Re:Will this Dr. Who tackle harsh political issues
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Dr Who Rolls On
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Yes....
there are various references towards mass media moguls controlling the public, there has been a reference towards guantanamo in bad wolf (you are arrested and sentenced without trial....) etc...
once you look deeper the whole series is highly sarcastic, and pretty dark.
That is not the point, the pont is, that Microsoft never rolled out a workable PNG solution although the bug has been reported first, around 8 years ago.
Even worse, the IE5 on the MAC does PNGs properly!
Heck, the entire californian film industry was founded upon patent infringement,
Edison had several key patents on the film technology, and the old film studio founders did not want to pay him off, so they moved to california, hoping of trying to be far enough away from Edison and not having to pay the royalities he back then by law deserved upon his patents.
Isnt it funny that exactly the industry which drives the overexaggerated IP laws we currently have most was founded out of the wish to avoid those laws. Perfect example of forgetting its own history.
The funny thing is, fast response time goes hand in hand with parallelism.
You cannot win speedwise in a user interface without pushing as much into the background as possible.
Usually the slow and steady downfall of a corporation comes when the last of the founders or their children leave the corporation.
Typical examples Disney, HP, well IBM is more the exception than the rule.
But especially in companies which were foundet upon art or frontier technology this downfall can be seen.
Usually the creative people who drive the company and which had relative freedom and security guaranteed by the founders (because they knew that some things only pay off in the long term) come under the yoke of some MBAs, who always seem to hate free thinkers, they get the pressure of having to secure quarterly results, and usually they are driven away or give up internally, and the quality and art goes down the drain.
The last step is first the dissolvment of entire departements which drove the company research or artwise, then the company becomes a brand only, and the main protagonists which ran the company qualitywise into the ground leave the scene with a golden handshake.
Recent examples as I said have been Disney, the entire record industry, which seems to be more busy buying themselves draconian laws, to keep their revenue up than funding art (which sort of drove them until the late 70s)
Also HP is a typical example of such a company, which took a record dive once the last relatives of the founders were driven out.
I expect apple to go the same way once Jobs bites the dust, and ditto for Microsoft once the founders are not there anymore.
The reason why Ghibli or Pixar can drive the animation scene currently is, because they could build or keep a relativ freedom from corporate beancounter greed, which always runs art or construction quality into the ground (art research and technology have lot in common, they need relativ freedom to thrive and free thinking people not driven by quarterly hire and fire greed)
Given the current state of affairs, I would not really mind seeing Disney going the way of the dodo, to bad that some of the original Disney family are still around seeing their old family company being rammed into the corporated greed graveyard (not financially but artistically)
Many problems are very serial in nature, sure, there might be possibilites where the compiler can multithread automatically, but this wont bring any significant performance boost, because probably to few of those problems can be multithreaded automatically.
But having multithreading on processor level can speedup things here and now. See, most problems in modern programs have to be multithreaded at least away from the user interface, which means, for keeping a responsiv UI you have to push things into the background.
It is even more so, once you are on the middleware and server level, where multithreading is extensively used for serving more than one user.
Basically every program nowadays in existence, which is more complex than a hello world, does multithreading one way or the other.
You simply do not see it, because many operating systems hide the threads to the user in the process list (windows for instance)
But expect the average UI program have at least two threads, one for messaging one for program, and probably around 5-10 depending on the tasks it has to perform. Expect the average server open and pool threads upon increased load.
So having a real threading instead of a simulated time sliced one, would speed things up significantly, no matther where you run into a program.
Not anything single threaded, the main reason is, that you usually are forced to multithread anyway, once the program becomes bigger than a single hello world, to reduce latency times.
At least they dont cut it down into oblivion, like another studio did in the eighties with Nausicaä.
(Can anyone remember warriors of wind, that was Nausicaä cut down into no storyline)
The problem with Disney is, that it is run by a bunch of beancounters who only value law if it fits their quarterly results and value art only as a scetch on the dollar.
if apple pulls it out and you can run windows and osx they have a winner.
the major thing which is problematic for many buyers is, that if you buy apple you cannot run windows decently.
