In fact it doesn't have to be x86 anything. Intel might relish the chance to dump the legacy that began with the 8086. Considering how much of the x86 arch is implemented in micocode, it might not be that hard from them to ditch it. Apple would be a perfect initial customer for them, and if Intel could outperform themselves by leaps and bounds simply by dumping the x86 legacy, as has been speculated in the past, then after it catches on , and outperforms its legacy x86 line, Windows platorms can be convinced dropping the x86 legacy stuff.
My general feeling, is that if it's and x86, its step backward for the the state of the art, and mac's would lose some appeal, (and probably be less secure as shell code could then be made to trivially exploit both platforms), it is intel but a new arch, that drops the CISC legacy cruft, it could be very, very interesting.
Well from the MS mouse to the XBox, one could say they are moving to becoming a hardware company.
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Ya, some good points, but at the end comes across as a whiner. I've noticed a lot more of the type lately, games have become more a status symbol, I personally like a game that's hard, if its rewarding. Basically, I don't think this guy could hack defender. When I saw him dig on Resident Evil for its limited ammo, I definitely pegged him.
For those who don't know the time when the coin-op Defender was released in its arcades, it had good sound, and good graphics for the time, and 1 of the most complicated control system for a game of the time, basically gamers could be classified by the game, those who get over the initial intimidation of the controls, those who were too scared to even approach the game, and those who gave up quickly, who'd then hang around way too long, asking you "how can you deal with the controls?", and "wouldn't it be better if they changed it so...", and other lameness. Either you could play or you couldn't, if you don't like then don't like it,
His AI gripe, I agree with, and I'm also disappointed there, and the point that he makes about when the speed improvements are made tend toward more graphics. He makes a good point about the cut-scenes as screen-shot rip, and that may in fact have a lot to do with the push on graphics side as opposed to the AI, everything they improve the graphics technology they get another chance to sucker people again w/ the cut-scene con.
Especially when it's really social science studies, when they just prove common sense. Rexamining the hard sciences has intrinsic value, but social science is so much softer to start with... But then again, there is the persuasive value. Imagine, say it's the office from the movie _9_to_5 , and Dabney Coleman's character is keeping the the heat down to safe a few pennies, and the office typing pool is complaining its too cold... Is he going to listen to the argument, from them? Or would he just assume it was 'slow down', and go into a anti-union rant?
So, if the productivity is improved, improving the economy, because it took some stupid study to prove what should be obvious to stuborn lame brains everywhere, maybe it's not so bad.
In the beginning, there were no software companies. Companies maintained there own software departments that could be quite large, and software provided by hardware companies was fairly minimal. One thing about OSS that people don't get, and try to obsecure, is that if you never ship the software in any form, you don't have to publish, or share it. Corporate in-house projects, that solve a problem inside HQ , are really as far as the license goes no different from a hobbiest hacker, that changes a program for personel, ad-hoc, use. With open source, companies can get source rights that they used to get by default in the 70's, and early 80's. Take sony adapting gcc for their development of their console for instance. If they had used a product of a software company they would have to negoiate a license and new terms just to adapt something they already payed.
Really the success of gcc, is proof that OSS can be successful. People try to whittle away at is success, but it's proven, and only continues to be more so, with its use in Apple's OSX. So there's one, so there's the proof, and what is Apple still making money?
No. God, I hope not. I get what your saying, things like how the computer consoles and such look out-dated, and the special effects and props in general. One could hedge and say that tech was better in 'hight of the old republic', and the rebels are piecing together what they can... Seriously, though, would you redo _Alien_ just to update Mother? Maybe you would, But a really good , movie can survive the test of time, despite improvments in technology, you know with things like acting, plot, and dialog?
