Should you hire a graphics designer who ever smoked pot?
Marry a 30 year old guy/woman who had some flings in college?
Hire a developer with 10 years of experience who got root access to a few university service to impress girls?
There are always risks involved, but excluding top 1/3 of candidates from your list is stupid. If you are good at something, chances are you played around a bit in your formative years.
It should be easy (as far as movies and games go in general) to write, say, an XBOX 360 game that is just streaming VC1/MPEG4/H.264 video most of the time and occasionally drops into mini-action sequences so that you have to kill an enemy, win a car race or otherwise influence movie's branching storyline. Interactive features on players without a decent CPU/GPU are doomed to be amatuerish in comparison, so why even bother?
How many people spend all their spare time glued to TV? Internet and even MMORG addicts lead comparatively more productive lives by staying in touch with friends, creating new content and reading/watching stuff way more meaningful than TV programming. Unless one actually gets out of all manmade stuff and takes a walk in the woods, is living in virtual reality really any worse than how most people spend time?
Someone can just go through the box and make a bunch of undesirable ones defective by punching extra holes. Not much difference from tampering with a voting machine. Voting software doesn't have to be "millions of lines of code" to just store a line of CVS for each vote and later add things up. It can authenticate a voter through a cryptographic signature and give him/her another signature that can be verified by the voter or given to a watchdog group without compromising ballot secrecy. Again, cryptography can let a user vote from any personal or library PC to avoid racial intimidation, uncooperative boss or plain laziness/busy schedule. Paper ballot elections can and did have numerous accidents (Florida for Bush and hanging chads), dead people showing up to vote and so on. With open source hardware and software, computer-based voting can be much more secure. If Diebold is not it, it's another story.
It uses up more electricity to get the job done than modern hardware.
Are you kidding? Then why all the talk of water cooling for your CPU or GPU, cooking eggs on the bottom of your notebook or sales of enclosures with ever-increasing power supply wattage? I recall my first systems having a single fan and a tiny snap-on heat-sink. Miniaturizing transistors makes them consume MORE power due to the leakage. That's why the recent emphasis on multi-cores with LOWER clock speed. LCDs may have something on CRTs here, but nothing keeps one from hooking up an LCD to a Pentium II box.
Anyway, MS doesn't provide customer support for individuals (or if it does, it's more expensive than buying a new computer). With 4% market share there can not be much new malware targeting Win9x and their antivirus programs with expired subscriptions can catch the old ones without any problem. I would say, use 9x until you must have an app which doesn't run on your machine and doesn't have old versions on abandonware sites. But then how much more likely is it that Linux will have it?
I mean, most children featured in porn films get to survive and tell their stories, while oppressive governments tend to kill, maim and imprison people. Besides, how are ISPs going to log any HTTPS traffic with good stuff?
The question is, can your TV do proper image scaling at real time, or does it just duplicate some pixels? Regular LCD monitors sure don't scale image properly at lower resolutions.
Maybe you are too young to have cringed at CGA graphics on an EGA monitor, but...
1. When CRT runs at non-native resolution, some of those small pixels between horizontal lines don't get fully illuminated, resulting in striped display. There is also a more minor issues of colors between horizontal pixels not blending as much, resulting in more jagged lines. Maybe it's theoretically fixable by adjusted the focus of the electron gun, but I haven't seen a monitor that gets it right.
2. If nothing else, monitors get bigger. What looked good on a 14" screen sucks at 21".
How are phishing emails different than, say, somebody calling you on the phone pretending to be from your bank's credit card department? If you fall for it, who should be responsible?
Not much. When a bank calls, Caller ID should show bank's name rather than "Private Caller" from some call center in India. When a bank sends an e-mail it should be digitally signed. My credit card should generate (say, with a keypad and LCD) one time use authorization numbers based on the charge amount. As long as the bank doesn't give users a way to distinguish between legitimate and fraudulent communication, they should be responsible for the results.
