In conclusion, once more I would like to thank the community of user and developers of KDE for using my work and for supporting me. You have no idea how much this has been important for me. I also thank all Linux distros that are using Crystal in their projects. I really feel honored. Special thanks to Lindows team, you have been awesome!
Doesn't he know about the MS lawsuit? It's now Lin---- right? Oh, no, wait, it's Linspire now.
Q: How do you find open source graphics/CG arts related apps like Gimp, Inkscape, Sodipodi, Karbon14 and Blender? Could you comment on them?
I like Sodipodi and inkspace, I foresee a great future for both.
Gimp is very good (except CMYK as mentioned every time it comes up in a pro context), but Sodipodi is a vector-based drawing program (SVGish) that does not "yet" support "rotation" of anything. (!) It will "flip," but not rotate. Unusable.
He almost lost credibility with the "liking Sodipodi" comment, but then I started to think that maybe he was just being polite. Nice guy.
First, you mean "long a" (as in "pAY") not "long e" (as in "pEE.")
Second, my wife, who is Japanese, says you're wrong. It's more like keh-ee-tah-ee like the AC claimed. Here's her typing now (she doesn't have a/. account):
There are four syllables in the word when written correctly. When spoken informally, especially among young people, "ee" has weakened recently, turning "keh-ee" to just "ke-eh". It's like long "keh," with "ee" sound almost dissapearing. I suspect that's where achurch's comment came from. But in correct, formal Japanese, there should be "ee" between "keh" and "tah."
It's more commonly written (and pronounced) romaji (no "n").
Interesting try at a joke though, but I'd always thought "bless you" was the response to "Gefilte fish".
As an amusing, slightly related aside: an easy way to say "you're welcome, don't mention it" in Japanese is "Don't touch my moustache." Sounds close enough to the correct "doitashimashite" that it will work perfectly if you say it after someone else says "domo".
Of course, then they think you know Japanese and bombard you with things you wish you could understand but can't.:)
They had a 2D accelerometer that could measure in X and Y directions, but used a pitcher to force a given plane of tilt (determined by the handle/spout axis) and just looked at the X reading, ignoring Y.
They should use both measurements and put it on regular drinking glasses as well -- the same device would work on a pitcher, glass, or most drinking containers no matter what orientation (within the X-Y, or horizontal plane) it was mounted. Their system needs the "X" axis of the accelerometer to be parallel with the line connecting the handle and spout. And it requires a specific tilt plane.
It would be easy to duplicate code and check both angles, and this would be particularly good for me as I prefer Sapphire and tonic to beer, and a pitcher of gin & tonic would be very dangerous. A promptly-filled (or at least opportunity to fill) glass of said refreshment would be highly appreciated. This is a very good idea indeed, and I think with minor refinement this could be sold all over the world at huge profits. Bars make money. Keeping drinks filled makes them more.
It also probably means (a few) more drunks and a slight hike in alcoholism, but, eh, whatever:)
BTW, I've seen the "similar" systems in Japan referenced in the article as inspiration. But the ones I saw required you to actually move a finger and push a button when you wanted a drink. Effective, but usually unnecessary since service in Japanese eating and drinking establishments is remarkably and consistintly good, IME.
I disagree with the other poster who suggested that somehow weighing the beer pitcher is simpler than this accelerometer method. Accelerometers are cheap, small, reliable, and easy to work with compared to weight-measurement devices.
Finally, someone else said to use an electronic switch closed by beer (beer being the conductor) that senses lack of beer when the switch opens. Cheaper yes, but I'm not sure how passing (even a small) current through beer would make it taste, but I bet one (or both) of the terminals of the switch would be a corroded nightmare after a few weeks. Cleaning that would be a bitch, and it would look gross.
I read the journal entry linked in your sig. You have an excellent grasp of the difference between there and their and I applaud your efforts to educate the teeming millions.
Unfortunately, your journal post is archived so I can't reply there, but as one pedant to another (aspiring one, at least) please review this sentence from your journal entry on grammar:
I have nowhere else to write but in my journal, hoping to reach out and educate the american public (and anyone else, who do not know the difference between "there" and "their").