I absolutely hated the new Greedo vs Han showdown, to the point of nearly retching in the theatre -- really, I almost did, I jerked up, felt really sick, leaned over, , but managed to catch myself -- people around me thought I had choked on a raisonette or something... A very cool and sophisticated scene, was turned into cheap tripe, with this really gay head jerk, just because between disney boycotts some conservative group complained, that " a hero shouldn't shoot first" , How Messed up, look at Jack Beur today, hippocrites! It was clear Greedo was going to kill Han, the bounty was dead or alive, Mos Eisely is like some old-west border down, Storm troopers aren't going to help anyone, they're just there to keep the people align and support empire ( analog to oldwest, the current junta )... Ehh.. They never should have touched, he could have made another movie to test the new special effects tech, of IML.
Yeah, perhaps, However I think the Mark Twain might be almost better, as from what I can from the pictures, the f and j keys have no ridges, or dimples on them, the lack of them really defeats the point.
I do this, and I've I done it for a while. Basically, for anything that can be memorized instantly, there's already a rule for in crack. So, I've been doing this since 1996, evolving offer time, until the point where I choose random passwords, rejecting ones that are too hard to type, one needs to be able to type it quickly, as well, after a while I learn the new password, but they are complicated enough, that its more muscle memory than anything else, I'd need to be at a keyboard to remember the whole password, If injected w/ sodium pentathol I'd probably only be able to give up the first 3 characters of any password;-], not actually being able to remember, since they aren't really words, unless they stuck a keyboard in front of me... Its like of like a sports swing, or a combo move in a game, once learned, you bypass conscious thought to perform them. A better example still, would be like tying a shoe-lace, I can do this w/o thought, and in fact , thinking about it only makes it harder.
>The first is: Never get involved in a land war in Asia. But only slightly less well-known: Never use a non sequitur, when >Death is on the line!
>> "...workers today are not overloaded with information." and "We still want a lot of information."
Interestingly engough, there is a relationship though between, Asia and Information Overload. Information Overload was first noticed and coined when U.S. pilots were being shot down by S.A.M's that they could have, should have, been able to evade, the problem was determined that with all the electronics in the cockpit, the pilots did not hear the warning alarm, over the the din of everything else, the pilots responded by turning off most of the stuff. Information Overload is not too much info, it's critical info being lost amid heaps of comparitively trivia info.
Kinda of dismissive, aren't you. >If the server used HT, it would be possible for one of those other users to run an exploit on the server to crack my e->commerce site's private key. >It may be possible, yes. But plausible? Consider that if anyone of them is compromised, his site can be cracked his site from there, he's now only as secure as his neighbors.
>It MAY affect you and your customers at some later time, but right now it doesn't. When it does, it will be too late. Kinda of like saying, riding in a car with a drunk driver, imay affect you at some later time. Because, sure, up until the point he crosses the median and crashes head on into on comming traffic, you're not currently affected.
>assume you're going to call up your ISP and transition your site onto dedicated machines? Isn't it worth the extra cost to >be assured that some other customer of the shared server environment can't compromise your crypto key? Maybe he isn't a trust fund baby, and has cost concerns.. maybe that's why he's on linux, and not solaris.
I doubt, I think it's is just the affects of large amounts of greed, selfishness, and shortsightedness, not a real goal. Also, Congress is for sale, and they have the cash to buy new the new laws they want. Its interesing to me that media, is the area that is getting goverment protection, after losing steel and other major manufacturing industries, whose health could really become a factor to national welfare, we currently cant get enough armor to iraq, imagine if we were fighting a large scale war, we wont have the production to vamp up...