This will look pathetic. You want uniform blurring rather than square pixels. That's the reason low-resolution CRTs and LCDs look way better than high-resolution ones in low-res mode. Either HDTVs have killer video processors or SD picture must look pretty lousy. I wonder if that's most of their sales appeal anyway, as I don't have any quality complaints watching a DVD from the other end of the living room.
int step = 5; for (;;) { step = myFunc(step); switch(step) { case 7: ... (no break) case 1: ... break; case NNN... } }
Guess what, it's even a recommended practice to model a finite state machine. And gotos would be more readable in some cases - for example when states have their own case statements.
if you have an open mind to accept when you see a beautiful black girl...
Do you have an open mind to find a well-built black guy (or whatever is not your preferred gender) attractive? I don't think people should be stigmatized for exercising personal freedom of association. You can always choose not to go out with racists.
By buying used CDs, you are effectively lowering the cost for the original owner to buy the music in the first place and enabling him/her to buy newer music with the proceeds. The only legal way to "stick it" to RIAA is to listen to independent music. Or do something which is still free instead. Take a walk or something.
Dude, it's not so much what you have, it's how you use it. Sure, both XP and OSX already have their DirectX and OpenGL respectively. But at the end of the day, even XP start button has jagged edges. With all the thousands of engineers Billy Gates doesn't know how to draw a straight line. As for full-round trip vector based composer - do you mean something like this?
Nobody attending WWDC thought so. Leopard has lots of cool features that beat even previous stuff like Expose and Dashboard in the dust. Time machine in particular looks like star trek computers. Apple completed a complete platform migration in less than a year, Objective C is getting garbage collection and properties.
Looks like the article's author doesn't care about anything besides iPods, but there is more to technology than just small gadgets.
I think that many people would happily pay for an operating system just to avoid the ads.
Isn't that a good idea, given that they can try it for as much as they want first and make sure it's worth the money. I am more worried that the pay option will not be there.
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There are always risks involved, but excluding top 1/3 of candidates from your list is stupid. If you are good at something, chances are you played around a bit in your formative years.
It should be easy (as far as movies and games go in general) to write, say, an XBOX 360 game that is just streaming VC1/MPEG4/H.264 video most of the time and occasionally drops into mini-action sequences so that you have to kill an enemy, win a car race or otherwise influence movie's branching storyline. Interactive features on players without a decent CPU/GPU are doomed to be amatuerish in comparison, so why even bother?
Should be a hot topic - I am sure most people would rather lose their arm then their manhood.
How many people spend all their spare time glued to TV? Internet and even MMORG addicts lead comparatively more productive lives by staying in touch with friends, creating new content and reading/watching stuff way more meaningful than TV programming. Unless one actually gets out of all manmade stuff and takes a walk in the woods, is living in virtual reality really any worse than how most people spend time?
s/CVS/CSV/
Someone can just go through the box and make a bunch of undesirable ones defective by punching extra holes. Not much difference from tampering with a voting machine. Voting software doesn't have to be "millions of lines of code" to just store a line of CVS for each vote and later add things up. It can authenticate a voter through a cryptographic signature and give him/her another signature that can be verified by the voter or given to a watchdog group without compromising ballot secrecy. Again, cryptography can let a user vote from any personal or library PC to avoid racial intimidation, uncooperative boss or plain laziness/busy schedule. Paper ballot elections can and did have numerous accidents (Florida for Bush and hanging chads), dead people showing up to vote and so on. With open source hardware and software, computer-based voting can be much more secure. If Diebold is not it, it's another story.
So basically, firefox/office 2000/old games are going to consume less power on old machine/Win98SE than equivalent new software on WinXP.
It uses up more electricity to get the job done than modern hardware.
Are you kidding? Then why all the talk of water cooling for your CPU or GPU, cooking eggs on the bottom of your notebook or sales of enclosures with ever-increasing power supply wattage? I recall my first systems having a single fan and a tiny snap-on heat-sink. Miniaturizing transistors makes them consume MORE power due to the leakage. That's why the recent emphasis on multi-cores with LOWER clock speed. LCDs may have something on CRTs here, but nothing keeps one from hooking up an LCD to a Pentium II box.
