Daneel altered his laws, by placing humanity as a whole above that of a single person, aka the Zero'th Law of Robotics. Giskard couldn't, which is why he failed after hurting whats-his-name telepathically (but not before making Daneel telepathic).
Daneel saw the toxification of Earth as necessary to save humanity, and therefore higher than the First Law, which would have forced him to kill/maim the "Spacers" who did, in fact, contaminate the Earth (at Three Mile Island no less!).
I think they seek to prevent something similar to what happened in Ben Bova's book "Moonrise"
Fairly early on in the book a leak occurs and some carbon-decomposing nanites break loose and proceed to decompose spacesuits and the people themselves. Had there been a killswitch or external dependency, they might not have gotten that far, which i think is a valid concern.
(unfortunately, earth goes mass neo-luddite, and, well... go read it)
I imagine that for the users OS, it would be that simple (a drive in windows, a/mnt entry in *nix), but really, what if you don't have PCMCIA? Then you can't use it. It's not a simplicity issue, but rather a hardware issue.
Any OS can mount/read a 77mm CD-R provided it's the right format. Few desktop PCs have PCMCIA slots, and not everyone has a laptop.
For one thing, not everyone has or wants to buy a superdisk drive.
You don't really want to shake anything with disk like parts, because one bad move and the read head could shift, regardless of it being a diskette or cd. the only thing immune to that is solid state, and it's expensive.
Both clik, jaz, and zip drive media will be left behind by the potential (inevitable, most likely) low cost of the cd-r media.
Spindles of regular cd-rs cost $30 for 50 discs. A single zip disk can cost from $10 to $14, a ten pack up to $100 (that's the 100mb versions). Jaz is simply overkill. And as for clik, at $10 a disc for 40mb, I'm pretty sure a cheap spindle of 77mm discs with higher capacity would win.
Not to mention that you'd need to buy a drive for your computer, which is eliminated with the CD-R format.
$10 for a device few people can use, $50 for a device that isn't very fast (or because it costs $50 and has limited use), or $0.?? possibly for a media that can be read in just about any cd-rom drive (which was the intent of the original mavica)?
Flash memory/compact flash cards are high cost per meg (ever priced a 64mb card?), whereas the 77mm cd-r could be far cheaper (in the $0.0? per MB, hell, $0.?? per disc!), as it's media is based on an already refined, cheap (relatively speaking) process.
Flash memory cards are also quickly destroyed, so that $50 you spent on the 8mb card will be lost once the memory is burned out from the reads and writes.
Not to mention this gives you a permanent storage space for your photos, so you don't need to download/burn them afterwards.
CNet killing doubleclick. At least CNet doesn't track your every move, on or off their site. To say the least, at least CNet offers some fairly decent services.
That said, having a networked client/server GUI beats the shit out of a single-user, single desktop GUI anytime.
The purpose of DRI was to allow card drivers to bypass the client/server architecture and go straight to hardware (for fullscreen only, IIRC). Linux still has some other issues, but i'm pretty sure they'll be resolved soon. And someone slap nvidia and tell them to use DRI, so they don't have compatibility problems...
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The RIAA's final offer is that they will drop the suit only if we unbundle Pan's attachment decoder from the newsreader. SuperPimpSoft is unwilling to do this: the attachment decoder is seamlessly integrated into Pan and cannot be removed.
I dunno, it sounds like a joke to me:P
Seems a lot like microsoft and the DOJ. Besides, all they'd have to do is point at EVERY OTHER news reader in existence that does the SAME thing to prove their point.
Shakespeare is considered great because his works expound on themes common to all of us. Who would have known his theory on lawyers would resonate so true today as they did back then.
But nowadays, would he have said the same thing, him being a playwright and all? Or would he be the person leading the roundup?
The mac os back then was like win16 in that it didn't split the CPU time up fairly among apps. The app that used it all got it all.
The os had to wait for the cpu to catch up with the app so the app would relinquish control to the OS, which would then apply any mouse clicks or keypresses you did while it was busy.
New Macs and Win32 machines can do that, but only if a) the app is lagged, and b) you're really careful, since it's a lot eaiser to jump out to other apps.
The reason you could work ahead on the mac was because it was a single tasking OS. Everything you did fell on a stack waiting for it's chance to be input. Win3.1 would do the same thing.
