Yes, that's the problem here. You can't buy 10.5 from the Apple stores any more - they will tell you to get it on Ebay, where it costs up to a hundred dollars. Still, anyone who uses a Mac has to accept the fact that when uncle Steve tells you to spend money, you spend it. I've noticed that free software I'd like to install on my girlfriend's iMac G5 has started dropping support for OS 10.4, so I'll probably get the upgrade.
Plus, and I'm sorry if this is nitpicking, but to have the C compiler called xlc and the C++ compiler called xlC was just, well, insane.
That by itself makes me want to get my hands on an AIX machine.
I used to have a pimped-out PS/2 Model 80 (56 megs RAM, mostly on an MCA card, twin SCSI controllers each with its own two megabyte cache on 30-pin SIMMs, SGI IrisVision hardware 3D acceleration and all sorts of other weird shit) that I could have run it on (instead of Linux)... sadly once I stopped being a student I no longer had the time to fiddle with it, so it went to the tip:-(.
Isn't cachefs intended to work with network filesystems like NFS, rather than local disks? I had expected some block-level caching setup would be simpler and give better performance.
OK let's suppose you have a fairly vanilla Linux desktop system, with one spinning hard disk and one SSD. How do you set things up in software to use the SSD as a kind of cache for the hard disk?
Lynch's movie had the "feel" of Dune, but as far as the script goes, it sucked really bad (which is strange, considering Herbert had substantial influence over the final product).
You wouldn't be able to fool me into giving my 3DS password since I don't remember it. Every time that Verified By Visa thing comes up, I have to go through the process of choosing a new password. The only extra information I have to provide, beyond what's printed on the card, is my date of birth. So I type that in and then cycle through about eight passwords I've previously used (it won't let you use one you have chosen before) before finding a new, unique one which I use for that transaction and then promptly forget.
Indeed, but *in effect* what they are trying to do is change the copyright balance. Not by modifying copyright law - that would involve debate in Parliament and all sorts of other nuisances - but by other measures that end up having the same effect, but without the legitimacy or oversight (or any serious attempt to consider the public interest). It is this which is overstepping Ofcom's remit.
One of the arguments I plan to make is that it's simply not up to Ofcom or the BBC to decide whether restricting home recording is a 'justified objective'. Copyright, being a tradeoff between competing interests, is essentially a political rather than technical question, and any changes to copyright law need to be made by Parliament, not sneaked in through the back door with technological restrictions. (I responded to the earlier consultation, and so did many others, which meant Ofcom said 'no' to the BBC's request, but they appear to have found a way to work around public opinion and reverse the earlier decision. But it's not too late.)
(just to repeat the correct link for those who haven't seen it: )
Why is there a separate file chooser dialogue box *at all*? Why not use the standard file browser (Nautilus, Dolphin or whatever) to navigate through directories and choose files to open?
What are the odds that the service doesn't use the image at all, but just uses the phone's GPS sensor, compass, and orientation sensor to work out what object you're looking at?
... right after TomTom tried to sue them for using navigation software to give directions. In the end, they both settled, and TomTom, the aggressor, didn't get its payday.
1. Of course the CPU-intensive parts of an app (compression, encryption, database things like DBM or SQLite) are still in native code and Javascript is just a wrapper.
2. The new generation of Javascript engines (Google's V8, Mozilla's Tracemonkey, etc) are one or two orders of magnitude faster than the Javascript interpreters of a few years ago. Not nearly as fast as native code, of course, but certainly good enough for a lot of applications.
3. You're right that threading and parallelism is missing. And also it's true that there aren't enough language bindings to good graphics libraries, though of course the browser itself is a powerful 2D engine for many tasks. Also, have you looked at WebGL, a Javascript binding to OpenGL?
Your family and friends never want to plug their camera into the computer and download photos? Or upload music to their iPod? Those are two common tasks that, so far, can't be done using just a Web browser.
I am willing to bet good money that Microsoft formed a team responsible for finding bugs in Google frame just to discredit them.
Heh. If so, it's a good reason to use Google Chrome Frame. A program that has an active bug-finding team is more trustworthy than one where bugs and security holes are hushed up.
However, I don't think Microsoft would set out to help their competitor in this way.
There are far more people here who wipe their butt than write graphics drivers, but a new brand of toilet paper offering 96 rolls for only $9.99 is not headline-worthy.
Does it come with a free software driver, or at least include specs so you can write your own?
If not, why does it deserve a Slashdot front page headline? There are plenty of Windows gaming sites for those who want that kind of thing.
There is no suggestion that casinos are planning to *use* this system. It's a student project, that's all.
The fact is that card counting has been a huge benefit to casinos. After books such as 'Beat the Dealer' were published, lots of people thought they had a chance of beating the system and casino business increased. Of course, few of them really were smart enough or disciplined enough to do card counting properly, and once in the casino they might decide to play other (more profitable) games as well as blackjack.
(Source: some TV documentary I remember seeing once...)
Well, in this case, the issue probably got a lot more publicity because of the fact that they tried to limit the publicity with an injunction. So, yes, idiot lawyers.
I'm sure the unwanted publicity didn't lead to the legal firm reducing its bill to the client...
I know Blackberries have historically had all sorts of broken ways of connecting to the outside world but I thought they had fixed it by now? On my unit I can enable connection to 'Company Network' (the business 'enterprise' stuff) but also to 'Carrier Internet'. Are you really saying that every time it makes an http request it goes through some giant Dr Evil server somewhere in Canada?