If I may, I'd like to suggest that your next lessons be, in order: (1) subject-verb agreement ("anyone else does," not "do," (2) capitalization ("American,") (3) comma usage (with special attention to when commas should not be used, such as is the case with both of yours), and (4) proper relative ordering of quotation marks, parentheses, and periods ("This parenthetical quote is properly punctuated; yours isn't.")
Of course, by then you'll probably have picked up why your sentence structure is fundamentally flawed (hint: a semicolon and "I'm" instead of the comma before "hoping" would fix it.) Keep up your studies and spread the good word as soon as you learn it!
Actually, rape has the exact same rate of flase reporting as any other violent crime, according to the FBI.
Not agreeing or disagreeing with anyone or anything here; just wondering how they know, with any real certainty, the "false reporting" rate of any crime? Wouldn't you have to know, with certainty better than that provided by trial by jury in some (most?) cases, truth from falsehood, guilt from innocence, with some predictable certainty?
I guess maybe they use "false reports" that are later recanted or proven to be false somehow, but that probably leaves some (many?) cases where no solid proof exists, yet both parties stick to their (opposing) claims.
Wow, tautological perfection. I've never seen such.
Yes, we can always show some (incomplete) "proof" that we can't do X. And then we usually end up doing X in a novel and unexpected way.
Lather. Rinse. Repeat.
And, BTW, FYI, FWIW, Moore's "law" is more of an empirical observation than any sort of real law, much less one that would apply in this case of magnetics without a transistor in (relevant) sight. I don't mean to detract from the clever, albeit obvious in hindsight, prediction of Moore. He simply observed (and presciently predicted) that there is (and will continue to be) a sustained exponential growth in the number of transistors per integrated circuit (that's "switches" per "chip" to you and me).
That has absolutely not one goddamn thing to do with this topic or the cited article, so STFU or RTFM first. Please.
Seriously. No matter how good you think your social skills are, or how impeccably perspicacious your banter may seem to you, I may not (and probably don't) want to hear it on a plane while I'm trying to read/sleep/watch a movie. See, we're stuck close together, I can't just move away from you like I might in another situation.
So yeah, I have to agree with the grandparent poster -- you really should keep conversations to a minimum, and at a very low volume, when flying. It's polite (i.e., a good social skill).
I'm not sure what the jab about being the other posters child was supposed to mean, but I for one would hate to share a plane with you if you think "good social skills" on a plane is anything other than shutting the fuck up as much as possible.
OSX has better broad hardware support than Windows? I guess you're kidding, but since the mods decided that your (silly) claim was Insightful, I feel the need to call you on it.
Please, do try to back up that claim. I'm in the mood for a good laugh.
Anandtech didn't seem to care about potential licensing problems (at least they didn't mention it):
We set up 2 users who were checking email, writing in Word and adding data to spreadsheets. We had no problem getting our single-user installation of Microsoft Office to work just as if these were separate PC's. We also saw no perceptible difference in performance when we ran the 860Twin as a single user or with 2 users working. We can only assume that the time-slicing mechanism used to enable Magic Twin works very well.
And, since:
This isn't true networking; rather, it is just clever and transparent time-slicing, but the multiplexing is all but invisible to each of the two users.
I don't think there could be a licensing issue. EULA usually give you right to use the product on one machine (or in case of some high-cost EDA, per CPU). I've never seen a limit on the number of users, simultaneous or otherwise. This is one machine. It splits the output (and input) via timeslicing to let two users on the machine at once, but it's still just one machine (one CPU).
If this is a problem, so is my dual-monitor PC -- technically I could open 2 copies of Word and use one with the mouse (and, say, and on-screen keyboard or voice recognition) and let someone else use the keyboard on the other. I think I can do that legally -- I have a license for that product on one machine, and I'm using it on one machine.
Also, going even more extreme: two people working on the same document (thinking and discussing together, maybe taking turns typing, whatever) would require a second license.
I don't think so, unless publishers update the EULAs to account for this new multi-user PC. Which I guess is possible.
Then I went up a few dirctories (you may want to check your.htaccess and.or apache config files) and saw all the effort you put into many "happy birthday ${female_name}" images.