It way to easy to get to 'law' on the web. IMO if you're so arrogant as to declare your pet theory as a LAW, as opposed a waiting for it to be recognized, then you're already heading quickly into NAZIDOM;-]
Mainly, it isn't fair to compare them: 2 main reasons:
Its been said they when the recreated Trek, for Nextgen they split qualities of old characters into New ones, SPOCK... non-human, examines the human condition critically, and incredible mental powers -> Data, but cultural aspect and mindmold becomes Troi. The Captain is split as well, with Riker being most like Kirk personality wise ( luck w/ the ladies, young, etc ) but the authority of Kirk is ( of course) Picard... this way they avoid just duping Kirk... but they still get, in way, to keep Kirk, basically they can do some of the same stuff they did with Kirk, but with Riker instead... I believe for most of the early seasons, dramatically, Riker is in the Kirk role, as he is the center were everyone goes, the focus, so what I'm saying is drama-wise, Riker was, basically Kirk, forget his rank, think of in terms, of who has a scene with whom, who says what to whom -- It's Riker confronting Q at first, Riker shouting at heavens at some apparently all-powerful, supernatural being, and the character of Picard at the time was incredibly stiff. As far as, the butting heads with Authority aspect of Kirk, an example of which can be found, in any original episode containing a 'Commodore', well obiviously, has appeal to anti-authoritarian demographic, was part of Kirk's appeal , that's in Worf, but largely he represses it.
The other reason it isn't really fair to compare, it you need to compare to also compare across time periods. Rodenberry's vision of the StarTrek and the Federation meant to analog a U.S. naval ship in the early U.S. history. Sorry but at the time of Tripoli there was no army, only Navy and Marines, so to compare Kirk to anything modern is just foul. How many times would Kirk have to act, because it would take days to communicate to Starfleet Command? I recently read _Savage_Wars_of_Peace, and how Kirk acts is very similiar to how some actual naval captains acted. Basically, a naval captain had a lot more authority at the time, acting kind of like regent for the excutive,kind of like part of the state-department almost, they were expected to act to preserve U.S. interests, and again, the communication problem is the reason... If there was an emerging crisis, and you expected them to wait for orders, well they might as well have stayed in port, since they'd have to send themselves back to report, and get the order, then comes back. By Picards time, he can talk real-time with Star Fleet Command, with video , Kirk couldn't, most of the time It would 10 minutes of show time to get a response back... Also, it seems like there federation space seems more stable, and federation space has grown since from Kirks time. Kirk spent half his time helping out human colonist who clearly came from human worlds, his helping them, is kind of like the Marines saving Americans abroad, Picard is on a more diplomatic mission, mostly encountering people whose species did not orginate from Earth.
The incredible breath-through techwise of subspace communications was never explained between them has never been really explained, I mean Kirk's Enterprise could do about a sustained warp 6 before thing started to fall apart, and Picard's ship warp 8.5 or so., yet Kirk had to wait days at time to contact Star Fleet, yet Picard always has real-time communications available...
It was better toward the end, way better actually. I also gave up watching it, for much the same reasons, and only recently got involved, to point of actually trying to watch it, this season. Actually, I think they should have done this sooner, perhaps only done 1 of Deep Space Nine, and Voyager... or combined them somehow, remember when they were running both simulatenously? they have treked us out, a little bit. The song intro really hurt them, imo, totally unlike anything before, and therefore killed the ritualistic aspect of star-trek viewing. Imagine if next-gen had blundered on the opening title? I doubt it would have much fared better, Q got a little tedius.
Many, many years since I actually played GAMA WORLD (rpg), but now I finally how understand the nuclear cells there in, worked... I'd previously figured they must have been micro-reactors... Now I just need a MARK V blaster to go with it.
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>>Long before Olympic athletes from all countries became quasiprofessionals, the Eastern European countries were seeing >>to it that training for the Games was their athletes' full-time job, giving them a major advantage over other nations' >>athletes."
>OMG, it's not fair, they trained harder! Well hello! Is it cheating to produce programmers who can actually solve problems >and write code? What exactly is coursework for if it isn't preparation for the kinds of problems you solve in programming >contests? I've done a couple - it's the same thing, you just have to be faster and more accurate, compared to a >programming assignment.
