Personally, unlike some people here, I am really interested in the PS3. A commitment to linux (they are going to be sure about it this time, as they got in tax trouble last time), a new processor architecture that may be good for scientific computation and a suprising easy to program for kit (despite the bizarre system, there are good reports), and of course GTA IV (I know, xbox360 will have it too). However, here is the big one: the PS3 will use OpenGL (embedded, somewhat different, yes), and rely on many other open standards. A GNU toolchain is supplied. Can anyone else imagine this to be portable? If a developer was to plan for the future, they could make a general code pool, keeping cell optimizations seperate, and have a game easily portable to Macintosh and Windows, and perhaps even Linux if they feel so inclined. If the PS3 takes off, it could possibly reduce the DirectX grip on the market.
So what's with all the hate? Then again, I probably won't be buying any of these machines...
That whole post was an explanation. I have a feeling he/she wasn't a troll, but a regular slashdot reader who was fed up with all the modding down. Too few good posts are let out of the trash pile, and too many are modded down to the seventh circle. It was sort of funny that he posted that he was wasting a mod point, because whoever modded him down could not have used it for something better.
I think the discussion system could use improvement, and so did whoever posted that.
I should have said "are we to assume that anyone in the porn industry is less deserving of a fair judgement than anyone else?" By contriving, I meant trying in every way to come out on top (pun sort of intended) and as far in the black, rather than the red, as possible (pun definetly intended), while ignoring ethics and values. I am not sure how ethics in the porn industry are compared to big business, but I can't imagine them to be much worse. I think there have been a few nice CEOs, and a certain percent who obey the rule of law, even when it dosen't benifit them.
I'll try to be more definet next time so people don't play with my wording.
...that all pornographers are inherintly contriving assholes? That, just because they have a different sense of morality, they would all stoop to such a low level? Sure, if they purely interested in "increasing shareholder value," then I can understand that they would, but could there not be suppliers of pornography who care about public reccomendation/honour/honesty?
Well, I did mean that mostly as a joke. However, seeing "Web 3.0" in a sig... is this really going to be web 3.0? Let's say wikipedia is web 2.1, to give some slack. Wikipedia has as little heirarchy as possible, allows everyone to contribute, and is constructed so that it is easy for editors to work with and resolve problems. Makes any editor feel important. Now that is pretty worthy of a 2.1. What will make Citendium different? A "respect the academics" attitude, submission of resumes to have the priviledge of contributing, and a name that sounds like some sort of lobby/research group. On a social level, I can't see how that will be anywhere as good as wikipedia's model. Let's drop 0.5 points. A heirarchical wiki editing model, if it is done, would bring it up a few points, to be generous, I'll say 0.5 again, although a post-web-1.0 web site is more about social than technical innovation. So, I find it hard to see how this could be any more than web 2.5.
And Wikipedia makes sense as a name. A computer-literate person can say that wikipedia is an encyclopedia that anyone can edit, or a wiki as some people call them. Simple. Citizenium, what's that? Has something to do with citizen participation, and it's kind of like wikipedia, except you have to be this tall to edit this page? The funny thing is, there will be a class system, where some users mean more than others, which dosen't seem very citizeny, and won't ecourage the lower level users to clean up the trash, like editors do so well on wikipedia.
Still, good luck. I tend to see a lot of crank articles on slashdot from people trying to drum up venture capital, with no intention of ever submitting anything to a scientific journal. If it is possible to work out the kinks, it sounds like it could work well. And who am I to comment, I am just an undergrad physics student who didn't get a lot of sleep last night.
Yeah, true, there seem to be a lot of word lists, and that probably is the majority. Seems odd that they wouldn't be kept in a plaintext or database though.
However, have you seen the comments complaining about how broken IE is?
Or, it could just be that there are a lot of cross platform web pages written in PHP, and every browser has its own "fuck"ing way of doing things, most of which mean a lot of time peicing together a kludge. PHP is nearly used only for websites, whearas Python and Perl are used for many other things. Javascript is client side, so there would not be a lot of comments, let alone comments with obscenities.