Anyway, MS doesn't provide customer support for individuals (or if it does, it's more expensive than buying a new computer). With 4% market share there can not be much new malware targeting Win9x and their antivirus programs with expired subscriptions can catch the old ones without any problem. I would say, use 9x until you must have an app which doesn't run on your machine and doesn't have old versions on abandonware sites. But then how much more likely is it that Linux will have it?
I mean, most children featured in porn films get to survive and tell their stories, while oppressive governments tend to kill, maim and imprison people. Besides, how are ISPs going to log any HTTPS traffic with good stuff?
People need to get basic information from somewhere, what's so terrible for this particular source?
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Then append my birthday to it. Or better yet, work with my phone company to ensure secure identification. There are only like a dozen of them.
The question is, can your TV do proper image scaling at real time, or does it just duplicate some pixels? Regular LCD monitors sure don't scale image properly at lower resolutions.
Maybe you are too young to have cringed at CGA graphics on an EGA monitor, but...
1. When CRT runs at non-native resolution, some of those small pixels between horizontal lines don't get fully illuminated, resulting in striped display. There is also a more minor issues of colors between horizontal pixels not blending as much, resulting in more jagged lines. Maybe it's theoretically fixable by adjusted the focus of the electron gun, but I haven't seen a monitor that gets it right.
2. If nothing else, monitors get bigger. What looked good on a 14" screen sucks at 21".
How are phishing emails different than, say, somebody calling you on the phone pretending to be from your bank's credit card department? If you fall for it, who should be responsible?
Not much. When a bank calls, Caller ID should show bank's name rather than "Private Caller" from some call center in India. When a bank sends an e-mail it should be digitally signed. My credit card should generate (say, with a keypad and LCD) one time use authorization numbers based on the charge amount. As long as the bank doesn't give users a way to distinguish between legitimate and fraudulent communication, they should be responsible for the results.
This will look pathetic. You want uniform blurring rather than square pixels. That's the reason low-resolution CRTs and LCDs look way better than high-resolution ones in low-res mode. Either HDTVs have killer video processors or SD picture must look pretty lousy. I wonder if that's most of their sales appeal anyway, as I don't have any quality complaints watching a DVD from the other end of the living room.
int step = 5;
...
...
for (;;) {
step = myFunc(step);
switch(step) {
case 7:
(no break)
case 1:
break;
case NNN...
}
}
Guess what, it's even a recommended practice to model a finite state machine. And gotos would be more readable in some cases - for example when states have their own case statements.
if you have an open mind to accept when you see a beautiful black girl...
Do you have an open mind to find a well-built black guy (or whatever is not your preferred gender) attractive? I don't think people should be stigmatized for exercising personal freedom of association. You can always choose not to go out with racists.
By buying used CDs, you are effectively lowering the cost for the original owner to buy the music in the first place and enabling him/her to buy newer music with the proceeds. The only legal way to "stick it" to RIAA is to listen to independent music. Or do something which is still free instead. Take a walk or something.
He died doing what he does best, and what he loves. If only we were so lucky.
You mean we should all die coding?
Dude, it's not so much what you have, it's how you use it. Sure, both XP and OSX already have their DirectX and OpenGL respectively. But at the end of the day, even XP start button has jagged edges. With all the thousands of engineers Billy Gates doesn't know how to draw a straight line. As for full-round trip vector based composer - do you mean something like this?
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http://www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/coreanimation
Nobody attending WWDC thought so. Leopard has lots of cool features that beat even previous stuff like Expose and Dashboard in the dust. Time machine in particular looks like star trek computers. Apple completed a complete platform migration in less than a year, Objective C is getting garbage collection and properties.
Looks like the article's author doesn't care about anything besides iPods, but there is more to technology than just small gadgets.
I think that many people would happily pay for an operating system just to avoid the ads.
Isn't that a good idea, given that they can try it for as much as they want first and make sure it's worth the money. I am more worried that the pay option will not be there.
Just get a plain old CRT and adjust the control to clip the ad toolbar off the screen. Space problem solved!