Have you ever been in the ACM Programming Contest? Winning is based simply on banging out code as fast as possible. Sure, they make sure the program actually solves the problem, it can't just print the answer to stdout, but solving in a general way, a portable way, or checking for errors, or generally being robust, only hurts you. So if open a file, and because you have good habits, you check to see if the open succeeds, well you probably just lost, because there's another a team who didn't, and you lost the time spent to type it out... Generally, the contest will reward good typing speed more than anything else. So, basically any good habits you may have learned from a Computer Science Program will only get in the way... It was cool to be in it, fun, but I wouldnt make any conclusions that the winners are necessarily the best engineers, or even programmers. So it is like the olympics before we allowed pro's in, amateurs would have to also focus on things like working, or going to school, were as Russia could take some kid and have him train for 1 olympic advent for life... so , its possible that some countries are , say, training specific students not to write robust code, but mainly type fast, just to win the contest. Like compiler writers beating benchmarks.
>>"Yeah, I mean, star trek was a "Wagon train to the stars", as far as I knew. It wasn't supposed to be deep."
The fact that it had a format similiar to westerns, meant that it quickly blended into the TV landscape, instead of every episode, a new town, with a new problem, like the typical TV western ( Rawhide, etc ) it was every episode a new planet. Actually, it was this that allowed Original Star Trek to get played in regions where Social drama's of the time were banned, since they were clearly against the racism of the time. I think the genius, is that by flying under the radar, he was able get a wedge in the developing minds of the children of the day -- proof against the dogma of the day.
Decent printers support postscript, which is well supported in the various opensource OS's, If M$ can take PS out of printers, or make PS printers, more of a niche item, then they can attack Linux,etc,buy making it prohibitive to print, right now they own the cheap consumer marker, but imagine if there were no PS printers -- PDF isnt the big deal, its the part about replacing PostScript, with something they own, and won't, won't, be giving it away to the opensource world via GhostScript.
No need for complete emulation: FAT binaries. Byte CODE/Virtual machines, Source code distribution. The last would require a C compilier off course... Imagine waiting for game to compile;-] Byte Code might slow down a little, though if its more forth like than java like one can save some memory... Fat binaries would be excellent , considering how much data can be shared cross arch is a game/ level data, maps, pics, and movies.. I thinking in modern games code size is small compared to data. So, if the law required it, you could be required to develop for all platforms. Of course the consoles would need the same media type.. or converting media types be made legal...
Why not let the market work for a while.. at least... how about getting involved in word processor interlopablity? A clear problem that has yet to be remedied by market forces... Going after itunes, while leaving Word alone seems like Apple bashing, I'm not surprised Apple didn't show.
I think the discussion about vga vs dvi was actually limited to LCD and not CRT. They talk about a DAC, but make it sound like its in the monitor, which is wrong it in the video card, I guess LCD's would have to do a analog to digital back again,but crt's wouldn't . Anyway analog to digitial isn't DAC, it would be ADC wouldn't it? Analog color as an advtange only be realized on CRT , and the advantage might not be readily apparent to those who didn't know CGA , EGA, HGA... The VGA wasn't better at 4 color graphics than CGA was, it wasn't better than EGA at 16 color, what it was good, at, was being good enough to take os through multiple color depth improvements. You couldn't just add more ram to your EGA card and get a better color depth, with VGA you could.
Is 24bit color really good enough? I know I could run an old VGA CRT monitor at 32bit color depth, if I cared to. I have since replaced that monitor with an LCD, and the the only CRT I have an IMac DV, I don't see the a 32bit option, I don't think I can see a difference now... but 2 things.. Color perception is variable, some people are color blind, mine is actually a little better than most.. I'm wondering if, as 3 day worlds get increasing more and more lifelike, whether 24bit will still be good enough.
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In fact it doesn't have to be x86 anything. Intel might relish the chance to dump the legacy that began with the 8086.
Considering how much of the x86 arch is implemented in micocode, it might not be that hard from them to ditch it.