Any of the Intense3D Wildcats, or the 3DLabs Oxygen cards do all of the OpenGL pipeline in hardware. Depending on the amount of ram, the faster it will go. Only thing is that the GeForce2 is really catching up speed wise. The geforce managed to keep up with the wildcat 4110 in an 80000 polygon scene in 3dsmax.
Real power is there, just how you use it is important.
No. Let's make sure we don't use standard AMERICAN measurements. If we do everything in metric at all points in the line, you won't have that problem arise.
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Q2 itself may not be tweaked for SMP but if a PMesa enabled graphics driver is rendering, the rendering process is distributed! Sure, all the Q2 data itself still stays on the first CPU, but at least the REAL hardcore CPU hog, the rendering, is going out to those other CPU's.
Only if you do software rendering. Otherwise 90% of the rendering is done on the graphics card. You might say geometry calculations need to be moved there, but that will only help minimally, and that is being moved to the graphics card also.
SMP will not be a commonplace feature. Not everyone will use it, so the game companies will not take much advantage of it. Without game support, SMP is useless, and SMP based PMesa drivers are just as useless.
If that link wasn't posted, perhaps the Hospital I.T. department could have ensured that the dialysis machine wouldn't have been rooted.
What, do you think EVERYONE wants to know the concentration of uric acid in your blood?
I do hope you are joking:P
Said device should not even be accessible by anyone who would root it. In fact, they probably don't even run QNX. Probably 160k of code on some EEPROM inside the thing.
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Not really a bug, per-se, but an "evolution".
First off, it wasn't the robots who did it!
Daneel altered his laws, by placing humanity as a whole above that of a single person, aka the Zero'th Law of Robotics. Giskard couldn't, which is why he failed after hurting whats-his-name telepathically (but not before making Daneel telepathic).
Daneel saw the toxification of Earth as necessary to save humanity, and therefore higher than the First Law, which would have forced him to kill/maim the "Spacers" who did, in fact, contaminate the Earth (at Three Mile Island no less!).
I think they seek to prevent something similar to what happened in Ben Bova's book "Moonrise"
Fairly early on in the book a leak occurs and some carbon-decomposing nanites break loose and proceed to decompose spacesuits and the people themselves. Had there been a killswitch or external dependency, they might not have gotten that far, which i think is a valid concern.
(unfortunately, earth goes mass neo-luddite, and, well... go read it)
I imagine that for the users OS, it would be that simple (a drive in windows, a /mnt entry in *nix), but really, what if you don't have PCMCIA? Then you can't use it. It's not a simplicity issue, but rather a hardware issue.
Any OS can mount/read a 77mm CD-R provided it's the right format. Few desktop PCs have PCMCIA slots, and not everyone has a laptop.
For one thing, not everyone has or wants to buy a superdisk drive.
You don't really want to shake anything with disk like parts, because one bad move and the read head could shift, regardless of it being a diskette or cd. the only thing immune to that is solid state, and it's expensive.
Both clik, jaz, and zip drive media will be left behind by the potential (inevitable, most likely) low cost of the cd-r media.
Spindles of regular cd-rs cost $30 for 50 discs. A single zip disk can cost from $10 to $14, a ten pack up to $100 (that's the 100mb versions). Jaz is simply overkill. And as for clik, at $10 a disc for 40mb, I'm pretty sure a cheap spindle of 77mm discs with higher capacity would win.
Not to mention that you'd need to buy a drive for your computer, which is eliminated with the CD-R format.
$10 for a device few people can use, $50 for a device that isn't very fast (or because it costs $50 and has limited use), or $0.?? possibly for a media that can be read in just about any cd-rom drive (which was the intent of the original mavica)?
Flash memory/compact flash cards are high cost per meg (ever priced a 64mb card?), whereas the 77mm cd-r could be far cheaper (in the $0.0? per MB, hell, $0.?? per disc!), as it's media is based on an already refined, cheap (relatively speaking) process.
Flash memory cards are also quickly destroyed, so that $50 you spent on the 8mb card will be lost once the memory is burned out from the reads and writes.
Not to mention this gives you a permanent storage space for your photos, so you don't need to download/burn them afterwards.
I had a Canon Bubblejet (BJC 210) that, whenever you powered it on, it would play ride of the valkyries (is that it?) using the drive motor.
dun duh da da dun dun duh da da dun... reeet reeet (ready light!)
Don't know if it was an easter egg, but it sure was strange
Incidentally, all the others have the gall to charge you $100+ for something they won't stand behind.