Depends on what you mean by better. In terms of musical response by humans, the point won't be until emotions and thought are codified and corelated with music theory much more so than they are now. By then, we will have run out of fossil fuels to power our computers, and that guy at your college who always played accoustic guitar by the parking lot will have groupies cooking him dinner over an open fire. However, if by better you mean more harmonic, or more complex, then I guess you can program an alogorthm to make incredible soulless compositions right now.
As I don't have a bluetooth enabled cell phone, you don't need to worry about it eliminating my totally awesome ringtone, Kraftwerk's "Pocket Calculator."
Well, a computer matching the "Full Vista Experience" specifications must contain an fme-fu drive. Assuming this doorknob fits in the drive, then yes, Vista can do that.
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According to the latest research by the Yankee Group, it is also cheaper than maintaining a Linux desktop. However, Microsoft Vista, with its productivity whatsits and glossyness will be cheaper, more productive, and more attractive.
I am doing my stuff on linux. Using Ubuntu, as I am somewhat lazy. Not doing any piano emulation actually, and I have a feeling that would be very hard to model, unlike a guitar string w/ pickup (as a pickup works at a small range, where a piano has the whole string distace to generate the sound). I am more interested in doing my own patches, or my own modelling once I do more mathematics (yay for basic PDEs this year!). Anyway, I like ZynAddSubFX and mx44, and ChucK and pure data look very interesting. You would probably be looking for more like a soundfont player, as sampling seems to be the only way to make a good piano noise at the time being. Anyway, email me if you want... I am not that knowledgable though.
Plug one of those into a midi/usb keyboard, a DSP unit (or a math processor tailored to sound), a card with samples or patches, and speakers, and you'd have yourself a synthesiser probably better and cheaper than anything on the market.
Then again, you could just buy a used desktop from the local computer shop like I did, which is much cheaper, faster, and powerful, but has the disadvantage of size.
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Personally, unlike some people here, I am really interested in the PS3. A commitment to linux (they are going to be sure about it this time, as they got in tax trouble last time), a new processor architecture that may be good for scientific computation and a suprising easy to program for kit (despite the bizarre system, there are good reports), and of course GTA IV (I know, xbox360 will have it too). However, here is the big one: the PS3 will use OpenGL (embedded, somewhat different, yes), and rely on many other open standards. A GNU toolchain is supplied. Can anyone else imagine this to be portable? If a developer was to plan for the future, they could make a general code pool, keeping cell optimizations seperate, and have a game easily portable to Macintosh and Windows, and perhaps even Linux if they feel so inclined. If the PS3 takes off, it could possibly reduce the DirectX grip on the market.
So what's with all the hate? Then again, I probably won't be buying any of these machines...
That whole post was an explanation. I have a feeling he/she wasn't a troll, but a regular slashdot reader who was fed up with all the modding down. Too few good posts are let out of the trash pile, and too many are modded down to the seventh circle. It was sort of funny that he posted that he was wasting a mod point, because whoever modded him down could not have used it for something better.
I think the discussion system could use improvement, and so did whoever posted that.
I believe you, I can imagine it would be a crooked industry, but still, your 1% cannot be written off as 0.00000%.
I should have said "are we to assume that anyone in the porn industry is less deserving of a fair judgement than anyone else?" By contriving, I meant trying in every way to come out on top (pun sort of intended) and as far in the black, rather than the red, as possible (pun definetly intended), while ignoring ethics and values. I am not sure how ethics in the porn industry are compared to big business, but I can't imagine them to be much worse. I think there have been a few nice CEOs, and a certain percent who obey the rule of law, even when it dosen't benifit them.
I'll try to be more definet next time so people don't play with my wording.
Sorry about the spelling error, asshole.
...that all pornographers are inherintly contriving assholes? That, just because they have a different sense of morality, they would all stoop to such a low level? Sure, if they purely interested in "increasing shareholder value," then I can understand that they would, but could there not be suppliers of pornography who care about public reccomendation/honour/honesty?
When they add up to 5318008, let me know.
