umm despite your AC reply I'll bite anyway since your remark is so over the top. You are mixing democracy with capitalism. The two have nothing to do with eachother, and the USA corporate government is the perfect proof of it as you just stated yourself.
ehm... did you read my post ? The surgery stuff I was talking about is an industry first. The eye movement thingie is highly coupled to the hardware (which is form another company) and is probably the only one available.
You linux peeps assume so much... it's unbelievable...
The package some peeps use at our dept to control eye-movement-detection equipment. This stuff is microsecond accurate (thats micro, not milli!) up to 50microsecs. Costs a ton (I recall seeing 15.000 euro somewhere) since they sell only a few hundred of these machines (which cost a ton too) worldwide.
And then I'm not even talking about medical software. A friend had knee surgery a few weeks ago. The whole operation was done by a computer, connected to 5 or 6 flexible, moveable cameras. I have no idea how this stuff works, but the surgeon (who stood by to operate the computer and do the rough work like cutting & sowing) said it was develeoped by a german company who worked for 4 years on it with a team of 50 programmers. They had one of the first certified machines. He refused to mention the price but I can not imagine it is less than six figures. Imagine a korean company reverse-engineering it and selling it for 1500$ at wallmart.
I'm just a lowry simple windows programmer, so I have not much samples to give you since my work is easily researchable/replacable/reproducable and therefore has very little pattentable value. I'm sure many slashdotters work at far more technical labs and can bring your floating linux-ass to the ground. (i hate linux buggers who storm in our lab to claim I should dump the windXP box and run linux to control our equip. When I ask 'okay, are you going to rewrite 15.000 euro worth of software then ?' they go bananas over WineX and hordes of volontueer linux gods out there who will do it for free and more of that shit. In the end, it turned out he came to me cause he couldn't use old the dept scanner cause there are no linux drivers. sheesh...)
Emitionaly, I agree with you. But you can not deny that development of several huge software packages for very small market segments are not feasible without pattents.
It's like farmaceutical industry (a total fuckup too by now) who need pattents to make sure they get return of investment over a period of several years. Unfortunate as it is, a lot of indistrial & technological progress would not have been made if pattents didn't exist. But I do agree wholeheartedly that this construction, which was ingenious and constructive by concept, has turned out to be a failure in practice. Much like communism, capitalism is collapsing under it's own inertia. The inertia of the USSR was lack of motivation, the inertia of our western world is fear of losing marketshare or corporate value.
although it is using AOL or.Mac (both proprietary) it has 2 advantages :
- Not bound to MS, who has a history if being big brother and control freak
- kids can use the iSight, which works flawlessly and assures the person on the other line is indeed a kid and not an imposter.
All that aside, I think this whole pedophile paranoia will one day grow a more mature and intelligent way of educating your kids. I have 2 toddlers myself, and get scared by the though that one day they will ride their bicycle from school to home alone. Does that mean I'll install a camera or GPS tracking in their forehead ? Offcourse not. Most parents agree with the fact that kids need to learn that the world can be a dangerous place, that strangers can be freaks, etc etc, but that all in all, it's a nice world, and we should be happy to live in it. The same holds for web communities. They have their inherent dangers, but all in all it's a nice world.
Just watch for the freaks and don't do anything head-over-heels.
"At a minimum, if they want to continue to use it, there certainly has to be some sort of a license to the Library Hotel," he said. "We're not interested in putting the hotel out of business."
When our kids went to school september 1st, I volounteered as computer fixer. First thing I did was throw off ALL (I'll repeat : ALL) office suites of all computers. That included MS Office, Open Office and Appleworks. I replaced them with Wordpad and similar "silly" editors.
We're september 19, and NOBODY noticed. I got 1 remark from a teacher telling me that this year, the kids seemed to get along better with the computers compared to last year.
All this just to prove that 90% of current software can be reduced to the max in 90% of all machine instances.
MPAA: Not the RIAA
that's nonsense. Wait until the day we have gigabit ethernet in every home and we can copy an entire DVD in
They've just have less enemies cause there's less easy ways to steal/copy. That's all.