They're very pretty, but I wonder: did you ever get any tang out of those, or was it all done "for art's sake"?
I only ask because I saw a few "Happy Valentine's Day" images as well, but none of those had names.
Even Florida isn't dumb enough to tax LANs. According to the article:
The upper legislative chamber is expected to propose a temporary suspension of its enforcement and then look for ways to limit the provision's application without undermining its original intent.
...
No one knows exactly how much more would be collected by enforcing the broader definition of the tax. The rate varies statewide, ranging from 9.17 percent to 18.07 percent depending on local option assessments.
Stargel predicts it would be hundreds of millions of dollars annually, while some business lobbyists say it would easily exceed $1 billion.
This is an interesting case of reasonable tax laws made dumb and potentially dangerous by advances in technology, but otherwise pretty much a non-issue that will go away quietly within a few weeks.
seems to be an awful lot of duplication of texture, geometry, and code going on here
No, there is some procedural generation of all of the above going on here. Not much duplication I expect.
It requires 512MB RAM and 128MB framebuffer because it procedurally generates geometry and textures that are that big.
And the zipping does little. The executable is 97,280 bytes, the readme is 5,504 bytes. The zip archive is 100,185 bytes. The compression is negligible.
Don't poo-poo it just because you don't get it. It's very cool, and very impressive, IMHO.
Yep, and if this code were such a thing, we'd say it about it , whatever it is.
The code and data memory size expands massively on execution (procedurally-generated textures and geometries mostly, though probably some code-generating code as well) -- it does require 512MB of RAM. And, WinXP said the game process was using more than 200MB when I ran it.
The point is that the stored copy of the code is small, not the runtime footprint.
No one else has pointed out, BTW, that besides the extra time and celeverness required to do something like this, game companies don't want their games to be this small! It just makes piracy to quick and easy if you only need to send one file that can easily attach to an email. Better to have 3 CD's jammed with FMV cutscenes and such even if the game would fit on one floppy -- the media is cheap, and it makes a small hassle (or at least a slowdown) for the pirates.
That said, the game is awesome for it's code size. Very pretty. Fast. Even kind of fun. Just needs sounds, control re-mapping, and netcode, and it could compete with unreal, IMHO.
How is this post, chock full of wrong claims, +5 Informative? Did the mods misread the option as MIS-informative? Or do they just assume any post made with a confident writing style just must be right?
See the other reply to understand why this is off by more than 10x (fridges average 60-70W, not 700-750W) and results in a very wrong (by ~2x) conclusion (a basic PC running a word processor will use about 60-70W, about the same as a decent modern fridge).
I know this will be modded down because, as we all know, thou shalt not question mods, but I hate to see misinformation moderated up to max score, where it's sure to be preserved as a nugget of incorrect knowledge in google's cache and the wayback machine for years to come.
The 2004 requirement for refridgerators sold in the US is to be labeled as "Energy Star" compliant (which is most of the decent ones) is ~500kWh/year. There are aout 8760 hours in a year. That's means for "normal use" the fridge consumes an average of 60W of power. I think you're off by an order of magnitude.
A fridge drawing a constant 700W running 24/7 for 365 days would cost about $613/year to run, assuming an average of $0.10/kWh. ~$50/month electric bill just for the fridge? I don't think so.
Maybe peak power for the compressor is close to 700W, like if you turned the temp as low as it would go and filled it with boiling water, (but I don't think so), but you're way, way off in your guess.
And, BTW, a (normal) computer running a word processor will consume nowhere near half of "700 - 750W". I can word process on a box without taxing an 150W power supply in the least.
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In conclusion, once more I would like to thank the community of user and developers of KDE for using my work and for supporting me. You have no idea how much this has been important for me. I also thank all Linux distros that are using Crystal in their projects. I really feel honored. Special thanks to Lindows team, you have been awesome!
:)
Doesn't he know about the MS lawsuit? It's now Lin---- right? Oh, no, wait, it's Linspire now.
Can't blame him for not keeping up, I guess?
Q: How do you find open source graphics/CG arts related apps like Gimp, Inkscape, Sodipodi, Karbon14 and Blender? Could you comment on them?
