Yes reentering the earths atmosphere is a lot more dangerous... but there'd be a 100% death rate if we all couldn't laugh every once in a while... sheesh.
That's almost as impressive as surviving a flight from New York to LA... in fact, I think they might even have been allowed a knife and fork for their inflight meal...;)
I have had the fortune of sitting in on a meeting with a potential client at a company. Let me say this... no contract or sale in the history of corporate life has ever been above board. I have never seen so much free flowing alcohol in my life... all to seal the deal... now if record companies do the same to get their crappy music on the air, good for them, it's how business is done... substitute music for software, or electronic equipment, and all of a sudden it just becomes normal business practice... I scratch your back if you scratch mine... sheesh...
what happens if the AI malfunctions? then mission control will get a bunch of useless error reports... It's a stupid self diagnosis test... not AI... overhyped buzzword... It simply runs a simulation and tests its results against the actual ones, and generates a report... that's not AI... of course if it is, that would classify a lot of humans in the DMV as intelligent as well...;)
That's like being pulled over by a cop for speeding, claiming you weren't, then pointing out that the cop wasn't even supposed to be there, since he was off duty...
Who cares? Really, we can't do shit about it if it comes... so who cares! When one big enough to cause damage will hit us, and we do know about it... telling the public would be stupid... so we won't know about it...
When I read the title the first thing that popped in my head is that while I'm driving at 70 mph in the school zone, reading the paper and yapping on my cell-phone, the copy will send my speeding/wreckless driving/careless driving ticket to my cell phone directly... no need to pull me over and disrupt traffic...
Good to know I'm safe for another few years before someone implements this...;)
No.. it is a big deal. Yes I agree that everyone gets the patch at the same time. That's not my point. Back to the beloved car analogy. If there is a problem with the car, I want to know IMMEDIATELY, not when the manufacturer has set up the recall infrastructure and is ready to do something about it.
If MS finds a bug in IE that can be used to wipe my harddrive, I want to know about it IMMEDIATELY, not when MS is ready to fix it. Since in the mean time I can stop using the product, or 'react' to the information that there is an issue. Just because everyone gets the FIX at the same time, doesn't mean that I don't need to KNOW about the problem ASAP.
This is extortion! You cannot force me to pay you more money to provide a warranty that I'm entitled to under law. Just try this logic in any other industry... Oh, you're car's got a major issue that could cause injury, but we won't tell you about it, until we tell our wealthy customers first.
And as an added fact... I remember when I worked at RIM, Mike L. (the CEO) specifically told all of us workers that the blackberry will never be an all in one device. It will not be a phone, an mp3 player or a remote control. It will be a 2 way pager that does email, that's it, that's all.
Boy oh boy was he bad at predicting what the market demanded... I'm kinda happy I'm no longer there... their idealistic vision were trampled right around the time the bubble burst... now they no longer create innovative products, just mash things together, and have patent wars to try and make a profit every quarter... what a shame...
What I want to know is why they built a big ass box... why not at least try and make it handle wind a bit better, say with 45 degree angles in the building, or perhaps even some curves... Something tells me those panels came off because they were square into the wind with huge pressure differences on the outside vs the inside...
Perhaps you misunderstood what was explained at the conference, or they did a poor job of explaining it. Either way, GDI and DX should never, ever be used to access the same screen realestate. The same app can use them at the same time, but never in the same screen area. Now with that said, the avalon interface will support the basic 2D/3D stuff as a superset of what GDI does currently for 90% of the apps out there. If you want to get fancy and use vertex/pixel shaders (or common shaders as they will be called), then you will need to fall back to the DX api... completely... you won't call Avalon for some rendering and DX for the rest, it's either all avalon or all DX, if you try and mix the two, you will have serious issues, probably similiar to the ones you run into with GDI and DX currently.
There are early versions of the API's floating around if you know where to look... trust me when I say this isn't the revolutionary be all and end all of windows graphics API's... It's just a minor evolution of DX, and a wrapper ontop of DX (think d3dx functions currently) that simply makes UI tasks easier. Perhaps that Eurographics '04 talk you attended was a lot of hype with little substance? Did they back up any of their claims?
This is a boat load of hogwash. DirectX is here to stay. DirectX is the damned core, Avalon, or whatever the heck they end up calling it is simply a layer on top of DX. But don't take my word for it, google it. There is enough info out there, that anyone that knows how to program for DirectX will immediately realise that it is being modified with the new UI in mind. It's being done to help it hook into DirectX, and if you examine the DX API closely (especially the latest SDK release), you'll notice a trend to add APIs that allow features that are required for a fully integrated UI. And at the end of the day, game developers will still be using the DX api.
