The Silcon Valley Toxics Coalition http://www.svtc.org/has some very interesting links to articles related to computer and enviroment. I am not worried about the space issue of throwing away the computers, I am worried about the issue of putting all the lead (and other materials) into our eviroment. The World needs to realize just how costly computers are going to be to our eviroment in both creation and disposal. The $10 per computer will not be enough to even think about covering the true cost of getting any computer disposed of safely.
I can't say live without computers, but people need to think about buying less of them, and using them longer. Hopefully Linux will have a role in this.
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I am guessing pixel shaders are going to be used to do opaque rendering of mutliple images in one pass.
Pixel Shaders allow combining multiple textures all at the same time thus speeding up windows by reducing the number of passes over the same area. This is also called Multitexturing.Multitexturing has been around for awhile.It was normally only for two textures becuase that is all games like quake required. Pixel Shaders allow greater fexiablity and performance enhancements.
That is my guess I could be wrong. Pixel Shaders are really powerful, and could do alot of things. I totatlly agree with Microsoft for making it a requirement of a future operating system.
First off, I would like to mention it is horrible everything that has happened in that Region of the world. On another note.
So he mentions that he has lost his boat and diving gear. I wonder if he (personally)is into diving or just his crew is into diving. I know it isn't the most fitting thing to mention, but hey it would be pretty cool with Arthur C. Clark was into Scuba Diving.
Why are we looking at these statistics. Hopefully we all know that there is no point of having hardware unless someone can use it. Why in the world would schools have 20 to 1,Computer to Student ratios? Do they need to check there Email every second? Peronsally I feel that this information should be based more about what the school can teach students about Computers, and how to use them instead of just having a lot of features (that everyone has anyway) and a lot of computers (no one uses most of the time).
Truefully I feel schools (from my prespective) are doing a bad job at the simple task of teaching students about computers, and making them interested in computers. Employers are looking for employees that can use computers (in general) and be able to use any computer program. This is what we should be judging, the ablity of the school to enlighted students in ways to be able to solve ANY computing problem, a not just have a lot of hardware sitting around.
Any performance gain (if any) would be removed by the fact that everything is emulated. So what you are asking is for Microsoft to spend money on software that runs slow, and costs way to much just so some nerd thinks it is cool to run. I am just hoping that Microsoft makes operating systems that works on one architecture, not two.
This benchmark is completely pointless for a few reasons. No one is writing programs like this, and will never write programs like this. Programs are always more complicated. The operations dont consider the precision, which affects many of the languages trig functions. Which I feel should be thrown out. Most programs are not bottelneck by performance either.
Almost any programmer can write a better program then a for loop, hopefully this benchmarker can live up to this.
BTW... Wow Java is fast, but could someone write some real benchmarks to prove it.
There are a bunch of crazy rules and polocies for a sport to become a part of the olympics...
Take a look at this for some info.
http://inlineskating.about.com/library/weekly/aa01 0904.htm
This has some info, but I believe there is more requirements, there just isn't any info on it.
Who knows what will happen..
It takes a less code to produce a working Direct X graphucs program, but other then that DirectX graphics and Open GL are close the the same. In order to make Direct X better, Microsoft copied OpenGL.
Sure Direct X is easier and simplier, but consider how old OpenGL is and it is still just as useful and easy to use when it started. It took Direct X 8 tries before they could compete with OpenGL and they still dont have the extensionablity that OpenGL has.
One thing to mention is that DirectX isn't just graphics, it is a large array of Media related API's with a unified interface. It is something that the Open Source Community needs to compete with, and will be hard to match. Everything from Joysticks to Network connections are covered, rather impressive on Microsoft's part.
One Fast CPU is always going to have an advantage over multiple slower CPUs. It takes a lot of bookkeeping in the background to assign different tasks to different CPUs. Not to mention programs need to be written multi-threaded to take advantage of another processor.
What will happen when the spammer is on one of the Wireless Networks popping up at schools. I think it might be a little bit harder to track down and stop from spamming.
In your long post you mention
"The typical 'production' language boils down, at some point, to plain text, and there will be situations where using the 'scripting' language to generate or manipulate code in your primary language will eliminate a lot of tedious and repetitious coding."
while it might sound like a good idea, I ask you one question. Why are you coding repetitious code. You should understand ways to reuse the code to produce the same effect with fewer lines of code and no repetition. Not only repeating the same pattern use more code which will slow down your program, it also makes it harder to debug. More Code is bad, and using a scripting language to create more code sounds like shooting yourself in the foot.
When they sold it in the US I used to buy it all the time, saddly they stopped selling it in US bookstores.
I eventually got the nerve up to get a subscription which I had till recently. I didn't renew becuase of lack of funds.
I feel it is very sad that this magazine folded, it was a very interesting and a good distraction from life. The articles dealt many aspects of modern culture, not just tech culture. The magazine will be missed, nothing else is like it.
When did Digipen become an University?
Is Digipen the only Game Design school?
And is the Game Industry really in need for more programmers. Just becuase they make a lot of money, doesn't mean a lot of studio's are not closing currently.
What about Templates, does anyone use them in the real world outside of the STL? I think that is a very strong feature for being able to quickly code complex things up and are easier to mantain.
What is stopping any other kind of distributed program from recording key-strokes, and sending it back. I wonder if they are reading my keypresses right now.
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The Silcon Valley Toxics Coalition http://www.svtc.org/has some very interesting links to articles related to computer and enviroment. I am not worried about the space issue of throwing away the computers, I am worried about the issue of putting all the lead (and other materials) into our eviroment. The World needs to realize just how costly computers are going to be to our eviroment in both creation and disposal. The $10 per computer will not be enough to even think about covering the true cost of getting any computer disposed of safely. I can't say live without computers, but people need to think about buying less of them, and using them longer. Hopefully Linux will have a role in this.