Apple would be a perfect initial customer for them, and if Intel could outperform themselves by leaps and bounds simply by dumping the x86 legacy, as has been speculated in the past, then after it catches on , and outperforms its legacy x86 line, Windows platorms can be convinced dropping the x86 legacy stuff.
My general feeling, is that if it's and x86, its step backward for the the state of the art, and mac's would lose some appeal,
(and probably be less secure as shell code could then be made to trivially exploit both platforms), it is intel but a new arch,
that drops the CISC legacy cruft, it could be very, very interesting.
Well from the MS mouse to the XBox, one could say they are moving to becoming a hardware company.
Ya, some good points, but at the end comes across as a whiner. I've noticed a lot more of the type lately, games
have become more a status symbol, I personally like a game that's hard, if its rewarding. Basically, I don't think this guy could hack defender. When I saw him dig on Resident Evil for its limited ammo, I definitely pegged him.
For those who don't know the time when the coin-op Defender was released in its arcades, it had good sound, and good graphics for the time, and 1 of the most complicated control system for a game of the time, basically gamers could be
classified by the game, those who get over the initial intimidation of the controls, those who were too scared to even approach the game, and those who gave up quickly, who'd then hang around way too long, asking you "how can you deal with the controls?", and "wouldn't it be better if they changed it so...", and other lameness. Either you could play or you couldn't, if you don't like then don't like it,
His AI gripe, I agree with, and I'm also disappointed there, and the point that he makes about when the speed improvements are made tend toward more graphics. He makes a good point about the cut-scenes as screen-shot rip, and
that may in fact have a lot to do with the push on graphics side as opposed to the AI, everything they improve the graphics technology they get another chance to sucker people again w/ the cut-scene con.
Especially when it's really social science studies, when they just prove common sense. Rexamining the hard sciences has intrinsic value, but social science is so much softer to start with... But then again, there is the persuasive value. Imagine, say it's the office from the movie _9_to_5 , and Dabney Coleman's character is keeping the the heat down to safe a few pennies, and the office typing pool is complaining its too cold... Is he going to listen to the argument, from them? Or would he just assume it was 'slow down', and go into a anti-union rant?
So, if the productivity is improved, improving the economy, because it took some stupid study to prove what should be obvious to stuborn lame brains everywhere, maybe it's not so bad.
cheapest dsl in my area is $29.99 + fee's. You should also consider a person's credit limit, might be a lot lower than yours.
In the beginning, there were no software companies. Companies maintained there own software departments that
could be quite large, and software provided by hardware companies was fairly minimal. One thing about OSS that people don't get, and try to obsecure, is that if you never ship the software in any form, you don't have to publish, or share it.
Corporate in-house projects, that solve a problem inside HQ , are really as far as the license goes no different from a hobbiest hacker, that changes a program for personel, ad-hoc, use. With open source, companies can get source rights
that they used to get by default in the 70's, and early 80's. Take sony adapting gcc for their development of their console for instance. If they had used a product of a software company they would have to negoiate a license and new terms just to adapt something they already payed.
Really the success of gcc, is proof that OSS can be successful. People try to whittle away at is success, but it's proven, and only continues to be more so, with its use in Apple's OSX. So there's one, so there's the proof, and what is Apple still making money?
No. God, I hope not. I get what your saying, things like how the computer consoles and such look out-dated, and the special effects and props in general. One could hedge and say that tech was better in 'hight of the old republic', and the
rebels are piecing together what they can... Seriously, though, would you redo _Alien_ just to update Mother?
Maybe you would, But a really good , movie can survive the test of time, despite improvments in technology, you know with things like acting, plot, and dialog?