The REAL reason they don't allow them to be used on aircraft is simple. It has nothing, and I really mean NOTHING to do with aircraft safety... it has everything to do with the fact that you are traveling above cell towers at a high rate of speed, and since you are in the sky, your phone can connect to tons of cells at the same time. This results in:
1. Multiple cell towers that are not adjacent try and lock onto the phone, their protocols never had this in mind, when on the ground it's impossible to do this. Cell 'a' hands off to cell 'b'... no way in hell you can get to Cell 'c' without either turning off your phone, or going through cell 'b'... in the air line of sight screws this assumption up big time.
2. You have reduced available bandwidth since multiple non adjacent towers have now allocated bandwidth for your phone.
3. The constant roaming between cell towers caused by your altitude and speed can cause issues with other phones using the towers. I've specifically seen it happen while testing a new GSM/GPRS tower 5 years ago. The phone in the air was broadcasting in an incorrect timeslice and frequency for the new cell tower, but it was still within the boundaries for timing of the handshake that it had moments earlier on a tower that was 2 cells away.
For the person who wrote the headline, and obviously is clueless... What the headline should have been is "Cash is something that can be used to hold value"
All I know is, that here in Canada, we can email money to people, straight from my account to someone elses... if they got the financial big dogs like the banks to agree to simply emailing around money between accounts and banks, why would email voting in the US be any different? I doubt the banks would trust a technology that is easily fooled/spoofed.. no?
1969... it's 2004... math... err... ummm... hold on, let me get a calculator for you... err... let's see... what's the thingy I gotta do? Add??? No... subtract... ah... there we go... 25!!!
Okay Microsoft, listen and listen damned well, as this is the last time I say this... Give me the ORIGINAL natural keyboard, and the ORIGINAL Intelliexplorer mouse... I don't want the fancy million button keyboards, and the god awful small craptacular mice... I want the originals back! You had something good, and you destroyed them... it's not the 'new shiny blue plastic' that will get you sales...
You upgrade because DirectX or XNA, or whatever the hell they call the next graphics subsystem used by games will only be available on Longhorn. Why else would you upgrade?
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How about a transcript? I can't very well listen to audio, especially not howard stern at the office... ;)
oh lighten up... it's called a joke...
Yes reentering the earths atmosphere is a lot more dangerous... but there'd be a 100% death rate if we all couldn't laugh every once in a while... sheesh.
That's almost as impressive as surviving a flight from New York to LA... in fact, I think they might even have been allowed a knife and fork for their inflight meal... ;)
I have had the fortune of sitting in on a meeting with a potential client at a company. Let me say this... no contract or sale in the history of corporate life has ever been above board. I have never seen so much free flowing alcohol in my life... all to seal the deal... now if record companies do the same to get their crappy music on the air, good for them, it's how business is done... substitute music for software, or electronic equipment, and all of a sudden it just becomes normal business practice... I scratch your back if you scratch mine... sheesh...
You need Visual Basic... conveniently converts images of windows into working programs!
what happens if the AI malfunctions? then mission control will get a bunch of useless error reports... It's a stupid self diagnosis test... not AI... overhyped buzzword... It simply runs a simulation and tests its results against the actual ones, and generates a report... that's not AI... of course if it is, that would classify a lot of humans in the DMV as intelligent as well... ;)
That's like being pulled over by a cop for speeding, claiming you weren't, then pointing out that the cop wasn't even supposed to be there, since he was off duty...
Can they implant something that house trains my puppy? Two weeks now and he still shits and pisses on my computer...
What's the point... the turn out for voting is always at an all time low... the system is flawed... we need a better system to elect people to power.
Title says it all.
Who cares? Really, we can't do shit about it if it comes... so who cares! When one big enough to cause damage will hit us, and we do know about it... telling the public would be stupid... so we won't know about it...
When I read the title the first thing that popped in my head is that while I'm driving at 70 mph in the school zone, reading the paper and yapping on my cell-phone, the copy will send my speeding/wreckless driving/careless driving ticket to my cell phone directly... no need to pull me over and disrupt traffic...
;)
Good to know I'm safe for another few years before someone implements this...
No, silly, spam is situated in California... The porn sites people sign up for are situated in Florida... Porn spam is down, overall spam is not.
No.. it is a big deal. Yes I agree that everyone gets the patch at the same time. That's not my point. Back to the beloved car analogy. If there is a problem with the car, I want to know IMMEDIATELY, not when the manufacturer has set up the recall infrastructure and is ready to do something about it.
If MS finds a bug in IE that can be used to wipe my harddrive, I want to know about it IMMEDIATELY, not when MS is ready to fix it. Since in the mean time I can stop using the product, or 'react' to the information that there is an issue. Just because everyone gets the FIX at the same time, doesn't mean that I don't need to KNOW about the problem ASAP.