CNet killing doubleclick. At least CNet doesn't track your every move, on or off their site. To say the least, at least CNet offers some fairly decent services.
I must be special, it's showing up over threshold.
Guess they fooled me.
/. has a virus now?
Does this mean
Glide was designed for the voodoo1, so windowed glide rendering is impossible, useless at best.
The latest ICDs for opengl are full. They have all of the transformation command and the like built in now. No more MiniGL...
That said, having a networked client/server GUI beats the shit out of a single-user, single desktop GUI anytime.
The purpose of DRI was to allow card drivers to bypass the client/server architecture and go straight to hardware (for fullscreen only, IIRC). Linux still has some other issues, but i'm pretty sure they'll be resolved soon. And someone slap nvidia and tell them to use DRI, so they don't have compatibility problems...
The RIAA's final offer is that they will drop the suit only if we unbundle Pan's attachment decoder from the newsreader. SuperPimpSoft is unwilling to do this: the attachment decoder is seamlessly integrated into Pan and cannot be removed.
:P
I dunno, it sounds like a joke to me
Seems a lot like microsoft and the DOJ. Besides, all they'd have to do is point at EVERY OTHER news reader in existence that does the SAME thing to prove their point.
Shakespeare is considered great because his works expound on themes common to all of us. Who would have known his theory on lawyers would resonate so true today as they did back then.
But nowadays, would he have said the same thing, him being a playwright and all? Or would he be the person leading the roundup?
Well, that's where you'll be downloading and playing these things. The service is only for the Dreamcast, from what I read.
The PC thing is from the old NEC PC Engine console. Sega apparently acquired the rights to the games for it.
They're cool about emulation, as long as it's on their systems and you pay a bit much for it.
Doh... thought I had it nailed down.
Like win16it was multitasking. Almost.
The mac os back then was like win16 in that it didn't split the CPU time up fairly among apps. The app that used it all got it all.
The os had to wait for the cpu to catch up with the app so the app would relinquish control to the OS, which would then apply any mouse clicks or keypresses you did while it was busy.
New Macs and Win32 machines can do that, but only if a) the app is lagged, and b) you're really careful, since it's a lot eaiser to jump out to other apps.
The reason you could work ahead on the mac was because it was a single tasking OS. Everything you did fell on a stack waiting for it's chance to be input. Win3.1 would do the same thing.
That's what the point of the hardware T&L is. Supposedly it would allow developers to use far more polygons than previously possible.
Whether or not they will make use of this ability is the question. I sure would, simply because it would look good.
They're still not playing nice. They didn't release source and the drivers don't use DRI in Xfree86 4.0
While it's nice they released drivers, they could at least follow standards.
And of course, with closed source drivers, if it crashes you can't tell why, nor can you possibly fix it.
But then, isn't there a mexican company (or european?) diaper company that has a trademark on "UNIX" for diapers?
Who wins the suit then?
Any of the Intense3D Wildcats, or the 3DLabs Oxygen cards do all of the OpenGL pipeline in hardware. Depending on the amount of ram, the faster it will go. Only thing is that the GeForce2 is really catching up speed wise. The geforce managed to keep up with the wildcat 4110 in an 80000 polygon scene in 3dsmax.
Real power is there, just how you use it is important.
No. Let's make sure we don't use standard AMERICAN measurements. If we do everything in metric at all points in the line, you won't have that problem arise.
Q2 itself may not be tweaked for SMP but if a PMesa enabled graphics driver is rendering, the rendering process is distributed! Sure, all the Q2 data itself still stays on the first CPU, but at least the REAL hardcore CPU hog, the rendering, is going out to those other CPU's.
Only if you do software rendering. Otherwise 90% of the rendering is done on the graphics card. You might say geometry calculations need to be moved there, but that will only help minimally, and that is being moved to the graphics card also.
SMP will not be a commonplace feature. Not everyone will use it, so the game companies will not take much advantage of it. Without game support, SMP is useless, and SMP based PMesa drivers are just as useless.
If that link wasn't posted, perhaps the Hospital I.T. department could have ensured that the dialysis machine wouldn't have been rooted.
:P
What, do you think EVERYONE wants to know the concentration of uric acid in your blood?
I do hope you are joking
Said device should not even be accessible by anyone who would root it. In fact, they probably don't even run QNX. Probably 160k of code on some EEPROM inside the thing.