Only in some fantasy world where the replicator creates its copies from thin air - rather than manipulating and modifying existing material, and where the energy costs are negligible or free.
Thin air is still matter and could be manipulated and modified to create different kind of matter.
Well, one could port the old Linux 8086 project to 4004, it doesn't need such silly things as MMU or 32bits CPUs, though I am not 100% if the project was ever finished.:)
Here I can get GPRS/EDGE in flatfree montly price of about 20 per month. 3G speeds are slightly more expensive. Too bad the latency is still quite bad.
If I would have been using FF2.0, I could have spellchecked my post, heh, well anyways, my friend just posted a bug to bugzilla, hope that someone reads it: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35863 8
My friend and I have been trying to get the FF devs to even comment about 2 nasty "bugs" in FF2.0. First one happens quite often when you download.DMG-files. As by default Apache doesn't have mimetype for.dmg, it sends them as plain/text. FF doesn't like to open a 1-1000MB text document and usually just freezes unless you are fast enough to click stop button. This could be fixed either by allowing user to define custom mimetypes for specific file extensions or if FF would popup a dialog confirming that you really really want to display this huge text document. The second "bug" is very annoying. My friend likes to keep files in the FF download window until he has had time to verify that the download succeeded and to delete the older version of the download (as he downloads new versions of programs quite often). He does this while downloading multiple things and often when he is clicking the remove download button, a download gets complited and as the complited download bar is smaller that active download one with progress bar, the downloads list shifts upwards and he clicks and removes a wrong file. And as there is sometimes second or so lag between clicking and FF to actually processing the click, this thing happens even more often.
Perhaps majority of users are using download managers or something, but it is kinda silly that FF cannot provide working download functionality out of the box. I guess I must wait for FF3.0 to get these problems fixed.
So true, but the plus version was so much more fun to play casually, especially at my age when I didn't speak english that well and there was only BBSes and 2400bps modem to access any hints about the game...
Good list, I would just replace Nethack with Nethack+, which was a patch the prevented you from dying in lack of food. Basicly when you were low on food going down a level would create an edible monster or a food store or food rations. And haven't played GTA, thus Elite would be good replacement for it. I still have the cassette version for Commodore 64. Another good games to add as honorable mentions are Solomon's Key, Master of Magic, Pitfall 2 and Lucasarts adventure games.
Dunno if it is the same generation SuperCCD, but the one I saw just has a hexaconical pixel array with 2 different pixel sizes. The smaller pixels are between the grid of normal size pixels and as they are smaller, they get less light. So the SuperCCD basicly sees the image with 2 different exposures and the camera then processes this information and uses small pixels for information in areas of over exposure and bigger pixels for other areas. So basicly it gives more dynamic range from where to pick the image with "correct" exposure. See http://www.dpreview.com/news/0301/fujisuperccd/sli de1.jpg for image or just do image search with google using keyword "superccd".
But you don't have to compress the full dynamic range just part of it (if you want that sort of pictures) or use "smart" compression that preserves contrast between objects in the image while extending the visible dynamic range (see http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~danix/hdr/results.html). Also, having the "same" image with different exposures allows you to render an image that has as little under and/or over exposure as possible (see http://www.openexr.com/samples.html).
Oooh, cool.. Wake me up when they have ones that can output something in the region of 1000 lumens. A 131 lumens per watt LED is nice but not very practical if 1 LED outputs 8 lumens.
Except that people are doing real-time raytracing already with todays computers. First real-time raytracing was running on 80486 or Pentium using somewhat limited 160 x 120 resolution, but best raytracers today run on dual CPU AMDs at VGA/SVGA resolution with 100000+ polygons at about 10-20 fps. And because raytracing can be parallised easily and gains almost linear speed up you can use new dual core CPUs to get even higher fps or resolutions. I also recall reading a paper claming that software raytracer on Opteron was faster than best NVidia GPU when using 5+ million polygons.
I've tried that HP program, but I think it required a floppydrive to work and also the bootdisk site has the floppyimages in compressed EXEs and I really don't have a machine to execute them on. On a side note, I did manage to get a bootable Debian on the thumbdrive.
