This sounds a lot like a teenager throwing a tantrum for a certain specific purpose, deliberately pretending there are no other alternatives. Surely the great minds at NASA can get hold of several newer, better, cheaper alternatives to Pu 238?
You chose VB? That was probably the worst choice of all. I don't know what you mean by "the peace-of-mind of Microsoft." VB programmers got screwed along with everyone else in one of MS's periodic "we have to change everything so you have to re-buy all your tools and rewrite all your code" scams. Call it Win32, windows.h, COM/DCOM, VB++,.NET, or whatever, you will get screwed within 6 to 8 years of committing to any particular MS technology.
Real cool stuff alright. Unless you use linux and are happy and productive with vi, emacs, jedit, nedit and the like along with wxWidgets or Qt. It takes something rather more compelling to shell out hundreds of dollars per developer for a bunch of licences.
What Turbo Pascal was in the '80s, GNU/Linux is now, the Great Enabler.
Cupertino, CA, May 5, 2009 - Apple computer is rumored to be buying several flattened cigarette butts on the northwest corner of Castro St. and Central Expressway, in Mountain View, CA for $650 million. The cigarette butts are approximately 40 cm from the nearest curb edge. A squashed aluminum can, possibly a beer can, is in the gutter nearby. A paper bag with the partially wrapped remains of a beef burrito are also lying in close proximity to the cigarette butts, but do not appear to be part of the deal. In any event, a crow has been attempting to unwrap the burrito during most of the morning, presumably to abscond with the remains. Apple spokespersons declined to discuss the deal on the record, but it was made known later that the cigarette butts were in the middle of Silicon Valley, and therefore extremely valuable for that reason alone. One of the cigarette butts reportedly has lipstick stains, but that has not yet been confirmed.
This article is a non-issue. Try this: The Pentagon's 1 Trillion Dollar Problem. The unaccounted-for money is now several trillion dollars. It did not occur "pennies at a time."
Welcome, Comrades! Welcome to the Glorious Union of Soviet Capitalist Republics!
It's a fool's errand. It is better to make sure everyone is well nourished, reasonably fit, and has easy and cheap access to front line medical care; have a system of generating new vaccines as quickly as possible (takes months; can't quarantine people that long); have a good public health system, have an educated public that practices simple yet powerful techniques (wash hands, stay home when sick, etc.); and have a pharma industry that focuses more on developing useful drugs for more people (including variations in drug metabolism, etc.) than in producing "blockbuster drugs" of sometimes questionable merit.
In other words, continue doing more or less what we have always done, improving wherever and whenever possible, without panic, fear-mongering, or hyping up the threats.
The current "pandemic" is largely an exercise in ignorance, incompetence, self-delusion, opportunism, corruption, and an unhealthy dose of general idiocy.
Dude, we all do. That is why I think this article is rubbish. Cray 1 was a supercomputer. Your laptop can incinerate a Cray 1. A typical quad-core HP consumer or office desktop is vastly more powerful. Today's "good enough" computers are yesterday's supercomputers. People who think most of us don't need more power can't see beyond the end of their noses, nor do they appear to have been aware during the recent past.
This is an oft-repeated fallacy, that most people don't need powerful CPUs or OSs. A post above claims to have been saying this since the Pentium II days. This is essentially the same short-sightedness as the apocryphal "128K ought to be enough for anybody" remark from way back when.
It is patently and obviously ridiculous. A Pentium II PC, especially on a Pentium II-compatible motherboard with its memory and other characteristics, would not be an acceptable platform for the average user. It would be very slow and would immediately have memory issues. Current graphics hardware would probably not be compatible, and even if it was the 3D software like OpenGL or the MS equivalent would have unacceptably bad performance. Contemporary games would be dreary experiences indeed.
Lots of multimedia authoring software can use as many cores and as much RAM as you can afford. 3D gaming environments with ever more active objects, each with some amount of basic AI and moving parts, will also keep pushing the envelope even further. "Tab creep" in your web browser, where you end up accumulating open tabs, each with graphics, javascript, and maybe audio or video give memory footprints well into the hundreds of MB.