Now if they are going to buy an apple for windows, they start toying around with osx and never even bother with windows anymore.
Actually the consolitis is not that bad, and I always hated the monstrous levels of the first two parts.
Besides that, the game has a much bigger feeling to it, since it is one big city where you can break in wherever you go, and just get your missions.
Thief3 basically is the game I wished Thief1 would have been.
Well given the fact, that they will break lagrande, or whatever intel/apple will come up with, look at the opendarwin situation, the whole os will only run on certain configurations, which will lock out 95% of all Wintel users, which have configurations so different that the OS simply will refuse to run on,
Read up, on what Intel and others are doing under the TCPA and other umbrellas and you get the picture.
I but doubt you will like it, believe me, apple is the smaller evil. Microsoft has much more evil stuff in the works, which will be sold over increased security.
Intel and others work under the TCPA, NGSCP and other umbrellas on dongle technologies, most people are not aware of that, but besides trying to enable "secure" channels all over the hardware for the content providers, OS lock mechanisms to prevent installs of certain os on anything than certified hardware is one thing which intel works on, via a new bios replacement.
Re:Please explain: What is the big fat hairy deal?
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Ajax On Rails
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Actually there are only so many ways to do things, after all you always deal with the same stuff,
rails is new, but the concepts are old, and can be found in many other frameworks.
The thing about rails is the excellent ruby language behind it which eases many of those constructs found and taken from many other frameworks by the usage of heavy introspection.
There is none... even in the public sector you usually have to fight for sane schedules...
But at least after the crunchtime in the pub sector you usually can take the time off.
Whats so funny about it, code generation is used left and right in modern projects, this stuff is great to shift the grundwork away from the developers and not having to go into outsourcing hell.
It is not only japan, environmental research is big over here as well...
That is one one of the fields to move over in the long run, environmental research.
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Yes.... there are various references towards mass media moguls controlling the public, there has been a reference towards guantanamo in bad wolf (you are arrested and sentenced without trial....) etc... once you look deeper the whole series is highly sarcastic, and pretty dark.
That is not the point, the pont is, that Microsoft never rolled out a workable PNG solution although the bug has been reported first, around 8 years ago. Even worse, the IE5 on the MAC does PNGs properly!
I know about that, but this problem was reported 8 years ago! Another thing is the half broken CSS1 and the totally broken CSS2
I thought they might have fixed the png transparency bug, which was reported to them eight years ago... but no... just a buffer overflow.
Heck, the entire californian film industry was founded upon patent infringement, Edison had several key patents on the film technology, and the old film studio founders did not want to pay him off, so they moved to california, hoping of trying to be far enough away from Edison and not having to pay the royalities he back then by law deserved upon his patents.
Isnt it funny that exactly the industry which drives the overexaggerated IP laws we currently have most was founded out of the wish to avoid those laws. Perfect example of forgetting its own history.
The funny thing is, fast response time goes hand in hand with parallelism. You cannot win speedwise in a user interface without pushing as much into the background as possible.
Usually the slow and steady downfall of a corporation comes when the last of the founders or their children leave the corporation. Typical examples Disney, HP, well IBM is more the exception than the rule. But especially in companies which were foundet upon art or frontier technology this downfall can be seen.
Usually the creative people who drive the company and which had relative freedom and security guaranteed by the founders (because they knew that some things only pay off in the long term) come under the yoke of some MBAs, who always seem to hate free thinkers, they get the pressure of having to secure quarterly results, and usually they are driven away or give up internally, and the quality and art goes down the drain.
The last step is first the dissolvment of entire departements which drove the company research or artwise, then the company becomes a brand only, and the main protagonists which ran the company qualitywise into the ground leave the scene with a golden handshake.
Recent examples as I said have been Disney, the entire record industry, which seems to be more busy buying themselves draconian laws, to keep their revenue up than funding art (which sort of drove them until the late 70s)
Also HP is a typical example of such a company, which took a record dive once the last relatives of the founders were driven out.
I expect apple to go the same way once Jobs bites the dust, and ditto for Microsoft once the founders are not there anymore.
