Direct3D wants/needs full access to the graphics hardware for it to use hardware acceleration. Ever wonder why two windowed D3D apps run like crap compared to one single full screen D3D app? There's your answer, whenever D3D doesn't have full access, it has to go through a software layer to serialise video card hardware access... that translates to slower performance. Now, throw in OpenGL and you have a huge mess.
Interesting, since I can run six hardware-accelerated OpenGL applications on my dual-screen Linux desktop with each one running at 1/6 full speed.
You know, the ones that actually have three buttons that are operated by three different fingers. A hell of a lot more ergonomic than the ones today where the wheel doubles as the third button that needs the strength of an index finger to press, thus requiring the middle finger to rest over the right-hand button not the middle button where it should be.
Oh how I miss my dual-wheel three-button A4Tech mouse - zero lateral finger movement. If only it was optical.
Except like a gas heater, you introduce water vapour to the air, raising the heat capacity of the room and thus the amount of energy required to heat it.
So you could say it's less efficient than a simple bar heater.
I am of the opinion, cold-hearted as this may sound, that until a fetus is capable of surviving without the 'life support' provided by the womb of the mother, it is not a human being
Fascinating. Do you consider someone in traction to be not human? They wouldn't survive without a hospital after all....and is in the same category as a cancerous growth or tumor.
Tumor. You've never actually seen a foetus have you?
Let's face a fact, one that most men probably don't know, and probably alot of women, too: Having a baby is bad for your body.
So, anything that isn't immediately physiologically good for us gives us the right to stop it at any cost? Right.
It does nothing beneficial for its host (from a sexual selection standpoint -- children only count when they are able to reproduce), and causes a great deal of damage and stress to the host.
By that same logic, if my nine-year-old gives me no health benefits and causes great stress I'm allowed to kill her if I so choose. Hmmmmm.
Learn to deal with the fact that a substantial percentage of people living today (including a close friend of mine's son with adrenoleukodystrophy) are only alive because of our willingness at some level to PLAY GOD.
Gosh, it's lucky that your friends son wasn't selected to be harvested for stem cells when he was an embryo, isn't it?
Of course we have technology these days that allows us to screen embryos for conditions such as adrenoleukodystrophy and cleanly 'dispose' of any with such defects. After all, this isn't the dark ages any more, is it?
Sure we're using cells from already dead embryos now because there's several lying around but what happens when demand increases? Where will we get stem cells from then?
Machine breathing, organ transplants et al are not PLAYING GOD. Killing a living entity with 100% human DNA to extract the cells for another's benefit certainly is.
Look it's great that they can use cells that were supposedly going to be thrown out anyway but what happens when demand increases and that supply runs out?
If stem cells cannot yet be extracted without killing the host where is that going to lead?
What good is this news to me now in New Zealand where IT'S ALREADY SATURDAY?!
Perhaps stories like this need to be posted 1 day before the event so us GMT+12'ers don't miss out. Maybe I can 'defer' Sysadmin Appreciation Day till monday, when I'll really need it.
Now if you'll excuse me I promised my friend I'd go debug his linux box shortly before fixing my nephews win95 games machine on my way to setting up a computer for a stage show tonight.
I know that on/. amazon are seen as the best thing to happen to books since sliced bread, but with all this patent grabbing (and pursuing) isn't it time we considered a boycott?
I for one am having second thoughts about whether to give them any more of my business if this is how they conduct themselves.
If they were any other company would these practices not by now have put them only slightly below SCO on the evil scale?
I think you're referring to spatial ghosting, where a second image is present shifted horizontally on the picture. This also happens with LCDs if you have a low quality VGA cable. Usually a sign of an impedence mismatch somewhere.
This article is addressing temporal ghosting, where the image remains visible on the screen for a perceivable time after it has been removed from the screen buffer.
One feature all these drawing packages seem to be lacking is the ability to produce decent CAD drawings, with pop-up measurements and plan production.
Dia, blender, inkscape, OOdraw, even QCad are all good drawing/modelling packages, but none of them let you easily draw a scale 3D model and print out plans complete with dimensions to construct said model.
If you have a modern Athlon64 you can most likely put a 28 Ohm resistor in series with your CPU fan to quieten things down.
Modern Athlon 64s (with the Venice core) are cold to the touch with a stock heatsink and quarter-speed fan at 100% CPU load. In fact if you're not interested in overclocking, they can be run without the fan altogether.
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Direct3D wants/needs full access to the graphics hardware for it to use hardware acceleration. Ever wonder why two windowed D3D apps run like crap compared to one single full screen D3D app? There's your answer, whenever D3D doesn't have full access, it has to go through a software layer to serialise video card hardware access... that translates to slower performance. Now, throw in OpenGL and you have a huge mess.
Interesting, since I can run six hardware-accelerated OpenGL applications on my dual-screen Linux desktop with each one running at 1/6 full speed.
So how come the current /. poll has been archived? It their comment database full up or something?
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You know, the ones that actually have three buttons that are operated by three different fingers. A hell of a lot more ergonomic than the ones today where the wheel doubles as the third button that needs the strength of an index finger to press, thus requiring the middle finger to rest over the right-hand button not the middle button where it should be.