Maybe deaf and blind little old ladies with severe arthritis can get by with a Pentium II, but not too many others. In 2025 the things that will pass for personal computer desktops (something like them will still exist in spite of the cyclical "The PC is Dead" hype), will have a dozen or more CPU cores or perhaps hundreds of smaller cores of various kinds to distribute different types of processing. Cache memory will be much larger than today as will be system RAM and storage. Software will be similar to today's except for far greater detail and granularity of content, and multiple new ways to interact with the data. That will demand a lot of compute power.
No doubt people will continue to say things like "an exaflop and a zettabyte ought to be enough for anyone," and people like me will continue to deride and mock them.
This is the first near-production electric car that has ever come close to being something that can potentially achieve mass market penetration (I'm assuming that their other less expensive model will be have similar characteristics). It looks like most of the posts are of the "what a piece of shit," or "o yeah, my fossil-fuel-burning ecological nightmare goes faster/farther." Grow up, folks. They're trying to solve one of the biggest problems facing the world. If you expect them to get it right on the first try instead of over a period of 10 or 20 years, you are insane.
I am aware that I used the word "penetration." It's OK, I'm used to/. I know what's coming.
I need a full report immediately. URLs, logins and passwords used for research, all imagery from the sites that will be in the corpus of evidence including videos, names, phone numbers, price structures, everything!
Reported By: Crimmy
Assigned To: Product Management
Project: DAZ Studio
Issue ID: 25704
Category: Other
Reproducibility: always
Severity: major
Priority: normal
Status: new
Platform: PC
Date Submitted: 2008-08-12 15:05 CDT
Last Modified: 2009-04-09 14:37 CDT
Summary: DAZ Studio for Linux
Description:
I would very much like to see a Linux version of DAZ Studio. I use SuSE Linux and it is a very stable and user-friendly operating system and I would use it often. This would enable Linux users who are interested in DAZ Studio and Poser the opportunity to buy content that is usable in their platform. It would even be worthwhile distributing it as part of the OpenSuSE distribution, whereby it would check for updates at DAZ website repository and grab the latest version the way other Linux programs do.
I concur. It has been several versions of DS since I have gotten it to run under wine (see http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12931#c1). I used to use it exclusively under Ubuntu, then had to switch to XP. Now, after a windows update, it hangs and crashes there as well even after a reinstall. Given that 1) it is written with the Qt libraries and 2) Qt is a cross-platform framework that runs very well under GNU/Linux, it is baffling that there still is no native Linux version. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE make a Linux version! Do it for Ubuntu if you have to choose a specific distro!
I use Ubuntu and I have trouble under Wine as well. I know it's partially due to the ATI driver support on Linux, but it would be nice not to have that extra Wine layer in there causing problems.
Issue History
Date Modified Username Field Change
2008-08-12 15:05 Crimmy New Issue
2008-08-12 15:05 Crimmy Platform => PC
2008-08-12 15:07 Crimmy Issue Monitored: Crimmy
2008-08-27 09:18 smahlum Note Added: 0046202
2008-08-27 09:18 smahlum Assigned To DAZ QA Manager =>
Product Management
2008-12-17 15:51 DAZ QA Manager Project DAZ Studio => DAZ
Studio Private Beta
2008-12-29 15:08 Heather Minson Project DAZ Studio Private Beta
DAZ Studio
2009-04-01 22:53 un_pobre_guey Note Added: 0051664
2009-04-09 14:37 zigraphix Note Added: 0051913
Yup. Like I want to spend a few hours doing that. Of course, I spent a day and a half reinstalling, so, yeah. I had some free time to do other things in the meantime, though.
Didn't know what update, and anyway I wanted to be fully updated since XP support is ending soon.
Just out of curiosity, what dolls did you find creepy? The Girl 4 has a curious combination of cuteness and creepiness. It is proving relatively popular.
After a recent update to an XP box (an MS automatic update) DAZ Studio, a piece of software I enjoy, stopped working. It is really the only reason I still have a windows box. The XP clean reinstall process went through without a hitch, but it took me a day and a half. I shit you not. Endless downloading of files and updates, far too many reboots. I hope this is remedied in Windows 7, because when it comes out I will probably get a new beefier windows box for DAZ Studio.
Have no fear, the Microsoft fanboys will soon tell us the many, many reasons why this is actually a good thing and how, Real Soon Now, Microsoft will fix it and add dozens of fabulous new features that make Adobe software a thing of the past. The Mono fanboys will do much the same, although nobody will understand why.