I'm also an upgrade nut. Usually for one stupi dgame. I did it for Quake2 (bought a voodoo.. duh.. biggest mistake ever) for quake3 (a GeForce2) for Warcraft3 (a GeForce4ti 4600) and probably will do soon for Doom3/HL2
Finally I'm getting to my senses and promised myself my next purchase will be a playstation3. At least, console game developers stick to the hardware specs for 2 years or so instead of assuming everyone will have a bigger card by the time their game is released.
I guess my GeForce4 ti4600, which is just over 1 years old, will only get 30fps or so ! Which means I'll be a sitting duck in netgames.
If these are indeeed optimized benchmarks, I doubt we'll see HL2 on the market soon. The'yll have to wait at least untill the R9800 or U5900 become mainstream. (read : at console-level prices)
this reminds me of a very funny story some 35 years go.
My dad was a database guy avant-la-lettre : he used to catalogue his bibliografies and other stuff on small cards, and sort them in binders & carboard boxes all over his office.
These cards were kinda expensive though, and ordering them on univ budget took weeks. So when computer punchards started appearing, and programmers were trowing away hundreds of cards every day after compilation errors, my dad had found is never ending source of cards. So after a year or 2, his office was littered with punchcards with text written on the back.
Some time later, a collegue flew over from overseas for a congres. Upon seeing my dad's office and his insane collection of thousands of punchards, he went completely bananas "you've got everything on computer !! How splendid ! Could we please copy your archive to add to our own database ? "
My dad, being a complete computer illiterate was like "duh? sure, if you think it's of any help and if you return the cards"
So the collegue packed a few dozen boxes with cards and flew them to the US. Where they fed them into the poor mainframe....
I still giggle when I picture the problems their IT staff must have had trying to read the damd nonsense, and the look upon my fathers face "well offcourse the data is on those cards ! Didn't you guys turn them around and look ????":-)
I know. I really need an RT OS, but there are 3 reasons why I can't use the RT linux project:
- the univ has a windows-only network policy. It took me a bucket of sweat just to get authorisation for my OSX tiBook
- I need to develop an app that is used by 10 people. All of them use windows. Getting them to switch would take more effort than simply making them accept an (occasional) possible 1-5msec delay somewhere in their data.
- I have 10 years of experience with win32 development, zero years with linux. The app has a big honking interface with 50 dialogs or something, so I need a RAD IDE like MSVC++ DevStudio.If I were to learn a linux IDE (for a gnome or KDE app) I would probably take an extra year.
The only solution would be to create the authoring app on win32, and a runtime for RTlinux. That way, my collegues could create their experiments in windows, and copy them to the lab machine which runs linux. But then there's the issue of univ policy. Plus, I'm lazy:-)
errr... wrong: this kid did it all himself in his backyard. Granted, not a mushroom, but tie a few hundred kilo of semtex to it, set it of in center NY and you've got a cancer-disaster compared to which 9/11 is nothing.
umpf... In my book, the main reason we haven't had a nuclear war is a huge amount of insanely dumbass LUCK.
There were a kabillion ways WW3 could have started, but somehow everyone had something better to do. If one of these kabillion possibilities had happened, Neither Nagasaki nor Hiroshima would have made a difference. Probably even the opposite...
i second that. I write software for the psychology dept at our univ, designed to do reaction time experiments. In basic priming experiments, we need accuracy up to at least 3 msec, preferably 1msec. For eye-movement detection I'd like even finer measurements, but under windows that's simply impossible.
accuracy up to 1msec is feasable by using a sufficiently fast machine (1GHz or more) with enough ram (512 at minimum) and VRAM (64min, more if you want speedy pics), removing network adapters & USB equipment and beefing the process priority up to max.
But even under those conditions, I occasionally lose a msec here or there. I wonder how OSX behaves under the same conditions...
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ouch.. what a narcisist !
Of all the nerds I've seen, this one must have the most pics of himself online.
it will probably have a 7000 stage pipeline
here
A damd fine machine, I might add !
I didn't say you didn't know the definition. I said you were mixing them up. YOU introduced the concept of electoral mess.
Whatever dude, it's late & you're probably american. Two argument as why not to jump into discussions for me.
umm despite your AC reply I'll bite anyway since your remark is so over the top. You are mixing democracy with capitalism. The two have nothing to do with eachother, and the USA corporate government is the perfect proof of it as you just stated yourself.
ehm... did you read my post ? The surgery stuff I was talking about is an industry first. The eye movement thingie is highly coupled to the hardware (which is form another company) and is probably the only one available.