Well, I did mean that mostly as a joke. However, seeing "Web 3.0" in a sig... is this really going to be web 3.0? Let's say wikipedia is web 2.1, to give some slack. Wikipedia has as little heirarchy as possible, allows everyone to contribute, and is constructed so that it is easy for editors to work with and resolve problems. Makes any editor feel important. Now that is pretty worthy of a 2.1. What will make Citendium different? A "respect the academics" attitude, submission of resumes to have the priviledge of contributing, and a name that sounds like some sort of lobby/research group. On a social level, I can't see how that will be anywhere as good as wikipedia's model. Let's drop 0.5 points. A heirarchical wiki editing model, if it is done, would bring it up a few points, to be generous, I'll say 0.5 again, although a post-web-1.0 web site is more about social than technical innovation. So, I find it hard to see how this could be any more than web 2.5.
And Wikipedia makes sense as a name. A computer-literate person can say that wikipedia is an encyclopedia that anyone can edit, or a wiki as some people call them. Simple. Citizenium, what's that? Has something to do with citizen participation, and it's kind of like wikipedia, except you have to be this tall to edit this page? The funny thing is, there will be a class system, where some users mean more than others, which dosen't seem very citizeny, and won't ecourage the lower level users to clean up the trash, like editors do so well on wikipedia.
Still, good luck. I tend to see a lot of crank articles on slashdot from people trying to drum up venture capital, with no intention of ever submitting anything to a scientific journal. If it is possible to work out the kinks, it sounds like it could work well. And who am I to comment, I am just an undergrad physics student who didn't get a lot of sleep last night.
If peer reviewed experts can't come up with a better name than "Citizendium," I think they are going to have troubles writing a whole encyclopedia.
I thought next week intel was going to talk about its use of "Burst Processing" on AMD's mother.
Yeah, true, there seem to be a lot of word lists, and that probably is the majority. Seems odd that they wouldn't be kept in a plaintext or database though.
However, have you seen the comments complaining about how broken IE is?
Or, it could just be that there are a lot of cross platform web pages written in PHP, and every browser has its own "fuck"ing way of doing things, most of which mean a lot of time peicing together a kludge. PHP is nearly used only for websites, whearas Python and Perl are used for many other things. Javascript is client side, so there would not be a lot of comments, let alone comments with obscenities.
Well, half way there. Would a system to store the relevant parts of a chat session for future reference do?
There already is such a device. It is called a "guitar."
Depends on what you mean by better. In terms of musical response by humans, the point won't be until emotions and thought are codified and corelated with music theory much more so than they are now. By then, we will have run out of fossil fuels to power our computers, and that guy at your college who always played accoustic guitar by the parking lot will have groupies cooking him dinner over an open fire. However, if by better you mean more harmonic, or more complex, then I guess you can program an alogorthm to make incredible soulless compositions right now.
As I don't have a bluetooth enabled cell phone, you don't need to worry about it eliminating my totally awesome ringtone, Kraftwerk's "Pocket Calculator."
Well, a computer matching the "Full Vista Experience" specifications must contain an fme-fu drive. Assuming this doorknob fits in the drive, then yes, Vista can do that.
According to the latest research by the Yankee Group, it is also cheaper than maintaining a Linux desktop. However, Microsoft Vista, with its productivity whatsits and glossyness will be cheaper, more productive, and more attractive.
There are actually plenty of graphics. Most of them just happen to be ads.
That's the, um, string nature of reality acting up again. Should be worked out by the next prototype, after my next grant cheque.
I am doing my stuff on linux. Using Ubuntu, as I am somewhat lazy. Not doing any piano emulation actually, and I have a feeling that would be very hard to model, unlike a guitar string w/ pickup (as a pickup works at a small range, where a piano has the whole string distace to generate the sound). I am more interested in doing my own patches, or my own modelling once I do more mathematics (yay for basic PDEs this year!). Anyway, I like ZynAddSubFX and mx44, and ChucK and pure data look very interesting. You would probably be looking for more like a soundfont player, as sampling seems to be the only way to make a good piano noise at the time being. Anyway, email me if you want... I am not that knowledgable though.
Plug one of those into a midi/usb keyboard, a DSP unit (or a math processor tailored to sound), a card with samples or patches, and speakers, and you'd have yourself a synthesiser probably better and cheaper than anything on the market.
Then again, you could just buy a used desktop from the local computer shop like I did, which is much cheaper, faster, and powerful, but has the disadvantage of size.
I think the company will have a few advantages: more lawyers, more money, and waivers.
Those arguments are moot, actually, because only [slur]s play Doom 3.