This is extortion! You cannot force me to pay you more money to provide a warranty that I'm entitled to under law. Just try this logic in any other industry... Oh, you're car's got a major issue that could cause injury, but we won't tell you about it, until we tell our wealthy customers first.
And as an added fact... I remember when I worked at RIM, Mike L. (the CEO) specifically told all of us workers that the blackberry will never be an all in one device. It will not be a phone, an mp3 player or a remote control. It will be a 2 way pager that does email, that's it, that's all.
Boy oh boy was he bad at predicting what the market demanded... I'm kinda happy I'm no longer there... their idealistic vision were trampled right around the time the bubble burst... now they no longer create innovative products, just mash things together, and have patent wars to try and make a profit every quarter... what a shame...
What I want to know is why they built a big ass box... why not at least try and make it handle wind a bit better, say with 45 degree angles in the building, or perhaps even some curves... Something tells me those panels came off because they were square into the wind with huge pressure differences on the outside vs the inside...
Perhaps you misunderstood what was explained at the conference, or they did a poor job of explaining it. Either way, GDI and DX should never, ever be used to access the same screen realestate. The same app can use them at the same time, but never in the same screen area. Now with that said, the avalon interface will support the basic 2D/3D stuff as a superset of what GDI does currently for 90% of the apps out there. If you want to get fancy and use vertex/pixel shaders (or common shaders as they will be called), then you will need to fall back to the DX api... completely... you won't call Avalon for some rendering and DX for the rest, it's either all avalon or all DX, if you try and mix the two, you will have serious issues, probably similiar to the ones you run into with GDI and DX currently.
There are early versions of the API's floating around if you know where to look... trust me when I say this isn't the revolutionary be all and end all of windows graphics API's... It's just a minor evolution of DX, and a wrapper ontop of DX (think d3dx functions currently) that simply makes UI tasks easier. Perhaps that Eurographics '04 talk you attended was a lot of hype with little substance? Did they back up any of their claims?
This is a boat load of hogwash. DirectX is here to stay. DirectX is the damned core, Avalon, or whatever the heck they end up calling it is simply a layer on top of DX. But don't take my word for it, google it. There is enough info out there, that anyone that knows how to program for DirectX will immediately realise that it is being modified with the new UI in mind. It's being done to help it hook into DirectX, and if you examine the DX API closely (especially the latest SDK release), you'll notice a trend to add APIs that allow features that are required for a fully integrated UI. And at the end of the day, game developers will still be using the DX api.
The REAL reason they don't allow them to be used on aircraft is simple. It has nothing, and I really mean NOTHING to do with aircraft safety... it has everything to do with the fact that you are traveling above cell towers at a high rate of speed, and since you are in the sky, your phone can connect to tons of cells at the same time. This results in:
1. Multiple cell towers that are not adjacent try and lock onto the phone, their protocols never had this in mind, when on the ground it's impossible to do this. Cell 'a' hands off to cell 'b'... no way in hell you can get to Cell 'c' without either turning off your phone, or going through cell 'b'... in the air line of sight screws this assumption up big time.
2. You have reduced available bandwidth since multiple non adjacent towers have now allocated bandwidth for your phone.
3. The constant roaming between cell towers caused by your altitude and speed can cause issues with other phones using the towers. I've specifically seen it happen while testing a new GSM/GPRS tower 5 years ago. The phone in the air was broadcasting in an incorrect timeslice and frequency for the new cell tower, but it was still within the boundaries for timing of the handshake that it had moments earlier on a tower that was 2 cells away.
For the person who wrote the headline, and obviously is clueless... What the headline should have been is "Cash is something that can be used to hold value"
All I know is, that here in Canada, we can email money to people, straight from my account to someone elses... if they got the financial big dogs like the banks to agree to simply emailing around money between accounts and banks, why would email voting in the US be any different? I doubt the banks would trust a technology that is easily fooled/spoofed.. no?
1969... it's 2004... math... err... ummm... hold on, let me get a calculator for you... err... let's see... what's the thingy I gotta do? Add??? No... subtract... ah... there we go... 25!!!
Okay Microsoft, listen and listen damned well, as this is the last time I say this... Give me the ORIGINAL natural keyboard, and the ORIGINAL Intelliexplorer mouse... I don't want the fancy million button keyboards, and the god awful small craptacular mice... I want the originals back! You had something good, and you destroyed them... it's not the 'new shiny blue plastic' that will get you sales...
You upgrade because DirectX or XNA, or whatever the hell they call the next graphics subsystem used by games will only be available on Longhorn. Why else would you upgrade?