I mean anyone can be creative and just keep on flooding there URL all the time. Wouldn't that just do about the same thing?
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Login and click the Mambo installer button.
Done - You Now have a PHP/ MYSQL Web Site
Or you can just install Mambo yourself http://mamboserver.com/
That is my suggestion for a QUICK way to do it.
I am guessing pixel shaders are going to be used to do opaque rendering of mutliple images in one pass. Pixel Shaders allow combining multiple textures all at the same time thus speeding up windows by reducing the number of passes over the same area. This is also called Multitexturing .Multitexturing has been around for awhile.It was normally only for two textures becuase that is all games like quake required. Pixel Shaders allow greater fexiablity and performance enhancements.
That is my guess I could be wrong. Pixel Shaders are really powerful, and could do alot of things. I totatlly agree with Microsoft for making it a requirement of a future operating system.
First off, I would like to mention it is horrible everything that has happened in that Region of the world. On another note. So he mentions that he has lost his boat and diving gear. I wonder if he (personally)is into diving or just his crew is into diving. I know it isn't the most fitting thing to mention, but hey it would be pretty cool with Arthur C. Clark was into Scuba Diving.
Why are we looking at these statistics. Hopefully we all know that there is no point of having hardware unless someone can use it. Why in the world would schools have 20 to 1,Computer to Student ratios? Do they need to check there Email every second? Peronsally I feel that this information should be based more about what the school can teach students about Computers, and how to use them instead of just having a lot of features (that everyone has anyway) and a lot of computers (no one uses most of the time). Truefully I feel schools (from my prespective) are doing a bad job at the simple task of teaching students about computers, and making them interested in computers. Employers are looking for employees that can use computers (in general) and be able to use any computer program. This is what we should be judging, the ablity of the school to enlighted students in ways to be able to solve ANY computing problem, a not just have a lot of hardware sitting around.
Any performance gain (if any) would be removed by the fact that everything is emulated. So what you are asking is for Microsoft to spend money on software that runs slow, and costs way to much just so some nerd thinks it is cool to run. I am just hoping that Microsoft makes operating systems that works on one architecture, not two.
This benchmark is completely pointless for a few reasons. No one is writing programs like this, and will never write programs like this. Programs are always more complicated. The operations dont consider the precision, which affects many of the languages trig functions. Which I feel should be thrown out. Most programs are not bottelneck by performance either. Almost any programmer can write a better program then a for loop, hopefully this benchmarker can live up to this. BTW... Wow Java is fast, but could someone write some real benchmarks to prove it.
There are a bunch of crazy rules and polocies for a sport to become a part of the olympics... Take a look at this for some info. http://inlineskating.about.com/library/weekly/aa01 0904.htm
This has some info, but I believe there is more requirements, there just isn't any info on it.
Who knows what will happen..
If you start hanging out in malls on friday nights to talk about computer/phone stuff it is time to get new friends and hobbies.
It takes a less code to produce a working Direct X graphucs program, but other then that DirectX graphics and Open GL are close the the same. In order to make Direct X better, Microsoft copied OpenGL. Sure Direct X is easier and simplier, but consider how old OpenGL is and it is still just as useful and easy to use when it started. It took Direct X 8 tries before they could compete with OpenGL and they still dont have the extensionablity that OpenGL has. One thing to mention is that DirectX isn't just graphics, it is a large array of Media related API's with a unified interface. It is something that the Open Source Community needs to compete with, and will be hard to match. Everything from Joysticks to Network connections are covered, rather impressive on Microsoft's part.
One Fast CPU is always going to have an advantage over multiple slower CPUs. It takes a lot of bookkeeping in the background to assign different tasks to different CPUs. Not to mention programs need to be written multi-threaded to take advantage of another processor.
how long before they come for you because you are committing some crime the depraves microsoft of some money?
What will happen when the spammer is on one of the Wireless Networks popping up at schools. I think it might be a little bit harder to track down and stop from spamming.
In your long post you mention "The typical 'production' language boils down, at some point, to plain text, and there will be situations where using the 'scripting' language to generate or manipulate code in your primary language will eliminate a lot of tedious and repetitious coding." while it might sound like a good idea, I ask you one question. Why are you coding repetitious code. You should understand ways to reuse the code to produce the same effect with fewer lines of code and no repetition. Not only repeating the same pattern use more code which will slow down your program, it also makes it harder to debug. More Code is bad, and using a scripting language to create more code sounds like shooting yourself in the foot.
When they sold it in the US I used to buy it all the time, saddly they stopped selling it in US bookstores. I eventually got the nerve up to get a subscription which I had till recently. I didn't renew becuase of lack of funds. I feel it is very sad that this magazine folded, it was a very interesting and a good distraction from life. The articles dealt many aspects of modern culture, not just tech culture. The magazine will be missed, nothing else is like it.
When did Digipen become an University? Is Digipen the only Game Design school? And is the Game Industry really in need for more programmers. Just becuase they make a lot of money, doesn't mean a lot of studio's are not closing currently.
Ability to speak didn't wipe out the rest of the humans, those who couldn't speak were just nagged to death ;-)
What about Templates, does anyone use them in the real world outside of the STL? I think that is a very strong feature for being able to quickly code complex things up and are easier to mantain.
What is stopping any other kind of distributed program from recording key-strokes, and sending it back. I wonder if they are reading my keypresses right now.
Indiana Jones vs the Army of Darkness
Nothing personal, but it sounds like you have issues.