You linux peeps assume so much... it's unbelievable...
The package some peeps use at our dept to control eye-movement-detection equipment. This stuff is microsecond accurate (thats micro, not milli!) up to 50microsecs. Costs a ton (I recall seeing 15.000 euro somewhere) since they sell only a few hundred of these machines (which cost a ton too) worldwide.
And then I'm not even talking about medical software. A friend had knee surgery a few weeks ago. The whole operation was done by a computer, connected to 5 or 6 flexible, moveable cameras. I have no idea how this stuff works, but the surgeon (who stood by to operate the computer and do the rough work like cutting & sowing) said it was develeoped by a german company who worked for 4 years on it with a team of 50 programmers. They had one of the first certified machines. He refused to mention the price but I can not imagine it is less than six figures.
Imagine a korean company reverse-engineering it and selling it for 1500$ at wallmart.
I'm just a lowry simple windows programmer, so I have not much samples to give you since my work is easily researchable/replacable/reproducable and therefore has very little pattentable value. I'm sure many slashdotters work at far more technical labs and can bring your floating linux-ass to the ground. (i hate linux buggers who storm in our lab to claim I should dump the windXP box and run linux to control our equip. When I ask 'okay, are you going to rewrite 15.000 euro worth of software then ?' they go bananas over WineX and hordes of volontueer linux gods out there who will do it for free and more of that shit. In the end, it turned out he came to me cause he couldn't use old the dept scanner cause there are no linux drivers. sheesh...)
Emitionaly, I agree with you. But you can not deny that development of several huge software packages for very small market segments are not feasible without pattents.
It's like farmaceutical industry (a total fuckup too by now) who need pattents to make sure they get return of investment over a period of several years. Unfortunate as it is, a lot of indistrial & technological progress would not have been made if pattents didn't exist. But I do agree wholeheartedly that this construction, which was ingenious and constructive by concept, has turned out to be a failure in practice. Much like communism, capitalism is collapsing under it's own inertia. The inertia of the USSR was lack of motivation, the inertia of our western world is fear of losing marketshare or corporate value.
although it is using AOL or .Mac (both proprietary) it has 2 advantages :
- Not bound to MS, who has a history if being big brother and control freak
- kids can use the iSight, which works flawlessly and assures the person on the other line is indeed a kid and not an imposter.
All that aside, I think this whole pedophile paranoia will one day grow a more mature and intelligent way of educating your kids. I have 2 toddlers myself, and get scared by the though that one day they will ride their bicycle from school to home alone. Does that mean I'll install a camera or GPS tracking in their forehead ? Offcourse not. Most parents agree with the fact that kids need to learn that the world can be a dangerous place, that strangers can be freaks, etc etc, but that all in all, it's a nice world, and we should be happy to live in it. The same holds for web communities. They have their inherent dangers, but all in all it's a nice world.
Just watch for the freaks and don't do anything head-over-heels.
I finished the update last night on my 15" FP iMac.
Wow ! You have first post iMac ?? Holy bananas, I want one of these !
(sorry, couldn't resist)
Researchers can use any technique to boost longevity
Flash freezing ?
"At a minimum, if they want to continue to use it, there certainly has to be some sort of a license to the Library Hotel," he said. "We're not interested in putting the hotel out of business."
___P>
I suppose ___P> is phonetics for foot-in-mouth ?
When our kids went to school september 1st, I volounteered as computer fixer. First thing I did was throw off ALL (I'll repeat : ALL) office suites of all computers. That included MS Office, Open Office and Appleworks. I replaced them with Wordpad and similar "silly" editors.
We're september 19, and NOBODY noticed. I got 1 remark from a teacher telling me that this year, the kids seemed to get along better with the computers compared to last year.
All this just to prove that 90% of current software can be reduced to the max in 90% of all machine instances.
dude, Q2 is so old, you could run the PC version inside VirtualPC on a 2GHz G5 and still get 20fps. Does that make VPC a solid alternative for games ?