I like Sodipodi and inkspace, I foresee a great future for both.
Gimp is very good (except CMYK as mentioned every time it comes up in a pro context), but Sodipodi is a vector-based drawing program (SVGish) that does not "yet" support "rotation" of anything. (!) It will "flip," but not rotate. Unusable.
He almost lost credibility with the "liking Sodipodi" comment, but then I started to think that maybe he was just being polite. Nice guy.
actually, no he isn't. surprising perhaps, but true.
Genius. You, sir, are a talented dialog writer.
Moderators? Over here, look up ^
First, you mean "long a" (as in "pAY") not "long e" (as in "pEE.")
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Second, my wife, who is Japanese, says you're wrong. It's more like keh-ee-tah-ee like the AC claimed. Here's her typing now (she doesn't have a
There are four syllables in the word when written correctly. When spoken informally, especially among young people, "ee" has weakened recently, turning "keh-ee" to just "ke-eh". It's like long "keh," with "ee" sound almost dissapearing. I suspect that's where achurch's comment came from. But in correct, formal Japanese, there should be "ee" between "keh" and "tah."
Just FYI.
It's more commonly written (and pronounced) romaji (no "n").
:)
Interesting try at a joke though, but I'd always thought "bless you" was the response to "Gefilte fish".
As an amusing, slightly related aside: an easy way to say "you're welcome, don't mention it" in Japanese is "Don't touch my moustache." Sounds close enough to the correct "doitashimashite" that it will work perfectly if you say it after someone else says "domo".
Of course, then they think you know Japanese and bombard you with things you wish you could understand but can't.
Which states? Citation please!
I disagree; it's underkill.
:)
They had a 2D accelerometer that could measure in X and Y directions, but used a pitcher to force a given plane of tilt (determined by the handle/spout axis) and just looked at the X reading, ignoring Y.
They should use both measurements and put it on regular drinking glasses as well -- the same device would work on a pitcher, glass, or most drinking containers no matter what orientation (within the X-Y, or horizontal plane) it was mounted. Their system needs the "X" axis of the accelerometer to be parallel with the line connecting the handle and spout. And it requires a specific tilt plane.
It would be easy to duplicate code and check both angles, and this would be particularly good for me as I prefer Sapphire and tonic to beer, and a pitcher of gin & tonic would be very dangerous. A promptly-filled (or at least opportunity to fill) glass of said refreshment would be highly appreciated. This is a very good idea indeed, and I think with minor refinement this could be sold all over the world at huge profits. Bars make money. Keeping drinks filled makes them more.
It also probably means (a few) more drunks and a slight hike in alcoholism, but, eh, whatever
BTW, I've seen the "similar" systems in Japan referenced in the article as inspiration. But the ones I saw required you to actually move a finger and push a button when you wanted a drink. Effective, but usually unnecessary since service in Japanese eating and drinking establishments is remarkably and consistintly good, IME.
I disagree with the other poster who suggested that somehow weighing the beer pitcher is simpler than this accelerometer method. Accelerometers are cheap, small, reliable, and easy to work with compared to weight-measurement devices.
Finally, someone else said to use an electronic switch closed by beer (beer being the conductor) that senses lack of beer when the switch opens. Cheaper yes, but I'm not sure how passing (even a small) current through beer would make it taste, but I bet one (or both) of the terminals of the switch would be a corroded nightmare after a few weeks. Cleaning that would be a bitch, and it would look gross.
I read the journal entry linked in your sig. You have an excellent grasp of the difference between there and their and I applaud your efforts to educate the teeming millions.
Unfortunately, your journal post is archived so I can't reply there, but as one pedant to another (aspiring one, at least) please review this sentence from your journal entry on grammar:
I have nowhere else to write but in my journal, hoping to reach out and educate the american public (and anyone else, who do not know the difference between "there" and "their").
If I may, I'd like to suggest that your next lessons be, in order: (1) subject-verb agreement ("anyone else does," not "do," (2) capitalization ("American,") (3) comma usage (with special attention to when commas should not be used, such as is the case with both of yours), and (4) proper relative ordering of quotation marks, parentheses, and periods ("This parenthetical quote is properly punctuated; yours isn't.")