I absolutely hated the new Greedo vs Han showdown, to the point of nearly retching in the theatre -- really, I almost did,
I jerked up, felt really sick, leaned over, , but managed to catch myself -- people around me thought I had choked on a raisonette or something... A very cool and sophisticated scene, was turned into cheap tripe, with this really gay head jerk, just because between disney boycotts some conservative group complained, that " a hero shouldn't shoot first" , How Messed up, look at Jack Beur today, hippocrites! It was clear Greedo was going to kill Han, the bounty was dead or alive, Mos Eisely is like some old-west border down, Storm troopers aren't going to help anyone, they're just there to keep the people align and support empire ( analog to oldwest, the current junta )... Ehh.. They never should have touched, he could have made another movie to test the new special effects tech, of IML.
Yeah, perhaps, However I think the Mark Twain might be almost better, as from what I can from the pictures, the
f and j keys have no ridges, or dimples on them, the lack of them really defeats the point.
I do this, and I've I done it for a while. Basically, for anything that can be memorized instantly, there's already a rule for in crack. So, I've been doing this since 1996, evolving offer time, until the point where I choose random passwords, ;-], not actually being able to remember, since they aren't really words, unless they stuck a keyboard in front of me... Its like of like a sports swing, or a combo move in a game, once learned, you bypass conscious thought to perform them. A better example still, would be like tying a shoe-lace, I can do this w/o thought, and in fact
rejecting ones that are too hard to type, one needs to be able to type it quickly, as well, after a while I learn the new password, but they are complicated enough, that its more muscle memory than anything else, I'd need to be at a keyboard
to remember the whole password, If injected w/ sodium pentathol I'd probably only be able to give up the first 3 characters of any password
, thinking about it only makes it harder.
Idea, already done in Ghost in the Shell. Amazing how one can plagize fiction while passing off a fiction article as non-faction.
>The first is: Never get involved in a land war in Asia. But only slightly less well-known: Never use a non sequitur, when >Death is on the line!
>> "...workers today are not overloaded with information." and "We still want a lot of information."
Interestingly engough, there is a relationship though between, Asia and Information Overload. Information Overload was first noticed and coined when U.S. pilots were being shot down by S.A.M's that they could have, should have, been able
to evade, the problem was determined that with all the electronics in the cockpit, the pilots did not hear the warning alarm, over the the din of everything else, the pilots responded by turning off most of the stuff. Information Overload is not too much info, it's critical info being lost amid heaps of comparitively trivia info.
Kinda of dismissive, aren't you.
>If the server used HT, it would be possible for one of those other users to run an exploit on the server to crack my e->commerce site's private key.
>It may be possible, yes. But plausible?
Consider that if anyone of them is compromised, his site can be cracked his site from there, he's now only as secure as his neighbors.
>It MAY affect you and your customers at some later time, but right now it doesn't.
When it does, it will be too late. Kinda of like saying, riding in a car with a drunk driver, imay affect you at some later time.
Because, sure, up until the point he crosses the median and crashes head on into on comming traffic, you're not currently affected.
>assume you're going to call up your ISP and transition your site onto dedicated machines? Isn't it worth the extra cost to >be assured that some other customer of the shared server environment can't compromise your crypto key?
Maybe he isn't a trust fund baby, and has cost concerns.. maybe that's why he's on linux, and not solaris.
I doubt, I think it's is just the affects of large amounts of greed, selfishness, and shortsightedness, not a real goal.
Also, Congress is for sale, and they have the cash to buy new the new laws they want. Its interesing to me that
media, is the area that is getting goverment protection, after losing steel and other major manufacturing industries, whose health could really become a factor to national welfare, we currently cant get enough armor to iraq, imagine if we were fighting a large scale war, we wont have the production to vamp up...