I think a file-sharing analogy is due. I am not, however, willing to make it myself. Slashdotters have a peculiar sense of when taking others' property and violating others' licensing terms is acceptable or not.
Slashdot Mirror
This sounds a lot like a teenager throwing a tantrum for a certain specific purpose, deliberately pretending there are no other alternatives. Surely the great minds at NASA can get hold of several newer, better, cheaper alternatives to Pu 238?
You chose VB? That was probably the worst choice of all. I don't know what you mean by "the peace-of-mind of Microsoft." VB programmers got screwed along with everyone else in one of MS's periodic "we have to change everything so you have to re-buy all your tools and rewrite all your code" scams. Call it Win32, windows.h, COM/DCOM, VB++, .NET, or whatever, you will get screwed within 6 to 8 years of committing to any particular MS technology.
What Turbo Pascal was in the '80s, GNU/Linux is now, the Great Enabler.
You mean that's not the real question or that nobody cares? You should explain it to your twitter followers.
Of course, the companies mentioned back then had "revenues."
Cupertino, CA, May 5, 2009 - Apple computer is rumored to be buying several flattened cigarette butts on the northwest corner of Castro St. and Central Expressway, in Mountain View, CA for $650 million. The cigarette butts are approximately 40 cm from the nearest curb edge. A squashed aluminum can, possibly a beer can, is in the gutter nearby. A paper bag with the partially wrapped remains of a beef burrito are also lying in close proximity to the cigarette butts, but do not appear to be part of the deal. In any event, a crow has been attempting to unwrap the burrito during most of the morning, presumably to abscond with the remains. Apple spokespersons declined to discuss the deal on the record, but it was made known later that the cigarette butts were in the middle of Silicon Valley, and therefore extremely valuable for that reason alone. One of the cigarette butts reportedly has lipstick stains, but that has not yet been confirmed.
Welcome, Comrades! Welcome to the Glorious Union of Soviet Capitalist Republics!
In other words, continue doing more or less what we have always done, improving wherever and whenever possible, without panic, fear-mongering, or hyping up the threats.
The current "pandemic" is largely an exercise in ignorance, incompetence, self-delusion, opportunism, corruption, and an unhealthy dose of general idiocy.
http://www.cdc.gov/search.do?queryText=cytokine+storm&searchButton.x=0&searchButton.y=0&action=search
Dude, we all do. That is why I think this article is rubbish. Cray 1 was a supercomputer. Your laptop can incinerate a Cray 1. A typical quad-core HP consumer or office desktop is vastly more powerful. Today's "good enough" computers are yesterday's supercomputers. People who think most of us don't need more power can't see beyond the end of their noses, nor do they appear to have been aware during the recent past.
It is patently and obviously ridiculous. A Pentium II PC, especially on a Pentium II-compatible motherboard with its memory and other characteristics, would not be an acceptable platform for the average user. It would be very slow and would immediately have memory issues. Current graphics hardware would probably not be compatible, and even if it was the 3D software like OpenGL or the MS equivalent would have unacceptably bad performance. Contemporary games would be dreary experiences indeed.
Lots of multimedia authoring software can use as many cores and as much RAM as you can afford. 3D gaming environments with ever more active objects, each with some amount of basic AI and moving parts, will also keep pushing the envelope even further. "Tab creep" in your web browser, where you end up accumulating open tabs, each with graphics, javascript, and maybe audio or video give memory footprints well into the hundreds of MB.
Maybe deaf and blind little old ladies with severe arthritis can get by with a Pentium II, but not too many others. In 2025 the things that will pass for personal computer desktops (something like them will still exist in spite of the cyclical "The PC is Dead" hype), will have a dozen or more CPU cores or perhaps hundreds of smaller cores of various kinds to distribute different types of processing. Cache memory will be much larger than today as will be system RAM and storage. Software will be similar to today's except for far greater detail and granularity of content, and multiple new ways to interact with the data. That will demand a lot of compute power.
No doubt people will continue to say things like "an exaflop and a zettabyte ought to be enough for anyone," and people like me will continue to deride and mock them.
I am aware that I used the word "penetration." It's OK, I'm used to /. I know what's coming.
I see your point, but gasoline in a tank never blows up spontaneously. Li ion batteries are still a bit dicey, on occasion.
Does anyone know how likely the batteries are to catch fire or explode? Imagine a gigantic cell phone or laptop battery blowing up. Yikes!