MPAA: Not the RIAA
that's nonsense. Wait until the day we have gigabit ethernet in every home and we can copy an entire DVD in
They've just have less enemies cause there's less easy ways to steal/copy. That's all.
the frozen case
I'm also an upgrade nut. Usually for one stupi dgame. I did it for Quake2 (bought a voodoo.. duh.. biggest mistake ever) for quake3 (a GeForce2) for Warcraft3 (a GeForce4ti 4600) and probably will do soon for Doom3/HL2
Finally I'm getting to my senses and promised myself my next purchase will be a playstation3. At least, console game developers stick to the hardware specs for 2 years or so instead of assuming everyone will have a bigger card by the time their game is released.
on the fastest cards on the market ?
I guess my GeForce4 ti4600, which is just over 1 years old, will only get 30fps or so ! Which means I'll be a sitting duck in netgames.
If these are indeeed optimized benchmarks, I doubt we'll see HL2 on the market soon. The'yll have to wait at least untill the R9800 or U5900 become mainstream. (read : at console-level prices)
this reminds me of a very funny story some 35 years go.
:-)
My dad was a database guy avant-la-lettre : he used to catalogue his bibliografies and other stuff on small cards, and sort them in binders & carboard boxes all over his office.
These cards were kinda expensive though, and ordering them on univ budget took weeks. So when computer punchards started appearing, and programmers were trowing away hundreds of cards every day after compilation errors, my dad had found is never ending source of cards. So after a year or 2, his office was littered with punchcards with text written on the back.
Some time later, a collegue flew over from overseas for a congres. Upon seeing my dad's office and his insane collection of thousands of punchards, he went completely bananas "you've got everything on computer !! How splendid ! Could we please copy your archive to add to our own database ? "
My dad, being a complete computer illiterate was like "duh? sure, if you think it's of any help and if you return the cards"
So the collegue packed a few dozen boxes with cards and flew them to the US. Where they fed them into the poor mainframe....
I still giggle when I picture the problems their IT staff must have had trying to read the damd nonsense, and the look upon my fathers face "well offcourse the data is on those cards ! Didn't you guys turn them around and look ????"
artificially age the media some 20 years in only six weeks
that's nothing
This ages braincells a solid 20 years in 6 hours !
I know. I really need an RT OS, but there are 3 reasons why I can't use the RT linux project :
:-)
- the univ has a windows-only network policy. It took me a bucket of sweat just to get authorisation for my OSX tiBook
- I need to develop an app that is used by 10 people. All of them use windows. Getting them to switch would take more effort than simply making them accept an (occasional) possible 1-5msec delay somewhere in their data.
- I have 10 years of experience with win32 development, zero years with linux. The app has a big honking interface with 50 dialogs or something, so I need a RAD IDE like MSVC++ DevStudio.If I were to learn a linux IDE (for a gnome or KDE app) I would probably take an extra year.
The only solution would be to create the authoring app on win32, and a runtime for RTlinux. That way, my collegues could create their experiments in windows, and copy them to the lab machine which runs linux. But then there's the issue of univ policy. Plus, I'm lazy
errr... wrong :
this kid did it all himself in his backyard. Granted, not a mushroom, but tie a few hundred kilo of semtex to it, set it of in center NY and you've got a cancer-disaster compared to which 9/11 is nothing.
umpf... In my book, the main reason we haven't had a nuclear war is a huge amount of insanely dumbass LUCK.
There were a kabillion ways WW3 could have started, but somehow everyone had something better to do. If one of these kabillion possibilities had happened, Neither Nagasaki nor Hiroshima would have made a difference. Probably even the opposite...
i second that. I write software for the psychology dept at our univ, designed to do reaction time experiments. In basic priming experiments, we need accuracy up to at least 3 msec, preferably 1msec. For eye-movement detection I'd like even finer measurements, but under windows that's simply impossible.
accuracy up to 1msec is feasable by using a sufficiently fast machine (1GHz or more) with enough ram (512 at minimum) and VRAM (64min, more if you want speedy pics), removing network adapters & USB equipment and beefing the process priority up to max.
But even under those conditions, I occasionally lose a msec here or there. I wonder how OSX behaves under the same conditions...
using i,j,k,l would be bad since the l is hard to distinguish from 1 or even capital i