It way to easy to get to 'law' on the web. IMO if you're so arrogant as to declare your pet theory as a LAW, as opposed a waiting for it to be recognized, then you're already heading quickly into NAZIDOM ;-]
Mainly, it isn't fair to compare them: 2 main reasons:
... this way they avoid just duping Kirk... but they still get, in way, to keep Kirk, basically they can do some of the same stuff they did with Kirk, but with Riker instead... I believe for most of the early seasons, dramatically, Riker is in the Kirk role, as he is the center were everyone goes, the focus, so what I'm saying is drama-wise, Riker was, basically Kirk, forget his rank, think of in terms, of who has a scene with whom, who says what to whom -- It's Riker confronting Q at first, Riker shouting at heavens at some apparently all-powerful, supernatural being, and the character of Picard at the time was incredibly stiff. As far as, the butting heads with Authority aspect of Kirk, an example of which can be found, in any original episode containing a 'Commodore', well obiviously, has appeal to anti-authoritarian demographic, was part of Kirk's appeal , that's in Worf, but largely he represses it.
Its been said they when the recreated Trek, for Nextgen they split qualities of old characters into New ones, SPOCK... non-human, examines the human condition critically, and incredible mental powers -> Data, but cultural aspect and mindmold becomes Troi. The Captain is split as well, with Riker being most like Kirk personality wise ( luck w/ the ladies, young, etc ) but the authority of Kirk is ( of course) Picard
The other reason it isn't really fair to compare, it you need to compare to also compare across time periods. Rodenberry's vision of the StarTrek and the Federation meant to analog a U.S. naval ship in the early U.S. history. Sorry but at the time of Tripoli there was no army, only Navy and Marines, so to compare Kirk to anything modern is just foul. How many times would Kirk have to act, because it would take days to communicate to Starfleet Command? I recently read _Savage_Wars_of_Peace, and how Kirk acts is very similiar to how some actual naval captains acted. Basically, a naval captain had a lot more authority at the time, acting kind of like regent for the excutive,kind of like part of the state-department almost, they were expected to act to preserve U.S. interests, and again, the communication problem is the reason... If there was an emerging crisis, and you expected them to wait for orders, well they might as well have stayed in port, since they'd have to send themselves back to report, and get the order, then comes back. By Picards time, he can talk real-time with Star Fleet Command, with video , Kirk couldn't, most of the time It would 10 minutes of show time to get a response back... Also, it seems like there federation space seems more stable, and federation space has grown since from Kirks time. Kirk spent half his time helping out human colonist who clearly came from human worlds, his helping them, is kind of like the Marines saving Americans abroad, Picard is on a more diplomatic mission, mostly encountering people whose species did not orginate from Earth.
The incredible breath-through techwise of subspace communications was never explained between them has never been really explained, I mean Kirk's Enterprise could do about a sustained warp 6 before thing started to fall apart, and
Picard's ship warp 8.5 or so., yet Kirk had to wait days at time to contact Star Fleet, yet Picard always has real-time
communications available...
It was better toward the end, way better actually. I also gave up watching it, for much the same reasons, and only recently got involved, to point of actually trying to watch it, this season. Actually, I think they should have done this ... or combined them somehow, remember when they
sooner, perhaps only done 1 of Deep Space Nine, and Voyager
were running both simulatenously? they have treked us out, a little bit. The song intro really hurt them, imo, totally unlike anything before, and therefore killed the ritualistic aspect of star-trek viewing. Imagine if next-gen had blundered on the opening title? I doubt it would have much fared better, Q got a little tedius.
A'la Newhart.
Many, many years since I actually played GAMA WORLD (rpg), but now I finally how understand the nuclear cells there in, worked... I'd previously figured they must have been micro-reactors... Now I just need a MARK V blaster to go with it.
>>Long before Olympic athletes from all countries became quasiprofessionals, the Eastern European countries were seeing >>to it that training for the Games was their athletes' full-time job, giving them a major advantage over other nations' >>athletes."
>OMG, it's not fair, they trained harder! Well hello! Is it cheating to produce programmers who can actually solve problems >and write code? What exactly is coursework for if it isn't preparation for the kinds of problems you solve in programming >contests? I've done a couple - it's the same thing, you just have to be faster and more accurate, compared to a >programming assignment.
Have you ever been in the ACM Programming Contest? Winning is based simply on banging out code as fast as possible.