My thumbdrives are usually empty and ready for use. Mostly they are used for transferring drivers from internet enabled computer to a newly installed computer. Before thumbdrives I used CD-RW's for that purpose and managed to reach maximum write count on several discs. Too bad that I haven't yet managed to make a working bootable thumbdrive that would work on my computers so I still have to use CD-RW's for BIOS upgrades as I don't have any working floppydrives.
Except it wasn't analogue or truely random, instead SID had a simple pseudo-random generator that loops after X number of samples (I think, can't be bothered to find the article written by designed of the SID chip).
The irony (sweet or not) is that it is those firms lobbying hardest for wider and stronger software patents (IBM, Microsoft, Nokia, Sony, Siemens, SAP) which end up paying the biggest bills. It's true that software patents provide temporary and lucrative monopolies - see the GSM market, based on some of the heaviest-patented standards ever - but in the end the patent trolls will always find a way to turn it around.
Can you clarify how GSM standard is a software patent and if it really is patented. AFAIK, GSM was an European thing and I thought software couldn't be patented in Europe, atleast now very easily. I could be wrong though.
MSSQL or PostgreSQL don't like power outages either, even with journaled filesystem. Which is why you _should_ have an UPS, a daily backup of the database and fault tolerant hardware.
You could use EXT2/3 driver. There is one for OS X and I think the Windows driver works quite well too. I use EXT3 on some of my Firewire disks I need to share between Apples and PCs.
Sure, but you shouldn't be using Linux at all as it is so slow. I just did a benchmark on my Sun Ultra 1 (143MHz Ultrasparc) running Linux (and there was couple other CPU intensive programs running the backround too, but why should they affect the results) and it was much much slower than the same benchmark on my Windows PC (3GHz P4).
In any case, do a benchmark with your workstation using Xen and without Xen. Remember to test VMWare or UML too. THEN you can say if Xen is impressive or not...
I do like Mac OS X UI, but I still rather use WindowMaker, and Windows XP isn't that bad after you tweak it with couple extension.
What's the deal with the "x" button not exiting the application? What is making it different than "_" minimize in most cases? Why on earth is "x" different than file->exit? Thats one thing I can't get used to.
As Mac programs can have multiple windows (like with browsing with Safari), the red button just closes that one window. You just need to learn, red -> close window, and <apple>-q -> close app.
Next, why is there no good launch bar mechanism? Am I missing some feature that is there? It seems like Apple just decided that Apple Users only have 2 or 3 programs, so putting them all in this dock at the bottom of the screen is ok. But every other window manager (gnome/kde/windows) clearly understands the need for something like a "Start menu" so that I can have easy access to lots of apps. In my mac I am forced to browse the directory structure through the finder. That is a pain.
This is a good point but fortunately most people can fit their 10-20 most used apps on the dock (dock zooming helps alot and so does big screen). For rest of the apps you either create aliases on the desktop or use <apple>-<shift>-a to open Finder in the Applications folder.
And lastly, what is with the insane anti-aliasing? Does it have something to do with Macs commonly being used by artists and the anti-aliasing making the font look more like print? Becuase its really just completely blurry with many shades of gray. They could learn something from Microsoft's ClearType that uses various colors to achieve sharp-edged looking fonts. Or just let you turn it all off, but theres no way to get rid of it completely. Every single non-mac-user just seems to be baffled and unable to read text.
AFAIK Apple also uses ClearType kind of antialising (subpixel antialising on LCD screen). You can set the antialising method and amount from the prefs. You can even turn it off.
OS X becomes much easier and faster to use after you learn couple shortcuts and get a mouse with more than 1 button:)
But if there is a security hole, all client data could be stolen before the update is installed. With local apps you could add extra security whatnot, but with remote apps all your eggs are in one basket.
Actually the parent poster is probably talking about Colonization that had indians and you could trade with them and use missionare units to try to convert them (And ofcourse kill them too). Ah, must install DOSBox and play that classic game again.