The reason why Ghibli or Pixar can drive the animation scene currently is, because they could build or keep a relativ freedom from corporate beancounter greed, which always runs art or construction quality into the ground (art research and technology have lot in common, they need relativ freedom to thrive and free thinking people not driven by quarterly hire and fire greed)
Given the current state of affairs, I would not really mind seeing Disney going the way of the dodo, to bad that some of the original Disney family are still around seeing their old family company being rammed into the corporated greed graveyard (not financially but artistically)
Many problems are very serial in nature, sure, there might be possibilites where the compiler can multithread automatically, but this wont bring any significant performance boost, because probably to few of those problems can be multithreaded automatically. But having multithreading on processor level can speedup things here and now. See, most problems in modern programs have to be multithreaded at least away from the user interface, which means, for keeping a responsiv UI you have to push things into the background. It is even more so, once you are on the middleware and server level, where multithreading is extensively used for serving more than one user. Basically every program nowadays in existence, which is more complex than a hello world, does multithreading one way or the other. You simply do not see it, because many operating systems hide the threads to the user in the process list (windows for instance) But expect the average UI program have at least two threads, one for messaging one for program, and probably around 5-10 depending on the tasks it has to perform. Expect the average server open and pool threads upon increased load. So having a real threading instead of a simulated time sliced one, would speed things up significantly, no matther where you run into a program.
Not anything single threaded, the main reason is, that you usually are forced to multithread anyway, once the program becomes bigger than a single hello world, to reduce latency times.
if you need raw speed, I have a mini and a centrino notebook, and both being almost equally clocked the centrino P-M runs circles around the g4.
At least they dont cut it down into oblivion, like another studio did in the eighties with Nausicaä. (Can anyone remember warriors of wind, that was Nausicaä cut down into no storyline)
The problem with Disney is, that it is run by a bunch of beancounters who only value law if it fits their quarterly results and value art only as a scetch on the dollar.
given the fact, that I havent programmed a single threaded program in years.
if apple pulls it out and you can run windows and osx they have a winner. the major thing which is problematic for many buyers is, that if you buy apple you cannot run windows decently. Now if they are going to buy an apple for windows, they start toying around with osx and never even bother with windows anymore.
Actually the consolitis is not that bad, and I always hated the monstrous levels of the first two parts. Besides that, the game has a much bigger feeling to it, since it is one big city where you can break in wherever you go, and just get your missions. Thief3 basically is the game I wished Thief1 would have been.
Well given the fact, that they will break lagrande, or whatever intel/apple will come up with, look at the opendarwin situation, the whole os will only run on certain configurations, which will lock out 95% of all Wintel users, which have configurations so different that the OS simply will refuse to run on,
Read up, on what Intel and others are doing under the TCPA and other umbrellas and you get the picture. I but doubt you will like it, believe me, apple is the smaller evil. Microsoft has much more evil stuff in the works, which will be sold over increased security.
Intel and others work under the TCPA, NGSCP and other umbrellas on dongle technologies, most people are not aware of that, but besides trying to enable "secure" channels all over the hardware for the content providers, OS lock mechanisms to prevent installs of certain os on anything than certified hardware is one thing which intel works on, via a new bios replacement.
Actually there are only so many ways to do things, after all you always deal with the same stuff, rails is new, but the concepts are old, and can be found in many other frameworks. The thing about rails is the excellent ruby language behind it which eases many of those constructs found and taken from many other frameworks by the usage of heavy introspection.
Should not it plays fined on my athlon 2200 and even played fine on my old machine, the game is awesome.
There is none... even in the public sector you usually have to fight for sane schedules... But at least after the crunchtime in the pub sector you usually can take the time off.
four hours today trying to circumvent various internet explorer bugs, I really dont want to see new features, but more bugfixes, and a decent CSS...
it was nice knowing ya :-(
Whats so funny about it, code generation is used left and right in modern projects, this stuff is great to shift the grundwork away from the developers and not having to go into outsourcing hell.
It is not only japan, environmental research is big over here as well... That is one one of the fields to move over in the long run, environmental research.