeyed in the UK, then we probably wouldn't have contractors downloading personal records of millions of people onto memory sticks and losing them.
That seems standard for creative software companies who are developing in-house applications. The last thing you want is some screwy bug in the application silently corrupting every piece of content because the programmer was sure he had fixed every bug. Normal practise is to have someone else do the testing and approval.
Is this a new slashdot meme?
They were cutting off bits of peoples flesh before this technology was introduced, so people having nothing to lose.
But given the mood in Mexico, any corrupt police officers may just end up having a life-span slightly less than an airline hijacker armed with a box-cutter.
The LA Times ran an artice on Why Mexican business directors, doctors, and other professionals
Under pressure from the federal crackdown, some gangs appear to be ratcheting up kidnapping and extortion to make up for shrinking drug profits.
There is no question that kidnappings in Mexico are soaring, particularly in trafficking hot spots along the U.S. border, where criminals have found easy targets among business owners, doctors and other professionals who have prospered in the region.
Last year, 438 Mexicans were reportedly abducted, according to official government statistics. That's a 34% increase over 2006. But it's believed to be just a fraction of the true number.
MEXICO CITY -- When their 14-year-old son was snatched off the street by armed men in early June, the Marti family reportedly did what many wealthy Mexicans do in such a crisis.
It was not to be. Fernando Marti's decomposed, bullet-riddled body was found Friday in the trunk of a stolen Chevy that had been abandoned in a working-class Mexico City neighborhood. For many, Monday's news was equally bad: Authorities said they had arrested at least one city police commander in connection with the crime, and that other cops might be involved.
Does anyone have a timeline chart for this sequence (or for other Silicon Valley companies). Our history teacher used to have this timeline chart (Rand McNally Histomap of World History) for the nations of the world.
The world really NEEDS a language (the last low-level language) with the low-level performance of C++/C and with a full, modern library, and modern language features (threading, modern module system (not based on #includes and a crude preprocessor...), optional strong typing system a la Ada with optional runtime-checking etc etc etc.
Modula-2 had some of those features (Definition/Implementation files) built in. Add some thread, timer and mutex class objects, and you had multi-threading support. That was back in the early 1990's. Type checking seems to break down when you want to serialize a complex class object into a single file - then you have to figure out a way to write out floats, integers, shorts, longs out as bytes. Otherwise you are back into string management classes.
It's when you start building complex systems with multiple inheritance chains combined with templates based objects that have their own dynamically allocated/dellocated objects that things can get a bit tricky.
There are little gotchas that aren't intuitive... Example:
If you class B which inherits class A, and defines function 'func( int ival )' which has different parameters from function 'func( float fval )' in class A, you have to use the 'using' keyword to make sure you still have the function from class A.
The thing that annoys me with templates is that you have to define all the functions in one big super-blob of code in a single header file rather than in a separate source files. I prefer to see a nice simple clean header file that lists all of the functions that are available, and have all the actual implementation in a separate file.
As many other commenters will point out, there are slightly different implementations for doing different things (reading/writing directories, multi-threading, strings). This means that low-level blocks of code or header files have to be #ifdef'ed
It's no big deal if you are writing a coursework for class on a single system, but when you are writing cross-platform application code on a contract, it's a moronic waste of time, since there are more productive things you could be doing.
Nvidia and ATI already make stream processors - these are RISC type chips with read/write instructions, conditional branching along with floating point calculations. Even Intel chips have built in compilers which convert old 8086 instructions into the internal instruction set used by their superscalar processors. It looks like all the companies are evolving to multi-thread/multi-core general purpose processors with cores chained together to form vector processors. Neither Nvidia or ATI can really ignore Intel's Larrabee - in the end we will probably end up with PC's with both Larrabee processors and 3D graphics cards.
Each company might be able to copyright their instruction sets, patent a particular optimisation technique, and require NDA's to be signed for their development kit, but the only way forward will be cross-licensing. A good example is the history of 3Dfx vs Nvidia lawsuit - the litigation basically bankrupted 3Dfx.
The Mr Lee Catcam shows the daily activity of a cat in a small village.
The GPS Cat tracker is another application.
Worse - it's like having a little guy who sits outside your front door all day, follows you into town, insists on opening and reading every newspaper, book, magazine, letter, circular and piece of junk mail that you read, then follows you back home again.
It may be coincidence but just recently I was shopping for T-shirts online, visited a website called 'over50', and the next day, I received junk mail for life insurance for the over 50's. I'm currently doing experiments where I visit my own university home page from my home PC, then check to see if the IP addresses match, or whether I receive a visit from a Phorm server.
It would have been interesting to see the real actress speak and move in one half of the frame, and see the animated version on the other half.
ICBC = Inter-continental ballistic chair
Before the days of the Internet, my undergraduate university made a deal with the local bookstore - in return for the university making a course textbook a "mandatory purchase", the local bookstore would give a "10% academic discount" on those titles. The university even gave the bookstore a student list so they could check out who qualified for the discount and who had made the purchase.
Otherwise, lecturers just made overhead projection slides and gave out course handouts (with the strange exception of database theory lecturers).
The problem was that save to disk wouldn't just have to save the system RAM, it would also have to save the video card state (resolution settings and framebuffer are easy, overlays, texture memory, graphics context state, texture objects, shader programs, everything ). Standby mode was hopeless on my last laptop - if an 3D graphics application was running, the system would hibernate as normal, but after wake-up, there would just be a blank screen with a little blinking cursor at the top left.
I don't believe Microsoft is sleeping - they were woken up by the development of the OLPC project. But their problem was that Windows needs so much memory to run. A Linux system could run under 1 Gigabyte of memory, Microsoft wanted at least 2 Gigabytes.
That has woken up the PC manufacturers who now have to compete against PDA's, Blackberry's , smart mobile phones and Eee-PC's. For most people, managing E-mail and surfing the web for You-tube videos is all they want from a PC. All that requires is some multi-language support and audio/video codecs. Hard drives and graphics chips are small enough already - the only problem seems to be the memory usage of Windows and the desktop.
Yes, it was pure nightclub neon blue - I managed to find the news article with a picture:
Neon blue restrooms. It makes the star-trek themed apartment seem relaxing...