Are you using also 10000 RPM SATA drives in the array or only 7200 RPM drives (that would explain some of the latency difference)? Too bad there aren't any 15.000rpm SATA/SATA-II drives available.
I have couple Sun Ultra 1 workstations and had no trouble installing Debian Linux (Sarge) on them. Just checked couple faqs and howtos to be sure my hardware was supported and how to change screen resolution and how to patch firmware to support 64-bit mode (though I think it was Solaris that required the firmware patch to even boot).
Either you did something wrong or just happened to have an SPARC that wasn't supported or tested.
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Only in some fantasy world where the replicator creates its copies from thin air - rather than manipulating and modifying existing material, and where the energy costs are negligible or free.
Thin air is still matter and could be manipulated and modified to create different kind of matter.
Well, one could port the old Linux 8086 project to 4004, it doesn't need such silly things as MMU or 32bits CPUs, though I am not 100% if the project was ever finished. :)
Here I can get GPRS/EDGE in flatfree montly price of about 20 per month. 3G speeds are slightly more expensive. Too bad the latency is still quite bad.
If I would have been using FF2.0, I could have spellchecked my post, heh, well anyways, my friend just posted a bug to bugzilla, hope that someone reads it: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35863 8
My friend and I have been trying to get the FF devs to even comment about 2 nasty "bugs" in FF2.0. First one happens quite often when you download .DMG-files. As by default Apache doesn't have mimetype for .dmg, it sends them as plain/text. FF doesn't like to open a 1-1000MB text document and usually just freezes unless you are fast enough to click stop button. This could be fixed either by allowing user to define custom mimetypes for specific file extensions or if FF would popup a dialog confirming that you really really want to display this huge text document. The second "bug" is very annoying. My friend likes to keep files in the FF download window until he has had time to verify that the download succeeded and to delete the older version of the download (as he downloads new versions of programs quite often). He does this while downloading multiple things and often when he is clicking the remove download button, a download gets complited and as the complited download bar is smaller that active download one with progress bar, the downloads list shifts upwards and he clicks and removes a wrong file. And as there is sometimes second or so lag between clicking and FF to actually processing the click, this thing happens even more often.
Perhaps majority of users are using download managers or something, but it is kinda silly that FF cannot provide working download functionality out of the box. I guess I must wait for FF3.0 to get these problems fixed.
So true, but the plus version was so much more fun to play casually, especially at my age when I didn't speak english that well and there was only BBSes and 2400bps modem to access any hints about the game...
Or if you wanna play the remake of old classic Elite, try Oolite at http://oolite.aegidian.org/
Good list, I would just replace Nethack with Nethack+, which was a patch the prevented you from dying in lack of food. Basicly when you were low on food going down a level would create an edible monster or a food store or food rations. And haven't played GTA, thus Elite would be good replacement for it. I still have the cassette version for Commodore 64. Another good games to add as honorable mentions are Solomon's Key, Master of Magic, Pitfall 2 and Lucasarts adventure games.
Dunno if it is the same generation SuperCCD, but the one I saw just has a hexaconical pixel array with 2 different pixel sizes. The smaller pixels are between the grid of normal size pixels and as they are smaller, they get less light. So the SuperCCD basicly sees the image with 2 different exposures and the camera then processes this information and uses small pixels for information in areas of over exposure and bigger pixels for other areas. So basicly it gives more dynamic range from where to pick the image with "correct" exposure. See http://www.dpreview.com/news/0301/fujisuperccd/sli de1.jpg for image or just do image search with google using keyword "superccd".
But you don't have to compress the full dynamic range just part of it (if you want that sort of pictures) or use "smart" compression that preserves contrast between objects in the image while extending the visible dynamic range (see http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~danix/hdr/results.html). Also, having the "same" image with different exposures allows you to render an image that has as little under and/or over exposure as possible (see http://www.openexr.com/samples.html).
Oooh, cool.. Wake me up when they have ones that can output something in the region of 1000 lumens. A 131 lumens per watt LED is nice but not very practical if 1 LED outputs 8 lumens.