Of course, by then you'll probably have picked up why your sentence structure is fundamentally flawed (hint: a semicolon and "I'm" instead of the comma before "hoping" would fix it.) Keep up your studies and spread the good word as soon as you learn it!
Actually, rape has the exact same rate of flase reporting as any other violent crime, according to the FBI.
Not agreeing or disagreeing with anyone or anything here; just wondering how they know, with any real certainty, the "false reporting" rate of any crime? Wouldn't you have to know, with certainty better than that provided by trial by jury in some (most?) cases, truth from falsehood, guilt from innocence, with some predictable certainty?
I guess maybe they use "false reports" that are later recanted or proven to be false somehow, but that probably leaves some (many?) cases where no solid proof exists, yet both parties stick to their (opposing) claims.
Just wondering.
Riight. Body of water level, or distinguishing mark -- which do you think he thinks he means?
Butters? Is that you?
Sorry, non-ob southpark reference; your post just seemed exactly like how I would expect Butters to write. Funny, anyway.
Wow, tautological perfection. I've never seen such.
Yes, we can always show some (incomplete) "proof" that we can't do X. And then we usually end up doing X in a novel and unexpected way.
Lather. Rinse. Repeat.
And, BTW, FYI, FWIW, Moore's "law" is more of an empirical observation than any sort of real law, much less one that would apply in this case of magnetics without a transistor in (relevant) sight. I don't mean to detract from the clever, albeit obvious in hindsight, prediction of Moore. He simply observed (and presciently predicted) that there is (and will continue to be) a sustained exponential growth in the number of transistors per integrated circuit (that's "switches" per "chip" to you and me).
That has absolutely not one goddamn thing to do with this topic or the cited article, so STFU or RTFM first. Please.
the watermark they've set is still 1,000 times faster than what we have now
You keep using that word watermark. I don't think it means what you think it means.
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Now that's flamebait.
Seriously. No matter how good you think your social skills are, or how impeccably perspicacious your banter may seem to you, I may not (and probably don't) want to hear it on a plane while I'm trying to read/sleep/watch a movie. See, we're stuck close together, I can't just move away from you like I might in another situation.
So yeah, I have to agree with the grandparent poster -- you really should keep conversations to a minimum, and at a very low volume, when flying. It's polite (i.e., a good social skill).
I'm not sure what the jab about being the other posters child was supposed to mean, but I for one would hate to share a plane with you if you think "good social skills" on a plane is anything other than shutting the fuck up as much as possible.
OSX has better broad hardware support than Windows? I guess you're kidding, but since the mods decided that your (silly) claim was Insightful, I feel the need to call you on it.
Please, do try to back up that claim. I'm in the mood for a good laugh.
You can implement any logic function using any one type of gate except inverter (only). Inverters are trivial to make from any 2-input gate.
Anandtech didn't seem to care about potential licensing problems (at least they didn't mention it):
We set up 2 users who were checking email, writing in Word and adding data to spreadsheets. We had no problem getting our single-user installation of Microsoft Office to work just as if these were separate PC's. We also saw no perceptible difference in performance when we ran the 860Twin as a single user or with 2 users working. We can only assume that the time-slicing mechanism used to enable Magic Twin works very well.
And, since:
This isn't true networking; rather, it is just clever and transparent time-slicing, but the multiplexing is all but invisible to each of the two users.
I don't think there could be a licensing issue. EULA usually give you right to use the product on one machine (or in case of some high-cost EDA, per CPU). I've never seen a limit on the number of users, simultaneous or otherwise. This is one machine. It splits the output (and input) via timeslicing to let two users on the machine at once, but it's still just one machine (one CPU).
If this is a problem, so is my dual-monitor PC -- technically I could open 2 copies of Word and use one with the mouse (and, say, and on-screen keyboard or voice recognition) and let someone else use the keyboard on the other. I think I can do that legally -- I have a license for that product on one machine, and I'm using it on one machine.