I need a full report immediately. URLs, logins and passwords used for research, all imagery from the sites that will be in the corpus of evidence including videos, names, phone numbers, price structures, everything!
In a perverse twist of fate, moments after my post I got this: A NOTE has been added to this issue.
https://bugs.daz3d.com/view.php?id=25704
Reported By: Crimmy
Assigned To: Product Management
Project: DAZ Studio
Issue ID: 25704
Category: Other
Reproducibility: always
Severity: major
Priority: normal
Status: new
Platform: PC
Date Submitted: 2008-08-12 15:05 CDT
Last Modified: 2009-04-09 14:37 CDT
Summary: DAZ Studio for Linux
Description:
I would very much like to see a Linux version of DAZ Studio. I use SuSE Linux and it is a very stable and user-friendly operating system and I would use it often. This would enable Linux users who are interested in DAZ Studio and Poser the opportunity to buy content that is usable in their platform. It would even be worthwhile distributing it as part of the OpenSuSE distribution, whereby it would check for updates at DAZ website repository and grab the latest version the way other Linux programs do.
(0046202) smahlum (administrator) - 2008-08-27 09:18
https://bugs.daz3d.com/view.php?id=25704#c46202
Feature request from this user.
(0051664) un_pobre_guey (reporter) - 2009-04-01 22:53
https://bugs.daz3d.com/view.php?id=25704#c51664
I concur. It has been several versions of DS since I have gotten it to run under wine (see http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12931#c1). I used to use it exclusively under Ubuntu, then had to switch to XP. Now, after a windows update, it hangs and crashes there as well even after a reinstall. Given that 1) it is written with the Qt libraries and 2) Qt is a cross-platform framework that runs very well under GNU/Linux, it is baffling that there still is no native Linux version. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE make a Linux version! Do it for Ubuntu if you have to choose a specific distro!
(0051913) zigraphix (reporter) - 2009-04-09 14:37
https://bugs.daz3d.com/view.php?id=25704#c51913
I use Ubuntu and I have trouble under Wine as well. I know it's partially due to the ATI driver support on Linux, but it would be nice not to have that extra Wine layer in there causing problems.
Issue History
Date Modified Username Field Change
2008-08-12 15:05 Crimmy New Issue
2008-08-12 15:05 Crimmy Platform => PC
2008-08-12 15:07 Crimmy Issue Monitored: Crimmy
2008-08-27 09:18 smahlum Note Added: 0046202
2008-08-27 09:18 smahlum Assigned To DAZ QA Manager =>
Product Management
2008-12-17 15:51 DAZ QA Manager Project DAZ Studio => DAZ
Studio Private Beta
2008-12-29 15:08 Heather Minson Project DAZ Studio Private Beta
DAZ Studio
2009-04-01 22:53 un_pobre_guey Note Added: 0051664
2009-04-09 14:37 zigraphix Note Added: 0051913
It stopped working several DAZ versions ago. I have even reinstalled Wine, recreated the .wine directory, etc. I can't figure it out.
I don't have a Mac. Also, I have show-stopping problems running DAZ under Wine, for those who suggest it. Otherwise I would not need the XP box.
Yup. Like I want to spend a few hours doing that. Of course, I spent a day and a half reinstalling, so, yeah. I had some free time to do other things in the meantime, though.
Actually, I think the low-level format suggestion is wise.
Just out of curiosity, what dolls did you find creepy? The Girl 4 has a curious combination of cuteness and creepiness. It is proving relatively popular.
After a recent update to an XP box (an MS automatic update) DAZ Studio, a piece of software I enjoy, stopped working. It is really the only reason I still have a windows box. The XP clean reinstall process went through without a hitch, but it took me a day and a half. I shit you not. Endless downloading of files and updates, far too many reboots. I hope this is remedied in Windows 7, because when it comes out I will probably get a new beefier windows box for DAZ Studio.
That image is almost NSFW!
Have no fear, the Microsoft fanboys will soon tell us the many, many reasons why this is actually a good thing and how, Real Soon Now, Microsoft will fix it and add dozens of fabulous new features that make Adobe software a thing of the past. The Mono fanboys will do much the same, although nobody will understand why.
I think a file-sharing analogy is due. I am not, however, willing to make it myself. Slashdotters have a peculiar sense of when taking others' property and violating others' licensing terms is acceptable or not.