Except that people are doing real-time raytracing already with todays computers. First real-time raytracing was running on 80486 or Pentium using somewhat limited 160 x 120 resolution, but best raytracers today run on dual CPU AMDs at VGA/SVGA resolution with 100000+ polygons at about 10-20 fps. And because raytracing can be parallised easily and gains almost linear speed up you can use new dual core CPUs to get even higher fps or resolutions. I also recall reading a paper claming that software raytracer on Opteron was faster than best NVidia GPU when using 5+ million polygons.
I've tried that HP program, but I think it required a floppydrive to work and also the bootdisk site has the floppyimages in compressed EXEs and I really don't have a machine to execute them on. On a side note, I did manage to get a bootable Debian on the thumbdrive.
My thumbdrives are usually empty and ready for use. Mostly they are used for transferring drivers from internet enabled computer to a newly installed computer. Before thumbdrives I used CD-RW's for that purpose and managed to reach maximum write count on several discs. Too bad that I haven't yet managed to make a working bootable thumbdrive that would work on my computers so I still have to use CD-RW's for BIOS upgrades as I don't have any working floppydrives.
Except it wasn't analogue or truely random, instead SID had a simple pseudo-random generator that loops after X number of samples (I think, can't be bothered to find the article written by designed of the SID chip).
Can you clarify how GSM standard is a software patent and if it really is patented. AFAIK, GSM was an European thing and I thought software couldn't be patented in Europe, atleast now very easily. I could be wrong though.
MSSQL or PostgreSQL don't like power outages either, even with journaled filesystem. Which is why you _should_ have an UPS, a daily backup of the database and fault tolerant hardware.
You could use EXT2/3 driver. There is one for OS X and I think the Windows driver works quite well too. I use EXT3 on some of my Firewire disks I need to share between Apples and PCs.
Sure, but you shouldn't be using Linux at all as it is so slow. I just did a benchmark on my Sun Ultra 1 (143MHz Ultrasparc) running Linux (and there was couple other CPU intensive programs running the backround too, but why should they affect the results) and it was much much slower than the same benchmark on my Windows PC (3GHz P4).
In any case, do a benchmark with your workstation using Xen and without Xen. Remember to test VMWare or UML too. THEN you can say if Xen is impressive or not...
Sure it does:
SELECT * FROM sometable WHERE (some_column ILIKE 'SeaRcH STrinG');
You can also do regexp instead of simple LIKE matches.
I do like Mac OS X UI, but I still rather use WindowMaker, and Windows XP isn't that bad after you tweak it with couple extension.
As Mac programs can have multiple windows (like with browsing with Safari), the red button just closes that one window. You just need to learn, red -> close window, and <apple>-q -> close app.
This is a good point but fortunately most people can fit their 10-20 most used apps on the dock (dock zooming helps alot and so does big screen). For rest of the apps you either create aliases on the desktop or use <apple>-<shift>-a to open Finder in the Applications folder.
AFAIK Apple also uses ClearType kind of antialising (subpixel antialising on LCD screen). You can set the antialising method and amount from the prefs. You can even turn it off.
OS X becomes much easier and faster to use after you learn couple shortcuts and get a mouse with more than 1 button :)
But if there is a security hole, all client data could be stolen before the update is installed. With local apps you could add extra security whatnot, but with remote apps all your eggs are in one basket.
Actually the parent poster is probably talking about Colonization that had indians and you could trade with them and use missionare units to try to convert them (And ofcourse kill them too). Ah, must install DOSBox and play that classic game again.
Are you using also 10000 RPM SATA drives in the array or only 7200 RPM drives (that would explain some of the latency difference)? Too bad there aren't any 15.000rpm SATA/SATA-II drives available.
I have couple Sun Ultra 1 workstations and had no trouble installing Debian Linux (Sarge) on them. Just checked couple faqs and howtos to be sure my hardware was supported and how to change screen resolution and how to patch firmware to support 64-bit mode (though I think it was Solaris that required the firmware patch to even boot).
Either you did something wrong or just happened to have an SPARC that wasn't supported or tested.