Also, going even more extreme: two people working on the same document (thinking and discussing together, maybe taking turns typing, whatever) would require a second license.
I don't think so, unless publishers update the EULAs to account for this new multi-user PC. Which I guess is possible.
Re: your sig.
.htaccess and.or apache config files) and saw all the effort you put into many "happy birthday ${female_name}" images.
I followed the link, saw the desert eagle wood carving and thought "cool -- nice work!"
Then I went up a few dirctories (you may want to check your
They're very pretty, but I wonder: did you ever get any tang out of those, or was it all done "for art's sake"?
I only ask because I saw a few "Happy Valentine's Day" images as well, but none of those had names.
I haven't seen that pamphlet, though I do have an original mint copy of Come to Florida -- It's Heaven's Waiting Room.
Even Florida isn't dumb enough to tax LANs. According to the article:
...
The upper legislative chamber is expected to propose a temporary suspension of its enforcement and then look for ways to limit the provision's application without undermining its original intent.
No one knows exactly how much more would be collected by enforcing the broader definition of the tax. The rate varies statewide, ranging from 9.17 percent to 18.07 percent depending on local option assessments.
Stargel predicts it would be hundreds of millions of dollars annually, while some business lobbyists say it would easily exceed $1 billion.
This is an interesting case of reasonable tax laws made dumb and potentially dangerous by advances in technology, but otherwise pretty much a non-issue that will go away quietly within a few weeks.
seems to be an awful lot of duplication of texture, geometry, and code going on here
No, there is some procedural generation of all of the above going on here. Not much duplication I expect.
It requires 512MB RAM and 128MB framebuffer because it procedurally generates geometry and textures that are that big.
And the zipping does little. The executable is 97,280 bytes, the readme is 5,504 bytes. The zip archive is 100,185 bytes. The compression is negligible.
Don't poo-poo it just because you don't get it. It's very cool, and very impressive, IMHO.
Yep, and if this code were such a thing, we'd say it about it , whatever it is.
The code and data memory size expands massively on execution (procedurally-generated textures and geometries mostly, though probably some code-generating code as well) -- it does require 512MB of RAM. And, WinXP said the game process was using more than 200MB when I ran it.
The point is that the stored copy of the code is small, not the runtime footprint.
No one else has pointed out, BTW, that besides the extra time and celeverness required to do something like this, game companies don't want their games to be this small! It just makes piracy to quick and easy if you only need to send one file that can easily attach to an email. Better to have 3 CD's jammed with FMV cutscenes and such even if the game would fit on one floppy -- the media is cheap, and it makes a small hassle (or at least a slowdown) for the pirates.
That said, the game is awesome for it's code size. Very pretty. Fast. Even kind of fun. Just needs sounds, control re-mapping, and netcode, and it could compete with unreal, IMHO.
How is this post, chock full of wrong claims, +5 Informative? Did the mods misread the option as MIS-informative? Or do they just assume any post made with a confident writing style just must be right?
See the other reply to understand why this is off by more than 10x (fridges average 60-70W, not 700-750W) and results in a very wrong (by ~2x) conclusion (a basic PC running a word processor will use about 60-70W, about the same as a decent modern fridge).
I know this will be modded down because, as we all know, thou shalt not question mods, but I hate to see misinformation moderated up to max score, where it's sure to be preserved as a nugget of incorrect knowledge in google's cache and the wayback machine for years to come.
The 2004 requirement for refridgerators sold in the US is to be labeled as "Energy Star" compliant (which is most of the decent ones) is ~500kWh/year. There are aout 8760 hours in a year. That's means for "normal use" the fridge consumes an average of 60W of power. I think you're off by an order of magnitude.
A fridge drawing a constant 700W running 24/7 for 365 days would cost about $613/year to run, assuming an average of $0.10/kWh. ~$50/month electric bill just for the fridge? I don't think so.
Maybe peak power for the compressor is close to 700W, like if you turned the temp as low as it would go and filled it with boiling water, (but I don't think so), but you're way, way off in your guess.
And, BTW, a (normal) computer running a word processor will consume nowhere near half of "700 - 750W". I can word process on a box without taxing an 150W power supply in the least.
Just FYI.