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Enfibre? Befibre? Fiberize? Fibrate?
Yes, that's the problem here. You can't buy 10.5 from the Apple stores any more - they will tell you to get it on Ebay, where it costs up to a hundred dollars. Still, anyone who uses a Mac has to accept the fact that when uncle Steve tells you to spend money, you spend it. I've noticed that free software I'd like to install on my girlfriend's iMac G5 has started dropping support for OS 10.4, so I'll probably get the upgrade.
That by itself makes me want to get my hands on an AIX machine.
I used to have a pimped-out PS/2 Model 80 (56 megs RAM, mostly on an MCA card, twin SCSI controllers each with its own two megabyte cache on 30-pin SIMMs, SGI IrisVision hardware 3D acceleration and all sorts of other weird shit) that I could have run it on (instead of Linux)... sadly once I stopped being a student I no longer had the time to fiddle with it, so it went to the tip :-(.
Isn't cachefs intended to work with network filesystems like NFS, rather than local disks? I had expected some block-level caching setup would be simpler and give better performance.
OK let's suppose you have a fairly vanilla Linux desktop system, with one spinning hard disk and one SSD. How do you set things up in software to use the SSD as a kind of cache for the hard disk?
Have you read any of Frank Herbert's dialogue?
You wouldn't be able to fool me into giving my 3DS password since I don't remember it. Every time that Verified By Visa thing comes up, I have to go through the process of choosing a new password. The only extra information I have to provide, beyond what's printed on the card, is my date of birth. So I type that in and then cycle through about eight passwords I've previously used (it won't let you use one you have chosen before) before finding a new, unique one which I use for that transaction and then promptly forget.
Indeed, but *in effect* what they are trying to do is change the copyright balance. Not by modifying copyright law - that would involve debate in Parliament and all sorts of other nuisances - but by other measures that end up having the same effect, but without the legitimacy or oversight (or any serious attempt to consider the public interest). It is this which is overstepping Ofcom's remit.
Silly Slashdot comment form ate my link, here it is: http://www.ofcom.org.uk/consult/condocs/content_mngt/howtorespond/
One of the arguments I plan to make is that it's simply not up to Ofcom or the BBC to decide whether restricting home recording is a 'justified objective'. Copyright, being a tradeoff between competing interests, is essentially a political rather than technical question, and any changes to copyright law need to be made by Parliament, not sneaked in through the back door with technological restrictions. (I responded to the earlier consultation, and so did many others, which meant Ofcom said 'no' to the BBC's request, but they appear to have found a way to work around public opinion and reverse the earlier decision. But it's not too late.) (just to repeat the correct link for those who haven't seen it: )
Why is there a separate file chooser dialogue box *at all*? Why not use the standard file browser (Nautilus, Dolphin or whatever) to navigate through directories and choose files to open?
What are the odds that the service doesn't use the image at all, but just uses the phone's GPS sensor, compass, and orientation sensor to work out what object you're looking at?
Do you have a source to back that up?
1. Of course the CPU-intensive parts of an app (compression, encryption, database things like DBM or SQLite) are still in native code and Javascript is just a wrapper. 2. The new generation of Javascript engines (Google's V8, Mozilla's Tracemonkey, etc) are one or two orders of magnitude faster than the Javascript interpreters of a few years ago. Not nearly as fast as native code, of course, but certainly good enough for a lot of applications. 3. You're right that threading and parallelism is missing. And also it's true that there aren't enough language bindings to good graphics libraries, though of course the browser itself is a powerful 2D engine for many tasks. Also, have you looked at WebGL, a Javascript binding to OpenGL?
Your family and friends never want to plug their camera into the computer and download photos? Or upload music to their iPod? Those are two common tasks that, so far, can't be done using just a Web browser.
Heh. If so, it's a good reason to use Google Chrome Frame. A program that has an active bug-finding team is more trustworthy than one where bugs and security holes are hushed up.
However, I don't think Microsoft would set out to help their competitor in this way.
There are far more people here who wipe their butt than write graphics drivers, but a new brand of toilet paper offering 96 rolls for only $9.99 is not headline-worthy.
Does it come with a free software driver, or at least include specs so you can write your own? If not, why does it deserve a Slashdot front page headline? There are plenty of Windows gaming sites for those who want that kind of thing.
Exactly. Who cares about losing weight? What most people want is to lose *fat*. If you lose fat and gain muscle, that's even better.
Yeah, 'cos reinstalling Windows for the nth time is such a productive and fun way to spend your life.
Yes, it should be written 'easierer'.
There is no suggestion that casinos are planning to *use* this system. It's a student project, that's all. The fact is that card counting has been a huge benefit to casinos. After books such as 'Beat the Dealer' were published, lots of people thought they had a chance of beating the system and casino business increased. Of course, few of them really were smart enough or disciplined enough to do card counting properly, and once in the casino they might decide to play other (more profitable) games as well as blackjack. (Source: some TV documentary I remember seeing once...)
I'm sure the unwanted publicity didn't lead to the legal firm reducing its bill to the client...
I know Blackberries have historically had all sorts of broken ways of connecting to the outside world but I thought they had fixed it by now? On my unit I can enable connection to 'Company Network' (the business 'enterprise' stuff) but also to 'Carrier Internet'. Are you really saying that every time it makes an http request it goes through some giant Dr Evil server somewhere in Canada?