Sure, they make sure the program actually solves the problem, it can't just print the answer to stdout, but solving in a general way, a portable way, or checking for errors, or generally being robust, only hurts you. So if open a file, and because you have good habits, you check to see if the open succeeds, well you probably just lost, because there's another
a team who didn't, and you lost the time spent to type it out... Generally, the contest will reward good typing speed more
than anything else. So, basically any good habits you may have learned from a Computer Science Program will only get in the way... It was cool to be in it, fun, but I wouldnt make any conclusions that the winners are necessarily the best
engineers, or even programmers.
So it is like the olympics before we allowed pro's in, amateurs would have to also focus on things like working, or going to school, were as Russia could take some kid and have him train for 1 olympic advent for life... so , its possible that some countries are , say, training specific students not to write robust code, but mainly type fast, just to win the contest.
Like compiler writers beating benchmarks.
>>"Yeah, I mean, star trek was a "Wagon train to the stars", as far as I knew. It wasn't supposed to be deep."
The fact that it had a format similiar to westerns, meant that it quickly blended into the TV landscape, instead
of every episode, a new town, with a new problem, like the typical TV western ( Rawhide, etc ) it was every episode a new planet. Actually, it was this that allowed Original Star Trek to get played in regions where Social drama's of the time were banned, since they were clearly against the racism of the time. I think the genius, is that by flying under the radar, he was able get a wedge in the developing minds of the children of the day -- proof against the dogma of the day.
Decent printers support postscript, which is well supported in the various opensource OS's,
If M$ can take PS out of printers, or make PS printers, more of a niche item, then they can attack Linux,etc,buy
making it prohibitive to print, right now they own the cheap consumer marker, but imagine if there were no
PS printers -- PDF isnt the big deal, its the part about replacing PostScript, with something they own, and won't, won't, be
giving it away to the opensource world via GhostScript.
Don't forget NetBSD pkgsrc.
c ka ges.html#platforms
On Mac OSX since OSX October 2001
http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/software/pa
So he should have asked the cashier at the bank to shuffle?
No need for complete emulation: ;-]
FAT binaries. Byte CODE/Virtual machines, Source code distribution.
The last would require a C compilier off course... Imagine waiting for game to compile
Byte Code might slow down a little, though if its more forth like than java like one can save some memory...
Fat binaries would be excellent , considering how much data can be shared cross arch is a game/ level data, maps, pics,
and movies.. I thinking in modern games code size is small compared to data. So, if the law required it, you could be required to develop for all platforms. Of course the consoles would need the same media type.. or converting media types be made legal...
Why not let the market work for a while.. at least... how about getting involved in word processor interlopablity?
A clear problem that has yet to be remedied by market forces... Going after itunes, while leaving Word alone seems
like Apple bashing, I'm not surprised Apple didn't show.
I think the discussion about vga vs dvi was actually limited to LCD and not CRT. They talk about a DAC, but make it sound like its in the monitor, which is wrong it in the video card, I guess LCD's would have to do a analog to digital back again,but crt's wouldn't . Anyway analog to digitial isn't DAC, it would be ADC wouldn't it? Analog color as an advtange only be realized on CRT , and the advantage might not be readily apparent to those who didn't know CGA , EGA, HGA... The VGA wasn't better at 4 color graphics than CGA was, it wasn't better than EGA at 16 color, what it was good,
... but 2 things.. Color perception is variable, some people are color blind, mine is actually a little better than most.. I'm wondering if, as 3 day worlds get increasing more and more lifelike, whether 24bit
at, was being good enough to take os through multiple color depth improvements. You couldn't just add more ram
to your EGA card and get a better color depth, with VGA you could.
Is 24bit color really good enough? I know I could run an old VGA CRT monitor at 32bit color depth, if I cared to.
I have since replaced that monitor with an LCD, and the the only CRT I have an IMac DV, I don't see the a 32bit option,
I don't think I can see a difference now
will still be good enough.