Oh how I miss my dual-wheel three-button A4Tech mouse - zero lateral finger movement. If only it was optical.
Except like a gas heater, you introduce water vapour to the air, raising the heat capacity of the room and thus the amount of energy required to heat it.
So you could say it's less efficient than a simple bar heater.
prove him wrong
Tiring of getting angry over your rights eroding and making a cup of tea is exactly what they want you to do.
If the people all get sick of hearing about this stuff and sink into apathy, they are much easier to control.
Don't give up, dude.
Well maybe not NOW...
So are we still talking about Quaoraror?
From your first post I guess I did not fully grasp that you saw unborn foetuses as mere lumps of flesh, on which your entire argument depends.
From that premise, I can only conclude that you also see post-birth people as lumps of flesh, but with experience.
If you truly see humanity on that level then I doubt anything I say will have any effect on you, and am sorry to have wasted your time.
I am of the opinion, cold-hearted as this may sound, that until a fetus is capable of surviving without the 'life support' provided by the womb of the mother, it is not a human being
...and is in the same category as a cancerous growth or tumor.
Fascinating. Do you consider someone in traction to be not human? They wouldn't survive without a hospital after all.
Tumor. You've never actually seen a foetus have you?
Let's face a fact, one that most men probably don't know, and probably alot of women, too: Having a baby is bad for your body.
So, anything that isn't immediately physiologically good for us gives us the right to stop it at any cost? Right.
It does nothing beneficial for its host (from a sexual selection standpoint -- children only count when they are able to reproduce), and causes a great deal of damage and stress to the host.
By that same logic, if my nine-year-old gives me no health benefits and causes great stress I'm allowed to kill her if I so choose. Hmmmmm.
Learn to deal with the fact that a substantial percentage of people living today (including a close friend of mine's son with adrenoleukodystrophy) are only alive because of our willingness at some level to PLAY GOD.
Gosh, it's lucky that your friends son wasn't selected to be harvested for stem cells when he was an embryo, isn't it?
Of course we have technology these days that allows us to screen embryos for conditions such as adrenoleukodystrophy and cleanly 'dispose' of any with such defects. After all, this isn't the dark ages any more, is it?
Sure we're using cells from already dead embryos now because there's several lying around but what happens when demand increases? Where will we get stem cells from then?
Machine breathing, organ transplants et al are not PLAYING GOD. Killing a living entity with 100% human DNA to extract the cells for another's benefit certainly is.
I don't have a problem with using cells from a dead person to benefit another.
I have a problem with creating a market for growing embryos for the purpose of growing stem cells.
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With the PS3 likely shipping with Blu-Ray, does this even matter anymore?
...but what's in it for the embryo?
Look it's great that they can use cells that were supposedly going to be thrown out anyway but what happens when demand increases and that supply runs out?
If stem cells cannot yet be extracted without killing the host where is that going to lead?
Do tell, Anonymous Coward, why is taking stem cells from a donated and otherwise perpetually frozen embryo equal to killing a human?
Interesting. Do you think that a human embryo is not human?
Is a human foetus human? How about a child? Or an adolescent?
What defines human for you?
Is it the presence of intelligence? In which case do you consider people less intelligent than yourself less human?
Plus most other jobs don't need to re-tool every couple of months just to keep up to date.
What good is this news to me now in New Zealand where IT'S ALREADY SATURDAY?!
Perhaps stories like this need to be posted 1 day before the event so us GMT+12'ers don't miss out. Maybe I can 'defer' Sysadmin Appreciation Day till monday, when I'll really need it.
Now if you'll excuse me I promised my friend I'd go debug his linux box shortly before fixing my nephews win95 games machine on my way to setting up a computer for a stage show tonight.
I know that on /. amazon are seen as the best thing to happen to books since sliced bread, but with all this patent grabbing (and pursuing) isn't it time we considered a boycott?
I for one am having second thoughts about whether to give them any more of my business if this is how they conduct themselves.
If they were any other company would these practices not by now have put them only slightly below SCO on the evil scale?
I think you're referring to spatial ghosting, where a second image is present shifted horizontally on the picture. This also happens with LCDs if you have a low quality VGA cable. Usually a sign of an impedence mismatch somewhere.
This article is addressing temporal ghosting, where the image remains visible on the screen for a perceivable time after it has been removed from the screen buffer.
One feature all these drawing packages seem to be lacking is the ability to produce decent CAD drawings, with pop-up measurements and plan production.
Dia, blender, inkscape, OOdraw, even QCad are all good drawing/modelling packages, but none of them let you easily draw a scale 3D model and print out plans complete with dimensions to construct said model.
Don't you mean Freedom benefits?
Sadly I think you'll find that Dell, Intel, and AMD are more "we'll-do-whatever-you-say-microsoft" than they are "we-love-linux".
If you have a modern Athlon64 you can most likely put a 28 Ohm resistor in series with your CPU fan to quieten things down.
Modern Athlon 64s (with the Venice core) are cold to the touch with a stock heatsink and quarter-speed fan at 100% CPU load. In fact if you're not interested in overclocking, they can be run without the fan altogether.